God Bless the USA

by **Backglass** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:24 pm

Titanic wrote:Vtmarik, the internet was created by a British guy, so get that the fck of that list.

..and I am SURE you have a few links and sources to back up this claim?

by **edgarhons** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:26 pm

Should we add humor to that list of American traits? Titanic you just picked apart lyrics to a South Park song.

by **Titanic** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:40 pm

Direstraits, your basic constitutions and bill of rights are based on teh Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights(UK). Once the revolution was over, you copied our system, but implemented a slight change in using codification and changing the Westminster system to a presidential one. No educated scholar would ever say America created the modern democracy, because they just didnt. Its like saying Europe discovered gunpowder.

Backglass, the guy who I mentioned earlier, read up on him.

The internet was not invented by the CIA. DARPA were the ones to first implement a similar system, but the World Wide Web was created by an Englishmen.

Spuzzell, I gotta agree, Arthur Miller wrote some good books. Roald Dahl was an amazing writer(and Quentin Blake a very good artist), and I loved his books when I was younger. I still have a huge collection of them, even though I've not actually touched them for ages, I'm more into fantasy and crime. You ever read Bartimaeus trilogy by Johnathon Stroud?

by **edmundomcpot** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:59 pm

Titanic wrote: You ever read Bartimaeus trilogy by Johnathon Stroud?

Yeh. Sort of..... Read The amulet of Samarkand years ago...now about half way through Golems Eye. Great Books

by **Econ2000** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:12 pm

hello everybody, im probably going to get shot for this but i think that most of the time the wars the USA are involved they think they are the "world police" and that they have a righ to say" hehehe iraq has lots of oil, saddam hussein is killing many people, lets use that as an excuse to get their oil" basiclly that is what they are doing.

by **DAZMCFC** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:15 pm

now even if reebok was taken over by addidas. addidas is a german firm if i am not mistaken.

by **Lord Canti** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:19 pm

Econ2000 wrote:hello everybody, im probably going to get shot for this but i think that most of the time the wars the USA are involved they think they are the "world police" and that they have a righ to say" hehehe iraq has lots of oil, saddam hussein is killing many people, lets use that as an excuse to get their oil" basiclly that is what they are doing.

I won't shoot you, but I do believe that it is Americas responsibility to play a leading role in overthrowing tyrants. I don't know about secondary motives (you mentioned oil), but I consider these instances doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. However,i ts still the right thing.

by **Backglass** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:29 pm

Titanic wrote:The internet was not invented by the CIA. DARPA were the ones to first implement a similar system, but the World Wide Web was created by an Englishmen.

The World Wide Web is not the internet, which was your original claim. In fact the "World Wide Web" isn't really anything but a catchphrase for a collection of ideas (HTTP, Client/Server topology, markup language, etc).

Your claim is akin to claiming that an Englishman invented the automobile because it has disc brakes (an English invention) . :lol:

by **vtmarik** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:36 pm

edgarhons wrote:Should we add humor to that list of American traits? Titanic you just picked apart lyrics to a South Park song.

Thank you, at least one person here has the good sense god gave a sheep.

Jesus, it was my attempt at making fun of the author's posting the song "God Bless the USA," I didn't think anyone was going to take me seriously.

It's from Team America: World Police, which is a complete parody of the US and it's tendency to go places where it doesn't belong.

*shakes head* Jesus, you people are hopeless.

by **heavycola** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:28 pm

^^ THANK YOU

Does penicillin being a british invention make you, englishman, a better person?

Does the fact that your parents fucked over there instead of over here make you a better person? How do patriotic platitudes change ANYTHING?

THis is the worst thread so far. Please block it. Jamie is the biggest moron on here, which is saying something. It's saying a lot, in fact.

by **reverend_kyle** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:32 pm

DIRESTRAITS wrote:
Titanic wrote:
Vtmarik, the internet was created by a British guy, so get that the fck of that list.

The internet was invented by the CIA. Do your homework.

hey dumbass, why don't you do your homework, it was created by the department of defense which I dont believe that the CIA is part of.'

Oh yeah edgarhons, humour.

by **b-b5** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:23 pm

Backglass wrote:The World Wide Web is not the internet, which was your original claim. In fact the "World Wide Web" isn't really anything but a catchphrase for a collection of ideas (HTTP, Client/Server topology, markup language, etc).

Your claim is akin to claiming that an Englishman invented the automobile because it has disc brakes (an English invention) .

This is where things break down into semantics and intellectual rights.

Depending on how you define "internet" is crucial to this argument. Do you define it as an idea / concept or as a functioning entity?

The internet we know today has far more in common with WWW developed at CERN than ARPANET developed in the US, although ARPANET was developed many years prior to WWW.

Devlelopment of WWW (Europe) was in direct competition to GOPHER (USA). WWW won out due to superior technology/ including development of URL, HTTP and DNS...however both systems were exclusively available to government / research facilities.

The next big steps, the browsers required to market this product, were the US's first real involvement; Mosaic developed at University of Illinois, Netscape, and then Microsoft. The rest as they say is history.

The 2 ingredients that promoted the growth of WWW in USA were USA being the centre of personal computer development and very low cost (if any cost?) telephone calls creating the huge explosion in the WWW in the 1990's.

There are two ages of the Internet - before Mosaic, and after. The combination of Tim Berners-Lee's Web protocols, which provided connectivity, and Marc Andreesen's browser, which provided a great interface, proved explosive. In twenty-four months, the Web has gone from being unknown to absolutely ubiquitous.

A Brief History of Cyberspace, by Mark Pesce, ZDNet, October 15, 1995

The WWW was developed in Switzerland. The USA created the root zone files as they recognised the need for regulation of DNS. Although America has no intellectual rights whatsoever to the internet the USA does now regulate the internet.

The original idea of the internet I agree was first formed in the US. However what we now know to be the internet was without doubt founded at CERN.

by **Titanic** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:01 pm

Dazmcfc - O yer, thats true, so yer, its German, no American.

Edmund - The final book is much better then the second. The second book is very good in the changing personality of Nathaniel, but as a storyline and development of the trilogy overall it does very little. The first and third books are better imo.

by **Stopper** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:54 pm

Scotland invented haggis, which is eaten and adored by people all over the globe. So f*ck the lot of you.

I win.

by **Blueoctober** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:57 pm

Sammy gags wrote:"The only thing more stupid than TYPING IN ALL CAPS is TYPING IN ALL CAPS IN A LARGER FONT AND ANNOYING COLOUR "

and the only thing more annoying then that is spelling color the british way

by **Titanic** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:02 pm

Colour is the proper way to spell it. USA stole our language and infected it with spelling and grammar mistakes.

by **Blueoctober** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:08 pm

as i recall you guys came over here left some of you here. the people you left here decided they didnt like you too much and decided not to be ruled by you anymore. so technically we didnt steal it we inherited it along with the world power thing

by **Stopper** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:09 pm

Stopper wrote:Scotland invented haggis, which is eaten and adored by people all over the globe. So f*ck the lot of you.

I win.

by **Warcraft3rocks2** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:13 pm

HAHA im not american so i know nothing about this but i voted its a free conuntry

GO CANADA

by **Stopper** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:16 pm

You don't need to know anything about this thread. It's full of nationalistic shite anyway, up until the point someone lauded the global phenomenon that is known as haggis, at which point the thread became brilliant.

by **Stopper** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:32 pm

You know you want it, bitches. Follow the smell.

by **vtmarik** on Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:37 pm

Those look like ancient Roman water baloons.

I don't find the prospect of eating organs cooked in a creatures stomach to be very appetizing, but then again I have eaten McDonalds...

Can't be much worse than that...