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ark_ader:
--- Quote from: grantspain on July 19, 2008, 07:16:24 pm ---hey ark do you have an american accent yet,trying to get my head round a lancashire/nevada dialect.
ay up duck ---goshdarn--- muther ;D
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No mate, I have a pretty good Yorkshire accent I put on when I want to, a good Lancashire accent when I'm domicile in the UK.
My American accent gives me away, and usually kicks in when I'm tired, but I really don't care anymore - besides the girls over here think its great and its an ideal way to pull them. ;D
Youreet mecocker!
Level42:
--- Quote ---See how the world reacts to American Markets today and you will see that the history of the last 40 years is repeating itself.
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Indeed, a number of extremely greedy people there screwed a number of very dumb people (hey, I can get a mortgage at 1% interest............DUH !) and now there's a recession there. Well done. I think Europe will have a lot less impact because our economy is still running fine. (See: Dollar-Euro rate). We are not that depended on the US anymore.
--- Quote ---If it wasn't for the involvement of the USA during WW2 Europe of today would still be German.
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Yes, but when did the US get involved ? NOT when Poland was invaded, NOT when the rest of Europe was invaded....no, it took Pearl Harbor....and the Russians.....they didn't want the Russians to take over here. But I agree, I am very thankful of the US, Canadian, UK help because that made it possible to write this in all freedom.
--- Quote ---America was and still is the leader of commerce, and foreign policy.
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What has that to do with the moon-landing race ? And how long will it last ? China and India are picking up really fast.
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I don't have to look at it as a political stance, I'm just invoking history. What we have accomplished as a global power in 60 years is just quite amazing.
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I don't doubt that. Not always was it successful though....Korea,Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan....for one second turn off your patriotic feelings and look at it without prejudice....
--- Quote ---We have computers that are smaller and faster, that was originated by WW2 mechanics. The story from Enigma to Colossus to the Duo and Quad Core processors of today is brought in part of defeating Hitler's Third Reich and their code system.
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I actually read quite a lot about technology in WW2 and believe me, the Germans were superior in each and every way possible. Electronics (planes guided by crossing radio beams, rocket technology, the first jet-fighter etc.). Enigma, indeed a very good example. It would NEVER have been cracked if they didn't get an actual Enigma machine in hands....
--- Quote ---We can thank Bill Gates for bringing the price down with respect to Windows and having a computer on every desktop....(and helping out Steve Jobs by funding OS X).
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That was a joke right ? Yeah, that has to be a joke.
If not please explain about the funding of OS X...
--- Quote ---Heck if it wasn't from the help from the ruins of the Wehrmacht and V2 wizard of the day, Wernher Von Braun, the space program wouldn't have left the ground until much later.
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AHA, now we're getting somewhere. So, you admit you needed a EUROPEAN to get the space program from the ground ! The rockets used for the Apollo missions were based on the V2's technology. If the Russians would have gotten to Von Braun before the US, who would have been the first on the moon ?
--- Quote ---History dictates my post, Level 42 not politics. :cheers:
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History as taught on US schools I guess....
And HERE is where I stop because I could be understood wrong and people might think I'm "against" the US or something like that, which is NOT the case (love it there, been two times and will come back soon). I admire the things that were invented in the US (videogames, pinballs etc. etc.). I love the freedom you guys got there, compared to our patronizing government that holds everyone in a choking hold (taxes, RULES !). But that doesn't mean it's heaven there and stories always have two or more sides, not one.
ark_ader:
You like reading eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot
I was astonished as you with regard to NeXt.
Edit:
I was going to let you figure that one out Level 42, but I won't be so tight. ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
With regard to your reply I won't quote you but correct you on these points:
With regard to commerce - funding was a major part of the Moon landing venture. If the US did not have this funding, the US population would have condemmed it.
With regard to the US entering into WW2 - The US helped Britian gain munitions by selling arms for land, except for the land deals the same went for the Russians after the Germans turned on them. The UK was lucky that Hitler was a nutjob or he would have walked in with his big black book.
The remark that Germans were advanced, yes this is true, but the British developed the jet engine before anyone else, but the government at the time did not fund it. Radar, and the Colussus all British and American technology. Quite an important feat considering the tools used and the lives it took to get it perfect, which made turning point of the war, all contributed to the technology of the moon landings.
Yes you were being naughty with references to recent US wars in your post, which was not on topic. :angry:
So you see you are not as clever as you try to make out to be, but I will allow you to reply to my post and thus get the last word in. :laugh2:
missioncontrol:
Shuttle was responsible for getting the GOES satellites in orbit, which helps in tracking weather patterns...
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 19, 2008, 07:25:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 19, 2008, 03:09:58 pm ---
We can thank Bill Gates for bringing the price down with respect to Windows and having a computer on every desktop, ...
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Not really. We can thank the clone manufacturers who reverse-engineered the IBM PC's BIOS, and also thank IBM for their complacency and stupidity. Microsoft simply took advantage of the situation and then created a monopoly of their own.
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You might want to read up on that buddy.
When I finished school at 16 I went into the computer business with an American firm selling Banyan VINES networks and those PCXTs. They were no way near cheap or plentiful as you would like to think it was. Heck Microsoft wasn't even a blip on the radar then, maybe DOS, but that was about it.
Thinking back all those years ago, I knew then where the market was going, with our sales going through the roof, and Novell just starting out. Those were the days to turn a serious buck. If I was only more aggresive in marketing, I would be rich today. ;)
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