MillenniumMan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 A french army major in the 1800s invented the first true automobile actualy, but there was no steering mechanism. It was also coal powered. Television was developed as a team effort from american and scottish engineers. The radio was invented by Marconi, an Irish-Italian born in the USA, but the base of said transmitter technology was Nicola Tesla, a russian born immigrant who came to the USA and developed his gear away from Edisons' prying eyes after that whole AC/DC issue in new york 120+ years ago. The first serious computer (by the modern definition was a compilation of works starting with the logic gate invented by Tesla, giving the ability to process 1s and 0s, which gave way 60 years later to the creation of univac by RCA and the US govenrment to calculate the 1948 election (BTW, Dewey lost to Truman) And the first fully working reusable flying Airplane by the modern definition was of course Created and flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton, Ohio at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903 (The only one that drake got right) You know why the sun never sets on the british empire? It's because God doesn't trust the british in the dark...So, to sum up this argument. TRY AND TAKE OUR BASE BEOTCHES!!! WE GOT FLAG WE GOT FLAG!!! Beat you guys twice, saved your !@#$%^&*es (not ARSES!) TWICE! Turn your little boats around to wence ye came from, leave the USA and Canada alone. (Pets a poor canadian, Shhhhh...... it's ok, the big bad evil redcoat people are gone... Shhhh......) You know why the sun never sets on the british empire? It's because God doesn't trust the british in the dark. The British invented Cars, TV, Radio and prehaps computers, probabally planes too. I think the major American invention was condensed milk...seriously.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>No, Henry Ford invented the first automobile the model-T. Radio, -*BAD WORD*- if I know that one, TV, no the germans invented the television during the times of the nazi reign over the country, and the computer or PC was first invented in the garage of a american mans home. And the first person to invent the plane was the Wright brothers that is a working aircraft.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Dr Brain Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 Beat you guys twice, saved your !@#$%^&*es (not ARSES!) TWICE! Turn your little boats around to wence ye came from, leave the USA and Canada alone. (Pets a poor canadian, Shhhhh...... it's ok, the big bad evil redcoat people are gone... Shhhh......) $$ Poor Canadians.
The Apache Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 Akai, you really don't understand the joke do you? !@#$%^&*ing nerd. Stop flaming people just because they didn't get your stupid sad joke
Raem Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 I think they're just trying to teach you a lesson, Paine. The political forum is no place for jokes!
Yupa Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 I didn't make a joke. Sadly, neither did whoever wrote that.
MonteZuma Posted November 18, 2004 Report Posted November 18, 2004 The political forum is no place for jokes!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Bah. Its a political joke. Bring it on paine!
Manus Celer Dei Posted December 18, 2004 Report Posted December 18, 2004 I remember that joke from the first time Bush got elected. Many laughs had by all, except a few who took it a bit to personal. The rest of you: don't worry, the re-education of Tex!@#$%^&*hire will be intensive and extensive
Greased_Lightning Posted December 28, 2004 Report Posted December 28, 2004 lol it was still a pretty funny thing even though it kinda pissed me off ... UK, you can have California...please? one last thing, baseball sucks, soccer sucks, rugby... meh I played it a few times it was fun so it can stay .... please take basketball when you take California... !@#$%^&* greedy ASSS anyways... Hockey can stay just because Canada and US and Russia would go to war without it but our football shall ring forever more (Star Spangled Banner pipes in, O Canada plays on as Hockey sticks fly through the air like fireworks... tears roll down the cheeks of the people) P.S. Also please take Donald Trump, all reality TV shows, the dumb FOX shows (not 24, I love that show), and Madonna and U2...seriously, Bono's getting too preachy for my tastes and Madonna just scares me. P.P.S. Say hi to Sean Connery for me, the only good James Bond there ever was. He can have dual citizenship
MasterDrake Posted December 28, 2004 Report Posted December 28, 2004 take the All of our new networks too all they accomplish is giving out battle plans to the enemy and blowing things out of proportion while brain washing the simple minds of those europeans who watch it and name all americans as being fat lazy slobs
Guest Recombo Posted December 28, 2004 Report Posted December 28, 2004 Actually some 'intellectuals' at my work place watch that crap. What a pile of dog crap.
DaKillaRoach Posted January 6, 2005 Report Posted January 6, 2005 Lol. People are too worried about getting their opinions across and thinking they are right all the time. Take a joke on your country, I'm Welsh; I take it all the time - smile, racism is a good thing! Don't take offence to everything please, makes life boring and you more pathetic than the rest of us <_< I did like Paine's post myself, made me *giggle*
ThunderJam Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Rofl. Akais reaction is more hilarious then the actual post, lmao. btw - computers: no ONE inventor, but US dominates the market - cars: Henry Ford perfected them - planes: definitely by Wright Bros - radio: Baird gets that - TV: again many early developers (think Edison did a lot too)
MasterDrake Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 I think by computers they meant the PC
Paine Posted January 14, 2005 Author Report Posted January 14, 2005 DIE TOPIC DIE!! This must be how my parents feel o_o
Dav Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 The British invented Cars, TV, Radio and prehaps computers, probabally planes too. I think the major American invention was condensed milk...seriously.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Its an old quote to pull up but oh well. The brits did invent the 1st computer, it was used in th second world war to crack german enigma. The reason the US is written to have the first computer is because the british computer was protected under the 50 year secret act so it couldnt be announced that "we beat you to it" when the US got the idea to make one.
Greased_Lightning Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 the first really contemporary computer was that ENIAC which was used to plot tracjectory of artillery sASSS, not for the enigma code... (they had some of the german code machines and ciphers to do that thanks to the US and British navies confiscation of them from U-Boats...some computers were used im sure but they werent all that vital to it) think it was built in pennsylvania... if you want to get snippy there were primitive computing devices like the abacus or the punch-card dials ones in like the 1700-1800s anyhoo this topic has become pointless
Dav Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 the first really contemporary computer was that ENIAC which was used to plot tracjectory of artillery sASSS, not for the enigma code... (they had some of the german code machines and ciphers to do that thanks to the US and British navies confiscation of them from U-Boats...some computers were used im sure but they werent all that vital to it) think it was built in pennsylvania... if you want to get snippy there were primitive computing devices like the abacus or the punch-card dials ones in like the 1700-1800s anyhoo this topic has become pointless <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the computer used was essintial to it, they had the machine but didnt know the settings, the computer used the enigma algorythem to try to crack the wheel settings for that day do using an enigma machine (or an imitation) the message could be decrypted.
MonteZuma Posted January 15, 2005 Report Posted January 15, 2005 I don't think it is possible to say exactly when or where the computer was invented. Development of computers has been evolutionary.
Paine Posted January 15, 2005 Author Report Posted January 15, 2005 ...Would a calculator be considered to be a "computer" ?
MonteZuma Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 Certainly. At school, they taught me that the abacus was the first computer. Oxford dictionary says a computer is a calculating machine, and I guess that is what an abacus is. Perhaps the fingers on your own hand might be a computer too? Or notches on a piece of wood? The O dictionary says the word was first used in 1897 in reference to the slide rule. Perhaps an American company invented the first microcomputer? A quick Internet search shows that even that question isn't clear cut. Acorn Apple Olivetti Intel IBM? Probably Intel in the early 70s, but I guess it depends on how you define microcomputer.
Dav Posted January 17, 2005 Report Posted January 17, 2005 offtipic what the !@#$%^&* happend to acorn, those computers were awsome! [/offtopic]
Arianax Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 You know... we Brit's never developed an A-bomb, we just said we had and asked to share notes with America and just delayed sending our notes to you until we'd made some up off yours. just a random fact. cunning eh?
The Apache Posted February 4, 2005 Report Posted February 4, 2005 http://www.iseeseveralflaws.com/wombat/archives/America%20Loves%20ReASSS.jpg
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