What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[Coffinshaker]

hmm... invented personal computers and the interwebs? and iphones.... so yeah, we're responsible for the downfall of civilization.

The computer was invented by an Italian man called Babage. It was more a cogitator engine though which was a crank powered computer for math.

[Edit] Also, Ireland invented the surname.

right... that's why I used the term "personal computer", as in, the kind of widely distributed computer for the general public.

Doesn't change the fact that Babage's cogitator was a personal computer. A personal computer is one you own or use.

not quite... a computer made for personal use is not a personal computer. meaning... he made all of, what, 2 of these machines? a "PC" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer] is designed to be compact, cheap, and available for wide distribution to the masses. Babage's difference engine was not this. we can argue semantics, but his engine does not fit the description. under your interpretation, the Antikythera Mechanism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism] would have been the first...

perhaps this is the semantical problem... "the US invented the first SUCCESSFUL Personal Computer", meaning that it was the first to actually fully realize the definition of what a PC is. "maybe", given time and money, Babage could have distributed his machine or miniaturized it some, but the case still stands that it was unsuccessful on a wide scale level.

 

[Kinguendo]

What has the USA given the world? A taste of true freedom.

Ah freedom, free to... not make a decision on your national debt that will cause you to default and become the financial equivalent of a drug addict. No America, we will not give you another fix. You hurt Chinas feelings and vomited on Europes shoes!

Quite frankly, we find your right-wing rhetoric to be distasteful and we can all plainly see that its the reason you are going down the tubes... enjoy your "freedom" which you claimed to have the entire time it was being taken away from you, "god" forbid you stop saying "USA #1" long enough to realise you are being brainwashed into thinking what you have is the best and you couldnt possibly be better or that the rest of the civilized world passed you by years ago.

Bad troll is bad.

Are you a child? You are aware that simply claiming someone is a "troll" is dismissive and the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "LALALALALA!", you gain nothing from it and only show that you are immature and incapable of countering my point.