HEY, I stated FACTS! I could state a lot more. BUT, I DID give a LOT of
credit to one person in particular, and he is FINNISH! I'd say it was pretty
straight to the point. FUNNY, The CANADIANS are taking credit for the phone
ALSO! As I recall though, it was AMERICANS that made it practical.(The
one bell invented was basically a novelty. Before the switches, etc...
Giving a large group good phone service was impossible.) As I recall,
it was AMERICANS that invented the web(It was the NCSA! And the FIRST browser
is copyright by the University of Illinois. Funny, I always thought that
was in the U.S.) and TV was at least made practical in the U.S. In FACT,
the U.S. had a competition for the first group to retrofit color onto the
existing signal. They succeeded there too.
But HEY, I am surprised you didn't claim to have the first computer. Supposedly,
Britain DID do that, but they were top secret and had to be destroyed after
the war. Or that you kept breaking the NAZI codes for the war with same.
Steve
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:41:43 -0700
>From: JB <info@bwp.net>
>To: stuff@inkiboo.com
>Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
>Subject: Re: VAT stuff
>
>
>Hey, we can't help it, America is the best. Deal with it.
>
>~ hugs and kisses
>
>
>Gerard McGovern wrote:
>
>>>And NOW, we have ANOTHER government asking for taxes on
>>>something that has traditionally, in the US at least, been
>>>NON taxable!? HECK, they wouldn't even have domain names if
>>>not for a U.S. defense project, U.S. programmers, and a guy
>>>in Finland!(Let's face it. Linus sped up the industry by
>>>perhaps 10 years by being the FIRST to provide a truely
>>>inexpensive and real version of unix)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Whilst I agree with about the stupidity of situation, your views of America
>>being the biggest and best are unneeded and a good reason why many can't
>>stand Americans. Pissing competitions between nations are childish at
best.
>>For that reason we won't mention that the British invented the phone,
>>television and the web.
>>
>>G
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