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From: Alan Minyard Date: 1/11/2004 7:40 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: On 10 Jan 2004 04:01:41 -0800, (Michael Petukhov) wrote: (Krztalizer) wrote in message ... Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and of 22 'average American kids' (five immigres from Eritrea, one from Iraq, four from Mexico, two from Somalia + six caucasian children and four latinos that were born in the USA), three qualified for Gifted and Talented programs - none of these were from overseas. So when you look at Russian schools, where NO ONE immigrates, and US Schools stuffed to the gills with immigrants, you would expect the results you get. That said, of course there are dumbass American kids. I feel better knowing that there are dumb****s in every nation - you do your best to prove that for us, daily. Not to mention the fact that the great majority of inventions of the last 100 years have been invented by Americans, including the computer and the internet that Michael uses to spew his hate. Al Minyard In the 1980s a Japanese prime minister said most Americans were illiterate and uneducated. The response on bumper stickers and T-shirts was "The atom bomb: designed by uneducated American engineers, Mostly done by europeans who escaped from NAZI. built by illiterate Americans and it was build by the same persons. and tested in Japan" That's true it was tested on the innocent civilinas by american illiterate barbarians Michael Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..
On 10 Jan 2004 04:01:41 -0800, (Michael Petukhov) wrote: (Krztalizer) wrote in message ... Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and of 22 'average American kids' (five immigres from Eritrea, one from Iraq, four from Mexico, two from Somalia + six caucasian children and four latinos that were born in the USA), three qualified for Gifted and Talented programs - none of these were from overseas. So when you look at Russian schools, where NO ONE immigrates, and US Schools stuffed to the gills with immigrants, you would expect the results you get. That said, of course there are dumbass American kids. I feel better knowing that there are dumb****s in every nation - you do your best to prove that for us, daily. Not to mention the fact that the great majority of inventions of the last 100 years have been invented by Americans, including the computer Computer is hardly an american invention. Britannica: " Development of the digital computer. Blaise Pascal of France and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz of Germany invented mechanical digital calculating machines during the 17th century. The English inventor Charles Babbage, however, is generally credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the 1830s Babbage devised his so-called Analytical Engine, a mechanical device designed to combine basic arithmetic operations with decisions based on its own computations. Babbage's plans embodied most of the fundamental elements of the modern digital computer. For example, they called for sequential control--i.e., program control that included branching, looping, and both arithmetic and storage units with automatic printout. Babbage's device, however, was never completed and was forgotten until his writings were rediscovered over a century later. Of great importance in the evolution of the digital computer was the work of the English mathematician and logician George Boole. In various essays written during the mid-1800s, Boole discussed the analogy between the symbols of algebra and those of logic as used to represent logical forms and syllogisms. His formalism, operating on only 0 and 1, became the basis of what is now called Boolean algebra, on which computer switching theory and procedures are grounded. John V. Atanasoff, an American mathematician and physicist, is credited with building the first electronic digital computer, which he constructed from 1939 to 1942 with the assistance of his graduate student Clifford E. Berry. Konrad Zuse, a German engineer acting in virtual isolation from developments elsewhere, completed construction in 1941 of the first operational program-controlled calculating machine (Z3). In 1944 Howard Aiken and a group of engineers at International Business Machines Corporation completed work on the Harvard Mark I, a machine whose data-processing operations were controlled primarily by electric relays (switching devices)..." and the internet Internet can hardly be qualified for invention at all. What is Internet? mainly software supporting TCP/IP protocol for computer communications. Not sure about US but in many more civilized places software cannot be patented. In US it perhaps can be, as these barbarians also attempted to patent sequences of human genes. Was it also invented in USA? Michael |
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