From: John M. Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| - The very first computer was the abacus, invented by some ancient
Chinaman
| (nope not British). The first computer was the ENIAC 1, invented by in
1946
| John Mauchly and John Eckert who were working for the United States Army
| (nope not the British Army). The first personal computer was the Altair
| 8800 invented in 1974 by Californian (nope not Londoner) Ed Roberts.
Correction: think Charles Babbage. Or better still, think Ada Byron. Or even
better, think Blaise Pascal, not only he invented the first calculating
machine in 1642, but also found the time to create a complex philosophical
system AND he was a lazy bloodsucking French shit (your words, not mine). By
the way, was any American (notice that I include *my* Spanish Americans)
creating calculating machines or anything more complex than an axe handle in
1642? I thought so. You rookies. ;-)
| - The internet was started in 1969 by the U.S. military and was know as
the
| ARPAnet. The HTTP protocol which is the basis of the web was created at
the
| Swiss CERN labratory in 1993. HTTP was made usable by an American,
Netscape
| founder Marc Andreesen in 1994.
If "usable" and "profitable" are synonymous in your book, you might be
right.
| - And on average, Americans work more hours per week than Britons. So we
all
| can't be lazy bloodsucking shits like the French. What was your point?
Do you really think that working your arse off makes you a *better* person?
If so, those Third World workers that actually sustain most of your
country's economy must be on the verge of sanctity. And yes, I know that
they also sustain my economy, but I don't go patronising over the virtues of
Protestant working ethics. So your grandparents saved us from Hitler in
order for you to throw us to Megacorporation Inc. - Big deal. Fuck, this is
the modslist, isn't it? - wasn't it all supposed to be about hedonism??!!
---Pablo de la Cruz, a lazy bloodsucking shit and proud of it, and heading
for my siesta head first.
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