Author Topic: Go Eu! Go! ;) (Read 4041 times)

Kazan · **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:31:36 pm

anyone who says "i don't see what's wrong with that they're doing" doesn't really understand the situation, etc

I don't mean to be offensive - but there is a clear corellation between increased REAL knowledge and dislike of microsoft

Nico · **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2004, 12:11:59 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
something good comes out of Europe... finaly

yeah, you're right, starting from when the USA "came" from Europe, we kept ****ing up

You have other arrogant things like that to say?

Rictor · **Reply #22 on:** March 18, 2004, 12:16:43 am

Alright Bob, could you please go ahead and name five great inventions or concepts which were spawned in the good old US of A? Shouldn't be too hard, since the general mentality appears to be that America not only came up with every great thing humanity has ever encountered, but that they also have a monopoly on all the "right" social, political and economic concepts currently in existence.

Bobboau · **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2004, 01:01:57 am

ugg it was just a little sarcastic... I wasn't intending to offend, you lot rip into us constantly

but sence you asked... uhh
modern cars (built on the assembly line)
airplaines
the internet/most modern computers in general
tellephones
and... nuclear weapons

note I didn't realy think about that realy hard an I know about the french contribution to the car, Cugnot and his tractor/car/steam engine thingy

Bobboau · **Reply #24 on:** March 18, 2004, 01:04:14 am

whould you have prefered something more along the lines of
"yee haw!! you take it to em Europe! bring that sonofa***** to his knees! EU EU EU#1!"

kode · **Reply #25 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:17:03 am

isn't this thing quite similar to what the us courts tried to do?

SadisticSid · **Reply #26 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:18:45 am

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Originally posted by Kazan
anyone who says "i don't see what's wrong with that they're doing" doesn't really understand the situation, etc

I don't mean to be offensive - but there is a clear corellation between increased REAL knowledge and dislike of microsoft

Oh I don't doubt there're some dodgy things about MS, but what was intrinsically wrong about this particular thing? I am eager to learn about these things.

Bobboau · **Reply #27 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:27:04 am

you mean killing off all competition buy forceing everyone to by there product as a requierment of there OS?

Zarax · **Reply #28 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:52:26 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
ugg it was just a little sarcastic... I wasn't intending to offend, you lot rip into us constantly

but sence you asked... uhh
modern cars (built on the assembly line)
airplaines
the internet/most modern computers in general
tellephones
and... nuclear weapons

note I didn't realy think about that realy hard an I know about the french contribution to the car, Cugnot and his tractor/car/steam engine thingy

Arghh what i have to hear!!!
Telephones have been invented by an Italian
Nukes are born thanks to Einsten and Fermi
Cars... mmm i have to check but something tells me germany very strongly...

RandomTiger · **Reply #29 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:03:03 am

Who invented stuff is usually more complex than that, usually three people are working on it at once and one of them steals the others ideas or something like that.

Other times, like the computer its invented and kept secret and totally reinvented by someone else.

A lot of confusion also arrises from the fact that a lot of significant inventions were by Europeans but they were finished in America with American money because America was willing to fork out the money to get it done.

Martinus · **Reply #30 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:00:28 am

[color=66ff00]My brother studies law and recons that M$ can drag this through to european courts for somewhere in the region of 9 to 15 years if they feel the need, by then they'll have long released Longhorn and it will be cleverly designed to not work with other media players and thus M$ will give each other another hi-5 and start the whole shebang all over again.

Hopefully Linux will be idiot proof by then and windows will be in difficulties.
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Zarax · **Reply #31 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:02:40 am

Murphy's law: if you make an idiot proof system, only an idiot will use it.

aldo_14 · **Reply #32 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:06:12 am

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Originally posted by Zarax

Arghh what i have to hear!!!
Telephones have been invented by an Italian
Nukes are born thanks to Einsten and Fermi
Cars... mmm i have to check but something tells me germany very strongly...

Radio was developed by an Italian IIRC - Marconi. Telephones are credited to Graham Alexander Bell, a Scot, if I remeber rightly.

Zarax · **Reply #33 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:08:54 am

Telephone was invented by Meucci, not Bell!
Even the US government had to recognize it, and in fact it was recognized in 1998 or 99 IIRC.

Martinus · **Reply #34 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:11:50 am

[color=66ff00]Also remember that the people credited with the invention are usually the people responsable for discovering the concept and not for creating the actual device.
Anywho it's all God's fault.

Zarax, I disagree an idiot proof system simply means that someone with little skill in the area can use it and not break it, it does not necessarily mean that it would impede a person who could use a system to its full potential.
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Zarax · **Reply #35 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:15:01 am

Err... Maeglamor, it was a cheap attempt of taking it on the humoristic side...

Martinus · **Reply #36 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:22:15 am

[color=66ff00]Use the

smiley more.

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Styxx · **Reply #37 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:40:55 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
airplaines

Wrong.

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Originally posted by Bobboau
tellephones

Wrong.

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Originally posted by Bobboau
the internet/most modern computers in general

Debatable.

vyper · **Reply #38 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:16:44 am

[q]Telephone was invented by Meucci, not Bell![/q]

Bull****.

[q]mainly because I'd rather live on the mainland than in this country[/q]

Can I hang you from the spire of Glasgow Uni now or shall I wait for your treason charges to come through?

TheCelestialOne · **Reply #39 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:16:58 am

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Originally posted by Styxx
Wrong.

Exactly

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Wrong.

Exactly

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Debatable.

Exactly.

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