Where would the world be without the USA?

[bertsmobile1]

Just to clarify:
1) “… TCP/IP and that came fro CERN in Switzerland “ 2 men from IBM(USA) wrote TCP/IP. It was approved as a standard in Switzerland like WIFI, USB, ISA, PCI, etc + many other standards(IT wise).

8) ….every Australian was deemed to have equal rights to a telephone . ( never happened in the USA )

Actually, it DID happen in the US. As a consolation of allowing AT&T to remain as a whole, AT&T agreed to make phone service available to everyone. It is still the law and the FCC is debating dropping it(copper phone lines) because people are moving to cable\fiber\etc.

"Oh and the Wi-Fi you use to connect your computer, phone,TV etc to your fibre modem & the WWW, you guessed it another Aussie invention / development ." Was it before the early 90's? because Motorola had a inhouse wireless network(not Wifi standards- totally proprietary).

I stand corrected although the TCP/IP protocol was supposed to be a colaberation between a German & a US system AFAIK because it was decided that it had to be universal across the entire planet and no curently in use system should e allowed to dominate so some give & take.

Not 100% about what part of Wi-Fi technology belongs to CSIRO but they showed $120,000,000 as "consolidated Wi-Fi royalties" so invented , developed, tweaked , not sure exactly .

However the point I wanted to make has been done
We all tend to believe that our own country is the greatest & best and everything every one uses is because we invented it and either benevolently allowed others to use it, had it stolen from us or sold / licensed it to others .
Every country's history is written by the schollars of that country so is always biased towards them in a very positive manner .
One of the few good things that the WWW does it allows stuff to come to light that otherwise governments do their best to surpress, like the 2,000,000 Chinese who died fighting Hitler in Russia and another 3,000,000 who died fighting the Japanese in China & Manchuria.
Ask any American or Australian about the war against Japan and well will all assume it only happened in the Pacific & SE Asia no one will know about the battles on the Chinese mainland

 

[7394]

When did everyone else start becoming first, used to be for Americans, that they came first, & then help other countries.
American can't make a tiny computer chip for these new vehicles. And our medicines should be made here too, & I'm sure sure other stuff should be made here in the USA as well.
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[bertsmobile1]

When did everyone else start becoming first, used to be for Americans, that they came first, & then help other countries.
American can't make a tiny computer chip for these new vehicles. And our medicines should be made here too, & I'm sure sure other stuff should be made here in the USA as well.
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You have that wrong.
Americans are still first, just not the general public.
it is the American money managers who shifted all of the production off shore so the fund managers could make a higher return for the money they have invested
Government of the people by the RICH for the benefit of the RICH
Nothing has changed much from day one except the numbers of the rich have reduced and the amount of the profits they hoover up has increased .
Jeff Bezos is treated like a god when in reality he is largely responsible for the collapse of US manufacturing and directly responsible for the drop in US retail employment
Walmart are in the same boat
Both Bezos & the Waltons have accumulated hundreds of millions from forcing millions out of work & onto social security.
Then because they are on social security they are forced to buy from the absolute cheapest source so even more money goes from your taxes to the social security recipient to Amazon & Walmart

The absolute greed of a few thousand is destroying the life of 350,000,000 and it is only a matter of time till you are one of them.

 

[cpurvis]

One thing about it, if one decides that the grass is greener in some other country than it is in the USA, there is nothing keeping him here.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

One thing about it, if one decides that the grass is greener in some other country than it is in the USA, there is nothing keeping him here.

Exactly... You don't see people flocking out of the country... But they're leaving California and New York in droves.

 

[bertsmobile1]

One thing about it, if one decides that the grass is greener in some other country than it is in the USA, there is nothing keeping him here.

SO you think they don't have a challet in France or Switzerland ( or both ) pus a villa or two on a Mediteranian island and probably a whole island in the Carabeen and possabily a castle or two in Scotland ?
Murdoch sold out his Aussie heritage to become a US citizen so he could rape & pillage in a much larger thus more profitable market but he is still in the top 10 by dollar value land owner in Australia.
So when things go pear shape for him over there he has a plan B, Ex president Trump has real estate all over the planet , including down here so he has plans B through to Z and probably quite a tidy nest egg in countries that do not have extradition treaties with the USA

 

[ccheatha]

No internet
No porn industry
No Snapper mowers
No crappy cars and trucks
No TV's
No good music
No computers - which later lead to cell phones
No microwave ovens

many many more

Where would the world be? My guess: we'd still be the 3rd rock from the sun.

 

[StarTech]

Where would the world be? My guess: we'd still be the 3rd rock from the sun.

Until some government idiot lets loose the world's nuclear weapons then no one will ever need to worry again as we all be gone and may be even the planet.

 

[cpurvis]

SO you think they don't have a challet in France or Switzerland ( or both ) pus a villa or two on a Mediteranian island and probably a whole island in the Carabeen and possabily a castle or two in Scotland ?
Murdoch sold out his Aussie heritage to become a US citizen so he could rape & pillage in a much larger thus more profitable market but he is still in the top 10 by dollar value land owner in Australia.
So when things go pear shape for him over there he has a plan B, Ex president Trump has real estate all over the planet , including down here so he has plans B through to Z and probably quite a tidy nest egg in countries that do not have extradition treaties with the USA

No, what I said was that no one is under any obligation to remain a US citizen or live in the USA if they don't like it and think there are better places to live.

 

[slomo]

No, what I said was that no one is under any obligation to remain a US citizen or live in the USA if they don't like it and think there are better places to live.

And let me know if you need any help carrying your bags to the airport.