killr_b
macrumors 6502a
They are. This is why they are attacking bloggers and the independent media recently. Because folks are starting to notice the indescrepencies and looking for the truth from somewhere else.
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They are. This is why they are attacking bloggers and the independent media recently. Because folks are starting to notice the indescrepencies and looking for the truth from somewhere else.
killr_b
macrumors 6502a
You actually proved my point.
The reason their money didn't exist is because of the Federal Reserve System. If it was based on precious metals it would have existed… in gold or silver.
Oh, and don't forget the part where the banks kept all of their customers money and whatever they had in the safe-deposit boxes. Which is theft.
But I'm wrong and the media is right and the Federal Reserve was created after the great depression. Not. And here.
Gee, sounds like the people commonly referred to as the "global elite" hijacked our wealth and then ran our country into the ground. Read more about the people involved and what they did all the way up to what their families have now and it will all make terrible sense.
The video proves that their tactics are working. If you don't know, you won't protest. People in the 70's started to know… and then they got angry.
Peace.
MacNut
macrumors Core
My point was that you said the country always had money. The people in this country were not always as rich as they are today. I will give you the fact that the fed was around long before the great depression but it is the lack of oversight that caused the markets to crash. The general idea of the fed is a national bank so that there is always a stock pile of money. The FDIC was created to safeguard from another market crash.
Les Kern
macrumors 68040
Yes, SOME people are. If I shoot enough footage I'm sure to get what I'm looking for... what I'm trying to prove. How many people REALLY don't know how many sides a triangle has? Come ON!
The same technique could be used to show that everyone in America is a genius.
This video means nothing.
mkrishnan
Moderator emeritus
Good point. Don't forget that Borat made his career (ahem, sub-career?) insulting the intelligence of the British before he made his way across the ocean.
RugoseCone
macrumors 6502
Yep, people from southern California must be ignorant, considering about a third of this video was shot in Venice Beach.
Hummer
macrumors 65816
I remember another video of American kids being asked to name the first 5 presidents. And then the video had clips of kids from other nations being asked to name the first 5 presidents. Of course the kids from other nations knew and the kids here didn't. The world thinks of Americans as stupid people.
zap2
macrumors 604
There are stupid people everywhere...not mention they edited out an kind of smart comment.
Still pretty sad that people who are humans are this stupid(since they have a chance to learn all this info is free on the internet, and I bet most of these people can use the internet as at time.)
Still pretty sad that people who are humans are this stupid(since they have a chance to learn all this info is free on the internet, and I bet most of these people can use the internet as at time.)
killr_b
macrumors 6502a
YS2003
macrumors 68020
Well, this does not surprise me one bit. I want to point out there are some intelligent and well educated Americans. But, there are many who are the total opposite. If you visit other forums in foreign countries, there are so many mocking remarks on average Joe American's lack of knowledge outside his home. I visit many forums based in Europe and some of those forums are brutally to the point (i.e.. they lower the expectation when you talk with Americans about anything outside USA (or state or home). Also, my own experience in USA reinforces this take on this matter.
andiwm2003
macrumors 601
i mostly agree with you. it is sad.
there seems to be a minority of well educated smart americans who are responsible for the success of this country. great scientist, great business people, visionary engineers.
and then there is the majority who isn't stupid at all but simply does not care about anything. so they never watch news beyond hearing a sound byte here or there. then they end up being ignorant beyond belief but still think they are part of a great nation while they are in fact only along for the ride. these people annoy me because they are ignorant and arrogant yet they live off the success of the small minority of productive americans.
eenu
macrumors 65816
Not to mention a lot of shots have the White House in.....
Compile 'em all
macrumors 601
"Queen Elizabeth money"
shecky
Guest
remember the late 1990's?
the .com boom? billions of dollars flowing all over the place into what turned out were shortsighted, bad businesses? a whole new culture emerging from what had once been nothing or the realm of a very few hardcore geeks?
the USA is the .com startup of the world. we are only a few hundred years old in world of cultures that are thousands and thousands of years old. America right now is like walking into Razorfish or Pets.com in 1999. We are very America-centric, just like any big upstart was during the .com boom. We care mostly about us, and anything else is just less important. We are extreme in many ways, culturally, financially, globally.
America in 1000 years will be a much calmer, much smarter place i think. Assume we do not go thru a post .com bubble bursting.
the .com boom? billions of dollars flowing all over the place into what turned out were shortsighted, bad businesses? a whole new culture emerging from what had once been nothing or the realm of a very few hardcore geeks?
the USA is the .com startup of the world. we are only a few hundred years old in world of cultures that are thousands and thousands of years old. America right now is like walking into Razorfish or Pets.com in 1999. We are very America-centric, just like any big upstart was during the .com boom. We care mostly about us, and anything else is just less important. We are extreme in many ways, culturally, financially, globally.
America in 1000 years will be a much calmer, much smarter place i think. Assume we do not go thru a post .com bubble bursting.
poopyhead
macrumors 6502a
from what I understand (predicted by Zager and Evans) in the year 3535 if man is still alive and woman can survive that you wont need to tell the truth or lies becasue everything you think do or say will be in the pill you took that day
apparently american ingenuity will find a solution to american ignorance
MacNut
macrumors Core
You could also make the argument that some of the best inventions came from the United States over the past 200 years. Without those people where could the world be today. Everyone is quick to judge the US but they are more then happy to use our technology without any problem.
eenu
macrumors 65816
Such as?
Spose we could argue that without our inventions the world would be a crap place but we don't!
Interested to know what you think has been the best inventions though.....better make this VERY good.
adrianblaine
macrumors 65816
Wikipedia's List of American Inventions
Some of the more important ones:
1752 Lightning Rod
1807 Steamboat
1814 Iron Plough
1830 Electro-magnetic Motor
1843 Vulcanized Rubber
1857 Passenger Elevator
1873 Typewriter
1877 Phonograph
1879 Incandescent Light Bulb
1893 Zipper
1902 Air Conditioning
1908 Assembly Line
1932 Defibrillator
1939 Digital Computer
1957 Polio Vaccine
1960 Laser
1970 Optical Fiber
1974 Barcode
1976 Supercomputer
1982 Artificial Heart
1988 Graphic User Interface
I'd say some of these are pretty important...
eenu
macrumors 65816
UKs Inventions (Just Some of):
Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
The Law of Gravity - Sir Issac Newton
Infrared radiation - discovery commonly attributed to William Herschel.
DNA fingerprinting - Sir Alec Jeffreys
Vaccination - Edward Jenner
Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
Caterpillar track - Sir George Cayley
Jet engine - Sir Frank Whittle
First correct description of circulation of the blood - William Harvey
Smallpox vaccine - Edward Jenner
Antisepsis in surgery - Joseph Lister
Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients - Harold Ridley
Colour blindness first described by John Dalton in Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours
Fire extinguisher - George William Manby
Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Rubber band - Stephen Perry
And more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_inventions_and_discoveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_inventions_and_discoveries
So seems like we invented the things that make america what it is!
Now my point of this post isn't a willy waiving contest but the comment:
'You could also make the argument that some of the best inventions came from the United States over the past 200 years. Without those people where could the world be today. Everyone is quick to judge the US but they are more then happy to use our technology without any problem.'
Is one that I and most of the world outside America would view as the typical American egotistical we are the best BS. Making sweeping statements without thinking outside your own country. That post got so far up my nose you wont even believe. If someone had said that to me in a bar i don't think they would be standing.....
Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
The Law of Gravity - Sir Issac Newton
Infrared radiation - discovery commonly attributed to William Herschel.
DNA fingerprinting - Sir Alec Jeffreys
Vaccination - Edward Jenner
Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
Caterpillar track - Sir George Cayley
Jet engine - Sir Frank Whittle
First correct description of circulation of the blood - William Harvey
Smallpox vaccine - Edward Jenner
Antisepsis in surgery - Joseph Lister
Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients - Harold Ridley
Colour blindness first described by John Dalton in Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours
Fire extinguisher - George William Manby
Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Rubber band - Stephen Perry
And more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_inventions_and_discoveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_inventions_and_discoveries
So seems like we invented the things that make america what it is!
Now my point of this post isn't a willy waiving contest but the comment:
'You could also make the argument that some of the best inventions came from the United States over the past 200 years. Without those people where could the world be today. Everyone is quick to judge the US but they are more then happy to use our technology without any problem.'
Is one that I and most of the world outside America would view as the typical American egotistical we are the best BS. Making sweeping statements without thinking outside your own country. That post got so far up my nose you wont even believe. If someone had said that to me in a bar i don't think they would be standing.....