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Quote: Originally Posted by AjitMD Why can't Apple outsource the chip production to a US based company like IBM or Intel? After all Samsung is building the chips in the US anyway. Allowing Samsung to build proprietary chips just gives them an i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR I agree on the thermo-nuclear war thing. Don't normally do this kind of thing, but enough is enough. We were recently in the market for a fridge and washing machine. Up until recently we definitely would have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar GRE? Is that actually supposed to impress me? Reading is the simple stuff and GRE is a joke. Where's this great English language literature he's written lately? Where are the Pulitzers, Bookers, and Nobel Prizes …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar You can thank American technology and Americans and British and Canadians and Indians and Australians and more for saving your country from North Korea in the 1950s. If you wish to insert a discourse on 1950s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar Hey like I said I don't have time to list every American invention or pick out the obviously unimportant ones like South Beach Diet. Did you see the size of that list? I have better things to do with my time. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar Oh yeah, who would those people be now? Not the ones I knew who graduated from MIT but whose English was still around an IELTS band 7-9. If you said you knew some people of Korean descent who were raised from inf…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar To be honest I have no idea what a South Beach Diet even is. But I do know what a personal computer is. Ridiculous nationalistic claims will be met with the facts. Call it chest-thumping if you like. At least we …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar To be honest I have no idea what a South Beach Diet even is. But I do know what a personal computer is. Ridiculous nationalistic claims will be met with the facts. Call it chest-thumping if you like. At least we …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar Oh yeah, who would those people be now? Not the ones I knew who graduated from MIT but whose English was still around an IELTS band 7-9. If you said you knew some people of Korean descent who were raised from inf…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar The airplane is American technology. Apple computers are American technology. Cray supercomputers are American technology. ICBMs are American technology. The vast majority of military hardware your country needs …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar You clearly can't read the English language at anything approaching academic level. Look back at my posts, I keep telling you that western technology means European and American, but you refuse to let that fact e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar The English (aka westerners). Later. So if the Swiss invent something it's like, you betcha that's western technology. That's ours! No touch! No touch! China stole what from the Swiss? Oh, no. It's western …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar You clearly can't read the English language at anything approaching academic level. Look back at my posts, I keep telling you that western technology means European and American, but you refuse to let that fact e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar But even China does't impress me that much actually, there are far more western inventions in a single Boeing 777 than the Chinese invented in their entire history. It's always western technology. Uh-huh. Jet…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar As I recall, you too are the proud owner of many Apple products. Last time I checked Steve Jobs was American and APple is American. Ives is British. All "western" inventions and patents.Last time I checked Samsun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar Can we just say that a combination of western science and technologies (that'd be technologies from Europe and the US) got American men to the moon...and that it had Dick Squat to do with Korea? Would that be ok …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar That's right, they call it "Korean technology". Yes, they do. (I'm serious)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar No, you'd be only half-correct there. He was the father of the Saturn V rocket (he did his first experiments in 1930), but he actually built on the work of Goddard, who was the father of the liquid-fueled rocket …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar No, you'd be only half-correct there. He was the father of the Saturn V rocket (he did his first experiments in 1930), but he actually built on the work of Goddard, who was the father of the liquid-fueled rocket …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Radar Uh no, that's the generally accepted definition of 'the west' or 'Western'. Here you go, from the Oxford dictionary: western |ˈwɛstərn| adjective 1 [ attrib. ] situated in the west, or directed toward or …