[ruby-talk:02972] Re: Japanese Supercomputer Rubymind

We could make "bubba" look like an ignorant pinhead all day.  Judging
from his attitude, the effort would be wasted.

Von Braun made not insubstantial contributions to rocketry long before
he was forced to emigrate, dating dating back to his founding of
perhaps the first amateur rocketry club in Germany.  Perhaps you've
heard of the V-2?

Albert Einstein...Noble Prize for the invention of photoelectric
theory while he was a patent clerk more than two decades before he
came to the US.

The list can go on and on.

It's so unfortunate that this particular misanthrope hides behind the
tag "Bubba".  Such a nickname can only place him in the American
South, and conveys a whole pack of stereotypes which I would hope we
can outlive.  It's unfortunate that we here in the South (I'm a native
of Atlanta, GA) have spent the last few hundred years, and will
certainly spend the next hundred years, trying to overcome this sort
of small-minded, illiterate, xenophobic, backward rubbish.

Hopefully, people out there will realize that while we in the South
still have our little "issues", we're not all uneducated isolationists
with no understanding of history.

P.S. Bubba...what sort of idiot would say 99% of the people in the US
emigrated here.  BigClue: If you are born here, of parents who are
citizens, you didn't emigrate, no matter where your ancestors come
from.  Unless you can document more than 300 million permanent
resident visas last year, 99% is a bullshit number.  It doesn't matter
if you think it looks good next to the rest of your vacuous arguments,
it's still bullshit.

On Wed, 24 May 2000 23:06:34 -0500, "Conrad Schneiker"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Since the original note was a then-unknowable assertion about the indefinite
>future, which was furthermore potentially refutable by a single
>counter-example, that assertion has probably already been refuted by now.
>
>As for past counter-examples:
>
>* For the Japanese case, try the tunnel diode. A more recent case is the
>high power blue LED and laser diode (much to the embarrassment of hugely
>funded American research programs in this area).
>
>* For the European case, try the scanning tunneling microscope and high
>temperature superconductors.
>
>* Incidentally, Albert Einstein invented his Nobel Prize winning theory
>(which wasn't the general relativity one that he is more famous for) long
>_before_ emigrating.
>
>FYI, this is a fascinating book on Japanese entrepreneual inventiveness:
>
>    Johnstone, Bob (1998) "We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs
>    and the Forging of the Electronic Age"
>
>(Since it was written by an American, it must be correct. :-)
>
>Conrad
>
>
>Bubba <[e-mail]> wrote in message
>news:[e-mail]...
>> Well, actually, since they emigrated to america like 99% of the rest of
>the
>> american population, that would make them AMERICAN.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Like science and religion, I like to keep my beer and my
>> milk seperate.  Not that I have anything against beer,
>> or milk, I just dont think they mix very well.
>>
>>
>>
>> [e-mail] wrote in message <8fots0$44u$[e-mail]>...
>> >In article <[e-mail]>,
>> >  "Bubba" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> >> The only way the japanese will invent anything is if an american
>> >invents it
>> >> first then they steal it before he patents it.
>> >>
>> >> O.K. flame away if you feel you must.
>> >
>> >Yep, and those very americans were Werner von Braun, Albert Alstein,
>> >Bjarne Stroustrup, John Ousterhout, Guido van Rossum: they are all
>> >european!
>> >
>> >faatdilac
>> >
>> >
>> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> >Before you buy.
>>
>>
>>
>


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