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microchips, freeways, blue jeans, tax revolts, extreme sports, energy efficiency, health clubs, Google searches, Craigslist, iPhones and the Hollywood vision of

microchips, freeways, blue jeans, tax revolts, extreme sports, energy efficiency, health clubs, Google searches, Craigslist, iPhones and the Hollywood vision of success So much bullshit, any intelligent person will have stopped reading immediately. TIME seals its status as the worst newsweekly. microchips From wiki: The idea of an integrated circuit was conceived by a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (1909-2002), who published it at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 1952.[1] He gave many symposia publicly to propagate his ideas. freeways Hitler. blue jeans Strauss came from California, blue Jeans did not. Again, see wiki. tax revolts Fuck you. The Pennsylvania Whisky rebellion is BY FAR the most prominent tax revolt in American history, and it is 1000s of years too late to be considered the inventor of the phenom. extreme sports Rome. energy efficiency Watt. health clubs Rome. Google searches Altavista essentially the same, CMU.or Massachusetts, I forget. Craigslist Charging zero for an established service is not an innovation. iPhones Finland. Hollywood vision of success Marx.

dimitar 17y ago
"That gave us" doesn't always mean "that invented".
- holygoat 17y ago
  I think his point still stands: this piece is full of shit. I'm surprised not to see "Sponsored by California Corp." at the bottom.
- mynameishere 17y ago
  What does it mean then? One example: Energy Efficiency. I draw attention to this because: Energy efficiency has ALWAYS been a concern of industry. And James Watt has done more for industrial efficiency than the entire state of CA will ever do. Sorry, but that's a fact. Even if you discount the low-hanging fruit of efficient steam-engines, then companies like Toyota are still at the forefront, not California. I am simply pointing out bullshit where I see bullshit. And Freeways? Really, freeways? EVERYBODY, and even the ignorant part of American society knows that the US freeways were years behind Germany. I'm just pointing out gross stupidity. Nothing else.
gfodor 17y ago
Thanks for getting me 5 minutes of extra sleep tonight!
eru 17y ago
> freeways > Hitler. I doubt that. While Hitler had a lot of Autobahnen built, the first were from the Weimar Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History).
- shpxnvz 17y ago
  I think his point was about the American interstate highway system being specifically modeled after the German autobahns.
  - eru 17y ago
    OK. Though there's more to Germany than Hitler.
wooster 17y ago
The Lincoln Highway was built to coincide with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and was the inspiration for the Interstate Highway System. Modern, riveted, blue jeans were invented in California. Altavista was invented at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory, in Palo Alto, CA. iPhones were invented in California. Credit for mobile phones is spread throughout much more than Finland, with Motorola and AT&T playing significant roles. Marx is just a non-sequitur, as far as I can tell. Which is all beside the point, as that sentence is literary device meant to evoke a sense of place.

dimitar 17y ago

"That gave us" doesn't always mean "that invented".

holygoat 17y ago
I think his point still stands: this piece is full of shit. I'm surprised not to see "Sponsored by California Corp." at the bottom.
mynameishere 17y ago
What does it mean then? One example: Energy Efficiency. I draw attention to this because: Energy efficiency has ALWAYS been a concern of industry. And James Watt has done more for industrial efficiency than the entire state of CA will ever do. Sorry, but that's a fact. Even if you discount the low-hanging fruit of efficient steam-engines, then companies like Toyota are still at the forefront, not California. I am simply pointing out bullshit where I see bullshit. And Freeways? Really, freeways? EVERYBODY, and even the ignorant part of American society knows that the US freeways were years behind Germany. I'm just pointing out gross stupidity. Nothing else.

gfodor 17y ago

Thanks for getting me 5 minutes of extra sleep tonight!

eru 17y ago

> freeways > Hitler. I doubt that. While Hitler had a lot of Autobahnen built, the first were from the Weimar Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History).

shpxnvz 17y ago
I think his point was about the American interstate highway system being specifically modeled after the German autobahns.
- eru 17y ago
  OK. Though there's more to Germany than Hitler.

wooster 17y ago

The Lincoln Highway was built to coincide with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and was the inspiration for the Interstate Highway System. Modern, riveted, blue jeans were invented in California. Altavista was invented at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory, in Palo Alto, CA. iPhones were invented in California. Credit for mobile phones is spread throughout much more than Finland, with Motorola and AT&T playing significant roles. Marx is just a non-sequitur, as far as I can tell. Which is all beside the point, as that sentence is literary device meant to evoke a sense of place.