On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:32 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote: > > So being half Arabic gives you a unique view in to ancient history?
No but the educational things the Arab world did for the rest art part of ancient history. Which anyone can go and learn about, history of taking a bath, algebra, distilling, etc. > Maybe you can help me out a bit, I am a little fuzzy on where the > Library of Alexandria was :) This great store of ancient information. Even the Egyptian people, who are so educated, have no clue :) > > > Nope, not correct. This country did not discover electricity. Haven't > you ever heard of the Baghdad battery? It was around long before the > Vikings even voyaged this way. You might want to go research the Baghdad batter, and the amount of electricity it was capable of producing. They did not know it as such, and uses were very different. You can interpret things how ever you like, but what we know as modern day electricity, the concept of such, turning on a light etc, came from the US. > The AC motor was invented by Nikola Tesla who was Serbian although, > he did live in the US. Who was Tesla working for in the US? :) > Also, we didn't invent the computer either. You might want to look in > to the Antikythera mechanism believed to have been around from around > 100 BC. I am talking about electronic computer. Which again there was no electricity back then. At least not to our present knowledge, and surely not from the Bahgdad battery. Which you can go make one now, and see what kind of charge you get from what. What all you can power and do with that :) > We have ancients who knew more than many in our country today. > Obviously overall more people have a general education, but we should > be learning from previous advancements in history. An advancement in history is something that lives on and we continue to use to this day. Like taking a bath, distilling beverages and other things, using algebra, and many other things. If something exists and has a one off use, not practical or worth acknowledging. Like curing cancer or aids in one person. Would you turn around and say we have the cure now? If it doesn't apply to all, or the majority in a case scenario, then its one off. > This is not the case either. Our infrastructure is horrible in this > country. At least we have infrastructure. Our problem is its age, but its there. Others are starting from scratch. Ever heard of the black outs in India. > Have you ever traveled outside of the country? Yes, but I can't travel to some places I would like to do for other reasons. > I travel fairly often and many other countries in the world take much > better care and have much more modern infrastructure. They took after things we did here and improved upon them. They also do not have the amount of land to cover, or other issues we face. There are places with better infrastructure than the US, but there are many more with less and worse infrastructure. Think our neighbor to the south Mexico. Or Islands to the south of Florida. Funny that the literacy rate in Haiti is not to far off that in Egypt. > You have high speed rail in other countries, you have bridges that > aren't falling apart, and you have an electrical grid that isn't > ancient. You are talking about a very small minority of countries. There are quite many more with major power issues, and infrastructure that never existed and is also falling apart. Take a hard look at India, they have it all. Technology, and things falling apart, along with black outs and all sorts of problems. China is not to far behind or along. Sure in their cities, but go into the rural country lands, and very different scenario. > We have serious problems in this country that need to be addressed. As do most all countries. > I don't know of any other countries that are using what we have done > in any kind of template, unless it's what not to do. Um any country with a road system or freeway system took after the US. Any country with big modern cities took after the US. Those high speed rails you love so much. Where were the first trains? > Our infrastructure is a stack of dominoes and if they start falling > we are in trouble. Again its because we are on our second or third generation. We have had infrastructure long enough for it to fall apart. That right there says quite allot ;) Also I guess your not aware of the building collapses in other countries. Sure they have modern building, but do not have our codes or standards of building. I am not even talking Haiti, but Asian countries. They have on idea how to maintain things, etc. We are not perfect, and perfect does not exist. But does it get any better than the US? Who gives more aid than the US? Who drives technology world wide, post WWII :) Lots of negatives sure, but the list of positives goes on and on. Heck we are the country that created Facebook and Twitter! -- William L. 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