Originally Posted by
The Willow Sword
Everything from inventing the telephone,
You know fuk Edison and what he and his cronies did to Nikola Tesla.
LOL, Easy tiger, I didn't know Tesla was your boy, man you guys must have been tight back in the day. Regardless of who jackknifed who, both Edison and Tesla were Americans and thus the telephone is an American invention.
Anyway like all countries, we have our plus and minuses, the reason the world looks in our direction is because we're the only superpower remaining after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and so we get the most attention. Of course, we're also on the receiving end of a lot of envy, and are judged more harshly than other countries. But don't worry though, I predict we'll lose our superpower status within our lifetimes and China will assume the mantle, just look at the current trends occuring in the political and economical aspects of the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke