Yet America’s lower gasoline prices, especially for the mix that is 85% ethanol, mean I can get the functional equivalent for about two bucks a gallon.
That’s part of it. That’s *part *of the reason why we didn’t sign Kyoto, the fact that we thought a lot of the signer’s would sign and ignore. Note the word PART, let’s not get ino the many and varied reasons (some good, some bad) of why we didn’t ratify Kyoto.
Off the top of my head I believe Brits invented the industrial steam engine ,railways,the silicon chip,radar,the internet,carbon fibre,accurate chronometers,computers,co invented television and no doubt a few other things .I’ll bet that even that short list contains a couple of items that Americans populary believe to be their own countrymans discoveries.
Where I personally believe the U.S. to be streets ahead of the rest of the world is in innovation and the implementation of innovation,whether in business practices or putting new science to practical use .
The American way of thinking seems to be" lets see if we can make this happen",fair enough a percentage of the attempts fail but a hell of a lot dont and end up enriching our everyday lives…
The development of HTTP is a drop in the bucket in the work involved in creating the internet as a whole. It’s wholly inaccurate of calling that “inventing the internet”. I mean, it’s just a high level protocol for specifying a particular manner in which a particular type of exchange happens. There are dozens of such protocols, and they in no way compare to developing the infrastructure of the internet.
Yes, I agree that it’s inaccurate. As I said, he is credited with inventing the Web, not the Internet. As to whether it’s a “drop” or whether it would have happened anyway, doesn’t matter - he’s the dude who did it, and he is British.
