To your P.S., it baffles me too, since the YDI's outnumber the Your Life is ******'s. I think of it like this: Sure, a huge number of cops let their power go to their head and become jerks. You could say that about politicians. That doesn't mean it's a brilliant idea to disregard any sort of law/government/regulations/etc. because the people who make them are inherently usually corrupt. If that's the sort of society people want, they should move to an island and start an anarchist country.

You can't just say 'most cops suck' with any authority, unless of course, you've met the majority of cops. People suck, cops are people, therefore they suck no less then normal people suck.

The car was invented multiple times in multiple countries over a long period of time. There was no sudden moment of invention, like with other things; once the steam engine and the train were invented, it wasn't that big a leap to take them off the rails; the French, the Russians, the Germans, all sorts of inventors were putting them together. The Americans are noticably absent in the very early days of the car's invention.

Car: Ford didn't invent it. Only mass produced it. Light bulb: Two Canadians invented it (yeah, it's true). Sold the patent to Thomas Edison (also true). Edison can be the 'father of MODERN light bulbs' I guess. TV: too many inventors contributing to say who gets credit. Internet: Same as tv. Taking credit for TV and the Internet (cars might even fit in there) is like saying someone invented Water. (Yes...it's that stupid). There were inventors for those items, but so many that you can't specifically say who. (Although the internet has two Americans that could be given most....but they declined saying the same things) Most things are not American. Suck it up Sally's. Being 'manufactured in America' does not make it an American invention. America didn't even invent Football without Canada's help (or at least the competition of Canada's own football program evolving). Both started from Rugby, both evolved. Both at the exact same time. Basketball is Canadian...Ice hockey...Lacrosse...the blackberry...time zones...electron microscope...washing machines...electric stove (yes, Canadian)...PACE MAKERS...all Canadian... Many famous European inventions....radio wave frequency of hertz...submarine communication...first mechanoelectric tv system .... handwriting....feasibility of RADIO communication...electric battery...the zamboni (of all things not canadian) is italian! American inventions are numerous too...artificial heart...sewing machine...telegraph key....airplanes (not cars!)...motorcycle (contested)....oil well (contested)....laser...video games...volleyball... I have to stop listing American inventions...not that there's anymore then any place else...it's that some of the information for the American inventions on an American website *cough* contradicts websites elsewhere...some also being American. But you get the point. Some inventions America has claimed may be contested, but the US has contributed a lot....even if it's for things you don't normally think about. The point is: Don't assume that the US is the inventor of 95% of technologies. ESPECIALLY when that's all Japan has to export.....they have no resources. The Japanese invent and innovate like crazy these days (only way to make money on a resource-less island).

well said, twiggly and nice try flamin yawn at trying to stop people from calling americans stupid ... then you go and list a bunch of things that WERE NOT invented by americans hmmm?

Everyone stfu. 87.5% of the world's manufactured goods are created in China.

Computer science is widely regarded to be the invention of Alan Turing, British. Wikipedia tells me that the first programmable computing machine was German: the Zuse Z3 in May 1941. America didn't make one until the next year.

Umm, actually, video games were American. TV, telephone, atm, these were all Scottish.

Grace Hopper invented the first compiler. She was American.