Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 21 2018 03:43pm)

I mean... it's not like George W. Bush was considered "a bastion of excellence" or carried a particularly high reputation on the global stage either.

Clinton was busy shoving cigars into his intern's pussy inside of the oral office, George H.W. Bush was the epitome of mediocrity and the late reagan most likely suffered from mental illness while in office.

So in recent decades, most presidents have exhibited embarrassing behavior, Obama is an outlier in that regard and his degree of absence of gaffes and scandals shouldnt be considered the norm.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 21 2018 05:52pm)

I actually agree that Social Security and Medicare are huge drains on our country, the only problem is they are probably the programs with the most points toward moral goodness that have ever been implemented.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Apr 21 2018 05:16pm)

I disagree. In practice they actually outlaw moral goodness. Before either of them you would actually have to give money and time to be charitable.

Now, not only is it forced, the money is less effective at fighting what it was meant to fight.

Prior to SS and MC, grandparents would have families to take care of them in their old age. Now we have created a generation of (relatively) childless old people who will have no future, even if we use SS/MC as a bandaid

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 21 2018 09:46pm)

My tax dollars don't represent my money and my time?

Quote (duffman316 @ Apr 21 2018 04:13pm)

care to elaborate?

Quote (excellence @ Apr 22 2018 07:34am)

oh great look its more crying by losers using the American-made internet on a forum founded by an American, for an American video-game created by an American firm, to cry about America.



>im sick of hearing about drumpf

Quote (Plaguefear @ Apr 22 2018 02:45am)

Actually i am using the world wide web invented by an australian on a forum founded by an american for a worldwide video game created by a firm that was owned by a french corporation to laugh at your hilarious president.

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The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.[1] The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960s, including for the development of the ARPANET project, directed by Robert Taylor and managed by Lawrence Roberts. The first message was sent over the ARPANET in 1969 from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

Packet switching networks such as the NPL network, ARPANET, Tymnet, Merit Network, CYCLADES, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of communications protocols.[2] Donald Davies first demonstrated packet switching in 1967 at the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, which became a testbed for UK research for almost two decades.[3][4] The ARPANET project led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks.

The Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was developed by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf in the 1970s and became the standard networking protocol on the ARPANET, incorporating concepts from the French CYCLADES project directed by Louis Pouzin. In the early 1980s the NSF funded the establishment for national supercomputing centers at several universities, and provided interconnectivity in 1986 with the NSFNET project, which also created network access to the supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations. Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the very late 1980s. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990. Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities emerged in several American cities by late 1989 and 1990,[5] and the NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.

In the 1980s, research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network.[6] Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture, commerce, and technology, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone calls, two-way interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites.

Quote (Ghot @ Apr 22 2018 06:16pm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet





....and the D2 franchise wasn't sold to Vivaldi for like...8 years.