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On Friday, 21 February 2020 14:38:11 UTC, Dave
Plowman
(News)
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In article
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whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 21 February 2020 10:57:52 UTC, Dave
Plowman
(News)
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In article ,
Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 21/02/2020 08:25, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
. Your service provider and data controller
is
now
Google
LLC:
Because the UK is leaving the EU, we've
updated
our
Terms
so
that
a United States-based company, Google LLC,
is
now
your
service
provider instead of Google Ireland Limited.
So in effect we are now the 51st State of the
US.
Can't we build a British search engine?
The new immigration policy should make sure it's
easy
to
get
the
necessary people to do this?
So which country did we import Tim Berners-Lee
from ?
Are you suggesting the 'country' who invented
something
is
always
the
leader in that for ever? I've got news for you...
No but who invented the first electronic programable
computer
it wasn't steve jobs or bill gates so what went wrong
there
?
That country never had anything like enough kids and
others
with enough spare cash to make what Gates and Jobs were
flogging economically viable. So the world moved on,
just
like
it always does.
Without the UK the USA wouldnl't be the country it is
today.
Yes, but like I said, the world moved on and the UK
became completely irrelevant by the time the personal
computer showed up and never was viable in that area.
So. Things move on like the EEC becoming the EU.
Still does well with docos and to a lesser
extent TV series, but thats about all now.
Whether that is good or not no ones really knows.
Something similar happened with the industrial
revolution too, particularly when it started to produce
the sort of gear that farmers etc were buying.
Such a JCB's
Much more tractors etc.
We have a vintage machinery field day every year
and its interesting to see how little of it is of UK
origin, its almost entirely of US and Oz origin.
The UK had farming machinery before the USA.
And then the USA left the UK for dead on that.
Same with railways and almost everything else too.
No **** sherlock, maybe it's because it's so much bigger,
What I said originally, ****wit.
So how comes they didn't invent the railway,
or computers amonst many other things.
But later than that they did the full commercialisation
of almost everything that matters,
China's done thqat too.
Bull**** it has. Name even one example of that.
Transport including cars, bikes, trains & aircraft.
They never did the FULL COMMERCIALISATION of those first.
Copying what someone else has done isn't too difficult.
That isnt what happens with the FULL
COMMERCIALISATION of an idea.
Which started thousands of years ago, there;s no evidence it started in the USA as the USA didn't exist at the time.
The japs arguably did with just one thing, games consoles
but even with that its now been overrun by microsoft there.
or sony or nintendo.
Nope, its the xbox that has now done the overrunning.
Same as any product, as an example the match was a UK invention.
They have even landed on the moon.
Still not the FULL COMMERCIALISATION of that first.
No one has dome that yet
So it was silly to bring that up when we are clearly
discussing the FULL COMMERCIALISATION of ideas.
What do you mean by FULL COMMERCIALISATION then ?
Surely the match is an example.
from the credit card
and the oldest currency still in use, the UK pound.
And **** all use it now.
Still enough for it to matter,
Not by anyone but you poms.
So why is it still the 4th in the league of trading currencies ?
Most of the international transactions
you poms do dont use the pound.
what makes you think that ?
Even the ex colonys dont use it anymore,
even the more obscure ones like Grenada etc.
Who cares
Those who are discussing how irrelevant it is now.
and it's still the 4th most relivant.
One day the USA will go metric too.
Irrelevant to what is being discussed.
very relivant if they want to join the rest of the world.
They clearly dont have any problem flogging Boeings
and mustangs and plenty of Fords in europe too.
They can use whatever they like but the still have to
use metric if they want to export to other countries.
Boeing and the mustang dont.
So. Just 2 companies in the world is that all you can find.
When was the lasat time yuo bought anything from either of those compannies..
The boeing 737 max such a shining example too.
But not the full commercialisation of it with franchise chains.
How do you know what happend,
We know when franchise chains were
invented and fully commercialised.
you don't, if you did you could prove it.
Franchises started in the middle ages not with mcdonalds !
Just differnt varaitions on a theme.
Bull****. The fast food franchise chains are
nothing like the traditional fish and chip shop.
We had the start of franchises in teh middle ages
BULL****.
https://articles.bplans.com/the-hist...as-we-know-it/
The Middle Ages, as strange as it sounds, is where the business model of franchising started to appear.