Thanks to Donald, finally we know.

[swissie]

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

 

How much revenue does GPS generate?

For whom?

[stevenl]

4 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

I am curious what impeachable offenses he has already committed.  I mean I get it you hate him and would put a knife in his back if you could, but what has he actually done that is impeachable?

 

I am also unaware of massive street actions occurring today.  And come on, kill many protestors?  You need help.  This isn't Tienanmen Square. 

He already is impeached, twice.

[Cryingdick]

6 hours ago, swissie said:

Finally it's official. US products in international markets are not competitive. Remedy: Impose tariffs.

 

Indeed: Outside of Silicone Valley not much "innovation" had it's origin in the US. There is a Chinese Automaker that registers 45 new patents EVERY DAY.

 

Without the steady stream of foreighn buyers of T-Bills and T-Bonds, the American Dream would have run out of gas a long time ago. Reserve currency etc etc etc...

Outside of Silicon Vally there isn't much innovation anywhere except China. 

[JAG]

5 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

OK wanna expand on that?  This should be good.

From Wikipedia:

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford[2] and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

 

I vaguely knew his sister, one of the first female Anglican ordained women clergy.

 

They were a quintessentially English family, you couldn't get more English than the Burners-Lee siblings.

[Jingthing]

5 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

I am curious what impeachable offenses he has already committed.  I mean I get it you hate him and would put a knife in his back if you could, but what has he actually done that is impeachable?

 

I am also unaware of massive street actions occurring today.  And come on, kill many protestors?  You need help.  This isn't Tienanmen Square. 

You're the one that clearly needs help.

 

[Jingthing]

5 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

I remember idiot far lefties predicting the same exact think about GW Bush.  When will they learn and reach out to reality.

Didn't happen.

[spidermike007]

The US was already on the decline. Trump is simply making the US less relevant and diminishing it's standing throughout the world. His tariffs will either be eliminated, or the US economy will go into a very deep dive. The utter simplicity of his mind is scary. 

 

One thing is clear. He is NOT the man most Americans think they voted for, and his intentions are most foul. 

 

 

 

 

[hunkidori]

8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The utter simplicity of his mind is scary. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll never forget his injecting disinfectant idea during covid

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, hunkidori said:

 

I'll never forget his injecting disinfectant idea during covid

 

   Not that he actually said to do that . 

[placeholder]

6 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

OK wanna expand on that?  This should be good.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),^[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford^[2] and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).^[3][4]

^{https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee}

[nauseus]

7 hours ago, swissie said:

All Silicone Valley stuff.

 

The internet did not come out of the USA.

[Cryingdick]

5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

The internet did not come out of the USA.

It was a British guy that lived in the USA.

[Jim Blue]

6 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Tell us about the great innovation from Europe.  LOL..

The Voltswagon Beetle !

[CallumWK]

7 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

7 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

I assume you mean the worldwide web, as we know it, which was invented by a Brit

 

OK wanna expand on that?  This should be good.

 

You don't know how to use Google, it is part of the WWW.

 

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

 

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

 

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

 

The World Wide Web (WWW, W3 or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.^[1] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).^[2]

The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1993. It was conceived as a "universal linked information system".^[3][4][5] Documents and other media content are made available to the network through web servers and can be accessed by programs such as web browsers. Servers and resources on the World Wide Web are identified and located through character strings called uniform resource locators (URLs).

 

https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

 

[stevenl]

27 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

It was a British guy that lived in the USA.

He was living and working in Switzerland when he proposed the things that would lead to www.

[Cryingdick]

4 minutes ago, stevenl said:

He was living and working in Switzerland when he proposed the things that would lead to www.

Stanford.

[nauseus]

34 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

It was a British guy that lived in the USA.

 

Still does....sometimes. But not before he created the www.

[PomPolo]

8 hours ago, swissie said:

All Silicone Valley stuff.

Absolutely and wait until the likes of the EU start hitting back at the big tech giants, there is more money to be made on tariffs there than there is off the penguins

[SLOWHAND225]

8 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

I assume you mean the worldwide web, as we know it, which was invented by a Brit

No, we all know Al Gore invented it. He told us so .................. lol

[cdemundo]

7 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

 

How much revenue does GPS generate?

I don't know the answer to that.

But how about this, would you like to live without GPS?

(Although admittedly many Bangkok taxi drivers live without GPS.)

[phetphet]

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

He should be ousted but I don't know how that could happen.

A president can't be impeached for bad policies.

That said there are multiple impeachable offenses he has already committed and more to come. 

But it's ultimately about political will.

His approval rating would need to go down to the bare bones hard core maga fascist cult.

So a low of 30 percent.

Then enough republicans in the house and senate would need to step up and do the right thing. Possible perhaps if they saw personal political benefit from doing that.

I do predict MASSIVE STREET ACTIONS. It has already started this weekend. 

There will be millions protesting in DC sooner or later.

But I don't know how street actions can depose a US president.

He would likely call martial law and kill many of them.

That might add to the first scenario -- political pressure to impeach.

I'm only predicting the mass street actions. 100 percent confident in that part.

Marched off in a strait jacket, put in a padded cell, and fed Big Macs to keep him subdued. 

 

[impulse]

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

He already is impeached, twice.

 

The second time was after he was no longer in office.  How stupid and syndrome-like was that?

 

[jimmybcool]

Some of you are giving way too much credit to a single guy for inventing the internet.  My bet is most of you haven't a clue how inter computer networking actually communicates.  I mean it's OK.  Most of us don't know how electricity flows to lights and other devices.  We just use it.  And if it makes you feel good that a guy born in England defined some of the specs feel good.  Trust me that the real work to invent, test and build the protocols occurred in the USA in the 60s and 70s by Arpanet and universities like Stanford and others. 

 

Betting most of you wouldn't understand the difference between a defined guaranteed bandwidth network and packet switching ala X25 or current IP protocols.  I installed X25 switching and worked with the engineers that defined ATM switching which currently carries the higher speed data for the internet.  I designed the first private ATM network ever implemented (Intel) and many other private cell switching (private cell architecture) networks.  One guy from Switzerland or England is just a small part of the big picture.  But hey, feel free to think it was invented by one guy.

 

[jimmybcool]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Didn't happen.

 

Did happen.  Many far left people were crying about how GW Bush would not leave office.  Just because you didn't know about it or don't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen.  Just like now.  You are proposing fear Trump won't leave office.  People like you (far left) worried Bush would not hand power over to the next president.  And 10 years from now you can disavow anyone ever said it about Trump when the discussion is of some other guy (Vance maybe) not leaving after 8 years.  It gets tiresome.  Denial is not just a river in Egypt. 

 

[simple1]

8 hours ago, Keeps said:

I predict that he will be ousted, somehow, within the next 18 months. I do not necessarily hope this happens, merely a prediction. I'm not American but his recent exploits have cost many financially. Only on paper though for myself at the moment so no major concerns....yet... probably a fair bit of pain to come 

 

The big concern is Vance, he appears to be equally fanatical. If the opportunity arising it will take a lot of effort and time to restore Global Order and Trade.. As an example trump Admin declined to appoint Appeal Judges to WTO,. Accordingly appeals will sit in limbo for a very long time.

[jimmybcool]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

You're the one that clearly needs help.

 

 

And protestors shot down was....... yeah none.  Your imagined machine gunning of protestors never happened and the takeovers never happened.   Get help.  The fascists are on the left not the right.  People who are brainwashed as you are can protest no penalty.  Stay off the roads and don't commit violence and all is well.

[impulse]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

The internet did not come out of the USA.

 

Sure it did.  Dick Tracy was light years ahead of Apple with his 2 way wrist radio.  Jobs just copied it.

 

 

 

[JAG]

1 hour ago, hunkidori said:

 

I'll never forget his injecting disinfectant idea during covid

 

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Not that he actually said to do that . 

Well he did suggest it, on live TV, to his medical leaders. Along with, if I recall, the internal application of UV light?

[anotherexpat4444]

 Can someone  help explain  why America charging almost of half what it is currently charged by other country becoming such a big crime . 

 

[PomPolo]

1 minute ago, anotherexpat4444 said:

 Can someone  help explain  why America charging almost of half what it is currently charged by other country becoming such a big crime . 

 

https://i0.wp.com/greatlakescustomslaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Trump-Recriprocal-Tariff-Chart.jpg?ssl=1

Not as much of a crime as it is a mental breakdown that requires intervention.