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Sadly, this seems to happen in many societies. There are examples from England, Ireland and Germany.

Oh really? What are you doing here then?
https://www.welt.de/vermischte... Mentions that children talk about smart phones, not that their parents are distracted.
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/ges... writes the same thing.
https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-... the same thing.
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Sommer-Wasser-und-viele-Nichtschwimmer,schwimmunterricht126.html no mention at all.
https://www.zdf.de/verbraucher... no mention at all.
Then you have garbage mainstream media:
https://www.rtl.de/cms/immer-m... in reference to "Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung" who writes that smartphones are the cause. So let's see what that paper writes, because I found the article.
(probably not garbage media) https://www.noz.de/deutschland...
See. Not a lot about smartphones at all and certainly not in the head lines.

Over 2 million immigrants came to Germany since 2015, and relatively large part of their children never learned to swim - the rate was 21% vs. 12% in 2016, and probably did not improve since then: https://www.armut-und-gesundhe...

But it is not only the children, also the adult non-swimmers are a problem - the press in Germany covered this topic repeatedly, for example: https://www.welt.de/vermischte...

In addition, an estimated 2% of parents do not want their children to be educated in swimming at school for religious reasons, as they consider their visibility to others in this context as "sinful".

the first nail in their coffin should be the revoking of their WH press pass.

Now why would they want to go and ruin a perfectly good distraction? How many comments has this story received already? CNN et al are doing exactly what they're supposed to do.. There's a war on, you know.

Please read the entire discussion before adding your noise, this was specifically about stick shifting.

That said, I live in Germany where cars equipped with manual transmission account for about 80% ot total car sales so your reply, while theoretically valid, is practically irrelevant.

Didn't the press insinuate time and again this hack - like so many - must have been done by "the Russians2?

Examples:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/med...
https://www.welt.de/debatte/ko...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de...

Didn't the press insinuate time and again this hack - like so many - must have been done by "the Russians2?

Examples:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/med...
https://www.welt.de/debatte/ko...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de...

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE -- all countries with which Trump has business dealings -- are still off the hook.

While I agree that those countries should also be on the list, that's a difficult proposition at the moment. Maybe when we're no longer dependent on their oil, which for better or worse is something Trump seems to be trying to do by cutting down the EPA. Either way, the travel ban was a list already comprised by the Obama administration and most of those countries have been bombed by the US in the last few years. Would you want to invest your money in a country that's being bombed? As a /.er you should understand the difference between correlation and causation.

On a curious side note, why is it that the media is spouting that it was Saudis who did 9/11 now but no one said a thing about that when we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of 9/11?

Anyway, while there haven't been "terror deaths" there certainly have been incidents, and Europe is currently experiencing a surge in crime since the refugees started coming in, with many of the crimes going unreported in the media and sometimes even unpunished in a misguided attempt to prevent racism.

A three-month ban is a pain in the ass for the people involved, but nothing insurmountable (i.e., don't leave the country for a few months... this is something I've had to deal with multiple times when moving to other countries), and no one said anything when the Obama administration stopped processing visa applications for Iraqis for six months.

https://muslimstatistics.wordp...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de... (in German)
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing.

Indeed it is.

Trump wants to deport 11 million people

Well, yes, just like Germany.

persecute Muslims

No, just strongly scrutinize immigration from countries with lots of terrorists. You know, the same policy as Clinton or much of Europe.

force other countries to respect and build walls for America

Kind of like some European countries

and all on the back of a populist campaign of lies and blame

No argument there.

Hahaha, you obviously don't live in southern Germany. The CSU is only in Bavaria (since after the war) and Bavaria still thinks it is a separate country from the days of the Empire.

Even people in northern Bavaria (Franken) are not even considered real Bavarians (sorry, in German) https://www.welt.de/reise/deut...

The CSU is only part of the CDU because otherwise they would die out as a regional party.

Various commenters have pointed out that they have had unremarkable, or even cool temperatures this year. The warmists reliably respond "weather isn't climate". But you know: enough individual weather data points are climate.

Before you make this comment "troll", consider just one little example:

This year, much of western continental Europe had an unusually cold Spring, from April through June. While individual cooler days are not unusual, this is the first year I have ever had to run the heating in June, because the entire month was cold. This wasn't confined to one town, or even one country - it affected most of Germany, northern France, Switzerland, Austria, etc.. The weather phenomenon was well-explained: the jet stream had an unusually strong north-to-south orientation, bringing cold polar air for most of the Spring.

Why is this important? Because - despite the obviously cold temperatures, over a large region, lasting several weeks, the global climate trends claims that we had an unusually warm Spring. Look, for example, at the GISS site, and ask it for a map for May or June 2016. Note how all of Europe is colored orange (i.e., unusually warm), for both months. This is simply a lie, and can only work because of the way historical temperatures have been artificially adjusted downwards.

Look, the earth is warming. Glaciers are retreating. The lakes and canals that our grandparents skated on? They no longer freeze over. There's no doubt of any of that. Why is it necessary to falsify data, in an attempt to make things look catastrophic? This only serves to destroy the credibility of climate science.

Vacuum or low pressure air pressure "pneumatic delivery" we have since the 19th century.

Modern concepts for cargo and passengers are:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/...
http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/ein-...
http://www.trendsderzukunft.de...

Your google foo must be low on you.

However Brexit has brought to light much scarier implications.

"The idea of a common European military headquarters has been revived by the head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, shortly after the UK’s citizens voted in favor of Brexit. “We need more cooperation in the European defense policy,” Elmar Brok told Die Welt [Original in German]. The new armed forces could be modeled after the Franco-German model, making European foreign policy much more effective, Brok believes."

Because apparently Europe doesn't feel secure enough under NATO, it requires its own army for "foreign" policy. And incidentally to crush dissent from any other member nation that attempts the wrong kind of democracy.

Wind also requires huge swathes of land
No it does not. You simply build them on farmland: http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/...

and if you want to put it in the ocean it faces severe challenges - salt corrosion and storms.
Which are no big problems. Every ship faces the same. Hence why everyone is building them ;D

If you have to put a plant offline because the wind is to high (which is at extrem high wind speeds only), other wind farms produce premium power as power production increases with the cube of the wind speed.

https://www.enbw.com/baltic1/i... or https://www.enbw.com/unternehm... no idea where the english pages went ... a few years ago when the parks where under construction they had english versions as well.

Power shortages due to over reliance on renewable technologies are inevitable
They are not. Depends on the grid and the size of your country. Europe is big enough and already has a grid that spans it that one side of Europe can power the other side if there would indeed be a big "problem". Germany alone is big enough to power itself from wind power alone, it is physically impossible that all of Germany has not enough wind.

unless nuclear is in the mix in a big way. Yeah exactly, and that is why one of the leading western industrial nations is switching them off and sitting in the dark ... (*facepalm*)

According this article in Der Welt (Google translate from German), ...

It is "Die Welt", not "Der Welt." For heaven's sake, when you click on the link, the correct name is right there on the top of the page in 48-pt font. How do you screw that up?

In German, "der" and "die" are both articles that translate to the English "the," but they have different genders and should not be conflated. ("der" and "die" have more expanded meanings and uses than just "the", but we'll skip that for now.) It would be similar to an American referring to Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Chuck Norris, or Hulk Hogan as "she".

No you didn't fix it for anyone. You're just throwing a temper tantrum.

http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/...

http://www.welt.de/politik/aus...

http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Naviga...

The sources are in German. The first on is on the topic of effects of East German wind power and the effects for the polish network http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/...

On the whole energy concept of Poland
http://www.welt.de/politik/aus...

And the projects in building new gas and coal plants:
http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Naviga...

While they plan to build new plants, they also have a problem due to low prices on the European electricity exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Energy_Exchange) and other trading places. Therefore, many projects might be be realized.

Tennet a large energy net company shows that electricity prices on the market have declined making coal less profitable: http://www.tennet.eu/nl/news/a...
While coal prices may get lower due to Chinas reduced imports, running coal plant still cannot keep up with solar and wind power (onshore). http://www.theguardian.com/env... (sorry from last year).

Hope that helps.
 

I have bad news for you (sorry, not much found online except in German language): http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww... http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/... It's a literally giant installation, cost: 6 million euro (1.3million subventioned from the state), capacity: 5MWh, that's 250 euro worth of electricity stored. Life span - certainly not "decades", 10 years at most.

Yeah, I believed that until the Governor General went along with Harper's suspension of parliament to avoid a no-confidence vote. If that's not an un-democratic interference with the workings of democracy, I don't know what is.

The German one at one point in time polled at 13% of the popular vote.

What happened? Some vested business interests got scared and started "digging up some dirt" on candidates? Insert moles/saboteurs in the party?

Interestingly life-expectancy in Germany (at least for men) seems to be highest in Bavaria :)

http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/article13303516/Wo-die-Menschen-in-Deutschland-am-laengsten-leben.html

The content mafia isn't as strong anymore as it used to be.

Really? As evidenced by what? By the enormous increases in GEMA fees?

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article106373740/Gema-erhoeht-Speicher-Abgabe-um-1850-Prozent.html

http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/Wo-tanzen-wenn-die-Disko-stirbt-id19903121.html

This has happened before:
Original in German | Google Translate (English)

18,000 men were asked to give samples, ~80% did - among them the perpetrator. Apparently some relatives went and he couldn't come up with a good excuse to skip.

But renewables don't work! Subsidies for oil companies! Drill baby drill etc.

They don't work.

Here in Ontario(Canada), it's cost electricity users $20B in subsidies so far, and is costing the average rate payer right now about 3c/KWH on top of their electricity bill on ToU billing at peak. By 2016, Ontario is projected to be at 16c/KWH one of the highest in North America. This is all because of subsidies, or the FiT(Feed it Tariff) program. Where utilities get paid at a higher rate than they can sell for. Usually between 40-60c/KWH.

But hey, look above. A german mentioned that they're paying 0.45c/KWH right now. Enjoy that screw over, though he didn't mention that nearly 800k germans can no longer afford electricity and have been cut off. Though the article is considered dated from June of this year, and it's figured to be over 1 million germans now.

Look, in the present case "OECD observers", that means dedicated Members of Parliament from other nations. A sort of pan-democratic international peer review of the elections process. There were recently elections in the Ukraine. Of course you have international observers who draft a report if they found irregularities. In these Eastern European nations the vote was often disputed by the opposition parties. For the US elections the German OECD observer reports an outrageous situation. According to him the government designated them which election offices they were permitted to visit, they were not allowed to speak with voters, within the building advertisements for the President were found, he further criticised that elections took place during a work day and certain voters had to wait for one hour(!!) to case their ballot. Such conditions would be unthinkable in Germany and remind you of a banana state. Peer review of the electoral process by unattached external persons is helpful.

Nuclear technology is dangerous. That is why Germany decided to abandon it. In German conservative news I see there is alarm in Oyster Creek (2 on 4 accident scale). Don't forget that the worst may still follow when the downfall moves to the sea.

What kind of dumbfuck utility would agree to pay $0.30-0.80/KWh when their production cost is an order of magnitude lower? Massively subsidising "green" energy may be an "easy" answer, but it's not a reasonable one.

I'd say plenty of them, it's right common in Canada, very common in Europe, and it happens quite a bit in the US. Greece is paid $0.30-75/KWh for solar and wind. Germany is paying around the same, in fact it's so bad in Germany that nearly 1m people can no longer afford power because their FiT programs have driven the cost of power so high. It happens in the US as well there's plenty of stories on it as well. I'm just far too lazy right now to start digging through for articles on it.

This longer piece (German) quotes him pointing out that he is very weak in Graph theory and Combinatorics. Nevertheless he skipped two classed in school and will be able to start university this fall.

Won't be the last time we heard form this guy.

Non-Americans don't even have the same business models that drive traffic to US sites. They don't even have per-story comments [...]

It would have been sufficient to RTFA to see that you are wrong. Underneath the text even the Google translation shows quite prominently "Read comments (162 posts)". Let us visit the largest German news websites that I can name off the top of my head and click on an exemplary story to see who has per-story comments:

• Süddeutsche Zeitung: check
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: check
• Die Welt: check
• Der Spiegel: check
• Focus: check
• Stern: no
• TAZ: check
• Tagesschau online: check

7 out of 8 have per-story comments. This business model has very much arrived here.

I only have a german link:

http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article659245/Ein_unterirdisches_Wasserkraftwerk.html

It is not a typical plant ... as it does not use a weir (AFAIK). Sorry can not find better linsk with pictures etc. :-/

Lol, you again bring complete false contextual answers. The question was never if a security agency like CIA or BND may in special circumstances read email without a court order, the question was wether the "government" or the "police" may do it.

Did you ever read the laws you citate?
And did you read the articles you link?

Neither the law you linked nor any article says that THE POLICE or THE STATE does NOT NEED a court order. Of course they need one.

The BND is an exception just like the CIA or NSA is ... so what is your fucking point? You start to annoy me. You don't want to admit that you are wrong.

Do you really think a random police man or a random BND agent is "allowed" to read m email?

Read the damn law you link.
The question is not if the Verfassungsschutz is illegally doing it, the question is how to legally do it and to do it legally you need a court order. Or you need to announce it to the "Parlamentarische Kontrollgremium" which is an even higher instance than a court.

 1 Gegenstand des Gesetzes
2. ...
(2) Soweit MaÃYnahmen nach Absatz 1 von BehÃrden des Bundes durchgeführt werden, unterliegen sie der Kontrolle durch das Parlamentarische Kontrollgremium und durch eine besondere Kommission (G 10-Kommission).

Learn to read, and stop claiming something and then linking a not appropriated source.

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1589067/BND_darf_Telefonate_von_Verdaechtigen_abhoeren.html

Read your link from top to bottom and get a damn clue.

The BND *asked* their supervisors to do the surveillance!! Der Geheimdienst hatte auf die internationale Terrorgefahr verwiesen, als er die Telefonüberwachung am 14. September 2001 beim Bundesinnenministerium beantragte.

And again: you jumped the topic without noticing I assume. My claim is: E-mail is equivalent to postal mail. Thats all! I never talked about security agencies ... you jumped the topic to them.

angel'o'sphere

No, it is the opposite around: I get just one factually false statement after another from you,

Like what?

Then disprove it. Bring me one singel case where emails where accessed legally without court order.

I gave you the law:

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/g10_2001/BJNR125410001.html

Here are some newspaper analyses:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/entwicklung-der-sicherheitsgesetze-viele-jaeger-sind-der-freiheit-tod-1.377313

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1589067/BND_darf_Telefonate_von_Verdaechtigen_abhoeren.html

If you dig a little deeper, you'll see that the BND routinely monitors international calls (from their facility in Pullach). It's neither a secret or a great mystery. And they did the same thing back in the 1970's and 1980's for calls to/from East Germany. The have general authority to do that and don't need a court order for each instance. God only knows what the German "Verfassungsschutz" does.

Mod this up.

This is exactly the point and it is why the German press covered this under the headline "Switzerland's present to Europe".

People like the OP were probably standing around in caveman days, saying, "Ugh. No make fire. What if fire is monster, kill everyone? Bad thing. Not make fire unless know not monster."

But fire *is* a monster! Literally, this pix was taken just a few miles from my house - the nearest point of the fire was about 2 miles away!

We almost lost our community college. Don't tell me fire isn't a monster, you insensitive clod!

I am already so tired of hearing "black this" and "Afro-American that" and he just became President

I tend to agree. But then again, I'm among those born well after the civil rights movement -- and I'm willing to guess you are too. I think it's hard for the under-40 crowd to really understand what race really meant in this country in the pre-civil-rights-movement era.

In Obama's own words, from today's address:

a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath

So, yes, the fact that Obama is part Kenyan doesn't really matter to many of us. But it is extremely remarkable that he's been elected to our nations highest office in a country where segregation ended less than a century ago.

The mods must be Republican today.

However, the view that the current President of the United States is a war criminal is not unique to myself.

I don't really deserve the troll mod. I'm not here trying to piss people off. If you're asking why Bush is hated, you simply have not considered the enormity of his crimes, and the grievous injury he has done to whatever national soul we have. The country is so sharply divided that in some sense these Olympic games are a godsend--for a brief while, we have heroes that we can stand up and cheer for, and be proud of, and for a time we can forget our differences.

In a short while it will be over, and the war will still be ongoing, the government will still be spying on its citizens, and possibly-innocent will still be rotting in Guantanamo Bay. The next leader of the country will inherit a mantle of shame and distrust, and a failing economy. This is the world that George Bush has shepherded into being. May God have mercy on his soul---no one on Earth seems likely to dispense justice upon him.

I work on oncogenomics, but I studied GMOs: it is wrong to assume that since I don't work in that specific field, I do not know anything about it. Also some of my colleagues used to work or still work in the field of GMOs (mostly related to tracing their presence in food for legislative purposes).

And what I meant about GP being correct, yes, I meant that Greenpeace follows an agenda that is dictated by ideology, false facts or plain ignorance, and not by accurate knowledge. I don't mind if they object to GMO usage, as long as they have proper facts to back their claims (and not this report which is - according even to them - not conducted using all the necessary scientific methods). The case of the Golden Rice is a perfect example. Here are some links:

A commentary on BioScience, September 2005
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aibs/bio/200 5/00000055/00000009/art00003 (full text is free)

Greenpeace's claims on Golden Rice (German)
http://de.einkaufsnetz.org/presse/16102.html?PHPSE SSID=43000e1dc9f08ba97f1d53c624f16299

A rebuttal to Greenpeace's claims on Golden Rice (German)
http://www.welt.de/data/2005/04/05/621872.html?sea rch=greenpeace&searchHILI=1

Personally, I don't mind the use of GMOs. Given the paranoia around them, they will be the best controlled food ever, always under a rather rigorous watch (and if it's not for "the good of the general public" it can also be to avoid bad PR)

What do you expect from Global Warming? Here are the results from a survey in Germany:

  3.8 % Bananas
12.0 % The sinking of America
  8.1 % lower heating costs
  5.9 % a bigger penis
  2.1 % browner politicians
  5.0 % time off due to excessive heat
  5.0 % interesting new interessante neue diseases
51.9 % more naked vixens
  2.3 % less social coldness
  4.0 % Samba the whole night

http://skender.be/supportdenmark/MohammedDrawings. jpg
http://www.antibuerokratieteam.de/wp-content/moham med_alle.jpg
http://www.stefan-herre.de/mohammed_karikaturen.jp g
http://www.welt.de/z/photos/index.php/item/karikat uren/
http://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands _Posten.html
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/28.htm
http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/004413.htm
http://face-of-muhammed.blogspot.com/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Jyll ands-Posten_Muhammad_drawings.jpg

And some more links (page in Swedish):
http://www.flashback.se/showarticle.php?id=58

Has this hit the US yet? Any papers showing solidarity with the Danes?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=danish+cart oons+upset+muslims&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/
http://www.welt.de/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm

Has this hit the US yet? Any papers showing solidarity with the Danes?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=danish+cart oons+upset+muslims&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

http://www.welt.de/
http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm

Here in Hamburg, we have OZ, our very own local weirdo. According to two similar newspaper articles from last year (article 1, article 2), he is in his 50s and made more than 120.000 graffiti tags around the city, nothing could stop him yet.

He was first known for spraying smileys everywhere - road signs, car wheels, everywhere he could find something round. It was cute at first, but he sprayed everywhere. He later started spraying his "oz" tag and there is virtually no public space without his tag all over Hamburg, a major German city. You can find miles and miles of small "oz oz oz oz oz" carefully sprayed on subway walls, he climbs buildings to tag the roofs...

Oz is presumed to be a mental case. He has no income, lives on welfare, the only thing he does is graffiti and even while on trials, he was caught several times when tagging. He usually tries to escape the officers who catch him by beating them up.

He has appeared to court with a sign "I am a Jew" and has now begun spraying "policemen are Nazis" or "subway watchmen are Nazis" and simple "Stop the Nazis" graffitis - again, everywhere all over town.

It's somewhat embarassing: I had US visitors in Hamburg recently and had a hard time explaining to them that all these "Stop Nazis" graffitis are in fact the work of a weirdo who declared the people trying to stop him "Nazis", not of concerned citizens afraid of a new rise of the neo-fascists.

The following story is no joke.

After building a decicated organ (US$ 700000) the first notes will begin to be played on January 5th, 2003 in St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany. The first accord (gis', h' and gis'') will continue for three years, the first additional note will be heard on Juli 5th, 2004. The whole piece will take 639 years to be finished.

The first large church organ in history was built 639 years ago in Halberstadt - this is why the piece is stretched to 639 years. The original John Cage composition (the music was not composed for this occasion) contains an instruction to play as slowly as possible, and now a dedicated team of artists and sponsors is taking this seriously.

The organ was built with redundant air compressors, UPS and diesel generator buffering, hot-swappable organ parts, and everything else required to allow uninterrupted playing for 639 years.

More info at http://www.welt.de/daten/2000/09/13/0913ku190585.h tx (in German).

Hey all, thanks for the free english lesson. I do not really plan to by stock in this company. It was meant as a joke.
Just take a look here.

Hrshgn

According to this article in the German paper "Welt", IVU is struggeling hard with liquidity problems, and all cash will be burned in July.

Alex

/. is international, so you might wanna check it out:

Tagesschau
Welt
Rheinische Post
Spiegel Online
Stern

All of these sites have good picture coverage for those who do not speak German. And they are way faster than all US sites at the moment!

If you happen to live in Northern Germany, there is a very similar project called

Nutzmüll

(See this article in the newspaper DIE WELT)

The people working are former long-time unemployed folks paid by the Hamburg community. They are now learning about IT-technology, thus improving their resume and their chances of getting a "real" job in the near future.

The computers you donate to them are given to organizations and people who cannot afford a new computer. (I wanted to buy some old hardware for a livingroom network router from them, but they didn't give it to me. Well, they're right and now that I know that, I have an even higher opinion of them.)

Anyway, Nutzmüll also accepts old software (think Windows95 CDRoms and licenses) that they use to install on the computers. I recently gave them a tip to have a look at Linux and linuxrouter.org and hope that they will find some use for them of the even more outdated hardware they get.

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disks, tape, cds... they all have a relatively short lifespan. picture storing data in mice, just feed them and keep them warm. ev en if th e parents die the children will have the artificial chromosomes... (that is unless they recombine, in which case all of your documents or whatever are worthless....)

disks, tape, cds... they all have a relatively short lifespan. picture storing data in mice, just feed them and keep them warm. ev en if th e parents die the children will have the artificial chromosomes... (that is unless they recombine, in which case all of your documents or whatever are worthless....)

>The average income in Germany is higher than in the USA.
Before taxes or after?

Both. Not to forget the better social security and health insurance.

>The TV, the telephone, the light bulb, the computer, the web and the Linux kernel were all developed in Europe.

TV, was inventd by a man named Philo Farnsworth, he was an American farmer.

Check your facts. TV was invented by Manfred von Ardenne and first presented to the world on the Funkausstellung 1931 in Berlin. See here.

Bell was obviously an American, as was Edison.

Sure, but Bell didn't invent the telephone, Phillip Reis did. And Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either, it was an engineer named G oebel who presented the first lightbulb in 1854.

Both Bell and Edison were just very successful in marketing other people's inventions, just as Microsoft is today.

Did I mention who invented the car?

Early computers were just an evolution of a chinese invention.

The first working computer was been built by Konrad Zuse, though.

The soviets did contribute much ot the war effort, But who stormed the beach at Normandy?

I do not underestimate the influence of US intervention in WWII, but you shouldn't overestimate it. After all, when the US started intervention, the Soviets had been in the war for five years, and the odds had turned to them. Who stormed Berlin?