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This guy is 800X a man than any of you ever will be simply because he is actually doing something other than being a tool like the rest of you.
Oh please, he's AT MOST only 750X the man I am.
* Causing the financial crisis (he wasn't in the senate when most of the deregulation occurred that caused the problems)
Also, I love it when he gets blamed for the bank bailout. That happened a month or two before the election and was, for the most part, the final straw for McCain and many other Republican candidates.
* Taking away your guns (actually, the only gun-related legislation he passed made it legal to carry guns in national parks)
This was a bigger worry when the Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Pelosi is a left-wing nutcase who would've done it if given the chance but they targetted healthcare instead. Also, there are major import regulations that have caused spikes in prices due to decreased supply, this is due to the Feds.
You missed one though. He gets blamed for not getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan 'like he said he would'. Iraq, yes, he said he was going to get us out as quickly as possible but never promised a timeline (Hillary Clinton was promising 6-12 months) . However, Afghanistan was a target of his to ramp up, commonly saying in debates that Iraq was a distraction and not the real threat of terrorism (at the time of invasion).
... Doc Brown fills with household garbage, including a banana peel and some beer, to power the iconic time-traveling DeLorean. While we're still some way from such direct means of running our cars on table scraps...
The Mr. Fusion only powered the Flux Capacitor not the DeLorean. The DeLorean still ran on gasoline and is why Marty gets stuck back in 1885 when the arrow pierces the gas tank.
1) google "Game coding tutorial HTML5" or similar,
2) Find the code listings, run them, modify them a little to see what happens but eventually be annoyed that I don't really know what the magic incantations in javascript etc mean
3) Go play Skyrim
The only thing the U.S. saved Europe from in World War II was being completely overrun by our ally at the time, the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany at Stalingrad and Kursk in 1942-1943 when the U.S. was barely even engaged in Europe. Germany's defeat was a foregone conclusion by the time the U.S. landed at Normandy in 1944.
England was done, they weren't pushing the front from the West. There may have been pressure from Russia to the East but without the invasion of Normandy and the threat from the West, Germany could have easily sustained it's control over the entirety Europe. Without the pressure from the South in Italy, Mussolini could've held his ground as well. Is Russia going to be able to free even Poland? Not a chance without an invasion from the West.
Meanwhile, the US was fighting tooth and nail against Japan, preventing them from taking over the entire Western Pacific Rim, from New Zealand to China. You're welcome.
The U.S. helped win the war certainly but it simply wasn't the decisive force the Soviet Union was or that you are claiming.
Its true the U.S. helped turn the tide against Germany in World War I, but that was simply due to a huge infusion of fresh troops and supplies in to a war where all the incumbent armies and nations were spent. There wasn't anything exceptional about the U.S. troops, any infusion of a million fresh troops from anywhere would have had the same effect.
Fresh troops? You are making it seem like the US hadn't been fighting for 3+ years already, like we were just sitting on our hands with infinite resources ready to go, just coming in for garbage time. We were the only country who fought in every front of WW2 - Europe, Africa, the Pacific. Russia defended one front. It might've been 2 at one point but, oh yeah, the US took care of Japan for them.
All things considered, you proved the grandparents point by flaunting how self infatuated and self inflating American's can be. The grandparent is correct, the Vietnamese were probably the most succesful military in the 20th century, and I would add the Afghans as a close second, because they have defeated every vastly superior force they've faced including the Soviet Union and the U.S.
It really depends how you define success. If you want to call losing multiple generations of a population to an infinitely superior opponent, sure. To be fair, the Afghans were getting their ass kicked by the Soviets until the US started supplying them with arms. Obviously Vietnam would have to turned out differently without Soviet and Chinese supplying the Vietcong.
Take your blatant anti-Americanism out of it and look at history. Without American intervention does France get freed from Germany? (No.) Does Italy get freed from fascism? (No.) Does Russia have the ability to defeat a single-fronted German army? (No.) Does almost the entirety of SE Asia get freed from the control of Japan? (No.)
Probably. But Apple has a remarkable way of taking a product that everybody has made before and giving it a makeover into something everybody wants. The underlying technology is the same, or even worse, but the interface finds the sweet spot of giving a lot of people exactly what they want.
They really haven't ever done this. They follow the standard business model of looking at a market and seeing what isn't out there and then knocking it out of the park.
Sure they killed it with portable music and tablets but no one was delivering anything even mediocre there when they came in. Their computers aren't that great and their market penetration is still not what PCs are. Their content for TV (Apple TV) hasn't been a failure but hasn't made much of a spash.
Forget about trying to get into TVs unless they can get the cable providers (all of them) to directly work with the TVs so I don't need a cable box/DVR. I want to plug in my coax and go. A separate BluRay player and sound is fine although those should be as close to one-cable setup too. I'd pay for that.
They would be unable to systematically cripple selected command and control, air defense and intelligence networks and databases of advanced adversaries, or to conduct deception operations by secretly manipulating the data in these networks.
But, could we (as in the US) do those things? Because that would be super.
The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt. -- Elvis Costello