tm wrote:
> In article <1129693950.035107.185660@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>  beerwithnuts@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Electronics of almost every sort
> > Liquid Rocket technology
> > Gyroscopic telemetry
> > Computers
> > TVs
> > Satellites
> > Radios
> > Jet Engines
> > Ramjet engines
> > Calculus
> > Relativity
> > Physics
> > All of modern chemistry
> > Geometry
> > The first car
> > The first plane
> > Nuclear fission
> > The first rocket launch
> > The first (and only) man on the moon
> > The first space walk
> > The first transistor
> > The first diode
> > The first combustion engine
> > The steam engine
> > The first computer
> > The first disk drive
> > Unix
> > C
> > Java
> > Windows
> > Linux
> > The mouse
> > The modem
> > Packet switching network technology
> > Circuit switching technology
> > The telephone
> > The lightbulb
> > The telegraph
> > The modern transmission
> >
> >
> > Christ, where does it end....it doesn't
> >
> > The first polymer plastics
> > Modern pharamceutical medicine
> > The entire body of western medicine
> > The first Cell phone
> > The first PC
> > The first VHS
> > The first battery
> > The first modern telescope
> > Logic and the scientific method
> > Philosophy
> > Psychology
> > Sociology
> > Fluid Dynamics
> > DNA
> > Aspirin
> > Antibiotics
> >
> > (yawn)
> >
> > Oh well...
> >
>
> All that stuff is predicated on invention of noodles, zen, and
> fireworks.
>
> Wait, which side of the argument are you on again? Frikkin'
> googlegroups newbies, never quote what they are responding to.
>
> (sigh)
>
> Why does anyone even read the soc.culture ngs? I'm off to news.groups
> to suggest renaming them 'soc.bigotry-and-retardation'.

soc.culture ngs are fun because most (not all) are sort of stupid. It
still bears rehashing this old grade 12 calculus truism:

lim B.Sc  = B.A.
GPA->0

or perhaps
lim M.Sc = M.A.
IQ->0

sci. ones are much more knowledgeable and you actually learn from those
- especially those closed and moderated ones.