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| 2) "CERN made the Internet". Long, long, long before there was the internet, thousands and thousands of PCs and PC-predecessors in the US were connected, with real webpages called "Bulletin Boards", all in monocolor. Maneuvering was not as rapid, there were no hyperlinks, a fat Everett Modem throwned beeping near your giant PC. Once this infrastructure was in place and in heavy use, and as connections became faster, a protocol for rendering fonts better and rendering images automatically was developed at CERN. But if you define the internet as an interaccessible network of computers by private users without a central hub, that was before CERN. Nevertheless, a nice contribution. Incidentally, much of the interactive nature of the web is contributed by Java, and this is an Indian contribution. (From massive, massive cohorts of Indians at Sun.) | |
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A British at CERN created the World Wide Web. Americans are the pioneers of the internet and they developed a whole lot of protocols (among them Gopher which is still supported by most web browsers except IE, you can test this by clicking
here 
). I think you confuse Java and JavaScript, I think at no point in time have Java applets been used by more than 1% of websites. Both Java and Javascript were invented in the US and I'm not sure if Indians participated in the teams that made these inventions in the early nineties.
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| Remember that all the E.European countries (up till know) pretty much got completely left behind in the industrial revolution. However, their population is by no means stupid or unambitious. This is what creates the problem. There are very large numbers of enterprising, intelligent individuals who have no money, and who are just hours away from the wealthier West European states. Worse, the reason the West Europeans have become so wealthy in the first place is that a work-eager and compliant population is a key advantage for building an industrial society. But when it comes to controlling this wealth, and making sure it is not "sucked dry", the E.Europeans might have done a better job than the W.Europeans. | |
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The expat workforce from poorer countries mostly benefits both them and Switzerland, else it wouldn't have become such an established system. I don't agree Switzerland get's sucked dry by expats nor do I think that for example the latest Eastern additions to the EU are shining examples of governmental integrity.
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| a) Recently, in Zurich, a Swiss man parks his car near an ATM, gets his money, as he returns he finds that it has been blocked by another car with two guys. He asks them to move, upon which they apparently become angry. One of them moves toward him, he retreats inside his car. The other keeps coming, the Swiss now brandishes a handgun. Undeterred, the other apparently enters the car of the Swiss or brings his upper body through the window. The Swiss injures him in the neck with a shot. | |
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The victim didn't enter his car. The Swiss probably didn't have a carry permit for this gun, he inflicted a life-threatening injury and fled from the scene.
Sanity of the legal system: intact
By the way I haven't found the court ruling and would be interested in reading it if you have, I've only found the police's
press release.
There once was a case of a local SVP figure who fired his army rifle at a fleeing intruder, he was found guilty but I don't remember his conviction.
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| In summary, the US has evolved methodologies to keep society very stable, whereas Europe, with a low crime rate and no history of imported slave labor simply has not had to devote a lot of thought to keeping "domestic tranquility". This is a new challenge for them. | |
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Ehm
I think you should get a bit more familiar with the European mainland's history of the last millennium, not all was peace and tranquility between Hamburg and Rome...
Not to deny the differences in society and the legal system, these can be surprising at times.
