Living outside America

Re:Living outside America by mixmax on Sunday July 01, 2012 @09:23PM (#4186786)

I'm writing this on a computer produced in China, running an operating systeem developed by a Finn, delivered to you via the world wide web which comes from CERN.

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Re:Living outside America by hollerith on Sunday July 01, 2012 @10:28PM (#4186977)

Unless you are one of the 1% or so of the world who uses Opera, your browser is produced by an American organization.

As is the most important and expensive chip inside your China-produced computer.

And CERN had very little to do with the WWW; more on that at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172572

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Re:Living outside America by rdtsc on Monday July 02, 2012 @12:19AM (#4187295)

> a computer produced in China

Is it an American company that made it? Yeah it could have been produced in China because labor there is cheaper than in California. Next year it could be produced in Vietnam.

> running an operating systeem developed by a Finn

Last I checked he is an American citizen, isn't he? So +1 for America then? Would you agree? If you go by your logic, then nothing from America is from America, because most people could easily trace their ancestry to one of the ships that came America at some point.

> delivered to you via the world wide web which comes from CERN.

Ok, we can argue about the first two. This one is just silly.

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Re:Living outside America by jarek on Monday July 02, 2012 @03:14AM (#4187721)

> Is it an American company that made it?

No shortage of non-American computer and personal electronics manufacturers I can think of.

> Last I checked he is an American citizen, isn't he?

He wasn't for 95% of his life...

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Re:Living outside America by spindritf on Sunday July 01, 2012 @09:25PM (#4186794)

Yeah, and even the Finn moved to the States.

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