Why Canada Kicks A$$
Budderfly @ Fri Jan 24, 2003 3:39 pm
zero zero:
potography eh heh. can i watch?
lol
Surrender the fantasy Zero lol
Canadaka @ Fri Jan 24, 2003 5:49 pm
whatÂ’s people think about a Canada Kicks Ass web award, for patriotic Canadian sites, and sites about Canadians. There are googles of awards out there, so thatÂ’s why I never did one so far. But now that this site is getting more popular, it might work. People might recognize that you got an award from Canadaka.net, and they know what that is and have more appreciation that you got the award. I donÂ’t know, am I living in my own little crazy world?
GreatBriton @ Wed May 26, 2004 7:57 am
You didn't invent the telephone or penicillin. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, who was born in Edinburgh and penicillin was invented by Edward Jennings who was from Gloucestershire. It's stramge, because Americans also think the Alexander Graham Bell was American.
AdamNF @ Wed May 26, 2004 9:15 am
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa090100a.htm
AdamNF @ Wed May 26, 2004 9:27 am
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0806861.html
So...
passthedutchie @ Wed May 26, 2004 9:46 am
$1:
You didn't invent the telephone or penicillin. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, who was born in Edinburgh and penicillin was invented by Edward Jennings who was from Gloucestershire. It's stramge (sic), because Americans also think the Alexander Graham Bell was American.
Well, let's take a closer look at the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scot, who moved to Canada, who developed the concept of telephone there (Brantford, Ontario), and perfected the idea in the United States where he made his first telephone call in Massachusetts. Personally, based on those three things, I believe it's just safer to say that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, rather than associate him with a country. Even the Government of Canada is quick to point to this issue:
Alexander Graham Bell, the many-faceted genius, was not a Canadian nor did he invent the telephone in Brantford, Ontario. He was born in Scotland, and the first proven voice message over wire occurred in a Boston attic on March 10, 1876.
Brantford is, however, a vital part of the telephone story as, in 1874, Bell had there devised the principle of the telephone. And Canadians have another legitimate claim to Bell because, for 37 years, he visited or resided in Baddeck, Nova Scotia—sometimes for as much as six months of the year. There at his home in Cape Breton called Beinn Bhreagh (Gaelic for beautiful mountain), where he and his wife Mabel are buried, he invented and developed other projects benefiting flight, medical science, audi-ology, and genetics.
In Brantford Bell proved that voice could be carried over long distances. While visiting his parents at the Bell homestead in August 1876 he achieved this on three separate occasions: first, from their Tutelo Heights home to the general store and telegraph office in Mount Pleasant, just south of Brantford; next evening from the telegraph office in Brantford to the family homestead where a party was being held for his uncle; third, on August 10, from the local boot and shoe shop in Paris, Ontario,that doubled as a telegraph office, to the family homestead some 13 kilometres (7 miles) away.
I think it's hard for anyone to claim a right to Alexander Graham Bell.
Facts are pointing towards Antonio Meucci as being the true inventor of the telephone. The US Congress has recognised this as well. Also, investigations are still happening on the claim that Philipp Reis, a German, invented it before both.
Also, just so you know, Sir Alexander Fleming (born in Lochfield, Scotland, and later moved to London) discovered penicillin at St. Mary's lab in London by accident. The man whom I think you are referring to, actually named Edward Jenner of Gloucestershire, conducted the first experimental vaccination.
Canadians often get confused because there is a famous Canadian inventor with the last name Fleming as well. Sir Sanford Fleming is the inventor of Standard Time.
AdamNF @ Wed May 26, 2004 9:58 am
A Canadian invented the electric light though.
RealAmerican @ Wed May 26, 2004 10:24 am
I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS!
1)WHY WHY DO YOU COMPARE YOURSELF TO ANOTHER COUNTRY SO MUCH!
2)DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT AMERICANS REALLY CARE ABOUT CANADA!
3)I AM NOT ANTI-CANADIAN (MOST OF YOU ARE ANTI-AMERICAN THOUGH) WHY DO YOU CLAIM BASEBALL........THAT AINT YOURS!
4)WHY DO YOU BASH EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING AMERICAN TO MAKE YOURSELVES LOOK BETTER?
5)I AM NOT A BUSH FAN! BUT HE IS OUR PRESIDENT NOT YOURS! WE DONT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT MARTIN OR THE FUNNY FACED GUY WHO WAS PM BEFORE HIM!
6)BURNING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE THAT IS VERY OLD AND CORNY!
7)THE HATE COMES FROM ENVY...........I KNOW THAT DONT EVEN HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT!
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOING THIS AND DOING THAT! I AM A LEFTIST I AM! BUT ONE THING IS THIS! WE ARE ASSASINATING THIS AND THAT AND WE ARE OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENTS AND THIS AND THAT! SHIT CANADA IS INVOLVED ALSO AS MUCH AD BRITAIN AND FRANCE!
9)CANADA AND THE UN...........WE DONT NEED TO BE PEACE KEEPERS WE ARE A NATION OF 300 MILLION, WE ARE THE WORLDS LARGEST ECONOMY.....YOUR THE SEVENTH.......WE HAVE THE WORLDS STRONGEST MILITARY.......YOU HAVE A SMALL ONE! SO THE UNITED NATIONS IS A MUTE POINT! WE DONT NEED IT! YOU DO!
10)PATRIOTISM-----WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY.....BLACK,WHITE,BROWN OR HISPANIC OR ASIAN! I AM A BLACK MAN AND EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE RACE PROBLEMS HERE! WE AINT PERFECT AS A NATION! WE ARE ALL AMERICANS! WE ARE RELIGOUS! WE LOVE THE NATION!
IT IS A MELTING POT!!!!! WE ARE NOT 50 DIFFERENT THINGS BEFORE WE ARE AMERICANS! WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST! WE LOVE OUR FLAG,WE LOVE OUR MILITARY! WE KNOW (AND I KNOW CANADA THINKS ITS THE WORLD) BUT, WE KNOW WE ARE THE STRONGEST NATION IN THE WORLD!
AND WE ARE NOT GONNA LET NO ONE TELL US DIFFERENT!
BE PATRIOTIC IN YOUR NATION!
BUT DONT BASH MINE TO MAKE YOURS LOOK LIKE GOLD!
WE DONT HAVE TO DO THAT WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OURS1
HAIL TO THE CHIEF,GOD BLESS AMERICA!
AdamNF @ Wed May 26, 2004 10:45 am
I would have read all that if it wasnt in caps.
passthedutchie @ Wed May 26, 2004 5:22 pm
$1:
A Canadian invented the electric light though.
It depends on how you look at it. The people who soldsold their patent to Edison were Canadian, but there is a longer history still. Although the Canadian team was not the first to patent the bulb along it's long journey.
Here is a detailed account from BrainyEncyclopedia.
The invention of the light bulb is often attributed to Thomas Alva Edison. In fact Edison was just one of many who contributed to the development of a truly practical device for the production of electrically generated lighting.
In 1801 Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist, made platinum strips glow by passing an electric current through them, but the strips oxidized too quickly to make a useful lamp. In 1809 he created the first arc lamp, which he demonstrated to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1810, by creating a small but blinding arc between two charcoal rods connected to a battery.
In 1820 a British scientist Warren De la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in an evacuated tube and passed an electric current through it. The design was based on the concept that the high melting point of platinum would allow it to operate at high temperatures and that the evacuated chamber would contain less gas particles to react with the platinum, improving its longevity. Although it was an efficient design, the cost of the platinum made it impractical for commercial use.
In 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee. He stated that he could "read a book at a distance of one and a half foot". However having perfected the device, to his own satisfaction, he turned to the problem of wireless telegrahy and did not develop the electric light any further.
In 1841 Frederick de Moleyns of England was granted the first patent for an incandescent lamp, with a design using powdered charcoal heated between two platinum wires.
In 1854, the German inventor Heinrich Goebel invented a light bulb with a carbonized bamboo fibre as the filament, but he was unable to obtain a patent until 1893.
Joseph Wilson Swan(1828-1914) was a physicist and chemist born in Sunderland, England. In 1850 the British pioneer began working with carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By 1860 he was able to demonstrate a working device but lack of a good vacuum and an adequate supply of electricity resulted in a short lifetime for the bulb and inefficient light. By the mid-1870s better pumps became available, and Swan returned to his experiments. Swan received a British patent for his device in 1878. Swan reported success to the Newcastle Chemical Society and at a lecture in Newcastle in February 1879 he demonstrated a working lamp that utilized a carbon fibre filament. The most significant feature of Swan's lamp was that there was little residual oxygen in the vacuum tube to ignite the filament, thus allowing the filament to glow almost white-hot without catching fire. From this year he began installing light bulbs in homes and landmarks in England and by the early 1880s had started his own company.
Across the Atlantic, parallel developments were also taking place. On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed for the Woodward and Evan's Light by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans, who was described in the patent as a "Gentleman" but in reality a hotel keeper. They built their lamp with a shaped rod of carbon held between electrodes in an glass bulb filled with nitrogen. Woodward and Evans found it impossible to raise financial support for the development of their invention and in 1875 Woodward sold a share of their Canadian patent to Thomas Edison.
Using the Woodward and Evans design Edison utilized a carbon filament that burned for forty hours (first successful test was on October 21, 1879; it lasted 13 1/2 hours). Edison continued to improve their design. By 1880 he had a device that could last for over 1200 hours using a bamboo-derived filament.
In Britain, Swan took Edison to court for patent infringement. Edison lost and as part of the settlement, Edison was forced to take Swan in as a partner in his British electric works. The company was called the Edison and Swan United Electric Company. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company. Swan sold his U.S. patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June 1882.
The U.S. Patent Office had ruled on October 8, 1883 that Edison's patents were based on the prior art of William Sawyer and were invalid. Litigation continued for a number of years. Eventually on October 6, 1889, a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. Research exposed in "A Streak of Luck" by Robert Conot (1979), shows that Edison and his attorneys hid significant information from the judge. They cut out the October 7-21, 1879 section of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer's (or Swan's) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass bulb.
Rev_Blair @ Wed May 26, 2004 7:57 pm
A Canadian invented the finest screw ever invented too. Mr. Robertson was genius and I'm glad every single time I use the fruit of that genius...it's far better than the Phillip's screw. So what?
I'm listening to the radio right now...Marconi invented that and received the first transmission in Newfoundland. Things get tricky here. Marconi was an Italian and Newfoundland was not yet part of Canada. It is also possible that Marconi was mistaken and misinterpreted static as a radio signal, that he only thought he proved his invention worked while in Newfoundland. Should we claim that as Canadian, or should we blame the whole mass of confusion on some Scot working in the USA and be done with it?
The point is that the age when most of these discoveries/inventions occured there was a ot of exchange of ideas that crossed borders. The inventions don't matter as much as what was done with them and how they shaped the growth of our country.
Tommy Douglas, the father of the Canadian health care system, was born in Scotland. It was there, as a child, that he had experiences that caused him to champion the cause of equal and affordable medical care regardless of wealth. What counts more, his realisation that things should be better, or what he did with that realisation? Is Marconi's first transmission more important to Canada than the CBC? Is where Bell spilled acid on his crotch more important than Canadians' abililty to communicate? How come nobody ever talks about his planes?
Here's something to think about. Canadians didn't invent the Holstein cow. Whenever anybody who gets milk from a commercial dairy takes a sip of milk they are drinking the product of Canadian ingenuity though. Every Holstein on earth has blood lines that can be traced back to Canada, and Holsteins are the best milk producers on earth. Should we take pride in that? I think so. They aren't called "black and white cows from Canada" though. We didn't invent them. We worked with them and made them into something greater than they were.
That's Canada. Most of our forebearers weren't from here originally...most of us have talked to relatives who still remember "the old country." We made something new out of that.
-Mario- @ Thu May 27, 2004 9:25 am
Something else we take for granted is the CN tower.
Still today, THE tallest building in the world. The US claim it with their twin towers. If you look on Google... it says that the Petronas towers are the tallest at 1483 ft. and down to the eiffel tower at 983 ft. And the US will be replacing their twin tower with a structure of 1700 ft, give or take.
Now the CN tower is at 1815 ft. Why is it that every body is claiming to have the tallest stuctures, even with unstarted projects -> and there we are with the CN Tower completed since the mid seventies.
-M-
GreatBriton @ Sun May 30, 2004 3:21 am
Budderfly Budderfly:
Actually, I am living proof that any Joe Schmoe can build their own website. It wasn't difficult, but it can be a bit frustrating until someone explains things to you. If you have some background in HTML and/or PHP then you are on your way. Most of it I learned on my own by reading, researching, trial and error.
Also my friend Threeboy (who also creates True Nuff) is hosting the site so I was lucky enough to get extra help on parts I was stuck on. Usually hosts don't offer support, but it pays to know people I guess.
And yes, my favorite colour (yes my US friends, it's spelt that way) is Purple.
I just put on the Webring link and my Highlanders award on my main page.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it.
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Also my friend Threeboy (who also creates True Nuff) is hosting the site so I was lucky enough to get extra help on parts I was stuck on. Usually hosts don't offer support, but it pays to know people I guess.
And yes, my favorite colour (yes my US friends, it's spelt that way) is Purple.
I just put on the Webring link and my Highlanders award on my main page.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it.
___________________
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But you also spelt the word "favourite" as "favorite."
natooke @ Sun May 30, 2004 3:35 am
$1:
9)CANADA AND THE UN...........WE DONT NEED TO BE PEACE KEEPERS WE ARE A NATION OF 300 MILLION, WE ARE THE WORLDS LARGEST ECONOMY.....YOUR THE SEVENTH.......WE HAVE THE WORLDS STRONGEST MILITARY.......YOU HAVE A SMALL ONE! SO THE UNITED NATIONS IS A MUTE POINT! WE DONT NEED IT! YOU DO!
Apparently many feel in the world they must speak up & question & do something about ramifications of war. I live in a country, where it has taken in many refugees Â… Peace Keeping is a must!
$1:
The results of that now-famous meeting are historic. Out of the Ottawa meeting, came the Canadian challenge, issued by its Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, to negotiate a simple, unambiguous ban treaty within one year. This challenge gave birth to what is now known as the Ottawa Process, culminating in the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty in Canada in December of 1997. While even the truly pro-ban states at the October 1996 Ottawa meeting were horrified by the challenge, it was precisely CanadaÂ’s willingness to step outside of "normal" diplomatic process which was another key element in the success of the ban movement.
Governments had said they were pro-ban. They had come to Ottawa to develop a road map to create a ban treaty and had signed a Declaration of intent. The challenge had put them between a rock and a hard place and they had to respond. And once they recovered from that initial shock, the governments that really wanted to see a ban treaty as soon as possible, rose to the challenge and negotiated the treaty in record time. But without the public awareness and political will created by the ICBL, this step could never have happened - just as without truly committed governments, willing to negotiate a ban, the treaty would have remained a utopian dream.
The Oslo negotiations of September 1997 were unique for a number of reasons. As noted above, for the first time, smaller and middle-sized powers had come together, to work in close cooperation with the nongovernmental organizations of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, to negotiate a treaty which would remove from the worldÂ’s arsenals a weapon in widespread use. For the first time, smaller and middle-sized powers had not yielded ground to intense pressure from a superpower to weaken a treaty to accommodate the policies of that one country. Perhaps for the first time, negotiations ended with a treaty stronger than the draft on which the negotiations were based! The treaty had not been held hostage to rule by consensus, which would have inevitably resulted in a gutted treaty. And throughout it all, NGO were in the negotiations; their mere presence helped insure that the will of civil society for a true ban would have less chance of being thwarted by compromise.
Binding International Law
As the world knows, in December of 1997, 121 governments came to Ottawa to sign the Mine Ban Treaty. And the numbers continue to grow - and the momentum remains unrelenting. At the time of this writing, 135 governments have signed the Treaty and 81 have ratified it. The Mine Ban Treaty became binding international law on March 1, 1999 and just two months later, well over one hundred countries came together in Mozambique to assess progress on the Treaty.
Jody Williams, ICBL Coordinator, Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien watch Canada’s Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy sign the Mine Ban Treaty in December 1997.
Photo: Knudsens fotosenter ©ICBL
The ICBL, and its partnership with governments, has resulted in a truly remarkable process. Landmines have been used since the U.S. Civil War and the Crimean War, yet through concerted political action, they will be taken out of the arsenals of the world. This process has clearly demonstrated that civil society and governments do not have to see each other as adversaries. It has shown that in a partnership of civil society and governments, each brings particular assets to the process, which is made stronger by the participation of both. It demonstrates that small and middle powers can work together with civil society and address humanitarian concerns with breathtaking speed. It shows that such a partnership can be a new kind of "superpower" in the post-Cold War world.
[url=http://www.nobel.se/peace/articles/williams/mine-ban.gif]by Jody Williams
Governments had said they were pro-ban. They had come to Ottawa to develop a road map to create a ban treaty and had signed a Declaration of intent. The challenge had put them between a rock and a hard place and they had to respond. And once they recovered from that initial shock, the governments that really wanted to see a ban treaty as soon as possible, rose to the challenge and negotiated the treaty in record time. But without the public awareness and political will created by the ICBL, this step could never have happened - just as without truly committed governments, willing to negotiate a ban, the treaty would have remained a utopian dream.
The Oslo negotiations of September 1997 were unique for a number of reasons. As noted above, for the first time, smaller and middle-sized powers had come together, to work in close cooperation with the nongovernmental organizations of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, to negotiate a treaty which would remove from the worldÂ’s arsenals a weapon in widespread use. For the first time, smaller and middle-sized powers had not yielded ground to intense pressure from a superpower to weaken a treaty to accommodate the policies of that one country. Perhaps for the first time, negotiations ended with a treaty stronger than the draft on which the negotiations were based! The treaty had not been held hostage to rule by consensus, which would have inevitably resulted in a gutted treaty. And throughout it all, NGO were in the negotiations; their mere presence helped insure that the will of civil society for a true ban would have less chance of being thwarted by compromise.
Binding International Law
As the world knows, in December of 1997, 121 governments came to Ottawa to sign the Mine Ban Treaty. And the numbers continue to grow - and the momentum remains unrelenting. At the time of this writing, 135 governments have signed the Treaty and 81 have ratified it. The Mine Ban Treaty became binding international law on March 1, 1999 and just two months later, well over one hundred countries came together in Mozambique to assess progress on the Treaty.
Jody Williams, ICBL Coordinator, Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien watch Canada’s Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy sign the Mine Ban Treaty in December 1997.
Photo: Knudsens fotosenter ©ICBL
The ICBL, and its partnership with governments, has resulted in a truly remarkable process. Landmines have been used since the U.S. Civil War and the Crimean War, yet through concerted political action, they will be taken out of the arsenals of the world. This process has clearly demonstrated that civil society and governments do not have to see each other as adversaries. It has shown that in a partnership of civil society and governments, each brings particular assets to the process, which is made stronger by the participation of both. It demonstrates that small and middle powers can work together with civil society and address humanitarian concerns with breathtaking speed. It shows that such a partnership can be a new kind of "superpower" in the post-Cold War world.
1997 Nobel Peace Laureate
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1991 Nobel Peace Prize - Laureate Jody Williams
passthedutchie @ Sun May 30, 2004 7:53 am
GreatBriton GreatBriton:
Budderfly Budderfly:
Actually, I am living proof that any Joe Schmoe can build their own website. It wasn't difficult, but it can be a bit frustrating until someone explains things to you. If you have some background in HTML and/or PHP then you are on your way. Most of it I learned on my own by reading, researching, trial and error.
Also my friend Threeboy (who also creates True Nuff) is hosting the site so I was lucky enough to get extra help on parts I was stuck on. Usually hosts don't offer support, but it pays to know people I guess.
And yes, my favorite colour (yes my US friends, it's spelt that way) is Purple.
I just put on the Webring link and my Highlanders award on my main page.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it.
___________________
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Also my friend Threeboy (who also creates True Nuff) is hosting the site so I was lucky enough to get extra help on parts I was stuck on. Usually hosts don't offer support, but it pays to know people I guess.
And yes, my favorite colour (yes my US friends, it's spelt that way) is Purple.
I just put on the Webring link and my Highlanders award on my main page.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it.
___________________
"Normal is just a setting on your dryer"
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But you also spelt the word "favourite" as "favorite."
Oh man that is priceless. Good job GB.