Riding a motorcycle is really cool and the adrenaline is a really nice feeling. Well, somebody thought to change the way that the motorcycle will transport you. Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design, has came up with a system that will act as an extension of your body.
His idea came from Biomechatronics and he dubbed his concept as the Deux Ex Machina and will consist of an vertically parking motorcycle that will be managed by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. The Deus Ex Machina is Yamaha-branded and it will be worn as an exo-skeleton and the helmet will be pneumatically attached.
The in-wheel motor will be able to power the motorcycle from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds and it will have a maximum speed of 75mph. The Deus Ex Machina is electric and it can cycle one hour with a recharge time of 15 minutes.
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May 30th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
most dangerous invention ever?
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kno won reply on May 30, 2008 11:52 pm:
only if your high, drunk, stupid, retarded, or American.
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wabtor reply on May 31, 2008 1:35 am:
lolz so true
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tayks won to kno won reply on May 31, 2008 1:40 am:
“American” pretty much encapsulates the words you used leading up to it. That’s why we’re so fucking awesome.
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wabtor2 reply on May 31, 2008 2:06 am:
lolz so true, we are awesome.
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Dr3w reply on May 31, 2008 4:03 am:
Sometimes I forget how utterly awesome we Americans are, till someone else proves their own stupidity.
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shkaro reply on June 3, 2008 2:56 pm:
I think Americans should be prohibited to call someone stupid. It`s like looking in the mirror and saying “Wow, you`re really stupid”…
cobra reply on June 4, 2008 12:17 am:
‘america is awesome’ is the biggest understatement of all time. word cannot begin to describe america the our awesomeness.
francesco reply on June 7, 2008 7:55 pm:
here are some “awesome” americans.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Californian reply on June 23, 2008 10:53 pm:
Just because our country is run by a Texan doesn’t mean we are all dumbasses.
Moonchill reply on August 31, 2008 7:12 pm:
Half of your country voted for him… twice. ¬_¬
Thats kinda saying something.
BigB reply on August 12, 2008 9:13 pm:
Because we are run by that Texan it proves that all of us are not stupid.
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Audrey reply on May 31, 2008 4:56 am:
Yamaha is NOT an American company, dolt.
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what? reply on May 31, 2008 6:26 pm:
This part of the discussion has nothing to do with Yamaha.
It does, however, have everything to do with the Awesomeness of Americans with our unquenchable thirst for danger and drugs. America is the thrusting pelvis of Death, and you’re looking pretty good right about now, world.
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Anonymous reply on May 31, 2008 9:38 pm:
You know, it IS good to be awesome especially when you’re on drugs and lusting for danger. GO USA.
oh and btw China pretty much sucks blue whale.
anom anton reply on June 2, 2008 12:22 am:
sigh. I wish I was American… Then I could be awesome too
George reply on June 2, 2008 6:38 am:
I was once asked by a merkin if I though we British could ever be as awesome as he and his countrymen… and I said no - we were too busy being completely ultra awesome.
Just look at the evidence - we give the world the three greatest sports in the history of man (Association Football, Rugby Football, and Ice Hockey) and then proceed to let everyone else win at them. How ultra-awesome is that?
Brits are awesome reply on June 2, 2008 11:00 pm:
You guys made up Ice Hockey?? That automatically qualifies you as Incredibly Awesome.
Caspaine reply on June 3, 2008 2:50 am:
No the Brits did not make up ice-hockey. it was a Canadian invention that we took from a deviation of the aboriginals playing lacrosse, get your facts straight. and Americans are not awesome your neighbors to the north are more awesome than you!
Paul reply on June 3, 2008 1:08 pm:
No one is more awesome than us, thats why everyone hates America. Because we are better than you and everyone knows it. Who cares if we are stupid and on drugs. We’ll still bomb the shit out of you if you fuck with us…
Robby reply on June 6, 2008 7:57 am:
Temporarily speaking on behalf of the rest of the world America our anus is still a little sore from the last time you enlightened us so do you think you could leave out the “Pelvic thrusts of death” from the script for a while…? Anyway hey if you really have the urge… I-have an idea… Why don’t we see if Iraq will sell the arsholes of the citizens processed in it’s morgues from the democracy you bought them… We’ll get all of their dead arsewholes preserved in the spirit of your political bullshit & then export them to America & then you can finally satisfy that voracious sexual power-lustr of your’s… Then Iraq could make enough money from selling their asses direct to you for your people’s satisfaction to actually then FINALLY REBUILD IRAQ like you promissed…!
PS: Nice bike… I-want one already…
Robby
George reply on June 6, 2008 7:54 pm:
Ice Hockey *was* invented by the British - admittedly when they were in Canada - by some of our guys whilst they were somewhat bored with Moose baiting and log rolling - so my awesome facts are awesomely straight thank you very much.
That aside, Canada does take the Awesomeness of the USA and combine it with the Ultra-Awesomeness of the UK to be pretty darn awesome themselves… Eh?
Californian reply on June 23, 2008 10:59 pm:
Fuck all this arguing. Why must you assume that America is rotten? The only reason to fight is fear. And the only thing to fear is our differences.
Bombdiz reply on September 2, 2008 1:44 am:
America is fucking sick, its not becuase we like danger, and drugs, but because we are the biggest fags and the gayer we are the more pissed everyone gets, and the more attention we get. this is an endless cycle which makes Americans fags, in turn making us feel cool. It’s the best
Brian reply on June 14, 2008 4:22 pm:
Yamaha may not be American, but the school this was designed at is in Pasadena, CA. So whether or not Yamaha bought the rights, it was designed by an American.
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American reply on June 6, 2008 10:48 pm:
America is so awesome and if you disagree then get off my internet cuz that was made in America along with everything else that is awesome
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George reply on June 7, 2008 7:13 am:
Dude, don’t confuse the internet (a packet switching network) with the world wide web (all the cool bits) because whilst the Merkins did invent the internet, the world wide web was invented by a Brit whilst working for CERN in Switzerland.
Thank you Sir Tim
Oh and that’s another one. Knighthoods also make us ultra-awesome in the UK even if you don’t believe me about Ice Hockey.
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Karl reply on June 8, 2008 5:19 pm:
The World Wide Web (WWW.) is just a set of addresses available on it the internet. No different than any other address…
d reply on May 31, 2008 2:58 am:
at least a lot of us know when to use “you’re”.
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anarchist reply on June 6, 2008 5:30 am:
‘only if YOUR high..retarded..american’?? - your ignorance is showing America Rules Anything it wants
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badbrad reply on June 7, 2008 10:41 am:
you bet!
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Anonymous reply on June 24, 2008 5:00 pm:
america SUX!!!!
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johnny reb reply on September 1, 2008 5:37 pm:
only until you need us!
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 2:37 pm:
Exactly ! The same goes for riding a normaly configured bike,or a car,or even a skateboard. And because I am intelligent enough to comprehend that important fact,
I would love to take that machine out,and see what she’ll do.Looks like an
E-ticket ride to me.Great job,excillent vision,Awesome machine !
Love it.
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xXVoodooXx reply on August 23, 2008 3:09 am:
Why you gotta go and put “American” in it? Don’t go hatin just because you can’t be as good as us.
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Anonymous reply on September 2, 2008 4:58 pm:
Or if you manage to collect a post, since the outriggers will funnel it right up into your face/crotch.
I’ll stick to regular motorcycles, thank you very much.
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Elathen reply on June 1, 2008 10:40 am:
This reminds me of the motorcycles in the 80’s movie Tron.
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Anonymous reply on June 1, 2008 8:50 pm:
yeah Americans obviously ring the fu*kin bell while Yamaha asians comin in last smokin the L
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buht secks reply on June 2, 2008 9:37 pm:
i guess all the AMA races and rally races all over the world with foreign bikes winning don’t count? i’ll have to tell my uncle in the AMA that he can stop hating those riders on ducati’s
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B-29 reply on July 4, 2008 8:27 pm:
The Harley Davidson Assembly Plant used to be in Hiroshima before the Enola Gay dropped the Big Boy on it in 1945.
Wanna keep calling other nations stupid? If you do you better continue to get more friendly with China so you can try out some more biological stuff on them again like you did in the 1930s with a better designed hot air balloons?
Where do you buy your oil from? What did the late Edward Deming do for your economy under the guidance of Gen Douglas MacArthur? Did you get stupid again?
Do you get the connection between the above and your self professed arrogance toward super powers? Bonsai! Why don’t you name this Yamaha “Zero” It never was understood why the Kamikaze pilots wore crash helmets? You see any Yamaha rice-burners riding side by side the Harley legacy? A word of advice; Apologize before the Chinese offer to help your poor attitude again.
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
it’s a pretty slick design, but seriously. you’d be dead before your hour of battery life was gone.
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of course reply on May 31, 2008 9:42 pm:
What better reason could their be not to concern yourself with battery life? If you’re dead it doesn’t matter.
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David reply on June 4, 2008 12:42 am:
Hey, I can just imagine the marketing department going wild over that idea. ” Revolution in battery concept. You never need to recharge the battery during your entire life.”
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brian reply on June 1, 2008 5:15 pm:
thats what she said
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:02 am
So what about shocks? You hit a bump and you would feel it through your whole body.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:05 am
I really want to ride this.
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brian reply on June 1, 2008 5:14 pm:
that’s what she said
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:06 am
No more so than a motorcycle.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:15 am
I wonder how this would be recharge. Can it be recharge by us paddling? Well, that would be kind of cool. But how can we slow down in the middle of the highway to recharge? And yes, it’s kind of dangerous with such high speed and so much exposure.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:28 am
I wouldnt say dangerous, could even be more controlable then a normal bike, but it sure as hell dosnt look very comfertable i wonder is it? Still its Uber awesome and i would love to have one if they went to the production line looks v. futuristic straight out of Manga.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:39 am
This is the best thing in the world.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:45 am
Naw…that would be the gun or the deep fat fryer.
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robin reply on May 31, 2008 7:37 am:
is it safe to assume you’re american? I make it the internet.
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Anthony reply on May 31, 2008 10:59 pm:
:O You’d rather have the internet than SLICED BREAD? You’re the kinda freak we should lock up, internet my ass, when was the last time you cut a perfect slice of bread? Never? Damn straight.
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Anonymous reply on June 2, 2008 9:12 pm:
Ima cut ya sucka
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:46 am
I see that there are at most 3 places that keep one from sliding on the pavement. I can only imagine that it is a bit of a workout to keep yourself off of the ground. I think I’ll stick to my bicycle. Props to the 15 min recharge time tho.
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May 31st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Slap a machine gun on that, and you’d have one heck of a tool for the infantry.
Also, if it’s made out of strong enough materials, and had guards in place for your legs and such, it might actually be safer than a regular motorcycle… Other than for the fact that your head is so low, giving you an impaired field of vision.
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brian reply on June 1, 2008 5:15 pm:
‘MERICA! WOOHOO
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May 31st, 2008 at 1:03 am
I agree, this invention is very dangerous. Lower the speed to a max of 20 mph
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Tito reply on May 31, 2008 3:06 am:
Yea … that would make it sell … real fast.
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May 31st, 2008 at 1:26 am
Wow, looks really uncomfortable, you legs would drag along the road.
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May 31st, 2008 at 1:27 am
mega badass.
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May 31st, 2008 at 1:35 am
How fucking stupid some of your comments are. This is a biomechanical vehicle that is operated by actuators and pneumatic controls. The wheel base is wide and very stable. The design will not collapse in the opposite direction due to locking devices. You are held in by a pneumatic harness that is stronger than a regular car seatbelt. This design is 100x’s safer than a motorcycle. There will be a minimal amount of force needed to operate this vehicle by the operator. In essence, it is easy to control and drive. Basically it will drive itself with just a minimum amount of body motion.
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George reply on June 6, 2008 7:57 pm:
That’s us told then.
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May 31st, 2008 at 2:09 am
I think it looks like a Yamaha, not fully thought out and half assed. I would like to see someone ride the thing.
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May 31st, 2008 at 2:20 am
I wonder if the inventor ever watched Return to Oz?
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May 31st, 2008 at 2:24 am
Gorgeous. But the attached helmet is a bad bad idea. It’s one thing to straddle 500 pounds of bike. It’s another thing to stick your head in it. Can anybody imagine what it would be like to try to ditch a bike with their head stuck to it?
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May 31st, 2008 at 2:38 am
Two questions, first, how do you steer it and, second, when will the version with wings be coming out?
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May 31st, 2008 at 2:43 am
1) Why is the helmet attached? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just use a regular helmet?
2) With the front wheels on either side of the rider, wouldn’t he crash headfirst into poles, or kneefirst into anything lower than his head?
3) Deus Ex Machina (god from machine) doesn’t really make sense.
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duhsmith reply on June 2, 2008 5:03 am:
I think they meant Deus Ex Machina more along the lines of the literary term than the literal translation. Still doesn’t make all that much sense, but it sounds cool and it’s easy to remember.
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May 31st, 2008 at 3:55 am
Batman would drive one of these
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May 31st, 2008 at 4:06 am
Sure, it looks badass and great. It was made by an art student at an art/design school.
I’d trust it a lot more, or think it might actually get made, if it was at least designed by an engineer. As is, it’s nothing more than a pretty idea.
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Alysia reply on June 8, 2008 4:26 pm:
Dude - where do you think many of the current auto designers went to school?
That said - It looks frightening to me… I’d need to see some kind of real proof as to why & how it’s safer than a motorcycle. I’m not sure how you turn it either. Want to see it demonstrated in any case. It’s completely crazy looking.
Anyway - more like Catwoman than Batman.
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May 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am
from 0 to below a truck in 5 seconds. I think we have a winner. Wow!
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May 31st, 2008 at 4:29 am
It’s cool, but it’s not the same as a motorcycle if it has 3 wheels instead of 2 right? I mean, how can u squeeze through traffic with this?
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May 31st, 2008 at 5:21 am
Ill stick to my harley thanks
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May 31st, 2008 at 5:28 am
id laugh if i saw a dude on the interstate with one
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
Death of the future!!! I like it. And I never usually like gay crap like this, so they did something right for a change. I’d buy one, seriously.
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
In the event of a collision, it looks like this helmet-built-into-frame thing would help direct as much force as possible into the top of your skull.
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:11 am
THEY SHOULD REMOVE THE TRAINING WHEELS.
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:34 am
Right, is that why it was designed by the Japanese? Don’t be jealous that America is the greatest country in the history of the planet. Just because we won’t let you in, doesn’t make us stupid. Try moving to Burma, then you’ll see just how important the United States is to the rest of the world. Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
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Anonymous reply on June 5, 2008 11:43 pm:
Actually there would be computers, just no Microsoft or Mac. For a start Turing was English, no Turing, no computers. Most of the important breakthroughs in quantum physics and semiconductors were European. The world wide web was invented at CERN. Sir George Cayley, a Brit, invented aerodynamics, and developed all the important factors in heavier than air flight. Look up the history of heavier than air flight, it’s all European physicists and mathematicians. The Wright brothers only had the first manned flight, that doesn’t make the aeroplane an American invention. An aeroplane is any heavier than air fixed winged aircraft that is powered by propellers or jet engines, it does not have to be manned. So you would find that actually aeroplanes are not American. Global network infrastructure, well where would that be without the ITALIAN (not American) Guglielmo Marconi. Americans only drive this planet to war and poverty, not forward in development like you are trying to suggest, oh my fucking god I forgot the hugely significant sliced bread. Who cares. If America was awesome how come every one else hates you all. It’s because you are a bunch of arrogant dicks. Not all of you, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are great. I love the programmers of Crysis, CoD4 and so on. And allot of great music as come out of the fact that you enslaved a whole race. Also if you didn’t invade Vietnam and fuck it up so bad that the people that had to go through that torment had some great film scripts to write some of my favourite films wouldn’t exist. Basically fuck off with your jingoism and realise that the rest of the world exists and is allot more important, allot cooler, allot better at drinking (apart from Asia granted) and allot funnier, talented, better looking, less inbred and just better in general.
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:06 pm:
Noice, that one stung me, and I’m Irish.
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George reply on June 6, 2008 8:06 pm:
Guy… the world wide web needed the internet to exist first and that was invented by the Merkins (as a way of sending a go / no-go signal to the armed forces in case of a nookler attack - the alternative was using country and western radio stations believe it or not and the thought that they might survive Armageddon doesn’t bear thinking about).
Having said that, without the WWW stuff from Sir Tim at CERN, the internet would still be acoustic couplers and message boards and pretty much free of porn (and therfore crap)
So, in conclusion… you’re a penis.
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Synonymous reply on June 7, 2008 3:03 am:
Parker and Stone are synonymous with the term “arrogant dicks”. Why do you think America loves them so much? Some wonderful traits they share with us unimportant inbreds: Spite for pop culture, distrust and disgust of a government well beyond our control (you didn’t really believe we can tell them what to do, did you?), amusement at the expense of others (especially homosexuals, retards, transsexuals, and the socially impaired), love of cannabis… it’s a long list.
We never said we were the best at drinking. We are the best at drug abuse.
Aerodynamics isn’t something that was invented, it was discovered. If it was invented, then I’d have to assume that Sir George Cayley designed each and every bird/insect. Seems a bit improbable.
As for inventions, well what about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin? That did something. Actually, it made the mass production of firearms possible. Look, we could split hairs all day about this. If Gutenberg never invented the printing press, one could easily argue we’d have never arrived at computers. If the early Mesopotamians didn’t invent writing, Gutenberg probably wouldn’t have invented the press. If some fucked up early version of a human didn’t scrape or paint on the wall of a cave, maybe the Mesopotamians wouldn’t have thought to put words into marks. If some monkey didn’t need to stand up as a survival tactic, we wouldn’t have opposable thumbs. I think you see where this is going. Unless you’re a creationist.
Anyway, your last, um, well where there should be a paragraph only helps to prove why America rocks. If we never enslaved/oppressed Africans, no blues, no bop, no funk. How sad would that be? If we never made a mess out of Vietnam, none of your favorite movies would exist. No nuclear bomb, no “Dr. Strangelove”. If we don’t stop fucking up Iraq, who’s gonna make a great movie about it in 10 or 20 years? Nobody. So you see, if there’s one thing we do well, it’s planting the seeds of good through deeds of evil. Go America.
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 3:10 pm:
you dicks can have a pissing contest all day,but if you think about it at the time that you and your fag buddy are arguing about America had only recently broken away from British rule (rember the American Revolution?) so Americans didn’t invent slavery (that shit had been going on since biblical time,hell probably been going on since before written hiustory)and if you would kindly rember America bought the African slaves from the DUTCH,and the BRITISH,with s sprinkling of other European nations thrown for good measure.Don’t forget those fucking Spanards.Hell they fucked up every country they went to(Mexico,Almost all of South America,any any where else they could kill,rape,rob and steal anything shiny or valuable),and while you were being raped,robbed,murdered,tortured,oh yea cant forget sodomized you were being told it was for your own good,your imortal soul(rember the Spanish Inquisition ? )
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Brian reply on June 7, 2008 7:59 am:
Must I be the one to point out that America was isolationist until Europe started something called the Great War. And lets not forget that America also attempted to create something similar to the UN at the end of that war before returning to isolationism when Europe refused to accept that idea. And that does even touch on WW2.
Sure America has some shit in its history but so does everyone else. The fact of the matter is that everyone hates America because it is an easy target. America is a powerful force in the world today. This is bound to cause all forms of hatred by those not capable of having that kind of impact. Also, try sending reporters around ANY country looking for people who have no clue what is going on with anything.
That country is guaranteed to come out looking as though it is extremely stupid. Sure George W Bush is a stupid president and this is often taken to reinforce the idea that America is filled with idiots. However, Bush will very soon be leaving his position of power. You see we were smart enough to think a head and realize that when an entire people votes on its leader that sometimes a bad guy gets picked. So we let them stay 4-8 yrs. Then we rectify the situation.
In conclusion not only are you hypocritical and prejudice but you also may want to invest in learning how to think critically and separate myth from reality.
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Crash91 reply on June 10, 2008 7:42 pm:
Isolationist, yeah , how I wish they had stayed that way. After that, they got all scared that communism would spread to the rest of (poor) Europe which had just come out of the war? What do they do? The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine of course, help then and fuck them up the ass as well all in the name of stopping “Poverty and Hunger”. Lets give them a little aid and make them privatise most of their companies so Americans can rule them and economically rape the country. America cam out of Isolationism only to get their stuff to sell in Europe, unscathed from the war they emerge to rape the remains of Europe. Yeah, Isolationism.
And get fucking creative, the US has like 19 cities called “London”, well where’d they get that from? (dont believe me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation) ). OH FUCK cant name that town anything proper? Lets call it Cairo! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(disambiguation) .
Americans today are fucking deluded and growing up in their own little capitalism-based greedy world and are cut off from reality. Dont say “I watch the news” Fuck off man, you dont give a shit about it do you?
I believe humans werent naturally greedy for money and power, they were made so by the corrupt and unjust American capitalist system. Im not saying Capitalism is entirely bad, im saying that the American version is the worst. Before all you guys start calling me a “commy”, I’d like to point out that 90% of you guys have been fed complete BS propaganda since the say you were born. Sure there are smart Americans out there, but god you guys need to clean your shit up.
America tried to create the League of Nations and the UN, wow, pretty fucking unfair when you think it can veto anything it wants today eh? As for “so does everyone else”. Lol, man of course some of it is true, but no country can match the level of shit that America has done…
As for “Inventing is different from discovering”, yeah lets go down that path….Maybe Eli Whitney just *discovered* the formula for cotton gin - he didnt invent it if it could be formed by nature.
“In conclusion not only are you hypocritical and prejudice but you also may want to invest in learning how to think critically and separate myth from reality.”
Yeah man, that just shows how deluded you guys are, try listening to yourself for a change…that was a rare peice of good American advice, pity they dont follow it themselves eh?
America has done such good things to us…how could I ever live without windows? (using Ubuntu right now) and without the fat-dripping sugar-coated wonder that is McDonalds? I cannot imagine life without them.
Yay America.
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Synonymous reply on June 14, 2008 1:29 am:
What? Do you even know what a cotton gin is? Aerodynamics is a field of study, the cotton gin is a machine. Yes, there is a difference between discovery and invention.
If you think greed and corruption started in 1776, you definitely need to hit the history books.
Don’t you think some of us know we’ve been fed propaganda since the day we were born? Who do you think has worked so hard to isolate us from “reality” and the rest of the world– everyday Americans? We know we’re nothing but grist for the mill in the view of corporations and the government. That doesn’t mean we can just change it overnight. Europe has more refinement and a deeper culture than we will ever have. Did that happen in 232 years? No, it took thousands.
Besides, if you ask me, what you’re witnessing is the desperate gasps of a crumbling empire. Our government has known it for a long time, and their endgame has been one of nothing less than control of the world ever since. They see our world as a chess board in terms of black and white. You’re with us or against us. It’s not just the rest of they world they want control of, they want control of us, too. The only thing standing in their way is a piece of paper called the Constitution.
So please, give us a break. We are not those who claim to represent us. We are individuals.
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 3:56 pm:
That’s right BITCHES !
EVERYONE in AMERICA is a FUCKING IMMIGRANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rember where those ships came from ? Everybody IMMIGRATED here to get the fuck
out of wichever fucked up European country they were in.Espically after those nice guys you shits had running your countries(ie.Hitler,Stallin,Musollini,De Gaulle,Churhill,And numerous other Commie Bastards I can’t fucking rember,you fuckers act like George Bush is the first complete idotic ass hole that has ever ran a country),or just like when an American tells a Black person to “Go back where they came from”.#1-They didn’t come here on their own,and #2-Mother Fuckers,you aren’t from here either.So YOU go back where you came from.The FACT is Every one in the U.S. came from some fucked up European country.And I mean that in a nice way.(NOT)And it can be said that those early Americans involved in really fucking up the Native American Culture that was already here before the big exodus from across the pond,were ALL European Immigrants.So you are us,and we are you.Only we are better
Tom reply on June 12, 2008 11:08 pm:
Wow! A tad bitter. Some of your post is correct, but quite a bit of it is garbage. Americans are constantly vilified on the web, which leaves us very defensive. You are correct, Alan Turing was English, but he would be the first to tell you that the major breakthroughs in computing came from Bell Laboratories using the systems that Turing had developed. More of an Anglo/American collaborative effort. As to the world wide web, well, I think we can agree that this was based on the ARPANET using TCP/IP correct? And if we are going to claim that only Microsoft and Apple are U.S. operating systems, I think we can make a pretty good arguement for Linux being based on UNIX and GNU, another contribution from Bell Laboratories.
As for Americans being stupid; some are, some aren’t. Most, however know the difference between a lot and allot. And even when they mis-spell a lot, they usually spell it alot. Allot means “to distribute between or among.” If that is what you had in mind, then I apologize, but that would really make your post idiotic.
There are plenty of great invention to come out of the U.S. and there are plenty that come from everywhere else. These arguements are pointless. We don’t think we rule the world, we leave that to the British.
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MOnitor reply on August 30, 2008 5:10 am:
It was designed by an American, Jake Loniak
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:59 am
Reminds me of Kenetica the PS2 game where people had motorcycle exoskeletons and you raced them from about six years ago
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May 31st, 2008 at 7:04 am
I would ride this, if well thought out, probably not very hard. But maybe not for on the road.
It’s still a concept, not even a prototype. So if anything like this comes out it’ll be only .1 times as awesome.
On the dangerous part, I’ll have to agree with ed and nosactivated.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Yes, I’m American, but my comment wasn’t a comment on, “This is the best thing in the world.” It was a comment on, “most dangerous invention ever?”
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May 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
This idea was stolen from the ps2 game “Kinetica”
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MOnitor reply on August 30, 2008 5:11 am:
no it wasn’t
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June 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
cool - but needs some rocket launchers to beat rush hour traffic as well.
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June 1st, 2008 at 1:00 am
Actually, Kinetica stole this idea from the Wheelers on Return to Oz, back in the 80’s.
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June 1st, 2008 at 3:44 am
Now if they only make a model with a reclining position… then you will have an extra 1/16th second to see your life flash before your eyes.
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June 1st, 2008 at 4:20 am
Whoa… freaking AWESOME.
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June 1st, 2008 at 7:29 am
its so nice! =)
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June 1st, 2008 at 7:37 am
Awesome bike, weird helmet indeed, tho, that looks dangerous, maybe not the rest of it.
and for our air-headed gringo shitheads:
1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg! then the rest figure it was TEH EVEL INAVDERZ from outside America! Nvm they were drinking tea with your president while banging your mothers.
btw…
2) The United States is ___NOT___ AMERICA. America is a fucking continent you fucking morons, and that includes you, Canada, Mexico all the way down to Peru and Argentina where your asses have never and might never step foot on. You do good to stay inside your fucking borders, everyone else hates you.
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You walked into that one, douchebag reply on June 1, 2008 7:52 pm:
Air-headed or shitheaded? Pick one, because we can’t be both. Well, maybe if we’ve got a thin shell of shit filled with air. I guess that could work.
You stand corrected, sir, America has killed TENS of thousands of her own people. Mere thousands? That shit is for amateurs. Hey, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Secondly, welcome to your first geography lesson. The United States of America (USA, which could also stand for Uber Super Awesome), sometimes known colloquially as America, is in fact a country by itself. Your “America” is actually a continent called North America. Peru and Argentina are part of the continent of South America. Fuckin’ A, Google something once in a while before you go off on a self-righteous diatribe.
Thirdly, not everyone hates us. Santa Claus still shows up every year, and God hasn’t smote us in a long time, so we must be doing alright.
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duhsmith reply on June 2, 2008 5:08 am:
“1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg!”
That is just plain incoherent.
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MO reply on June 6, 2008 7:37 pm:
In the history of mankind?? America is 232 years old. Check europe’s history you doosh.
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 4:09 pm:
I like your style,and whole hartedly agree.
The only thing I would have added was,”Fucking Gringos ?,Bitch you need to recodnize.Unless Spanish is a retarded language,and your dictionary can’t understsnd that jibber-jabber either.GRINGO,means “foreigner”.So that means all
of those jibber-jabbering idots I hear calling me and my friends “Gringos”,don’t even understand their own language.They are the Gringos here.So before you try and have a tantrum in someone elses language,please at least try to speak your own first.Thank you very much.
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Swxking reply on June 6, 2008 8:13 pm:
Tell me how you really fill about the Good old USA…………You must be a JACKASS Democratic
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June 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
THIS PAGE IS JUST FULL OF GIRLS ARGUING ABOUT HOW GOOD OR BAD THE USA IS ! GET OUT AND GET A LIFE LOSERS ! ! !
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HAH reply on June 1, 2008 10:38 pm:
its not just coincidence your name is ‘ferry’ because your behaving like a vagina….big, cavernous, carnivorous, moist, throbbing, gaping, pulsating vagina.
in relation, the U.S.A.(awesome) is the raging cock that fucks pussies like you
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:09 pm:
Your blatancy.
American…
I thought so.
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June 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
This is really cool, I really want to try it also.
Stumbled!
nhick
http://www.itrush.com
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June 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I think what sucks is that you must wear special clothing. Don’t think this is gonna make it, because it’s so pointless. Which advantages does it have?
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June 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Fake
this is photoshopped
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Roo reply on June 5, 2008 4:46 am:
This was made with CAD…so not quite photoshopped.
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:09 pm:
I can tell by the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in my time.
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Brian reply on June 7, 2008 8:07 am:
It’s a DESIGN! It is therefore perfectly legit even if photoshopped.
Anon: u retard. That pixel argument is dumb. Different ppl use different resolutions for their computer due to screen sizes etc. This can cause strange patterns on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Thus just because it looks weird on the pixel level (This one does not, and I have very good eyesight) that still doesn’t prove anything.
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June 1st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
One pothole and you are dead, or at least severely messed up.
It appears that ejection from an accident might be gruesome, considering your head may remain as part of the bike.
While sleek and “cool”, this sucker needs an engineer, and a government safety inspector.
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MOnitor reply on August 30, 2008 5:12 am:
what part of strapped in do you not understand?
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June 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I tharink dat dis motocyle shoud be use by anyeoone lol
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June 1st, 2008 at 11:25 pm
No engine and runs on batteries. It’s not a motorcycle.
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June 1st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Ok, this may not be the most glaring of safety concerns, but doesn’t it seem that having the helmet attached to the vehicle and not the driver is a recipe for broken necks?
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June 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 am
Everyone here is so brilliant.
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:11 pm:
Including you, don’t forget.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 am
Americans are bett4r than the rest of the world, they hate us because they envy our freedoms.
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:12 pm:
Yeah, uh…
Freedom to pay for education? Oh and that other one, healthcare.
Nice one, you pay to survive, excellent freedom.
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Brian reply on June 7, 2008 8:10 am:
Actually they hate us because of stereotypical prejudices and the fact that everyone insists on using us as a scapegoat.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
Er….Nick..
>>Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
All of those inventions are British inventions. As was the telephone, the television, electricity and, whilst we’re at it, The USA was a British invention.
Swivel.
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natebob reply on June 2, 2008 10:33 pm:
Actually the USA was a FAILED British invention.
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Brian reply on June 7, 2008 8:13 am:
No the USA was and is an “experiment” in the democratic republic started by the “undesirables” of Great Britain and other European nations. (Note: do to the current success of the US “undesirables” should be read as a very sarcastic, though truthful, term)
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ZK reply on June 2, 2008 11:13 pm:
dude, the telephone was invented by alexander graham bell, a scottish born american citizen. also, electricity was not invented, read a science book.
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Ben reply on June 3, 2008 12:38 am:
Eh? Powered flight is a British invention, since when? O.o Of course, does it really matter who invented what as long as we completely improved it? As for the US being a British invention, your just talking out your ass. I mean to invent a country, they would of have to had to willingly allowed the colonies that were under their control and had a hand in the ideals behind it creation. Which they totally didn’t, if anything the British served as a sort of muse to inspire our forefathers on how to create a nation with ultimately more freedoms than the one they had left behind (Still true today, Canada, the UK, Japan, these are all countries where civil rights exist secondary to the will of the state. Not that the US hasn’t made great strides since 9/11 either, but not compared to you guys).
Oh, and by the way, you can’t invent electricity moron. You can only harness it, unless you also proclaim yourself to be the creator of the universe too? Also, I thought you should know the Germans are generally know to have invented what we know as the modern computer first with the Z3.
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Kevin Heath reply on June 3, 2008 8:25 am:
We also invented the internet.
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Ben reply on June 3, 2008 1:31 pm:
No, the UK invented the world wide web. Big different.
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Kevin Heath reply on June 3, 2008 4:47 pm:
Bananas - that’s definitely one of ours.
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Anonymous reply on June 6, 2008 1:14 am:
the internet was invented by the US military to link its bases together. Like a lot of other technology we have ( GPS, Radio etc..) it trickled down into the rest of the country. America, fuck yeah.
Phil E. Drifter reply on June 7, 2008 11:03 pm:
You’re right. there’s a big difference between ‘the internet’ and ‘the world wide web.’
The Internet was created in the US to keep information in a decentralized location so that if one site was attacked the information would still be available elsewhere, it was a joint US military/US post-2ndary (college/U) creation and it started in the 60s, ‘63, i think.
The WWW wasn’t created until, well, I was using Lynx (a text-only web browser) from a Unix shell in 1990, it couldn’t have been created long before that; I caught on because I was only in high school but I had a friend 4 years older that was starting college when I was starting high school. and it wasn’t created by one person it was created by a team of people.
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MO reply on June 6, 2008 7:41 pm:
No, wasn’t the internet invented by Al Gore
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Phil E. Drifter reply on June 7, 2008 10:58 pm:
Not at all. Have you never read snopes.com? It’s a site made out to verify or debunk popular rumors.
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Anonymous reply on June 5, 2008 11:55 pm:
I’m Scottish so you think I would be standing up for my fellow countryman but I have to tell you that the telephone was not a British invention, just got patented here first. Of course it’s not American either. It’s an Italian invention. A guy called Innocenzo Manzetti invented it, but he couldn’t afford the cost to patent it, so was never credited with the invention.
But yeah, to the American’s stupidity, I was the guy that owned him on his comment.
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 4:22 pm:
Own who ? You Scottish Bitch,you wear a fucking DRESS.(I know,it’s called a kilt,but it’s still a fucking skirt or a dress and only bitches wear that shit any way)So how the hell can YOU call someone else stupid ?
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Me-Mo reply on August 22, 2008 4:16 pm:
Well in that case my 9 1/2 inch cock is a British invention.And I would like to return it.So if you would just turn around and bend over (as so many of you faggot ass Europeans love to do)I’ll deliver it to you personally.
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Kevin Heath reply on August 22, 2008 5:10 pm:
ha ha - it wouldn’t touch the sides!
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June 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
this machine is very nice - god day YAMAHA
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June 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Ironman V1.0 !
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June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Concept vehicles like this one may be completely impractical but they help foster new creative thinking about industrial design. That is their value. Who knows? 30 years from now a practical design might come out of what we see here today.
As for America, its easy to hate an entire country. No matter what country you live in, if you look at your history you will find bad decisions, corrupt governments and courts, ecological disasters, human rights violations, vicious criminal organizations, abused indigenous peoples, aggressive foreign policies and harsh isolationism.
Without exception, if you look at it honestly, you are what you hate. Work to make your country better NOW. Don’t point the finger because you just end up pointing at yourself.
Cool bike!
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Brian reply on June 7, 2008 8:17 am:
Hey, an intelligent take on a very annoying debate.
I do tip my hat to you good sir.
(note: this is sincere. There is no sarcasm in this post)
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Phil E. Drifter reply on June 7, 2008 11:07 pm:
It may be very popular in the near/relatively near (5-10 years) future considering Moore’s law (technology doubles itself every 18 months) so someone will surely invent (we already have, in certain instances) safety features that will automatically disallow control of the vehicle from the driver if a crash is eminent. Someone else may very well develop some kind of ’shield’ or ‘repulsory’ effect so that two people/vehicles can’t collide at each other full speed.
They call it ‘putting some horse back into the horseless carriage,’ as in back in the wild west, you could go out and get hammered, sh*t faced drunk, and get back in your carriage and the horse knows how to lead you back home.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
this would be perfect if only it burned a lot of gas. and america is the best dam country in the world FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button. peace and god bless.
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Kevin Heath reply on June 3, 2008 8:04 pm:
I think you’re forgetting that the Pentagon has lost nearly every armed conflict in the last century.
The only ones you’ve won is when the Brits have helped you out.
The Brits are pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan leaving you there to lose so you’ll be praying to Allah soon.
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al reply on June 3, 2008 11:06 pm:
I’m sorry but your completely wrong you fucking imbecile. you have been brainwashed by your stupid religion and country.
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Kevin Heath reply on June 6, 2008 10:25 am:
What religion? I agree with Darwin.
The fact that you keep starting wars that you cannot finish is no secret.
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Anon reply on June 6, 2008 8:16 pm:
IT’S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
-PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
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qazaq reply on June 5, 2008 1:32 am:
“FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button.”
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That is great, if not consistent with “peace and god bless”
To Kevin:
You forget it was the Americans who single-handedly destroyed the Japanese - without help from the “brits” and also you forget that it was us pussy americans who came in in 1942 and saved the day… I believe the Brits were, as Al may say, “fucked” without us.
And to all the people who somehow believe this is Yamaha’s concept:
It was not Yamaha’s design, it was Jake Loniak, who got support from Yamaha, who uses concepts like Jake’s to improve their vehicles, so they can make them even better than all the U.S. companies, who think very linearly and would not consider supporting a concept like this one because it wou