At 5/16/08 01:45 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:
At 5/15/08 11:44 PM, JoS wrote:
Insulin
"Invented" by the pancreas, actually. lol
Canadians figured out how to extract ti from animals to treat humans. http://www.discoveryofinsulin.com/Home.h tm
telephones,
American...
Alexander Graham Bell was a US citizen, he got the patent for the telephone in the US. He only died in Canada.
He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before he moved to the US. http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?B ioId=42027
the lightbulb
WRONG. The first literal electrical light and enclosed light with a filament was invented by British people. The first practicall, lightbulb as it is today was invented by Thomas Edison, an American.
Henry Woodward invented it and sold the patent to Edison. http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/summer/sc or/articles/scor18.htm
pacemaker,
Big deal.
I think the millions of people with pacemakers would disagree.
wireless voice message (ie radio)
Wow.
The first patent for a radio was filed by Nicola Tesla, a Serbian-American.
First voice message without words was done by Fessenden, a Canadian. http://www.eht.com/oldradio/history/outl ine/Fess-voc.htm
cobalt 60 cancer treatment
Another lie.
Nope, the cobalt 60 cancer bomb for deep cancer was invented by a Canadian. http://announcements.usask.ca/news/archi ve/2000/12/former_u_of_s_c.html
JAVA
Um, made by Sun Microsystems, an American company.
"The Father" of Java is James Gosling, born and raised in Canada, as well as most of his education was obtained at Canadian universities.
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinve ntors/a/James_Gosling.htm
standard time
Lol what?
Standard time was proposed by Sanford Fleming, a Canadian to replace local times (as each area could set their own time) to allow national and regional train schedules to work better.
plexiglass
Nope.
Yup, William Chalmers was a student at McGill University in Montreal when he invented the stuff. http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/record.as p?MaterialName=polymethyl&Search=Search&
key=2170&subkey=7272
At 5/15/08 07:30 PM, JoS wrote:
At 5/15/08 01:55 PM, cellardoor6 wrote:
Yeah they are, my stats if you add (you can add and do simple math can't you) them up you get the 48% of Canadians who have COMPLETED college or higher.
Show your math.
College completed is 3533375
university degree at or above BA 3985745
university certificate or diploma below BA level = 866735
Total completed post-secondary education excluding trades =8385855
Total population between 25 and 64 = 17382115
48.244% of the population has completed post-secondary education. This does not include people who dropped out before completing. This is highest level completed.
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06 /data/highlights/education/pages/Page.cf m?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Table=1&Data=Cou nt&Sex=1&StartRec=1&Sort=2&Display=Page
Seriously, you have really, really bad communications skills.
About 1/3 of US students leave school prior to completion of their degree. However the US Department of Education still includes them as people who have received post-secondary education, giving you the 52% that I posted previously. So if say even 10% of those 52% drop out (which is a very optimistic number) that puts your rate at 47%, below the completion rate for Canada. if we actually figure it out using the 30% marker the US Department of Education acknowledges then your education completion is 36%, well below the Canadian mark.