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Brits Who Made The Modern World S01E01 WS PDTV XviD-REMAX

Note: this is for the ppl who don’t know anything about rlslog, and what we do. We do not provide download links. So if you cannot simply find one yourself using the internet, don’t bitch in the comments about how much we inconvenience your life. k ?Remax brings a 22 minute documentary series about Britain’s scientists and engineers, who developed some of the world’s most amazing technology. Quite interesting historical account about the startup Lotus company struggling to compete in Formula 1.

Documentary series looking at the untold stories of British scientists and engineers who developed some of the modern world’s most incredible technology. Peter Snow finds out how Britain’s successful Formula One industry has its origins in a remarkable amateur racing club and a visionary group of motor enthusiasts. He meets the surviving members of the Lotus Engineering team whose revolutionary car, the Lotus 25, changed the sport forever.

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  1. Mr Browneye
    June 21st, 2008 | 02:35

    furst! . I’ll check out those limey modern world makers

  2. abc
    June 21st, 2008 | 02:44

    i dont give a shiiitt.

  3. Pegasus
    June 21st, 2008 | 02:46

    Speaking of the brits and performance cars, anybody have any news about when the next season of Top Gear is gonna start ? I hear it’s pretty soon now.

  4. Mick
    June 21st, 2008 | 02:49

    abc. You don’t have any shiiitt that we want.

  5. Buckwell
    June 21st, 2008 | 02:53

    Top Gear starts sunday i think, also the last 2 post are the ones that have no good torrents or rs links. RSLOG is slipping like usual.

  6. Billy
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:07

    Beautiful machine.

  7. s0beit
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:08

    just some more genius inventions from the british.

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=british+inventions&btnG=Search&meta=

    also the worlds best sport football :D

  8. Buckwell
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:13

    yeah and usally when it won of these british docs, it outta date, old, and doesnt exsist on the net.

  9. cefur
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:29

    The only thing brits and yanks invented is Terrorism …. all they know how to kill innocent people…. use less bustards!!!!

  10. cefur
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:30

    The only thing brits and yanks invented is Terrorism …. all they know how to kill innocent people…. use less baasturrds!!!!

  11. steve
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:34

    the brits tooting their own horn…yippee … no one cares. the only thing that comes to mind when i think of britain is doctor who and i hate doctor who… god that show sucks.

  12. lapbook,org
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:38

    well frankly there’s no use what so ever if no download links are provided even though a ton of news about them is provided…

    slip…slip…sliping

  13. kindbuddy
    June 21st, 2008 | 03:45

    The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) DVDRip.REPACK.XviD-BiFOS

    w/ the subs…

  14. bob
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:10

    @5

    Yep, new topgear starts Sunday. They said only 6 episodes though…maybe that’s just for the first half of the series.

  15. Dvdguy
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:10

    It’s a new series, and I’m downloading it now. Top Gear info: finalgear.com for all your Gear info:

    1 day, 15 hours, 49 minutes, and 29 seconds until the next season of Top Gear starts on June 22nd.

  16. bob
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:13

    @sc0rff

    The majority of the recent posts were accurately predicted BEFORE they happened…by my TV-Guide

  17. dsafd
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:21

    @bob

    you still use TV guide LMAO what are you 60?

  18. 31337
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:44

    Finding links to the programs and movies posted here is easy, even using only public trackers. Sometimes it just means you need to wait 1 or 2 days for what’s posted here to appear.

    or if you are krad use http://www.sceneaccess.org or a nice Efnet pre ;)

  19. tomzurek
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:44

    @12 steve

    well some one has to, toot their horn i mean.

    besides, if you don’t dig that get off our internets you yankee d|ck!!!

  20. tele
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:47

    at the admin..

    its not the “USERS SPAM”
    its the COMMUNITY giving us information..,

    choose your words wisely. Thats unfair

  21. teaser
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:50

    I’m sure none of these inventions had to do with palatable food……..just Kidding….

  22. tomzurek
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:56

    @24 teaser

    whoa, the first stereotype and it’s taken this long?!

    well done you.

    gordon ramsey’s doing a good job of teaching your people how to cook from what i understand.

    anyway more british greatness @

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_Jump_Jet

    it took the american billions and some three decade to even come anywhere near to it.

    that’s a fail.

  23. A Yank
    June 21st, 2008 | 04:59

    # 10 Cefur #11 Cefur Thats funny writing that on the internet with a computer,that would be nowhere near what they are today without the Brits and the Yanks.

  24. dar.E
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:02

    I come here for information and D/L links

  25. lulz
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:05

    i come here to pick up girls

  26. Rlslover
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:39

    I come here for Mr X!!

  27. Another Idea
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:45

    How many freaking times do I have to tell you guys. We aren’t pissed that we have to look somewhere else, we’re pissed that you give a link that leads to it and don’t tell us anything.

    Ahh this post looks nice, click the link, wtf. Just simply say “look around” or ThePiratebay or UseNet or Not Out Yet, QUIT posting searches that lead nowhere! Its like seeing omething on a dinner menu then finding out they don’t have it there and having to go somewhere else.

  28. ELCouz
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:45

    >>I come here for Mr X!!

    haha i do agree that Mr X is irreplaceable ! :-)

  29. my wasted years
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:48

    I come here, “Because I’ve got nowhere else to goooooo!”

    Anyone got a link for Officer and a Gentleman ? LOL WEEEEE !!! :D

  30. Mr Y
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:56

    lol look at MrX pretending to be cool. what a dork.

  31. PRODUCT
    June 21st, 2008 | 05:57

    *TORRENTS LABEL IN PROPER*

    It’s called

    “Brits who pat themselves on the back for no reason”

    Yeah. Mr.X you remember World War II, since your a racist wanna be Nazi. America saved all you Brits who can’t defend yourself.

  32. Rlslover
    June 21st, 2008 | 06:11

    Mr Y is being uncool because he is not Mr X.

    Rlslog is FTW :)

  33. spambone
    June 21st, 2008 | 06:19

    Britain was industrialised 50 years before Germany and 250 years before Japan. And lets not forget that it was brits who invented the television, the steam engine, the electric motor, the internal combustion engine, the jet engine, radar, the light bulb, viagra :P and of course the World Wide Web! In fact the japanese say that the British invnted over 60% of the things we use in our daily lives.

  34. HistoryBuff
    June 21st, 2008 | 06:20

    Yeah MrX

    Just remember how the Seppo’s sat out WW1 until the Krauts and Allies had almost exhausted each other, and then the Yanks jumped in to save the world :|

    WW2. Yep the so called gr8 Seppo General McArthur, who had ridiculed and tried the shame the Aussies fighting in New Guinea had to come beg for their help because the Yanks couldnt even clear the Japs out of Buna

    @ 36. EXPAND YOUR LIMITED VISION OF THAT CRAP THEY PASS OF IN AMERICA AS HISTORY.

  35. cg
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:10

    @38 brits did not invent the internet

  36. blaze
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:14

    neone notice if Superhero Movie was out of sync. I seem to be having burn issues with audio. Trying a second ISO convert…..

  37. spambone
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:14

    @40 Tim Berners-Lee…Google him!

  38. Mrquiteaguy
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:17

    &34 pr0vid3r,
    Cheers for the links.

  39. Rick
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:21

    @36
    Your just the stereotypical uneducated moron who gives Americans the bad name of being the dumbasses of the world.

    Nazi Germany were too busy with Soviet Russia and was already fighting the British in Northern Africa. Operation Sealion to invade Britain was cancelled so unless the Red Army lost, there was no chance of an invasion.
    Oh, the fact German Luftwaffe was crippled in the Battle of Britain says otherwise about that “British can’t even defend yourself” crap.

  40. Jack Johnson
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:27

    Dear RLSLOG staff,

    While many of your posts are full of typo’s and mildly incomprehensible, there are thousands of us out there who never bother to post anything, but would be significantly more oblivious to the up and coming torrents without your services.

    For this, I feel the need to post on behalf of myself and the many others who don’t care to post comments, but do care to use your site on a regular basis.

    your site is truly excellent in posting new releases, and ignore the nubs who pick their noses and whine at you guys all day.

    You guys rock, and keep it up. For every 1 whiny kid, there are 200 grateful web browsers. All the best,

    -Anonymous Internet Thief #193939313

  41. QuadruppelQ
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:54

    Jack Johnson has forgotten to take his meds. Same shrink as Mr. X???

  42. your name
    June 21st, 2008 | 07:59

    So it was a Stiff British Mono C0CK that changed Formula One? :D

  43. Ali
    June 21st, 2008 | 08:01

    Go invade and kill more innocent people you brit freaks.

  44. it's funny cus it's true
    June 21st, 2008 | 08:10

    haha.

    now i’m guessing it’s the americans who have got in a tizz with this program. Seriously you should look at your own country before spouting some of the crap that’s being posted here.

    The truth of it, is the british invented a hell of a lot, the sad part is we never used it properly and just wasted our talent.

    Love it when Americans say if it wasn’t for them we would of lost WW2. Seriously anyone that says that is so stupid it’s untrue and clearly shows a lack of knowledge to history. Roosevelt only joined after the battle of britian and why? Well his advisor’s advised him that we would fall pretty quickly just like the rest of Europe had and you didn’t want to get into a fight. Japan changed that, however credit where credit due, we couldn’t of done it without the resources we got from you, and some plucky pilots did come and join the war early. But the truth of it, it was a team effort, any other way would of be drawn out and very costly in life and resources. So next time you think on using that statement just think, am i being stupid?

    As for the World Wide Web, it was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and released in 1992. He was British.

  45. davyjones
    June 21st, 2008 | 08:23

    aids please

  46. Not quite so...
    June 21st, 2008 | 08:28

    @42 “spambone”,
    It looks like kids nowadays think WWW is (whole) internet. That would be same as saying the internet is finnish invention, because of IRC. Someone inventing a wheel does not automatically make whole automobile invented by the same instance…

  47. lon3wolf
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:08

    40 and 42 now in my opinion you are both right Tim Berners-Lee did indeed start the internet as we know it now with HTTP transfers but the DoD had already started the networking and introduced TCP/IP in the 70’s.

  48. KobeBeefBurger
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:10

    “As for the World Wide Web, it was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and released in 1992. He was British.”

    Let’s just ignore the fact that technical details like packet switching, usenet and protocols like TCP/IP had been developed in the United States and Canada for 30 years prior. By the standard of your lame arguement, if the English built the first road then they can also lay claim to building the first automobile as well (whether they did or not).

    Per usual, North America does all of the heavy pulling and the Brits jump on at the end to plant their flag. What else is new.

  49. Nuke China
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:24

    the only free china is the republic of china on the island of taiwan

  50. Matthew
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:32

    well, im mainly downloading this because im an f1 fan. and yes, Colin Chapman DID revolutionise the sport. his inventions can be seen any time you look at a race car. at that time, the americans were too busy making bigger engines thinking the bigger the better (a lot of them still are) the germans had no money to do anything (they did their fair share of automotive innovation with AutoUnion and Mercedes) and the italians were too busy calling chapman a “garagiste” as they failed at anything remotely related to aerodynamics or requiring clever thinking.

    every country has its own great inventors and Britian’s no exception. the Spitfire is another british invention that springs to mind.

    anyway, thanks for this rlslog!

  51. FreeRyde
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:33

    @25- It was the British that invented the jet engine in use today. Ultimately, he project was given to the US to complete and test, as England was near bankruptcy after World War II.
    But it was the US that indirectly killed the Canadian Avro Arrow project in 1959 fearing it would hurt their aircraft industry. Many of the tech went to Nasa and were a part of the Apollo Project.
    @36- A good example of why most of the world has some form of issue with the US. Learn your World War I and II history. You’ll find many lines held and battles won by Canadians with their meager resources. They were depended upon, and the Germans dreaded their presence.
    ie: Passchendaele, Ypres (6000 casualties in 48 hrs from 5700 cylinders of chlorine gas, etc). Everyone else ran.
    Vimy Ridge, Valenciennes, Dieppe, Ortona, Juno Beach, Kapyong Valley; Hill 677 and Hill 187, etc.

  52. whocares?
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:39

    I love the way that stupid rednecks always throw WW1 and WW2 into an argument, to back themselves. Are you forgetting that you fought a war in Vietnam, and lost. And you fought that one all on your own. What does that tell you about your superior military??

    Or dont they teach you that in your high schools? Or are you so much of a redneck, that you didnt attend school, as you was behind the barn with your cousin cletus.

  53. PRODUCT
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:39

    The funniest thing is, Americans are just Brits who aren’t pussies crybabies. That’s the truth.

    Britain is only the size of California. That’s why Brits need programs like this. Fill your depleting ego.

    Your telling me. Britain could have won WWII without America… LOL ! London was blasted back to the stone age, So much for all this useless technology when you can’t protect your family. Oh yeah. The Nazi’s would have never gotten into Russia………………….. Now we have the highest % of Neo-Nazi’s (Mr.X) living in Russia.

    You stole Rock ‘N’ Roll, Punk Rock, Hip-Hop. However, you do have Mad Cow Disease.

    By the way. This really is all in good fun. I have absolutely nothing against Limeys… besides their smell.

  54. spambone
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:43

    @54 This is all being rather pedantic. Berners-Lee DID create what we now know as the World Wide Web (in a former post I mistakenly referred to it as “the internet” – purely because when most of us refer to “the internet” we are generally speaking about the WWW part of it). Regardless of who created the enabling architecture there comes a time and place in history when one person/organisation is credited with “an the invention”. Like it or not, in the case of The World Wide Web, it happens to be Tim Berners-Lee.

    By your own argument exactly how far back do you want to go to who laid the groundwork…and if we are talking about the enabling tools do we go to Alan Turing, to Charles Babbage or to the first homosapiens who used a tool to achieve a task?

    As for your comment “Per usual, North America does all of the heavy pulling and the Brits jump on at the end to plant their flag. What else is new.”….where do you get this??? A few examples whould help???

    If anything, it is the brain drain of scientists leaving the UK for better paid/funded jobs in the States that is driving some american research.

  55. 31337
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:45

    ITT: Rlslog comments become way to intellectual for their own good.

  56. PRODUCT
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:52

    @60

    “As for your comment “Per usual, North America does all of the heavy pulling and the Brits jump on at the end to plant their flag. What else is new.”….where do you get this??? A few examples whould help???”

    If you read his post properly, He does give a example.

  57. bleddy yanks
    June 21st, 2008 | 09:53

    Im fed up of all those bleddy yanks that bring up WW2, for a start it was years ago, secondly you were the selfish pricks who wouldnt join in and ya know help save the free world for years. We held our own. Hell you wouldnta been able to end the was in japan if it wasnt for us that woulda been just like vietnam if we hadnt shared our nuclear research with you. So STFU

  58. it's funny cus it's true
    June 21st, 2008 | 10:09

    hahaha @54

    idiot. if we use your analogy in your lame example then the first computer was developed by a brit, or are you wanting to go back to the abacus which was developed in asia?!

    As i was saying i was referring to World Wide Web, NOT the Internet. This was CLEARLY pointed out, or are you that dim witted to not see that? By the way for your benefit that’s a rhetorical question before you answer, as really i don’t care.

    the point is without inventions on both sides of the alantic we wouldn’t be where we are today. You wouldn’t have your space program without the help from Nazi scientists. We wouldn’t have non stick pans without nasa.

    In question the best i’ve seen though is Clarksons video on british inventions, it’s just hilarious.

  59. pro tip
    June 21st, 2008 | 10:26

    @sc0rff
    I have seen people with staff tags posting links to releases before now actually

  60. mbdc
    June 21st, 2008 | 10:27

    These comments prove how uneducated the Americans are in general. Most of the Europeans on here seem to back up their arguments with proper History whereas the Americans seem to go on Word of Mouth or what they think is true.

    Only History they learn now is from National Treasure!

  61. dude
    June 21st, 2008 | 10:46

    lol only thing you yanks know about is how to get fat ! oh not forgetting jerry springer !

  62. teaser
    June 21st, 2008 | 11:03

    @ 25 tomzurek,why don’t read all the comments first,looks like someone already started making stereotypical comments (10 & 11) before I did and as I STATED I was joking..unlike all the other mean spirited comments I always see posted here about other cultures especially Anti-American

  63. john
    June 21st, 2008 | 12:12

    a)no country is more responsible for the modern world we live in today the Britain-fact. Yes obviously America has surpassed us now, but that doesn’t change the past.

    b) no America did not win the war single handedly

    -the Royal navy was still bigger than the US Navy during World War II,and better due to experience

    -the British were fighting in North Africa, the far east and Europe at the same time

    -the British held off the Germans, alone, for two years.

    -On D-Day, 3 of the 5 beaches were taken by British Empire forces, fact (2 British, one Canadian) but Saving Private Ryan was probably your unbiased education about that day.

    -yes America provided the late manpower and huge financial resources vital for winning the war, but they then bled us dry on the loan repayments so it wasn’t out of charity.

  64. Big Scottish Man
    June 21st, 2008 | 12:50

    Alexander Graham Bell – Telephone – Lies, he stole it.
    John Logie Baird – Television – Lies – He stole too.
    Chris Columbus – USA – Lies.
    2 + 2 = 4 – Lies – 2 + 2 = 3.9999999999999999999999

    Everything we are taught is lies.
    Sleep tight.

  65. pro tip
    June 21st, 2008 | 13:09

    @john don’t forget that its quite easy to fight a war when you’re out of range of enemy bombers and such

  66. motal toob
    June 21st, 2008 | 13:51

    Ive had MRX’s love child!

  67. Horst
    June 21st, 2008 | 14:07

    … everybody knows nearly every technical invention came from germany.
    (otto)motors, first car (daimler, benz), phone (p. reiss), mp3 (frauenhofer inst.), rockets, nuclear bombs (einstein, von braun) even washing machines…
    So stop arguing.

  68. Fritz
    June 21st, 2008 | 14:39

    “… everybody knows nearly every technical invention came from germany.”

    Don’t forget Gas Chambers, them German’s know how to take care of parasites

  69. Otto
    June 21st, 2008 | 14:42

    What a lame argument. Your only one?

  70. gr00ve
    June 21st, 2008 | 14:47

    To be fair, as Top Gear showed us the first car like a modern car was American, however who made it into an affordable mass produced system first? (A clue for the Americans, it isn’t Mr Ford)

    Also, if you go to a lot of famous American Revolutonary War locations in the North East, they love to have monuments to battles where the Brits completely destroyed your forces. Why the monuments? As Bunker Hill in Boston says “Here the British Forces were held up so General Washington could run away”

    If there wasn’t a 3000 mile ocean in the way and no air transport back then, there is no way you would ever be independent

  71. Guy
    June 21st, 2008 | 14:59

    For you brits and americans it seems to be
    making invention = making war.
    get civilized.

  72. bert
    June 21st, 2008 | 15:17

    jeez whats with all the super patriotic 12 year olds, i doubt you have/will ever visit america or the uk, so give up on what you think its like, stop making stupid ass uneducated comments, every countries kids are told their country is best, even the french!, have you googled french militaty victories lately?

  73. jackketch
    June 21st, 2008 | 15:23

    @73 Horst, you forgot also X-rays (roentgen), Light bulbs, Telegraph, aspirin, and a whole heap of stuff…basically almost everything.

    And before anyone says anything, the Brits invented Concentration Camps.

  74. June 21st, 2008 | 15:45

    I’m going to trump all yall who are arguing about who invented the internet. You’re all wrong.
    http://www.orlyowl.com/oreilly.jpg
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?ei=5087&em=&en=9429170ad91c09b3&ex=1213934400&pagewanted=all

  75. zipfury
    June 21st, 2008 | 18:06

    Can’t can’t We all just Get Along can’t we … Rodney King

    Q) Who Invented the Wheel ?

    A) It just doesnt matter its long since evolved into the many thousand we use daily

    a) Most modern invention are evolved from simpler ones through collaboration from the biggest brains around the world. who invented the is internet point-less my internet has evolved. internet has evolved past software and past hardware planting flags on one conner of it is ridiculous.

    b)facts + truthiness = http://www.google.com/ or http://www.google.co.uk/ no matter what part of the world u come from the truth is out there all you have to do is Google it.

  76. MrCyan
    June 21st, 2008 | 19:33
  77. WakeUp
    June 21st, 2008 | 20:34

    At the end of the day there are 4 types of yanks:-
    1) 1% Afro Caribbean
    2) 1% Other Ethnicity
    3) 1% Native American
    4) 97% European (95% British)

    So there is a 95% chance that the yanks that are ignorant on here slagging the brits off are actually british.

  78. J
    June 21st, 2008 | 21:28

    Remeber the English, the cowards who ran away like asians at Dunkurk because a SMALLER german force had competely defeated them. The other commonwealth countries (New-Zealand/Canada/Australia) and other UK countries(Scotland/Wales/N.Ireland) fought and got the better of the Germans, but the english acted like cowards, retreated whenever possible and brought the wholve level of the British army down. 50% of the english were ex public schoolboy cowards wanting a desk job.
    Russia won WW2 WITH USA AID. Without that aid the Germans would have won in Russia. The English impact on the war is so insignificant it is not worth mentioning. 1 on 1 without the USA and Russia and other UK nations, the Germans would have annihilated the english like they did to the French.

  79. WakeUp
    June 21st, 2008 | 22:01

    @84 And you are from where ? Pr1ck !!! Come back when you can actually spell Dunkirk or in french ‘Dunkerque’. If you actually knew your history you would know that it was the czech forces that finally overcame the german forces at dunkirk after Canada were forced to retreat. The yanks were not even in that theatre of war at the end of WW2.
    Get your facts right d1ckface.

  80. Madigan
    June 21st, 2008 | 22:24

    Let’s not forget the bail-out efforts maid be the US

    Lend-Lease was the given name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war materiel between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermudas, and the British West Indies. It began in March 1941, over 18 months after the outbreak of the war in September 1939.

    A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to nearly $700 billion at 2007 prices) worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France and $1.6 billion to China. Reverse Lend Lease comprised services (like rent on air bases) that went to the U.S. It totaled $7.8 billion, of which $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth. Apart from that, there were no repayments of supplies that arrived before the termination date, the terms of the agreement providing for their return or destruction. (Supplies after that date were sold to Britain at a discount, for £1,075 million, using long-term loans from the U.S.) No lend lease money went to Canada, which operated a similar program that sent $4.7 billion in supplies to Britain and Soviet Union.

    And the payback..

    House of Lords on 8 July 2002:

    “Lord Campbell of Croy: My Lords, is this payment part of the lend-lease scheme under which the United States supplied munitions, vehicles and many other requirements including food and other provisions that were needed badly by us in the last part of the war?
    Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, I referred to lend-lease in the context of the generosity of the United States throughout that period. However, the debt that we are talking about now is separate; it was negotiated in December 1945.
    Lord Stoddart of Swindon: My Lords, will the noble Lord remind me as to exactly how much the loan was, and how much we have repaid since then in principal and interest?
    Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, the loan originally was £1,075 million, of which £244 million is outstanding. The basis of the loan is that interest is paid at 2 per cent. Therefore, we are currently receiving a greater return on our dollar assets than we are paying in interest to pay off the loan. It is a very advantageous loan for us.”

  81. Madigan
    June 21st, 2008 | 22:33

    Internet history..

    J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the “Galactic Network.”

    Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.

    Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people “invented the Internet,” it was Kahn and Cerf – but they have publicly stated that “no one person or group of people” invented the Internet.

    Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the Internet would be impractical

    As far as the British claims…

    The Internet was well-established before Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created what is now its most popular application. A major achievement? Of course! But we don’t ask why Karl Benz doesn’t get some of the credit for inventing the wheel. We understand that the wheel was around before the car.

    Tim Berners-Lee and Robet Cailliau gotta lotta nerve claiming it was their invention. It was no more theirs than it was Al Gore’s.

  82. henry
    June 21st, 2008 | 22:35

    wow madigan you are so knowledgeable

  83. dave
    June 21st, 2008 | 22:36

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

    madigan you are so knowledgeable…….not.

  84. Old Commie Pinko Degenerate
    June 21st, 2008 | 23:30

    For what it’s worth the average whitefella amerikan is about equal parts german and emnglish/irish/scot/welsh. From about 1850 onwards as the individual german principalities underwent the upheaval that led to the unification of germany (c1880) german immigrants to amerika who were fleeing famine and local tyranny outnumbered the brits 2 to 1. Same same after ww1.
    german mercenaries also did a big mob of the fighting during the amerikan revolution of 177whatever (the so called Hessians) and the amerikan civil war the next century.

  85. john
    June 21st, 2008 | 23:33

    @87 they never claimed to have invented the internet, they invented the world wide web – fact.

    The worldwide phenomenon we have today with billions of people connected to the web is entirely down to them, before that it was some people at universities and a few hundred thousand people in the whole world using BBS’s,what’s the more important evolution of the concept?

    The Chinese might have invented gunpowder but Europeans (+colonial Europeans) turned that into weapons that can level cities from thousands of miles away, what’s the more important evolution of the concept?

  86. unamerican
    June 21st, 2008 | 23:54

    Ok, screw the brits AND the americans. You are both selling your rights down the drain and going for the nanny state. All of you pussies, worried a terrorist will attack your 300 person town. There’s a higher chance of you dying on a car accident than by terrorist action.

    I wouldn’t touch mainland USA with a 100 meter pole. that’s right meter! figure that out, americans.

  87. Neb
    June 22nd, 2008 | 00:47

    There are a million articles with download links. Some even from rapidshare.
    What’s up now that you started saying you don’t provide links ? Got some threatening letter or something ?

  88. Oriacle
    June 22nd, 2008 | 04:22

    As far as my understanding goes, Radar, another British invention, was shared with their American allies, could have provided an advance warning for Pearl Harbour. It did infact, however due to not understanding the nature of the equipment, the CO ignored the forewarning.

    The British do have some of the greatest minds in the world, but so does America. They both win at being historicaly important. Without the British, America simply wouldn’t be what it is today, and the same is the other way. Is that a good thing? Probably.

  89. AL Gore
    June 22nd, 2008 | 13:52

    I invented the internet

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