[QUOTE=jasong;316538]Anybody know any jokes about Americans that could be understood by Americans, even if not agreed with? ;)[/QUOTE]

Why did the Canadian cross the road?

To get to the middle.

Why did the American cross the road?

They didn't. They sent the Canadians.

Not quite nationality-related, but still about "The Other".

Why did the shorthair cross the road?
Because someone told him to.

Why did the longhair cross the road?
(wait for it!)
Because someone told him not to. <badump!> :jokedrum:

I guess this really belongs in the terrible jokes thread, but what the hey!

[QUOTE=kladner;316528]This in turn brings to mind the "tale" of the German author whose magnum opus was to be in five volumes. Unfortunately, he died after completing the fourth volume. This rendered the entire work incomprehensible because all the verbs were to be in the fifth volume.[/QUOTE]
Similarly: Unfortunately, Karl Marx died before completing his follow-up work which was to be called [I]Der Kleinbuchstabe[/I].

[QUOTE=kladner;316567]I guess this really belongs in the terrible jokes thread, but what the hey![/QUOTE]

Actually, sadly, this is not a joke.

The US of A refused to enter the second world war, but they were happy to provision (with costs).

This changed with the attack on Perl Harbor, after the war was already effectively over. But hey, let's drop a couple of nuclear bombs just to see what they can do, shall we? Little Boy and Fat Man anyone?

[QUOTE=Batalov;316570]Similarly: Unfortunately, Karl Marx died before completing his follow-up work which was to be called [I]Der Kleinbuchstabe[/I].[/QUOTE]

ARGH! :razz:

[url]http://news.discovery.com/tech/mit-gamifies-relativity-121101.html[/url]

Grammar gloss of expressive American Sign Language used for NYC storm info
 

[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/why-great-sign-language-interpreters-are-so-animated/264459/[/url]

Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
 

[QUOTE][SIZE=2][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/oak-ridge-ORNL-nvidia-titan,18798.html"]Titan Supercomputer Packs 46,645,248 Nvidia CUDA Cores[/URL]

[SIZE=2]EDIT[SIZE=2]: I don't think I can afford it..[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=2][SIZE=2][SIZE=2].[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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[QUOTE=kladner;316442]Ya Reckon? :razz:[/QUOTE]

Anand himself sees the monster up close.

[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6421/inside-the-titan-supercomputer-299k-amd-x86-cores-and-186k-nvidia-gpu-cores[/url]

Regardless of what it might be used for (and it is for rent!), I cannot help being awed by the technology.

I dread the annual air show here in Chicago. It brings about stunt flying over densely populated areas, and insidious messages about power. Still, I can only marvel at the machines.

[URL="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/where-are-all-space-shuttles-now"]Space Shuttles: Where are They Now?[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;317255][URL="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/where-are-all-space-shuttles-now"]Space Shuttles: Where are They Now?[/URL][/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_Vehicle_Designation"]That misses Explorer, Pathfinder, and SAIL.[/URL]

'Innocence of Muslims' filmmaker gets a year in prison
 

[url]http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/innocence-muslims-filmmaker-sentenced.html[/url]