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- mrdobolina0
Gore bores me to death
kOna
(Mar 29 06, 14:13)It's not American Idol.
- ********0
dude grew a goatee and took up dating his students
- mrdobolina0
dude was talking alternative fuels 15 years ago, gotta give him that.
Bush was doing coke off stripper titty fifteen years ago.
- ********0
I guess you're right dobs.... I should actually be thanking him for inventing the internet. If it weren't for him I might be bartending or just lifting weights in some dark gym for a living right...
- mrdobolina0
fyi, he never said he invented the internet.
- ********0
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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- ********0
The original Wired News article by Declan McCullagh, Mar. 11, 1999, which started the claim:
"It's a time-honored tradition for presidential hopefuls to claim credit for other people's successes. ... After Gore took credit for the Internet, ...Politics is only fun when it works for you isnt' it?
- TheBlueOne0
What was Gore's role in the internet anyway? Did he forment or support government policies that enabled it to become what it did?
- F_180
he helped draft and pass the legislation that funded it.
- ********0
He thought it up one night while watching Matlock
Here we are
- ********0
sure beats running the houston astros
- TheBlueOne0
According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
And more here:
http://www.firstmonday.org/issue…So while Al was getti g legislation passed to protect the baby internet Bush was snorting coke off strippers tits and running the Astros into the ground? Excellent.
- F_180
don't forget about his dad's oil business too. he killed that one rather quickly.
- ********0
the actual internet was like a top secret military development or something right?
- ********0
she learned that on the internet
- TheBlueOne0
the actual internet was like a top secret military development or something right?
khilled
(Mar 29 06, 14:45)ARPNET i think..designed to keep the mail going out and such in case of a nuclear attack
- mrdobolina0
see kona?
gfy
- Mimio0
I don't particularly like Gore, but I can see what he meant by that statement. He was answering a question about policy making. He also said something similar to that in a presidential debate.
- mrdobolina0
so now to keep it fair, konashould be jumping all down these guys throats as well, right?
