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One for the not so swift among us-
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 31 May 2006 04:15:00 -0700, "basskisser"
wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:24:45 -0700, jps wrote:
Our currency is evidence.
The fact that the sun heats both planets does not preclude that
we've
messing with the earth's atmosphere. When you change a system as
integral to the earth's condition as its atmosphere, it's going
to
produce change.
The fact that you don't "believe" this is no concern of min
Are you discussing the agit-prop "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al "I
invented the Internet" - "Love Story was modeled after Tipper and me"
Gore?
Please - Anyone with an historical perspective and a modicum of
knowledge about metrology and physics will tell you that (1) They
don't have a freakin' clue if there is or isn't "global warming" and
(2) the recent "activity" is more about normal solar/current patterns
than "global warming".
Then again, this is Al "I'm so freakin' smart I scare myself to death"
Gore. :)
Believe what you will, but actually try to understand the varying
opinions from all the respected scientists involved in this debate
rather than Al "The Sky is Falling - or at least Warming Up" Gore.
On another subject, did you buy a new bigger, betterer boat?
Once and for all. Al Gore NEVER said he "invented the internet".
Bassy, I really don't want to take you to school on this again.
Just drop it.
For a fine read:
http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm
Which, says in part:
Exhibit A is Al Gore. People eager to lie about him continue to portray
him as a liar. First lie, that he claims to have "invented" the
Internet. Second lie, that he claims to have "discovered" the pollution
of Love Canal. Third lie, that he falsely claims to be the model for
Oliver Barrett IV, hero of Love Story.
Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, which implies that
he engineered the technology. The invention occurred in the seventies
and allowed scientists in the Defense Department to communicate with
each other. In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said,
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
in creating the Internet."
Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means
that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that
he could patent the science, though that's how the quotation has been
manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the
actual language.
For a heady while we hoped that the Bush campaign would prove their man
to be the champion of honesty and integrity that he pretends to be,
especially for those looking for a squeaky clean new White House. A
couple of weeks ago the campaign rejected a shoddy commercial showing
Gore saying that Clinton never told a lie. Problem was that the clip
showed an interview from 1994, long before Clinton ever heard of Monica
Lewinsky.
To his credit, Bush scrapped the commercial before it aired. But as I
write, his campaign is unloading a new commercial, featuring a sneer at
the fragment from the Internet claim, again implying that Gore had
nothing to do with the Internet's creation. At least they got the words
right; it would be dangerous to doctor the tape.
But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to
create the modern Internet? 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?"
So, in other words, Gore said something careless, and continues to get fried
for it. Bush makes careless speech into a virtual religion, and his sheep
say nothing, although in all fairness, it's because his sheep don't notice.
Exactly!
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