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On 4/2/2013 7:30 AM, BAR wrote:
In article , says...

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:30:01 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/1/13 2:41 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
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On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/1/13 1:30 PM,
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On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:52:02 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Mark Sanford well positioned to win South Carolina GOP runoff

It looks like marital infidelity is not an issue anymore for
politicians ... if it ever really was.

Bunga Bunga


Nor is lying to the voters about where you were and who was paying for it.

Nor is bull****ting about pistol knowledge.

How would you treat a pistol with a safety differently from one without?


Salmonbait

I'd make it out of polymer.....


Or, better still, hybrid steel, polymer and mustard.


But ESAD, that doesn't answer the question!

How would you treat a pistol with a safety differently from one without?

We are all wondering!!


Salmonbait


Not all of us. Some of us know that Harry needs lots of controls to curb his unpreditable
behavior. The external safety is just another method to control Harry's urges to squeeze the
trigger and bust a cap thorugh his front door when someone knocks.

When the time comes, Harrie is going to be so wound up he'll forget to
unlatch the safety, then he'll rack the slide because he forgets whether
or not he left a bullet in the pipe. Meanwhile the bad guy has put a
green spot in the middle of Harries forehead while he casually squeezes
the trigger. Harrie will never again have to worry about "real safetys"
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On 4/1/2013 5:00 PM, J Herring wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:30:01 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/1/13 2:41 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/1/13 1:30 PM,
wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:52:02 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Mark Sanford well positioned to win South Carolina GOP runoff

It looks like marital infidelity is not an issue anymore for
politicians ... if it ever really was.

Bunga Bunga


Nor is lying to the voters about where you were and who was paying for it.

Nor is bull****ting about pistol knowledge.

How would you treat a pistol with a safety differently from one without?


Salmonbait

I'd make it out of polymer.....


Or, better still, hybrid steel, polymer and mustard.


But ESAD, that doesn't answer the question!

How would you treat a pistol with a safety differently from one without?

We are all wondering!!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling'...the liberals' last resort.


He wants to string you along... Now that they got rid of Tim, they are
moving on to the next subject. At least Christians get a pass here for a
while from the hate and disrespect of our main stream liberal bigots...


He says with hate. Bigots? Do you mean like your sentence above about
"liberals"?


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On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 07:27:17 -0400, BAR wrote:

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You ****ing moron. Gore was one of the driving forces behind the
internet.


Ah, no! Gore was not one of the driving forces behind the Internet. Electronic Commerce was
the driving force behind the Internet's ascendency. The ability to reduce variable costs was
and inprove communications was the the driving force.


The biggest force was deregulating the phone company, home PCs and the
invention of the Hayes modem.
Without that the internet would still be a primitive Email system
between military people and a few universities with big government
(DARPA) contracts, running on mainframe computers.
If I had to point to one man who brought the internet to the people I
would say Steve Case who included an internet browser to AOL at a time
when nobody had even heard of it.
Prior to that "online" meant going to an in house service like
Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL or a privately run BBS.
There were over a million Prodigy users when Al Gore
"discovered" the internet in the late 80s. AOL wasn't even around yet.
The bill he sponsored in 91 did throw federal money at a network of
fiber backbones that loop the US but the telcos were going to build
that anyway. They just did it with tax money instead of private
capital. They had already started building it when the federal money
came in. It was an important kick start to the rise of a faster
internet but the internet was coming anyway.


Gore never, ever said he "discovered" the internet, nor did he say he
invented it. Ever. That host of bull**** was "invented" by the right
wing liars club.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

But, Gore DID in fact have a very heavy influence on the subject via S
2594 Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore...ion_technology
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On 4/2/2013 10:32 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 07:27:17 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article ,
says...


You ****ing moron. Gore was one of the driving forces behind the
internet.


Ah, no! Gore was not one of the driving forces behind the Internet. Electronic Commerce was
the driving force behind the Internet's ascendency. The ability to reduce variable costs was
and inprove communications was the the driving force.


The biggest force was deregulating the phone company, home PCs and the
invention of the Hayes modem.
Without that the internet would still be a primitive Email system
between military people and a few universities with big government
(DARPA) contracts, running on mainframe computers.
If I had to point to one man who brought the internet to the people I
would say Steve Case who included an internet browser to AOL at a time
when nobody had even heard of it.
Prior to that "online" meant going to an in house service like
Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL or a privately run BBS.
There were over a million Prodigy users when Al Gore
"discovered" the internet in the late 80s. AOL wasn't even around yet.
The bill he sponsored in 91 did throw federal money at a network of
fiber backbones that loop the US but the telcos were going to build
that anyway. They just did it with tax money instead of private
capital. They had already started building it when the federal money
came in. It was an important kick start to the rise of a faster
internet but the internet was coming anyway.


I remember the Arpanet with the Cray water cooled super computers. I
know NOAA had one and there were a few others. There were nodes all over
the place. The one I was familiar with was centered around an Ampex
terabit memory system controlled and front ended by Nova 1200 and PDP
1105 and 1135s. Nowadays all of that power would fit in a PC case.
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On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:31:08 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 10:52:43 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...


The biggest force was deregulating the phone company, home PCs and the
invention of the Hayes modem.
Without that the internet would still be a primitive Email system
between military people and a few universities with big government
(DARPA) contracts, running on mainframe computers.
If I had to point to one man who brought the internet to the people I
would say Steve Case who included an internet browser to AOL at a time
when nobody had even heard of it.
Prior to that "online" meant going to an in house service like
Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL or a privately run BBS.
There were over a million Prodigy users when Al Gore
"discovered" the internet in the late 80s. AOL wasn't even around yet.
The bill he sponsored in 91 did throw federal money at a network of
fiber backbones that loop the US but the telcos were going to build
that anyway. They just did it with tax money instead of private
capital. They had already started building it when the federal money
came in. It was an important kick start to the rise of a faster
internet but the internet was coming anyway.


Gore never, ever said he "discovered" the internet, nor did he say he
invented it. Ever. That host of bull**** was "invented" by the right
wing liars club.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

But, Gore DID in fact have a very heavy influence on the subject via S
2594 Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore...ion_technology


I agree the 1991 bill that put massive government funding into the
infrastructure was a big boost but the thing that brought an extra
several million users to the internet between 90 and 96 was when
Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve ported all of their customers to the net.
I was there for that but I had been a "day one" Prodigy user since the
early 80s when IBM and Sears rolled it out. Employees got it for free.
That was when 2400 BPS was "high speed" ;-)

Before the rise of graphics that was blazing fast tho.


I bought a modem like that. I think it was $600. Felt like a great
deal at the time. :-)
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