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voidmain:
Yes, and Al Bore "invented the internet".
psyjax:
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kjg:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
All I gotta say is, I'm sure glad Al Bore didn't get elected. It was bad enough with 8 years of Billy Bob (yada, yada, yada)
[ February 24, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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Talk about boring! Geez, aren't you over it yet?? Bashing Clinton is so twentieth century! Move on, guy! We've got a whole new pResident to bash - and he's busy marching us toward a corporatocracy that only Bill Gates could love.
Karen
kjg:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Yes, and Al Bore "invented the internet".
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Oh. I thought you were one of those "think for yourself" types. Guess I was wrong. Nevermind.
OTOH, what the hell, I'll do my bit to fight the dumbing down of America - if you ever want to get the truth about that internet remark - as well as the rest of the lies the press told about Gore - you can find it here. Or here. Not that I'm holding my breath. I've found that once somebody "buys" a really big lie, they really don't want to find out they've been snookered.
Karen
voidmain:
Ooops, just lost another Linux customer. Damn, I always stick my foot in my mouth!
But your articles still say that Gore said he invented the internet which is way off the mark. He did however "jump on the bandwagon" in 1987 by requesting research on a US research and educational network which 4 years later established with the help of Congress see: http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
This is a far cry from "inventing" the internet which to quote one of your articles, which in turn quotes Gore:
quote:Gore's actual comment, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that aired on March 9, 1999, was as follows: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
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Universities "created" the internet long before Gore added any of his little pieces to it. If Gore had taken the day off instead of sending that Request in, we would still be communicating on this forum as we are now. The internet would be nearly identical to what we have today so in my opinion cracking on Gore for that statement is totally justified.
Those sites are as biased toward Democrats as Rush Limbaugh is toward Republicans (BTW, Rush is always right!). But I digress, this is a M$ haters club not a political forum... Peace?
P.S. I didn't mean for my comments to upset you but I should have known better. Just putting in 2 cents where I shouldn't have, or at least toned it down to a penny. A side note, my wife and I didn't vote this past election because she would have voted for Gore and I would have voted for Bush so we figured it would have been a waste of time (I know it was pretty shitty to not have at least voted for local elections but we're fairly new to the area and don't know anything about the local politics).
P.S.S. Are there any other Democrats that you will allow me to take shots at since Billy - the draft dodger - Clinton is old news? Lieberman is probably off limits since he lost (and I can't help but think of the guy who played the father on that old TV show "ALF" when I see him speak). How about Dick Gephardt, he's my favorite democrat (not)? I'm sorry, once I find the tickle spot I like to keep tickling.
P.S.S.S Don't take polotics "too" seriously. It tweaks me that there has to be so much infighting and nothing ever get's done. Ross Perot would have been a good president. A little man with an attitude!
[ February 25, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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