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Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors
zzxc writes "News.com.com reports that Al Gore has been chosen to be on Apple's board of directors. Apple has a press release with more information. According to the press release, 'Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world--the United States government' and 'He has remained an active leader in technology--launching a public/private effort to wire every classroom and library in America to the Internet.' The inventor of the internet should be a valuable asset to Apple."
Why do I suddenly want to reformat and install linux, or even sell it and buy an IBM?
I mean I love this computer, but I HATE Al 'I created Pants' Gore. Democrats are idiot socialists when it comes to pretty much anything; poor Steve, I thought he might have finally gotten into the game of Capitalism, then he goes and does something really stupid.
Mac. You can kill me. But two more will take my place.
Ah yes, the ever-lovable Al Gore.
I saw his name in an article in Scientific American about the internet and related technology, many years ago. I thought his writing was very intelligent and was surprised that a senator knew so much about computers. I saw his name pop up a lot w.r.t. to the internet.
Part of the reason I voted for Clinton was because of Gore. What a let-down that his personality was so wooden and unlikable. It made it just too easy for the press to pick on him (even the submitter repeated the "invented the internet joke).
On the other hand, he's just like a lot of geeks: uncomfortable in his own skin. I related to him a lot more than Bush.
So anyway, congrats to Mr. Gore, and I'm sure his presence on Apple's board will accomplish absolutely nothing whatsoever, and have absolutely no effect on the company. But still, he's a respectable guy and I'm glad he likes Mac OS X and open source.
Why did I just write this? I have no idea.
Oh silly us- He didn't invent the Internet, he created it.
So sorry we have been getting that wrong. Thanks for clearing it up.
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Would you mind asking him how many time his father has threatened to kill him for forgeting about the people of TN while pandering to the hippies and socialists in this country.
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Actually, the replay showed that Gore should have won. If they had only recounted the counties that Gore requested, then yes Bush would have won. However, and ironically, if they had recounted the entire state, as Bush was tempted to request, then Gore would have won.
So yes, Gore won both the overall popular vote and he won Florida. Moreover, in the case of a tie, it should have been Congress that made the final decision, not the Supreme Court--as stated in the US Constitution.
Bush was appointed president, not elected. To add irony upon irony, the heavily conservative state-rights US Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court and itnerfered with the election proceedings of the State of Florida, which according to the US Constitution has the sovereignty to determine its own electorates.
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus,
That's bullshit. He made a HUGE overstatement. It's great that he realized the potential of networking technology all those years ago and supported it, but no way in hell did he have any relation to it's success.
The internet came to be because of the blood sweat and tears of the folks in Los Alomos, the military, the inventers of the microchip at Intel and all the legions of software developers who brought great software like Email, IRC, Mosaic, gopher, finger and hell even all the amateur work of people crapping out HTML pages like they were crack to a crackwhore.
The internet came to be because of the collective effort of millions of people across the world. Anybody who claims anything but a small role in this process should be labeled a fool for saying so.
I don't write this because I dislike Al Gore, I write this because it does a disservice to all the people who poured millions of man hours of work into building this awesome technology we have today and never get an ounce of credit for it.
Bryan
You're right, Rush Limbaugh's never done anything like that.
What about the people who couldn't vote because their name was blacklisted, because the company that Florida (run by Jeb Bush) hired to do the voters database was a Republican one, and got lists of convicts from other states (Texas for one) and when they see a Florida citizen's name which looks just slightly similar to a name in those lists, they blacklist this "citizen". And this task they focused on African-Americans who are more likely to vote Democrat. 90,000 votes would have been enough, Gore would have been president, September 11 would have not happened (look, the Republican Administration ignored the outgoing Democrat Admin's warning about the fucking terrorist threat, just because of that childlike rivalry they have. If the Democrats had stayed in White House, I am sure they would have prevented the attack), and the world would have been a better place and even so for the Americans , because they won't have an idiot president fucking up their country's reputation.
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the War for Oil
Good grief, can you guys please get some more intelligent arguments? If we wanted Iraqi oil, we'd lift the sanctions and buy it, which would be far cheaper than military action. The main oil considerations here come from the French and Germans who don't want their deals with Saddam nullified by the new government.
Okay, let's call it "The War to Get People's Minds Off the Economy and Corporate Scandals", which describes it a lot better. Anybody else remember the timing? Right when it looked like Enron/Tyco/Global Crossing/Adelphia/ad nauseum were going to cause serious legislation, or at least investigations, we suddenly decided that Saddam was A Bad Man who had to go, immediately. Never mind North Korea, who said "Hey - we got nukes over here!" or Iran, who the CIA at least will confirm supports terrorism, and whose nuclear program is a lot farther along than Iraq's. Or did we just develop some moral qualms about dealing with brutal, murderous dictators?
Not concidentally, the price of gas will probably hit 3.00 a gallon, which will benefit - the oil companies, who, you must admit, are closely connected to the administration. But that's just conspiracy thinking...
Oh, and that bit about France and Germany not wanting to upset their deals? They're just looking out for their national interests, same as we say we are. Isn't that what independent governments are supposed to do?
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?