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Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-al-thanks-a-lot dept.

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."

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  1. Give him a few years... by Kircle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give him a few years, and he'll say he founded Apple. :) Sorry, couldn't help myself.

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  2. Is this the same Al Gore that sold us out? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember hearing that Al Gore while being VP of the United States wrote a letter to the airlines saying basically, "Give us money, and we'll through out that recommendation by the department of transportation which said we are vulnerable at our airports and require better security" and all of this before 911? I'd say anyone who buys an apple is contributing to what is wrong in America

  3. What the hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple just got way uncool. Algore is a dolt.

    Maybe its time to re-re-switch.

  4. Think Prude by Hao+Wu · · Score: 0, Troll

    His damn wife is going to get all over his chest about cyber porn. Mrs Gore hates pornography.

    I use macintosh. I want to double my time now to download porn before this idiot makes it difficult and implausible to do it on Macs.

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  5. Re:al gore _did_ invent the internet by Winmac · · Score: 0, Troll

    So he should stand there and show to those little kids that there teacher is a halfwit, trained in a liberal mad house?

    I will never understand how we allow teachers to be liberals and shape kids minds...perhaps it's more like warp.

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  6. Re:Because... by bnenning · · Score: 0, Troll
    how much Shrub has managed to piss the rest of the world off in an incredibly short space of time


    France, Germany, and Belgium do not constitute "the rest of the world". You wouldn't know it from the way the media lets the idiotic "unilateral" accusations go unchallenged, but there are dozens of other countries supporting the US.

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  7. Re:I don't get it. by DataPath · · Score: 0, Troll

    What about a 10-year cease-fire? You know, the one that delineated the no-fly zone that has been violated AT LEAST once a month, when it wasn't daily, by a defiant Iraq? The same one that was supposed to take weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of Iraq's leaders? That ban on weapons of mass destruction included delivery vehicles (not motor vehicles, but missiles and the like) with a certain range. Iraq vehemently denied having anything... weapons inspectors have been through Iraq many times throughout the years... funny how just a few months ago, we find some missiles that are in violation of the cease-fire. "Oh... you mean THOSE weapons of mass destruction... ha ha ha. We'll get rid of them right away. No, no. No need for you to get rid of them... we'll bulldoze them ourselves."

    Iraq may be a mouse of a country, but its a mouse with rabies looking to bite.

    Incidentally... many countries see little difference between life sentences and the death sentence. In either case, the goal is no longer to rehabilitate the person, but to protect society from that person.

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  8. Damnit. by xo0bob0ox · · Score: 1, Troll

    Man, I was just getting to like Apple....

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  9. Cannot see how this is a Good thing... by TitanBL · · Score: 1, Troll

    Political partisanship aside - Gore is wanker. Sure, he is a nice guy, heart full of compassion, but that does not change the fact that he comes off as a wimp. Not the kind of image Apple needs - Apple has enough 'carisma'. I mean, even his fellow democrats avoid him like the plague. The guy is political poison. As hard as I try - I fail to see how this is a GOOD thing for Apple's PR and management.

  10. Democrats... by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Democrats keep hoping what's happening isn't happening.

  11. where are the EE's ? by johnjones · · Score: 1, Troll

    it just struck me that their is no one with any technical knowledge on the board

    I mean Hardware people with an EE degree. Apple they keep saying is a hardware company it might pay to have someone who knows what the differance in a process can make to a product...

    let alone understanding tape out times

    regards

    John Jones

  12. Al Gore: A Users Manual by bckspc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jobs must have read this.
    "The definitive expose of Al Gore's slimy political career, from his gay-baiting to his whoring for the State of Israel, from his attempts to eliminate affirmative action to his shameless support of the death penalty and moronic war on drugs, from his deep ties to Big Oil to his innumerable betrayals on the environment. It's all here. Everything you feared and more about the man who was raised to be president."
  13. Re:Seems like a perfect match ... by ralphart · · Score: 1, Troll

    >>When I think of Al Gore and Apple together, why do the words "Runner Up" keep coming to mind?

    Er, not to troll, but I seem to recall Al Gore won the popular vote...he just lost the Supreme Court vote.