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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."
Give him a few years, and he'll say he founded Apple. :) Sorry, couldn't help myself.
-- Kircle
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
Apple just got way uncool. Algore is a dolt.
Maybe its time to re-re-switch.
"Last I knew he was busy being a sore loser(winner?) of the last election."
Well, strictly speaking he wasn't the loser...
Why put winner in brackets. I'm still amazed at how such a corrupt election was allowed to stand.
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.
I suggest you read Slashdot
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.
Mac. You can kill me. But two more will take my place.
Yes, it says that Jobs likes cigars.
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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.
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
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
HAHAHAHA. yup, you really do sound like the kind of simpleton that would use a Mac.
WORLD NO SIMPLE, WORLD COMPLEX!
WORLD HAS >1 BUTTON!
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.
Inconceivable!
Man, I was just getting to like Apple....
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Ayn Rand
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.
The Democrats keep hoping what's happening isn't happening.
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
A loser snake oil salesman advising a loser company headed by a snake oil salesman. I realize you losers are down to a 1.9% market share but is this really the way you want to go out - not with a bang, but with a whimper?
How the hell is "God bless the troops" flamebait? You fucking Saddamites running this islamofascist-apologist web site ought to move to fucking France in order to in among your own kind.
Jobs must have read this.
If it weren't for the Supremes, Bush would have lost the Florida count, too.
He received more nationally.
He received more in Florida.
And the GOP damn well knew it:
Why else did they run crying to the Supremes to stop the vote counting?
>>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.
W, on the other hand, completed an MBA. His family name may have got him into Harvard but it didn't get him out.
-ccm
Too much Law; not enough Order.