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Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn Awarded Medal of Freedom
3l1za writes ""President Bush on Thursday announced the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award." Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- for their design of "the software code used to transmit data over the Internet" -- are among those to be honored next Wednesday. "
KHAAAAAAAN.....yea someone was gonna say it, it may as well be me.
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Aretha Franklin won it, too. As long as we're talking about mighty national heroes, and such. Maybe we should show these two a little R- oh, god, I can't do it!
A useless, nationalist-buzzword-laden award from the most dangerous man in the world! What an honor . . . . .
If it were me I'd ask for the lesser award of "presidental medal of awesome." Also, it would come with double prize money.
the nation's highest civil award." Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- for their design of "the software code used to transmit data over the Internet"
Shouldn't it have been Al Gore?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Shouldn't those guys get more than one medal? One for each of the internets?
What do you expect him to do? Awarding medals to people who've done the nation a real service will just show what a poor job Bush has done serving the country.
He hasn't caught Osama, he's used false pretenses to launch us into a war in Iraq with no end in sight and turned that country into a breeding ground for terrorists, he screwed up royally on Katrina by appointing incompetent cronies, and he's created a massive budget deficit.
Instead, Bush gave medals last year to George "Slam Dunk" Tenet, and L. Paul Bremer, the guy who implemented de-Baathification and the disbanding of the Iraqi Army, two of the worst moves of the occupation. Trying to rebrand miserable failure as success. This year, the theme seems to be giving medals to celebrities, perhaps in hopes of distracting the nation from its real problems, problems which he's created.
Bush's original draft read "that whole deal used to transmogrify data over teh Interweb"
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
If this were true... couldn't you see the collective heads of the MPAA and the RIAA shouting "KAHN!!!!!" while an overhead shot of their offices cuts higher and higher.....
I agree - giving the award to Jack Nicklaus really demeans the achievements of more worthy recipients like Andy Griffith.
Is it better than the Amulet of Yendor? What are the stat raises with one of these?