A lot of people joke around about this, but the truth of the matter is that he never claimed that he "invented it," only that he secured funding for it. This funding was instrumental in its creation. Really, this whole joke is just another example of a witty Republican smear that has no basis in fact.
So, it's all just part of some right wing smear campaingn huh? Wrong! Al Gore appeared on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer on March 9, 1999 and had the following exchange with Wolf Blitzer:
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
If you don't believe me, here's a link to the transcript so you can read it for yourself.
and what are the chance that Bush would take this as a terroist threat and use it as an excuse to go and bomb the shit out of the country that said it?
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ. You liberals never cease to amaze me.
We just need to stop blaming other people when our ignored child turns out rotten.
Blaming other people for our own problems has become the American way. Why take responsibility for your own actions when you can point the finger at someone else and play the role of the victim?
As other have pointed out, we're not just talking income tax here. We're talking income tax plus all of the other taxes that you pay almost anytime money changes hands. When you factor in all of the taxes that you have to pay, you would find that the average Canadian citizen is taxed at around 50%, if not more.
Seriously, don't go bashing the arts unless you don't listen to music, watch movies, or do anything besides code.
I'd argue with you there by suggesting that sometimes coding can be an art form. Sure there are a million code monkeys out there that do nothing but sit at their cubicle, drink coffee and fire out line after line of code.
I work for a consulting company where we do a decent amount of development work. It primarily consists of better integrating the software that we resell with our customers existing internal business processes. There are many occasions where this type of work requires quite a bit of creativity and ingenuity.
Everywhere around me people are throwing out Windows, replacing it with Mac OS X or Linux. Internet Explorer is slowly losing market share.
Might that have anything to do with the fact that you frequenct slashdot and other sites where the majority of the news and posts are biased against Microsoft and toward alternative OS's and software products? Don't get me wrong, I'm no Microsoft fan, but I'm not really noticing a real push toward alternative OS's anywhere else but here. We've seen a bit of a push from more "mainstream" (read pro-Microsoft) sources about switching away from IE because of the recent security problems, but I've yet to see any kind of push to check out alternative OS's other than an occasional article here and there about Linux that treats Linux as more of a curisoity on the desktop than an actual real alternative.
Now on the server end, it's a whole differnt story. Linux is making real inroads, but it's important to remember that Microsoft never had a foothold on the server market like it does on the desktop market. There are Linux boxes replacing Microsoft boxes in the server room, sure, but there are also quite a bit of Linux boxes replacing Unix boxes.
Of course, any inroads made in they server room in corporations is good for the Linux community in general. Eventually, hopefully, curious managers will begin asking the IT Staff to explain why the servers seem to have such good uptime with such little upkeep while the desktop systems running Windows are take up 75% of the IT Staff's time.
fuck off any asshole that references piracy is not theft
How does garbage like this get modded up? "Fuck off any asshole that references piracy is not theft"? Ok, well I guess I'll go ahead and bite. Piracy is not theft! If you think it is, then you are simply uneducated. One is a criminal offense and the other is a civil offense and for a very good reason. When you steal something you are physically depriving someone of an item and they can no longer use it, sell it, etc. When you commit copyright infringement (piracy) nobody is physically deprived of anything because it's impossible to know if the infringer would have paid for the copyrighted item in the first place. Therefore copyright infringement (piracy) is a civil matter and theft is a criminal matter. They are not one in the same. They are in differnt and are thus are treated as such by law.
If you insist otherwise you are simply wrong. You can make arguments about stealing being just as morally reprehesible as copyright infrigmanet all day long and I'm willing to listen and would probably agree to a certain extent, but when you state that theft and copyright infringement are one and the same you're simply mistaken.
I've been using Firefox for a few months now and I absolutely love it. The popup blocking is great, tabbed browsing makes working with multiple open web sites easy, find as you type is a real time saver and so is the built in Google search bar. The compact UI is cool as well because more screen realistate is devoted to the website I'm lookking at.
I can't recommend Firefox highly enough. If you enable Automatic Updates in Windows, there's really no reason to use IE. I've only come across a site or two that required IE in order to display correctly and when it happened I fired off a note to the webmaster.
If you haven't tried Firefox and are using IE what in the world are you waiting for? The worst that can happen is that you decided you don't like it and uninstall it. When you compare that to just some of the annoying things that can and do happen when running IE (spyware, malware, constant pop-ups, constant security issues, etc) trying Firefox becomes a no brainer.
True, but I prefer an OS where I can copy and paste between applications. The bottom line is, if you want a secure, easy to use OS go with a Mac and OS X. Linux is getter better, but it aint there yet.
I've really been into Day of Default lately. I quit playing CS about 6 months ago, right after 1.6 came out, because I got tired of the playing the game. Day of Default is similar but adds a pretty cool demention to the game play. If you enjoyed CS, I'd suggest firing up Steam and giving DoD a try. I think you might like it.
It took me all of 10 or 15 minutes to get used to it and I haven't quit playing since.
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Guess what?
Fuck you. Fuck your opinion. Fuck what you think you know.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I fucked your mom in the ass,
and then she had you!
Well, personally, i agree with you. Internet Explorer is far inferior to a lot of the other browsers out there.. The thing is that it's bundled with windows, and most people out there quite frankly aren't very computer literate, and more than 1/2 I would bet don't even know other web browsers exist. True, no? Any comments to that?
Absolutely true. I do some tech support as part of my job and whenever I ask a user to open their web browser I get a "huh?" in response most of the time. Next, I'll tell them to find an open Internet Explorer. Most of them know exactly what to do then. There are the occasionaly idiots who won't even know what Internet Explorer is so I have to tell them to click on the icon that they use when they want to go to a web page.
Sad, but true. Most people have no idea that other browsers exist and to be honest, I don't think they care. I.E. is there, and in their own minds it gets the job done.
I think I'll look at it. Sometimes OpenOffice.org chockes on certain Excel spreadsheets that I try to open in it. I'm curious to see if this will do any better.
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the Constitution also counted slaves as 3/5th's of a human being
OK, so why don't you earn some (+1, Informative) karma and tell us exactly where in the Constitution is that count?
Sure, from Article 1, Section 2 Paragraph 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed,
three fifths of all other Persons.
"All other Persons" would be slaves. Although the term itself isn't used in the Constitution, that is to whom the framers were refering.
Good, get the fuck out of here. We don't need assholes like you in this country, we've got enough already. Don't let the door hit you on the way out mother fucker.
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It also protect my right to own a gun. Intersting little document isn't it. So, you burn your flag to piss off the right, I'll fire my gun to piss off the left and we can both hold hands and sing kumbaya around the Constitution.
On a side note, the Constitution also counted slaves as 3/5th's of a human being, so just because it's in the Constitution doesn't mean it's a good thing.
That, I find sorta ironic. They block third-party clients because they're trying to stop "spam," yet when they have their own corporate message, they find a perfectly legal outlet then try to protect it at any cost.
How is that ironic? If a company puts money into developing a software product and then makes that product available for free for others to use, why is it a problem if they want to make a little money back by displaying an add within their own free piece of software. You don't have to use Yahoo's instant messenger client if you don't want to. They offer it for free and the only thing they ask in return is for a little screen space to display an advertisement when their program is open. I don't hear anyone on this site bitching and moaning about the ad's in the free version of Opera.
A lot of you people here are hypocrites. When it's a small company or an open source foundation doing something it's perfectly ok, when it's Microsoft or Yahoo or some other large business actually trying to... gasp... make a profit, then it's "oh hell no, we can't have that".
Well I've got news for you people, if it wasn't for business that make a profit, none of us would be eating. What kind of a world would we have if private business couldn't make a profit? It's been tried, it's called Communism and it's failed miserably and resulted in nothing but oppression and suffering for the majority of the citizens in the countries that have tried it.
Capitalism, on the other hand, has worked out pretty damn well. It's not perfect, nothing ever will be, but it beats the shit out of everything that's come before it and everything that has been tried since. Are there still poor and underprivileged in this country? Yes, but both of those are relative terms. You take a poor, underprivileged person in the United States and have him trade places with a poor, underprivileged person in North Korea for a week and when that person comes back he'll think of himself as one rich, well off mother fucker.
that's a fair statement, but you also need to think that the majority of programs for windows are not open source. chances are i would still have (or could get) the source for that 1994 linux binary and compile it on my newest bleeding edge linux box and it should compile (of course after i go through dependency hell to get all the extra libraries it needs). for the most part, i should (with some work) be able to get all the source i need to build and run the old linux binary. however, i'd bet that the old win16 app was closed source and the company probably doesn't even exist anymore. with stuff like that backwards compatability is much more important, because you have no other way to run the code.
What you say is true, but it wouldn't help the average computer user who's trying to run a Linux binary from 1994. The average joe coudn't compile an app on Linux, much less modify the source from an older program and tweak it to get it to compile using todays tools. At least on Windows XP, if I need to run an applicaiton from that time period, there's a chance I'll be able to do it without any kind of modification whatsoever other than to change the compatibility mode of the executable to Windows 95. I wouldn't have a prayer of doing that on Linux. Of course, you'll counter with "at least on Linux if you really needed to have that app you could take the source and pay someone to modify it for you and make it compile". That's true, but on Windows, if I really need to run a legacy application I can purchase VMWare or Virtual PC, load my copy of Windows 95 and achieve the same effect.
It's a moot point however, because let's face the facts. It's time for Microsoft to pull an Apple and dump the current Windows API and totally rewrite it from the ground up. They need to focus on security and forget backward compatibilty. They've already purchased Virtual PC which means they already have the technology available that would allow them to offer backward compatibility for legacy applications. All they would need to do is make Virtual PC a part of the new operating system and most customers would have all of the backward compatibility they need.
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So, it's all just part of some right wing smear campaingn huh? Wrong! Al Gore appeared on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer on March 9, 1999 and had the following exchange with Wolf Blitzer:
If you don't believe me, here's a link to the transcript so you can read it for yourself.
Ah ... liberals ... people of "tolerance". What a joke. Thank you for proving my point.
With absolutely no respect, your a fucking idiot.
That's a really grate rationale for copyright violation. Hey, the website sucks, so violating copyright law is ok.
Let's take that one to it's logical conclusion. "Hey officer, it's cool that I raped and killed the the women. Afterall, she was one ugly bitch!"
Blaming other people for our own problems has become the American way. Why take responsibility for your own actions when you can point the finger at someone else and play the role of the victim?
As other have pointed out, we're not just talking income tax here. We're talking income tax plus all of the other taxes that you pay almost anytime money changes hands. When you factor in all of the taxes that you have to pay, you would find that the average Canadian citizen is taxed at around 50%, if not more.
I'd argue with you there by suggesting that sometimes coding can be an art form. Sure there are a million code monkeys out there that do nothing but sit at their cubicle, drink coffee and fire out line after line of code.
I work for a consulting company where we do a decent amount of development work. It primarily consists of better integrating the software that we resell with our customers existing internal business processes. There are many occasions where this type of work requires quite a bit of creativity and ingenuity.
Might that have anything to do with the fact that you frequenct slashdot and other sites where the majority of the news and posts are biased against Microsoft and toward alternative OS's and software products? Don't get me wrong, I'm no Microsoft fan, but I'm not really noticing a real push toward alternative OS's anywhere else but here. We've seen a bit of a push from more "mainstream" (read pro-Microsoft) sources about switching away from IE because of the recent security problems, but I've yet to see any kind of push to check out alternative OS's other than an occasional article here and there about Linux that treats Linux as more of a curisoity on the desktop than an actual real alternative.
Now on the server end, it's a whole differnt story. Linux is making real inroads, but it's important to remember that Microsoft never had a foothold on the server market like it does on the desktop market. There are Linux boxes replacing Microsoft boxes in the server room, sure, but there are also quite a bit of Linux boxes replacing Unix boxes.
Of course, any inroads made in they server room in corporations is good for the Linux community in general. Eventually, hopefully, curious managers will begin asking the IT Staff to explain why the servers seem to have such good uptime with such little upkeep while the desktop systems running Windows are take up 75% of the IT Staff's time.
Did I miss something? When did Clinton start coding for Microsoft?
If you insist otherwise you are simply wrong. You can make arguments about stealing being just as morally reprehesible as copyright infrigmanet all day long and I'm willing to listen and would probably agree to a certain extent, but when you state that theft and copyright infringement are one and the same you're simply mistaken.
I've been using Firefox for a few months now and I absolutely love it. The popup blocking is great, tabbed browsing makes working with multiple open web sites easy, find as you type is a real time saver and so is the built in Google search bar. The compact UI is cool as well because more screen realistate is devoted to the website I'm lookking at.
I can't recommend Firefox highly enough. If you enable Automatic Updates in Windows, there's really no reason to use IE. I've only come across a site or two that required IE in order to display correctly and when it happened I fired off a note to the webmaster.
If you haven't tried Firefox and are using IE what in the world are you waiting for? The worst that can happen is that you decided you don't like it and uninstall it. When you compare that to just some of the annoying things that can and do happen when running IE (spyware, malware, constant pop-ups, constant security issues, etc) trying Firefox becomes a no brainer.
True, but I prefer an OS where I can copy and paste between applications. The bottom line is, if you want a secure, easy to use OS go with a Mac and OS X. Linux is getter better, but it aint there yet.
It's called a typo. However your post did remind me of a little diddy I heard the other day. It goes a little something like this:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I fucked your mom in the ass,
and then she had you!
Holy shit was that funny geek joke. I haven't laughed out loud that hard in a while.
I've really been into Day of Default lately. I quit playing CS about 6 months ago, right after 1.6 came out, because I got tired of the playing the game. Day of Default is similar but adds a pretty cool demention to the game play. If you enjoyed CS, I'd suggest firing up Steam and giving DoD a try. I think you might like it.
It took me all of 10 or 15 minutes to get used to it and I haven't quit playing since.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I fucked your mom in the ass, and then she had you!
Absolutely true. I do some tech support as part of my job and whenever I ask a user to open their web browser I get a "huh?" in response most of the time. Next, I'll tell them to find an open Internet Explorer. Most of them know exactly what to do then. There are the occasionaly idiots who won't even know what Internet Explorer is so I have to tell them to click on the icon that they use when they want to go to a web page.
Sad, but true. Most people have no idea that other browsers exist and to be honest, I don't think they care. I.E. is there, and in their own minds it gets the job done.
I think I'll look at it. Sometimes OpenOffice.org chockes on certain Excel spreadsheets that I try to open in it. I'm curious to see if this will do any better.
Sure, from Article 1, Section 2 Paragraph 3:
"All other Persons" would be slaves. Although the term itself isn't used in the Constitution, that is to whom the framers were refering.
Good, get the fuck out of here. We don't need assholes like you in this country, we've got enough already. Don't let the door hit you on the way out mother fucker.
It also protect my right to own a gun. Intersting little document isn't it. So, you burn your flag to piss off the right, I'll fire my gun to piss off the left and we can both hold hands and sing kumbaya around the Constitution.
On a side note, the Constitution also counted slaves as 3/5th's of a human being, so just because it's in the Constitution doesn't mean it's a good thing.
What you say is true, but it wouldn't help the average computer user who's trying to run a Linux binary from 1994. The average joe coudn't compile an app on Linux, much less modify the source from an older program and tweak it to get it to compile using todays tools. At least on Windows XP, if I need to run an applicaiton from that time period, there's a chance I'll be able to do it without any kind of modification whatsoever other than to change the compatibility mode of the executable to Windows 95. I wouldn't have a prayer of doing that on Linux. Of course, you'll counter with "at least on Linux if you really needed to have that app you could take the source and pay someone to modify it for you and make it compile". That's true, but on Windows, if I really need to run a legacy application I can purchase VMWare or Virtual PC, load my copy of Windows 95 and achieve the same effect.
It's a moot point however, because let's face the facts. It's time for Microsoft to pull an Apple and dump the current Windows API and totally rewrite it from the ground up. They need to focus on security and forget backward compatibilty. They've already purchased Virtual PC which means they already have the technology available that would allow them to offer backward compatibility for legacy applications. All they would need to do is make Virtual PC a part of the new operating system and most customers would have all of the backward compatibility they need.