[Miata] [NMC] Returned Mail Confirmation Required [NMC][Al Gore]

[Jim Wharton]

Actually, I was aware of all that and was trying (feebly, evidently) to poke
fun at an obvious misquote. I remember when all this came about and it
became as sensational as many of the infamous Dan Quayle statements of
record. As Americans, we love to poke fun at our leaders (because we can and
without fear of beheading) and I feel that it's OK when it's "All in good
fun". It is absolutely NOT OK when it is done spitefully or as an effort to
discredit or malign a public figure or for political gain. 

In any case, my mother-in-law is convinced that she "broke the internet" one
day last year and had me come over to fix it. Which I did. 
It was a tough job, of course but being the IT Professional that I am, I
managed to repair the internet in the time span of only 2 or 3 beers. You
all must have been conveniently off-line at the time or you would have
surely noticed....


Jim Wharton
1996 Black & Tan "Roadie"
(Tongue firmly in-cheek)

"I stand by all the misquotes I have made"   - Dan Quayle









-----Original Message-----
From: miata-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:miata-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf
Of Rob Argento
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:48 PM
To: 'Jim Wharton'; miata at realbig.com
Subject: [Miata] [NMC] Returned Mail Confirmation Required


No - no great Miata content today, not even from Sunny Florida.  So - some
NMC in response to earlier posts re Al Gore.  

I am neither a fan of nor a detractor of Al Gore but I do feel, as an
observer, that he has been given a raw deal on this "inventing the Internet"
thing.   The truth is well documented and pretty easy to determine for
anyone willing to bother. These urban myths seem to contiune unless enough
people knbow of their source. 

What Gore DID say in front of millions of people on CNN to Wolf Blitzeron an
interview in March 1999:  "During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the Internet." .  So - let's check up on
THAT statement.  Is it true? Well, it turns out to be true as from the
following quotes.

Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that
as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could
patent the science, though that's how the quotation has been manipulated.
Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the actual language.
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According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's
been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it
is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related
research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier
role as Senator."
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The inventor of the Mosaic Browser (the first browser - predates Internet
Explorer and Netscape), Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work
possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance
Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that
without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today." 
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Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims
that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of
networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from
politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
 
Strange but true.  I guess we believe what we want to believe and the
results are what we deserve. 



  

-----Original Message-----
From: miata-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:miata-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Wharton
Sent: den 12 januari 2007 17:14
To: pethier at comcast.net; 'Larry Alster'; kcmurphy72 at insightbb.com;
miata at realbig.com
Subject: RE: RE: [Miata] Fwd: Returned Mail Confirmation Required

The only thing Al Gore ever invented was the "algore-ism". The internet only
"exists" on my mother-in-law's computer. She told me so, and she would never
lie about something that serious.

<Ducking...>

Jim Wharton
1996 Black & Tan "Roadie"







-----Original Message-----
From: miata-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:miata-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf
Of pethier at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:55 PM
To: Larry Alster; kcmurphy72 at insightbb.com; miata at realbig.com
Subject: Re: RE: [Miata] Fwd: Returned Mail Confirmation Required

From: "Larry Alster" <Larry at Miata.net>
> Hey, how complex can it be anyway?  
> 
> Al Gore invented it and if can do it anyone should be able to do it!!

Al Gore didn't invent the technical side of it.  He was in on inventing the
legalities that made it possible.

--
Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul Minnesota  USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban,
1994 Miata C package
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