[rollei_list] Re: OT: Electronic Connectivity
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:44:59 -0400
Allen, why would you want the facts or the truth get in the way of
deeply held beliefs? It's no fun to do the hard work of independent
research, analysis and scholarship and come up with independent
conclusions... much simpler and more fun to watch MSNBC, Fox News or
listen to Rush/Glen/Bill/Keith and follow the myths...
Eric Goldstein
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Don Williams wrote:
>
>> At 08:51 PM 5/5/2010, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Al Gore? What was it that he invented? The Internet? Global Warming?
>>> Let me think now. The gall bladder?? No, that was from a Tom Lehrer
>>> record. Let me think now.
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> I think he simply got rich by way of Global Warming.
>>
>> He claims to have invented the Internet but that was really invented (in
>> a practical way) by Tim Berneres-Lee:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
>>
>> I do remember that before then I sold computers to the Naval Systems
>> Center in San Diego for what was then called ARPANET, in the days of
>> Unix-only and CP/M. Those were the days.
>>
>> DAW
>>
>
> Ridiculing Al Gore is its own kind of fun, but he never claimed to have
> invented the internet. That was done for him by global warming deniers who
> were quite successful in making it stick. Actually, Gore ran
> interference/carried water for enabling legislation that helped bring the US
> into it, so he does have some pioneering status in establishing the
> internet. Nor did he invent global warming, the actual process of which
> came about while industry generated untold riches for a small minority of
> shareholders and continues to do so as those aforementioned beneficiaries
> stall or undermine any attempt to change the status quo. Al Gore is well
> known as a funny guy who can take a joke, but I don't think the ecosystem
> has much of a sense of humor.
>
> What Tom Lehrer song involves a gall bladder?
>
> Allen Zak
>
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