Kinda makes my original point, don't ya think?
Nope. Makes mine.
When an authority in the field gives a first person account that
contradicts one of your previous assertions and you immediately respond
by attacking the credentials of that authority it is a bad sign. When the
contortions
Umm, no, the original point was that Congress should not be trusted with
anything to do with technology, since its record over the past decade or so
is a sad and sorry tale. Did you forget that part already?
I never realized that Gore fetishists could be so kinky with the mythos. I
never
Umm, no, the original point was that Congress should not be trusted with
anything to do with technology, since its record over the past decade or so
is a sad and sorry tale. Did you forget that part already?
I started this thread so you telling me what the original point was is a
bit odd. No?
I have to wonder if the politician's name in question was, say, Newt, and he
gave to some *other* party that you'd be so quick to rush to his defense.
Cerf's piece was a political contribution to the Gore campaign at the time,
nothing more. His partisan contribution pattern put his assertions
Good link, I hadn't seen that before.
Kinda makes my original point, don't ya think?
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Read and weap (but heavens no politics!).
The Best and Worst Internet Laws
Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman.
Over the past dozen years, the
Jeff Wright sez:
Kinda makes my original point, don't ya think?
Nope.
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Off Balance Productions
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I am kinda getting tired of this who invented the internet crap.
Yes! STOP! STOP! STOP! Any conclusive demonstration of the facts could
cause adverse results. Reality go away. Out! Out! Out! Leave us alone in
our land of fantasy.
How's about talking about computers and much more related
Since whan is putting your money where your mouth is an indication of
insincerity? Would you denounce a doctor who gave money to the Red Cross?
CERF, VINTON
ANNANDALE,VA 22003
WORLD COM
9/7/2000
$5,000
Assn of State Dem Chairs/Dollrs for Dems
I'd also like to dispute the snide implication by Jeff that Vint Cerf
is a partisan shill
and so shouldn't be listened to, as evidenced by Cerf's contributions
to various
Dems. In the list Jeff gave, the Cerf's contributions to Dems
started in the
Clinton administration, AFTER Gore was
Read and weap (but heavens no politics!).
The Best and Worst Internet Laws
Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman.
Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven
irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost
1,100
Art Clemons sez:
Jeff Wright:
Do you actually think Gore had the faintest idea of what was yet to come in
1989? His bill was for a top-down researcher's network using
supercomputers, something that is the exact opposite of the Internet
today. It was an appropriation that was eventually in
Exactly. I choose to listen to Vint Cerf, undisputed as one of the
Founding Fathers of the Internet who said of Al Gore while defending
him from that false I invented the Internet meme:
False? Not really. While the invented part was nothing more than a
fish-in-the-barrel response from
Blinded by ideology, Jeff ranted...
No one is denying that Gore put through funding that, in retrospect, was
well timed, but Gore saying the I took the initiative in creating the
Internet is like George Westinghouse saying that he took the initiative in
creating Emiril Lagasse.
Al Gore and the
I am kinda getting tired of this who invented the internet crap.
How's about talking about computers and much more related subjects
rather than peeing in the wind about political differences?
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Jeff Wright sez:
Exactly. I choose to listen to Vint Cerf, undisputed as one of the
Founding Fathers of the Internet who said of Al Gore while defending
him from that false I invented the Internet meme:
Do you mean this Vint Cerf? I'm sure it's just a coincidence that he wrote
an op-ed
I'm building cabinets...just put 900 sqft of laminate in...now working on
kitchen cabinets.
I think I'd rather be outside..
Mike
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