Apple hires "inventor of internet"

[thop]

Originally posted by Indiana
Please stop calling that a "Pfannkuchen", this is just imbecile.
It's either a "Berliner" or a "Krapfen".
A "Pfannkuchen" (=pan cake) is a totally different thing - naming a Berliner a pan cake is totally plain stupid as it is a.) not a cake and b.) has NEVER seen a pan. Berliners are fried, not baked in pans.

I totally agree with what he said!

[Wulfman]

yup, that's a krapfen. the other thing is a "palatschinken" (crepe?). and a "puffer" is something completely different too!!!

mfg
wulfman

[cjolley]

Notice how the right-wingers arguments become completely ad hominem when faced with actual facts?
chuck

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html

[Gurm]

Umm... actual facts?

Let's see...

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet,” Gore said.

Now, I did some checking. ARPANet was formed in the late 60's. By the time I reached college (1992), HTML (the "killer application" of the "Internet", which spawned the "World Wide Web") was in its THIRD incarnation. We didn't much care for "HateMaiL 3.0" as we called it, but it was there to stay.

The protocols and ins and outs of the "Internet" had been fully in place for 20 years, and it had been CALLED the "Internet" for 10+ years.

WHEN, exactly, did Gore do ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING inventing the Internet?

I'm not arguing Ad Hominem. I'm asking what the HELL you think this guy did to INVENT the INTERNET?

Even in context, it's a retarded thing to say. Out of context, it's bizarre and absurd. IN context, it implies that Gore thinks that the Internet didn't really have any meaning or purpose until Congress got around to supporting it. And last time I checked, one of his "distinguished" colleagues had put forward a bill to impose "strict penalties for not obeying the speed limits on the Information Superhighway".

Ooooookay.

But we "right-wingers" only have "ad hominem" arguments. Whatever.

- Gurm

[cjolley]

Quote: Newt Gingrich- September 1, 2000

"In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is—and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a “futures group”—the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen."

Listen Dittohead. Words do mean something.
The word "INVENT" is not one he used, You are willing to paraphrase in order to create the false (as in untruth ie lie) that he claimed to be the inventor of the internet.
But, you are not willing to paraphrase him to show the real meaning of his statement which any unbiased observer would take to be: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in CONGRESS on the creating of the Internet."

Either it's OK to paraphrase him, or it's not. You can't have it both ways.


The fact is that he was the formost pioneer in Congress on the creation of an Information Super Highway. Starting, according to Newt, about the time you learned to ride a bike.

chuck

[Gurm]

He didn't CREATE the Internet, either!

And it took YEARS AND YEARS for their legislation to mean anything, and even then it only meant anything in the USA!

The Internet is bigger than the United States. We have a disproportionately small amount of the servers on the 'net located here.

I _know_ what he meant. It's STILL a preposterous claim!

Don't call me a dittohead. I understand perfectly well, I just think that these idiots in Washington (Republican AND Democrat) give themselves TOO DAMN MUCH CREDIT.

The Internet did, does, and will exist not BECAUSE of Gore, but DESPITE Gore.

- Gurm

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Gurm
Don't call me a dittohead...

Ok, that was mean. I take it back.


Anyone up on what the original laws (say 77 - 90) did for or against the formation of the internet as we know it?
I'm not.
I'm just giving him the same credit the Repubs did until they thought they had found a campaign tag line.

chuck

[Indiana]

Originally posted by cjolley
Notice how the right-wingers arguments become completely ad hominem when faced with actual facts?

Originally posted by cjolley
Listen Dittohead.

No further comment...

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Indiana
No further comment...

Do as I say, not as I do.
chuck

[Indiana]

Originally posted by cjolley
Do as I say, not as I do.
chuck

Now that was really funny....

[az]

And it still is called a Pfannkuchen in Berlin, so I'll call it Pfannkuchen.
And I'll call a Roggenbrötchen a Schusterjunge anytime.
A "Frikadelle" is called a Bulette, if you hear "Frikadelle" in Berlin, it means Fischfrikadelle.
A normal, white Brötchen (Schnittbrötchen) is a Schrippe.

So iss det, wa! Keen aas kann hier richtich reedn...

AZ

[Gurm]

Congress didn't even know that the "Internet" existed until the early 90's. Sorry, Al.

- Gurm

[KvHagedorn]

Indiana, I don't care what it is.. if you call it a Krapfen, I won't eat it.