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To: pgerassi who wrote (125634)	10/10/2000 1:09:23 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570515

Pete, just for entertainment, you should do a full text search on "hypocrite" here, and take it to one of the (even more) flamage prone threads that show up. From a quick glance, the Bush thread seems to be the preferred place for that particular line. From long experience, I consider that accusation pretty much on a par with "bias", as in, the people you disagree with are usually biased and hypocritical. Bias tends to show up more on the reporting front, though, while hypocrisy seems to be more personal. Cheers, Dan.

To: pgerassi who wrote (125634)	10/10/2000 2:34:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570515

Peter the school girl did not have to stand for the entire class Apparently, you and the girl differ in your versions...they interviewed her on the news and I may have misunderstood her but I thought she said she stood the whole day. Now, less than 3 months later, a price spike in the Northeast, and still no problems in supply, he promotes the opposite I understand there is a problem with supply....that there is a shortfall of heating oil for the N.E......where do you get your info.? Check out the post from Crow a few posts back. ted

To: pgerassi who wrote (125634)	10/10/2000 3:36:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570515

RE:Gore and the Internet I know this is a dumb thing to do. I don't remember Gore's exact words when he made the speech that a lot of people say he made the claim to "inventing" the Internet, but I do know what his role was. I first encountered the Internet during the early to mid-80s. It was primarily Usenet and e-mail, I used both. Usenet was a lot smaller and was organized differently, everything started with a net. and was usually single level, like net.origins which discussed creationism and it's attendant flames. There also was net.flames for those who really couldn't help themselves. Anyway, back in those days the only way to access the Internet was to either host a node or be associated with someplace that hosted one. Dialup access for anyone else was essentially impossible, I know, I tried when I left UTMB. During that time period, the government started a project to allow universities to have access to supercomputers. They built a center for the hardware, and then a backbone was laid to allow the universities to have highspeed access to the center. Well, the idea was a bust, the cost of minicomputers and workstations dropped to the point that it became cost effective to do the computing locally instead of timesharing the big iron. Now I am sure someone laid it all out for Al, but Gore was the Congresscritter that pushed the idea of transferring the Internet to the backbone and allowing the ISPs to sell access to the Internet, making the "info-superhighway" available to more than the select few. The backbone was later transferred to private industry, I don't know the details of that. The point being, without Gore, or someone else who did the same things, the Internet would not exist right now. it would have been too expensive and too speculative to have private industry to invest in it. So even if he did not invent it, he was instrumental in what it has become. To argue differently is probably either dishonest or ignorant.