Thus spake Pete Capelli (pcapelli@ieee.org) [26/04/04 13:56]: : > Who you vote for is up to you. I'm not telling you to vote for him, I'm : > just correcting a pretty large non-truth propogated by American media. : : B*llshit. From a transcript of an interview of Al Gore by Wolf Blitzer: : http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.... : : " During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in : creating the Internet." Yes, that's exactly what he said: <http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/> That's not saying that he invented the internet, it's saying that he took initiative in creating it. Two very different things. I took initiative in building a house. That's not saying that I built it, it's saying that I approved the blueprints, paid the builders, and would check on things every once in a while, to make sure they weren't going too far astray. : > Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a : > /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser : evil : > than the current president. : : Mindlessly voting for anyone but bush is just as ignorant as voting : midlessly for him. Yes, that's about what I was saying. Mindless voting is, in some regards, worse than not voting at all. And it appears that's what sunder has done -- not voted, instead of mindlessly voted. But when all the facts, and the necessities to check the facts, are at your fingertips, there's no reason to be doing either. - Damian