BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

sunder sunder at sunder.net
Mon Apr 26 09:58:46 PDT 2004


Damian Gerow wrote:

> Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet.  Through
> various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to
> represent what he said through that phrase.
> 
> What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its
> importance, and then push for funding, in the 1980's.  So he didn't 'invent'
> the Internet, he helped provide the funding for its inventors.
> 

Yeah so what? I still wouldn't want to vote for him (except as a vote 
against Shrubbya)  Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC 
against lyrics in songs.  See Megadeth's Hook in Mouth for details on this 
censorious organization: 
http://www.songlyrics4u.com/megadeth/hook-in-mouth.html
and http://www.geocities.com/fireace_00/pmrc.html for details about the PMRC.





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