OT: Gore Still Ahead (was: Re: [asterisk-biz] New Wholesale Company)

[C F]

Still if one reads or listens to what he said then, without spending
the 10 minutes in research that I had to spend this morning, then he
has to be out of his mind to think that it's out of context.

On 9/28/06, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do have to give you credit where it's due, according to this:
> http://www.linktionary.com/n/nren.html
> Although it was a bit late (1991) is a good few years after the
> creation of the internet, that bill did help shape the Internet we
> have today.
> Here is the bill:
> http://www.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/dev/mit/jis/OldFiles/nrenbill.txt
> Thank for that jra.
>
> On 9/27/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:48:09PM -0400, C F wrote:
> > > On 9/27/06, Matthew Rubenstein <email at mattruby.com> wrote:
> > > >        And now you've made more of a claim to inventing it than Gore ever
> > > >        did:
> > > >http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp .
> > >
> > > You goto be out of your cottonpicking mind or blinded by politics,
> > > chose whichever you want, if you have any other meaning to the
> > > following words:
> > > During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
> > > in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a
> > > whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our
> > > country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements
> > > in our educational system.
> > >
> > > If one repeats that Gore claimed he invented the Internet based on the
> > > above, he she is NOT taking it out of context.
> >
> > Nope.  One is simply wrong.
> >
> > >                                                    Since the whole
> > > paragraph only speaks about the Intenet in that one sentence (I took
> > > the initiative.....), then it's NOT out of context to say that he
> > > claimed he invented the Internet.
> >
> > Again, no, it's not out of context.  It's merely incorrect.
> >
> > If one chooses to interpret Gore's usage of "Internet" to mean "the
> > commercial Internet that we have today", then yes, the initiatives he
> > worked on, including NREN, probably had a lot to do with it.
> >
> > Anyone who wants to harp on Gore claiming "he invented the Internet" is
> > displaying an excellent command of the Strawman Argument.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
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