Its Alive!

Seriously, how smart can it be... Al Gore invented it...



::prepares to be bashed mercilessly by libs::

Which internet did he invent?

This one...

"But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." ~Al Gore [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/]

That always cracks me up. Every time I hear people bash Bush for "mispeaking" I think of old Al...

Anyway... what's your problem with this internet thingie?

*prepares an enormous bash for Ghostwriter with balloons, streamers, abundant alcohol, and duct tape (hey, I'm a hick) in celebration of his going to Taft*

Wait... what?

That........... is very funny. On a variety of levels..... Seriously funny stuff.

Did you click on the 'its alive' link in my original post?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

'k, it took me a few minutes, but I figured it out........ woo........ that was freaky.

btw....did you see my location?

Yeah, I did....

I also went to 'Go Big Red!'

Well, I'm really trying to like you, so don't push it...

I was going to say much the same thing, but, you know...

I do like the go 'BLUE' phrase though....heh heh heh

Kind of odd, isn't it, that our college colors are the reverse of our adult color choices.

Dude (non-gender specific use of the word), me and you are so gonna tangle one of these days.....

That's pretty cool. I finally figured it out...I can go to bed now.

Stiv,
When you read this can you clue in this clueless one?
I'm not gettin' it.

I got it by the 5th time I tried it. However, it's a little spooky the first couple of times...

yeah, me too.

trudes, i'm clueless, too!

It didn't work every time for me...

Maybe it can't do math well every time... or something...

america... fuck yeah...
~fff - np: music from the motion picture - team america: world police

**SPOILER AHEAD**
Trudes - whenever you add a two digit # together and subtract that total from the original two digit #, the resulting number will be a multiple of 9. If you look at the chart and pick any two digit # that's a multiple of 9 (except 90), that will always be the symbol that pops up.

I think.

Here, ya fact distorting goofball:

From snopes.com:

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.

Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings — the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while President, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.

Whether Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" is justified is a subject of debate. Any statement about the "creation" or "beginning" of the Internet is difficult to evaluate, because the Internet is not a homogenous entity (it's a collection of computers, networks, protocols, standards, and application programs), nor did it all spring into being at once (the components that comprise the Internet were developed in various places at different times and are continuously being modified, improved, and expanded). Despite a spirited defense of Gore's claim by Vint Cerf (often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in which he stated "that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it," many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977.

It is true, though, that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (although he did not, as is often claimed by others, coin the phrase himself) when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet, and he sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic).

In May 2005, the organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements honored Al Gore with a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. "He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions," said Vint Cerf.

You prove my point you fact checking dork! That's what I was getting at! Just because a person mispeaks or isn't quite clear about something doesn't make him an idiot (like some say W. is). Clearly AlGore used "clumsy" language there. It's just hilarious to me though. That claim just seems to fit his arrogant personality.

So, now that you wrote your thesis on something as lame as that, go use what's left of your lunch hour to eat or something equally as productive. I'll deal with you down at Taft!

edit to ask: Drew, what is your policy on personal attacks? I may or may not want to report "someone"...

See you down there Bruce.

I ass you-me d that you were doggin' poor Al. That's what caused me to write that thesis. Plus, last time at Jo Beth, Drew gave me two passes to stomp all over Apples as I see fit, since I bought him a cola on command.

[request]

Someone be so kind as to point out Bruce to me at the show...

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Alliteration is so much more fun!


Cider fan?

Cracks me up....

you know me - I love ALL curling, but the Minnesota Cider RULEZ!!

He's short and hands out lanyards with namebadges. He also goes by "Kyle E."

~fff

You are correct and the reason that 90 doesn't work is that it would require a 2 digit number above 99 which is of course impossible.

Since I see the world in pictures, by the 3rd attempt, my brain was telling me that something was inconsistent, although I couldn't tell what... So I did a screen print of the 4th attempt and compared it to the 5th attempt. Sure enough, the multiples of 9 below 90 changed...

It's kind of like the multiples of 11 thing...

|----|
11*11 is 1+1=2 1 2 1 or 121
^ ^
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^ ^
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11*12 is 1+2=3 1 3 2 or 132
...
11*19 is 1+9=10 1+1 0 9 or 209

11*99 is 9+9=18 9+1 8 9 or 1089

What I want to know is why when you transpose to numbers that it ends up being a multiple of 9?

Skoegahom...

I haven't even gone to the site, but isn't it something that an 8th grade algebra student could solve???

Yeah Bruce, unless it's AlGore...

So that's why I didn't get it. I'm still in 7th grade.

Dammit, T - we all forget 8th grade.

speaking of 8th grade, I think Ghost has a little 8th grade-style crush on the Gorester, as much as he brings him up... It's like one of those "I don't like him" things...

Actually, I liked AlGore, but only during the "beard phase"... BRUCE, on the other hand....

Bruce had a "beard phase"?

why ya do me like dat?

It seriously took me more than ten minutes to figure this thing out. I sat there with my mouth open in amazement for ten minutes. I almost got my holy water.

He does now:

THANK YOU JEANNE!!!

okay, i still don't get it.

i get all different answers.... there is a way that it works?

the math stuff doesn't help me.... how does it know what symbol to show?

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Nevermind. Got it.