Gore to get a doctorate to go with his BS

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I would love to see how much moolah he is raking in from this fear mongering.

Al Gore May Receive Honorary Doctorate In Climatology

Minneapolis, MN (AHN)-Former Vice President and current environmental activist Al Gore is under consideration to receive an honorary degree from the University of Minnesota for his work in climatology.

Gore has recently garnered worldwide attention for his Academy Award nominated global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," as well as his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work combating global climate change.

Although, University spokesperson Daniel Wolter did admit the University of Minnesota was interested in honoring Gore for his work on the subject, he refused to confirm or deny specific details surrounding the honoring ceremony.

"He's in the news and is a legitimate expert on a pressing issue of global concern, climate change, so this level of interest is understandable," Wolter said. "However, no plans have been set and it's unlikely that would occur this spring."

Wolter went on to say that the University will "continue to look into the matter."

According to the report, the University has given 223 honorary degrees since its inception with past recipients including Yanni, Charles Schultz, Sandra Day O'Connor and Hillary Clinton.

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OK he has a BS degree and we know what that stands for. Now they are giving him an Honorary Doctorate. In the case of Al Gore, PHD - Piled higher and deeper.

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How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

[Tiger Al 0]

How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

Because he didn't invent it.

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How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

Because he didn't invent it.

He said he did. So what, he lied?

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How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

Because he didn't invent it.

He said he did.

No, he didn't.

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How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

Because he didn't invent it.

He said he did.

No, he didn't.

Didn't what? Lie?

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How come he never got one for inventing the internet?

Because he didn't invent it.

He said he did.

No, he didn't.

Didn't what? Lie?

He didn't invent it or say he invented it.

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He didn't invent it or say he invented it.

WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's timing was as unfortunate as his boast. Just as Republicans were beginning to eye the 2000 presidential race in earnest, the vice president offered up a whopper of a tall tale in which he claimed to have invented the Internet.

Usually vice presidents roam the country spewing half-witted comments that few people remember, let alone take seriously. But the possibility of the Senate removing President Clinton from office, combined with Gore's nascent presidential campaign, made Washington insiders a little more sensitive to the possibility of President Gore.

So it didn't take long for GOP sharks to smell blood in Gore's fish story. Inveterate neatnik Trent Lott, Senate majority leader, claimed credit for inventing the paper clip. House Republicans joined the chorus, with majority leader Dick Armey taking credit for the interstate highway system.

Next came the media feeding frenzy. On 11 March, Wired News was the first to report Gore's remarks. Hundreds of articles were quick to appear, many drawing the inevitable comparisons to Gore's other gaffes.

A Washington Times columnist remembered that Gore took credit for inspiring the tough-guy hero in Erich Segal's novel Love Story. Segal denied it, saying that Gore's Harvard roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones, was the role model.

It didn't help that soon afterward, Gore described himself as a boots-and-overalls hog farmer who, as a youth, was taught by his father how to muck out stalls, clear land with an ax, and "plow a steep hillside with a team of mules." Well, not quite.

"Albert Gore actually grew up in the District of Columbia, the pampered, private-school-educated son of a veteran United States senator," the New York Post said in an editorial.

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He didn't invent it or say he invented it.

WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's timing was as unfortunate as his boast. Just as Republicans were beginning to eye the 2000 presidential race in earnest, the vice president offered up a whopper of a tall tale in which he claimed to have invented the Internet.

Usually vice presidents roam the country spewing half-witted comments that few people remember, let alone take seriously. But the possibility of the Senate removing President Clinton from office, combined with Gore's nascent presidential campaign, made Washington insiders a little more sensitive to the possibility of President Gore.

So it didn't take long for GOP sharks to smell blood in Gore's fish story. Inveterate neatnik Trent Lott, Senate majority leader, claimed credit for inventing the paper clip. House Republicans joined the chorus, with majority leader Dick Armey taking credit for the interstate highway system.

Next came the media feeding frenzy. On 11 March, Wired News was the first to report Gore's remarks. Hundreds of articles were quick to appear, many drawing the inevitable comparisons to Gore's other gaffes.

A Washington Times columnist remembered that Gore took credit for inspiring the tough-guy hero in Erich Segal's novel Love Story. Segal denied it, saying that Gore's Harvard roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones, was the role model.

It didn't help that soon afterward, Gore described himself as a boots-and-overalls hog farmer who, as a youth, was taught by his father how to muck out stalls, clear land with an ax, and "plow a steep hillside with a team of mules." Well, not quite.

"Albert Gore actually grew up in the District of Columbia, the pampered, private-school-educated son of a veteran United States senator," the New York Post said in an editorial.

BOOM! Headshot!

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BOOM! Headshot!

Got have something other than a hatrat on that grape before it qualifies as a head shot.

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BOOM! Headshot!

Got have something other than a hatrat on that grape before it qualifies as a head shot.

Actually, you've got to have more than an unlinked article that mentions what someone else said. Surely, as much controversy as this so-called quote caused, you can find it. I have.

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Actually, you've got to have more than an unlinked article that mentions what someone else said. Surely, as much controversy as this so-called quote caused, you can find it. I have.

Al Gores' button

mash again

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Actually, you've got to have more than an unlinked article that mentions what someone else said. Surely, as much controversy as this so-called quote caused, you can find it. I have.

Al Gores' button

mash again

I'm sorry, I don't see the part where Gore said he invented the internet.

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No al gore didn't say he invented the internet, he said he took the initiative in creating the internet. Bill Clinton said he didn't have sex. So which one do you believe?

"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." Al Gore

Invent

1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.

2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.

3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.

4. Archaic. to come upon; find.

Create

1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.

2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.

3. Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play.

4. to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer.

5. to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion.

6. to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise.

–verb (used without object)

7. to do something creative or constructive.

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No al gore didn't say he invented the internet, he said he took the initiative in creating the internet. Bill Clinton said he didn't have sex. So which one do you believe?

"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." Al Gore

Invent

1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.

2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.

3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.

4. Archaic. to come upon; find.

Create

1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.

2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.

3. Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play.

4. to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer.

5. to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion.

6. to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise.

–verb (used without object)

7. to do something creative or constructive.

There you have it. Gore said he took the initiative in creating the internet. And, it would seem, that's true.

According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"

Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. "If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened," Andreessen says of Gore's bill, "at least, not until years later."

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So what is AL (we will refer to him from now on as "The Initiating Creator of the internet) going to be known for. Initiating Creator sounds a whole lot like inventor.

You left our the deffinition of Innitiator.....

here ya go.

verb (used with object) 1. to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.

2. to introduce into the knowledge of some art or subject.

3. to admit or accept with formal rites into an organization or group, secret knowledge, adult society, etc.

4. to propose (a measure) by initiative procedure: to initiate a constitutional amendment.

–adjective 5. initiated; begun.

6. admitted into an organizaton or group, secret knowledge, etc.

7. introduced to the knowledge of a subject.

Sound like splitting hairs to me.

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According to the definition of create that is given above, Gore is still full of it. The wheels of creation were spinning as early as 1961. According to my textbooks:

Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets of data can be "routed" from one place to another based on address information carried in the data, much like the address on a letter.

J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."

Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern internet grew, in 1966.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern internet, in 1972 and 1973.

Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the internet would be impractical.

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According to the report, the University has given 223 honorary degrees since its inception with past recipients including Yanni, Charles Schultz, Sandra Day O'Connor and Hillary Clinton

What kind of whacko communist university is this?

Between the creator of Peanuts and Yanni, Gore would fit right in.

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According to the report, the University has given 223 honorary degrees since its inception with past recipients including Yanni, Charles Schultz, Sandra Day O'Connor and Hillary Clinton

What kind of whacko communist university is this?

Between the creator of Peanuts and Yanni, Gore would fit right in.

Are you saying he is a loud-mouthed nut?

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