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Also, to all those claiming Al Gore said he invented the internet, you might want to learn about that before spouting off on it. Actually, take that as a general piece of advice.
 
Also, to all those claiming Al Gore said he invented the internet, you might want to learn about that before spouting off on it. Actually, take that as a general piece of advice.


Please do enlighten us to the facts surrounding what algore said.

quote from algore:
I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

He stated this on CNN's "late edition" with Wolf Blitzer March 9th 1999. Transcript can be found here.
 

wow, you are right. Google is a good website for looking things up and I already did find his actual statement on CNN where he stated he took the initiative in creating the internet. Unless Gore took this initiative in 1959 when ARPANET was created for the military I don't think he can really take any credit for the invention of the internet. Oh yeah, I also found that fact on Google.
 
Al Won For His Communications Skills Not For Being A Scientist

There are so many scientists out there that deserver's the nobel peace prize over Al Gore. It's just not fair to them when someone who does not know the science around it and just presents the data without really understanding it and gets an award. There were errors in the movie Al presented. All that says is he didn't know the true science.

Maybe you can make it up by putting real scientists on your website who worked day and night that helped create your wonderful products which I feel tastes tainted.
According to the scientists interviewed last night on the PBS News Hour, they are delighted he shared the award with them. So looks like you may have misunderstood why he won it - not for being a scientist but for helping communicate their findings to the lay public so well.
The award was shared with the scientists of the IPCC. But remember, this was not a science prize.
 
great, they honor a "environmentalist" , the same one with huge mansions and flies all over the place on his own private jet spewing carbon footprints all over the place and idiots actually follow this clown.
 
As it's been said before:

Personally, I believe Al Gore is a hack. But, good for him that he won a Nobel Peace Prize (whether I believe he deserves one or not)... BUT no company in their right mind should put this as THE front page feature on their site. Does it deserve a place on the site? Of course, but that's why there is a news/press release section on most corporate sites. Throw a blurb on the front page that links to the full article, sure.

I know he's on the board and all that jazz, but HONESTLY, it screams "Yep, you bet we've always catered to an extremely liberal crowd, and this is what a typical Mac user wants to see!" Because what do I think of when I think of a stereotypical Mac user? I think of a whiny leftist college kid who thinks they have all the answers and doesn't shut up about their Mac and how awesome it is to save the planet, while drinking their Starbucks... and this is just for them.
 
Here Al Gore is being rewarded for what - spreading LIES all over the world. What he talked about as far as global warming is nothing but LIES. He has NO evidences to support what he has been spreading. Even his MOVIE is nothing but LIES. As far as Apple having him as board member, hey that is Steve's Choice. But you know what, if Steve gets the right kind of people on the board, I bet Apple can go a lot further in their business. Apple should give credit to the REAL people that made Apple for what it is. Not Al Gore.

perhaps try reading some scientific journals. I've over 100 issues of the journal Science stacked neatly on the floor of my office that I would gladly send you.
 
It's amazing that this gets like 800 pos/neg votes and more than 400 comments, of all of the posts on MR's front page.
 
Apple shouldn't get involved in politics. It's a very unwise move for any company to make, since it by definition polarizes their present -- as well as their future -- customer base, essentially instantly alienating them.

I've known for years, of course, that Algore was on Apple's BoD. However, if Apple's going to start being a part of that man's agenda, they may well sour me on wanting to do business with them, since I have no use for the man.

And this whole thing isn't about winners of the NPP any more, it's all nothing more than politics, which is disgusting because the NPP didn't used to be for "politics". How ugly things have become indeed!

Also, why in the he** did this story make Page One news?
 
You accidentally didn't read the thread or haven't been paying attention. Al Gore is on the board of directors of Apple and has been so since 2003. You can bet your bottom dollar any commercial entity that has a Nobel Award Winner will be shouting it from the rafters. It's not just jazz it's a massive boon for the company.

Fortimir said:
...I know he's on the board [of directors] and all that jazz...

And sorry I only read the first 4 of 16 pages since it got a little boring to read. I'm sure most companies would put a 250x200 image MAX on the front page linking to the press section... NOT 1034x487.

AND their "HotNews" ticker.... has only two stories... BOTH about this.
 
Good for him. I never won an award for anything in my life. So he must feel really warm and fuzzy right now :)
That and don't u also win like 1 million$ too?

...whats next? they're gonna tell us hes an alien from the planet volcon?...

That's on Page 2 rumors :p

If you lived here in US you would know our politicians. They say one thing and do something else. They are the most self-centered people on earth. And thats why I said that was a load of crap.

Outside of the US, politicians are the most honest, law-abiding, beings walking the earth? :p
 
It does not surprise me that they have Gore plastered on Apple's site.
Liberals have always misunderstood the results of their own actions.
Gore is a polarizing figure, the BOD have not the best interest of the shareholders in mind. It has been historically true.:apple:
 
Also, unless Gore helped initiate the creation of ARPANET which was invented in 1959 I don't think he can take credit for this.

Since you are into looking up facts, try this one on for size.
(And the last quote is from Leonard Kleinrock, one of the creators of ARPANET):

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray note in Chapter 12 of their 1996 text, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, that up until the early 1990s public usage of the Internet was limited. They continue to state that the "problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s" leading him to develop legislation which would alleviate this problem. Gore thus began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill") after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).

Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and "The Gore Bill" as a critical moment in Internet history:

"A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network [13–14]. The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking."

However you want to state it, he DID: initiate, get the ball rolling, bring to the forefront, . . . however you want to state it . . . the elements of what we know as the "Internet" today possible by that bill and bringing resources and funding.
 
You're just proving my point. He's found a bunch in need of a spokesman and he stepped in.
No. Your point is a fallacy that somehow because you think he's a hypocrite that you can immediately dismiss all his work as irrelevant. Being a spokesperson and a figurehead and communicating complex issues to the public is exceedingly difficult. He's done this extraordinarily well and has been awarded the Nobel Prize because of this. It doesn't matter in your opinion what you perceive his his motivations to be.

edit: spelling.
 
You're just proving my point. He's found a bunch in need of a spokesman and he stepped in. I don't remember him doing a damn thing about the environment while he was in office.

Al started holding hearings on environmental issues as soon as he joined congress in Congress in 1976 after his return from Vietnam and spending some time in law school. One of his early witnesses was one of his professors from Harvard who had been tracking the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere for several years.

Al's book "Earth in the Balance" was first published in 1992. Here's an Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Balance...9563110?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192289584&sr=8-1

I'm guessing a lot of folks on the board haven't seen Al's film which captures a power point that he'd been giving for years. Pick it up at Bestbuy, etc. And it's probably available for check out for free at your local library. If you don't have a library card, now is great time to get one!

Peer-reviewed science publications don't show a debate about global warming. However, media stories are often a different matter. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Here's a NOAA paleoclimatology link that is interesting and CO2 atmospheric concentration graph for the last 1,000 years, from the same NOAA link. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/what.html The CO2 levels stay between 260 to 280 for the first 900 years and then pick up around the industrial revolution's inception and then take off in the 20th century.

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There has been an interesting politcal component too it in some quarters, which has been unfortunate. If someone says something in that climate and you're on the other side of them on some issue, they must be incorrect. Thankfully, that's being healed in a way that hopefully takes us back to the days when the environment was Nixon's issue. Newt is out there speaking about global warming and what can be done to address it too. Perhaps he's working on a powerpoint presentation.
 
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To give it a very funny spin

Umm, you're kidding right? Really??? She won for her humanitarian work. I'm not doubting Al won the award but the committee has lost sight of the point of a PEACE prize. Spreading word about man made climate change has absolutely nothing to do with Peace. It's like MVP awards - they now go to the best guy on the best team - not actually the Most Valuable Player in the league...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa

Actually the amount of hatred end envy that spreads in this whole thread convinced me:

After first reading the news, I thought to myself "What the heck has Al Gore done, to make him earn this price?". Now seeing all deniers creeping out their holes I can honestly say, Al, you earned it. If only one more stupid energy waster gets his head turned and starts leading a better, more environmental-friendly life, then the decision made sense.

And people arguing, that global warming has nothing to do with peace, here comes some reality check for you. The next wars on Planet Earth (if not inflicted by some pseudo-dictatoric regime led by the religious rights - be it Islamic or WASP) will be for Fresh Water!

Guess what will happen, when famine drops on Third World countries, when whole areas turn into desert. What will happen, when the sea leavel rises? Tovalu's highest point is 3m above sea level. So what, if their state just drowns? Aren't these reasons for war?

I for one waste a lot of electricity. I know it. But I have a contract, and my electricity is completely derived from renewable energy. That's my little piece I contribute (And yes, I pay more for it). What is yours?
 
this isn't the first time Apple puts up a tribute to someone on their home page. I can remember George Harrison and Rosa Parks getting honored.

Take it easy people Apple didn't give out the noble peace prize, they just put up a web page.
 
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