I agree with this. I'm getting tired of Gore myself. I'm getting anxious about leopard also.
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Apple.com Pays Tribute to Al Gore's Peace Prize Win
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I agree with this. I'm getting tired of Gore myself. I'm getting anxious about leopard also.
Have you read the Nobel Prize announcement? If not, here is a link: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
That's why.
When Gore joined the board
Years ago when Gore joined the Apple board, I was thoroughly disappointed. I almost stopped using, recommending, and buying Apple products. I did not understand why a company would have someone who is so blatantly anti-capitalist on the board of a corporation. They placed this person who stands for the antithesis to what makes the company possible in the position to help decide the company's fate. Now, he puts his 'heart' into a message that causes daily bickering and infighting everywhere people discuss the ideas he is promoting and for this he wins a peace prize? All his message has achieved is getting more people to relinquish their freedom and force others to do the same. This road is a path to rebellion and violence. It is a power struggle and nothing more. I am terribly disappointed in Apple. I expect this kind of thing from organizations that promote self sacrifice, but not from an innovative company like Apple. As other members here have mentioned, this posting on Apple's front page might alienate current and future customers and I am one of those alienated customers. Ubuntu is looking mighty nice right about now.
Years ago when Gore joined the Apple board, I was thoroughly disappointed. I almost stopped using, recommending, and buying Apple products. I did not understand why a company would have someone who is so blatantly anti-capitalist on the board of a corporation. They placed this person who stands for the antithesis to what makes the company possible in the position to help decide the company's fate. Now, he puts his 'heart' into a message that causes daily bickering and infighting everywhere people discuss the ideas he is promoting and for this he wins a peace prize? All his message has achieved is getting more people to relinquish their freedom and force others to do the same. This road is a path to rebellion and violence. It is a power struggle and nothing more. I am terribly disappointed in Apple. I expect this kind of thing from organizations that promote self sacrifice, but not from an innovative company like Apple. As other members here have mentioned, this posting on Apple's front page might alienate current and future customers and I am one of those alienated customers. Ubuntu is looking mighty nice right about now.
the picture has changed on the homepage from the hurricane to a black and white one. Perhaps too many spotted that it was from Leopard...
I'm going to close this for a bit to let things calm down. I've moved the many, many, many political comments to this thread. I realize it was closed, cleaned up, and reopened before. Members should try to remember that news threads in particular are monitored - to the extent that our volunteer staff can do so - to ensure they stay on topic and relatively calm. This one has gone way off the deep end. Whether or not you believe in global warming, this thread is not the thread to discuss the science, lack thereof, grandstanding, lack thereof, political motivations, lack thereof, etc. of the topic.
Al Gore won a Nobel Prize. He's an Apple board member. They put him on the home page. It's OK to discuss whether or not he should be on the home page, but global warming's details are not particularly germane to this news thread, and, even more, no one will convince anyone who differs of the truth of their beliefs on this, so it will just end up with people shouting back and forth across the fence, as many of the previous pages show clearly.
Al Gore won a Nobel Prize. He's an Apple board member. They put him on the home page. It's OK to discuss whether or not he should be on the home page, but global warming's details are not particularly germane to this news thread, and, even more, no one will convince anyone who differs of the truth of their beliefs on this, so it will just end up with people shouting back and forth across the fence, as many of the previous pages show clearly.
Update: unless another moderator or administrator alters the decision, this thread is closed permanently. Clearly, there is no way to make this a non-political non-global warming thread, and it's probably unreasonable to assume it could ever have been anything but one.
I moved most posts to the political forum. I didn't do much with the first few pages because, mainly, I got tired of editing this. I didn't even bother with the banning and post deletion that should probably have accompanied many of the moved posts.
There were people with 30+ posts in this thread, and a few with posts nowhere but this thread. Most of those posts were of the political forums type. If you want to post in the PRSI forum, find a way to meet the minimum post count by contributing elsewhere on the site.
I left some posts here, and while it's debatable as to whether a given post should have stayed or been moved (or deleted), it was just too time consuming to ponder the relative merits of each post extensively. And again, for the most part, the first 100 or so were just left because I ran out of time.
I moved most posts to the political forum. I didn't do much with the first few pages because, mainly, I got tired of editing this. I didn't even bother with the banning and post deletion that should probably have accompanied many of the moved posts.
There were people with 30+ posts in this thread, and a few with posts nowhere but this thread. Most of those posts were of the political forums type. If you want to post in the PRSI forum, find a way to meet the minimum post count by contributing elsewhere on the site.
I left some posts here, and while it's debatable as to whether a given post should have stayed or been moved (or deleted), it was just too time consuming to ponder the relative merits of each post extensively. And again, for the most part, the first 100 or so were just left because I ran out of time.
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