Thank you Al Gore!!!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » March 1, 2007, 1:34 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Way to contribute something to the conversation dipshit.

lolz.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » March 1, 2007, 1:41 pm

I'm enjoying how every current event topic can eventually evolve into a "Funkmasterr is retarded" discussion. Its more fun that the Kevin Bacon game!

Siji · Post by **Siji** » March 1, 2007, 2:50 pm

Lalanae wrote:I'm enjoying how every current event topic can eventually evolve into a "Funkmasterr is retarded" discussion. Its more fun that the Kevin Bacon game!

Unless Funkmaster = Kevin Bacon..

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 1, 2007, 3:01 pm

Lalanae wrote:I'm enjoying how every current event topic can eventually evolve into a "Funkmasterr is retarded" discussion. Its more fun that the Kevin Bacon game!

I'm not too concerned - there are plenty of millions of people out there that don't share the same retarded mentality that the masses here share. That and I also can take comfort in the fact that I don't have to make someone feel like the odd one out because they don't agree with me and/or the mass opinion - even if I think it's extreme.

There is a difference between debate, and even heated debate.. and just being a douchebag to someone because you don't share their beliefs - that line is crossed here constantly - and personally im getting a little sick of the "it's the flamevault" excuse. I don't feel the need to turn everything into a flame or an insult - so my expectation is that no one else needs to do that either - regardless.

So keep on running your moronic mouths - while it does get old and annoying sometimes, for the most part it's funny.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » March 1, 2007, 3:50 pm

kyoukan wrote:You don't contribute a conversation either, fella, if everything that comes out of your mouth is stupid.

Look who's talking

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » March 1, 2007, 3:55 pm

Spitter McGee wrote:I'm not too concerned - there are plenty of millions of people out there that don't share the same retarded mentality that the masses here share.

I think that out of all the people here, I can honestly say you have the most fucked up mentality.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » March 1, 2007, 3:58 pm

"As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet"
- Al Gore to Katie Couric 3/99

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle

Don't know where I am going with this other than to state that both men are morons and I have lost this >< respect for those of you siding with Al Bore and Tipper (Censorship Nazi) Whore.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 1, 2007, 3:58 pm

Lynks wrote:
Spitter McGee wrote:I'm not too concerned - there are plenty of millions of people out there that don't share the same retarded mentality that the masses here share.
I think that out of all the people here, I can honestly say you have the most fucked up mentality.

Why thank you sir, your opinion is worth it's weight in gold.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » March 1, 2007, 3:58 pm

Cartalas wrote:
kyoukan wrote:You don't contribute a conversation either, fella, if everything that comes out of your mouth is stupid.

Look who's talking

OUCH! The Cartalas Look-Who's-Talking Method of Debate(TM)--second only to the Cartalas I-Know-You-Are-But-What-Am-I Method of Debate(TM)--strikes again! Feel the burn!

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » March 1, 2007, 4:01 pm

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

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).

Looks like he did have an impact in making the internet what it is today

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » March 1, 2007, 4:15 pm

Lalanae wrote:
Cartalas wrote:
kyoukan wrote:You don't contribute a conversation either, fella, if everything that comes out of your mouth is stupid.

Look who's talking

OUCH! The Cartalas Look-Who's-Talking Method of Debate(TM)--second only to the Cartalas I-Know-You-Are-But-What-Am-I Method of Debate(TM)--strikes again! Feel the burn!

/waves Hi Cunt

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 1, 2007, 4:19 pm

Lynks wrote:http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

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).
Looks like he did have an impact in making the internet what it is today

Does that mean Funk is wrong?!?

There goes his thread cred!

Skeezer, lol. I swear to God, you cannot make up comedy gold this good.

Post by **Sylvus** » March 1, 2007, 5:20 pm

If Cartalas were ever my sole teammate in the "who is the retard" fight, I'd take a long, hard look at myself in the mirror. And then I'd probably start my car, close the garage door, and take a monster bong hit off my car's tailpipe.

"Plenty of millions of people" don't agree with me on that one, I know.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » March 1, 2007, 5:52 pm

Retard Volton is not epic, or retarded, enough for this thread.

We've seriously just broken the retard barrier into new and undiscovered territory.

I, for one, am a little nervous.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » March 1, 2007, 8:40 pm

Sylvus wrote:If Cartalas were ever my sole teammate in the "who is the retard" fight, I'd take a long, hard look at myself in the mirror. And then I'd probably start my car, close the garage door, and take a monster bong hit off my car's tailpipe.

"Plenty of millions of people" don't agree with me on that one, I know.

Dont let me stop ya

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 1, 2007, 8:54 pm

Funk, I don't think people dislike you because of your opinions...

It is that when you are proven wrong by objective things like- you know- FACTS...you do not have the balls to just say "Oh my bad guys, I guess Al Gore did have a large impact on the internet as we know it today."

Instead of a simple, mature response like that, you dig yourself deeper and deeper into the hole you started and then wonder why people look down on you. After that, you respond with hostility and continue to dig deeper and the vicious cycle continues

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » March 1, 2007, 9:41 pm

Let's look at the "Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992" and who sponsored it (from the bill itself):

From the 102nd Congress, 2nd Session.
S.2937 as introduced July 1, 1992.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Mr. GORE (for himself, Rockefeller (D-WV), Kerry (D-MA), Prestler (R-SD), Riegle (D-MI), Robb (D-VA), Lieberman (D-CT), Kerrey (D-NE) and Burns (R-MT)).

Now, let's talk about the "High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991":

Wikipedia wrote:The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (HPCA) was a bill created and introduced by then Senator Al Gore (it was thus referred to as the Gore Bill. [1]) It was passed on 09 December 1991.

This bill led to the development of the National Information Infrastructure, the National Research and Education Network, the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (an off-shoot of the HPCA), Mosaic (the web browser). [2], and the creation of a high-speed fiber optic network that, when utilized, would help stimulate the economy.

Regardless of which self-delusion you want to believe Mr. Funkmasterr, then Senator Gore had a significant impact on the early formation of the Internet. I may not like the guy and I may detest his wife, but I'll give Wooden Al his due on this one.

Do some shallow research next time before you make yourself sound like a kid yelling "la la la I can't hear you" with his fingers crammed in his ears.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » March 1, 2007, 10:02 pm

I enjoyed An Inconvenient Truth, even though the autobiographical element of it was a little cheesy. I thought Gore seemed like a fairly charismatic intelligent bloke. Obviously he's been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but that's nothing new for a Politician and reason enough on its own to dislike him. I don't think anyone can seriously dispute the fact that Gore, love him or loathe him, is doing something pretty positive right now.

This article and the subsequent Gore hating by certain predictable posters just seems like a real lazy partisan attempt to throw some shit at ..something...or other.

It's just pointless.

But not surprising.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » March 2, 2007, 2:51 am

Keverian FireCry wrote:Funk, I don't think people dislike you because of your opinions...

It is that when you are proven wrong by objective things like- you know- FACTS...you do not have the balls to just say "Oh my bad guys, I guess Al Gore did have a large impact on the internet as we know it today."

Instead of a simple, mature response like that, you dig yourself deeper and deeper into the hole you started and then wonder why people look down on you. After that, you respond with hostility and continue to dig deeper and the vicious cycle continues

Well, that and he's a felcher.
But you make a very good point!

Midnyte_Ragebringer · Post by **Midnyte_Ragebringer** » March 2, 2007, 10:55 am

Nick wrote: This article and the subsequent Gore hating by certain predictable posters just seems like a real lazy partisan attempt to throw some shit at ..something...or other.

It's just pointless.

But not surprising.

Agreed. But, that is what partisan politics does. It does without logic or reason being invloved at all. It's so blind.

I hope he ends up on a VP ticket.

Al · Post by Al » March 3, 2007, 2:02 pm

I hope he ends up with a possesion ticket.