On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:19:31PM -0500, Richard Congdon <richard at pikachu.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > Really? I was told that Hungarians invented beer, and > > > that they make the best beer in the world. Hmm ... I think > > > the same guy said they invented sex, Whiskey, and some other > > > stuff too, now that I think of it.... > > Will you people *stop* listening to Al Gore ? > I know it's off topic, but given current events, I can't resist. Al Gore, > who except for a judicial coup might well be president, would not be the > cause of so many deaths just to please his oil industry buddies. > Furthermore, if you are alluding the alleged remark of his that he created > the internet, it simply isn't true that he said that. Yes, he has a > tendency to exaggerate, but what he said was that he was very important in > getting the internet (nee DARPA net) commercialized. (I wish I had a URL > handy, so that you could read his words.) Didn't we just go over this? Making this kind of remark in an inappropriate forum only pisses off people who *really* do care about the issues and want to respond... but feel they cannot because of the forum. It's sort of like saying "Your mother wears army boots" from behind an army; not terribly fair and certainly not conducive to useful discussion. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp