Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: > 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? Not that I remember, but so it goes. But the "stop listening to Al Gore" line is a very partisan poke; in fact to the extent it means anything, it's a *lie*. That kind of thing tends to draw responses >from people (like me) who normally try to stop badly political off-topic threads. > 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. Now I'm confused, actually; I can't tell who you think did something wrong. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera mailing lists: <dragaera.info/>