2000 hours of Professional BJ

but it's still fun to laugh at. First, I am a "died in the wool" Democrat. Second, I live in Tennessee. Third, I did vote for him against Bush, and will again if he runs.

I have personally met Puiu and conversed at length with him. Everything DD' said about him is apparently true. He is also extremely nice and personable in person, completely opposite of how he comes across on these boards. I don't understand why he does this.

Neko

you just never got around to asking him, "What the hell is going on with your posts on BJ21?"? If I ever met him... and we got along well... the subject would HAVE to come up. So (if what you're saying is true) the answer must be something you are not at liberty to say! Like, for instance, He is hired by Stanford to stimulate chaos on the free boards and run many to Green Chip membership. Heck... Frank may even be on Wong's payroll! :)

I seriously doubt the above statement, but there must be some reason why you "forgot" to ask him. hmmm ???

Would make it about as much as actually winning that much US cash.

"Look what you've done to Mr. Bicklesworth!! I'll get you Austin Powers!!"

Mini Puiu

Wong would confirm everything DD' stated. But he wrote that even he couldn't understand the psychotic change of personality over the web.

A note to DD' : Not only ML remembers, it was actually him that first identified the artificial output in Puiu's sims and warned everyone about the fakery!

I HEARD HIM, many times, on TV and the radio. What he actually said was "I helped invent the internet," which I suppose is defensible. It was part of his campaign spiel, repeated many times. Sometimes he said "I was involved with the invention of the internet."

ETF

Cyclops wrote "In a speech, [Al Gore] once said he was proud to have co-authored the bill that appropriated the funds which led to the development of the internet. (Something he did do.)"

You say "I HEARD HIM, many times, on TV and the radio. What [Gore] actually said was "I helped invent the internet," which I suppose is defensible."

Not only defensible but true, if what Cyclops wrote is accurate.

I was around during those times. Before the internet, it was called "ARPANET," and then "Darpanet," funded by the department of defense. ARPANET was beginning to rear its head already in 1969 -- the year I graduated high school. By the time Gore was elected to his first term in Congress -- 1977 -- several standards for "packets" of information flow had already developed, as well as email, file attachments, etc. There was no "world wide web," that we would recognize, because they didn't have http browsers yet, and there were only a few thousand people on it, but the main building blocks were in place.

So I think it's a stretch that Gore "invented" or "helped create" the internet. But he certainly spearheaded a drive to fund research that spurred further development in the internet (eg. the Mosaic browser). OTOH, I remember interviews where he claimed he had "trouble turning on" his computer! Maybe he had trouble remembering which image he wanted to project...
ETF

for him what else do you need to know ? I would not vote for him
if he were running against Yasser and his fats.

"Wong would confirm everything DD' stated. But he wrote that even he couldn't understand the psychotic change of personality over the web."

A new stuff usually comes with new syndrome, i.e., the monosodium glutamate gives rise to the Chinese restaurant syndrome. Perhaps in Puiutu's case, surfing bj21.com give rise to the Web Syndrome ("psychotic change of personality over the web",) LOL.

("Those times" are not so distant, kid.) Following the development of the internet, it is clear to me that no single individual, private corporation or gov't entity can claim sole responsibility for inventing it. And I don't think that "inventing" is quite the right term for putting together the whole contraption, either, but that's secondary.

The quantum leaps that have taken place so far, and no doubt will continue to, have required the efforts and support of many people and organisations. If at some point in time someone came up with a piece of software that speeded up developments or directed them towards the right path, then that someone can claim that he "helped" in the creation of the Internet. That includes a politician who pushed through some funding or a piece of legislation or a person in a position of power that took influential strategic decisions (eg the decision by the CEO of gov't-run French phone company giving away for free their Minitels, realising full well and earlier than everyone else that the money was not in the H/W).

So, yes, if Gore's helping to fund a program along the way was crucial or even helpful, he can lay claim that he "helped". Of course, he can never lay claim that he was the inventor! As a pol, methinks he has often been slyly ambiguous when phrasing it. No matter. The putting together of the Internet has many fathers.

Sorta like a massive rave-up with dozens of DJs onstage.

--Cyrus

out of old networks, BBSs, etc. The particular platform that took hold and grabbed the entire market is little more than chance.

The clip played over and over ad nauseum by Rush Limbarugh (and other conserv pundits alike) was of Gore clearly saying saying he co-authored the bill!
I too had to endure hearing it a number of times myself as well, unfortunately.
I stand by me original statement.
Perhaps there is more than one tape in question, but if so, it certainly begs the question:
If a tape did also exist with Gore blatantly saying he invented the internet, then why did his politcal enemies only play the version I described above, in which he clearly did not say that?
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It seems to me they would have wanted to use the strongest possible weapon aganst the guy that they could.
Take care,
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Cyclops

I'm generally pretty politically neutral, (a registered independant) but that's a claim any sane candidate would probably love to be able to state publicly:
"Folks, I am proud to report that I am not, in any way endorsed by Frank "The flaw" Stanton!"
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Cyclops

DD', by entitling my post "Evidently" I didn't mean to imply that you only know one person!
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I meant that evidently, PUIU was not a teenager, because of the long ago Atlantic City team thing.
A thousand pardons!
Hell, you probably have more friends on this board alone than I have in real life!
Take care,
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Cyclops