Is TBN too "family friendly" for your tastes?

[Soundguy]

Yep.. gets fun don't it.

I used to run a BBS type system way back before All gore 'invented' the internet.. Was a multi-line dial in system. One of the longest running in my area of the country.. Had a few nut jobs give me legal headaches a few times...

I've heard another version of something you said..

Goes something like: 'Don't get into a fight with someone who has nothing to lose'


Soundguy

I had a somehwhat similar experience as a moderator on a photography web site. We had to boot this well know internet nut-job. Prior to his getting the boot he pm'd me with some typical insults. Foolishly I replied to him questioning his sanity. Later, after he was booted by the admins he posted his own web site with this long diatribe about how awful our web site was and he included my email to him in that. No big deal, except that he loaded it with profanity and racial slurs (even though he was a white male). He also included some slurs against some of the other mods and we got a big laugh out of this idiots sad little anti-world web site.

Well, one day after one of our office meetings one of the hospital VP's that I work for calls me aside. A patient of mine had Googled my name, as patients will do, and found this altered letter and then called management. Boy, it really looked a lot less funny then! In any case, shortly after that his site disappeared. I don't know why but have to wonder if the lawyers of this big hospital system had given him a call.

 

[Soundguy]

As with everything, there is a proper place and context for it.. even the low brow stuff.

Soundguy

Well, I have to admit that I'm a big fan of low brow humor, foul language and other things non-mentionable.

While a large vocabulary is impressive, a well chosen string of one syllable words at the precise place and time can move mountains... or stop elephants.

Just not here, in public, at home, church, friends' houses, etc....

 

[Phils]

Don't get into an argument with an idiot. Before long they'll drag you down to their level and win by experience.

Phil... here every working day because it IS a family friendly site.

 

[RobertN]

I still have the e-mail address he was using back then, don't know whether he's changed it or not, but I guess I need to try it again. If you stop by and see him, let me know.

I have been unsuccessful in contacting Harv too. No bounceback on the email. And, the business website is still online, but has no contact info.

 

[TractorLegend]

I think posts on a forum are a lot like email or text messages...one can be taken all wrong and out of context if people feel you content "sounds" jerky, rude or otherwise. This has been going on since Al Gore invented the internet. :~}
You cant see and hear the other person which can lend toward erring on the side of believing the other party said all the wrong things the wrong way.

 

[Skyco]

Very true about being misinterpreted. Thats why I tend to liberally use the emoticons, although some people don't like that either

 

[MossRoad]

Very true about being misinterpreted. Thats why I tend to liberally use the emoticons, although some people don't like that either

You mean like this?

"Hey, that emoticon is sarcastic! "

 

[SnowRidge]

Al Gore sure gets picked on for that "Invented the Internet" statement of his, even if he didn't say exactly that, and what he did say was a poor choice of words for what he intended to communicate, that he sponsored legislation that lead to the growth of Internet, as we know it today.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Al Gore Invented the Internet

 

[BTDT]

Al Gore sure gets picked on for that "Invented the Internet" statement of his, even if he didn't say exactly that, and what he did say was a poor choice of words for what he intended to communicate, that he sponsored legislation that lead to the growth of Internet, as we know it today.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Al Gore Invented the Internet

Now there you go trying to confuse us with facts.

 

[SnowRidge]

Now there you go trying to confuse us with facts.

I too was suckered into believing that Al Gore Internet story, until I happened to hear something to the contrary years after it first surfaced. "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story," seems to be the modus operandi for most of the US media these days. We are a poorer nation for it.

 

[Double Orange]

I too was suckered into believing that Al Gore Internet story, until I happened to hear something to the contrary years after it first surfaced. "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story," seems to be the modus operandi for most of the US media these days. We are a poorer nation for it.

My grandson asked me...Pop Pop, do all fairy tails start with

ONCE UPON A TIME?

I said NO.. Some start

I'f I'm elected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Soundguy]

Al Gore sure gets picked on for that "Invented the Internet" statement of his, even if he didn't say exactly that, and what he did say was a poor choice of words for what he intended to communicate, that he sponsored legislation that lead to the growth of Internet, as we know it today.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Al Gore Invented the Internet

Yeah.. and in his position.. with all the paid speechwriters resources he could have had.. it was that very poorly worded statement that has earned him infamy with the ' I created the internet' type quotes that get thrown up at him.

Being in the lime light may be nice.. but make sure you are glib and have a good staff... that PROOFreads.. cuz only the pope's infallable ex cathedra


Soundguy

 

[N80]

I think there is more to it than that. When a politician makes a statement like that they are trying to get in on the glory and take credit for something for his own political gain. So when he says he 'enabled' the internet it isn't a far cry from 'I invented it' in regard to the credit he's trying to grab. So myth busting aside, Gore's hubris (which is well known) has been appropriately labled. And to keep things fair and balanced (hah!) I think this is true of ALL politicos.

 

[SnowRidge]

All politicans, yep. But Gore's claim is legit. His legislation had a lot to do with enabling the growth of the Internet. It used to be something call DARPANet, which stood for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and it couldn't have expanded beyond the government sector without Gore's legislation.

 

[N80]

I'll have to do some research, but in every 'popular' history of the internet that I've read there has been no mention of either Gore or any politicians in general. The internet, and its ascension was much larger than any one politician, one government, one bill. So to me, it still sounds like hogwash.

Nevertheless, I'm always open to being educated so could you give us some evidence that Gore's legislation was even remotely pivotal in the birth of the internet?

 

[N80]

Here is what Gore actually said:

"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

He was referring to this:

High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For which he is given much credit by the designers of Mosaic, the first web browser.

There is no mention of this bill, nor Gore in the Wickipedia history of the internet. And by the time the bill was passed, the internet was well on its way. Gore's contribution facilitated the emergence of the WWW which is a vastly different thing from the internet. He is given credit for being the most helpful politician in this regard.

It remains a far cry from:

"I took the initiative in creating the internet."

This statement deservedly remains one of the silliest and most arrogant things any politician has ever said and ranks right up there with 'potatoe'.

 

[SnowRidge]

"I took the initiative in creating the internet."

This statement deservedly remains one of the silliest and most arrogant things any politician has ever said and ranks right up there with 'potatoe'.

You and I will just have to remain in disagreement about that. As far as I am concerned, a lot of politicians have said many things much sillier and much more arrogant than that, some of which have cost a lot of money, and some a lot of lives.

 

[N80]

You and I will just have to remain in disagreement about that. As far as I am concerned, a lot of politicians have said many things much sillier and much more arrogant than that, some of which have cost a lot of money, and some a lot of lives.

Amen to that.

 

[Spiveyman]

Can a thread be locked for just being off topic , or does it have to wonder into forbidden territory?

My grandson asked me...Pop Pop, do all fairy tails start with

ONCE UPON A TIME?

I said NO.. Some start

I'f I'm elected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HA!!!!! LOL! That was great. It's hard to look like I'm working when I read something that funny.

Very true about being misinterpreted. Thats why I tend to liberally use the emoticons, although some people don't like that either

Not using them gets me in trouble all the time. I have a buddy who keeps telling me, NEVER forget the . It can be the difference between you being a complete and total jerk, or actually being funny sometimes.

This statement deservedly remains one of the silliest and most arrogant things any politician has ever said and ranks right up there with 'potatoe'.

Thanks for the research on that internet deal, but are you serious with the "potatoe" deal? You can't hold spelling over a man's head when we're using the English language!!! I am a chemical engineer by formal training, and did quite well in school. I have 34 US Patents, some granted/some pending, I even installed my own digging teeth on my FEL , but I can't spell worth a lick in this sorry excuse for a language. Granted I didn't tend towards the literary-type subjects in school, so there may be a logic out there that escapes me when it comes to spelling, but C'mon there's no rhyme or reason some times. Take for instance the following words:

apprentice
apology
apparatus
apartment
appointment
apothecary
appendix

How can you keep straight which ones have a double "p" ?!?! Seriously, phonetic doesn't even spell the way it sounds! Even "women," is pronounced more like "wemon." Double letters, silent letters, letters with the wrong sound!

I just don't think you can lump "Potatoe" in with "Internet."

Edit: I forgot the

 

[Bird]

You can't hold spelling over a man's head when we're using the English language!!!

I don't disagree at all with the point you were making, but yes, in many instances, spelling errors actually are held against you. I learned early in my law enforcement career that many years ago, when I started, spelling and/or punctuation errors on police reports were not tolerated by supervisors, and of course, if they made it past supervisors, they just might come back to haunt you in court. Errors were especially hard on clerk/typists in the police department because I started in the days before computers, word processors, and copy machines. If any error was made, the entire page, if not the entire report, had to be re-typed and there were usually 4 to 6 onionskins (copies).

I don't suppose I ever made any grade but an "A" in an English class from grammar school through college, won a few informal spelling bees along the way, and had an English professor who tried to get me to major in English in college, so I think I'm well above average in spelling ability; not the best by any means, but above average. And I still make liberal use of a dictionary; would be lost without one. So, as I said, I understand your point about the English language.