I got it today...scroll to the bottom to see my response to this gun-grabbing spammer...
The NRA said that if Bush wins that they will dictate policy from the Oval Office-- enough young people have already fallen dead at the feet of handgun violence!! Let us be responsible voters, considering our children's safety and development, and vote for Al Gore.
*The homeless population will increase under Bush as it did under Reagan.
Please give Al Gore another look before making your final decision. You will see that Gore's record with respect to the formation of the Internet is quite involved, with all due respect to the other major players. Biographical information on Al Gore follows the quotations.
According to Time, April 12, 1993, pp. 50-58 :
' Make no mistake about it, ' says Vice President Al Gore, who was talking about information highways long before they were fashionable. ' This is by all odds the most important and lucrative marketplace of the 21st century. ' If Gore is right, the new technology will force the merger of television, telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, publishing and information services into a single interactive information industry. Apple computer chairman John Sculley estimates that the revenue generated by this megaindustry could reach $3.5 trillion worldwide by the year 2001. (The entire U.S. gross national product today [1993] is about $5.9 trillion.)
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton and Gore made building a ' data superhighway ' a centerpiece of their program to revitalize the U.S. economy, comparing it with the government's role in creating the interstate highway system in the 1950s. The budget proposal the Administration submitted in February includes nearly $5 billion over the next four years to develop new software and equipment for the information highway.
... In the mid-1980s, AT&T, MCI and Sprint installed fiber-optic cable between major U.S. cities to increase the capacity of their long-distance telephone lines. At about the same time, the Federal Government, spurred by Gore, leased some of these lines to give scientists a high-speed data link to supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation. These two networks, private and public, carry the bulk of the country's telephone and data traffic. In the superhighway system of the future, they are the interstate turnpikes.
... The Government is the Dark horse in the race to the information highway. It got into the business almost by accident: thanks to Gore's lobbying during the 1980s, it funded the fiber-optic links that form the backbone of Internet, the sprawling computer grid that is for students, scientists and the Pentagon what Prodigy and CompuServe are for ordinary computer users. ...
... The computer users, and some enthusiasts within the Clinton Administration, tend to see the information highway as a glorified extention of computer bulletin boards. Vice President Gore talks about making it possible for a schoolchild in Arkansas to have access to a book stored on a computer in the Library of Congress or take a course at a distant college.
According to Popular Science, March 1992, pp. 50 + :
Federal legislation enacted last fall is aimed at building a nationwide high-speed supercomputer communications network by 1996. The $2.9 billion bill also supports the development of teraflops-speed supercomputers, user-friendly software, and education. D. Allan Bromley, assistant to the president for science and technology, says the planned National Research and Education Network (NREN) for computers ' will serve as a test bed and prototype to develop the technology for a new national information infrastructure available to every home, classroom, office, and factory in the country. '
The NREN evolved slowly. Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr., who first proposed such a network more than a decade ago [before 1982] , draws an analogy: ' Just as the interstate highway system led to new access roads, beltways, and feeders, the anticipation of an information-superhighway network already has state and local governments planning for trunk lines to connect their information industries, schools, universities, and libraries to the system ' backbone.' ' he [Gore] notes.
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According to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000, Gore, Al :
Gore, Al, full name Albert Gore, Jr. (1948- ), American politician and the 45th vice president of the United States (1993- ). Gore was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., was a longtime Democractic congressman and senator from Tennessee. Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in government. Although Gore opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1959- 1975), he accepted induction into the United States Army and served from 1969 to 1971. While in Vietnam, Gore worked as an investigative reporter and editorial writer for The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper. During this time Gore operated a small farm and worked as a homebuilder and land developer. In 1976 he earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University, where he had also studied philosophy in 1971 and 1972. Gore married Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson in 1970, and they had four children.
According to http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/ovpbio_bottom.html, October 24, 1999 :
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. He was reelected in 1978, 1980, and 1982. In 1984, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. As a member of Congress, Gore earned a reputation as an authority on arms control and environmental issues. He pioneered efforts to clean up hazardous waste dumps and brought political attention to the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. Gore is the author of several books on environmental issues, including Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992).
Throughout the years that President Clinton and Vice President Gore have worked together, Gore has formed an unprecedented partnership with President Clinton. Vice President Gore serves as an advisor to President Clinton, a Cabinet member, President of the U.S. Senate, a member of the National Security Council, and head of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
In February of 1997, Vice President Gore presented to President Clinton the final report of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Over a six-month period, the commission he chaired conducted an extensive inquiry into civil aviation safety, security and air traffic control modernization, which resulted in a comprehensive list of recommendations adopted by President Clinton, including one that aims to reduce the aviation fatal accident rate by 80 percent over the next decade.
Vice President Gore also helped steer to passage the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which stimulates private investment and promotes competition in the telecommunications industry, and strengthens and improves universal service so that all Americans can have access to the benefits of the information superhighway. In fact, Vice President Gore has taken the lead on the Administration's education technology initiative to ensure that classrooms and libraries get connected to the Internet.
To help create a federal government that works better and costs less, Vice President Gore heads the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. The initiative has saved taxpayers more than $137 billion and reduced the size of the federal government to its smallest level since President John F. Kennedy's Administration. He also is President Clinton's advisor on regulatory review.
As chair of the Community Empowerment Board, Vice President Gore helps bring together the public and private sectors to create jobs and invest in our nation's most distressed urban and rural areas.
His commitment to stronger families has resulted in policies strengthening fatherhood, increasing flexibility for mothers and fathers in the workplace, and requiring new television sets to be equipped with a device known as a V-chip to give parents more control over information that comes into their homes.
Vice President Gore co-chairs five separate bi-national commissions: the Gore-Chemomyrdin Commission on Energy and Space Cooperation, the U.S.-South Africa Bi-national Commission, the U.S.-Egyptian Partnership for Economic Growth and Development, the U.S.-Kazakhstan Joint Commission, and the U.S.-Ukraine Bilateral Commission. Vice President Gore works with his counterpart in each of these countries to coordinate joint activities in the areas of economic development, education, energy, the environment, business, and science and technology, among others.
My Response:
Thank you for the unsolicited crap.
I'm an NRA Member...someday, when your waiting for an incompetent 911 system to respond to a break in in your home, you may be fortunate enough to have a neighbor like myself, a trained and responsible gun owner, that you can call on to help you protect your defenseless family.
KB
Sorry for the length but it pissed me off...still biting my nails for good 'ole "W"
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"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds..."
-Albert Einstein
[This message has been edited by SpazzTrap (edited November 08, 2000).]
The NRA said that if Bush wins that they will dictate policy from the Oval Office-- enough young people have already fallen dead at the feet of handgun violence!! Let us be responsible voters, considering our children's safety and development, and vote for Al Gore.
*The homeless population will increase under Bush as it did under Reagan.
Please give Al Gore another look before making your final decision. You will see that Gore's record with respect to the formation of the Internet is quite involved, with all due respect to the other major players. Biographical information on Al Gore follows the quotations.
According to Time, April 12, 1993, pp. 50-58 :
' Make no mistake about it, ' says Vice President Al Gore, who was talking about information highways long before they were fashionable. ' This is by all odds the most important and lucrative marketplace of the 21st century. ' If Gore is right, the new technology will force the merger of television, telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, publishing and information services into a single interactive information industry. Apple computer chairman John Sculley estimates that the revenue generated by this megaindustry could reach $3.5 trillion worldwide by the year 2001. (The entire U.S. gross national product today [1993] is about $5.9 trillion.)
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton and Gore made building a ' data superhighway ' a centerpiece of their program to revitalize the U.S. economy, comparing it with the government's role in creating the interstate highway system in the 1950s. The budget proposal the Administration submitted in February includes nearly $5 billion over the next four years to develop new software and equipment for the information highway.
... In the mid-1980s, AT&T, MCI and Sprint installed fiber-optic cable between major U.S. cities to increase the capacity of their long-distance telephone lines. At about the same time, the Federal Government, spurred by Gore, leased some of these lines to give scientists a high-speed data link to supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation. These two networks, private and public, carry the bulk of the country's telephone and data traffic. In the superhighway system of the future, they are the interstate turnpikes.
... The Government is the Dark horse in the race to the information highway. It got into the business almost by accident: thanks to Gore's lobbying during the 1980s, it funded the fiber-optic links that form the backbone of Internet, the sprawling computer grid that is for students, scientists and the Pentagon what Prodigy and CompuServe are for ordinary computer users. ...
... The computer users, and some enthusiasts within the Clinton Administration, tend to see the information highway as a glorified extention of computer bulletin boards. Vice President Gore talks about making it possible for a schoolchild in Arkansas to have access to a book stored on a computer in the Library of Congress or take a course at a distant college.
According to Popular Science, March 1992, pp. 50 + :
Federal legislation enacted last fall is aimed at building a nationwide high-speed supercomputer communications network by 1996. The $2.9 billion bill also supports the development of teraflops-speed supercomputers, user-friendly software, and education. D. Allan Bromley, assistant to the president for science and technology, says the planned National Research and Education Network (NREN) for computers ' will serve as a test bed and prototype to develop the technology for a new national information infrastructure available to every home, classroom, office, and factory in the country. '
The NREN evolved slowly. Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr., who first proposed such a network more than a decade ago [before 1982] , draws an analogy: ' Just as the interstate highway system led to new access roads, beltways, and feeders, the anticipation of an information-superhighway network already has state and local governments planning for trunk lines to connect their information industries, schools, universities, and libraries to the system ' backbone.' ' he [Gore] notes.
END
According to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000, Gore, Al :
Gore, Al, full name Albert Gore, Jr. (1948- ), American politician and the 45th vice president of the United States (1993- ). Gore was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., was a longtime Democractic congressman and senator from Tennessee. Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in government. Although Gore opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1959- 1975), he accepted induction into the United States Army and served from 1969 to 1971. While in Vietnam, Gore worked as an investigative reporter and editorial writer for The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper. During this time Gore operated a small farm and worked as a homebuilder and land developer. In 1976 he earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University, where he had also studied philosophy in 1971 and 1972. Gore married Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson in 1970, and they had four children.
According to http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/ovpbio_bottom.html, October 24, 1999 :
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. He was reelected in 1978, 1980, and 1982. In 1984, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. As a member of Congress, Gore earned a reputation as an authority on arms control and environmental issues. He pioneered efforts to clean up hazardous waste dumps and brought political attention to the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. Gore is the author of several books on environmental issues, including Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992).
Throughout the years that President Clinton and Vice President Gore have worked together, Gore has formed an unprecedented partnership with President Clinton. Vice President Gore serves as an advisor to President Clinton, a Cabinet member, President of the U.S. Senate, a member of the National Security Council, and head of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
In February of 1997, Vice President Gore presented to President Clinton the final report of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Over a six-month period, the commission he chaired conducted an extensive inquiry into civil aviation safety, security and air traffic control modernization, which resulted in a comprehensive list of recommendations adopted by President Clinton, including one that aims to reduce the aviation fatal accident rate by 80 percent over the next decade.
Vice President Gore also helped steer to passage the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which stimulates private investment and promotes competition in the telecommunications industry, and strengthens and improves universal service so that all Americans can have access to the benefits of the information superhighway. In fact, Vice President Gore has taken the lead on the Administration's education technology initiative to ensure that classrooms and libraries get connected to the Internet.
To help create a federal government that works better and costs less, Vice President Gore heads the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. The initiative has saved taxpayers more than $137 billion and reduced the size of the federal government to its smallest level since President John F. Kennedy's Administration. He also is President Clinton's advisor on regulatory review.
As chair of the Community Empowerment Board, Vice President Gore helps bring together the public and private sectors to create jobs and invest in our nation's most distressed urban and rural areas.
His commitment to stronger families has resulted in policies strengthening fatherhood, increasing flexibility for mothers and fathers in the workplace, and requiring new television sets to be equipped with a device known as a V-chip to give parents more control over information that comes into their homes.
Vice President Gore co-chairs five separate bi-national commissions: the Gore-Chemomyrdin Commission on Energy and Space Cooperation, the U.S.-South Africa Bi-national Commission, the U.S.-Egyptian Partnership for Economic Growth and Development, the U.S.-Kazakhstan Joint Commission, and the U.S.-Ukraine Bilateral Commission. Vice President Gore works with his counterpart in each of these countries to coordinate joint activities in the areas of economic development, education, energy, the environment, business, and science and technology, among others.
My Response:
Thank you for the unsolicited crap.
I'm an NRA Member...someday, when your waiting for an incompetent 911 system to respond to a break in in your home, you may be fortunate enough to have a neighbor like myself, a trained and responsible gun owner, that you can call on to help you protect your defenseless family.
KB
Sorry for the length but it pissed me off...still biting my nails for good 'ole "W"
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"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds..."
-Albert Einstein
[This message has been edited by SpazzTrap (edited November 08, 2000).]