#87378
03/22/2003 7:23 PM
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I guess they decided to commit suicide and just end it all in one fell swoop.. quote:
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore was elected Wednesday to the board of Apple Computer Inc.
Gore, who popularized the "information superhighway" as vice-president and helped secure money to build the Internet as a congressman, praised chief executive Steve Jobs and other Apple executives for making the computer company "once again the very best in the world." But despite critically acclaimed products and a supportive fan base, Apple only has a three per cent share of the U.S. personal computer market, according to the research firm IDC.
Jobs cited Gore's wealth of knowledge about running the U.S. government - and pointed out that the former vice president does his own video editing in Apple's Final Cut Pro software.
"Al is going to be a terrific director, and we're excited and honored that he has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on," Jobs said.
Gore, who announced last fall he would not seek the presidency in 2004, also serves as a senior adviser to the Web search firm Google Inc. and is a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.
Gore fills a seat left vacant by the September resignation of Oracle Corp. chief executive Larry Ellison. Other board members include Jobs, William Campbell of Intuit, Millard Drexler of J. Crew, Arthur Levinson of Genentech and Jerome York of Micro Warehouse Inc.
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#87379
03/22/2003 8:25 PM
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Praise Gore for the internet! 
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#87380
03/22/2003 9:15 PM
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quote: Originally posted by PrimeTime: Praise Gore for the internet! Ummm, okie dokie...that statement always cracks me up...like Gore did that all by his lonesome. I remember being on the ARpaNet and even earlier using a 100 baud modem to communicate on a university network. He wasn't there.
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#87381
03/22/2003 9:24 PM
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Well as you know I said that in humor. I found it arrogant for him to make such a claim...But it makes for great jokes. LOL.
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#87382
03/22/2003 10:39 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by PrimeTime:
Well as you know I said that in humor. I found it arrogant for him to make such a claim...But it makes for great jokes. LOL. I know that, haven't we met somewhere before???
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#87383
03/22/2003 10:44 PM
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I type Like navaho
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nope, not unless it was in a chat room Gore invented 
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#87384
03/23/2003 12:22 AM
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Heh. Well, he DID sponsor and help push through a bill to fund a lot of expansion in the governmental and education-based nets...
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#87385
03/23/2003 12:51 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by TheX:
I know that, haven't we met somewhere before???  Am I that transparent? 
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#87386
03/23/2003 12:52 PM
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I want you I need you o baby o baby. 
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