golferal

[www.earnersblog.com]

gyppo

Synonym means similar meaning, not identical. Lazy people, or people with agendas, took a few words out of a whole speech and distorted their intended meaning. Intelligent people listened to the whole speech and understood what was actually being said.

robinandtami

packetsniffer

Kevin1a

Inventing may be a synonym for the second definition, but when a word has two different definitions, it's a pretty clear signal that they are two different meanings.

92BuickLeSabre

jellobrains

jellobrains

yougottabekidding

yougottabekidding

radio

The definition of Inventing:
To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

So your argument that he took initiative in "creating" as opposed to "inventing" is moot, as those words are synonyms.

GC736

Why dont we take a walk on Menlo Park, CA and Waltham, MA and ask the private equity folks that same question and you will get your answer.

Gore was a proponent and got a bill signed to get a feather in his hat. He knows sqaut about the internet and no - the money came from us - private citizens to fund the darn thing.

JJ910

JJ910

grok666

Hunty

wezelboy

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn: We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.

Leonard Kleinrock: A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network [13-14]. The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking

[en.wikipedia.org]

Cerf, Kahn, and Kleinrock were involved with the invention part, but Gore drafted and proposed the legislation for its funding. That is how he took the initiative in creating the Internet, and he didn't say a word about "inventing" it.

sumocat

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

tombest610

"Well, there was a lot of activity coming from a computer bank at 55 W. 125th St. in New York. Do you know anyone at that address Mr. Vice-President?"

92BuickLeSabre

kakashisan

strider_mt2k

EMoShunz

novacthall

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

GORE: Well, I will be offering - I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. 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.

packetsniffer

slingblade

slingblade

Windhawk

scarbrtj

Jesse in Japan

strider_mt2k

scarbrtj