NOW --- WHAT'S THIS ABOUT A POPULAR VOTE?

Counties won:
Gore – 677
Bush – 2,434.

Square miles won:
Gore – 580,134
Bush – 2,427,039

Population of counties won:
Gore – 127 million
Bush – 143 million

Murder rates in counties won by:
Gore --- over 13 per 100,000
Bush --- less than 2 per 100,000

From www.boortz.com

Bush ate Gore.

Bush won the south.Nothing more.I hate Bush and he is screwing up the world.

More information...

Bush won the counties in RED:

4LOVE said:

Check the map, my friend...

Elections Hijacked:

Bush - 1
Gore - 0

2the9s said:

Bingo...we have a winner

2the9s said:

George ate Al.

I gave George my recipe. He gave it 5 stars.

2the9s said:

Internets invented:

Gore - 1
Bush - 0

IceNine said:

LMAO!

4LOVE said:

How the fuck, does someone hijack a fucking election? When clearly, as the map dear, dear IceNine posted CLEARLY shows the results by county in the United States.

I think Mr. Bush would've had a hard time hijacking all that, you fine gentlemen.
[This message was edited Tue Oct 29 18:32:02 PST 2002 by BattierBeMyDaddy]

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Yes, Bush definitely won the all-important desert vote.

2the9s said:

In the places where people actually "live" Gore won.That's why they say Gore won the POPULAR vote(the vote of the people).

2the9s said:

You fix that edit! You know I never said "you fucks"

I simply misspelled "Bush" which is a COMMON mistake.

4LOVE said:

Then again, the shrubbery won more counties by population as well:

Population of counties won:
Gore – 127 million
Bush – 143 million

C'mon now! What was the total popular vote Ice?

I don't even know.

IceNine said:

Then what was the popular vote icenine?And is this Current or back when the election was going.Because alot of people are moving from cali because of the high cost of living.

2the9s said:

LMFAO!!!

What the hell...

FOR THE RECORD, compiled by Law Prof. Joseph Olson:

a) Counties won by Bush; 2434

a) Counties won by Gore; 677

b) Population of counties won by Bush; 143 million

b) Population of counties won by Gore; 127 million

c) Square miles of country won by Bush; 2,427,000

c) Square miles of country won by Gore; 580,000

d) States won by Bush; 29

d) States won by Gore; 19

And now the most remarkable finding...

e) Average MURDER rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush; 0.1

e) Average MURDER rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore; 13.2

The Federalist's crack staff of researchers found one more interesting fact that might help explain these disparate murder rates. Gun ownership in the counties won by Mr. Bush is MUCH higher than in the counties won by Mr. Gore! Imagine THAT!

IceNine said:

People killed in Bush's mindless oil wars...PRICELESS!
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4LOVE said:

2the9s said:

"Since this was written, five states, California, Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, have changed their Official Counts, as reported to the National Archives and Records. In California, the official vote for Al Gore Changed from 5,835.996 to 5,821,203, (down by 14,793 votes) and for George Bush it changed from 4,544,136 to 4,567,429, (up 23,293). In South Carolina, Gore's official tally was a change of 2 votes less for Gore.

According to this latest count, Gore won the popular vote by 533,001 out of 105,365,816 total votes. That is one half of one percent, .005, of the total vote. It is a statistically meaningless number..."

IceNine said:

Ummm, wouldnt you say that the fact that Gore won most of the major citys such as LA, New York, Washington, Miami, Chicago etc had something to do with that stat.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

bkw said:

Statistics? Yes...
Lies? No...

More murderers happen to live in the counties that Gore won... These guys didn't necessarily vote for the mental midget, Gore... they could have voted for the slightly smarter shrubbery...

Bush and Gore are like Larry and Curly without Moe to keep them in line...

Look at Utah on that map. It's all red.

Moonbeam said:

That map is wrong,ain't no friggin way,Bush was killed in cali,on that map it looks like he won.Gore had at least 80% of the votes in cali.Actually it was closer to 60%
[This message was edited Tue Oct 29 19:21:05 PST 2002 by 4LOVE]

4LOVE said:

Nope, that is the official vote map from USA Today.

IceNine said:

Pinko Commie RAG!

2the9s said:

:LOL:

Al Gore: "Inventing the internet"

If you want to read the whole thing, go here:

http://www.firstmonday.dk...0/wiggins/

Over all, an interesting read. I'd rather have somebody overstate something about his achievements to the degree that Al Gore did rather than Bush who consantly overstates the dangers of Saddam Hussien, yet UNDERstates the dangers of North Korea.

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"Although Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet, he did discuss his role in Internet development in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of Cable News Network. The interview took place on March 9, 1999 during CNN's "Late Edition" show. Specifically, what Gore said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." "

But Gore's interest and support for U.S. high-speed networking begins much earlier than 1989. As early as 1986, Gore called for, in the context of funding for the NSF, support for basic research in computer networking:


Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to support the proposed National Science Foundation Authorization Act.
MR. PRESIDENT, IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AUTHORIZATION ACT.

WITHIN THIS BILL I HAVE TWO AMENDMENTS, THE COMPUTER NETWORK STUDY AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT REPORT. THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS ORIGINALLY INTRODUCED WITH SENATOR GORTON AS S. 2594. IT CALLS FOR A 2-YEAR STUDY OF THE CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND CURRENT AND FUTURE OPTIONS REGARDING COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS FOR RESEARCH COMPUTERS. THE SECOND AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A REPORT TO CONGRESS ON THE ACTIONS TAKEN TO ESTABLISH AN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

BOTH OF THESE AMENDMENTS SEEK NEW INFORMATION ON CRITICAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY. THE COMPUTER NETWORK STUDY ACT IS DESIGNED TO ANSWER CRITICAL QUESTIONS ON THE NEEDS OF COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS OVER THE NEXT 15 YEARS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT ARE THE FUTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPUTERS IN TERMS OF QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF DATA TRANSMISSION, DATA SECURITY, AND SOFTWEAR [sic] COMPATIBILITY? WHAT EQUIPMENT MUST BE DEVELOPED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE HIGH TRANSMISSION RATES OFFERED BY FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS?

BOTH SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO HANDLE THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF SUPERCOMPUTERS AND SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SMALLER RESEARCH COMPUTERS WILL BE EVALUATED. THE EMPHASIS IS ON RESEARCH COMPUTERS, BUT THE USERS OF ALL COMPUTERS WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS STUDY. TODAY, WE CAN BANK BY COMPUTER, SHOP BY COMPUTER, AND SEND LETTERS BY COMPUTER. ONLY A FEW COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS USE THESE SERVICES, BUT THE NUMBER IS GROWING AND EXISTING CAPABILITIES ARE LIMITED.

IN ORDER TO COPE WITH THE EXPLOSION OF COMPUTER USE IN THE COUNTRY, WE MUST LOOK TO NEW WAYS TO ADVANCE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- NEW WAYS TO INCREASE THE SPEED AND QUALITY OF THE DATA TRANSMISSION. WITHOUT THESE IMPROVEMENTS, THE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS FACE DATA BOTTLENECKS LIKE THOSE WE FACE EVERY DAY ON OUR CROWDED HIGHWAYS.

THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ALREADY AWARE OF THE NEED TO EVALUATE AND ADOPT NEW TECHNOLOGIES. ONE PROMISING TECHNOLOGY IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS FOR VOICE AND DATA TRANSMISSION. EVENTUALLY WE WILL SEE A SYSTEM OF FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS BEING INSTALLED NATIONWIDE.

AMERICA'S HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT PEOPLE AND MATERIALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FEDERAL FREEWAYS CONNECT WITH STATE HIGHWAYS WHICH CONNECT IN TURN WITH COUNTY ROADS AND CITY STREETS. TO TRANSPORT DATA AND IDEAS, WE WILL NEED A TELECOMMUNICATIONS HIGHWAY CONNECTING USERS COAST TO COAST, STATE TO STATE, CITY TO CITY. THE STUDY REQUIRED IN THIS AMENDMENT WILL IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THE NATION WILL FACE IN ESTABLISHING THAT HIGHWAY.
[Upper case shown, indicating a contemporaneous insertion into the Congressional Record at the time of corresponding floor debate.]

That Gore wrote about a national "data highway" as far back as 1986 is extremely significant. It is important to make clear the context of the state of computing at that time. The IBM PC was only four years old. The Apple II computer was still in widespread use. The number of hosts on the Internet numbered, as counted by Mark Lottor's Internet Domain Survey, was 5,089. Entire universities (such as Michigan State University) made their initial connection to the Internet in 1986. In order for Gore to make this kind of speech in 1986, he had to have been conversant with the thinking of computer scientists and Internet pioneers. Such pioneers included such as Vint Cerf, Steven Wolf, and Larry Smarr - then director of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois (NCSA), where Mosaic would be born some seven years later.

In 1988, Gore argued for the creation of a high-capacity national data network:



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