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You know what's so awesome about me... well, other than everything? I'm capable of making my own political choices and assessments based solely on MY beliefs, not someone else's. I feel like everyone follows in their friends/parent's footsteps no matter what it is. I'm sorry but I'm my own person, like it or not. Also, Romney sucks.
 
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I really do hope you're being an nice guy here and not being serious.

Read up on your history, I wasn't making a statement.
Just thought those things were interesting how the parties have bobbed and weaved in their constant attack of each other through the years.

What's your problem?

The Lincoln was a Republican part was for Trout who was saying Lincoln's statement was a Democratic ideal.

Maybe I should have re-worded the slavery bit... just thought it was also interesting and threw it in there. Democrats so worried about people and programs to help people, but not so worried about them back in the day. Whatever, get offended.
 
Read up on your history, I wasn't making a statement.
Just thought those things were interesting how the parties have bobbed and weaved in their constant attack of each other through the years.

What's your problem?

The Lincoln was a Republican part was for Trout who was saying Lincoln's statement was a Democratic ideal.

Maybe I should have re-worded the slavery bit... just thought it was also interesting and threw it in there. Democrats so worried about people and programs to help people, but not so worried about them back in the day. Whatever, get offended.

Naw, I'm just surprised anybody would even think that the democrat/republican of the 1860s would somehow be in any way similar to the democrat/republican of the 2010s. What you posted gives implications that the political party of Lincoln, or any other 1860s politician, has any relevance at all to political stances of the two major parties in the 2010s. Political stances of today's parties might reflect on stances Lincoln may have had 150 years ago, but the actual party of Lincoln is irrelevant.
 
Xerox invented the internet, not Algore.

A telling moment in the presidential race came recently when Barack Obama said: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." He justified elevating bureaucrats over entrepreneurs by referring to bridges and roads, adding: "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet."

It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet. The myth is that the Pentagon created the Internet to keep its communications lines up even in a nuclear strike. The truth is a more interesting story about how innovation happens—and about how hard it is to build successful technology companies even once the government gets out of the way.

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If the government didn't invent the Internet, who did? Vinton Cerf developed the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet's backbone, and Tim Berners-Lee gets credit for hyperlinks.

But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html
 
Hi! im republican cuz my parents told me its good to be republican like jesus. obama sucks lol. How's everyone doing?

This was me, and everyone around me in Orem. I even went to a George Bush Sr. rally at BYU. It took leaving the country to see things from a broader perspective before I formed my own views.
 
Thanks for popping in, busy babe.

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^My favorite from this amusing webpage:

https://didntbuildthat.com/

So I can't tell if you're just having fun, or if you're really that dense. Clearly, you've taken what he said out of context -- I know, I know -- and are running with it. Could it be that what he was saying is the same thing we've heard our whole lives, assuming you didn't grow up in a crack house: (which would explain you, actually) If not for our forefathers and the hard work of those who came before us, none of what you have is possible. That's how I see it. But you keep on keepin' on, you old moron, you.
 

This article is saying Xerox invented the internet due to the fact that they invented Ethernet. The problem is the internet does not need Ethernet, and 10 or 15 years ago (well after the internet was in almost every home and business in the USA) most home computers did not even use Ethernet to connect.

Companies life AOL, CompuServe, MSN, etc, are credited with making the internet grow to what it is today. And those companies were all dial up companies, you did not use Ethernet to connect to them (and computers did not come standard with Ethernet back then).

Before those companies made the internet "cool" there were a number of bbs services using "the internet" and of course this was also done using dial up, long before Ethernet was standard equipment on computers and even longer before there were any broadband services available for home use.

Ethernet didn't come into play until cable and phone companies started selling affordable broadband services which required an Ethernet connection to their modem.

Xerox didn't get enough credit for what they created (not just Ethernet or the GUI) but saying they created the internet is crazy talk. Ethernet is commonly used today, but the internet was big and growing before Ethernet was common, and it will be big after Ethernet is dead and gone.
 
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