‘The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice President Al Gore’http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/specialwin.php
“Setting the record straight on one of recent history’s most persistent political myths, The Webby Awards will present Former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the pivotal role he has played in the development of the internet over the past three decades. Vint Cerf, widely credited as one of the “fathers of the internet,” will present Vice President Gore with the award.”

‘INVENTING INVENTED THE INTERNET! No one said Boo about Gore’s remark. Then, the RNC spin-points arrived:’http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh120302.shtml

Posted by: Joe Williams

Joe Williams obviously has not watched Gore’s documentary.

Some solutions,http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/

Gore’s intro in his AIT book: “I also want to convey my strong feeling that what we are facing is not just a cause for alarm, it is paradoxically also a cause for hope.As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger” the second the symbol for “opportunity”. ”

More solutions,http://www.climateprotect.org/explore

In AIT, Gore only said “if” Greenland melted, etc, with NO time frame given.

Why does your “expert”(sic) Lomborg falsely claim that Gore told the world “to expect 20-foot sea-level rises over this century”?

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/13/an_inconvenient_peace_prize/

Did Lomborg not watch Gore’s documentary? Is he trusting someone elses false claim, or is he deliberately lying?

(No, wait a minute. That might not work what with the 2nd Act melt-down. I’ll get back to you on this one.)

See, the problem with these kinds of forums (fora?) is that participants always want to take sides. It was *Al Gore* who had his presidency stolen by a Republic Party-dominated SCOTUS who returned to the core issue of his lifetime of public service and had the courage and audacity to declare that America’s interest in fossil fuels might be less important than the ultimate survival of the planet.

How un-Republican of him!

My god! If Al Gore got his way, the profits of Halliburton might suffer!

Oh lord! If Al Gore got his way, Mobil/Exxon might have to take a cut in profits!

Heaven help us! If Al Gore got his way, 4,000 American troops might be alive today!

WHERE IS YOUR PATRIOTISM, REPUBLICANS?!?!

George WMD Bush’s Reign of Error has jacked up the National Debt from around $3 Trillion to over 10 Trillion Dollars. Tell me, all you so-called “conservatives,” how that makes any economic sense to you.

When Shrub took (literally) office, the Euro was worth 75 cents against the dollar. Now every Euro you own gets a buck-fifty. When Dumbya took office the Canadian “Loony” was a joke currency. Now it’s equal to the dollar. Just who is loony now?

Perhaps the ultimate irony is how George WMD Bush in a State of the Union address declared that America needs to wean itself from its addiction to oil. Then he expanded an unprovoked war in the Middle East solely motivated by (as Alan Greenspan has told us) his belief that those dirty brown people in Iran and Iraw just happen to be living on land above *our* oil.

There’s absolutely nothing “conservative” about today’s “conservatives.” Conservation, for starters.

Ralph Nader! The True Environmentalist.

Al Gore is no environmentalist. He is a Political Activist. Not an Environmentalist.

Al Gore new nickname should be the “No Plan Man!” Since he offers nothing for solutions to the Global Warming Doom that will kill us all.

“Al Gore is absolutely unique,” Oppenheim[er] said. “He is unique among political leaders for having focused on this problem for almost 30 years.” In that time, the movement to fight global warming has evolved with Al Gore from what seemed a fringe liberal cause to a cause celebre around him. “

What you need, but do NOT have, is some credible climate science.

You cannot refute the science that human-added greenhouse gases are causing global warming.

‘Gray and Muddy Thinking about Global Warming’http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/gray-on-agw/

Right wingers don’t count as “experts”.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22579885-663,00.html

Wait and watch. :)”

Posted by whatever.

But it is not the future, yet. Access to the internet requires browser technology now.

Hell, why not: In just a few short years, you won’t need no stinking cars; In just a few short years, you won’t need no stinking doctors; In just a few short years, you won’t need no stinking jobs. Easy to speculate, more difficult to make it reality.

Since they just can’t deal with their hated nemesis, Al Gore, winning the world’s premier prize, they degrade the discussion to “browsers vs. the internet” or how bad Jimmy Carter was.

Listen, I turn my computer on. When it hooks up to the internet, I post.

That’s all I care to know about how the internet works.

Kansas should work for Circuit City as one of their geek squad. At least then he’d be talking to people who give a damn.

(In that not-really-at-all sort of way.)

From Habitat’s website:

Jimmy Carter Work ProjectJimmy Carter’s involvement with Habitat for Humanity International began in 1984 …Each year, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter give a week of their time—along with their construction skills—to build homes and raise awareness of the critical need for affordable housing. The JCWP is held at a different location each year, and attracts volunteers from around the world.

JCWP 2007 will be held Oct. 28 -Nov. 2, 2007 in Los Angeles, Calif.JCWP 2006 took place in Lonavala, India — Oct. 29-Nov. 3rd, 2006.

JCWP 2005 took place in Detroit and Benton Harbor, Mich., the week of June 19-24, 2005.

JCWP 2004 took place in two sites in Mexico—Puebla and Veracruz–Oct. 24-29, 2004,The Carters and more than 4,000 volunteers built 92 houses in Anniston, Ala., and LaGrange and Valdosta, Ga., during JCWP 2003.

The 2002 JCWP took place in Africa. One thousand houses were built in 18 countries, with the final 100 houses constructed in a five-day build in Durban, South Africa.

In 2001, JCWP built 136 houses at six sites across South Korea with more than 9,000 volunteers participating from around the world.Other recent JCWP builds have taken place in New York-Florida-Georgia (2000, 157 houses), the Philippines (1999, 293 houses) and Houston, Texas (1998, 100 houses).Older JCWP’s include: 1997, 1994-1996, 1990-1993, 1984-1989

Since leaving office, Carter has gained a reputation as a tireless champion for social justice. “Habitat has successfully removed the stigma of charity by substituting it with a sense of partnership,” Carter said. “The people who will live in the homes work side by side with the volunteers, so they feel very much that they are on an equal level.”

He didnt start it, but he has greatly contributed to its continuing presence in many nations… And he is a very good friend of the founder of Habitat…

–Enigineered the treaty between Egypt and Israel (Sadat and Begin) that has NEVER been broken

–Established diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China

–Started and still works for Habitat for Humanity International

–Through the Carter Center, has engaged in conflict mediation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), North Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Great Lakes region of Africa (1995-96), Sudan and Uganda (1999), and Venezuela (2002-2003).

–Founded the Carter Center. Actively guided by President Carter, the nonpartisan and nonprofit Center addresses national and international issues of public policy. Carter Center fellows, associates, and staff join with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions. Through the Global 2000 program, the Center advances health and agriculture in the developing world.

–Under his leadership The Carter Center has sent forty-five international election monitoring delegations to elections in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. These include Panama (1989), Nicaragua (1990), Guyana (1992), Venezuela (1998), Nigeria (1999), Indonesia (1999), East Timor (1999), Mexico (2000), China (2001), and Jamaica (2002).

Many have said that Carter is the most effective former president EVER. I personally wish he would be less inflammatory about Bush and Cheney; though correct, it cheapens the generally diplomatic status of the former presidency and sounds too partisan. But that doesn;t change the fact that he is an amazing figure who was worked tirelessly and effectively to resolve conflicts around the world.–

‘Title I: High-Performance Computing and the National Research and Education Network’http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:SN00272:@@@L&summ2=m&

The troll Kansas, who does not seem to understand that Gore’s bill did MUCH more than fund the development of the important Mosaic browser, posted,

“cosmos does not understand that a Browser is not the Internet.”

Kansas’ post was as brain-dead STUPID as saying:

“… a router is not the Internet”"… a fiber-optic link is not the Internet”"… a computer is not the Internet”

and so on…

But “Kansas values” Kansas is too brain-dead stupid to realize that his post was very stupid.

Posted by Joe Williams.

Joe, I haven’t done html coding for a couple of years, but I recommend O’Reilly’s book, ‘html & xhtml, The Definitve Guide’. It covers compatibility issues, and has many good suggestions re web pages.