Former VP Al Gore on Apple board of directors

[Ugg]

I agree with edX. Apple has some serious problems with its international user base and Al has great name recognition outside the US.

[banjo_boy]

Originally posted by Ugg
I agree with edX. Apple has some serious problems with its international user base and Al has great name recognition outside the US.

Ditto here.

[serpicolugnut]

Apple has some serious problems with its international user base and Al has great name recognition outside the US

Oh yeah. We can expect the Buddhist Monks to buy Macs in droves now...

Sorry, I couldn't resist....

[Ugg]

They already have

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/article.../06/dalailama/

[C-Fu]

Al has great name recognition outside the US.

Hahaha, not in Malaysia thou. We don't actually like him. In fact, we hate him!

[serpicolugnut]

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

This is what worried me. Apple, even if this was meant as humor, is going to piss off people who don't agree with Gore's (or Steve's) ideology with statements (or postings) like this...

[edX]

LOL

[RacerX]

by serpicolugnut :
Actually, he did... The 500 something votes he got more than Gore in Florida gave him all of Florida's electoral votes. Now I know you're an intelligent guy RacerX , but do you need a lesson in how our elections work and precisely what the electoral college is for?

Actually I could give you a very complete lesson on the US Electoral College, why it is there and how it works.

On that day more than 25,000 more citizens of Florida went to the polls to vote for Gore. The fact that those people's votes where not counted is one of the reasons why we had to have international election monitors present for the 2002 election in Florida.

Would you like to test just how deeply I've studied this issue?

And, getting back to the first Gulf War - it was a shot in the arm for the US Economy. Look at the statistics - we started moving out of recession a few months after the war was over. We were in an upswing by 92 that continued on for about 3 years. Of course, the media continued to play up the recession, thanks in part to the politcal genius of Bill Clinton and Carville's "it's the economy stupid" attack. Give them credit - it worked.

Look more carefully, the up swing from wars is from war time production, not from watching CNN. People getting jobs to support the war effort is where you get an economic boost from. We are getting no new jobs from this war.

The Gulf War had no effect on the economy (other than bad), but if you want to credit Bush for anything (as I do) it is for reversing Reagan's policy of VooDoo economics by making the hard choice to raise taxes.

I'm a Bush fan, but I'd be living in a fake reality if I thought his chances for reelection were 100%. Right now, his chances for reelection are no better than they were for his father in 1991. If the war goes well, they will be better. If the war goes well and he gets his tax package through (which will stimulate the economy), his chances will be even better. But a sure thing it is not.

Yes, tax breaks for the rich... oh, I'm sorry, I mean middle class. Of course the Republican version of what is middle class starts with families making $250,000 a year.

And why didn't the first tax cut make any difference? Oh, wait, could it be that people out of work don't need a tax cut. Bush has taken a historic surplus that should have lasted 8 to 10 years and turned it into deficits the like this country has never seen before. He did this in less than three years!

The damage that Bush has done to this country and our world is staggering.

So what will Gore contribute? My guess - environmental initiatives.

Maybe you need to learn the truth behind the jokes that people post here. You know the one, people saying that Gore said that he "invented the Internet". What was it that he really said?

by Al Gore:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Which he did. Before Gore there was a network created and used by the DOD, NSF and NCSA that was also being used by some Universities. This was a communication and research tool for people in these fields, but with no access for the general public. Gore was the person who first put the vision forward that this would be of great benefit to the general public. He lead all the major pushes for funding and creation of what we all take for granted today.

While making those pushes in Congress he was also writing a semi-regular column with Byte magazine. He talked about what he thought the internet could be used for beyond it's most sterile technical uses at the time. This person whose vision that became the Internet that we know today (maybe not exactly as he had thought it would be, but his core ideas and funding laid it's foundation) has more than enough qualifications for sitting on Apple's (and many other computer and software company's) board.