I got this email today with a link to a web site of a neat HO Layout in Italy. I hope it was legit because I opened it and there were some nice pics.
Looks like you’re the only lucky one Art
You’re braver than I am I usually delete unknown emails
and i’d have missed all those nice pictures!
Makes me wonder why you got it !
No E-Mail, but I’ve been to that site a few times. Great layout!
Yes, I got one several weeks ago. It leads to Angelo Batistella’s Tall Pine Railroad. Nice layout -0 it was in MR some years ago. Web site has been there for years - I think Al Gore contacted Angelo and had him put it up when Al first invented the internet! [:o)]
I’ve been to the TPRR web site before, too. It’s a nice one.
Tom
Actually,
I think it’s time we stop maligning the man who won the 2000 election.
Paul
Heh, heh. Apparently, he can’t count, either.[:o)]
No, create is a synomym for invent. It is NOT a synonym for promote. Check your thesaurus please.
There is no ambiguity. It’s a sentence that any fifth grader can understand. It’s like the bill of rights. The rights of the people are the rights of the people.
Gore, like most politicians deliberately attempted to mislead the voters. He probably didn’t even take any initiative at all. A check of the record will likely show that he was merely a co-signer of a bill that was not of his sole authorship.
I wonder if he invented model railroading too or just real railroads. [:)]
Yes, I got the email today and it is legit!
A few years ago I registered on his web site, Angelo Battistella is in Italy and does great work. I also like his web design too.
Cheers,
Ryan
Not that I’m up for a flame war or political discussion, but this is one thing I cannot let go. Al Gore did win more individual votes than did George Bush. However, due to the design of the Electoral College, Bush won more electoral votes, making him President.
“Create” is an ambigious term. While I might agree that Gore did not choose the best word to use there, the word has often been used in the context of providing the authorization and initiative to bring in something new. It isn’t cut and dry.
Back on topic, I haven’t seen this railroad’s website, but from the support here I am definitely going to check it out!
ArtHill, Now SEE what you started.[:P]
And yet another thread heads off into political debate! I wonder if on political forums (assuming there are some) the discussions break into the facets of model railroading?
WOW. I missed all that. I was downstairs working on the steel staircase into Yellowstone canyon. I am slowly learning to appreciate you guys who can really solder those little parts.
Arthill, I can’t wait to see the photos! Heh heh heh, I feel the same way about those who are gifted with solder…I type this looking at and rubbing my solder burn from Sunday. 
Here’s a fuller explanation http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
and another view http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/
Context is important.
context: “the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect: You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context.”
The essence of the internet springs from the Strategic Air Command’s 465L Command and Control system of the 1960s; SAC’s computers were talking to each other way back in those halcyon days of yesteryear!!!
Yes, I’ve got one - in the spam file . [:(!]
And it got me a good time, great pictures. This guy can take pictures!!!
Wolfgang
I agree - Quit denigrating George W Bush! [}:)]
My comment about Gore and the internet was sardonic humor - nothing more (that’s what the clown face was there to indicate). You might have been joking as well, but I can’t really tell for sure (were you?).
Sorry, didn’t realize you were attempting humor. Even Al Gore has poked fun at it as well. But so many people have used it as an attack that it’s hard to tell with the bare printed word (I thought you’re clown face was a further reference to Gore, my mistake.)
My line you quote was a bit of humor (admittedly weak). Of course Bush won the vote that really counted 5-4 [oX)]. As did “8-7 Hayes”, which come to think of it also involved Florida.
Enjoy
Paul
All politics aside, the Internet was conceived by MIT scientists, probably at least partially under Defense Department grants, and developed by scientists in the UK, and at UCLA, and began life as we know it in 1969.
"Origins of the Internet
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.
Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work