[teal]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by teal:
That's why I phrased it carefully to be the Space Empires phenomena obviously only Aaron can claim to have created Space Empires itself.

That was my point though. You are making a distinction there that Gore did not. He didn't claim to have encourage the growth of the Internet, a claim by many accounts he had the right to make. He didn't claim to have taken the initiative in creating the Internet "Phenomenon", a claim which would probably be a bit excessively boastful but perhaps a case could be made to support it. He stated he had a hand in the creation of the internet. That's why I maintain it must be defined as a fairly serious mistatement of fact, whether intentional or not, rather then mere braggadocio.

Geoschmo

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Oh come on. Only in certain republican dominated alternate realities does the term internet mean only strictly the physical connection of one computer to another in a network. I would be willing to bet that the word is probably more often used to represent the entire phenomena of web surfing, e-mail, Online shopping, data transfer and organization by companies, on time inventory control, etc. It is clearly in that sense that Gore meant the word and only if you were out to hang him and not to give him the reasonable benefit of the doubt would you define the internet in your fashion. Once again the burden of proof is in your court. You must *prove* that Gore was a liar, not wave some words around and make it look like maybe, if cats were only the kind of animals that people have in their houses and not also creatures that live in the wild and behave quite differently from the domestic variety, then the statement was factually incorrect. Language is horribly imprecise, there are many different definitions for each word. Default position for any sentence is that you take the definitions and meanings that make the sentence make sense, not deliberately choose those meanings which make the sentence look bad. Misquoting and misrepresentation are the true evil culprits here. They should be hanged equally when applied to Gore as when applied to Bush.