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http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod

Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how this led
to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However, it turns
out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a hidden ally:
the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University, President
(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the government
funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal
compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were
the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While we have to gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies such as DARPA
in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also feel
obligated to point out the accomplishments of private companies in the
US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to mention the Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3 codec, and
codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used by Apple
in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his Steveness; we knew
he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his level of
influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve, while you're
at it, why not get the government to resolve the display problems
plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get their best
minds on it and fix it in no time.

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Entity 666 uttered this profundity:

microdrive storage, electrochemistry ~ signal
compression. ~ accomplishments~ Hitachi ~ Toshiba ~
Fraunhofer Institute ~ codec ~ codeveloped

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said all those big words.

-- Gnarlie

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666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod

Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how this led
to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However, it turns
out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a hidden ally:
the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University, President
(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the government
funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were
the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While we have to gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies such as DARPA
in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also feel
obligated to point out the accomplishments of private companies in the
US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to mention the Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3 codec, and
codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used by Apple
in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his Steveness; we knew
he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his level of
influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve, while you're
at it, why not get the government to resolve the display problems
plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get their best
minds on it and fix it in no time.

To this day, the liars on the right love to quote Al Gore as claiming
to have "invented the Internet," which, of course, he never said, and
his actual quote, if a bit heavy on the hyperbole, wasn't far off.
Funny, I don't think these same wack-jobs will be taking Bush to task
for taking credit for the iPod.

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666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.

That's devilishly clever, posting such to a nice diverse groups.

Adjusted.

--
lsmft
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Conservatives Hate America wrote:
.

To this day, the liars on the

Whatever.

Groups adjusted.

=

lsmft
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Conservatives Hate America wrote:

666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod >>
Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how this led
to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However, it turns
out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a hidden ally:
the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University, President
(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the government
funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal
compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were
the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While we have to
gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies such as DARPA
in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also feel
obligated to point out the accomplishments of private companies in the
US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to mention the
Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3 codec, and
codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used by Apple
in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his Steveness; we knew
he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his level of
influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve, while you're
at it, why not get the government to resolve the display problems
plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get their best
minds on it and fix it in no time.

To this day, the liars on the right love to quote Al Gore as claiming
to have "invented the Internet," which, of course, he never said, and
his actual quote, if a bit heavy on the hyperbole, wasn't far off.
Funny, I don't think these same wack-jobs will be taking Bush to task
for taking credit for the iPod.

I wonder what government agency's research led to the invention of the vibrating
dildo?

--
There are only two kinds of Republicans: Millionaires and fools.
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In article <C06D5146.18756%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

Entity 666 uttered this profundity:

microdrive storage, electrochemistry ~ signal
compression. ~ accomplishments~ Hitachi ~ Toshiba ~
Fraunhofer Institute ~ codec ~ codeveloped

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said all those big words.

-- Gnarlie

Let's see your Yale degree, smartass.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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In article <stevewjackson-861AE5.17024520042006@individual.net>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote:

In article <C06D5146.18756%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

Entity 666 uttered this profundity:

microdrive storage, electrochemistry ~ signal compression. ~ accomplishments~ Hitachi ~ Toshiba ~ Fraunhofer Institute ~ codec
~ codeveloped

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said
all those big words.

-- Gnarlie

Let's see your Yale degree, smartass.

You don't need big words like that to get a degree from Yale. At least
not as a legacy admission.
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In article <w6SdndnslsIVYdrZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

Conservatives Hate America wrote:
.

To this day, the liars on the

Whatever.

Groups adjusted.

=

lsmft

Loose straps do indeed make floppy tits :)

--
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In article <stevewjackson-861AE5.17024520042006@individual.net>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote:

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said
all those big words.

-- Gnarlie

Let's see your Yale degree, smartass.

Bush's daddy bought him a Yale degree, big friggin deal.

--
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"GW Chimpzilla's Eye-Rack Neocon Utopia" <gw@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:yfT1g.109666$oL.59231@attbi_s71...

Conservatives Hate America wrote:

666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod >>>
Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how this led
to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However, it turns
out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a hidden ally:
the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University, President
(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the government
funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal
compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were
the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While we have to
gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies such as DARPA
in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also feel
obligated to point out the accomplishments of private companies in the
US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to mention the
Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3 codec, and
codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used by Apple
in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his Steveness; we knew
he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his level of
influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve, while you're
at it, why not get the government to resolve the display problems
plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get their best
minds on it and fix it in no time.

To this day, the liars on the right love to quote Al Gore as claiming
to have "invented the Internet," which, of course, he never said, and
his actual quote, if a bit heavy on the hyperbole, wasn't far off.
Funny, I don't think these same wack-jobs will be taking Bush to task
for taking credit for the iPod.

I wonder what government agency's research led to the invention of the vibrating
dildo?

Interior Department?

--
"...would Jesus smack me down? Most likely..." -- Matthew Ogilvie


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Don Bruder wrote:

In article <w6SdndnslsIVYdrZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

lsmft

Loose straps do indeed make floppy tits :)

Man, you must be as old as I am.....it was also "Lucky Strikes means
fine tobacco" originally, and a bunch of other stuff followed, some of
it sung by that old fav. band, The Hotnuts. "Let's stop, ......."


--
John McWilliams
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GW Chimpzilla's Eye-Rack Neocon Utopia <gw@hotmail.com> wrote in news:yfT1g.109666$oL.59231@attbi_s71:

Conservatives Hate America wrote:

666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-i
pod

Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how this led
to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However, it turns
out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a hidden ally:
the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University, President
(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the government
funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal
compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were
the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While we have to
gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies such as
DARPA in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also feel
obligated to point out the accomplishments of private companies in the
US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to mention
the Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3 codec, and
codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used by Apple
in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his Steveness; we knew
he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his level of
influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve, while you're
at it, why not get the government to resolve the display problems
plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get their best
minds on it and fix it in no time.

To this day, the liars on the right love to quote Al Gore as claiming
to have "invented the Internet," which, of course, he never said, and
his actual quote, if a bit heavy on the hyperbole, wasn't far off.
Funny, I don't think these same wack-jobs will be taking Bush to task
for taking credit for the iPod.

I wonder what government agency's research led to the invention of the vibrating dildo?

Office of Applied Technology?



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In article <a6OdnbFzCaPmu9XZnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

Don Bruder wrote:

In article <w6SdndnslsIVYdrZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

lsmft

Loose straps do indeed make floppy tits :)

Man, you must be as old as I am.....it was also "Lucky Strikes means
fine tobacco" originally, and a bunch of other stuff followed, some of
it sung by that old fav. band, The Hotnuts. "Let's stop, ......."

How about "Lucky Strike green has gone to war; yes, Lucky Strike green
has gone to war" as the slogan to usher in the white pack with the red
circle?

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3
7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:14:22 -0500, Tom Stiller wrote
(in article <tomstiller-777667.23142220042006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>):

How about "Lucky Strike green has gone to war; yes, Lucky Strike green
has gone to war" as the slogan to usher in the white pack with the red circle?

I can remember, as a child, that my mother often smoked Lucky Strikes when
the package was still that, what I'll call, forest green. My moment of
delight was when she bought the "flat fifty" pack which came in a tin container which contained two rows of twenty five cigarettes. That tin, at least for a kid, was capable of storing all kinds of treasures, such as crayons or pencils.

--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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In article <0001HW.C06DBB600012EDB0F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

I can remember, as a child, that my mother often smoked Lucky Strikes when the package was still that, what I'll call, forest green. My moment of delight was when she bought the "flat fifty" pack which came in a tin container which contained two rows of twenty five cigarettes. That tin, at least for a kid, was capable of storing all kinds of treasures, such as crayons or pencils.

A few years ago I inherited a number of my grandpa's tools. Included in
the mix was a metal "Black Cat" cigarette tin (maybe only a Canadian
brand) containing his collection of nail sets. With "Nail Sets" written
on it in his hand.

Treasure, indeed.
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In article <tomstiller-777667.23142220042006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@comcast.net> wrote:

How about "Lucky Strike green has gone to war; yes, Lucky Strike
green has gone to war" as the slogan to usher in the white pack with
the red circle?

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

--
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush.
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

And, back to Lucky Strike, those commercials in the fifties which featured chorus lines of dancing cigarettes.


--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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In article <0001HW.C06E450E001B4837F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in
article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

Man, my Dad smoked two packs of Pall Mall reds a day. It was a real SOB
when he quit smoking, took him about a year to get over it.

And, back to Lucky Strike, those commercials in the fifties which
featured chorus lines of dancing cigarettes.

Wasn't Lucky Strike the brand that had the "I'd rather fight than
switch" campaign in the late 60s, with models with back eyes?
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In article <timmcn-5C9211.09234821042006@news.iphouse.com>, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

In article <0001HW.C06E450E001B4837F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in
article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

Man, my Dad smoked two packs of Pall Mall reds a day. It was a real SOB >when he quit smoking, took him about a year to get over it.

And, back to Lucky Strike, those commercials in the fifties which
featured chorus lines of dancing cigarettes.

Wasn't Lucky Strike the brand that had the "I'd rather fight than
switch" campaign in the late 60s, with models with back eyes?

Tareyton. I don't smoke but I remember the '60s commercials.

--
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"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
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In article <stevewjackson-861AE5.17024520042006@individual.net>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote:

Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

Entity 666 uttered this profundity:

microdrive storage, electrochemistry ~ signal
compression. ~ accomplishments~ Hitachi ~ Toshiba ~
Fraunhofer Institute ~ codec ~ codeveloped

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said all those
big words.

Let's see your Yale degree, smartass.

I have an Ivy League degree, and the Shrub is an ass.
--
D.F. Manno | dfmanno@mail.com
I don't trust organized anything: teams, religions, corporations.
People in enterprise together consistently do two things: promulgate
the enterprise, no matter what, and protect miscreants in their midst.
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In article <0001HW.C06E450E001B4837F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

And, back to Lucky Strike, those commercials in the fifties which featured chorus lines of dancing cigarettes.

And Johnny, the bellman, yelling "Call for Philip Morris".

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3
7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
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Dave Balderstone wrote:

In article <0001HW.C06DBB600012EDB0F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

I can remember, as a child, that my mother often smoked Lucky Strikes when >>the package was still that, what I'll call, forest green. My moment of >>delight was when she bought the "flat fifty" pack which came in a tin >>container which contained two rows of twenty five cigarettes. That tin, at >>least for a kid, was capable of storing all kinds of treasures, such as >>crayons or pencils.

A few years ago I inherited a number of my grandpa's tools. Included in
the mix was a metal "Black Cat" cigarette tin (maybe only a Canadian
brand) containing his collection of nail sets. With "Nail Sets" written
on it in his hand.

Treasure, indeed.

Nice. I don't recall anything but the red Luckies. And just how lucky
were those who smoked 'em?

Let's change this OT thread on politics to OT on cancer!!

[the reminiscing, it's a good thing....]

--
john mcwilliams
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Tom Stiller wrote:

In article <0001HW.C06E450E001B4837F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

And, back to Lucky Strike, those commercials in the fifties which featured >>chorus lines of dancing cigarettes.

And Johnny, the bellman, yelling "Call for Philip Morris".

Yassss... Phillip Morrrrriiisssssssss.

--
john mcwilliams
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:20:45 -0500, John McWilliams wrote
(in article <rY-dnSgo5_nQZdXZRVn-gQ@comcast.com>):

Yassss... Phillip Morrrrriiisssssssss.

And I now have that doomp-da-dada, doomp-da-dada melody that accompanied Johnnie banging around in my head!

--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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In article <stevewjackson-861AE5.17024520042006@individual.net>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote:

In article <C06D5146.18756%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

Entity 666 uttered this profundity:

microdrive storage, electrochemistry ~ signal
compression. ~ accomplishments~ Hitachi ~ Toshiba ~
Fraunhofer Institute ~ codec ~ codeveloped

Nobody is going to convince me our lummox of a president ever said all those
big words.

Let's see your Yale degree, smartass.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm not through yet, you know I was uhh. Uhh -- hehe -- the, umm, it is
-- I'm glad my Vice President is not running for President, not that he
would make a great President, but that it, uhh, it certainly changes the dynamics inside the White House. It's uhh -- and it is an amazing
moment, you're right, it's, I, I guess it's the most wide-open race
ever. Oh, it can't be ever. Ever's too long. But -- in a long time.

GWB at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced Int'l Studies, Washington,
D.C., Apr. 10, 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After George repeatedly failed to get into law school, big daddy Bush
had to buy his way into Yale. He was such a good cheerleader. <snicker> Gnarlodious has more intelligence in her fingernail than Bush The Clown
has between his ears.

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Tim McNamara wrote:

In article <0001HW.C06E450E001B4837F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:23:18 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in
article <michelle-74803A.23231820042006@news.west.cox.net>):

[in response to a reminiscence of Lucky Strike green]

How about the dancing Pall Mall cigarette packs?

Man, my Dad smoked two packs of Pall Mall reds a day.

At 64 my Dad has been smoking two packs of Pall Mall reds a day since he
was 15.

Greg
--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
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In article <0001HW.C06E75B90026B072F0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

And I now have that doomp-da-dada, doomp-da-dada melody that
accompanied Johnnie banging around in my head!

James has an earbug; James has an earbug!

--
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In article <00A548B7.9C29D199@SendSpamHere.ORG>,
VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

Wasn't Lucky Strike the brand that had the "I'd rather fight than
switch" campaign in the late 60s, with models with back eyes?

Tareyton. I don't smoke but I remember the '60s commercials.

Then there was the ungrammatical "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should."

Back when Salem was doing it's back-to-outdoors-and nature campaign, MAD Magazine ran a fake ad, showing a man and a woman near a stream with a
pack of "Sailem" cigarettes floating on the stream, with a hand crafted
mast and sail on it; the caption was "Sailem, don't Inhale Em."

--
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In article
<1145566665.146156.204550@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
"Conservatives Hate America"
<conservativeshateamerica@hotmail.com> wrote:

666 wrote:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-

developed-ipod

Apple has long boasted of its culture of innovation, and how

this led

to such products as the original Mac and the iPod. However,

it turns

out that, at least in the case of the iPod, Apple had a

hidden ally:

the US government. During a speech at Tuskegee University,

President

(and iPod user) George W. Bush told his audience, "the

government

funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and

signal

compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that

those were

the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." While

we have to

gratefully acknowledge the efforts of government agencies

such as DARPA

in some of the fields mentioned by the President, we also

feel

obligated to point out the accomplishments of private

companies in the

US and abroad, including IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba -- not to

mention the

Fraunhofer Institute, which developed the original MP3

codec, and

codeveloped (with Sony, AT&T and others) the AAC format used

by Apple

in the iPod. Still, we have to bow down before his

Steveness; we knew

he was well-connected, but until now we had no idea of his

level of

influence in the area of government research. Hey, Steve,

while you're

at it, why not get the government to resolve the display

problems

plaguing the next-gen video iPod? We're sure they'll get

their best

minds on it and fix it in no time.

To this day, the liars on the right love to quote Al Gore as

claiming

to have "invented the Internet," which, of course, he never

said, and

his actual quote, if a bit heavy on the hyperbole, wasn't far

off.

Funny, I don't think these same wack-jobs will be taking Bush

to task

for taking credit for the iPod.

They TOLD me that if I voted for Al Gore, gas prices would go
through the roof and Big Government would take over the universe.

Sure enough, they were right!

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In article
<127b744fbd087f7156ce9643dd939644@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
Fafnir <fritz@spamexpire-200604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:

They TOLD me that if I voted for Al Gore, gas prices would go
through the roof and Big Government would take over the universe.

Sure enough, they were right!

ROTFL!
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