Nobel Peace Prize
Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2020 11:16 am
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It’s always been a nonsense award. Obama got nominated 11 days after taking office. I’m assuming for unpacking
Obama seemed a nice classy guy. Didn’t do much but still, can’t have everything. Personally my money is on that weird girl who doesn’t go to school. She’s got a limited shelf life so be nice if she got something.frontalman wrote: ↑Wed 09 Sep 2020 2:02 pmI don't know and don't really care, but as human beings go Obama is well toward the top in my estimation, while the other idiot has recently defined himself as an animal.
Sounds a bit of a non reason just marketing puff tbh but even so he was nominated after eleven days in office.kerry 6138 wrote: ↑Wed 09 Sep 2020 9:57 pmBarack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
Yeah must've been or got nominated for choosing peaceful tones for the redecorating scheme or the whole award is a lot of BS.
You think the internet has made the world a more peaceful place ? Can not say I am seeing it myself to be honest ?EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 12:43 pmPersonally I think Al Gore should've won for inventing the internet ....
I think many of the awards have been given for good works that I wouldn't have necessarily said added much to making the world a more peaceful place. But I was being ironic. Between the two of us, despite his claims, I don't actually think that Al invented the internet.erol wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 1:13 pmYou think the internet has made the world a more peaceful place ? Can not say I am seeing it myself to be honest ?EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 12:43 pmPersonally I think Al Gore should've won for inventing the internet ....
Yeah I was aware of that. At the risk of being once more shot down in flames for going off topic, it remains one of the highlights of my life to have had the opportunity to have met and chatted with one of the three 'inventors' (I would say architects) off the internet, Vint Cerf. I still have his business card in my wallet today, some 25 odd years after he handed it to me.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 1:53 pmBut I was being ironic. Between the two of us, despite his claims, I don't actually think that Al invented the internet.
They say never meet your heroes I’ve been disappointed a few times.erol wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 2:26 pmone of the highlights of my life to have had the opportunity to have met and chatted with one of the three 'inventors' (I would say architects) off the internet, Vint Cerf. I still have his business card in my wallet today, some 25 odd years after he handed it to me.
It was Tim Berners-Lee who invented it as an educational tool. Didn't take long for the vultures to mess it up.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 1:53 pmI think many of the awards have been given for good works that I wouldn't have necessarily said added much to making the world a more peaceful place. But I was being ironic. Between the two of us, despite his claims, I don't actually think that Al invented the internet.erol wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 1:13 pmYou think the internet has made the world a more peaceful place ? Can not say I am seeing it myself to be honest ?EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Thu 10 Sep 2020 12:43 pmPersonally I think Al Gore should've won for inventing the internet ....
TBF it's the people that intended to make money out of it that ensured it got into our homes to enable us to video call grandchildren and nice stuff like that. As with anything there are ups and downs and actions have counter actions. If it had stayed an educational tool it would probably have stayed very expensive.frontalman wrote: ↑Fri 11 Sep 2020 10:41 am
It was Tim Berners-Lee who invented it as an educational tool. Didn't take long for the vultures to mess it up.
Sorry to go all nit picky on youfrontalman wrote: ↑Fri 11 Sep 2020 10:41 amIt was Tim Berners-Lee who invented it as an educational tool. Didn't take long for the vultures to mess it up.
Is that still allowed ? It is so hard to know when all the information posts here are swamped with off topic arguments.
See money makers and war makers. Throw in a few porn barons and the convenience of the internet is in everyone's homes.
The 'sex' industry have always been drivers for and early adopters of new technologies. From print, to photography, to cinema, to telephony, to video recorders and on. You could argue from first painting in caves as far as that was a technology. The cores of the same systems you use to today to pay your electricity bill online were first developed by people working out how to charge for access to 'saucy' content over the internet.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Fri 11 Sep 2020 11:14 amSee money makers and war makers. Throw in a few porn barons and the convenience of the internet is in everyone's homes.Blessed be the militaristic, capitalist pornographers.