TIME Magazine has published a photo essay, “Al Gore’s American Life,” which shows former U.S. Vice President and current Apple Inc. Board of Directors member Al Gore’s personal computer setup which features no less than three 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays which are each capable of 2560 x 1600 resolution:
See the full image, which includes Gore’s very cluttered office, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Gore enjoys (screen) real estate, but you’d think that massive monitor setup would help Gore achieve something much closer to a paperless office (see full image). Think of the trees, Al. Although we’re hardly ones to talk, we hereby nominate Gore for TLC’s “Clean Sweep” TV program.
Al Gore could live in a shack on the beach and never use electricity again – and it would make absolutely no difference on the causes of global warming. These attacks on his supposed hypocrisy is hypocritical in itself. Gore never said that people must give up using electricity or gasoline. His opponents attack him personally in order to discredit his message.
Won’t change anything. The earth will warm, the sea level will rise and those people who blame Al Gore exclusively for global warming will continue to look like fools.
Big deal. I’d have that setup too if I were that loaded. I’m glad to see an office as cluttered as mine. The emissions an SUV spits out in a month equate to more damage than those flat screens over their lifetime. You really want to see some environmental damage? Look at the impact of home heating- and the fact that most new homes are not built with energy star furnaces, despite the fact that the technology exists to go from 80% efficient to 94% efficient. Pays for itself in 3 years in northern climates. If that doesn’t impress you, consider that folks are allowed to put up little woodburning furnace shacks in their backyards that are 40-50% efficient- even though the technology exists to make them 70-80% efficient. Why aren’t they more efficient? Because they are not subject to REGULATION. In home woodstoves are, incidentally, and today you cannot buy one less than 70% efficient. Thanks, EPA. Kind of off the computer topic though.
Idrhawke: I think those are three 24″ displays
They’re 30 inches. U.S. inches are smaller than imperial inches.
The WAR IN IRAQ AND Elsewhere against TERRORISM IS NOT A MISTAKE
The terrorists are not blowing up your children in the US are they?
Why? Because the US took the war to the enemy, on his turf and using up their resources instead of allowing them to come here and kill us.
Mistake my @$$, stupid liberal
Terrorists don’t care if your a Liberal Democrat or a Rapid Republican, they will SLIT YOUR THROAT REGARDLESS.
Unless you convert to Islam of course, and you liberals think conservatism is bad…. hehhehe, try their oppressive religion for awhile.
Google for Taliban atrocities.
And so the kneejerk Republicans come out and attack Gore for no other reason than, well, he’s Al Gore. Nothing substantive. Nothing based on fact. Just a heap of invective based on some “infotainment” they heard on Faux Noise.
How tragic it must be to still cling to the notion that the election of George W. Bush – ironically one of the few humans on the planet who is an argument against the theory of evolution – in 2000 and 2004 was a positive selection for Republicans, America, the Western Hemisphere or indeed the world in general.
Still, if you like having an administration that can lose billions of dollars without having the faintest idea where it went, can subvert the US Constitution or manage to turn the routine replacement of some US District Attorneys into a political quagmire that keeps the headline writers busy for a few months, this is the presidency for you.
Even I will slightly regret the day George W. Bush leaves office – but then I have several friends who are reliant on comedy for a living, and I’m worried I may have to start buying drinks again.
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What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners?
They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma.
Many in the medieval church were criticized by internal reformers and the public at large for their controversial granting of penance, especially to the wealthy and influential. Clergy increasingly offered absolution of sins by ordering the guilty to confess. Better yet, sometimes the well-heeled sinners were told to pay money to the church, or to do good works that could then be banked to offset their bad.
Of course, critics of the practice argued that serial confessions simply encouraged serial sinning. The calculating sinner would do good things in one place to offset his premeditated bad in another. The corruption surrounding these cynical penances and indulgences helped anger Martin Luther and cause the Reformation.
Maybe it was inevitable that the old practice of paid absolution would appeal to elite baby boomers — a class and generation that always seems to want it both ways by compartmentalizing their lives. The only difference is that the new sinners are not so worried about God’s wrath as they are about their reputation among their judgmental liberal gods.
Take the idea of “carbon offsets” made popular by Al Gore. If well-meaning environmentalist activists and celebrities either cannot or will not give up their private jets or huge energy-hungry houses, they can still find a way to excuse their illiberal consumption.
Instead of the local parish priest, green companies exist to take confession and tabulate environmental sins. Then they offer the offenders a way out of feeling bad while continuing their conspicuous consumption.
You can give money to an exchange service that does environmental good in equal measure to your bad. Or, in do-it-yourself fashion, you can calibrate how much energy you hog — and then do penance by planting trees or setting up a wind generator.
Either way, your own high life stays uninterrupted.
Some prominent green activists pay their environmental penance in cash, barter, or symbolism to keep the good life. Al Gore, for example, still gets to use 20 times more electricity in his Tennessee mansion than the average household.
Take also the case of Laurie David, the green activist and wife of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. She has recently generated plenty of publicity for her biofuel-powered bus tour to promote environmentalism. But in other circumstances, David still flies on gas-guzzling private jets.
The best thing about this medieval idea of penance is that it can now be repackaged as politically correct “offsets.” During the last few decades, the return of these modern indulgences has caught on in a variety of ways.
Liberal presidential candidate John Edwards, for example, lives in a 30,000-square-foot home, gets $400 haircuts, and recently made a lot of cash by working for a profit-driven, cutthroat hedge fund. How’s he supposed to alleviate his guilt over this? Presto! He can lecture others about the inequity of an American system that unfairly created two unequal societies — his rich nation and many others’ poor one.
Don Imus was serially warned that his foul and sometimes racist banter would eventually get him into big trouble. Still, as he kept up his trash talking aimed at Jews, women, and blacks, Imus also generously donated to, and even set up charities for, wounded veterans and poor children.
Thus, when his slurs inevitably crossed the line one too many times, Imus not only confessed and apologized, but, inevitably, claimed his indulgences of past good deeds in hopes of offsetting the present bad ones.
These varieties of contemporary offsets could be expanded. But you get the picture of the moral ambiguity. Penance, ancient and modern, was thought corrupt because it was not sincere apology nor genuine in its promise to stop the sin.
Thanks to carbon offsets, Al Gore keeps his mansion — and still feels good while warning others we all can’t live as he does.
John Edwards chooses to offset his own privileges by sermonizing about unfairness in America.
And who can forget George Soros? The billionaire can lavishly fund liberal causes such as left-wing think tanks, websites, and ballot initiatives — and thereby offset his millions made speculating on exchange rates and bankrupting small depositors. He’s become a hero to those who ordinarily demonize such financial piracy.
In other words, “offsets” is merely a euphemism for words like cynicism and hypocrisy. So by all means help save the planet, worry about the poor, establish charities. Just spare us the medieval idea that such penance ever excuses your own excess.
TO: Richard
If Georges father hadn’t been a big man in Texas, George would have been a dead man in Vietnam. He would have wound up working nowhere.
//btw – the word you probably meant earlier is a moron, not a maroon.
maroon is a brownish-crimson color OR a certain type of firework.
Maroon is a totally different thing.
Had to complain. So many damn people here don’t know the difference.
How typically Republican to attack the messenger. You can’t argue with his message, so you attack the man. It reminds me of the long ling of former Bush administration officials who’ve been described as “disgruntled” simply because they no longer felt the need to toe the party line when they left office. It’s absolutely undemocratic and anti-American to attack a man’s character simply because you disagree with his politics.
Shame on all of you who repeat the lies (Gore never claimed to invent the internet) and distort the truth (Gore is in the middle of remodeling to make the home efficient, and anyone who’s done it knows that takes time, money and doesn’t improve efficiency until you’re nearly done) just to make a political point.
Wow, what a productivity boost you’d get with that! Notice he still has a flat screen TV on the right…and therein lies a flaw. And a topic more useful than consumption or politics or just who is blowing up who.
Chris–Hahahahahahahaha. And more–Hahahahahahaha.
not all conservatives are stupid, but all stupid people are conservative.
“As I noted, (along with most of the rest of the world). G.W. Bush is obviously stupid.”
And yet as stupid as you say he is, he defeated Gore, he defeated Kerry, he won two wars, he has the lowest unemployment in decades, the markets are higher than ever, tax revenues are at record highs with tax cuts…..
“As I said, the few who admit to voting for the worst president in history are the dumb ones.”
But yet some still admit they voted for Jimmy Carter
>”A vote for Nader was a vote for Bush”
Uh… No, a vote for Nader was a vote for Nader.
People seriously need to study the fundamental principals of logic. Start with 1+1=2 and move up from there.
You know, I really love my Mac… Oh, sorry, wrong website.
FSCKING POLITICS says:
“Why? Because the US took the war to the enemy, on his turf and using up their resources instead of allowing them to come here and kill us.”
Osama Bin Laden is in Iraq?
Terrorists (al Queda, etc.) were in Iraq?
Or, do you mean that the Sunni & Shitte are going to board planes and come to America to fight their turf war?
It’s been said before, but I must say it again. You Gore-bashers don’t realize that he runs his house and office on “green” electricity; no fossil fuels, so it isn’t hypocritical.
“Many of you are well enough off that…the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good”? – Hillary Clinton
Quad Core, I don’t know where to begin.
That aside, you say “as stupid as I say he is”.
Well, what about those clips? Does he sound stupid to YOU?
So, if he was “elected” twice, I guess we’re pretty dumb, eh?
(Actually, it’s the Relig. Right that we’re dumb enough. Even though it’s become known that the Admin. actually has disdain for them. But then again, if I were dumb enough to think the Earth was 10,000 years old, I guess I’d be dumb enough to vote for Bush, too.)
Is that what they think? 10,00 years?
“Gore never said that people must give up using electricity or gasoline.”
That is not true.
Al Gore stated in his 1992 book, “Earth in the Balance” that the internal combustion engine was…”a mortal threat . . . more deadly than that of any military enemy.”
He later gave a speech in which he called for the elimination of the combustion engine by 2017.
Always Right = Terrorist Scum!
Harriet, are you for real?
C’mon, explain yourself.
Ok. I get it. You can’t really put together a coherent sentence, right?
Try. (I told you, you listen to “LimpBalls” enough, and “Faux “news” InfoTainment (TM)”, your mind turns to mush.
“Well, what about those clips? Does he sound stupid to YOU?”
Yes, in those clips he does. If those were the only things he ever said, and he did not have the record that I listed above, I might agree with you.
However, would you want to be judges based solely on a couple of lines? I would hope not, as wrote the following…
“Actually, it’s the Relig. Right that we’re dumb enough.”
I think you meant ‘were’.
“Even though it’s become known that the Admin. actually has disdain for them.”
That isn’t a complete sentence.
“Is that what they think? 10,00 years?”
No. However, everyone has the right to their opinions regarding creationism vs. evolution.
Osama Bin Laden is in Iraq?
Terrorists (al Queda, etc.) were in Iraq?
Or, do you mean that the Sunni & Shitte are going to board planes and come to America to fight their turf war?
You can’t be that stupid, but just in case you are….
Yes, Al Queda is in Iraq, Afganastan, Turkey, Saudia Arabia, Pakastan and England, Asia and even here in the US and many other places.
Global war on terrorism, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.
But if you think otherwise, your welcome to pack your bags for the middle east. I’m sure they will be more than happy to slit your dumb throat.
and yes, I just noticed my grammatical mistakes as well, so don’t judge me based solely on that either
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