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.
On Al Gore’s little “internet” invention…
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
On his energy use:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
Congrats to the rapidly maturing MDN crew on bypassing the opportunity to spew further lies about Gore’s energy use. Shame about your commenters, though. Is this the sort of high-class establishment you want to be associated with?
Quad Core…
I love your usage of the word “fact”, where what you really mean is “my selective version of the facts”.
1) Yes, there were Al Qua’ida camps in northern Iraq prior to the invasion. However what your “fact” fails to recall – because it inconveniently doesn’t support your position – is that Hussein’s regime had no control of the of that region as it was a) part of the no-fly zone and b) effectively under Kurdish control.
In reality, those camps were operated by groups who have only become Al Qua’ida “franchises” since the “liberation” of Iraq, and Kurdish authorities have long since been beating the drum that Iran and Al Qua’ida will ,from time to time, co-operate with each other in the interests of disrupting the US-led occupation, despite the fact that each views the other as either heretics or apostates.
2) It doesn’t matter how much electricity is consumed by Gore’s home, because he pays extra to purchase electricity generated by renewable means. On that basis, he could use ten times what he currently uses and still generate a smaller carbon footprint than most normal American homes.
3) Firing the attorneys wasn’t the problem. The problem was the justification for the firing turns out to have been wholly disingenuous (seemingly having more to do with political expediency/loyalty than competence) and then your party decided to dig an even bigger hole by abusing provisions in the Patriot Act to bypass Congressional oversight on the appointment of the replacements.
And then – because this White House appears to be staffed by fully-functioning idiots – the administration you support has mounted one of the most inept defense campaigns I can remember: remember, given the lapdog nature of the current WH press corps, this could have been dealt with by Gonzales fronting up at the start by saying “Yep, it was my choice and my right as the AG, so fuck you and the horse you rode in on”. Instead, we’ve had lie after evasion after half-truth and the joy of senior DoJ appointees taking the Fifth.
Blaming the media because the WH can’t work out which lie it wants to tell on any given day is bizarre, even if you are one of the 25% of white, middle-class males (who don’t have relatives serving in Iraq) who still believe in this administration’s direction and policy.
Quad Core…
Some logic for you explain
Let’s say I accept that Nazi means National Socialist
Let’s say I accept your theory that Socialist in this context means far-left.
Let’s also accept that Prescott Bush (your beloved Missing Link president’s grandfather) was laundering money for companies supporting the Nazi regime – it’s a matter of public record so I wouldn’t bother arguing. BTW, so were Ford and General Motors so he was in good company.
So what you’re saying is that the Bush family actually made money from supporting communism and probably should have been hauled up before HUAC back in the Fifties.
Or are you just talking out of your ass?
Chrissy one = lesbian terrorist lover
he’s using that internet thing he invented to search for manbearpig…
Feeling a lot hot air right now…
oh it’s from Richard, never mind…
So Jobs wants Gore for prez in 2008? Makes me want to buy a PC.
btw – here’s the infamous Al Gore internet quote:
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet” Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.
So he didn’t INVENT the internet, he merely CREATED it, apparently right after letting there be light and creating the heavens and the earth.
Mondale
Attention to detail. If you demand it, supply it. Hence the law of supply and demand. Yes, that was a joke.
” because he pays extra to purchase electricity generated by renewable means. On that basis, he could use ten times what he currently uses and still generate a smaller carbon footprint than most normal American homes.”
According to the link above, Gore pays “$432.00 a month premium in order to obtain SOME of their electricity from ‘green’ sources.” Not all, or even most.
Also, his gas billed averaged $1080.00 a month for the house and guest house.
And for #3 above, can you provide a little backup there? Besides what “reporters” ‘report’? I’m curious.
Having viewed Al Gore glazed gaze while fondling his mouse on the seventy to eighty square centimeters of open desktop, I realize that the man who purports to have the most scientific brain in the Democrat party doesn’t use a trackball. If Al’s oblivious to the obvious functionality of a trackball with limited desktop area I suspect that Al is also ignorant of data that contradicts his narrow-minded assumptions of human influence on global warming.
Classic selfish liberal BS master. His hyperbole is scaring the crap out of kids while his lifestyle makes him the classic offender. His three monitors are so hot they are melting the icecaps on Mars. Son-of-a-B… we’d better send him there STAT to save the universe.
Dave
Don’t be so silly. Al can only save our SOLAR SYSTEM. Grok from Planet Putinoid is over the greater ‘Universe Expansion Slowing Down Due To Humans” problem. And if I know Grok, he’a got his Particle Accelerating Magnadouche (or P.A.M.) aimed and ready to fire at us, causing everyone to slip off the face of the Earth from “centrifugal farce”©.
I have bought Gravity Offset credits, and I encourage you and all SMART humans (the stupid ones will NEVER understand) to hurry up and get them while they are available at
“We Suck So The Earth Will Survive Foundation”
Remember, only YOU can prevent Galactic Fires!
Why must we always say screen ‘real estate’ instead of area? Is it somehow clever to say real estate? Or is it just that it makes us feel clever?
Why?
Allow me.
area is equal to “width x height”
real estate is “cents x sense”
I hope that helps.
“….you are one of the 25% of white, middle-class males (who don’t have relatives serving in Iraq) who still believe in this administration’s direction and policy.”
You have no idea what color I am, and that makes no difference to anyone but the racists who feel the need to classify people based on color and sexual orientation. And I do have relatives in Iraq at this very moment.
I got a gas grill.
Free cover.
Now I have both.
Charcoal for when I have time to wait for the gourmet hardwood coals to warm up,
gas for when expediency is required.
MW-change.
Didn’t have to. Have both now.
OMG!
That is just over the top!
He don’t need 3 30″ displays just to surf the web and watch internet porn!
O.o
Introducing the new Apple Monitor…
‘iGORE’ – 3x the green house gasses in glorious hd quality!
”why surf the net for porn with only one tiny 30″ monitor when you can surf with the iGore.’
Just plug iGore into your office setup, turn on and just see those green-house gasses expand. With the iGore you will never want to save the planet again!
Price: $9999,999999 (and 200 years until the human race frys)
*iGore needs an office size of 10m x 10m to get the most green house gasses into the environment.
ssssWeet setup. But how many litres of mercury are in those things.
They’re 23″ not 30″.
Great to see that he’s a true environmentalist. I’m jealous none the less.
Why has it come to this? How can we win anything when the country is at war with its self?
What is all of this partisan name calling about over some retired politician/movie guy and his monitors? Personal attacks ad infinitum because you don’t like his politics or his movies? Man. Just disagree with him & refrain from the schoolboy name calling.
I won’t pick a side in this pissing match, because I love my country… I love it enough to know that this petty partisanship is contributing to our downfall as a country. Everyone from both sides is in the same boat.
This polarization only helps the MDN ad servers.
Listen to Bill Clinton speak without benefit of a writer. Those are complete sentences he uses, and they demonstrate and understanding of what he’s talking about. Bill Clinton never said anything like “Is our children learning?” or demonstrated nearly two years after a major event that he still didn’t understand it:
“I’m a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There’s a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.”—Discussing post-Katrina wetland improvements, New Orleans, March 1, 2007
” restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons”
My English teacher would have ripped me a knew one for using ‘a lot’.
Also,eloquence can belie a true monster. Hitler gave great speeches.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it….
Nice one Nukeman. I’m still laughing!
amazing….
all of the things that are wrong in the world today, and all of the things the man in the picture has done, both right and wrong, and this devolves into an argument about hypocrisy because because of the tiny drop in the bucket of energy use of a couple monitors?
…we might as well admit that this country is lost, it is all over. last one out turn off the lights.