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Apple boardroom now includes special "Nobel laureate" chair
It's official: Apple's board of directors now has a shiny new certificate to pin up over by the coffee machine, between the volleyball game announcement and the worker's-comp sign. Board member Albert Gore, Jr., who had some government gig before he won an Oscar, is a co-laureate (with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, honoring his work in climate awareness.TUAW extends congratulations to Mr. Gore and to the Apple board, who now have a much better shot at getting the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela to endorse the iPod and Leopard.
Update: Apple's home page currently shows a tribute to Al Gore, and Apple is "bursting with pride." Picture if you read on. [thanks Martijn]
From Apple.com -- Friday 11 October 2007 --
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Sean Flanagan said 1:03PM on 10-12-2007
How can he accept this award when manbearpig is still out there? I'm super serial.
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jr said 1:17PM on 10-12-2007
Too bad that the body that gives out the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't care about accuracy. Gore's movie and speeches have been shown and proven to be riddled with so many inaccuracies that only willfully ignorant individuals would consider his current Climate Crusade to be of any value to humanity.
And peace? What does Al Gore's crusade have to do with peace?
I guess Al probably feels really good and Apple has a new marketing angle. Where does Al go from here? Oscar, Nobel Peace Prize... What next? Sainthood? It's all downhill now, Al.
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Simon Arch said 1:25PM on 10-12-2007
Nobody likes a showoff, Al.
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Fraser Drew said 1:32PM on 10-12-2007
My favourite fact about the Nobel Prize (especially the peace one)
Mr Alfred Nobel was the inventor of Dynamite, quite the opposite of peace!!
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miguel said 1:37PM on 10-12-2007
this is so lame ... as human kind kill each other day in and day out..peace peace .. but there is no peace
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Bill Tuttle said 1:39PM on 10-12-2007
Wow, another nut case politician wins the leftist man of the year award. Big surprise.
Gore is such a whack-job cult leader that it's laughable. And he's laughing all the way to the bank.
And I thought it was a disgrace when Carter won... At least I don't think he's a scam artist like Al.
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Stephen Macklin said 1:40PM on 10-12-2007
Now al Gore has the same prize as a dead PLO terrorist leader, the former U.N. chief kleptocrat, and the worst US President EVER. (Who still holds that title thanks to al Gore's 2000 election defeat.)
All for making a documentary full of lies propaganda and ridiculous hysteria.
He should be proud.
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required said 1:44PM on 10-12-2007
Way to go President Elect!
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Sam said 1:45PM on 10-12-2007
@Stephen Macklin: William Henry Harrison won a Nobel?
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Sy said 1:49PM on 10-12-2007
Yes ...now Al Gore has something in common with Arafat. The Nobel Prize has become a joke and a political tool.
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RevFelling said 1:49PM on 10-12-2007
You think that TEDDY ROOSEVELT was the WORST US PRESIDENT EVER?!!!!
Man, you've got some twisted standards...
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Rob said 2:20PM on 10-12-2007
NeXT we'll here that Apple will have a chair for people who make up $hit.
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jack.givens said 2:30PM on 10-12-2007
It was not enough that Al Gore won "Rig of the Week", the week I entered (I still think there should be a recount)! Now his incredible hypocrisy get him a Nobel.
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Jon H said 2:49PM on 10-12-2007
"And peace? What does Al Gore's crusade have to do with peace?"
What, you think it's going to be smiles and flowers when the Bangladeshis need to find somewhere new to live because their home country is under water? Or when China and various African states (and Nevada) run out of water?
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buddhistMonkey said 3:42PM on 10-12-2007
Who knew so many global warming deniers frequent technology sites? The wingnuts are really out in force today. Well, too bad, flat-earthers: global warming is real, and the whole world knows it. Al Gore and the climate change agenda are ascendent, while conservatism and polluter protectionism are in decline.
Congratulations, Al. An Oscar, an Emmy, and now, the Nobel Prize. And all in one year, too. There's only one prize bigger, and you've earned it: the Presidency of the United States.
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Ross Carter said 3:58PM on 10-12-2007
I'm sure there are others like myself who consider the Nobel Peace Prize the most prestigious honor in the world today. Granted, the committee's selections sometimes reflect factious preferences; still, there's an aura of respect surrounding any group whose members include Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, George Marshall, Dag Hammerskjold, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr, Anwar Sadat, Mother Theresa, Lech Walesa, Elie Wiesel, Aang San Suu Kyi, and Nelson Mandela.
As an Apple supporter I'm ecstatic that an Apple board member received international recognition for his contribution to humanity. No other company in the world can make that claim.
I for one am not ashamed to say that I'm proud of today's news.
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markthewarrior said 4:01PM on 10-12-2007
Huh, I'm surprised at the amount of scepticism in this thread. Not against it or anything, but surprised. Perhaps Apple's user base isn't as liberal as typically thought?
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DaiMac79 said 4:03PM on 10-12-2007
To further what Jon H said, if you look at the conflict in Darfur, it revolves around water and fertile climate (The Janjaweed want the relatively green area inhabited by the people they are terrorizing), so I can see easily how climate change relates to peace.
Also, I would agree that TR doesn't even make the top 5 (or bottom depending on perspective) worst U.S. Presidents. Assuming we're somehow leaving Georgie Bush Jr off the list, Harding, William Henry Harrison, Taft, Coolidge and Nixon easily beat him. I wavered on Nixon, because he did open China, but I think that little incident known as Watergate merits him a spot.
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DaiMac79 said 4:04PM on 10-12-2007
@markthewarrior: Not really, Rush Limbaugh is a die-hard mac fan last I heard.
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David Owens said 4:18PM on 10-12-2007
The award, but not Mr. Gore, is a complete left wing scam. There is no value at all in the moronic peace prize. They are almost as bad as those fraudulent "genius" awards given away by left wingers. It's also funny how the liberal press has refused to crucify him on his huge carbon footprint mansion.
Oh well.
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