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The root of the matter was that the person in question credited Cage in the liner notes. If that had not been done, the lawsuit would never have happened.

I say F9/11 in the Metreon in downtown San Francisco in June. I saw cheers and tears and anger in the crowd. That might sound like propoganda to you, but what I saw on the screen was everything I had seen before.

Not from some astro-turfing, strawman-fighting internet neocon apologist, but from one of Canada's most trusted sources of news and public affairs documentaries - The Fifth Estate.

Try looking here for a series of stories that ran in October of 2003. Almost all of the more contraversial facts that Michael Moore presents are corroborated there, months before F 9/11 was even heard of.

I was not surprised by what I saw in the movie as I had seen and heard it all before - we seem to get a less filtered view of your government's actions up here - on the nightly news.

Moore's only crime was to make a purposely provocative documentary in a style that would make it enjoyable to watch and easy to remember. In that sense, he is guilty as charged. But make no mistake, it presents facts and it IS a documentary. Many of those same facts can be corroborated here if you think Canadian sources are somehow suspect.

F 9/11 has been out for 3 months now. Now, if it were full of lies and inaccuracies as some people say it is, don't you think somebody allegedy slandered in the film would have sued Moore by now? If not, why? Perhaps because truth is a defence in slander and libel and those involved know that they would loose in court and Moore would be vindicated. I'm sure GWB doesn't want that right now.

Michael Moore to the US populace: "The Emperor Has No Clothes!"

Just because you don't want to believe him, doesn't mean he's not right.

I say F9/11 in the Metreon in downtown San Francisco in June. I saw cheers and tears and anger in the crowd. That might sound like propoganda to you, but what I saw on the screen was everything I had seen before.

Not from some astro-turfing, strawman-fighting internet neocon apologist, but from one of Canada's most trusted sources of news and public affairs documentaries - The Fifth Estate.

Try looking here for a series of stories that ran in October of 2003. Almost all of the more contraversial facts that Michael Moore presents are corroborated there, months before F 9/11 was even heard of.

I was not surprised by what I saw in the movie as I had seen and heard it all before - we seem to get a less filtered view of your government's actions up here - on the nightly news.

Moore's only crime was to make a purposely provocative documentary in a style that would make it enjoyable to watch and easy to remember. In that sense, he is guilty as charged. But make no mistake, it presents facts and it IS a documentary. Many of those same facts can be corroborated here if you think Canadian sources are somehow suspect.

F 9/11 has been out for 3 months now. Now, if it were full of lies and inaccuracies as some people say it is, don't you think somebody allegedy slandered in the film would have sued Moore by now? If not, why? Perhaps because truth is a defence in slander and libel and those involved know that they would loose in court and Moore would be vindicated. I'm sure GWB doesn't want that right now.

Michael Moore to the US populace: "The Emperor Has No Clothes!"

Just because you don't want to believe him, doesn't mean he's not right.

You may want to check out some of the Canadian media. All media is biased, of course, but there's certainly less of a vested interest in skewing things in a partisan way as it pertains to US politics up here (read: no need, it's fairly f*cked as it is without skewing, IMHO).

Some sites:

TV/web - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Newspaper - The Globe and Mail

Thanks for the tip on the infinitive. I hadn't had my morning coffee yet and it showed. You are correct. The "to" that went with "to do" was part of an infinitive. If I had been sharper, I would have included infinitives in my post to the AC. As for ending sentences with a preposition: there is nothing in English that prevents sentences from ending in a preposition. I would invite you to google at your leisure. You will discover that your high school english teacher was wrong and/or a snob. I am too lazy to do more than include these two links which I now point you to:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/prepositions. html

http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2 .html

2) they simulated the music in which case they're in copyright violation--unless of course they paid simulated money.

According to this article, Black holes produce the lowest note in the universe, at 57 octaves below middle C. It will be interesting to see what the movie of this simulation looks like.

This is sorta irrelavent now, because recently the Canadian mint has come out with several new bills which are extremely difficult to counterfeit. THe new $20 bill came out last week I believe, and we've had new $100, $10 and $5 bills for ages now.

if they let this sort of thing go on there. NSFW but if you are already slashdotting at work, you might as well click.

Most new cars already already have a black box. It records things like acceleration level, braking inputs and vehicle speed.

So far as I know, it only holds data for a short time, but if you are involved in an accident, the data can (and has been) accessed by law enforcement.

something to think about?

WOW! That Dalrymple dude is a spitting image of Bubbles!!!

This isn't a rebuttal per se, but you could start here...

Flouride is one of those chemicals that has developed a mythical aura of "evil" surrounding it, even worse than Aspartame. The dark comedy "Dr. Strangelove" even made it a key plot point, having a crazy military officer blame flouridation on a Commuinst plot.

The issue with chemicals like these is not that they are lethal in high doses; everything is lethal when taken excessively. It's a matter simply of dosage. The typical amount of flouride added to drinking supplies is just too small to cause the effects observed in lab rats.

Here's a link to the same article from CBC. I have to say, this seems to be one of those things we don't need to be TOLD are true. Everyone knows that getting revenge feels good (temporarily anyways).

Actually other then the fact that the fencing equipment in the olympics is wireless

No its not.

See the wire stiking out the back of the fencer?

Halfiax Explosion Municipal Information Site. CBC Halifax Explosion Info Site.

From the first article:

"Around eight that morning, the Belgian relief ship Imo left its mooring in Bedford Basin and headed for open sea. At about the same time, the French ship Mont Blanc was heading up the harbour to moor, awaiting a convoy to accompany her across the Atlantic. A convoy was essential; this small, barely seaworthy vessel was carrying a full cargo of explosives. Stored in the holds, or simply stacked on deck, were 35 tons of benzol, 300 rounds of ammunition, 10 tons of gun cotton, 2,300 tons of picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT." ....

"The Mont Blanc drifted by a Halifax pier, brushing it and setting it ablaze. Members of the Halifax Fire Department responded quickly, and were positioning their engine up to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc disintegrated in a blinding white flash, creating the biggest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. It was 9:05am.

Over 1,900 people were killed immediately; within a year the figure had climbed well over 2,000. Around 9,000 more were injured, many permanently; 325 acres, almost all of north-end Halifax, were destroyed.

Much of what was not immediately levelled burned to the ground, aided by winter stockpiles of coal in cellars. As for the Mont Blanc, all 3,000 tons of her were shattered into little pieces that were blasted far and wide. The barrel of one of her cannons landed three and a half miles away; part of her anchor shank, weighing over half a ton, flew two miles in the opposite direction. Windows shattered 50 miles away, and the shock wave was even felt in Sydney, Cape Breton, 270 miles to the north-east."

TNT 226,797 kg
Wet picric acid 1,602,519 kg
Dry picric acid 544,311 kg
Guncotton[?] 56,301 kg
Benzol 223,188 kg

My guess for the current title is Halifax (Canada, during WWI) when an ammo ship collided with another ship in the harbour, and levelled much of the city. I remember reading about a piece of the anchor being found several kilometres (yeah that's right - metric) away. Here's a link http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/

For those who didn't RTFA, Sawyer predicts global hegemony under ruthless Canadian authority.

Funny, I didn't see that bit about Prime Minister Don Cherry...

A live link without the space in it.

Try this link</a>.
This, of course, presumes that you have HTML formatting turned on.

So, I guess when the aide to our (then) Prime Minister called Mr Bush a moron, she was just addressing him by his title....

Wait a second, Hedy "crosses burning on the lawns of Prince George" Fry? You voted for that loon?

Interesting. Too bad the CBC staff which wrote the article that everyone will read focused on the solar experiment, and not the steering experiment.

That sounds reasonable to me, but the article linked from the Slashdot story doesn't mention wind. Which article does? The lightness of the vehicle is certainly germane to its solar power, its succeptibility to wind, and its fragility in a headon collision.

Here's an update on the previous "wow look Canada does stuff" story: the first attempt at flying the first human powered helicopter has failed.

Sorry, forgot to provide a link to the story on CBC News

The Solar Mission Project (http://www.enviromission.com.au/project/project.h tm)(http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/08/21/aus_power _020821) will use sunlight to heat air and convert the kinetic energy of the rising air to electricity.

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) normally shows the Olympics without a delay. I know this television channel is often available in the United States, especially those near the Canadian border.

We didn't have a revolution, but still have at least the promise of decent Olympics coverage. That's the theory, anyway: the last couple of times have been dominated by talking heads, cutesy "background" spots (especially the Sydney Olympics), and general chatter about almost everything but sports.

They also had a nasty habit of telling us that Canadians placed 5th, 10th and 21st, but never told who actually won.

...laura

"What else are you gonna use your gun for? A hammer?"

Actually, someone thought it was a good idea.

(1) "Canadian official called Bush 'a moron'" cbc.ca, 26 Nov 2002

"The Future Force Warrior will be a responsive and formidable member of an invincible battle space team" (emphasis mine)

You mean: Methamphetamine, as used by pilots in this event.

CRTC (Canada's FCC equivalent) decided to not renew CHOI-FM's broadcasting license, because of some offensive comments, personal attacks and harassment.

This decision is made in the same week then CRTC approval for al-Jazeera broadcasting rights. Beheading, anyone?

External links:

Journal entry commenting about this
CRTC report about non-renewal
News: Thousands march to support CHOI-FM

Try seeing what they do when their paycheck goes missing.

On the CBC, at the start of commercial breaks in MOST programs, depending on the overscan of your TV you can clearly see a small white square appear in the upper-right corner of the TV screen for a half a second.

Any idea what this is for? Some sort of cue?

Isn't it amazing how many people are too damned lazy to use a search engine to look for facts themselves? Is independent research really that hard? Googling mobile phones cars drink driving safety or cell phones cars drink driving safety too much for you?

Here are just two of the articles that those Google searches bring up:

1. Mobiles 'worse than drink-driving'; and
2. Driving and Dialing.

And, just because you're that damned lazy, here are a couple of quotes, one from each article:

1. Talking on a mobile phone while driving is more dangerous than being over the legal alcohol limit, according to research. Tests by scientists at the Transport Research Laboratory said drivers on mobiles had slower reaction times and stopping times than those under the influence of alcohol. And it said hands-free kits were almost as dangerous as hand-held phones... "The person on the end of the phone doesn't know the driving conditions around you. If someone's in the car talking to you they can stop talking if a dangerous situation arises"... The research said reaction times were, on average, 30% slower when talking on a mobile than when just over the legal limit, and nearly 50% slower than when driving normally...; and

2. "The New England Journal of Medicine" published a report in 1997 by Dr. Don Redelmeier of the University of Toronto. The study found that talking on a cellphone while driving quadrupled a person's risk of an accident. Redelmeier recently repeated his call to ban cellphone use by drivers, saying he actually underestimated the risks four years ago... Two other Canadian studies have raised questions about the safety of cell phones in the car. One by the University of Montreal included 36,000 people. The study found if you're using a cell phone while driving, you are 38 per cent more likely to get into an accident than if you're not using your cell phone. "Having a complicated telephone conversation is a demanding activity for the brain...depending on how stressful the conversation is," says Urs Maag of the Transportation Safety Laboratory at the university....

It's telling that you yourself use the word distraction, implying a loss of concentration on the task of driving.

I thought I had already explained in my previous post why mobile phone conversations were more dangerous than ones with a passenger, but clearly you either didn't think it was a sufficient answer. Did you try the little experiment that I suggested? I bet you didn't, so go do that.

In the meantime, imagine an NFL quarterback taking a snap, looking downfield for someone to throw the ball to and trying to talk to his wife via helmet radio about what colours and what fabrics they are going to use to redecorate their bedroom. Do you think that that QB is more or less likely to get creamed by a blitzing linebacker than if he wasn't having a chat with his wife? Because that's the level of distraction we're talking about: a road hazard can present itself in a split-second and anything that detracts from your reaction time is potentially going to kill you or someone else.

/. CBC?

http://sask.cbc.cagets a bit sluggish during the afternoon when lots of folks hit it to get the Saskatchewan news headlines and so on.

This story would be a whole lot better if it included a biorhythm readout of the steroid or drug content of each rider! I was listening to the CBC radio in the car again today and they had a very insightful discussion about the Belgian Christophe Brandt who withdrew after testing positive for the narcotic methadone. It seems that the Tour is being marred by this drug controversy.

However the tracking system they are planning for next year seems quite a bit better than what is currently available, like this fairly unintuitive flash gizmo on CBC.

This story would be a whole lot better if it included a biorhythm readout of the steroid or drug content of each rider! I was listening to the CBC radio in the car again today and they had a very insightful discussion about the Belgian Christophe Brandt who withdrew after testing positive for the narcotic methadone. It seems that the Tour is being marred by this drug controversy.

However the tracking system they are planning for next year seems quite a bit better than what is currently available, like this fairly unintuitive flash gizmo on CBC.

I was watching CBC news just now and they were talking about B.C. resident's medical records at risk of being exposed to other parties because of the U.S. Patriot Act because maintenance of such data was outsourced to the U.S., the medical chief of B.C. also had the gall to say its not a problem because of outsourcing (yah right, the more exact problem is cheapskates running the group who actually want to reap more profits for themselves instead of providing a better service). The U.S. has already encountered this problem from outsourcing medical transcription data to Pakistan.

Its true that outsourcing does save money, but you are putting your data at risk when bringing it outside your country. Even if the other country would have compatible laws on privacy as yours, it does not mean they cannot change them at whim (e.g. the Patriot Act by Bush's government). Governments should keep their records secure within its borders, any outsourcing of such data is inviting a breach of trust against the public. Private companies who outsource their data should have the right to be sued by the public (we may already have that) if their private information is not held properly, I know we have laws saying that corporate data on people should not be shared outside the corporation without written consent by the party involved.

If I had the power (i.e., prime minister, mayor, etc), I would ban outsourcing of work done by government agencies which involves private data or tools that manipulate such data. I include manipulation (which includes application development and transcriptions) because other countries might not have laws or standards to maintain the same level that we require as a minimum by our standards. And even if they did, like the Patriot Act, it can change at whim.

I would probably still outsource some of the reference data and tools such as postal code database maintenance, lists of parks and maps of Canada to other countries since its public information that won't affect anyone directly, though it still needs to be QAed over here. That would at least reduce our costs and menial tasks so we can work on more important things like enjoying life and having fun.

If you saw this walk up to you, you'd be really freaked out. I know I would be... that things creepy looking.

Well,
Put a towel on it's head, call it Ahmed Muhuammed Aziz and oops it's an Arab!

Mirror of the picture of the monkey walking upright

Thousands of macaque monkey porn images from Google

Groovy macaque toys on eBay

Printable version of the story from Canada

UN to Caterpillar: Stop selling bulldozers to Israel
Last Updated Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:21:22

GENEVA - A U.S.-based company has been warned by a United Nations expert not to sell bulldozers to Israel because of the way the Israeli army is using them.

Jean Ziegler, the UN's special expert on the right to food, sent a letter to Caterpillar Inc. saying that the company could be considered an accomplice in human rights violations.

The letter to Caterpillar chief executive James Owen expressed Ziegler's concerns "about the actions of the Israeli occupation forces in Rafah and in other locations in Gaza and the West Bank."

A resolution passed this year by the UN Human Rights Commission extends responsibility to protect rights to "non-state actors."

Ziegler's letter, dated May 28, said the Israelis are "using armoured bulldozers supplied by your company to destroy agricultural farms, greenhouses, ancient olive groves and agricultural fields planted with crops."

There's been no comment from Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, Ill.

The letter also says Caterpillar bulldozers have been used to destroy "numerous Palestinian homes and sometimes human lives, including that of the American peace activist Rachel Corrie."

Corrie, 23, was crushed to death in March 2003. She was trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying Palestinian homes in a Gaza Strip refugee camp.

google for bulldozers + Israel to see genocide in motion

Canada still remains a functioning democracy to a large degree, so when ombudsmen like the privacy commissioner castigate the government, public pressure often forces a change in policy.

If that doesn't work, like the Americans, you can always sue.

Canada still remains a functioning democracy to a large degree, so when ombudsmen like the privacy commissioner castigate the government, public pressure often forces a change in policy.

If that doesn't work, like the Americans, you can always sue.

Just not the #1 place to live for retail mall store operators.

Enjoy the title while you have it, Sir Tim...

In particular, if you can't shovel snow, Toronto's the place for you, because if it ever snows more than 3 cm, they'll declare a state of emergency and call the army in to shovel your driveway for you.

Oh, it would be so much funnier if it weren't true! Good ol' Mel!!! And I must say, it wasn't really that bad, ok, my car had some issues getting up this one hill on the way to class, but seriously... CBC - Toronto Calls in the Army

Any one notice that Al Jazerra is getting a Canada license, but Fox isn't...

I didn't know that!
But sure enough, here is the link