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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
An anonymous reader submits "A NY Times story yesterday talked about a new fad sweeping the underground: guerrilla drive-ins. Essentially, someone sets up a DVD player, LCD projector, and wireless transmitter next to any blank wall (preferably on someone else's property - to make it more fun), and people come to watch movies. As you would expect, the movie studios aren't too thrilled." The idea that this is a notable fad reminds of when the residents of Doonesbury's Walden jokingly informed intrepid reporter Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. ("Rollie") about imaginary trends in the college drug scene. On the other hand, anything that knocks down the price of projectors is fine with me!
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Banana flavoured popcorn anybody?
I'm not the only one who had to re-read the headline am I?
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Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11
... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pr*cks. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing."
And from my own review on www.icarusindie.com
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The other important point that Moore doesn't bother to consider is that it was not Bush that authorized the Bin Laden's to leave the country but Richard Clarke. On May 26, 2004 Clarke told The Hill newspaper:
"I take responsibility for it. I don't think it was a mistake, and I'd do it again."
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"It didn't get any higher than me," he said. "On 9-11, 9-12 and 9-13, many things didn't get any higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the FBI."
http://www.hillnews.com/news/052604/clarke.aspx
I guess we can excuse Moore's ignorance on the issue since Richard Clarke came clean on it most likely after Moore had finished editing his film and history. What Moore also failed to consider is that fact that the Bin Laden family was actually talked to. But that's very inconvenient for Moore since those old cop movie clips provided a bit of humor for his farce.
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Concerning doing actual research, Moore had this to say about Americans:
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One of the more despicable accusations Moore makes is that somehow Iraq was better off with Saddam. He has kids flying kites and playing and whatnot. And then the war starts. Moore had this to say about Americans:
"(Americans) are possibly the dumbest people on the planet
Apparently he thinks Americans are so stupid that we'll forget what Saddam has done to millions of his own people. You can hear all about his crimes against humanity during Saddam's trial. Apparently Michael Moore feels that Iraqis would rather be tortured, gassed, murdered, buried in mass graves, denied any rights, than suffer through a war that will make it possible for more than just the lucky kids born under the favorable thumb of Saddam to fly a kite and be happy without worrying about their family being murdered before their very eyes. How stupid does Moore have to be to think Americans are that ignorant to completely forget all that we've learned about Saddam in the last decade?
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F9/11 just reaffirmed why I'm voting for Bush. Michael Moore wrote an excellent piece of propoganda. But that's all it is. Blaring it out on the rooftops is just going to help Bush get elected if people bother to actually check out Moore's little story.
Moore's use of sources is no better than me proving the earth is flat by using sources from the Flat Earth Society. Moore fails to ask any questions. He just finds sources that support him and doesn't bother to challenge them.
I find it pathetic that the only news station with the spine to criticize the movie is Fox News.
Ben
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in relation to the parent post in which it was a reponse to. It's a called a "tangent." If you don't want to waste moderation points on tangents then that's your business.
"It is the responsibility of the mods to keep this kind of bantering and obvious trolling off of the comment boards."
I didn't realize that countering someone's opinion that showing F9/11 all over town was a good idea, is trolling. Just because you don't agree with me, doesn't make me a troll.
He said it was a good movie, I said it was a bad movie. We're all entitled to our opinions.
You also don't get excellent karma by posting "off-topic tripe" all over Slashdot.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
Facts, even statistics, need not be dull; they are often just treated in a dull manner. If my tinfoil hat had shown up yet (still on back order), I'd say that They (insert whatever group you want) had planned it that way...having someone old, white, and monotonous talk about important things. They have someone young, hip, and beautiful talk about the entertaining, uninformative junk, and what do people watch?
I agree with you about Moore basically being entertaining propaganda (he's the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh), but I should warn that saying "most voters have no attention span...are susceptible to propaganda...etc" is a very dangerous thing to say to oneself. If you listen to the people most would consider complete lunatics, at the far right and left of the political spectrum, you'll notice that one of the main credos of both sets are, "People are sheep. If they really thought about things and had the right facts presented to them, they'd be on my side. Too bad $OTHERSIDE, which owns the media and controls the government, has brainwashed them. It's up to me to present the facts they obviously missed, so they can put $MYGROUP in power." It apparently never occurs to such groups that people might not like their extreme ideas or think they're the right ones.
This type of thinking is elitism in one of its nastiest forms, could be (not sure yet) slowly spreading towards the mainstream, and is setting us toward a path of dictatorship, either by the left or right wing (both types of dictatorship are equally bad, I assure you). What other alternative is there to a dictatorship if the people's decisions or way of thinking are not respected?
Although I'm sure a lot of important information drops below the radar screen, oftentimes it's only unimportant to people because people prioritize based on how close the news is to them, not because they're incapable of making good decisions without being told what to do. The fellow poisoning dogs near their neighborhood and the nasty car accident last night get first priority. The guys in suits talking about the economic indicators in dreary voices get last. FOX is not popular because it distributes propaganda; it often doesn't mention politics at all. FOX is popular because it shows people what they are interested in and presents it in an interesting way. Convince people that your news hits them close to home or is worth thinking about, and you've convinced them that your news is worth listening to.
Long rant, I know, and somewhat off your topic, but I've been thinking about it a while and decided to try to formulate it. Feel free to disagree.
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I just blogged:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0123486/2004/08/01.html#
ATTENTION MICHAEL MOORE! "guerrilla drive-ins" and the RNC dance mobs
ATTENTION MICHAEL MOORE! REPORT FOR DUTY!
Combine this with the Barlow dance mobs. No, not on the street where folks can observe with the naked eye, but away from the action, way away maybe, facilitated by sneaky little cameraphones and/or videocams blogging the dancers to the web. Imagine also Fahrenheit projected onto structures where casual passers-by or people stuck in traffic will see and hear it.