I think the major problem of the past challenge is that no one looked into the possibilities of fuzzy thinking. Like the ability to assign threat levels to various levels in the terrain and picking the lowest threat level as the appropriate path to the goal. This is a simple enough project and why nobody was able to make it work I don't know. Perhaps it is the fact the project was not as open as it could have been or people thought the competition would be tougher than it was.
I think many lessons were learned but I doubt this one was even taken into account with the exception of one team who went down this road but I think they kind of missed the mark. This is of course arm chair quarterbacking which will undoubtedly be met with many excuses.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/pdf/2sectiontwo.pdf is a good place to start out looking at the US. The reality is that this is more of a regional than a country issue. However, the semantics of it are easily pushed to either side. I personally believe, through my own personal experiences and what I have read on the subject of both psychology and social sciences, that people will inevitably use whatever tools they have to reach their goals be they a handgun or hypodermic needle the dangers in the wrong hands are the same.
I wouldn't think this would be a problem. I think you would be better to argue the potential of so called friendly fire. Situations were a mugging is in progress and some would be good samaritan decided to help out by taking pot shots at the mugger and hitting the victim of the mugging instead.
I think gun relation is a big issue for the United States. I believe the citizens should be allowed to own guns but how should it be determined who is not allowed to have them and how is this enforced.
I really think the no clique "guns don't kill people, people kill people " rings more true every day. It seems there are people who think that by making guns illegal you make people more safe much like you suggested. The reality is that people who want to get a gun illegally can and people who simply want to legally defend themselves can't. Were is the logic in forcing people who are law abiding not to have the defensive protection of a gun while people who are criminal still have the offensive use of them. This makes no sense logically and makes the people who make this argument weak and the most vulnerable.
Do you work for the New York Times or something? I've been trying to validate these facts using reliable sources and as of yet I have not found them. I did find overall that Texas is about 6 total murder rate. I did find in London that gun deaths were around 3 but murders most certainly were not try closer to 15 . Where are your facts from because they don't add up?
In Texas we have a problem that inflates our numbers as well. This problem is we border with a country whose economy is not as strong as ours. This means we have jobs in Texas people from Mexico desperately want. This leads to criminals who are willing for a fee to smuggle people across the boarder. These people care nothing for human life and regularly end up leading people to their deaths. Most recently 32 died while left in a tractor trailer in 100+ degree heat. This has nothing to do with people legally owning guns and leads to inflated rates in areas such as east Texas were there are manual labor jobs that are frequently performed by illegal immigrants and in west Texas were it is much easier to get into the state.
I would also like to add that there is a price for certain freedoms one of those is that the government trust that its citizens by an overwhelming majority are honest and law abiding. When the government looses this trust you loose freedoms and end up with the situation we are currently in. I'm not sure what the future will say about the present but I am sure that peoples wanting to protected by others is giving rise to an elite who will gladly take that position in exchange for more control over your life. To argue that this is not happening right now is simply naive.
I did misread the specs and I did look at the picts but it is somewhat difficult to determine a specific aspect ratio unless you are or have an interest in mechanical engineering. I can still say that with the updated specs that it will still be a rather tight fit in anyone's pockets and could potentially result in damage if you sat down with this in your pocket. I can't imagine those screens are to cheap.
The comparison with the Sharp Zaurus is sort of stupid. The OQO is meant to be a compact PC, not a personal digital assistant. Comparing them is somewhat stupid.
Do you work for these people or something? It makes quite a bit of sense from a utility standpoint to compare the devices that is if you use them and they are not some glorified toy. If all you want is the newest kewlest then your right not to compare this to a PDA because it is much more. From the standpoint of what it does for the end user it does make sense to compare them however because the will both perform the same functions and the price divide is huge.
However, if you must compare them, I think the OQO is light years ahead of the Zaurus. 1 GHz processor, lots of RAM, 10 GB HDD, Firewire, Full-size USB, the ability to run non-embedded OS, etc. I'm personally going to be very willing to shell out $1500+ for one of these. Being able to carry an actual PC (not a quasi-PC) in my pocket is beautiful.
Might I add, if you think this will fit in your pocket you need to read the specs. With dimensions of 3x4x9, it might be wise to check for the ACME name before attempting to cram it in your pocket.
If your pockets can hold the OQO your a bigger man than I.
For real though do you not realize that carrying this thing would be like walking around with a brick in your pocket. Forget how uncomfortable ti would be to sit down, heaven forbid you don't get the stylus in all the way. Ouch... Hurts bad enough with a 1/2" PDA imagine the extra leverage 2-3 inches more would give ya.
I"m a proud user of an e805 with wireless infrared keyboard I love it and from everything I have seen on brighthand and there website there is nothng that could convince me to even thing about such a piece of hardware.
Are you really that dumb as to think the implications of my statements would apply to someone of your caliber. It is merely the threat of people being armed that makes the crime less attractive. Being the obvious student of human nature that you are and oh so full of street smarts as to have been mugged before. I'm guessing this is all old hat and maybe your simply trolling but someone who is willing to mug you doesn't care about your well being and the fact that you care about his makes you an oh so easy target.
You have to be kidding me. The screensavers had tons of content that was good and if anything the only thing they had on techtv that did not belong was thunderbirds. I know there are people out there who love the show but did it belong on techtv?
In any event to even suggest that watching people code would somehow be more entertaining than the screensavers puts you in contention for the most boring person in the world. Was it your call to cancel techtv? I would bet you probably don't watch much tv to begin with. Your second show idea is just as lame. As if watching a couple of geeks building fox hole radios and trying to survive without the internet on an island would be fun for more than a couple of hours at best.
From jones computer network on these people won't die that easily. I think it is very naive of comcast and shows how little their execs know. I have already put in my sell order and I am canceling my cable the day after the sopranos finale. Vote with your wallets folks its then you can sit back and watch them flounder as they try and fire everyone from New York to California in a vain attempt to appease their investors and figure out why they are suddenly bleeding money.
Oh, and I do realize this guy is from UK but I think the US should lead on this one as their laws are not already protected constitutionally as ours are. Texas is a good example of how this works as I walk around with an e805 with CF GPS on my waste with a cell phone and occasionally carry a laptop and I have yet to have a problem even in some rough areas because they don't know if I have a gun or not.
If more States would give back the rights of its citizens to bare arms this would no longer be a topic of discussion as the thought of a crime like this would be so remote. Instead of looking at it as a problem needing to be solved your simply looking at how not to be the victim. It's cowardice in its rawest form. Seeing posts like this were some coward is just looking for ways to save his own butt makes me feel sad for those who came before him to secure his right to walk down the street without fear. For this is the man who instead of fighting to maintain that right cowers to the minute criminal element in this country just as so many conservatives cower to the emotional thinking of the liberal initiatives who rather than thinking through problems simply feel their way trough them.
If you can't read my post why bother replying. The statement of not seeing any of his recent works does not mean I have not seen any of his previous work. I find him to be a toad. Apparently, some people think kissing his ass will turn him into a prince. I'm guessing your one of them?
I think it is a wonder we have found such a strong leader in a sea of potentials who have the backbones of amoebas. Of course, there are people in other countries who look at the US and think we are just expanding our territories, or imposing imperial rule, because they know nothing about America or its leaders. They simply read the press ever blissful in their own ignorance. Believe what you want, I know why we are in Iraq, I know why Moore is a worse threat than al quida right now to the US. If you are pompous enough to judge an entire country on the basis of your own uneducated personal opinion then I feel sorry for the country you live because if you are any representation of its populous then you are headed for some tuff times. It is ok though because I'm sure you at least will be blaming the United States out of one side of your mouth while asking for aid out the other.
If you don't think there is such a thing as a universal truths then you are sorely under educated as represented by the rest of your post.
If you don't understand what a universal truth is explaining how micheal moore is worse than al quida is worthless as you would have nothing to base it on.
As for your list all I can say is you have really blured the line between truth and fiction as I cna't makae out what is supposed to be fact or fiction here. But I will atempt to address each one.
First the idea that within one year you could find something like WMDs in a country the size of california in a desert with 250,000+ troops who spend the majority of their time dodging bullets and trying not to kill innocent people while protecting themselves as best they can shows your inability to understand reality and the consequences of the situation they are in. It also shows that you read what you want to read and have not followed the suicide vests found in a school building, the mustard gas, or the recent serine gas found in an unmarked shell.
I never hear they have a nuclear program only that there was evidence they had one and were looking to revive it. How this is a lie I have no idea but apparently you believe it is instead of knowing if it is or is not. and by all means governing yourself less rationally and involving more emotion should serve you well in real life when you get there.
Iraq was a clear and present danger to the United States and people who fail to see that are living in denial or have a political agenda of which the greatest potential outcome is more 9-11s.
Osama bin Laden was a member of a group funded and trained by the CIA to help fight against the enemy of that time Russia. It may be hard for you to wrap your mind around the idea that we ever fought against our communist friends but it was real not some movie and in that cold war we chose our allies based off what suited us best. So what you said was a lie here. Of course I've never heard nor seen anyone else present that argument.
As for the linkage problem, have you ever heard of the concept of six degrees of separation? If not it is the idea that everyone in the world can be linked ot anyone else in the world with 6 other people. Rather makes the world seem much smaller when you think about it. In any event, you're telling the truth that osama bin laden did not have any direct links to the bush family. You would also be telling the truth to say that there were links between the bush family and the Bin Laden family. Osama just happened to be a pensive freak of nature who when growing up seemed more like a nerdy calculative weirdo that a natural born killer. So there is a big distinction between osama bin laden and the bin Laden family. this is of course unless you have a particular agenda and this helps you paint a darker picture of the enemy. In this case, for you I guess, it is ok to blur the lines.
For your final truth or lie I don't happen to have any information about what your talking about so I can't say if it is true or a lie of yours. All I can say is that if the administration was in such negotiations would it have mattered? I mean until the unthinkable happens do you really know what the outcome will be. Seeing as how you speak in administrations and families wasn't it the clinton administration who told Saudi Arabia that we did not wish to extradite osama whenever he was detained there after finding links to him with the initial terrorist attempts on the trade centers.
I'm guessing you are in pursuit of your liberal arts degree? Generally, liberal arts majors have a little more logic (albeit irrational logic) and substance to their arguments than you have presented here. At best you have show that you are not qualified to present an argument either way with regards to any subject you touched on.
Given Moore's public comments and a previous work I never bothered to watch any of his current movies and I won't. Also, you may have come out with that impression of the movie but he personally certainly never presented his movie in that light while in the US. He also has a preponderancy to discuss his personal opinion presenting them as objective impartial pieces.
The first movie I saw of his was one were he went into a bank in the Midwest and presented it to a public whose social mores are far different from those in a rural area. Begging the question of why is there gun violence as if giving guns away in rural America somehow impacted the lives of those in more urban environments.
In any event I began to see through his "information pieces" a while back and ever since I began investigating some of the issues he has presented I have found much of what he says to either be a total lie or facts misconstrued to paint a particular image of a subject. He does so without showing enough to give people anything more than an emotional way to react.
A recent example of this is his claims of Disney and their attempts to silence his new movie. Disney had informed moore more than 1 year ago they would not distribute his movie. Keep in mind this is before the film was completed. This leaves one of two paths that moore came down. Did he tell Disney he was going to make a political movie that would criticize the president and they said they wouldn't distribute it. If so he is guilty of using his personal political agenda to tell a story he is disguising as a documentary. Kind of slimy in my book. The other option is that Disney did not want their name associated with the distribution of his film regardless of how it came out so they told him at that time they would not distribute the film. In this case Moore is a delusional person (supported by his comments after he was booed off stage at the Oscars.), or he is simply using this situation to try and get his movie out before the election by creating the illusion of big corporate America trying to silence the "fat" little guy. This could only mean he has a political agenda behind his movie and this makes it worthless because the information presented won't be complete and it will have such bias that if your already somewhat familiar with the topic it will be nothing more than a frustrating experience.
He is fat, and getting more so, because he doesn't care for his own health and well being. Now what makes you think he cares about yours or anyone else's for that mater? All he cares about is that he can make things unique and that no on else is crazy enough to do yet. This makes him a trail blazer with the full knowledge there are people out there just dumb enough to listen to him agree with him and not look deep enough to see anything below the surface he presents them with.
I've always been of the mindset that I never trust a skinny chef. You my friend are being soon fed by a fat chef so I don't doubt it tastes sweet. Ignorance after all is bliss.
If what I've said is mean spirited then what you said lacks any insight whatsoever and the fact that you were moded to insightful means that your inability to think for yourself about what lies beneath the surface is held by a majority of what is left of slashdot. I truly pains me to see it here but I'm no longer going to just sit back and accept it. I've recently realized there is a big difference between tolerating pinheads and accepting them.
So, if in your mind outrage dictates popularity I would hate to be introduced to your social skills. I personally have posted more than 10 times to this subject and I can only imagine others have done the same. It is simplistic o think that because so many people have such polarized thoughts on this low life that somehow it is something that maters because in the end he is just someone who has made a name for himself rocking the boat in whatever way he can think of. And when the situation isn't news worthy he makes it up just like he made up the story on Disney not releasing his movie.
I think he is saying that moore is a load and the movie like many of moores previous projects contains himself in it then then the movie is a load as well. Using the transitive property of equality if a=b and b=c then a=c. Thus, his movies are nothing more than a load of shit in movie form.
That's because he takes facts construes them into lies. In life you have to base things on universal truths. Things that the whole of the society believes to be right, good, and true. Then you have fanatics like Moore who spend their lives attacking these truths in order to make a name for themselves as someone controversial. This literally and in no figurative terms destroys the fabric of the society and creates a polar division. Like in here when I speak out against moore I'm labeled as flaimbait. I'm trying to help people understand how dangerous this guy is and that he has am agenda far worse than the agenda of al quida. At least we as a people can anticipate and potentially thwart physical attacks. With Moore, his agenda is to destroy America from the inside out. The hard thing is that so many Americans are so under educated that they don't even see it coming. Oh, they may have degrees, but they are in things like liberal arts. These types of degrees don't exactly help you become well rounded in your views of how the world really works. They help bring you to the accepting mindset that he is doing something noble and true. How scary is that?
You are a moron. It makes for a great conspiracy theory but do you really put that much stock in such an outlandish rumor. If it was true you can bet Disney would have broke it as a story and published Moore's movie. Don't be some lemming troll who can't put two and two together. This mealy a way of Moore pushing his anti Bush agenda by releasing rumors that are both promoting his POS movie and his agenda at the same time what a win win for him.
Because in the rest of the world murders are committed with rocks and knifes. I'm pretty sure there are parts of the world were people simply go missing and are never heard from again. Look into archangel and what it is they do to protect the world. The question you should ask is, "Are murders more prominent in the United States than in other parts of the world per capita?" I'm sure there is a reason that fat troglodyte doesn't want to put things into more of a real perspective because it doesn't suit his socialist make everyone feel the pain agenda. You see people are much easier to brain wash if you appeal to their emotional side tempering it wit just enough logic to lul them into a false sense of reality. So to counter that I simply say go educate yourself and try and carry around more than your emotions as your guide. Irrational people with rationalized support are very dangerous just ask a recovering alcoholic.
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I think the major problem of the past challenge is that no one looked into the possibilities of fuzzy thinking. Like the ability to assign threat levels to various levels in the terrain and picking the lowest threat level as the appropriate path to the goal. This is a simple enough project and why nobody was able to make it work I don't know. Perhaps it is the fact the project was not as open as it could have been or people thought the competition would be tougher than it was.
I think many lessons were learned but I doubt this one was even taken into account with the exception of one team who went down this road but I think they kind of missed the mark. This is of course arm chair quarterbacking which will undoubtedly be met with many excuses.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/pdf/2sectiontwo.pdf is a good place to start out looking at the US. The reality is that this is more of a regional than a country issue. However, the semantics of it are easily pushed to either side. I personally believe, through my own personal experiences and what I have read on the subject of both psychology and social sciences, that people will inevitably use whatever tools they have to reach their goals be they a handgun or hypodermic needle the dangers in the wrong hands are the same.
I wouldn't think this would be a problem. I think you would be better to argue the potential of so called friendly fire. Situations were a mugging is in progress and some would be good samaritan decided to help out by taking pot shots at the mugger and hitting the victim of the mugging instead.
I think gun relation is a big issue for the United States. I believe the citizens should be allowed to own guns but how should it be determined who is not allowed to have them and how is this enforced.
I really think the no clique "guns don't kill people, people kill people " rings more true every day. It seems there are people who think that by making guns illegal you make people more safe much like you suggested. The reality is that people who want to get a gun illegally can and people who simply want to legally defend themselves can't. Were is the logic in forcing people who are law abiding not to have the defensive protection of a gun while people who are criminal still have the offensive use of them. This makes no sense logically and makes the people who make this argument weak and the most vulnerable.
Do you work for the New York Times or something? I've been trying to validate these facts using reliable sources and as of yet I have not found them. I did find overall that Texas is about 6 total murder rate. I did find in London that gun deaths were around 3 but murders most certainly were not try closer to 15 . Where are your facts from because they don't add up?
In Texas we have a problem that inflates our numbers as well. This problem is we border with a country whose economy is not as strong as ours. This means we have jobs in Texas people from Mexico desperately want. This leads to criminals who are willing for a fee to smuggle people across the boarder. These people care nothing for human life and regularly end up leading people to their deaths. Most recently 32 died while left in a tractor trailer in 100+ degree heat. This has nothing to do with people legally owning guns and leads to inflated rates in areas such as east Texas were there are manual labor jobs that are frequently performed by illegal immigrants and in west Texas were it is much easier to get into the state.
I would also like to add that there is a price for certain freedoms one of those is that the government trust that its citizens by an overwhelming majority are honest and law abiding. When the government looses this trust you loose freedoms and end up with the situation we are currently in. I'm not sure what the future will say about the present but I am sure that peoples wanting to protected by others is giving rise to an elite who will gladly take that position in exchange for more control over your life. To argue that this is not happening right now is simply naive.
I did misread the specs and I did look at the picts but it is somewhat difficult to determine a specific aspect ratio unless you are or have an interest in mechanical engineering. I can still say that with the updated specs that it will still be a rather tight fit in anyone's pockets and could potentially result in damage if you sat down with this in your pocket. I can't imagine those screens are to cheap.
Do you work for these people or something? It makes quite a bit of sense from a utility standpoint to compare the devices that is if you use them and they are not some glorified toy. If all you want is the newest kewlest then your right not to compare this to a PDA because it is much more. From the standpoint of what it does for the end user it does make sense to compare them however because the will both perform the same functions and the price divide is huge.
Might I add, if you think this will fit in your pocket you need to read the specs. With dimensions of 3x4x9, it might be wise to check for the ACME name before attempting to cram it in your pocket.
If your pockets can hold the OQO your a bigger man than I.
For real though do you not realize that carrying this thing would be like walking around with a brick in your pocket. Forget how uncomfortable ti would be to sit down, heaven forbid you don't get the stylus in all the way. Ouch... Hurts bad enough with a 1/2" PDA imagine the extra leverage 2-3 inches more would give ya.
I"m a proud user of an e805 with wireless infrared keyboard I love it and from everything I have seen on brighthand and there website there is nothng that could convince me to even thing about such a piece of hardware.
Are you really that dumb as to think the implications of my statements would apply to someone of your caliber. It is merely the threat of people being armed that makes the crime less attractive. Being the obvious student of human nature that you are and oh so full of street smarts as to have been mugged before. I'm guessing this is all old hat and maybe your simply trolling but someone who is willing to mug you doesn't care about your well being and the fact that you care about his makes you an oh so easy target.
You have to be kidding me. The screensavers had tons of content that was good and if anything the only thing they had on techtv that did not belong was thunderbirds. I know there are people out there who love the show but did it belong on techtv?
In any event to even suggest that watching people code would somehow be more entertaining than the screensavers puts you in contention for the most boring person in the world. Was it your call to cancel techtv? I would bet you probably don't watch much tv to begin with. Your second show idea is just as lame. As if watching a couple of geeks building fox hole radios and trying to survive without the internet on an island would be fun for more than a couple of hours at best.
From jones computer network on these people won't die that easily. I think it is very naive of comcast and shows how little their execs know. I have already put in my sell order and I am canceling my cable the day after the sopranos finale. Vote with your wallets folks its then you can sit back and watch them flounder as they try and fire everyone from New York to California in a vain attempt to appease their investors and figure out why they are suddenly bleeding money.
Oh, and I do realize this guy is from UK but I think the US should lead on this one as their laws are not already protected constitutionally as ours are. Texas is a good example of how this works as I walk around with an e805 with CF GPS on my waste with a cell phone and occasionally carry a laptop and I have yet to have a problem even in some rough areas because they don't know if I have a gun or not.
If more States would give back the rights of its citizens to bare arms this would no longer be a topic of discussion as the thought of a crime like this would be so remote. Instead of looking at it as a problem needing to be solved your simply looking at how not to be the victim. It's cowardice in its rawest form. Seeing posts like this were some coward is just looking for ways to save his own butt makes me feel sad for those who came before him to secure his right to walk down the street without fear. For this is the man who instead of fighting to maintain that right cowers to the minute criminal element in this country just as so many conservatives cower to the emotional thinking of the liberal initiatives who rather than thinking through problems simply feel their way trough them.
With the new xmlrpcjit you can compile your xml apps in a distributed fashion so it is almost as fast as running vb apps. I can't wait.
If you can't read my post why bother replying. The statement of not seeing any of his recent works does not mean I have not seen any of his previous work. I find him to be a toad. Apparently, some people think kissing his ass will turn him into a prince. I'm guessing your one of them?
I think it is a wonder we have found such a strong leader in a sea of potentials who have the backbones of amoebas. Of course, there are people in other countries who look at the US and think we are just expanding our territories, or imposing imperial rule, because they know nothing about America or its leaders. They simply read the press ever blissful in their own ignorance. Believe what you want, I know why we are in Iraq, I know why Moore is a worse threat than al quida right now to the US. If you are pompous enough to judge an entire country on the basis of your own uneducated personal opinion then I feel sorry for the country you live because if you are any representation of its populous then you are headed for some tuff times. It is ok though because I'm sure you at least will be blaming the United States out of one side of your mouth while asking for aid out the other.
If you don't think there is such a thing as a universal truths then you are sorely under educated as represented by the rest of your post.
If you don't understand what a universal truth is explaining how micheal moore is worse than al quida is worthless as you would have nothing to base it on.
As for your list all I can say is you have really blured the line between truth and fiction as I cna't makae out what is supposed to be fact or fiction here. But I will atempt to address each one.
First the idea that within one year you could find something like WMDs in a country the size of california in a desert with 250,000+ troops who spend the majority of their time dodging bullets and trying not to kill innocent people while protecting themselves as best they can shows your inability to understand reality and the consequences of the situation they are in. It also shows that you read what you want to read and have not followed the suicide vests found in a school building, the mustard gas, or the recent serine gas found in an unmarked shell.
I never hear they have a nuclear program only that there was evidence they had one and were looking to revive it. How this is a lie I have no idea but apparently you believe it is instead of knowing if it is or is not. and by all means governing yourself less rationally and involving more emotion should serve you well in real life when you get there.
Iraq was a clear and present danger to the United States and people who fail to see that are living in denial or have a political agenda of which the greatest potential outcome is more 9-11s.
Osama bin Laden was a member of a group funded and trained by the CIA to help fight against the enemy of that time Russia. It may be hard for you to wrap your mind around the idea that we ever fought against our communist friends but it was real not some movie and in that cold war we chose our allies based off what suited us best. So what you said was a lie here. Of course I've never heard nor seen anyone else present that argument.
As for the linkage problem, have you ever heard of the concept of six degrees of separation? If not it is the idea that everyone in the world can be linked ot anyone else in the world with 6 other people. Rather makes the world seem much smaller when you think about it. In any event, you're telling the truth that osama bin laden did not have any direct links to the bush family. You would also be telling the truth to say that there were links between the bush family and the Bin Laden family. Osama just happened to be a pensive freak of nature who when growing up seemed more like a nerdy calculative weirdo that a natural born killer. So there is a big distinction between osama bin laden and the bin Laden family. this is of course unless you have a particular agenda and this helps you paint a darker picture of the enemy. In this case, for you I guess, it is ok to blur the lines.
For your final truth or lie I don't happen to have any information about what your talking about so I can't say if it is true or a lie of yours. All I can say is that if the administration was in such negotiations would it have mattered? I mean until the unthinkable happens do you really know what the outcome will be. Seeing as how you speak in administrations and families wasn't it the clinton administration who told Saudi Arabia that we did not wish to extradite osama whenever he was detained there after finding links to him with the initial terrorist attempts on the trade centers.
I'm guessing you are in pursuit of your liberal arts degree? Generally, liberal arts majors have a little more logic (albeit irrational logic) and substance to their arguments than you have presented here. At best you have show that you are not qualified to present an argument either way with regards to any subject you touched on.
Given Moore's public comments and a previous work I never bothered to watch any of his current movies and I won't. Also, you may have come out with that impression of the movie but he personally certainly never presented his movie in that light while in the US. He also has a preponderancy to discuss his personal opinion presenting them as objective impartial pieces.
The first movie I saw of his was one were he went into a bank in the Midwest and presented it to a public whose social mores are far different from those in a rural area. Begging the question of why is there gun violence as if giving guns away in rural America somehow impacted the lives of those in more urban environments.
In any event I began to see through his "information pieces" a while back and ever since I began investigating some of the issues he has presented I have found much of what he says to either be a total lie or facts misconstrued to paint a particular image of a subject. He does so without showing enough to give people anything more than an emotional way to react.
A recent example of this is his claims of Disney and their attempts to silence his new movie. Disney had informed moore more than 1 year ago they would not distribute his movie. Keep in mind this is before the film was completed. This leaves one of two paths that moore came down. Did he tell Disney he was going to make a political movie that would criticize the president and they said they wouldn't distribute it. If so he is guilty of using his personal political agenda to tell a story he is disguising as a documentary. Kind of slimy in my book. The other option is that Disney did not want their name associated with the distribution of his film regardless of how it came out so they told him at that time they would not distribute the film. In this case Moore is a delusional person (supported by his comments after he was booed off stage at the Oscars.), or he is simply using this situation to try and get his movie out before the election by creating the illusion of big corporate America trying to silence the "fat" little guy. This could only mean he has a political agenda behind his movie and this makes it worthless because the information presented won't be complete and it will have such bias that if your already somewhat familiar with the topic it will be nothing more than a frustrating experience.
He is fat, and getting more so, because he doesn't care for his own health and well being. Now what makes you think he cares about yours or anyone else's for that mater? All he cares about is that he can make things unique and that no on else is crazy enough to do yet. This makes him a trail blazer with the full knowledge there are people out there just dumb enough to listen to him agree with him and not look deep enough to see anything below the surface he presents them with.
I've always been of the mindset that I never trust a skinny chef. You my friend are being soon fed by a fat chef so I don't doubt it tastes sweet. Ignorance after all is bliss.
If what I've said is mean spirited then what you said lacks any insight whatsoever and the fact that you were moded to insightful means that your inability to think for yourself about what lies beneath the surface is held by a majority of what is left of slashdot. I truly pains me to see it here but I'm no longer going to just sit back and accept it. I've recently realized there is a big difference between tolerating pinheads and accepting them.
So, if in your mind outrage dictates popularity I would hate to be introduced to your social skills. I personally have posted more than 10 times to this subject and I can only imagine others have done the same. It is simplistic o think that because so many people have such polarized thoughts on this low life that somehow it is something that maters because in the end he is just someone who has made a name for himself rocking the boat in whatever way he can think of. And when the situation isn't news worthy he makes it up just like he made up the story on Disney not releasing his movie.
I think he is saying that moore is a load and the movie like many of moores previous projects contains himself in it then then the movie is a load as well. Using the transitive property of equality if a=b and b=c then a=c. Thus, his movies are nothing more than a load of shit in movie form.
That's because he takes facts construes them into lies. In life you have to base things on universal truths. Things that the whole of the society believes to be right, good, and true. Then you have fanatics like Moore who spend their lives attacking these truths in order to make a name for themselves as someone controversial. This literally and in no figurative terms destroys the fabric of the society and creates a polar division. Like in here when I speak out against moore I'm labeled as flaimbait. I'm trying to help people understand how dangerous this guy is and that he has am agenda far worse than the agenda of al quida. At least we as a people can anticipate and potentially thwart physical attacks. With Moore, his agenda is to destroy America from the inside out. The hard thing is that so many Americans are so under educated that they don't even see it coming. Oh, they may have degrees, but they are in things like liberal arts. These types of degrees don't exactly help you become well rounded in your views of how the world really works. They help bring you to the accepting mindset that he is doing something noble and true. How scary is that?
Well fine next time I won't ask if you want some ice cream!
You are a moron. It makes for a great conspiracy theory but do you really put that much stock in such an outlandish rumor. If it was true you can bet Disney would have broke it as a story and published Moore's movie. Don't be some lemming troll who can't put two and two together. This mealy a way of Moore pushing his anti Bush agenda by releasing rumors that are both promoting his POS movie and his agenda at the same time what a win win for him.
Because in the rest of the world murders are committed with rocks and knifes. I'm pretty sure there are parts of the world were people simply go missing and are never heard from again. Look into archangel and what it is they do to protect the world. The question you should ask is, "Are murders more prominent in the United States than in other parts of the world per capita?" I'm sure there is a reason that fat troglodyte doesn't want to put things into more of a real perspective because it doesn't suit his socialist make everyone feel the pain agenda. You see people are much easier to brain wash if you appeal to their emotional side tempering it wit just enough logic to lul them into a false sense of reality. So to counter that I simply say go educate yourself and try and carry around more than your emotions as your guide. Irrational people with rationalized support are very dangerous just ask a recovering alcoholic.