IE6 is still my primary browser. I never see any popups. The only thing that gets in my way are occasional Flash ads, and those come up in Mozilla too. But otherwise, no popups, no spy/malware, and a clean web-surfing environment despite the IE-haters saying it's impossible.
How do I do it? Well, most importantly, I make sure I only visit "downloads" and other disreputable sites in a browser like Mozilla, but even in a couple of trial runs lately in IE, I've found that I am no longer plagued with popups and uninvited installations like I used to be.
Now you're intrigued (or you think I'm lying, which isn't the case). The trick is how you set your security settings. I've managed to find just the right blend of "enabled" and "disabled" settings in my scripting settings that only allows safe scripts to run. And even still, I have Norton and Ad-watch running with settings tweaked just right... so there is ne'er a problem. Those tools would be running even if I were using Mozilla primarily, so I feel no sense of loss about it.
Beginning of what end? If you mean the beginning of the end of IE, think again. The IE team is working [on something] again, but errrr that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that, while the minions of computer savvy techies (like Slashdot readers) will switch to alternative browsers in large numbers if they hadn't already, millions of others will either ignore the recommendation or never even hear/read it. In any case, with nearly 90% of the market share of browsers, IE has a long way to fall.
But look at the bright side, Mozilla and other browsers have a long way to climb, so it will only get better from here... Until they get so popular that their holes will be exploited...
A few friends and I sat in our seats discussing the first movie, and we digressed into discussing what it would really be like to be Spider-Man. Someone suggested that not only would it be really cool, but it would make a funnier movie if (for at least the first few times) Spidey's webbing was accompanied by some kind of orgasmic physical reaction. Boys and girls all around us then joined in the conversation, proposing interesting shower scenes, uncomfortable moments with Mary Jane, not to mention a theatre-row full of moviegoers pretending to shoot spiderwebs from our wrists and making orgasmic noises and gestures.
...to claim that she hasn't had a better performance since Interview with a Vampire indicates to me reviewer hasn't seen Drop Dead Gorgeous....or The Virgin Suicides, or Crazy/Beautiful, or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... Not that those were necessarily better performances, but it's hard to measure her performance in either Spider-Man movie against those movies where the focus isn't on a web-slinging hero in a tightsuit.
Also, for what it's worth -- which is more to me than it is to you, since I rarely agree with Ebert but you couldn't care less what I think -- I agree with Ebert: Kirsten plays a valuable role very well, and I can't imagine these movies without her.
Has anyone else wondered if maybe "bonch" isn't Falari's slashdot alias? I haven't read all the comments about it (why would I want to), but I'm just curious...
- back problem that had one of his agents tell Raimi that a screw-up could have him paralyzed, just like Superman, leaving Raimi to almost replace him with Jake Gyllenhaal. check!
Easy, killer. You can't put out the fire with your own flame.
What if I hate the bias of Slashdot readers too? (I said "what if"!) It doesn't mean that I'm not allowed my own bias -- it just means that I hate their bias. My bias is good bias in my opinion, because it's mine.:-)
Apparently villains in the Spider-Man mythos like to recycle old ideas...
As if that's restricted to Spider-Man. Almost all villains are copycats in some way -- they have to get their ideas somewhere! And sometimes it's just easier to pick up where someone else left off, and some are groomed specifically to be a specific type of villain. I don't suppose there's room for a "like father, like son" cliché around here...
But I see your point. Most copycat villains don't assume the name of a previous villain, and most won't even consider themselves copycats -- it's usually the CSIs who discover the patterns and the media that assign the labels.
Speaking of which, I just remembered which Spider-Man movie character I like the least: that damned newspaper editor!
I understand your reservations about plugin abuse, but I won't accuse sites like HomeStarRunner for assaulting my web experience. Flash finds its niche on sites like HomeStarRunner, where you either go there with Flash installed or you don't because the page doesn't load otherwise. The real assault is web pages with mixed content that force you to view some frivolous intro (or, worse, some pointlessly animated menus or something to that effect) before getting to the substance of the page.
Spider-Man 2 succeeds in many ways that I did not expect, justifying my decision to watch the midnight showing and stay up past 4:00am to write a small review for my web site!
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Spider-Man 2. A sequel is supposed to dwell in the shadow of its predecessor, but this one does not. Spidey is beaten and humbled -- by enemies, friends, the public, and himself -- and yet he still comes across as one of the most realistic heroes imaginable... not for shooting spider webs out of wrists, but for the human element. Above all else and beneath the mask, Spider-Man is Peter Parker, an emotional, rational being like the rest of us. He has decisions to make, and whether they make sense or even matter to anyone else, they matter to Peter Parker.
The key to this film's success, aside from Tobey Maguire's excellent portrayal of a hero torn among many difficult choices, is Sam Raimi's ability to open and close numerous plot elements while maintaining a coherent and cohesive plot. The movie takes its sweet time to inform you of what has changed, who is important, and why it is all so... before we are rushed through an action-packed, emotional frenzy that climaxes with one of the most satisfying endings I have ever enjoyed for what I would normally describe as an entertainment film (as opposed to being a serious film).
You're right. No president has had much power since FDR federalized everything. The bureaucracy has since taken over. Thank you liberal America for reducing the president to little more than a symbolic figurehead.
I agree. Rush's bias is as much right-wing Moore's is left-wing, and to this point I can't say that I have directly caught Moore in a lie. However, I have heard a couple lines from the film that would either be direct lies or gross mistakes. I am watching it either Tuesday or Wednesday, and I'll mouth off on it if I find any direct contradictions of fact.
(2) Why don't you pick any transcript you want and bring back a lie spoken by Limbaugh for me. That gives you the entire spectrum. If you can do it on any day, then take one from any day and do it. I'll wait right here.
(3) I never said I agreed with Rush's point of view. I just said the man has some killer fact-checkers.
I do not support Bush. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to justify support for Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
"I'm not a right-winger and I'm not a left-winger. I consider the right and left both to represent the same thing -- government control." -- Paul Pope
I didn't say Rush was honest. I said you can't catch him in a lie, because he has a team that's better than God at checking facts before he mouths off at something.
As for the transcript, as I have made clear -- it was on TV, and I don't care about Moore enough to actually know what it was. I caught it in passing and then changed the channel. Furthermore, this is Slashdot, it won't change your view anyway, and I have better ways to spend my time than unearthing some Michael Moore quote that won't have any affect on anything.
I didn't do the same thing you did at all. I didn't label you. I just said stop making assumptions that incorrectly label others' ideology -- which is what you did, therefore I was correct to use the phrase. Maybe I could have chosen a better way to say it, but this is Slashdot. It isn't that important.
Also, O'Reilly is not nearly in the same class as Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh. Furthermore, since I don't listen/watch/read/pay any attention to Coulter, Hannity, or Limbaugh, I'll refrain from speaking up about them.
As for Bush, it's simple: I criticize his administration consistently for allowing Christianity to interfere with freedom (censorship, anti-abortion, etc. all fall under this category), for much of the PATRIOT Act and other snooping programs, for swelling the budget to ungodly expanses... I could get specific, but once again, this is Slashdot, and I can think of better ways to spend my time.
Suffice it to say that I am not a Bush supporter. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to support Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
At best this illustrates either how useless an average is, or how useless the so-called political spectrum is.
The political spectrum as the average American understands it isn't quite useless, but you're right: this conversation has illustrated just to what extent it is useful...
Like a lot of people, you seem to think demographics as a science has more value than it really does.
Appearances can be deceiving. Demographics are useful only to get an idea of what you're working with. It's just like polling. Whether the results were found via balanced scientific processes or not, there is still a margin of error, and there is still a chance that your error could exceed that theoretical margin.
Demographics, polls, and the left-right political scale (or any 2D or 3D scale) are only tools.
Hmm, that's unusual. It's tough to find people who actually bother to be nice about it. In that case, I take back the "stupid" part. Just try to be more careful about those assumptions in the future. It's too easy to misinterpret would someone else is saying, so just assume they mean exactly what they say and nothing more...
Implication is a sign of your own bias, not necessarily theirs.
Because it's not 100% pure, that there is 1% that we now find out was wrong. We must condemn the whole film? Do you apply the same standards to conservatives? Just curious.
Yes, I do. I have never voted for a conservative, and if it were my choice none of them would be in office.
You have just committed the error of assuming that just because I criticized a liberal, I am a conservative. But what's worse, you publicized that misrepresented opinion in a public forum, which is similar to what Moore has done with his opinions about what goes through Bush's mind.
If you notice in all of my comments, I have never claimed to support Bush, and I have repeatedly attacked conservatives. You people need to stop applying your liberal spin to every anti-Moore criticism and do what Moore cannot -- consider it objectively!
Also, if you bothered to pick up a dictionary and look up "documentary", you'll find that what Moore has done -- make something similar to a documentary that covers only one side of the issue and never attempts to reconcile with the other side -- is a mockumentary at best, and not a documentary at all. However, like his last non-documentary, it will probably nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar.
FYI, I used the hardcopy dictionary, and I merely linked to the site that I knew referenced the AHD. In my dictionary, the entire definition is separated by semi-colons, there are no numbers, and the last part you mentioned isn't even listed. But thanks for clarifying that.
It was a major network interview in the last week. I don't recall who was interviewing him or even what network. I don't watch enough TV to remember who it was. But the subject matter and the interviewee was obvious...;-)
What I found humorous is that immediately after I heard him on television saying that it isn't all meant to be taken seriously, I found links to quoted articles in newspapers across America where he said it was meant to be taken seriously, especially by teenagers and young adults who need to get out and vote for the first time.
Moore is in the business of indoctrinating America with his own vision of socialist heaven.
Most Americans are clueless when it comes to global politics. I understand that most of the rest of the world is further to the left. It is for exactly that reason that I wish the world would leave America alone and let it do its own thing. We are the only significant "right-wing" nation out there. Let us have that. Anyone in the world who wants to live in a left-wing world can go somewhere else.
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IE6 is still my primary browser. I never see any popups. The only thing that gets in my way are occasional Flash ads, and those come up in Mozilla too. But otherwise, no popups, no spy/malware, and a clean web-surfing environment despite the IE-haters saying it's impossible.
How do I do it? Well, most importantly, I make sure I only visit "downloads" and other disreputable sites in a browser like Mozilla, but even in a couple of trial runs lately in IE, I've found that I am no longer plagued with popups and uninvited installations like I used to be.
Now you're intrigued (or you think I'm lying, which isn't the case). The trick is how you set your security settings. I've managed to find just the right blend of "enabled" and "disabled" settings in my scripting settings that only allows safe scripts to run. And even still, I have Norton and Ad-watch running with settings tweaked just right... so there is ne'er a problem. Those tools would be running even if I were using Mozilla primarily, so I feel no sense of loss about it.
Beginning of what end? If you mean the beginning of the end of IE, think again. The IE team is working [on something] again, but errrr that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that, while the minions of computer savvy techies (like Slashdot readers) will switch to alternative browsers in large numbers if they hadn't already, millions of others will either ignore the recommendation or never even hear/read it. In any case, with nearly 90% of the market share of browsers, IE has a long way to fall.
But look at the bright side, Mozilla and other browsers have a long way to climb, so it will only get better from here... Until they get so popular that their holes will be exploited...
A few friends and I sat in our seats discussing the first movie, and we digressed into discussing what it would really be like to be Spider-Man. Someone suggested that not only would it be really cool, but it would make a funnier movie if (for at least the first few times) Spidey's webbing was accompanied by some kind of orgasmic physical reaction. Boys and girls all around us then joined in the conversation, proposing interesting shower scenes, uncomfortable moments with Mary Jane, not to mention a theatre-row full of moviegoers pretending to shoot spiderwebs from our wrists and making orgasmic noises and gestures.
I guess you had to be there.
...to claim that she hasn't had a better performance since Interview with a Vampire indicates to me reviewer hasn't seen Drop Dead Gorgeous. ...or The Virgin Suicides, or Crazy/Beautiful, or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... Not that those were necessarily better performances, but it's hard to measure her performance in either Spider-Man movie against those movies where the focus isn't on a web-slinging hero in a tightsuit.
Also, for what it's worth -- which is more to me than it is to you, since I rarely agree with Ebert but you couldn't care less what I think -- I agree with Ebert: Kirsten plays a valuable role very well, and I can't imagine these movies without her.
Besides, she's hot!
Has anyone else wondered if maybe "bonch" isn't Falari's slashdot alias? I haven't read all the comments about it (why would I want to), but I'm just curious...
- back problem that had one of his agents tell Raimi that a screw-up could have him paralyzed, just like Superman, leaving Raimi to almost replace him with Jake Gyllenhaal. check!
Easy, killer. You can't put out the fire with your own flame.
:-)
What if I hate the bias of Slashdot readers too? (I said "what if"!) It doesn't mean that I'm not allowed my own bias -- it just means that I hate their bias. My bias is good bias in my opinion, because it's mine.
"Bias" is just a negative word for "opinion".
Apparently villains in the Spider-Man mythos like to recycle old ideas...
As if that's restricted to Spider-Man. Almost all villains are copycats in some way -- they have to get their ideas somewhere! And sometimes it's just easier to pick up where someone else left off, and some are groomed specifically to be a specific type of villain. I don't suppose there's room for a "like father, like son" cliché around here...
But I see your point. Most copycat villains don't assume the name of a previous villain, and most won't even consider themselves copycats -- it's usually the CSIs who discover the patterns and the media that assign the labels.
Speaking of which, I just remembered which Spider-Man movie character I like the least: that damned newspaper editor!
Trinity died in the middle. Neo died in the end.
We think. So it seems. Maybe.
If you call that an end.
I understand your reservations about plugin abuse, but I won't accuse sites like HomeStarRunner for assaulting my web experience. Flash finds its niche on sites like HomeStarRunner, where you either go there with Flash installed or you don't because the page doesn't load otherwise. The real assault is web pages with mixed content that force you to view some frivolous intro (or, worse, some pointlessly animated menus or something to that effect) before getting to the substance of the page.
Spider-Man 2 succeeds in many ways that I did not expect, justifying my decision to watch the midnight showing and stay up past 4:00am to write a small review for my web site!
... not for shooting spider webs out of wrists, but for the human element. Above all else and beneath the mask, Spider-Man is Peter Parker, an emotional, rational being like the rest of us. He has decisions to make, and whether they make sense or even matter to anyone else, they matter to Peter Parker.
... before we are rushed through an action-packed, emotional frenzy that climaxes with one of the most satisfying endings I have ever enjoyed for what I would normally describe as an entertainment film (as opposed to being a serious film).
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Spider-Man 2. A sequel is supposed to dwell in the shadow of its predecessor, but this one does not. Spidey is beaten and humbled -- by enemies, friends, the public, and himself -- and yet he still comes across as one of the most realistic heroes imaginable
The key to this film's success, aside from Tobey Maguire's excellent portrayal of a hero torn among many difficult choices, is Sam Raimi's ability to open and close numerous plot elements while maintaining a coherent and cohesive plot. The movie takes its sweet time to inform you of what has changed, who is important, and why it is all so
You're right. No president has had much power since FDR federalized everything. The bureaucracy has since taken over. Thank you liberal America for reducing the president to little more than a symbolic figurehead.
I agree. Rush's bias is as much right-wing Moore's is left-wing, and to this point I can't say that I have directly caught Moore in a lie. However, I have heard a couple lines from the film that would either be direct lies or gross mistakes. I am watching it either Tuesday or Wednesday, and I'll mouth off on it if I find any direct contradictions of fact.
(1) I haven't attacked liberals.
(2) Why don't you pick any transcript you want and bring back a lie spoken by Limbaugh for me. That gives you the entire spectrum. If you can do it on any day, then take one from any day and do it. I'll wait right here.
(3) I never said I agreed with Rush's point of view. I just said the man has some killer fact-checkers.
I do not support Bush. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to justify support for Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
"I'm not a right-winger and I'm not a left-winger. I consider the right and left both to represent the same thing -- government control." -- Paul Pope
I didn't say Rush was honest. I said you can't catch him in a lie, because he has a team that's better than God at checking facts before he mouths off at something.
As for the transcript, as I have made clear -- it was on TV, and I don't care about Moore enough to actually know what it was. I caught it in passing and then changed the channel. Furthermore, this is Slashdot, it won't change your view anyway, and I have better ways to spend my time than unearthing some Michael Moore quote that won't have any affect on anything.
I didn't do the same thing you did at all. I didn't label you. I just said stop making assumptions that incorrectly label others' ideology -- which is what you did, therefore I was correct to use the phrase. Maybe I could have chosen a better way to say it, but this is Slashdot. It isn't that important.
Also, O'Reilly is not nearly in the same class as Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh. Furthermore, since I don't listen/watch/read/pay any attention to Coulter, Hannity, or Limbaugh, I'll refrain from speaking up about them.
As for Bush, it's simple: I criticize his administration consistently for allowing Christianity to interfere with freedom (censorship, anti-abortion, etc. all fall under this category), for much of the PATRIOT Act and other snooping programs, for swelling the budget to ungodly expanses... I could get specific, but once again, this is Slashdot, and I can think of better ways to spend my time.
Suffice it to say that I am not a Bush supporter. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to support Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
At best this illustrates either how useless an average is, or how useless the so-called political spectrum is.
The political spectrum as the average American understands it isn't quite useless, but you're right: this conversation has illustrated just to what extent it is useful...
Like a lot of people, you seem to think demographics as a science has more value than it really does.
Appearances can be deceiving. Demographics are useful only to get an idea of what you're working with. It's just like polling. Whether the results were found via balanced scientific processes or not, there is still a margin of error, and there is still a chance that your error could exceed that theoretical margin.
Demographics, polls, and the left-right political scale (or any 2D or 3D scale) are only tools.
It's all easily found via Google News. You're posting on Slashdot, so you're obviously not incapable of finding it. I did my homework, you do yours.
Hmm, that's unusual. It's tough to find people who actually bother to be nice about it. In that case, I take back the "stupid" part. Just try to be more careful about those assumptions in the future. It's too easy to misinterpret would someone else is saying, so just assume they mean exactly what they say and nothing more...
Implication is a sign of your own bias, not necessarily theirs.
Because it's not 100% pure, that there is 1% that we now find out was wrong. We must condemn the whole film? Do you apply the same standards to conservatives? Just curious.
Yes, I do. I have never voted for a conservative, and if it were my choice none of them would be in office.
You have just committed the error of assuming that just because I criticized a liberal, I am a conservative. But what's worse, you publicized that misrepresented opinion in a public forum, which is similar to what Moore has done with his opinions about what goes through Bush's mind.
If you notice in all of my comments, I have never claimed to support Bush, and I have repeatedly attacked conservatives. You people need to stop applying your liberal spin to every anti-Moore criticism and do what Moore cannot -- consider it objectively!
Also, if you bothered to pick up a dictionary and look up "documentary", you'll find that what Moore has done -- make something similar to a documentary that covers only one side of the issue and never attempts to reconcile with the other side -- is a mockumentary at best, and not a documentary at all. However, like his last non-documentary, it will probably nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar.
FYI, I used the hardcopy dictionary, and I merely linked to the site that I knew referenced the AHD. In my dictionary, the entire definition is separated by semi-colons, there are no numbers, and the last part you mentioned isn't even listed. But thanks for clarifying that.
It was a major network interview in the last week. I don't recall who was interviewing him or even what network. I don't watch enough TV to remember who it was. But the subject matter and the interviewee was obvious... ;-)
What I found humorous is that immediately after I heard him on television saying that it isn't all meant to be taken seriously, I found links to quoted articles in newspapers across America where he said it was meant to be taken seriously, especially by teenagers and young adults who need to get out and vote for the first time.
Moore is in the business of indoctrinating America with his own vision of socialist heaven.
Excellent post. I imagine that you've found it difficult to find high-quality discussion in poltical stories on Slashdot. Just a guess. :-P
Most Americans are clueless when it comes to global politics. I understand that most of the rest of the world is further to the left. It is for exactly that reason that I wish the world would leave America alone and let it do its own thing. We are the only significant "right-wing" nation out there. Let us have that. Anyone in the world who wants to live in a left-wing world can go somewhere else.