I'm sure that gun owning by and of itself was not a central issue to "American Beauty". However, like a lot of what we see in the media nowadays, gun owners more and more often are not portrayed as "normal" or "respectable." Hollywood and the six o'clock news cannot and will not portray firearms usage in a positive light. Some months ago, Scientific American had an article written about PGP and in it the author made a statement lamenting the fact that the government is attempting to crack down on a technology simply because a few people choose to do wrong with it. Does this sound vaguely familiar? Anyway, my point was, and is, freedom is freedom and it's precious. We're letting it slip through our fingers. And if you think that protecting PGP, Linux, Apache and other s/w is the whole picture, then you're wrong. Sorry, there's more L'd like to say, but it's time to go to work.:) Tim
And that's the dilemma, see the film and thereby support more Hollywood hysteria or withold my $'s in a feeble attempt to get the huckster's attention? I'll stand by my conclusions regarding the film industry. I offer Sigourney Weaver and Micheal Douglas as examples of Hollywood's hypocrisy. Both have made movies where firearms and violence were a large part of the equation, yet both are vehemently anti-gun. What's wrong with this picture?
My first post here and it WILL be controversial. My understanding of "American Beauty" is that gun owners in the flick are largely portrayed as psychotic wack-o's. I realize that my post has absolutely nothing to do with Linux but the one thing that I've noticed about the Linux world is an incredibly strong desire for freedom and privacy. Am I right? Get the government out of my biz? Hmmm... it's not hard to see where I'm going here, is it? My advice, boycott "American Beauty". Those shameless hypocrites in Hollywood are more than willing to make their living with shoot 'em up bang bang's and then they have the temerity to tell us "ordinary" citizens that we can't be trusted with firearms. Musko Smack in the middle of America's Heartland PS Does anyone out there know what handgun Mr. Torvalds likes to shoot? I'd like to know. Thanks!
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I'm sure that gun owning by and of itself was not a central issue to "American Beauty". However, like a lot of what we see in the media nowadays, gun owners more and more often are not portrayed as "normal" or "respectable." Hollywood and the six o'clock news cannot and will not portray firearms usage in a positive light. Some months ago, Scientific American had an article written about PGP and in it the author made a statement lamenting the fact that the government is attempting to crack down on a technology simply because a few people choose to do wrong with it. Does this sound vaguely familiar? Anyway, my point was, and is, freedom is freedom and it's precious. We're letting it slip through our fingers. And if you think that protecting PGP, Linux, Apache and other s/w is the whole picture, then you're wrong. Sorry, there's more L'd like to say, but it's time to go to work. :) Tim
And that's the dilemma, see the film and thereby support more Hollywood hysteria or withold my $'s in a feeble attempt to get the huckster's attention? I'll stand by my conclusions regarding the film industry. I offer Sigourney Weaver and Micheal Douglas as examples of Hollywood's hypocrisy. Both have made movies where firearms and violence were a large part of the equation, yet both are vehemently anti-gun. What's wrong with this picture?
My first post here and it WILL be controversial. My understanding of "American Beauty" is that gun owners in the flick are largely portrayed as psychotic wack-o's. I realize that my post has absolutely nothing to do with Linux but the one thing that I've noticed about the Linux world is an incredibly strong desire for freedom and privacy. Am I right? Get the government out of my biz? Hmmm... it's not hard to see where I'm going here, is it? My advice, boycott "American Beauty". Those shameless hypocrites in Hollywood are more than willing to make their living with shoot 'em up bang bang's and then they have the temerity to tell us "ordinary" citizens that we can't be trusted with firearms. Musko Smack in the middle of America's Heartland PS Does anyone out there know what handgun Mr. Torvalds likes to shoot? I'd like to know. Thanks!