Back when Moore had a Forum running, many of the Moorites and Anti-Moorites fit the true-believer profile. Guy named "GreenRage" was a real flamer! Also claimed to be a corporate tax attorney -- I had trouble reconciling that with his postings... "Robber Baron Assistant by Day! Enviro-Guy by Night!" I guess he was personally the cause of, and solution to, several of the country's problems.
Persons outside the U.S. regularly try to influence U.S. politics. Kerry even publicly acknowledged his support outside the U.S. (note to Kerry: you need support inside the U.S. to win the election). And I can understand why, seeing as we're the current lone superpower. Check out this site, for example.
It does remind me, though, of Cringely's article on "how to compete with Microsoft." Other countries should turn their focus to living their own lives and improving their own nations, rather than focusing on America. Hating America, blaming America, trying to influence American elections, killing Americans, financing folks who kill Americans, toadying to America, etc. won't improve their lives. And it puts the U.S. in a catch-22. We get blamed for everything: for fixing it, for not fixing it, for ignoring it, for not ignoring it, etc. The U.S. is a convenient distraction for many countries' and movements' leaders. Think how much they could accomplish if they focused on being for something, rather than against America.
I didn't vote for Bush in the last election. I would rather vote for Lieberman or Hillary than Kerry. Dean was a disaster. Why? Hillary and Joe are for something, and have specific ideas and goals in mind. Dean was only against Bush. Kerry is a pathetic waffler, and is primarily anti-Bush, rather than pro-anything.
So, maybe this is "one of the most important socio-political events this yeat" -- but the Euros politicizing a film festival to influence U.S. elections is... pathetic.
Come on! No one needs America to fail in order for them to succeed. That's such horrible, negative, zero-sum, defeatist thinking!
Succeed! Form a new, powerful EU nation! We Americans will be cheering you!
Punching bag he may be, but he comes off as more intelligent than Hannity. And I'm not really sympathetic to many of Colmes' opinions, as a libertarian.
Uh, "Crossfire?"
The whole premise "Crossfire" show is to broadcast overtly political opinion. One of the hosts is James Carville, for Pete's sake.
How about these?
Traces of sarin were found but it was in such small amounts that it is likely that the bombers themselves didn't even know sarin was present.
Sarin is one the lowest WMD threats since it has a ready antidote and quickly disperses in open air.
Ohhh, I see. How much more Sarin than a gallon (enough to kill about 60,000 people if used properly) would not be considered a "trace?"
After a couple years of chanting "where are the WMDs?", wouldn't the fact that some locals found a shell fully loaded with Sarin lying around be some kind of news? If so, why wouldn't CNN, for example, report it?
aversion to negative numbers for Bush... are negative numbers for Bush the goal? Perhaps, considering the editors and reports for other new organizations (AP, CNN, for example) have declared their hostility to Bush.
It's interesting that you know what the "right" poll numbers are.
YOU KNOW, sometimes I feel like maybe I'm too harsh in my charges of media bias. Then I read accounts like this one from Baghdad, by the Daily Telegraph's correspondent Toby Harnden:
The other day, while taking a break by the Al-Hamra Hotel pool, fringed with the usual cast of tattooed defence contractors, I was accosted by an American magazine journalist of serious accomplishment and impeccable liberal credentials.
She had been disturbed by my argument that Iraqis were better off than they had been under Saddam and I was now -- there was no choice about this -- going to have to justify my bizarre and dangerous views. I'll spare you most of the details because you know the script -- no WMD, no 'imminent threat' (though the point was to deal with Saddam before such a threat could emerge), a diversion from the hunt for bin Laden, enraging the Arab world. Etcetera.
But then she came to the point. Not only had she 'known' the Iraq war would fail but she considered it essential that it did so because this would ensure that the 'evil' George W. Bush would no longer be running her country. Her editors back on the East Coast were giggling, she said, over what a disaster Iraq had turned out to be. 'Lots of us talk about how awful it would be if this worked out.' Startled by her candour, I asked whether thousands more dead Iraqis would be a good thing.
She nodded and mumbled something about Bush needing to go. By this logic, I ventured, another September 11 on, say, September 11 would be perfect for pushing up John Kerry's poll numbers. 'Well, that's different -- that would be Americans,' she said, haltingly. 'I guess I'm a bit of an isolationist.' That's one way of putting it.
The moral degeneracy of these sentiments didn't really hit me until later when I dined at the home of Abu Salah, a father of six who took over as the Daily Telegraph's chief driver in Baghdad when his predecessor was killed a year ago.
Moral degeneracy, indeed. You hate to think that any American journalist could feel this way, but we've had other admissions of this sort in the past. To explain things in words of few syllables: It's wrong to root for your country's defeat. Especially when that defeat would mean the death of innocents. And surely it's worse still when it's merely for domestic political advantage.
The American establishment, led by the media and politicians, is in danger of talking the United States into defeat in Iraq. And the results would be catastrophic. . . .
Pretty funny that Moore accuses anyone of being a "lazy reporter," and suggesting that he will "correct the record" -- when he has make a lucrative career of setting the record firmly crooked.
[Christopher] HITCHENS: But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own [Moore], as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.
Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary French director who helped to launch the New Wave movement in the 1960s, had harsh words for Moore this week. Godard's latest film, Notre Musique, premiered on Monday, the same day as Fahrenheit 9/11. Later in the week, Godard lashed out at Moore at a press conference, calling him "halfway intelligent."
Godard went on to say that the Flint, Mich.-born director lacks subtlety. "Moore doesn't distinguish between text and image," Godard argued. "He doesn't know what he's doing."
"Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary."
In two places in Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore implicitly acknowledges mistakes in his earlier works. On several occasions over the past two years, Moore has asserted that (as he put it on "Politically Incorrect") "the Bush Administration gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban in part to -- give money to the poppy growers for the money they would lose because they can't grow heroin anymore." "Bowling for Columbine" continued the canard, asserting that the US gave $245 million in aid to the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Both of these are false; the aid, intended to help relive famine, was given to non-governmental organizations, not the Taliban. In his latest book, Moore finally gets it right, noting that the aid "was to be distributed by international organizations."
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Just how did Moore get so many of his facts wrong? Lazy cribbing from media outlets and the Internet seems the most likely culprit, as evidenced by a four-page list of allegedly dubious policy accomplishments by President Bush, including cutting funds from libraries and appointing former business executives to regulatory posts. All but one of the 48 accusations appear in the same order and with very similar phrasing to a list that has been printed this winter (but before Moore's book came out) on liberal Web sites and, according to Dr. David A. Sprintzen (often wrongly cited, though not by Moore, as its author), was circulating via e-mail last summer. Belying a lack of original research, Moore even apes many of the negative characterizations of individuals, calling judicial appointee Terrence Boyle a "civil rights opponent," for example (the list refers to him as a "foe of civil rights"), with absolutely no context for why exactly Boyle deserves that moniker (one certainly has to wonder whether Moore himself knows).
Curiously, Moore cites no source for this list. He only notes that readers "can keep track of what Bush did and does during his administration" by reading Molly Ivins' syndicated column and the Web sites smirkingchimp.com and bushwatch.com. The latter two did print the list, but not until this winter, well after Moore wrote his book, though before it was published.
In this case, the appellants' saving and planting seed, then harvesting and selling plants that contained the patented cells and genes appears, on a common sense view, to constitute "utilization" of the patented material for production and advantage, within the meaning of s.42. The other questions of principle relevant to "use" under s.42 also support that preliminary conclusion. By cultivating a plant containing the patented gene and composed of the patented cells without license, the appellants deprived the respondents of the full enjoyment of the monopoly.
Let me translate that for you: he saved and planted seed -- behavior practiced since the dawn of agriculture -- and Monsanto sued him for it.
This Win2k machine was installed from a Ghost image, meaning that it began life perfectly defragmented.
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 21 %
File fragmentation = 43 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 54,224
Average file size = 250 KB
Total fragmented files = 1,448
Total excess fragments = 47,054
Average fragments per file = 1.86
Most of the computers at work have 256MB RAM and 20GB drives, and the majority of that is free space. Win2k, Office 2k, Mozilla -- no problems. Except that we can't buy systems like that anymore. XP + Office 2003, if we buy a new machine. Useless upgrade.
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I recommend The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer.
Back when Moore had a Forum running, many of the Moorites and Anti-Moorites fit the true-believer profile. Guy named "GreenRage" was a real flamer! Also claimed to be a corporate tax attorney -- I had trouble reconciling that with his postings
That's his perfect right. Feel free to produce a rebuttal
This guy is.
He seems to be getting some hate-mail for it, too.
Gotta find some more superstitious neocon fucktards to add to my Foes list.
I suppose everyone needs a hobby. Yours seems to be registering your ideologically-based hate for other people on a website.
Telle est la vie.
Please note that I didn't defend Fox.
Persons outside the U.S. regularly try to influence U.S. politics. Kerry even publicly acknowledged his support outside the U.S. (note to Kerry: you need support inside the U.S. to win the election). And I can understand why, seeing as we're the current lone superpower. Check out this site, for example.
It does remind me, though, of Cringely's article on "how to compete with Microsoft." Other countries should turn their focus to living their own lives and improving their own nations, rather than focusing on America. Hating America, blaming America, trying to influence American elections, killing Americans, financing folks who kill Americans, toadying to America, etc. won't improve their lives. And it puts the U.S. in a catch-22. We get blamed for everything: for fixing it, for not fixing it, for ignoring it, for not ignoring it, etc. The U.S. is a convenient distraction for many countries' and movements' leaders. Think how much they could accomplish if they focused on being for something, rather than against America.
I didn't vote for Bush in the last election. I would rather vote for Lieberman or Hillary than Kerry. Dean was a disaster. Why? Hillary and Joe are for something, and have specific ideas and goals in mind. Dean was only against Bush. Kerry is a pathetic waffler, and is primarily anti-Bush, rather than pro-anything.
So, maybe this is "one of the most important socio-political events this yeat" -- but the Euros politicizing a film festival to influence U.S. elections is... pathetic.
Come on! No one needs America to fail in order for them to succeed. That's such horrible, negative, zero-sum, defeatist thinking!
Succeed! Form a new, powerful EU nation! We Americans will be cheering you!
Punching bag he may be, but he comes off as more intelligent than Hannity. And I'm not really sympathetic to many of Colmes' opinions, as a libertarian.
Traces of sarin were found but it was in such small amounts that it is likely that the bombers themselves didn't even know sarin was present.
Sarin is one the lowest WMD threats since it has a ready antidote and quickly disperses in open air.
Ohhh, I see. How much more Sarin than a gallon (enough to kill about 60,000 people if used properly) would not be considered a "trace?"
After a couple years of chanting "where are the WMDs?", wouldn't the fact that some locals found a shell fully loaded with Sarin lying around be some kind of news? If so, why wouldn't CNN, for example, report it?
aversion to negative numbers for Bush ... are negative numbers for Bush the goal? Perhaps, considering the editors and reports for other new organizations (AP, CNN, for example) have declared their hostility to Bush.
It's interesting that you know what the "right" poll numbers are.
I assume then, that you don't consider the New York Times or BBC to be real news outlets, either.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5013506/ http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/news/2004/0
Let me translate that for you: he saved and planted seed -- behavior practiced since the dawn of agriculture -- and Monsanto sued him for it.
So you're arguing that he gathered seeds from plants growing in a ditch, and then criminally cultivated them. What a bastard!
He got sued because he "saved the seed and reused it for production."
Which is what farmers have done for millennia. Ever heard the phrase "seed corn?"
So, wind and bees are now Agents of Intellectual Property Theft.
Give me a fucking break.
Melinda Gates created Bob, which became clippy. I imagine the Gates' charitable foundation is some sort of penance for that, and other, sins.
Au contraire! Microsoft has been shipping GPL software for a while. They call it "services for unix."
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 21 %
File fragmentation = 43 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 54,224
Average file size = 250 KB
Total fragmented files = 1,448
Total excess fragments = 47,054
Average fragments per file = 1.86
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 753 MB
Total fragments = 593
Directory fragmentation
Total directories = 3,953
Fragmented directories = 257
Excess directory fragments = 2,670
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 65,202 KB
MFT record count = 58,577
Percent MFT in use = 89 %
Total MFT fragments = 2
NTFS is very bad at avoiding fragmentation. This drive has amost 50% disk space free.
Everywhere I've been, there's 87, 89 and 93.
Has anyone cracked Windows Media DRM?
Wrong, we LIKE a more integrated Europe. Why wouldn't we? It was old, non-integrated Europe that started the last two world wars.
Viva EU!
-This U.S. Citizen.
Funny turn of events: my shampoo says "Hecho in EU" ("Estados Unidos") -- hey! I live in the E.U.! And I'm in Raleigh!
Most of the computers at work have 256MB RAM and 20GB drives, and the majority of that is free space. Win2k, Office 2k, Mozilla -- no problems. Except that we can't buy systems like that anymore. XP + Office 2003, if we buy a new machine. Useless upgrade.
It's marketing. "As long as they spell the name right."
Sorry, GNU/Marketing.