In a way, Fahrenheit 9/11 is misleading. Two other movies and 35 recently published books explain that the problems are far, far worse than the movie says. This article provides links to reviews of each of them: Unprecedented
Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Slashdotted? Try
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm
Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael
Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much
more:
There were several books published before and during the Clinton
administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the
situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely
comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and
the negative issues are far, far more serious.
There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked
above, but no BitTorrent links yet. For those, try again later.
I recommend the ABC BitTorrent client for Windows, too.
Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much more:
There were several books published before and during the Clinton administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and the negative issues are far, far more serious.
Both of the other movies, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War and Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election are available by BitTorrent, also.
There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked above, but no BitTorrent links yet.
Last time I checked, no banks "supported" either Quicken or Money. If you accidentally import the bank data twice, both packages will happily post it twice, and you'll spend an hour removing the double posts. That's not support.
Maybe that's why few people actually use personal finance managers. PFMs are designed by people who apparently have never used them.
The idea is utterly preposterous. United Parcel Service is clueless about computer issues, if my experience is any guide. UPS WorldShip software is amazingly poorly designed, and the installation is primitive. I needed installation instructions, and had to write them myself: UPS Online WorldShip Software
Installation and Un-installation Instructions. No one at UPS has thought to put the instructions online. One UPS tech support rep. told me that was because they wanted to have as many people calling them as possible, so they could keep their jobs.
I would never have guessed this would be modded as funny. I want to use USB CD-ROM drives and hard drives during times when that stupid x#!%$# XP fails. I was trying to load XP on a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive, and found that XP likes to self-destruct under those circumstances.
I agree that Michael Moore has his limitations as a film maker. What can we
expect from a blue-collar, self-taught guy? He's not perfect, he's just the
best we have right now.
But we should not be discussing Moore. We should be discussing the immense
body of information about U.S. government corruption from which he has drawn.
I found TWO OTHER movies equally as convincing, and 35 books full of
information about the corruption. In case you didn't see the link in the
grandparent post, here it is again: Unprecedented
Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm if the other is slashdotted.
You said above, "Yahoo reports around $21 million. IIRC Spiderman made
around $110 million in the opening weekend." First, the weekend is not
over! I think Spiderman opened in as many as 4,000 theaters, Fahrenheit 9/11
in 858? The arithmetic is shocking, if it holds true. A documentary about
politics and government corruption doing as well as Spiderman????? In a
country where 50% don't vote????
I'm amazed that people get upset about slight inaccuracies in Moore's
presentation, and ignore the HUGE corruption that is the point of his
presentation. It doesn't matter when the Saudis actually flew, and it is not
possible to determine. The book House of Bush, House of Saud says 140
Saudis flew inside the U.S. during a time when no one else was flying. The
REAL point is that the Bush administration holds the rich Saudis, including
brothers of the guy who bombed the U.S., in higher esteem than almost anyone
else, definitely including Secretary of State Colin Powell. Why? Because they
are in the oil and weapons business together. That's corruption.
Yesterday I tried to uninstall HP printer software from a Windows XP installation, and it caused a blue screen crash. After that the Windows XP installation was completely unusable.
However, I have a solution: Carly Fiorina must go!
Yes, you are right. However, those who want corruption have been very successful at keeping their efforts out of the news by using a huge number of small abuses, rather than a few big abuses.
Media writers do not want to risk losing their jobs, or losing access to officials, by seeming to be against someone in government, especially when they are reporting a story that is fairly small in itself. Also, when there are many small abuses, most of them don't have the time or space in their publications to report the full story.
It's not just the fact that Michael Eisner of Disney did not want Disney to distribute the film. Fahrenheit 9/11 won the highest prize, the Palm D'Or, at the recent Cannes competition! It is only the second documentary in history to do so. The film received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Cannes festival!
This story in Fahrenheit 9/11 is relevant to Slashdot because the situation is far worse than Michael Moore says. I put together links to 2 other movies and 35 books that say there is an extremely serious problem: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm. Michael Moore is reporting things EVERY Slashdot reader and every person in the world needs to know. It they get their way, you WILL become poorer.
People like the movie because they like the movie! Fahrenheit 9/11 is selling out everywhere. Today in the Sports [!] section of the Kansas City Star is an example. The writer, Jason Whitlock, says:
"Fahrenheit is the most powerful movie I've ever seen. Not even Moore's heavy-handed, pro-Democrat slant could undermine his indictment of Bush's reaction to 9/11. The movie appears to have struck a chord with American moviegoers. I spent all Friday afternoon and evening driving from North Carolina theater to North Carolina theater trying to see the movie. The showings were all sold out. I snagged one of the last tickets to a mid-day Saturday showing."
Judging from the stories, other reactions in the U.S. are even more enthusiastic than this. A theater with 10 screens in Portland, Oregon scheduled 18 showings for today, Sunday, June 27, 2004, in reaction to the movie's popularity on Friday and Saturday.
(Reading the Kansas City Star commentary, 'Fahrenheit' powerful, persuasive, requires free registration. Be wary, the company says it will send you email, so you might give a trash email address, or use a free trash email address at Mailinator.com or DodgeIt.com. Judging from the registration information, if you give a real postal mail address, they may send you unwanted mail, also.)
The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.
Thanks. I bought a Telex H-851 because it was the only one recommended with 6 stars by Dragon Naturally Speaking, voice recognition software. The Dragon recommendation seemed important, since they want their software to work as well as possible.
"... Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."
Maybe this is all part of a comprehensive plan by Microsoft managers to give Microsoft a bad name. Those Microsoft people are business geniuses! They save a little by not investigating abuse, and cost Microsoft millions in bad feeling.
Hotmail is the most adversarial of the free email account providers, I've found. It appears to be the "push people enough and they'll buy" theory of customer relations.
Maybe AOL and Hotmail and Enron and Tyco and WorldCom should merge, so whatever it is, is all in one place.
Yes, that seems so. However, the other VoIP programs listed here are not equivalent solutions, so the need is great. For example, Skype works over port 80, all the other software I've seen requires opening ports in your firewall. Not good.
Maybe there could be a kind of streaming Ogg Vorbis? Maybe part of the work is already finished open source.
For 0 dollars per month, Skype is the way to go, if your friends have computers.
We need an open source Skype. Sooner or later Skype will start charging. For what? Just some programming, that could be done better if it were Open Source.
Off topic, but Shiatsu massage often reduces the speed of degradation of aging. To be of value, the person getting the massage must be dedicated to being aware of her body.
I've got a good answer to ATI driver problems. Buy a card with a Radeon 7000 chipset. $34.70, DVI out, TV out, and they don't seem to have
any driver problems. The card is so bottom end that ATI tech support seems to
hate to admit they even exist. Plenty good if you don't run games.
Reading these posts about ATI driver problems is an experience for me like
listening to people complain about mosquitos or athlete's foot or getting a
cold. People have been doing that for centuries, and in equivalent computer
years, it probably has been that long the world has been experiencing ATI
driver flakiness.
Suppose ATI is not really a video chipset maker. Suppose the company's real
purpose is to make faulty drivers? Maybe the company is run by some rich guy
who doesn't need to make any more money, and likes to annoy people.
Maybe ATI stands for Absence of Test Instruments.
Do you ever wonder about the sociology of ATI driver quirks? Matrox released
drivers every few months, and rarely had problems. nVidia has been the same,
in my experience. What conditions exist that ATI sometimes, in the past,
released new drivers every few days? After releasing faulty drivers every few
days for weeks, wasn't there anyone at ATI idealistic enough to decide that
they needed to do better?
Anyhow, I agree with a comment above that they seem to have gotten better.
ATI and drivers have been one of the mysteries of the universe. Sure, it's not
on the level of a short guy with black hair telling tall blond Germans that
they are the master race, but it is a mystery nevertheless.
You can probably tell from the tone of this comment that I too am an ATI rakee, as in being raked over the coals several times by ATI drivers.
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Two other movies and 35 books say your government is extremely corrupt, and that's all you can say?
"I'm not saying Moore's film isn't misleading."
In a way, Fahrenheit 9/11 is misleading. Two other movies and 35 recently published books explain that the problems are far, far worse than the movie says. This article provides links to reviews of each of them: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm
Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much more:
Supporting Material: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm
There were several books published before and during the Clinton administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and the negative issues are far, far more serious.
There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked above, but no BitTorrent links yet. For those, try again later.
I recommend the ABC BitTorrent client for Windows, too.
Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much more:
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Problems with Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm
There were several books published before and during the Clinton administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and the negative issues are far, far more serious.
Both of the other movies, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War and Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election are available by BitTorrent, also.
There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked above, but no BitTorrent links yet.
Slashdot is a weird place. Do something nice for the community, and you are called nasty names.
Last time I checked, no banks "supported" either Quicken or Money. If you accidentally import the bank data twice, both packages will happily post it twice, and you'll spend an hour removing the double posts. That's not support.
Maybe that's why few people actually use personal finance managers. PFMs are designed by people who apparently have never used them.
The idea is utterly preposterous. United Parcel Service is clueless about computer issues, if my experience is any guide. UPS WorldShip software is amazingly poorly designed, and the installation is primitive. I needed installation instructions, and had to write them myself: UPS Online WorldShip Software Installation and Un-installation Instructions. No one at UPS has thought to put the instructions online. One UPS tech support rep. told me that was because they wanted to have as many people calling them as possible, so they could keep their jobs.
I looked at the reviews of the book. I decided not to include it, for now, because I haven't read it yet.
Wow! Great! Those are different drivers, and the explanation looks MUCH better than for all other DOS USB drivers I've seen.
I tried that, and was unable to make it work. The driver apparently is hardware specific.
I would never have guessed this would be modded as funny. I want to use USB CD-ROM drives and hard drives during times when that stupid x#!%$# XP fails. I was trying to load XP on a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive, and found that XP likes to self-destruct under those circumstances.
Very interesting. What is the origin of MS-DOS 7.10? The web page says it has NTFS and USB support!
Anyone have USB support for DOS?
I agree that Michael Moore has his limitations as a film maker. What can we expect from a blue-collar, self-taught guy? He's not perfect, he's just the best we have right now.
But we should not be discussing Moore. We should be discussing the immense body of information about U.S. government corruption from which he has drawn.
I found TWO OTHER movies equally as convincing, and 35 books full of information about the corruption. In case you didn't see the link in the grandparent post, here it is again: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm if the other is slashdotted.
You said above, "Yahoo reports around $21 million. IIRC Spiderman made around $110 million in the opening weekend." First, the weekend is not over! I think Spiderman opened in as many as 4,000 theaters, Fahrenheit 9/11 in 858? The arithmetic is shocking, if it holds true. A documentary about politics and government corruption doing as well as Spiderman????? In a country where 50% don't vote????
I'm amazed that people get upset about slight inaccuracies in Moore's presentation, and ignore the HUGE corruption that is the point of his presentation. It doesn't matter when the Saudis actually flew, and it is not possible to determine. The book House of Bush, House of Saud says 140 Saudis flew inside the U.S. during a time when no one else was flying. The REAL point is that the Bush administration holds the rich Saudis, including brothers of the guy who bombed the U.S., in higher esteem than almost anyone else, definitely including Secretary of State Colin Powell. Why? Because they are in the oil and weapons business together. That's corruption.
Yesterday I tried to uninstall HP printer software from a Windows XP installation, and it caused a blue screen crash. After that the Windows XP installation was completely unusable.
However, I have a solution: Carly Fiorina must go!
Yes, you are right. However, those who want corruption have been very successful at keeping their efforts out of the news by using a huge number of small abuses, rather than a few big abuses.
Media writers do not want to risk losing their jobs, or losing access to officials, by seeming to be against someone in government, especially when they are reporting a story that is fairly small in itself. Also, when there are many small abuses, most of them don't have the time or space in their publications to report the full story.
It's not just the fact that Michael Eisner of Disney did not want Disney to distribute the film. Fahrenheit 9/11 won the highest prize, the Palm D'Or, at the recent Cannes competition! It is only the second documentary in history to do so. The film received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Cannes festival!
This story in Fahrenheit 9/11 is relevant to Slashdot because the situation is far worse than Michael Moore says. I put together links to 2 other movies and 35 books that say there is an extremely serious problem: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try:
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm. Michael Moore is reporting things EVERY Slashdot reader and every person in the world needs to know. It they get their way, you WILL become poorer.
People like the movie because they like the movie! Fahrenheit 9/11 is selling out everywhere. Today in the Sports [!] section of the Kansas City Star is an example. The writer, Jason Whitlock, says:
"Fahrenheit is the most powerful movie I've ever seen. Not even Moore's heavy-handed, pro-Democrat slant could undermine his indictment of Bush's reaction to 9/11. The movie appears to have struck a chord with American moviegoers. I spent all Friday afternoon and evening driving from North Carolina theater to North Carolina theater trying to see the movie. The showings were all sold out. I snagged one of the last tickets to a mid-day Saturday showing."
Judging from the stories, other reactions in the U.S. are even more enthusiastic than this. A theater with 10 screens in Portland, Oregon scheduled 18 showings for today, Sunday, June 27, 2004, in reaction to the movie's popularity on Friday and Saturday.
(Reading the Kansas City Star commentary, 'Fahrenheit' powerful, persuasive, requires free registration. Be wary, the company says it will send you email, so you might give a trash email address, or use a free trash email address at Mailinator.com or DodgeIt.com. Judging from the registration information, if you give a real postal mail address, they may send you unwanted mail, also.)
The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.
The situation is far worse than Michael Moore says:
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Slashdotted? Try:
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm
Thanks. I bought a Telex H-851 because it was the only one recommended with 6 stars by Dragon Naturally Speaking, voice recognition software. The Dragon recommendation seemed important, since they want their software to work as well as possible.
"... Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."
Maybe this is all part of a comprehensive plan by Microsoft managers to give Microsoft a bad name. Those Microsoft people are business geniuses! They save a little by not investigating abuse, and cost Microsoft millions in bad feeling.
Hotmail is the most adversarial of the free email account providers, I've found. It appears to be the "push people enough and they'll buy" theory of customer relations.
Maybe AOL and Hotmail and Enron and Tyco and WorldCom should merge, so whatever it is, is all in one place.
Yes, that seems so. However, the other VoIP programs listed here are not equivalent solutions, so the need is great. For example, Skype works over port 80, all the other software I've seen requires opening ports in your firewall. Not good.
Maybe there could be a kind of streaming Ogg Vorbis? Maybe part of the work is already finished open source.
The U.S. Supreme Court has become arrogant, and is not following the law. See the section titled Corruption in the U.S. Supreme Court: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
For 0 dollars per month, Skype is the way to go, if your friends have computers.
We need an open source Skype. Sooner or later Skype will start charging. For what? Just some programming, that could be done better if it were Open Source.
Off topic, but Shiatsu massage often reduces the speed of degradation of aging. To be of value, the person getting the massage must be dedicated to being aware of her body.
I've got a good answer to ATI driver problems. Buy a card with a Radeon 7000 chipset. $34.70, DVI out, TV out, and they don't seem to have any driver problems. The card is so bottom end that ATI tech support seems to hate to admit they even exist. Plenty good if you don't run games.
Reading these posts about ATI driver problems is an experience for me like listening to people complain about mosquitos or athlete's foot or getting a cold. People have been doing that for centuries, and in equivalent computer years, it probably has been that long the world has been experiencing ATI driver flakiness.
Suppose ATI is not really a video chipset maker. Suppose the company's real purpose is to make faulty drivers? Maybe the company is run by some rich guy who doesn't need to make any more money, and likes to annoy people.
Maybe ATI stands for Absence of Test Instruments.
Do you ever wonder about the sociology of ATI driver quirks? Matrox released drivers every few months, and rarely had problems. nVidia has been the same, in my experience. What conditions exist that ATI sometimes, in the past, released new drivers every few days? After releasing faulty drivers every few days for weeks, wasn't there anyone at ATI idealistic enough to decide that they needed to do better?
Anyhow, I agree with a comment above that they seem to have gotten better.
ATI and drivers have been one of the mysteries of the universe. Sure, it's not on the level of a short guy with black hair telling tall blond Germans that they are the master race, but it is a mystery nevertheless.
You can probably tell from the tone of this comment that I too am an ATI rakee, as in being raked over the coals several times by ATI drivers.