I think a lot of people generally miss the point of Michael Moore's movies. True they might be propaganda, and they might be full of lies, but I don't think making accurate documentaries is what Michael Moore wants to do. His main aim is to get people to think! The fact that a post about F911 on a nerds news site generates 1000+ comments shows that he's succeeded brilliantly in this goal. That's what he deserves an oscar for and all the other awards.
I find it funny that in a country as big as America, there's only ONE person - ONLY ONE - that's got enough courage to produce something different from the mainstream! Americans always talk about freedom of speech and being able to say what you want, but when someone like Michael Moore comes along and does just that, he's pulled through the dirt instantly. No matter how many lies are in his movies, I think he may be one of the greates patriots around at the moment. He sees problems with his country and attempts to make people aware of these problems to improve things.
Even the biggest Michael Moore hater must admit that something's wrong when billions (trillions?) of dollars are spent on a war in Iraq, when people in your own country are dying in the streets because they don't have access to health care, food, education and shelter. I'll just talk about one of the facts that struck me as horrible from Bowling for Columbine (I'm not sure if this fact is true, but if it is it's just absolutely horrible!). The fact I'm refering to is that welfare is being privatized! How can this possibly work?! There's nothing to be gained for a private organisation from running a welfare system for the general public. As a result that welfare system will of course suffer greatly. How can a government allow something like this to happen?!
The times when one could walk out of University with nothing more than a shiny new diploma and into a well paying job are gone.
I beg to disagree! I just did walk out of university and applied for a well paying job and got it! True maybe I was lucky but then again given what I was up against maybe that's not true.
Firstly I don't have permanent residency here in Australia yet (I'm an international student). Anyone looking for a permanent position in Australia without PR will tell you straight away to just give up... Most companies don't even read your resume as soon as they see you don't have PR status. Secondly I have practically no real world experience. I worked a few months as part of an internship for my degree.
What I think got me the job in the end is simply good grades (Avg of about 80%...so not even *that* great), and the fact that I handled myself well in the interviews. Even though I felt I did badly after every interview I still new that at least I appeared somewhat professionally and I was honest. They even told me in the end that one of the reasons why they hired me was that I was one of the only people that was honest during the interview and admitted straight away if I didn't know something.
Have you thought of maybe using an mp3 player or some other type of sound recorder to simply record your voice while you're on the trip? Then when you get home you use a speech recognition software such as ViaVoice for example to convert all you say to text. Not sure how well that would work in practice, but it might save you some typing, plus you only have to carry a little sound recorder when you're travelling.
What you are trying to do sounds like a good idea to me, but a little bit impractical. First like most people have already mentioned, how are you going to keep animals out of the system? Second, most national parks are so huge and have so many entry and exit points that you'd only be able to keep track of a very small number of people in the park anyways. Third, people do go out into the woods to get away from everything related to modern society.
Probably a far better approach than your system would be to hand out EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) to anyone going hiking in the parks. I'm not sure if these also work in the States (they are GPS based (I think), so they should), but they work fine here in Australia. A friend of mine ended up using one a few weeks ago (a woman from a different party had broken her leg crossing a river). Push the little red button, watch the little red light blink and 1 1/2 hours later a helicopter was circling above them (This was in a very remote area).
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I think a lot of people generally miss the point of Michael Moore's movies. True they might be propaganda, and they might be full of lies, but I don't think making accurate documentaries is what Michael Moore wants to do. His main aim is to get people to think! The fact that a post about F911 on a nerds news site generates 1000+ comments shows that he's succeeded brilliantly in this goal. That's what he deserves an oscar for and all the other awards.
I find it funny that in a country as big as America, there's only ONE person - ONLY ONE - that's got enough courage to produce something different from the mainstream! Americans always talk about freedom of speech and being able to say what you want, but when someone like Michael Moore comes along and does just that, he's pulled through the dirt instantly. No matter how many lies are in his movies, I think he may be one of the greates patriots around at the moment. He sees problems with his country and attempts to make people aware of these problems to improve things.
Even the biggest Michael Moore hater must admit that something's wrong when billions (trillions?) of dollars are spent on a war in Iraq, when people in your own country are dying in the streets because they don't have access to health care, food, education and shelter. I'll just talk about one of the facts that struck me as horrible from Bowling for Columbine (I'm not sure if this fact is true, but if it is it's just absolutely horrible!). The fact I'm refering to is that welfare is being privatized! How can this possibly work?! There's nothing to be gained for a private organisation from running a welfare system for the general public. As a result that welfare system will of course suffer greatly. How can a government allow something like this to happen?!
The times when one could walk out of University with nothing more than a shiny new diploma and into a well paying job are gone.
I beg to disagree! I just did walk out of university and applied for a well paying job and got it! True maybe I was lucky but then again given what I was up against maybe that's not true.
Firstly I don't have permanent residency here in Australia yet (I'm an international student). Anyone looking for a permanent position in Australia without PR will tell you straight away to just give up... Most companies don't even read your resume as soon as they see you don't have PR status. Secondly I have practically no real world experience. I worked a few months as part of an internship for my degree.
What I think got me the job in the end is simply good grades (Avg of about 80%...so not even *that* great), and the fact that I handled myself well in the interviews. Even though I felt I did badly after every interview I still new that at least I appeared somewhat professionally and I was honest. They even told me in the end that one of the reasons why they hired me was that I was one of the only people that was honest during the interview and admitted straight away if I didn't know something.
Have you thought of maybe using an mp3 player or some other type of sound recorder to simply record your voice while you're on the trip? Then when you get home you use a speech recognition software such as ViaVoice for example to convert all you say to text. Not sure how well that would work in practice, but it might save you some typing, plus you only have to carry a little sound recorder when you're travelling.
What you are trying to do sounds like a good idea to me, but a little bit impractical. First like most people have already mentioned, how are you going to keep animals out of the system? Second, most national parks are so huge and have so many entry and exit points that you'd only be able to keep track of a very small number of people in the park anyways. Third, people do go out into the woods to get away from everything related to modern society. Probably a far better approach than your system would be to hand out EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) to anyone going hiking in the parks. I'm not sure if these also work in the States (they are GPS based (I think), so they should), but they work fine here in Australia. A friend of mine ended up using one a few weeks ago (a woman from a different party had broken her leg crossing a river). Push the little red button, watch the little red light blink and 1 1/2 hours later a helicopter was circling above them (This was in a very remote area).