"condemns Michael Moore's latest idiotic blather"
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Michael Moore's
Michael Moore's
06/14/2004 09:03 PM
AP
reports that Michael Moore's upcoming film "Fahrenheit
9/11" was given an 'R' rating today by the MPAA. The same MPAA
that says
violence
is much more acceptable than sex. The same MPAA that has
close ties to the FCC,
running roughshod over First Ammendment freedoms. The same MPAA headed
by Jack Valenti who played himself in
Freakazoid! a cooky
cartoon about superheroes that save Washington D.C. Email him if you
disagree at jvalenti@mpaa.org or call the MPAA 818-995-6600 x396.
"Michael Moore's Blog"
"Michael Moore's Blog"
01/24/2004 09:00 AMMichael Moore's campaign
Michael Moore's campaign
06/11/2004 02:42 PM"Michael Moore's new film"
"Michael Moore's new film"
05/06/2004 04:21 AMWill Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?
Will Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?
06/20/2004 10:00 AM"Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's blistering documentary attack on
President Bush and the war in Iraq, invites scrutiny. Will the facts
check out?
"running Michael Moore's new movie"
"running Michael Moore's new movie"
06/15/2004 10:24 AMRSS Feed for Michael Moore's Webl0g
RSS Feed for Michael Moore's Webl0g
07/12/2004 08:58 PMIt's great that Michael Moore has a weblog but it has no RSS feed!
That sucks. I see that there is a scraped feed but it doesn't include
full text, just headline/date/etc. That also sucks. Does anyone know
of a better scraped feed? If not, I suppose I'll have to write my own
(unless someone with more free time beats me too it). But it just
seems dumb that anyone should have to write an RSS scraper for a
weblog....
"Michael Moore's bl0g, starting
tonight."
"Michael Moore's bl0g, starting
tonight."
07/06/2004 03:18 AMCBC News: Michael Moore's critics strike
back
CBC News: Michael Moore's critics strike
back
05/23/2004 05:00 AMmoney quote from ReganBooks .. ripped into Michael
Moore
cbc.ca/story/arts/national/news/2004/05/21/Arts/moore20040521.
html
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Spinsanity - Fahrenheit 9/11: The
temperature at which Michael Moore's
pants burn
Spinsanity - Fahrenheit 9/11: The
temperature at which Michael Moore's
pants burn
07/07/2004 04:43 AMFahrenheit 9/11: The temperature at which Michael Moore's pants burn
.. deconstruction ..
Spinsanity
spinsanity.org/columns/20040702.html
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"Spinsanity - Fahrenheit 9/11: The
temperature at which Michael Moore's
pants burn"
"Spinsanity - Fahrenheit 9/11: The
temperature at which Michael Moore's
pants burn"
07/03/2004 03:03 PM"Yahoo! News - Michael Moore's anti-Bush
documentary gets Cannes g..."
"Yahoo! News - Michael Moore's anti-Bush
documentary gets Cannes g..."
05/24/2004 11:09 AMAlterNet: Election 2004: Michael Moore's
Speech in Cambridge, Mass.
AlterNet: Election 2004: Michael Moore's
Speech in Cambridge, Mass.
07/31/2004 08:44 PMYahoo! News - Michael Moore's anti-Bush
documentary gets Cannes glory
Yahoo! News - Michael Moore's anti-Bush
documentary gets Cannes glory
05/23/2004 05:00 AMMichael Moore Won the Cannes film festival's highest honor for his
virulently anti-Bush documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11" .. Yahoo News
Story
news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1541&u=/afp/20040523/en_afp
/afplifestyle_cannes_film_040523010341&printer=1
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Libel Suit 9/11 - Michael Moore's
hysterical, empty threats. By Jack
Shafer
Libel Suit 9/11 - Michael Moore's
hysterical, empty threats. By Jack
Shafer
06/22/2004 12:19 PMLibel Suit 9/11: Michael Moore's hysterical, empty threats .. runs the
gauntlet of Michael Moore's lawyers .. eggs him
on
slate.msn.com/id/2102725
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"Disney are doing their best to block
Miramax giving Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 911 an American cinema
release"
"Disney are doing their best to block
Miramax giving Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 911 an American cinema
release"
05/08/2004 09:06 AMProper Propaganda - Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11 is unfair and
outrageous. You got a problem with that?
By David Edelstein
Proper Propaganda - Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11 is unfair and
outrageous. You got a problem with that?
By David Edelstein
06/27/2004 04:47 AM /: .. excellent Slate review ..
David Edelstein .. so what?
slate.msn.com/id/2102859
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"Michael Crichton on the latest
religion: environmentalism"
"Michael Crichton on the latest
religion: environmentalism"
12/16/2003 08:48 PM"Disney is telling subsidiary Miramax
not to release Michael Moore?s latest
Bush-bashing movie."
"Disney is telling subsidiary Miramax
not to release Michael Moore?s latest
Bush-bashing movie."
05/05/2004 10:47 PMMichael Moore.com : Mike's Message :
Mike's Latest News
Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message :
Mike's Latest News
05/24/2004 12:12 AMMichael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Palme D'Or at Cannes .. [link] ..
YEAH!
michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=17
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Oh no. Not more bl0gger-journalist
blather!
Oh no. Not more bl0gger-journalist
blather!
03/31/2005 07:22 PMBlog:
Unfortunately this debate seems destined to last as long as
the participants can pound away at their keyboards.
So...
I believe we have officially reached the
point where nothing DAN BLATHER says can
be trusted -- including A and THE
I believe we have officially reached the
point where nothing DAN BLATHER says can
be trusted -- including A and THE
09/15/2004 03:40 PMMorse: The First Rathergate .. Anne
Morris
nationalreview.com/comment/morse200409150552.asp
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"The tongue-tied blather was coming
thick and fast"
"The tongue-tied blather was coming
thick and fast"
02/10/2004 03:20 AMJapanese government's idiotic plans for
wireless LAN "tax"
Japanese government's idiotic plans for
wireless LAN "tax"
07/21/2004 01:14 AMFrom the
Japan
Times: Japan's telecommunications ministry announced yesterday it
may force consumer WLAN users to pay spectrum user fees.
[T]he ministry plans to hit the users with these fees because such
appliances use almost the same spectrum as mobile phones, whose users
are required to pay the fees, they said. The move might provoke stiff
opposition from product manufacturers as it is likely to affect their
sales. The ministry plans to collect fees from users of information
appliances when they purchase these products, according to the
sources.
Manufacturers of home appliances are currently stepping up efforts to
develop information appliances that are linked via wireless networks
and can be controlled from anywhere. Spectrum user fees have been
charged in connection with licensed broadcasting and radio stations,
as well as with cellular phone companies.
Games
pot has more on the story, and points out that gamers in Japan who
use the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP would also be affected because both
use wireless LANs to connect.
Reports say the bill will not be
proposed to Japan's parliament until 2005 -- leaving ample time for
device manufacturers and pissed-off wireless enthusiasts to raise a
fuss.
Orange Mobile's robotic adherence to
idiotic rules
Orange Mobile's robotic adherence to
idiotic rules
05/13/2004 12:18 PMYesterday was a momentous occasion: it was the day I received my first
UK bank statement, and was therefore able to do my bit to consummate
England's national love affair with the utility bill. I mean,
seriously: this is a country where you can walk into a shop to get a
mobile phone or an ID card and say, "I have in this hand a fistful of
credit cards and in this hand, a pristine Canadian passport," and have
the clerk sniff and say, "I'm sorry sir, but without a gas bill, we
simply won't be able to help you" (when I went to Citibank with the
details of my Citibank US and Citibank Canada accounts, I was told to
come back with a FedExed note from my boss attesting to my address,
because of the "know your customer" rules -- apparently, an original
signature on letterhead confers a depth of knowledge that mere
years-long in-house financial records can't convey).
Yesterday was the day I hied myself off to the Tottenham Court Road to
go shopping for a mobile phone. I knew exactly what I wanted: a
Sony-Ericsson P900 with the O2 75 plan, which gets me 1000 minutes and
several texts for only two or three times what comparable service
would cost in the US (English mobile phones are very feature-rich,
come with lovely high-speed data service, and cost so much to use that
it's hard to believe that there's really anyone using the advanced
features -- not at £4 a megabyte!).
The man in the Carphone Warehouse gave me the hookup, set up my
account, called their credit department, and told me I'd have to pay a
£150 deposit to go a-roaming in Europe. This is steep, but I can
hack it. I gave him the nod, and then he passed me the contract to
sign and went off to get my new phone. That's when he discovered that
he'd run right out of P900s. I walked the length of the Tottenham
Court Road strip and couldn't locate a P900 (or, indeed any phone with
more than 12 buttons) for love or money.
But eventually, my luck changed. An Orange store staffed with friendly
and knowledgeable clerks had P900s in stock and they were happy to
take my money. We went through the signup rigamarole again -- took
hours -- and then they called it in.
No dice. All of Orange's account sign-up computers were down. I went
away and came back, but the computers were still down. The clerk
confided that this happened a lot to Orange's overtaxed billing
computers. I thought that it was a little weird that I was about to
trust this company with my telephony when they couldn't even manage
the IT necessary to reliably sign up a new customer, but shrug, they
had the phone and I needed it, and besides, they'd match O2's rates
for me. They sent me away and asked me to return the next day.
It was a waste of time.
I came back today, and after an hour more of hemming and hawing, this
is what transpired: Orange would give me a phone with e £75
deposit, but I would have to wait 90 days before I'd be allowed to
roam with the phone. I pointed out that I travelled two or three
weeks out of every month, and this would render this (very expensive)
phone very useless to me. I asked to speak to a supervisor. No dice. I
offered to leave the same deposit I'd been asked for at O2. Even fewer
than no dice -- "We don't know who you are, we can't give you
roaming." I offered a bigger deposit. I offered to show the (enormous,
promptly paid) cellular bills from my last year with Nextel. The deed
to my condo in Toronto. The letter of reference from Yale. The Wired
masthead. My US credit-report.
A waste of time.
It's the rules, they said. And please stop asking to speak to the
credit department: they're not "customer-facing" and they're getting
annoyed. You're annoying them.
Right, I thought, I'll call the press-relations department. I spoke to
them at length -- flatteringly enough, they'd heard of me. So, what's
the problem, I asked. Well, we can't do this because it's too
risky to extend roaming to someone with no credit. I have credit.
And it's what everyone does. Not O2. But you could ring up
big bills with our roaming partners and stick us with them. I
could call Tokyo and leave the phone off the hook for 24h without
leaving England's shores and rack up just as big a liability for
you..
At the end of the day, it came to this: These are our rules. We will
stick to them. We will not make exceptions to them. We will hug them
to our bosom beyond any kind of rationality or reason.
I am such a goddamned telephone junkie. I'm no Joi Ito with his $3,500
GPRS bills, but I've been spending $200 or $300 on cellular telephone
damned near every month since 1992. I am every mobile carrier's dream.
Any rational carrier would jump at my business.
But Orange isn't rational. It doesn't have a business plan, it has a
bunch of superstitions to which it rigidly hews regardless of
circumstance -- the media person I was speaking to reported that she'd
spoken to their head of customer care, who wouldn't budge; this
intransigence goes right to the top.
So Orange has lost my business, and to hell with them. As soon as O2
gets some P900s in stock, I'll gladly give them the 150 quid and get
signed up and running.
And I think I've figured out why the Orange shop is the only place in
town with any phones in stock: they make life so miserable for anyone
who tries to buy one that you'd have to be flat-out desperate to take
one off their hands.
Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure
Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure
05/03/2004 11:00 AMThe US International Broadcasting Bureau (Voice of America,
basically), created a proxy service to allow Chinese, Iranians and
other oppressed people to circumvent their national firewalls,
relaying forbidden pages behind the silicon curtains. However, the IBB
decided to kowtow to unknown bluenoses and install a filter that would
block foreigners from gaining access to pr0n: to do this, they came up
with the bright idea of blocking any URL that contained naughty words.
This is a stupid, stupid idea:
IBB's list includes "ass" (which inadvertently bans
usembassy.state.gov), "breast" (breastcancer.com), "hot" (hotmail.com
and hotels.com), "pic" (epic.noaa.gov) and "teen"
(teens.drugabuse.gov).
Link"Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball:
More Distortions From Michael Moore
(They Effectively Poke A Lot Of Holes In
The Movie)"
"Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball:
More Distortions From Michael Moore
(They Effectively Poke A Lot Of Holes In
The Movie)"
07/01/2004 08:50 PMBoing Boing: Orange Mobile's robotic
adherence to idiotic rules
Boing Boing: Orange Mobile's robotic
adherence to idiotic rules
05/14/2004 03:30 AMBoing Boing: Orange Mobile's robotic adherence to idiotic rules ..
Cory Doctorow tambm sofre nas mos das telefnicas .. What a way to find
out what the term
means
boingboing.net/2004/05/13/orange_mobiles_robot.html
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"Davids Medienkritik: Michael Moore:
Amerikaner sind dumm, Deutsche sind
gebildet / Michael Moore: Americans are
Dumb, Germans Educated"
"Davids Medienkritik: Michael Moore:
Amerikaner sind dumm, Deutsche sind
gebildet / Michael Moore: Americans are
Dumb, Germans Educated"
11/10/2003 11:14 PMDavids Medienkritik: Michael Moore:
Amerikaner sind dumm, Deutsche sind
gebildet / Michael Moore: Americans are
Dumb, Germans Educated
Davids Medienkritik: Michael Moore:
Amerikaner sind dumm, Deutsche sind
gebildet / Michael Moore: Americans are
Dumb, Germans Educated
11/10/2003 11:36 PMDavids Medienkritik: Michael Moore: Amerikaner sind dumm, Deutsche
sind gebildet / Michael Moore: Americans are Dumb, Germans Educated ..
Michael Moore published in a German newspaper .. thanks to
Mediankritik .. David
Kaspar
medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/die_zeit_prsent.html#mo
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ICANN panel condemns Sit
ICANN panel condemns Sit
07/13/2004 08:25 PMTechzonez Jul 13 2004 11:45PM GMT
UN condemns Israeli settlements
UN condemns Israeli settlements
04/15/2004 06:20 PMThe UN human rights body calls on Israel to end settlement activity
and stop building its barrier through the West Bank.
Michael Dell steps down as CEO: Dell
Inc. founder and chairman Michael Dell
handed over
Michael Dell steps down as CEO: Dell
Inc. founder and chairman Michael Dell
handed over
07/16/2004 11:29 PMNDTV Jul 17 2004 4:00AM GMT
ICANN panel condemns Sitefinder
ICANN panel condemns Sitefinder
07/14/2004 05:17 AMVerisign got another whacking as the ICANN has slapped them again
condemning the sitefinder site that was online for a very short
period. Sitefinder was a site that Versign tried to shove down
Internet users throat so that when we mistyped the url instead of
getting a 404 error you were being forced to there commercial site.
[ZDNet]
Kyrgyzstan leader condemns 'coup'
Kyrgyzstan leader condemns 'coup'
03/25/2005 11:15 AMKyrgyzstan's deposed leader Askar Akayev denies he has resigned, as
the acting president promises fresh polls.
church still condemns the celebration of
Halloween
church still condemns the celebration of
Halloween
11/02/2003 03:12 AMHalloween: An ungodly import? ..
France
edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/31/france.halloween.reut
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Zimbabwe condemns 'liar' cleric
Zimbabwe condemns 'liar' cleric
03/28/2005 08:18 AMZimbabwe calls one of its leading cleric an "inveterate liar", after
he calls for a peaceful uprising against the government.
Bush Almost Condemns Swift Boat Ads
Bush Almost Condemns Swift Boat Ads
08/23/2004 02:46 PMAP: Bush urges end to TV attack ads by
outside groups, whatever their target. President Bush denounced
campaign commercials aired by outside groups on Monday, including an
ad that accuses John Kerry of lying about his combat record in
Vietnam.
Bush still won't directly address the
substance of the sleazy Swift boat ads. That's shameful. I hope some
reporter pins him down on this one of these days.
The stifling of the "independent" political action groups is a
separate topic. There's no doubt that the system is becoming even more
poisonous than it already was. Is making the 527s illegal -- and
trampling even more on political speech, however obnoxious it can be
at times -- the right approach? I don't think so.
India condemns US visa decision
India condemns US visa decision
03/19/2005 02:40 AMIndia's government and opposition criticise the US for refusing a visa
to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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