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Kelsey	Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:58 pm
Site Admin Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 133	I imagine it's available on most if not all of the p2p networks. I scored it a couple of days ago off of The Pirate Bay, burned it to DVD, and had a "family movie night". It's a good show, a little more low-key and less inflaming than his previous efforts but it makes its point well. So if you can't wait till the 29th for its release in theaters or you simply wouldn't pay to see it, you can download it for the low low price of a few bajillion CPU cycles. Quote: "I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that," Michael Moore speaking about piracy and Fahrenheit 911 _________________ The PG is your friend.
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Elvis	Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:25 am
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 661 Location: Toronto	I just finished watching the downloaded movie (don't worry Michael... I'll still buy the DVD as always!). I'm proud to say I once stood within 30 feet of this guy. It was a couple seconds, but worth remembering. I gotta admit that I watched this movie from a painfully biased perspective. Really painfully. Michael has much greater and more moving stories in the movie, but I'm gonna piggyback and share my own here for our American readers. Some of them might need more prodding to check out the flick. It's worth it for them to just get a glimpse of 'satanic' Cuba and the puffers that cost 1/2400th that they do in the states. My current week... Saturday night I got stung on the cheek by some disgusting unknown bee/bug, which I removed with the most unmanly of haste. To my knowledge I've never been stung by more than a mosquito and I don't have any known allergies. The bite mark swelled for a day... and pretty much disappeared the next day. I woke up a day and a half later itching around my ear with added mosquito bite type looking marks further back on the cheek around the ear and behind the neck. No problem... I figured it was a family of mosquitos that I can't remember meeting. By Tuesday the jawline and neck pulsing started. I contemplated going to the hospital for a look (my lifelong hospital of choice is the notorious Jane/Finch hospital) but my dad was already there waiting for a shot due to a pulled muscle. Figured I could wait out something more minor at home with a couple tylenols. I had just recently been to my yearly checkup with my own doctor and I don't feel like wasting both our time bugging him about it. By Wednesday the friend advice began. "Take an antihistamine". "It's an allergy reaction". "Did you pull out the stinger?". That last one led me to severely scratching up a nice spot. It felt good, but not the best of ideas. Thursday it was unbearable. I was seeing stars as what felt like a migraine headache was happening in my cheek/jaw/neck into my shoulders. So I decided to pick one of two very close walk-in clinics over the hospital. The settled choice was easy because two friendly, and hot looking, female doctors work there. Weird experience that now makes sense... they wanted my health card - even as a listed patient! I hardly ever carry the thing and I barely give it a thought. My punishment was a $35 dollar deposit that will be refunded on the next trip when I produce the health card. It now makes a little more sense after watching Sicko... Americans beware... at least one clinic here is charging you $35 dollars for that free health care scam. Ok, so hot doctor-1-of-2 and I do our little hello agains and she proceed to tell me that it's all infected and that I need some pills and that I have to come back and see her on the Holiday Monday to make sure it's all ok. I guess they're workaholic hotties. She then asks if I have insurance coverage for the prescription meds (which I don't). The docs are always free, but I gotta pay for my pills. So she says "ok don't worry, this antibiotic I'll give you won't cost you much at all" and gives me the dosage instructions (20 pills). I'm figuring like $80 bucks or something. I leave, go to our most famous pharmacy chain and talk to the pharmacist. She gives me another once over and then asks "have you shopped here before?". I thought I had countless times but apparently the chain stores aren't integrated that way... so I'm disappointed thinking I'll need to show that health card. Phew, no need. Next question. "Is this covered by a plan?". I tell her I'm paying out of pocket. She says don't worry, this one's doesn't cost much at all. Final total. $11.99 for 20 pills. $6.87 for the dispensing fee. A Swiss Chalet lunch costs me more! One pill later and all the throbbing is gone. If I die in the next few days, sorry Mike! If not... Wake up, you Americans! _________________ Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
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SharynS	Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:07 am
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2940 Location: the 'puter	My experience with the for profit health care was in 2005 after being coerced by Worksafe B.C to a private clinic (PC). Despite that my own physician had already diagnosed , prescribed remedy and scheduled a surgery date. Worksafe (which used to be called workers compensation (wcb)) can - and does - force people against their will and contrary to the Charter to attend one of it's on-staff' doctors. It's quite simple - either you do what they tell you or you face daily threats from case managers and ultimately you find your compensation for a workplace injury suspended. (another fun story for another time - remind me eh) The wcb's private clinic of choice is cambie street clinic, located in vanc. bc.. And it's nothing short of an elaborate human meat packaging plant - plain and simple. The reception desk is minimum 30-40 ft in length. There's a receptionist for each and every part of the body. You queue up according to specific limb injury. I was in the hand/wrist line up. Equally disturbing is that you have no idea who the doc is until you arrive and are assigned by one of the robotic-like receptionists (don't drink from the fountain). Not a word of a lie - the doc in charge of hand injury was none other than dr, groper. There are no waitng room rules, people can sit anywhere in the massive waiting area. Once your name comes up - I waited 40 minutes - you are then guided down a hallway to another massive room. This is where it gets f*kin' scary. The room anywhere from 6 to 8 medical beds. Each bed is occupied by another person with the same type of injury as your own. The beds are separated by just enough space to comfortably rotate a wheeled sit-stool for the doc to maneuver from one to the other. There is one doc to many attending whatever they are - dressed like medical assistants but their role is limited to passing the doc his prescription pad and dressing only the moderate wounds. I would call them bandaid_ers at best. As one patient (I use the term loosely) is released another replaces her/him (coed). The doc systematically goes from bed to bed, simply turning his sit stool. When he gets to the end of the row he goes back to the first bed and the rotation begins again. I was placed in the 3rd stall. I waited a maximum of 10 minutes while he observed patients in bed #1 and #2. He arrived at my stall by sit-stool, by simply turning it from bed #2 to bed #3. It was less than 5 minutes from that point to my release. (I drove an hr and a half to vanc., waited for 40 minutes to see the doc for less than 5 and all he did was check stitches and write me out another prescription and then I drove another 1.5 hrs. to get home. where was I. The doc didn't scrub between patients, he simply went from one to the other. Examining and observing whatever wound, directing his many assistant if need be and scribbling a prescription before bellying up to the next bed. Not anything I was used to or had ever seen in Canada before. Privacy was out the window, completely non-existent - coed and crowded. Pathogen control or precaution haphazard at best. It was despicable but - oddly enough - I'm thinking extremely profitable. They were turning people over like hotcakes at an elk's charity breakfast. I have no idea what part of the PC service is charged to the public purse - hefty I would think, I know they use public facility and I will wager they get a reduced rate as compared to medical insurers. And thanks to wcb forcing people through the system, there was no shortage of human meat - get'em in get'em out, bill'em! So yeah. america wake up before we all die in a system fast fashioning itself after yours. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.* - Salman Rushdie
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