Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Achh the start of the year
Well we are two weeks into the new year and its not been too busy so far, ok it is early days, but that will change, as my final Art of Acting unti will start up soon, next Thursday in fact on 24 January, seems like we just finished the 3rd one! So it will nice (and a bit sad) to give the acting program some closure (well for now until something else pops up!).
On another note though I'm back doing my Cisco (Computer networking shtuff) and I'm on the last semester of the CCNA 4 (which basically as my lecturer Graeme says qualifies you to become an Internet plummer's best mate). And unlike Acting 4 I will be glad to see the back of it, as you have to do plenty of study, reading up on mind bending concepts of networking, which are all a bit too technical to bother with on this blog (or any blog).
And on a finale note, I finally got round to watching Michael Moore's Sicko, about the state of the health care in the US, and again Moore exposed the terrible state of affairs in America, where this time, lots of people who have had health insurance had either been dropped or extorted for the privilege. It also focuses on the people who didnt qualify for health care and how their sickness wasn't covered by health insurance. Basically the film boils down to the greedy corporations are the ones that control the health care in America, and if you want to go to hospital to get any treatment you have to pay the bill. I was kind of amused by Moore's travels to different countries to check out their health care systems, especially in London where he seems totally beumsed to learn that everything is paid for by the NHS.
It is a good film and again Moore deserves some credit for raising the awareness of the shambles that is the Health Care system in the US. Although having also seen Manufacturing Dissent, a sort of anti-Michael Moore film (which wasn't too anti Moore, more sort of constructively critical) I kept thinking how much of the film footage did Moore manipulate? How did he convince so many Americans to go with him on a potentially dangerous trip to Guantanamo Bay? And how will others think he comes off as a saintly figure sending cheques off to his biggest protestors? Does Moore just do this to carry favour with the rest of the world while he continues to berate America? Who knows, its not really for me to say of course. I'm not a big Moore basher, I enjoy his films, but sometimes you do have to take his opinions with a pinch of salt. And on that note I'm off ta bed.
On another note though I'm back doing my Cisco (Computer networking shtuff) and I'm on the last semester of the CCNA 4 (which basically as my lecturer Graeme says qualifies you to become an Internet plummer's best mate). And unlike Acting 4 I will be glad to see the back of it, as you have to do plenty of study, reading up on mind bending concepts of networking, which are all a bit too technical to bother with on this blog (or any blog).
And on a finale note, I finally got round to watching Michael Moore's Sicko, about the state of the health care in the US, and again Moore exposed the terrible state of affairs in America, where this time, lots of people who have had health insurance had either been dropped or extorted for the privilege. It also focuses on the people who didnt qualify for health care and how their sickness wasn't covered by health insurance. Basically the film boils down to the greedy corporations are the ones that control the health care in America, and if you want to go to hospital to get any treatment you have to pay the bill. I was kind of amused by Moore's travels to different countries to check out their health care systems, especially in London where he seems totally beumsed to learn that everything is paid for by the NHS.
It is a good film and again Moore deserves some credit for raising the awareness of the shambles that is the Health Care system in the US. Although having also seen Manufacturing Dissent, a sort of anti-Michael Moore film (which wasn't too anti Moore, more sort of constructively critical) I kept thinking how much of the film footage did Moore manipulate? How did he convince so many Americans to go with him on a potentially dangerous trip to Guantanamo Bay? And how will others think he comes off as a saintly figure sending cheques off to his biggest protestors? Does Moore just do this to carry favour with the rest of the world while he continues to berate America? Who knows, its not really for me to say of course. I'm not a big Moore basher, I enjoy his films, but sometimes you do have to take his opinions with a pinch of salt. And on that note I'm off ta bed.
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