I just have to say that Dear Lauren needs some education!!! Too bad that Goggle goes along with it - I used to like using goggle but sorry folks Dumb doesn't do it for me!

Yeah for YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and I and shocked, SHOCKED that there was not one reference to Apple or the iPhone!

WTF!!

I think that Mr. Moore and/or the "Sicko" producer should run an ad on Google that says, in effect, "See the movie. It will make you think!"

I'm also curious to see whether or not some health insurance companies heed Ms. Turner's advice.

Finally, let's not forget the consumer. Are we all so dumb to believe everything we read in advertising?

Go Google!

Google is EVIL! Corporate greed at it's basest. Starting with censorship around the world to make a buck. They'll stop at nothing to increase their bottom line. Hmmm, sounds like Kaiser Permanente or Exxon or WallMart or the Rebublican party or the Nazis......

I have been waiting for 2 weeks for "Sicko" to come here so I could see it. I was sickened by the Google account of the movie.

When the new movie listings came out I checked on the internet. Not showing anywhere near my hometown. So I put in Indianapolis IN in the location slot. And lo and behold found a theater in Indianapolis "Sicko". On Sunday we made the 220 mile round trip to Indy to see the movie. It was GREAT! This morning my husband heard on the news they will not be showing the movie in Fort Wayne as it is too controversial!

My how lucky we are that "they" are watching out for our well being and we are protected. And we are so lucky to live in the USA where we have freedom of speech and the freedom to choose what movies we can see!

I have been waiting for 2 weeks for "Sicko" to come here so I could see it. I was sickened by the Google account of the movie.

When the new movie listings came out I checked on the internet. Not showing anywhere near my hometown. So I put Indianapolis IN in the location slot. And lo and behold found a theater in Indianapolis showing "Sicko". On Sunday we made the 220 mile round trip to Indy to see the movie. It was GREAT! This morning my husband heard on the news they will not be showing the movie in Fort Wayne as it is too controversial!

My how lucky we are that "they" are watching out for our well being and we are protected. And we are so lucky to live in the USA where we have freedom of speech and the freedom to choose what movies we can see!

I tried to send the following email to the address given, but apparently the address is now invalid.

"Dear Lauren,

Reading your latest bit of ideological pablum just makes me feel, well, sicko. Along with the privacy issues being debated in the context of search engines, particularly Google, do you think the company you purport to work for is getting enough bad press?

I used to like Google, but my home page now sports a different search engine. Yahoo!"

M.

and their keeping track of an awful lot of stuff.

Google is valuable ONLY as a dispassionate, objective, strictly factual, and non-judgmental search engine.

If they want to use the ethical standards of the Bush administration, i.e., "Pay us and we'll turn reality inside out to dance to your tune rather than uphold ANY principle and give the public any results you want," fine -- until now I didn't really care to find another search engine.

I do NOT call them whores, because, as one San Francisco prostitute said in an interview "We're not selling anything that doesn't belong to us."

If you present yourself as an honest broker (i.e., a search engine) you're selling something that doesn't belong to you -- and as such, you HAVE to be absolutely fair and even or otherwise (all together now) "Go Fuck yourselves, Google. We admired and enjoyed the use of you and now you show us you're nothing but a tool for the highest bidder to warp reality however the money says. Wither on the vine and die off like so many other companies who sold their principles out from under themselves. I'm doing one more search -- to find OTHER search engines."

I was under the impression that the Googlers are all Stanford Ph. Ds who float several inches above the ground, never sullying their feet with the touch of the coarse earth--who voice only the most profound pearls of wisdom in dulcet tones--who dine on (free) ambrosia and honey in the Google cafeteria, excreting the byproducts as small, perfect spheres of gold.

This chick sounds like your average sheeple with subpar reasoning skills. Who hired her?

...deaf, dumb, blind and stupid not to know, instinctively, that our "health care system" is created to make profits, not health. Otherwise, it would not exist in the form it does.

Moore is right. Insurers and HMOs go to great lengths to hide what they're doing--making a profit from health-care--because they too understand that if the public really, fully comprehended how these companies are robbing the public blind, there would be consequences.

I dunno if Moore talks about it, but here in California, Kaiser Permanente bought itself immunity from most lawsuits for malpractice and negligence, by simply *buying* that immunity from the state legislature. This was at a time when Kaiser was being sued left, right, and center because of blatant incompetence, malpractice, and negligence in a host of patient-related injuries and deaths.

The company went to the legislature and, in essence, said "if you don't protect us from suit, we'll go out of business and then *you'll* have to pay for all this.." And the legislature complied. Now, if Kaiser hurts you in California, you can't do shit... unless they kill you in a really idiotic and obvious way, you cannot sue Kaiser for anything patient-related.

and THAT is how our system works, folks.