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To: Richnorth who wrote (85527)	5/20/2002 2:02:03 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116836

Blood sells newspapers. It if bleeds it leads. A safe world will never exist as humans seem to need danger at least vicariously. Adrenalin rushes are what we live for in part. <vehicle safery rant, wear appropriate apparel.) We kill 50,000 per year on the roads in unsafe cars and needless accidents. If we lost that many in a war there would be marches on the Capitol to stop it all costs. It took 6 years to kill 50K in Nam. Do we need to kill people just for the headlines? Do newspapers lobby against automotive safety? Do drug manufacturers and liquor companies promote unsafe driving with moderation ads about drinking and driving and using pills? ONe things for sure, the seat belt has killed many people. since its inception more people are being killed on the roads than before. Why? Because people drive more recklessly when they feel safer. Try it. Have a person rate your driving safety for 20 minutes. For ten minutes wear your seatbelt, and ten minutes not. I will bet you a case of beer (that you must drink while driving) that he finds more mistakes when the belt is on. And drunks causing accidents? Speed the dominant factor in accidents. Nope. Most accidents that are fatal happen on a sunday with sober drivers during the day under perfect conditions at moderate speed. Low level carbon monoxide may be a factor that is untested for. Drowsy drivers literally "go to sleep" while still awake. The rest of the accidents are mostly during the winter and involve commercial trucks that are lightly loaded, improperly lighted or on slipper roads under poor visibility. Alcohol is not a dominant factor in more than 25% of accidents. And even given that, there are many other factors that are more important. Holiday accidents are not important either. There are only one or two holidays that are really bad and the numbers are insignificant. What could really reduce accidents are more manoeuverable cars with much better winter traction, visibility, (See and be seen) and braking ability.(You won't hit a vehicle inthe winter at night if it has blue marker lights.) Also true gas tight exhausts that do no corrode. Volkswagens were the kings or winter driving. Stop on a dime, good traction, nimble, and you could see in the winter without glare. The could also outcorner any production and many racing autos. If only they had good heater. </end of vehicle rant> I used to love exploration. Still do. In the bush there is an element of danger. Cliffs, bears, plane crashes and all kinds of accidents. (I had my share of close calls with all.) I am sure that at least sublminally I needed that sense of adventure, we could call it, to be fulfilled by teh life. If it could be done from a chair downtown I don't think it would be the same. I would not want war or death for anyone, but with 6 billion on the planet soon and no end in sight, something has to give. It's either that or starvation as nobody wants to stop breeding first. The Chinese have been on some kind of breeding diet for 20 years now, and their population has increased by 25% in that time. Obviously they cannot control their society. There has to be corruption. They should ask the Canadians how to do it as we are not replacing our society by reproduction. It is one of the few declining populations in the world. But we don't need to decline. Asia and Africa need to. <odd political rant on birth rates> How does Canada achieve this? My guess is low wages, widely available cheap birth control and abortion, "empowered women" being given jobs preferences, promotion of homosexuality, and promotion of single mother status by government support of divorce and separation. It seems to work. More countries should look into it. <end of poly rant> EC<:-}

To: Richnorth who wrote (85527)	5/20/2002 9:12:58 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116836

All Typos and speling erors Kourtesy of the Ergomaniacal and Catastradgik Faux Pas Company. If we didn't spel it wrong and you didn't wondur about it, would you luk it up and lern anything? Movies I have seen lately that were OK. Heist: Hackman, DeVito -- fun and well done. Hackman is great Spy Game: Redford, Pitt. Good paced action. Involves you. Oceans 11: Pitt, Clooney, Damon, Roberts and others. Best actor of them all is the old has-been Elliot Gould! Lots of fun. Erin Brockovitch. Julia Roberts is so good, that she overshadows the parts of her husband and the law firm head, which were not so great. She is the movie and it is worth seeing. Shakespeare in Love: Fiennes and Paltrow. Great period piece. Well, well done. Romeo and Juliet. A delight. Dusk Til Dawn: Not really a good movie, but very very wild, and worth one see. Clooney, Keitel, and its director Tarantino, who is not a bad an actor as his reviews. Still he should stay behind the camera. 15 Minutes De Niro. Not a great movie but not a walk out exactly. While disatisfyingly cliche, it has one fascinating aspect. Bruce Cutler, the lawyer from NY plays himself (Cameo) in it! and he does a good over the top job. For that insightful bit part, it is worth it. Richard Burton's Hamlet: Well, it was a long time ago and it was in black and white, but it is best Shakespeare ever done for a movie or many stages. If you have not seen it, get it and you will understand much of Shakespeare's humour and lines, and perhaps for the first time see the meaning of his seemingly convoluted and dated references. BTW, a nunnery is a whorehouse. Night of the Iguana: Set your Iguana free. Catch your own flies. I dare you. We are partly all the characters is William's message. In this lies our salvation if we seek it and our damnation too. Mullholland Drive: Naomi Watts is a good actress. A very weird, very involving adult movie. If you can figure out what Lynch is saying, you are a voyeur from another planet. So what is the blue box, reality? The red lampshade? Is the sex theme a sex theme, or is it about intellectual freedom? A very good street take on Hollyrood. EC<:-}