I have a question about this. Do corporations have to report the money they are spending and the position they are taking with regard to political issues? It would be bad business to alienate half of your potential customers by endorsing a political candidate.

The title of these posts is Dances with Smurfs. It is a play on the title of a movie, "Dances with Wolves". It is a movie about American Indians.

If we based our view of humanity by only looking at the times where there was peace, it would be a biased view. This movie does exactly that. Therefore, it is biased.

You're right, the movie hinted that there was conflict. It never actually showed any of it occurring though. This makes the native population look good. Looking at the flip side, the goodness that the humans did, such as the school and providing jobs for their people, where only hinted at and never shown. This makes the humans look bad.

No. I'm saying that if you want to parallel the Na'vi with American Indians, you are comparing apples with oranges.

Avatar wasn't just displaying a particular message. It did it in a biased and unrealistic way. For example: the Na'vi seldom, if ever, had a civil conflict in the movie that was not a direct result of the corporate occupation. One of them died of old age, but every other action that caused pain was due to sky people.

Sometimes there is a burden of intent that has to be proven out. For example: a student violates the internet usage policy at their school and uses the "It was an accident" defense.

Because change doesn't always mean you are changing to something better. Especially when the reasons for the change are suspect and often hidden from the public.

Most of the comments here are quite negative towards Mr. Thompson. He is actually a very impressive person. I suggest people who have decided to base their judgment of him on the company he ran watch the episode of CEO Exchange with him in it. http://www.pbs.org/wttw/ceoexchange/episodes/ceo_jthompson.html

There are a lot more fun things you can do to get 20 years. I think they should get some punishment, but 20 years?