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Man Jailed for Selling Modchips
JoeCotellese writes "The Register is reporting that the man accused of selling Mod chips for the X-Box was sentenced to five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine." Yet another sad abuse of the DMCA.
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(yes, offtopic, but I can't let this stuff slip by.)
I hear ignorant people say this sometimes and it never fails to surprise me. In their defense they're usually acting out some gradeschool conditioning and are not truly hateful or bigotted people. But holy cow, grow up.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
I was completely with you until you called it "gay." I know you don't mean it in an offensive way, but every time you make the unspoken assertation that gay = stupid, you are being offensive. Moreover, you sound completely ignorant to anyone over the age of 23 or so (who wasn't exposed to the slang in high school).
/syle
Oh please. It used to primarily mean 'happy'. Just because you have a different definition than the poster, doesn't call for apologies. If anything it's ignorance on your part, because you can't see past the 'sexual revolutionists' version of the word.
In the three different states that I grew up in (15 years ago), 'gay' meant 'stupid' - it had nothing to do with sexual orientation - though it may have originated there. Just like 'cool' isn't the opposite of warm, or 'bad' isn't the opposite of good.
No wonder this country is so fucked up. Someone reads in THEIR VERSION of a definition of a word, and all of a sudden the sky is falling. This isn't Latin, the English language is constantly changing. I suggest you do some research on Kleenex and Spam, and accept the fact that you may lose your definition of the word.
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Ugh. Bush this, Bush that. Please think before you talk. Bush wasn't the one who enacted the DMCA. No, it was the one you liberal freaks all love... Bill Clinton. If you don't like the law, fine, but blame it on the right person at least. Bush has as much to do with the DMCA as Clinton does with the Patriot Act, i.e. nothing.
Too bad Clinton still isn't in office... maybe he could have pardoned the guy for the right amount of money, just like so many other criminals he pardoned.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
Saddam could not be proved to have any "weapons of mass destruction" - but a huge stockpile of modchips were found in a Bagdad suburb.
"This justifies the entire war", a spokesman says.
Except it depends on the person hearing it. There's so much of a double standard because of the fear of offending people. 'nigger' is a bad example, IMHO. It's not used universally (nationally, or racially) to mean idiot. With 'gay', OTOH, I've had experiences with those of all races and locales using it as 'stupid'.
If I say, 'Hey Bro', and you don't like me, would you be offended? Probably. It depends on the person.
I'm not touchy feely, I could really care less if you don't like a certain word that I use. Slang shouldn't offend anyone, unless it's directed at them. If it's not, they're just too sensitive in the first place.
It reminds me of my German class in High School, some girl said something about having something on her 'bacca' (cheek). The teacher started cracking up. Apparently, the way the girl used the word, it meant butt-cheek.
My point is, when words are taken too literally (and ESPECIALLY out of context) we run into problems. (Hey, am I back on topic now? :)
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Or, if you're Canadian, 'fag' can be a cigarette. If you're gay, you might want to stay out of Canada, unless you want to risk being offended.
In the same book, "gay" when used in a derrogatory manner is offensive to many people, so don't act surprised when people get offended or dismiss you as ignorant for using it in such a way.
Exactly. You've taken it out of context, and applied what you perceive as the 'popular' definition of the word by itself. IMHO, that's the problem, and is the definition of ignorance. The 'N' word, as you call it, is used regularly in a positive manner, but still with racial prejudice. It's not the same.
I'd also like to point out the maturity of the original poster in the fact that they admitted that the word choice was poor, rather than go off on a rant about "no wonder this country is so fucked up."
OR, backing down to your point of view is favorable to you ;)
The reason this country is so fucked up is because people don't take the time to be considerate of others. Think about that.
Heh, you wouldn't HAVE to consider all the local definition of words you used, if everyone else wasn't so ignorant about those other definitions, and taking the word out of context, right?
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)