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Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts
Wingchild writes "Haitian civil rights groups in Florida have filed a lawsuit with the circuit court in Palm Beach County, which Rockstar Games has asked to be moved up to a federal court for a final decision on whether or not their game has to be banned from stores. This move happens as the court of media opinion begins weighing in on the subject (facts irrelevant, of course), a fact which Slashdot Games noted a scant two days ago."
I was thinking about selling my copies of GTA on ebay. However, if it's going to be banned, it's soon going to be worth a mint.
Maybe I should wait, huh?
AC
You can be utterly certain that if some company came out with a Windows game where you had to sneak your character into houses and beat to a bloody pulp the families of anyone using Linux, then /. geeks would be up in arms complaining louder than anyone else.
Hypocrisy
For reference, we should remember that some of these idiots think GTA is worse than child molestation.
OT:
Tasteless T-shirt of the week:
Front-- Michael Jackson did not have sex with those kids.
Back-- He made love to them.
(Sorry... mods please be nice.)
Ac
Something about your post reminded me of an old joke:
:P
Q: What's the difference between pornography and art?
A: A government grant.
My blog
"Kill these particular Hatians, but treat all other Hatians with dignity and respect!"
My joke got modded as Insightful and my insight got modded as Funny.
National Enquirer spends more time on making sure there is a crediable soruce for thier stories =]
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us to think for ourselves!
So, by spending many entertaining hours playing Vice City, all the time aware that this is fantasy and the acts I commit in the game have no bearing on my real-life conduct, I have been committing acts far worse than fucking little boys? Sheesh, I had no idea!
In fact, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the New York Post. It is, of course, another lying gutter publication from Rupert Murdoch, the bloated impotent turd who's attempts to take over the world will hopefully fail when he dies of a extremely-painfull coronary.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
I've been told to kill Germans in tons of World War II games and no one's complained about that...
This sig is only here so people stop skipping the last lines of my posts.
Looks like video games will all be Tetris and Pong from now on.
I don't think that's a feature per se of any "capitalist system", but more a feature of a free market system. Of course, IANAE.
XML causes global warming.
Whole-heartedly agreed. A++ Would agree with this post again.
If you don't like the game, DON'T BUY IT!!! Nobody's pointing a gun at you to force you to buy.
Actually, that scene is in the next version of GTA.
I help scummy lawyers get their cocaine back, and run it for the Mafia. I often stand on rooftops and snipe at passerby with a rocket launcher. I sometimes will run around city streets with a flamethrower and burn random people.
I like to run into the police station and preceeded by grenades and clean up with a machine gun. I drive on the beach and run over people who are sunbathing.
I beat most hookers with a baseball bat, take their money, and buy guns with it. I can sometimes be found running over moped riders, waiting 'til they get back on, then elbowing them in the throat and stealing their bike.
I drive on the sidewalks. On golf courses. In parks and malls. I run over anyone I see. If I'm on foot, I'll run up to someone and kick them in the head. Sometimes I'll beat them until the blood spreads in a spreading pool.
I blame my parents.
the guns with walkie-talkies,
.. ... See the monkey? Look at the silly monkey!
and Rockstar should use the chewbaca defense(and hire Johnny Cochran).
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You guys should lighten up. We live in a democracy, which means that any special interest group may impose its believes on the populace as a whole. this isn't the first time somebody has gone to court over something inane, and it won't be the last. Besides, somebody has to pay all the starving lawyers out there.
Don't worry though, there's an easy solution: "kill the group of persons whom have a common trait of originating in a non-specific country." Come to think of it, "kill" is a strong word and probably offends those not living. Let's replace all instances of "kill" with "give a basket of kittens to." It's not so bad really, sure "give a basket of kittens to the group of persons whom have a common trait of originating in a non-specific country," isn't as to-the-point as "kill the Haitians," but at least no one gets offended. Then we can all sing songs and dance amongst the trees and kittens and give flowers to each other and everyone will be happy, or else.
I've heard that the American-Orcish community is protesting the recent LOTR movies and video games. Apparantley it sterotypes Orcs to be ugly, misformed, drooling, fiendish blood drinking monsters.
;-)
Luckily for them, the Orcs are currently in charge of Congress so a ban on anti-Orc material should be forthcoming
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Blatantly stolen via Google:
Alarmed by the unhealthy choices they make every day, more and more Americans are calling on the government to enact legislation that will protect them from their own behavior.
''The government is finally starting to take some responsibility for the effect my behavior has on others,'' said New York City resident Alec Haverchuk, 44, who is prohibited by law from smoking in restaurants and bars. ''But we have a long way to go. I can still light up on city streets and in the privacy of my own home. I mean, legislators acknowledge that my cigarette smoke could give others cancer, but don't they care about me, too?"
''It's not just about Americans eating too many fries or cracking their skulls open when they fall off their bicycles," said Los Angeles resident Rebecca Burnie, 26. ''It's a financial issue, too. I spend all my money on trendy clothes and a nightlife that I can't afford. I'm $23,000 in debt, but the credit-card companies keep letting me spend. It's obscene that the government allows those companies to allow me to do this to myself. Why do I pay my taxes?''
Beginning with seatbelt legislation in the 1970s, concern over dangerous behavior has resulted in increased governmental oversight of private activities. Burnie and Haverchuk are only two of a growing number of citizens who argue that legislation should be enacted to protect them from their own bad habits and poor decisions.
Anita Andelman of the American Citizen Protection Group is at the forefront of the fight for ''greater guardianship for all Americans.''
''Legislation targeting harmful substances like drugs and alcohol is a good start, but that's all it is--a start,'' Andelman said. ''My car automatically puts my seatbelt on me whenever I get into it. There's no chance that I'll make the risky decision to leave it off. So why am I still legally allowed to drink too much caffeine, watch television for seven hours a day, and, in some states, even ride in the back of a pick-up truck? It just isn't right.''
The ACPG has also come out in favor of California's proposed ''soda tax,'' which addresses unhealthy eating habits.
''The legislation, if approved, would establish a tax on sodas and other beverages with minimal nutritional value, and the money would be used to fund programs that address the growing epidemic of childhood obesity,'' Andelman said. ''If our own government doesn't do something to make us get in better shape--or, for that matter, dress a little nicer--who will?''
Rev. Ted Hinson, founder of the Christian activist group Please God Stop Me, said he believes that the government will listen.
''For years, legislators have done an admirable job of listening to constituents who want the dangerous, undesirable behavior of their neighbors regulated,'' Hinson said. ''That is a good sign for those of us who wish for greater protection from ourselves. But you should see the filth I still have access to, just by walking into a store or flipping on my computer. There is still much work to be done if we are going to achieve the ideal nanny-state.''
Bernard Nathansen, an attorney for the Personal Rights Deferred Center in Oakes, Va., is one of many individuals working to promote ''governmental accountability.'' His organization arranges class-action lawsuits on behalf of Americans who have been hurt by the government's negligence, including individuals who suffer health problems related to overexposure to sunlight.
''We can all agree that many choices are too important to be left up to a highly flawed individual,'' Nathansen said. ''Decisions that directly affect our health, or allow us to expose ourselves to potential risks, should be left to the wiser, cooler heads of the government.''
''But things like food and drug labels are half-measures,'' Nathansen said. ''The regulations, however well-intentioned, often all
but at least no one gets offended
I'd like you to know that I own a pet store. I sell, among other things, kittens. If video games promote the willful act of freely distributing kittens with no means of compensation for the giver, then I could be out of a job. I would lose my house, my car, my boat, and my wife, so used to living the expensive lifestyle afforded her by my kitten sales, would leave me (and probably for one of those communist animal shelter bastards). My children, starving and shoeless, would be forced to prostitute themselves on the cold, wet streets of San Diego. Imagine my poor kids, street urchins all, the painful chafing of sand between their naked toes[*].
For shame. I can't believe you could be so insensitive, you, uh, insensitive clod.
Then we can all sing songs and dance amongst the trees and kittens and give flowers to each other and everyone will be happy, or else.
And my brother, the florist...
[*] On the behest of Mark Asparagus, Michael Jackson is excluded from this suggestion.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
snip: "My parents educated my brothers and I very well..."
Apparently not that well.
If you yell fire in a theatre should you then set the place alight to avoid prosecution for causing a panic?
Snowden and Manning are heroes.