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Violent Video Game Law Struck Down
The Importance of writes "Washington State banned the sale of violent videogames depicting violence against 'law enforcement officers' to minors under age 17. When challenged, the law was blocked by a preliminary injunction. Yesterday, a federal district court decided that the law was unconstitutional because it failed the strict scrutiny test and was also void for vagueness. Read the 15-page decision [PDF]. A summary of the case's holdings with quotations here."
Sigs cause cancer.
*shrug* At least the public would no longer be tortured by Police Academy sequels
The law is leaving the poor kids with no option but to illeagally acquire the games (warez). Great job!
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Well with Doom III finally coming out, I can't be held responsible if I go about blasting demons and zombies that I come across.
Guys! .. GUYS! The widescreen edition of "The Sound of Music" is attacking Marty in sector D-29!
Very well; let this abomination unto the Lord begin!
I'm really growing tired of this bit-by-bit slow progression. Let's go ahead and get it over with. Let's install the telescreens, make everything illegal, certainly ban anything that any person on the planet thinks might possibly harm or inconvenience anyone in any way, and live tied down to a bedpost for the rest of our lives to make sure we are nice and safe from all the nasties. Let's have all of this done by tomorrow, the wait is killing me.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
Am I the only one who thinks the headline to this story should be "Violent Video Game Law Fragged"
Because as we all know, taking a cumshot is much worse than taking a gunshot.
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
What about the German guards in Medal of Honor...
aren't they technically enforcing laws?
What kind of world are we living in where we can't pretend to shoot Nazis anymore?!
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush
Some of them are 20 now ;)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Do you realize how much tax revenue would be lost if they banned violent video games?!
"BSD is about people pissing each other.." (Moid Vallat)
...Everyone knows that pot just makes you stupid...
No, no... pot has three main side effects. Decreased short term memory, decreased long term memory, and... I forgot the third.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
But you'd still have the porn.
oH boy, If you thought being a minor in this country was bad, just wait until you are over 30. Watching you Gen-Y whining slackers age is going to be quite fun...
But video games teach other important killing skills. For example, when you turn a corner, you should strafe the other way so you are already facing into the hallway. If you dodge twice in the same direction, you go much farther and can surprise your enemy. When jumping, you can either jump again at the apogee or crouch to get a little higher. Wait, those have nothing to with effective combat. Never mind.
A child's mind is like a bank, whatever you put into it, you get it back 10 years later with interest.
Porn and violence is tearing apart marriages and families. Anyone who can't see the moral decay and complete deterioration of society as a whole because of these two abhorations has their head up their ass.
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Again, probably none. Anyone who abuses marijuana enough for it to impact their intelligence probably has an addictive personality, and would have substituted alcohol or some other equally if not more harmful substance had pot not existed.
Yup. An addict is an addict is an addict.
Of course all things being equal, I'd much rather hang out with a stoner than an alcoholic. Nobody ever gets stoned and tries to kick your ass.
Way back when, I must have been about seventeen, I'd just started out on my first "serious" relationship with a girl.
My dad had been aware of my previous fumbling attempts at courtship, but up until now he'd kept his peace.
One day he looked at me and for some reason he'd decided this was the right time to impart his hard-won wisdom:
"Son, there's just a few things you need to keep in mind in your relations with women. A women wants a friend, an equal and a confidant. She wants someone who'll listen without judging. She wants someone who will make her feel like the most special person in the world - not all the time - just from time to time. Sounds hard, doesn't it? It is. But the rewards are worth the effort. If you can be all these things to a woman, she'll let you do *anything* to her! Fuck her anally, tie her up, come in her face, take photos - the works!"
Sometimes, I wish he'd keep his mouth shut. This was just such a time.
So that old dosish Duke Nukem 3D is now outlawed in WA. That is, if only a mutant alien pigcop counts as depicting a law enforcement officer. If so, minors can't play and vice versa.
I am not sure about it. Is there some government directive about it?
There you are, staring at me again.