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Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor
hapwned writes "A news release at Warcry writes that the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) plans on filing suit in Michigan to overturn the recent Violent Games Act. From the article: 'The ESA argues that this bill is an effort to substitute the government's judgment for parental supervision and turn retailers into surrogate parents. Lowenstein said that the industry's products were being unreasonably and unfairly singled out. He contends that while there is no question that a few games have content that some audiences will find offensive, the same can be said for some content in TV, films, music, and books. Since the government does not regulate the sales of those entertainment industries, it should follow suit for the sale of video games. Ultimately, he concluded, parents, not government or industry, must be the gatekeepers of what comes in the home.'"
Its like some of those 'soviet russia' jokes are coming to life.
"In soviet russia, games sue you!"
were doomed!
A morning without coffee is like something without something else.
I think they should just do a Counterstrike tourney to settle this lawsuit.
I always try to RTFA immediately after RTFSP (Reading The Fucking Slashdot Post), usually before RTFC (Reading The Fucking Comments), and certainly before MAFR (Making A Fucking Reply). :)
Skype is too convoluted... Now I'm reverse-engineering the Kyoto Protocol.
supplement with belt as needed
If parenting is such a burden to the common whiny parent, then I move to totally eliminate the entire parental concept and let the government control all infants born in our fine nation. Such a radical thing could not exist in our current form of government, so it is necessary to remake our government to satisfy these claims. Anyone who has read 'Platos Republic' would have a good idea of what I am suggesting, but I will enlighten you all on my interpretation and opinion on how our current culture would design this fabulous creation.
Ahemm...
We need to destroy our constitution, human rights, marriage, religion, and of course, the common family unit consisting of a father, mother, and children. With our clean slate, we are now free to craft this new republic.
First off, a child is born and immediately sent into government processing. (I will explain how the child was produced later)
1 - Government is responsible for raising the child, this includes housing, feeding, and education.
-> Child lives in a type of nursery where trained (Beta) females, headed by an (Alpha) female, would raise all infants until the point of basic language comprehension (Typically 3 years of age). Other responsibilities would include recognizing birth defects, mental and physical retardations. Such children would be removed from the nursery and experimented on so as to identify the causes of these defects, they are later terminated.
-> Children passed the age of 3 are then formed into logical clusters based on specified breeding arrangements from their parents. They are then dormed together so that each cluster will receive a unique program of education designed to bring out the expected results concluding from their eugenic pattern.
-> Education typically involves physical training, lingual understandings and comprehensions, mathematics, sciences, technology, and creativity. (History, Philosophy, and Art doesn't exist anymore. We want our children to be intelligent, but we don't need them to 'Think')
-> Graduation from this education system will determine what classifications each child will have within our republic.
I will break these classifications down into 3 categories and then reduce each category by gender.
[Alpha Male & Female]
-> Forms the collective governemt to rule its people. All nation affecting decisions are decided solely on individuals who qualified necessary characteristics from their education. These people are not elected, but instead chosen products of perfect excellence who understand fully the needs and growths of our fine nation.
-> Designs all the mating patterns of the populace, combining both physical prowess and acedemic brilliance in hopes of producing a new generation of more superior (Alphas).
-> Forms all departments of theoretical sciences and invention.
-> Elders become professors in order to educate newer generations.
[Alpha Females]
-> Heads all nurseries so as to maximize the efficiency of infant growth.
[Beta Males & Females]
-> Organizes the developments of the common national needs, such as, food & water, medicine, transportation, government controls, and military.
-> Provides foundations to encourage creativity, entertainment, and growth. (Video games, movies, music and what not would occur here.)
-> Organizes breeding programs with the intention to produce a new generation to maintain these (Beta) programs.
[Beta Females]
-> Responsible for raising all infants produced for the government.
[Delta Males]
-> Those lacking in education are put into greater physical training programs and then placed in the military, programmed to be a meat shield for our nation, protecting and enforcing its interests upon the world.
-> Mental and physical experimentations for a wide array of reasons. Mainly to determine why eugenic expectations failed. Also to create cybernetic and geneti
If i wanted to hear bullshit, i'd go to church.
That's what happens with a fucking chick in public office. First she raised cigarette and alcohol taxes to make more money off "sin tax". Then she made strip clubs either full nudity and no alcohol, or only top-less with alcohol, and you can't get lap dances anymore. Then she fucks with our games..... blah
Too bad she was born in Canada. Otherwise she could run as Hilary's VP. (Barf!)
Another one bites the dust