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Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court
dmouritsendk writes "According to a story at IGN, Jack Thompson has been removed from the lawsuit filed by the families of two murdered police officers vs. Rockstar, Sony and game retailers. While previously he stated that he had withdrawn, details have now come out that the judge actually pulled his temporary license to practice law in Alabama. The reason for all this? Thompson's behavior." From the article: "The removal of Thompson from the case does not necessarily represent the end of the trial as his long-time associate Ray Reiser will assume the role of lead counsel for the case's plaintiffs. Not one to take such things lying down, Thompson fired back at Judge Moore by claiming the the judge has 'has violated... The Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics by his unfortunate, improper, and prejudicial acts in this case, at the expense of three bereaved Alabama families.'"
Can anyone explain who this guy is?
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Hit the road, Jack.
Any chance we can, as Red from The Shawshank Redemption so eloquently put "have him do the airdance before the first May flowers push up out the ground?"
That would inspire the typical "Who the hell IS this guy?" response.
This isn't the same as him being barred from practicing law PERIOD, but I just couldn't help myself...
*plays Final Fantasy IV victory fanfare and dances*
"Apparently so, but suppose you throw a coin enough times. Suppose one day, it lands on its edge."
Oh, crap...
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The self-important asshat got tossed out. But don't worry Jack fans, he still has a fight to fight: AMAZON!!!!!
Gezz can't someone please buy this guy a clue and docs to show him how to use it??
GM Judge Moore banned Jack Thompson from the Alabama realm of the controversial MMORPG "Reality" today. The game "Reality" allows players to engage in such controversial activities as genocide, murder, theft, and mis-representation.
Fighting day after day to defend impressionable children from inappropriate, uh, role models.
Leave it to Jack Thompson to get kicked out of Alabama for improper behavior.
Normality is now: overrated.
If video games about killing cause kids to go out and kill people, how long would it take someone to whip up an FPS where all the baddies are Jack Thompson?
about the south suffering from something other than the prevalance of fried food, here.
ugh, lawyers and their ways...
I love how while reading about this on the main page, there was a giant GTA banner beside this story.
The article mentions Judge Moore, and this is Alabama. Is this the same Judge Moore that was removed from office for refusing to get rid of his statue of the ten commandments? If so, I say his sanction of Jack Thompson is obviously correct. It takes one (wacko) to know one.
In a prime example of karma, the defense submitted some of Thompson's own press releases to the Court as evidence of why he was unfit.
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New acheivement. Thompson got kicked out of court by the guy who put a couple tons of Ten Commandments in the court.
sweet...
.......where the CSI team has to find the killer of a outspoken anti violent video game crusader who angered a group of geeks with his irational activities.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Do you:
a) Accept their judgement with good grace
b) Grudgingly accept the judgement but state that you believe it to be in error
c) Accuse the judge of breaking the law, of being biased against your clients and of generally being incompetant
If you're Jack Thompson you probably also do d) File a lawsuit against the judge for dismissing you.
For the many who didn't care before and who won't care afterwards..
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attor
Just another lawyer who might have been on TV too much...
..... a cup of hot coffee to help him calm down.
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So do we boycott the Reiser file system now?
Fran
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Where is the Doom 3 "Jack Thompson" mod? I think Thompson would be perfectly cast as an evil Nazi zombie.
Can anyone explain who this guy is?
I don't think that the parent post is necessarily a troll. If you haven't been following the gaming press or reading Slashdot every day, he's not that hard to be unaware of. My mother certainly doesn't know who he is.
Jack Thompson is a lawyer who, for one reason or another, has attempted to attack violent games in the media.
It's actually getting to be very hard to obtain any accurate, netural information on him at all -- so many of the people online play video games and are scared of what they think that he might push through that almost all information is biased -- the Wikipedia article on him is definitely not particularly neutral, and the gaming press dislikes him for obvious reasons.
Combine that with the fact that the man is a political conservative and a Christian (pretty obvious from his website) and given to rather inaccurate rhetoric, and you basically wind up with every article or online writing about him becoming a flamefest.
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Either way: Just desserts.
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
...that Slashdot didn't jump on this when GameSpot covered it... 4 days ago.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
...any bad thing I may have ever said about Alabama.
And now Jack can go home, sulk, and concentrate on suing Amazon for all the mean things people said about him.
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Jack Thompsons incorrigible behavior, his mumbling incoherence, his fishing hats, aviator frames and cigarette holders have cause him to be tossed out of court only to be replaced by Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Thompson Sues Alabama
remember CSI episode with the GTA-like videogame? I don't live in the US, so I wanted to know if any of you guys watched it. Was it good, bad?
Jack Thompson will soon issue a "prize" of $10,000 for somebody to code a game in which Judge Moore is flogged then killed violently. Then he'll tell Judge Moore it was meant as satire.
Captain: What you say!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I thought Judge Roy might have quietly gotten reinstated as an ordinary judge in the meantime, after the media fuss had died down. My backup theory is that having two Judge Moores in Alabama can mean only one thing, the explanation for which can be found in the entry for Alabama on this page.
You Don't Know Jack?
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Burn, karma, burn
get a link that DOESN'T include frigging flash ads as part of the deal? My system as set up will not continue on to the article itself and, yeah, some of us actually RTFA ;-)
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~Anonymous~
Funnily enough, last night's episode involved some gamers who were competing in a real-life game that involved them killing innocent people. No anti-gaming crusader dead, though.
We should probably lobby to make it a crime for Jack's church to preach to people under the age of 18, since it obviously causes deviant behavior in adulthood. This church's "social conditioning" seemingly teaches children that suing people you don't like, insulting judges, teaching religion in science class, and general ass-hattery are OK in the modern world. We need to "protect the children" from this sort of de-sensitization "abuse".Parents also need to be hold accountable when they volunterily relinquish control of their teenagers to this "inhumane" religious institution. The punishment bieng life "in Alabama".
Making my own attempt at sarcastic ass-hattery
BBH
Nevermind. Here you go everyone: IGN link with no frigging ads
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Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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So they say they're replacing Thompson with Reiser. I thought they were trying to bring in someone who'd act like a professional...
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
What you thought was "I don't like this person, or his views, so he is therefore a member of the political party I disagree with."
faulty logic, but I see it everywhere
(pointing) HA HA!
<baptist class="southern" politics="conservative">
Just so we're all clear on this, please do not infer that his chosen affiliation with various political or religious groups means those groups want anything to do with him.
I look forward to the upcoming religious holiday, visiting the church of my youth, and logging some serious GTA:SA time. And while we're at it, the Kansas School Board can kiss my evolved butt.
</baptist>
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I note that it said that he "lost his temporary license to practice law in Alabama" this does NOT mean (necessarily) that he has been or will be disbarred.
:P
In general, each state has a state bar association which licenses attourneys for that state (nit: a lawyer is someone who has gone to law school; an attourney is someone licensed to practice law--you can technically be one without being the other, although they generally overlap). Also, one must generally be admitted to said state bar association in order to practice law in that state.
So how do you avoid having to have 50 licenses (plus special ones for various internal courts, etc.)? Three words: pro hac vice. I believe it's Latin for "for this purpose" -- there are different rules in each state, but generally if one is admitted to the bar of one state, you can apply for pro hac vice in most any court if you're representing someone in that state. Assuming you meet their qualifications, etc., you can then represent that person in that case even though you're not admitted to the bar of that state.
Long story short: he's off the case (unless he can convince them to reinstate him--which is probably an uphill battle), and he may find it harder to get admitted pro hac vice in Alabama (or elsewhere, for that matter). He's not disbarred, and I can't find any mention of other sanctions, although I'd expect the judge to file some manner of complaint with his home bar association, etc.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but I've read a fair amount about how pro hac vice (the last word isn't vice like Miami Vice, it's pronounced VEECH-ay), and if you're trying to be admitted pro hac vice, you probably *are* a lawyer who doesn't need lectures from random, anonymous Slashdotters
And it was probably the most contrived, ridiculous CSI episode I've ever seen, and thats saying a bit. The guy who "makes the game" - CEO of the company and apparently also the game designer - won't tell them the games storyline, because "it's proprietary"? There's no gamefaqs.com in whatever planet CSI is set on? And the "twist" that the game designer is actually the secret "Wizard" that all the "players" turn their "points" into? Please. And the justification is that it somehow drives sales of his game? Right.
Been searching all around and all I can find are the one-line summaries. I'd much prefer to hear the judge slapping Thompson around. Anybody have a link?
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You can't handle the truth.
Seriously, its like a contest between Jack Thompson, Sony, and the RIAA to see who can bury themselves the fastest while at the same time sustaining the most bullet wounds to their feet.
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Not only is Jack Thompson trying to ruin the name of the gaming industry. He is also ruining the name of a perfectly good artist who's name happens to rhyme with it.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success
I don't seem to be able to get to the article - something about their annoying advertising and my refusal to send referrers or accept cookies. Anybody have a mirror or another link to the court's filing?
www.eFax.com are spammers
Don't forget the CEO also was an arms smuggler for the kids. They jacked a shipment of Mac-10s to supply the kids with weapons. It really was a ridiculous storyline, even for CSI: Miami.
Now if only the judge could take care of Joseph Leiberman :)
Jack, Joe, the Catholic League, countless "family" organizations (religious fundementalist backed), and even Hillary Clinton...
Perhaps a small victory for the time being but there are certainly plenty of organized freedom hating people out there, willing to rid the world of whatever they find offensive and unholy.
Notice that they didn't blame the game for causing the violence though. It was the scummy game publisher who put the kids up to it as a publicity stunt.
...given the story title I was hoping for something a little bit more, well, ballistic.
And unfortunately it's not Rudy Ray Moore either. Else, he'd have been dismissed with "Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your m-f-'in a**!"
Get the fuck out of the courtroom and let a real case get tried.
In the meantime, try getting a book on how to be a parent and try being one for once and accepting the responsibility of your failures.
Greedy sacks of crap; all 3 families should be sterilized so such ignorance cannot breed more and train more to be failures like the parents.
Vermin.
Jack Thompson, his brand of Christianity has as much to do with what they practice at the church down the street as McDonald's McFish sandwich does with the ocean
I resent that remark! The Filet-O-Fish is my favorite sandwich at McDonalds and is made from real fish. If you buy one, it probably comes out of the a little factory in Gloucester, Ma that also processes Gorton's premium fishsticks. It's a real fish product made here in the USA.
Besides, you never know what the "church down the street" might be saying. There are quite a few churches which have sermons against violence in video game. One of the biggest churches here in the Chicago burbs had a televised sermon against violence in movies and TV. Ironically, a couple months later they organized a group ticket sale for kids to see "The Passion" which is arguably the bloodiest most violent "snuff" flick I've ever seen (even if it was done in the style of a beautiful Italian art film).
Anyhow, the funniest thing about this whole Jack Thompson affair from my viewpoint (I work in video games and read TRST reports) is that usually when a game gets a lot of bad press for "ultra-realistic violence", the sales of the game actually go up.
And even if nothing happens to hiim, at least we now know where another litigious lunatic gets his inspiration from.
someone who is going to discover that his license to practice in his home state is in danger Real Soon Now. Lawyers are supposed to know better than to piss off judges, especially when it appears that this lawyer is trying to profit from the grief of 3 families by filing a meritless lawsuit on their behalf.
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If you're Jack Thompson you probably also do d) File a lawsuit against the judge for dismissing you.
Even Jack can't do that. Judges have unconditional immunity from prosecution for all acts arising from their judicial authority. Even if the judge was being malicious, he can't be sued, only overruled.
Lawyers can only be sued for intentional/malicious malfeasance.
Other officers of the court have pretty much no immunity, even if there wasn't any improper intent.
Don't forget that the filet-o-fish is a big seller on fridays due to the religious convictions of some. One of the major reasons that sandwich exists really...
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
One is a scum-sucking bottom-dweller, and the other is a fish.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
not surprised he was removed from court if he was a tosser
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Let me first start off by saying my own opinion of Jack is that he has some issues and they may well be serious enough to warrant a diagnosis of psychopathy. But this is all going by what I know of others having said about him, combined with his public stunts.
However, lay people should not be using DSM descriptions to diagnose themselves or others. That is wrong. You can not practice psychology out of a book. This is not like fixing computers where you have a set list of symptoms and a limited number of possible causes.
For example, many of my geek friends would demonstrate a failure to conform to social norms, impulsivity, and irritability. That would seem to fit the criteria of a pyschopath diagnosis. But it is not that simple. Each feature is a question of degree and duration for starters, as well as seeing if there is a logical or physiological cause for any given symptom. The reality is, someone can tend to be irritable, with an impulsive streak, and fail to conform to many societal norms, and not be worthy of a psychopath label.
An very common example in the states would be people who regularly drink too much coffee, were raised to be impulse shoppers, and are geeks. The too much coffee can create an irritable streak, the apparent impulsiveness when shopping was a taught behavior, and failing to conform to social norms is a result of having a strong sense of self and a rejection of things deemed illogical or stupid. That is not a psychopath, even though it would seem, on the surface, to fit the DSM criteria.
Please, please, please people. If you are not a trained psychologist, don't go using this to diagnose others or yourselves. You can put a mindfuck on someone or yourself, and in the case of using it against others, it can get you sued for slander. Leave this type of stuff to the pros.
How many other lawyers get thrown out on their ass like this? Even god damn Johnnie Cocran didn't get chucked out for the Wookie Defense, when he should have.
We have entirely too many fucking lawyers in this country. I want some kind of Law Survior series, with the losers being eaten by whatever predators happen to be in the forest at the time. Put this guy on front and center. Just give him a piece of steel and a flint and tell him you'll "come back for him in 3 months".
Seems like Jack's the kind of person that needs the instructions read to him and interrupts you every 10 seconds to reiterate his own mistaken understanding of what you just said.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maybe the judge bounced his ass out of there so that the trial would be about the plaintiff's case, rather than Jack's agenda?
Just a thought...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Read the quotes aloud with an Alabama accent and a mouth full of chewing tobacco, and it'll be more like being there!
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I find it highly amusing that anyone who says anything publically negative about Jack is, according to Jack, doing something illegal. It's usually the same soundbyte over and over. This time it's a judge, so there's some judicial thing that he's breaking.
Behold the glorious bragging rights
I hear liberals all talking about the Religious - Republican alignment, but all I've ever seen is circular references.
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Is there someone who can go down to the courthouse, pick up a copy, and post the contents somewhere?
thanks,
-dB
"It if was easy to do, we'd find someone cheaper than you to do it."
To be fair, last night's episode wasn't any more contrived or ridiculous than any other episode they've made.
And the "twist" that the game designer is actually the secret "Wizard" that all the "players" turn their "points" into? Please.
No, the "Wizard" was a college kid who played himself to death. The game designer hired another goon to sell the weapons to the kids. Did you actually pay any attention to the episode?
Did you notice that the episode was NOT full of moralizing, "These kinds of games are ruining America," etc? The closest it got was one of the characters saying "This is why I stopped playing this game at home." It was just another plot device. The writers of CSI are not out to "get" the video game industry. They are doing what they always do, which is to take current events and spin them into a crappy story line.
In fact, I think the episode did a slight service to the cause, by portraying the kids as junked-out psychos who took something too far, instead of poor innocents who were corrupted by evil video games. Geez, people get so worked up.
That's pretty broad. Most people fit #3, and I think you could count on a single hand the number of people in the world who don't fit #4. Who is never irritable??
With those two hit by most of the population, I would think the number of people that grab a random one of the rest are pretty high, especially with #1 being as vague as it is.
I think the "worst" of those are probably #5 and #7. Then again, you might not have explained the criteria to meet one, such as how irratable someone is, etc...
Meh.
-stefan
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Some people prefer the definition of fact that goes as follows:
A concept whose truth can be proved
I'm not claiming Jack Thompson. First, he insults me as a gamer. Second, it's hardly a Christ-like attitude to go around making up information, twisting truth to suit your own needs, slandering people in general, and there's quite a bit in the Bible about asking for wisdom, which Jack Thompson has certainly not done.
Remember kiddies, just because someone CLAIMS to be something does not mean they ARE.
I know of restraint and I know of sacrifice, and find I want nothing to do with either of them.
The thing about enlightenment is that things that are valuable at certain levels of enlightenment, become worthless at others and vice-versa. Hence, I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds.
I do not "become" angry, anger is always a part of who I am. I do not "become" millitaristic, I am always millitaristic, I do not "become" involved because I am always involved.
The http://www.falundafa.org/ website, (and the first book) explains a lot of the things you don't seem to understand.
You are a constant source of amusement.
Please stop hurting America -- Jon Stewart
I have an idea. How about an episode where an out-of-work, fanatical lawyer runs around town shooting video game store owners and game software developers?
Oh, wait, I forgot. Someone already came up with that idea, so I'd have to share the royalties. Forget that.
Unfortunately, not much can be done about the similar behavior of gamers who forget that what they're doing is a mere hobby and shouldn't become an obsession. Whether games increase a tendency to violence or create indifference to violence inflicted on others, games clearly do create addicts obsessed with living in their make-believe world.
Was this Jack Thompson once a gaming addict? It seems likely. This story reminds me of an AA meeting I once attended. No longer going on drunken binges, those there seemed obsessed with talking about how dreadful their former drunken binges were. In one way or another, alcohol had stolen their lives.
Gaming may or may not be responsible for taking lives in the 'makes them kill other people' sense. But is certainly takes away the lives of gamers themselves one obsessed and addicted day at a time.
The Bible says:
Revelation 3:15-16
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Which, of course, is misinterpreted like the rest of the Bible by most Christians.
The tree is "The tree of the knowlege of Good and Evil", not just the tree of knowlege. Eating from that tree gave a "knowing" that certain things were good and bad. Suicide is not necessarily bad, but we got that knowledge from eating from that tree. Same with nudity, sex outside of marriage, and homosexuality. Fundamentalists keep eating from that tree.
How about this? Or this? Or this? Or this?
"Apparently so, but suppose you throw a coin enough times. Suppose one day, it lands on its edge."
Your sig, reminds me of achewood.(love it!!)....did you grab it from there?
Wait, What?
from the GameSpot article of 4 days ago:
Thompson withdrew from the case, saying the defense was trying to make him the issue, but that he was stepping aside so that his clients' needs could better be served. Game Politics is reporting that Judge Moore criticized Thompson's professional conduct in an 18-page ruling, to which Thompson has responded with a letter to Alabama's Judicial Inquiry Commission questioning Judge Moore's ethics.
(emphasis mine)
(Of course I knew Jack would react like that. When he heard the Florida Bar Association was investigating him, he threatened to sue them. Whenever someone says something bad about him, he either threatens to sue them, or else sends a letter to some higher authority accusing them of all sorts of nasty behaviour.)
Now do we get to eat his liver?
As another undergraduate psych major, I'd like to agree with the above post. Cut and pasting bits and pieces from DSM is a bad idea unless people understand what DSM is and how it works.
From the Wikipedia article: The DSM provides diagnostic categories and criteria for their diagnoses. The proper use of these requires clinical training, knowledge and skills to apply them. Their use by people without this background is likely to lead to an inappropriate application of diagnoses.
That about sums it up. It's not a layman's document.
Jack Thompson might well be completely batshit insane, but you can't make a diagnosis based on seeing him on the news and reading a couple of articles.
... changes in his legal briefs for a gun, we're all screwed. Worse than angry Jack is angry naked Jack with a gun.
If *Alabama* judges are revoking your license to practice law, you are officially an asshat.
It's not like this happened in California or anything. Alabama. One of the most conservative states in the Union. Throwing out a conservative nutjob. Think about it.
or he may have shot and killed the defense attorneys.
Jack has only one (serious) problem...he just doesn't know when to shut the hell up. Sometimes saying LESS will get you a lot further.
But if violent video games are all someone ever plays, they'd better have a pretty solid grasp on reality, because most violent videogames would be a really fucked-up worldview if people really started thinking that way.
If saner heads prevail in getting the message that video games in moderation are great fun, but video game addiction is dangerous, will that mean that video games will start having to carry the same kinds of warnings that keyboards and cigarettes do?
Just so you know, those guys aren't a joke
s pecial_reports/wbc/default.asp
The anti-defamation league has a bit to say about them
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:www.adl.org/
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You can call me the Jack Nicklaus of Slashdot.
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I wonder, how does the BAR association view slander? I mean, Thompson has quite clearly accused this judge of violating the ethics code of judges, that would seem, to my non-lawyer eye, to have the appearnce of slanderig the judge; unless, of course, Thompson can actually prove that claim, or show that it was intended as an opinion and not ment to cause harm.
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Laziness is the father.
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Just because someone claims to be in some tradtion or group doesn't mean the others agree.
The true Silent Majority.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
The KW thing was basically Sig11 exposing the groupthink of /.
/. group think against taco and the site in general and was banned by taco ./ has another sig 11 user but it is not that same guy.
when Karma was an int it was assumed that a person with high Karma knew what they were talking about.
Sig11 racked up huge amounts of Karma and would then guide a whole discussion until half the people were praising MS as the one and only savior of computing.
Shortly after that cmdrTaco invented the bitch slap which would mod down ALL of a users comments, past adn present adn set them posting at -1 by default.
sig11 eventually turned the
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we worked for years trying to get goatse on the front page, eventually we settled for a hacked redirect.
Remember those lists floated around after Columbine, warning parents and teachers what to look out for in potential school shooters? Things like depression, trouble with authority, stops hanging out with friends they had in grade school...things that every fucking teenager goes through at one point or another. This list is just like that.
you missed the point of the post you're replying to as well as what was discussed at the article you linked to.
I think its fair to say that most people know a sociopath when they see one.
No, they don't actually and the links you provided actually discuss the fact that the people said to exist AREN'T noticed by most people. Here's a relevant quote:
'The fact that most of us never suspect our friends and neighbors of sociopathy only makes the transgressions easier to pull off.'
If you're not trained, you can't expect to accurately diagnose anyone of anything. Even if you are trained, if you don't sit down with that person and get them to open up honestly with you, you can't expect to accurately diagnose them. You could mistake POTS for schizophrenia, severe depression for sociopathy, I mean the list goes on. All of the different subtleties that exist, different reasons people have for similar surface behaviors, it's just not something you can read a book about and think you can spot any particular disorder.
What it comes down to is this: If you're not trained and personally involved in the therapy of that person you aren't in a position to say that type of shit about people. It's really that simple. I don't care what brilliant author you read(and I personally consider Martha Stout brilliant), I don't caree what psych courses you took, I don't care what pompous ideas you have about yourself and your understanding, you are not in a position to say that type of shit about people.
Have you got the point now?
If not, let me make an observation about you... You are exhibiting symptoms of megalomania based upon your expressed belief in grandiose and logically unreasonable abilities.
Do you get it now?
...rodeo has competitions, i'm sure it's difficult, and i bet you hurt like hell after getting the shit kicked out of you by a pissed off bull. car racing probably fits those criteria as well. that being said, neither of those things are sports.
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when do you think the ripped from the headlines version will be out?
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So long, Jack! Don't let the doors hit you in your big head on the way out!
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
To say it correctly as a gamer "OWNED!"
Judge Moore. Alabama. Is this the 10 Commandments judge? 10 commandments judge. Maybe that has already been established in prior /. forums on the case. Otherwise, it will be interesting to see where /.er's align - with Thompson or Moore?
No more Gnome or no Moore no more.
I have had the most comments moderated +5 out of any of you!
But I still don't get the damn +2 karma bonus. Damn it! Must be all my trolling and flamebait posts.
-AC
"OMFG! Jack Thompson was done!"
Be reasonable. Kids shouldn't be allowed to view Mature rated games with out permission from their parents, just as they shouldn't be allowed to watch R-Rated films without their parents permission.
Personally, I'd think it's more a sign that some lube company saw how uptight he was (it's amazing the guy's head hasn't exploded), figured that he probably hadn't gotten laid in a very long time, and decided to capitalize on the situation.