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Ban On Louisiana Video Game Law Now Permanent
Carl Carlson writes "A Louisiana judge has issued a permanent injunction against a Louisiana law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The law was crafted by video game dilettante Jack Thompson and took a slightly different approach to the issue of regulating video game sales. Rep. Roy Burrell (R) and Jack Thompson had research that purported to show a causative link between playing violent video games and real-world violence entered into the legislative record in an attempt to buttress the legislation's shaky credentials. In addition, the law adapted the Miller obscenity test to the realm of violent video games."
like to suck my penis? Please?
We just put a site up for this idiot.
www.gajt.org
We just put it up tho so don't hate just yet.
Games don't make people kill people, simple as that.
I accept.
The True Story of Slashdot Insanity VOL I
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Thursday December 12, @03:48PM
Natalie Portman, Naked and Petrified!
The True History of Slashdot Insanity.
Volume I: The Plaster Cast
If you read Slashdot, you have almost certainly overheard comments about an obsession with Natalie Portman. If you've read Slashdot for a while you've probably heard of "hot grits down my pants" or "Natalie Portman, petrified naked". It's a crazy thing to say, but it's somewhat funny, and has become an enduring meme. A simple Google search returns hundreds of hits on these "trolling phenomena". What many people don't know is the true origin of this phrase. It is, in fact, a collaboration between two truly insane people. It is the byproduct of the coincidental meeting of two very disturbed minds. And it is, most importantly, the harbinger of doom for many Internet discussion boards, for the meeting of these two minds was to the Internet what the meeting of Muhammed and Malvo was to the real world. If you've ever pondered the answer to the following questions, the answers are in this document:
Why does sid=20721 fill with oddball "Anti-Vladinator" comments in mass volume?
Who are the people who flood Slashdot stories with offtopic garbage?
Who are the people who use scripts to post to Slashdot?
Who are the people who created all the crazy Slashdot memes (natalie, petrification, OOG CAPS, etc).
What is "The Anti Vlad Triad"?
If you want to know the definitive answer to the questions above, the tale is quite long. Here it begins... but its ending is not yet written.
In 1998, Rob Malda started a web site called "Chips n' Dips". He later renamed it "Slashdot" in an attempt to confuse people, and the name stuck. Since that time, Slashdot has drawn people who want to be confused, and that is where our story begins. In early 2000, a young high school student by the name of Craig McPherson found Slashdot and, in an act of confusion, created an account. Craig had a childhood familiar to many Slashdot readers, attending a private high school in northern Arkansas. In 1996 he was posting witty Internet replies in his quest to 'hack' his Texas Instruments graphing calculator. He was young, intelligent, showered with wealth, well educated, and in the process of discovering the Internet. Craig had it made.
Unfortunately, like many boys in Craig's shoes, Craig had what you might call "girl problems". Namely, they didn't like him. Teenage girls can be fickle after all. Sadly Craig's reaction to their rejection was atypical. In late 1997, Craig was in the process of going completely mad. By 1998, Craig's dispute with a fellow high school student named "Angela Stone" over some pictures from his prom led him to create this angry missive in which he declared Angela to be a "CENSORING NAZI" and plastered the prom picture at issue all over the Internet. Anyone wishing to learn how any Slashdot staff earned the title "CensorNazi" need look no further. Many of Craig's signatures are born in this document: paranoid raving, a delusional sense of self-righteousness, a distorted sense of scale, and his trademark ALL CAPS pronouncements. This was, of course, the public side to Craig's dispute with Angela. The private side, however, is more disturbing.
The WayBack Machine is a project which saves old web pages, among which is a rare copy of Craig McPherson's home page circa 2000. This document does not begin to have the depth required to cover the scope of insanity revealed in this web site, but the reader may investigate at his or her own risk. What must be discussed is this image of Craig's friend Angela Stone, our "CENSOR NAZI" from the prom. You will note that this image is animated, and appears to be a crude reconstruction of Craig's friend being transformed into a marble statue. This image was created by Craig, because Craig's inability to win the affections of women had fueled his obsession with gaining power over women by paralyzing them as stone statues. Born from Craig's fascination with
I'm from Louisiana. After moving here seveal months ago to attend to a family emergency, I've grown used to the state's warped-ness.
I'm sorry. Never move here thiking you'll take a tech job. Never think that anything but either a mall job, an MCSE grunt, or a longshoreman's work awaits you.
This state is hell. And it's the future of the nation if the last two presidential elections are any indication - declining public education, declining corporate interest, and declining intelligence.
It might be the sportsman's paradise, but it sure is a geek's hell.