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Jack Thompson Sues Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes to mention that Jack Thompson, in his latest bout of zealotry, has set his sights on Microsoft for their recent release of Halo 3. GameAlmighty has posted the letter to Bill Gates. "Here's the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3."
Why does this guy feel the need to force his "morality" on everyone? What makes him right and everyone else wrong? He's likely just the biggest douchebag in the world, but I was wondering if anyone, anywhere can defend him.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
And don't stop at the lawyers - use all the leverage possible to keep him off air in any capacity whatsoever, discredit him, make him face his own past in a realm he can't run away from it - the courts. Underscore how frivolous his complaints are, but how much time and effort they detract by their process. Reveal how base his arguments are, how scientific studies and strived for impartiality have never entered his deranged mind as considerations. Exhalt in how loathed he is, how manipulative of genuine tragedy, how anachronistic in the basic tenets of his first arguments, how he's devolved from then.
After all that, tell him it's not really Microsoft's responsiblity to police the fucking vendors, ridicule him for his lack of jurisprudence, move to have the twat disbarred, and let us be done with it.
Can we please return parental control back to parents? I was under the impression that Thompson et al preach traditional values and the "reinstitution" of family. If you really want to feed the lawyers, please ask the courts to force families to be responsible for raising their kids, not to take the responsability away from it. Thank you.
Note to self: get a sig.
Microsoft is like the Black Plague: you want to avoid it at all costs, but it's great to see it go to work against your enemies.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
April fools was last month.
There are fools every month.
Respect him for his tenacity? If I watched a man ram his head a thousand times into a skyscraper in order to knock it down and kill everyone inside, I'm not going to admire his tenacity, I'm going to call him a fruitcake with a death wish.
The only difference is the fruitcake ramming his head into a brick wall has a slightly higher chance of surviving than the fruitcake trying to sue Microsoft.