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Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush
Ariastis writes "Jack Thompson has filed documents with a federal court in Florida requesting to subpoena President George W. Bush for a deposition to retain Thompson's license to practice law. Ah, and Jeb Bush too, for good measure."
Is the enemy of my enemy my friend, or is he still an asshole?
It's sorta like Alien vs. Predator, but backwards. Whoever loses, we win.
Jack Thompson vs. George Bush - whatever are slashdotters to do?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
I bet you Slashbots are just foaming at the mouth.
jack thompson: greatest troll who ever lived
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Considering that not even congress can get Bush, Rumsfield, Cheny et al to respond to subpoenas -or even off the record chats ire the Plame affair, the attorney firings etc (maybe they can get Gonzales now that he has stepped down) I don't think he's got a prayer.
And when he loses his license he can blame Bush -just like everyone else
-I'm just sayin'
The time is approaching when someone is going to have to put this guy in the nut house. I hope all those self-serving pandering politicians who like to align themselves with Thompson against the invented evils of video games start seriously considering the kind of delusional maniac they've decided is their ally.
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Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Funny that never came up before. If we'd all known this, he probably would have gotten a lot less attention.
What if he manages to persuade Bush that video games might be somehow related to terrorism, or non-Christians?
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Alcoa must make a fortune off of Mr. Thompson since he must keep a giant roll of tin foil in his briefcase to constuct new headgear.
He has to be smoking something seriously. Either that or he's doing this as another publicity stunt.
Ok, now that I've trolled in another post, I'm wondering if the folks trying to get him kicked out of the Bar could enter the subpoena ITSELF as evidence of JT's unfitness to practice law.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Jack is currently suing the mediator, Judge Dava Tunis, along with the Florida Supreme Court and the Florida Bar.
like he's a lawyer, alright...
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
Then he'll make elaborate laws that restrict our rights with promises that it will stop video game-ism, only to have video games become better at hiding, stockpiling weapons, and money laundering.
Resistance is futile. Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will become one with the morgue
Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
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Anyone have a picture of this guy. You cannot make up some of the stuff this guy does and I am curious to see if you can see the crazy in his eye.
You might have been being sarcastic, but if not...wrong Thompson. Fred Thompson was on Law and Order. Jack Thompson is the asshole...
Never forget my dear coward...the media is only as liberal as its conservative owners.
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Someone needs to write an ultra-violent video game where Jack Thompson goes on a hunting trip with Cheney... wait - on second thought, he shouldn't get off that easy.
Get off your high horse. Jack Thompson is of interest around here, because of his links to the anti-gaming lobby. It's Friday, it's a hilarious story, and we're all enjoying it. You know who Thompson is, if you have been around for a while. That's like asking "Which Bill Gates? How should I know?"
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Could he be calling Bush as a friendly witness? Since I would imagine that violence in video games is sinful, and W. sure loved the Jesus (Jeb, not so much), it might be for the President to excuse him from having to report to the bar. Maybe he wants to get on the short list for the open AG spot!
Jack Thompson for Attorney General!
Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less.
No disrespect intended, especially considering your triple-digit UID...but uh...GTFO.
/. for years...just never got an inkling to post anything until the past year or so...
I realize that my UID doesn't back this up, but I have read
But Seriously. You come off as a cranky old coot. Uphill both ways and such.
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Just because you don't know the name Jack Thompson, doesn't mean that most geeks/nerds don't immediately know who he is. You'll also note that this story is tagged as "humor" not as "gaming", so to be perfectly honest, it could be *any* lunatic lawyer that's issued a subpoena for the President in defense for the deposition of his license to practice law. The fact that it's Jack Thompson just makes it better for those of us who know who he is (which, I'm sorry, I would bet that there are more of us who do than those who don't).
Every time I see a story involving Jack Thompson, I wonder if it's some guy making stuff up - this guy is stranger than fiction...
he can claim that gaming has driven at least one person to raving lunacy... Himself! (at least in my personal opinion.)
More Caffeine. NOW
If Jack would've went to school to become a lawyer, instead of print out a document that says "I can sue people for stupid reasons", he would've known that he should've caused all these problems when Clinton was President.
Then he would've received a Presidential pardon for the heinous crimes he's committed against gamers everywhere.
Fogive my ignorance of the US legal system but my understanding from TFA is that because they wont respond to his supeona that the disbarment is stuck in limbo for the time being at least? Could the bar board just ask relavence of these people and discount these supeonas? What would be next, him sending supeonas to dead people or the children of pregnant women?
You must be new here.
Don't think you understand.
The guy is loony.
This is not the kind of person you want arguing for your side & case.
Seriously.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
This story is relevant to gaming in that Jack Thompson is perhaps the most vocal critic of gaming and the gaming community there is. Him going off the deep end like this hurts his case, so its a good thing for the rest of us.
Besides, the story has the Foot next to it. It's funny. Laugh.
but... omg... when he makes himself look bad I can laugh and feel better about myself!!!!!
(sigh, I happen to agree with you. let this guy fade into obscurity)
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." Anyone else remember when that was "News for Nerds ON THE Stuff that Matters?"
/. whipping-boy due to his long standing aggression against games, and we love to see stories where he makes himself look insane. Yeah, it's like replying to a bad troll, we're only giving him the attention he wants, but still it amuses me. Much like stories about every little decision and motion in SCO's ongoing slow death spiral isn't very important, but simply amusing for those of us who've been watching. The fact that SCO was a major Linux antagonist has given them a position of relevance. Similarly, because he's the "anti-gaming lawyer", JT and his legal antics are a relevant slashdot topic, like it or not. Like we used to say back when someone would complain about an article's appropriateness for slashdot: "It's Rob's site".
No, I don't remember that, and I remember the first day when Chips N' Dips was dead and Slashdot was live. Was it really different? Because I really don't remember it having "on the" in there, which really reduces the punchiness of the tag line and really I doubt would make any difference regarding the content. As if they said "whew, now that we got rid of 'on the' we can start posting irrelevant nerdy stuff, and non-nerdy relevant stuff!"
Anyway, this is a story about Jack Thompson being a nut job in trying to prove he isn't a nut job. JT is a
The enemies of Democracy are
Yes. I was joking. But sadly, no one seemed to get that.
And on the next episode of M*A*S*H, Klinger tries to get his Section 8 by impersonating a lawyer and subpoening Harry Truman, General Douglas MacArthur and the Andrew Sisters.
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That's a really nice rant, and I agree with you somewhat in your general assertion that Slashdot has drifted pretty far away from being a nerd site (WTF is up with the Politics section, for example). However, I have some issues:
1.) I haven't been around quite as long as you have, but I don't recall the slogan ever being "News for Nerds on the Stuff that Matters". That may have been the original intent, but I don't think that was ever the actual slogan. The oldest page from Slashdot I could find on web.archive.org is from November, 1998, which was prior to the Andover.net buyout (thereby presumably before the major corporate influence began). On that page, the slogan is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
Now, I grant you, prior to maybe 5 or 6 years ago, the "stuff that matters FOR NERDS" was sort of implied, but that hasn't really been the case for a long, long time.
2.) Jack Thompson has been going after the gaming industry for a long time. Seeing his long, slow descent into madness is of great interest to gaming nerds, even if not to you particularly. Even if you decide that the site should be limited only to things that the typical nerd would care about (not your decision or mine to make), this still would fit that category.
So, even though I agree with you that Slashdot in general has strayed pretty far from its roots (but what site this old hasn't), I disagree with you about this particular story.
George Bush sends Jack Thompson to Guantanamo
Jack Thompson is the crazy guy who's on a personal crusade against video games. He thinks those young whipersnappers will imitate them and go around stealing cars and shooting hookers, or jumping on turtles or something. Involved in lots of high profile cases (Grand Theft Auto ring any bells?) and has tried to have legislation pushed in several states to restrict sales of certain games. Rants on national TV, interviews with the press. Was the inspiration for this song. Has been covered on Slashdot multiple times. Involved in a legal skirmish with Penny Arcade, threatening to have them arrested because they donated to a charity in his name. Much, much, more.
I'd link all that stuff to the relevant articles, but I'm feeling lazy today. I'll give you a head start, though.
Good luck getting the executive branch to respond to subpoenas. Congress tried to subpoena testimony from Karl Rove, and look how well that turned out for them.
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So user ID doesn't mean you know everything? Wow. (Admittedly mine is huge, but mostly because I've never botherd to make an account until recently...so I never judge based on UID).
I'd say the majority (at least 80%) of Slashdot regulars know and despise Jack Thompson. It started with that trial, but he has been an annoying wart on the video game industry's toe ever since then, constantly proclaiming how video game violence is destroying society, etc. He has also been in a couple good squabbles with the guys that run Penny Arcade. And since you may not be in the 80%+ of regulars who know who they are, then I'll just sum it up by saying they are probably the most-read video game webcomic on the net, to the point that they have a pretty substantial video game expo every year.
So perhaps if you'd checked Slashdot since you created your account, you might have known who this guy is and not made a fool of yourself. I will give you some credibility on the fact that this might deserve to be under video games instead of politics...but that's about it.
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Unfair! Fred Thompson might be an asshole too, if we only give him a chance.
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Thanks for the great response, the points you make are very good.
s lashdot.org/ ... which is the oldest slashdot.org link there (from Jan 13, 1998), you can see this. On my browser the logo at the top of the page is just a grey blob which I am sure was at one point a picture reading "Slashdot: News for Nerds on the Stuff that Matters". If you look at the HTML source, you can see that the alt text for this image is the old slogan.
But it was indeed "Slashdot: News for Nerds on the Stuff That Matters" at one point. If you look at this link from archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://
The next oldest link that works from archive.org is from Nov. 11, 1998, and the logo and the alt text at that point had already been changed to "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
My memory was wrong, I thought that the change happened in late 1999 or 2000 sometime, around the time that Slashdot's parent company (Andover.net) went public. I guess it was sometime in 1998 that the slogan was changed.
Ah, I saw the link in another post of yours. Well i'll be hog barreled, it was "News For Nerds on the Stuff that Matters" (and assuredly authentic due to the inappropriate and inconsistent capitalization).
And no, damnit, you're not allowed to post your opinions! Get of meh internets!
The enemies of Democracy are
Very interesting. I saw that page, but didn't see any slogan at all on it, so I skipped it. I didn't think to check the alt text for the image.
I could argue that the alt text may have been a mistake, but given the text plus your memory, I guess I'll just say I stand corrected. I don't remember exactly how long I've been reading this site, but I'm fairly certain it was since at least 1997, and I couldn't remember the slogan ever being different, but then my memory for detail obviously isn't as good as yours.
Someone asked me the other day about the difference between psychotic and psychopathic. Here it is laid out nicely.
The psychotic Jack Thompson is sending a subpoena to the psychopathic George Bush.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Well, it's not that my memory for detail is very good - it isn't - but for some reason at the time (in 1998 apparently) I did notice the change when it happened, I can't remember why, probably because there were so many changes going on to the site back then as it evolved into its current state, and I was very in tune with the site at the time and the direction it was taking. Remember that this used to be in big letters on the front page logo, so it was pretty easy to notice back then. You probably noticed it but long since forgot.
...
And I've always referred back to that memory when I think about how Slashdot "isn't as good as it used to be", with the crappy editors (zonk and kdawson come to mind) posting stories that constantly make me wish I could break the habit of reading slashdot. So whereas I would normally forget such trivia, I remembered this because it's close to an issue that I care about (and honestly, I do care about the quality of Slashdot because I've been reading it for a long time, I've enjoyed it most of that time, and I don't want to see the quality of the site degrade any further).
All that being said, I still think Slashdot is on balance worth reading, which is why I still read it. I gave up on it for a couple of months last year but I came back
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Screw the rules, I have green hair!
I'm with you on the editors (remember how kdawson would put almost everything into the Enlightenment category?), and the overall quality of the site over time. I pretty much agree with your other points as well.
On another note, something that may only be funny to me:
I was browsing your comment history briefly, and noticed that the VERY FIRST comment that Slashdot shows you having posted is from January 1999, and is complaining about the QUALITY OF AN ARTICLE ON SLASHDOT! That is just hilariously awesome.
The comment.
Wow, after reading this article I actually thought it was the first of April for a while. I kind of wish Jack Thompson sticks around, though. By the time he's caused enough chaos our legislative branch will finally push for more frivolous lawsuit and ethics reforms. He'd be the Bar Association's equivalent to Enron.
Jack better watch out. Some of out government officials have already been trained on violent video games. I hear Cheney is pretty good at Duck Hunt.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Thompson is a raving nut. I think he needs to lower the stress in his life, do something to relax, like play video games. I've heard those are great for calming people down and making them act more rationally.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
I'm not nearly as close to slashdot's inception as you are as I was Junior High school, but I can tell you, things have changed a lot... some of it for the worst.
I don't think I would put the title of your post the way you did, but I definately agree with your points about content and slashdot. To not read your post and simply mod you as flamebait/troll/whatever evil is not right. However, there are a new generation of computer users with decidedly different views than more traditional slashdotters have. Some of these people are good, some of them will mod you -1 for disagreeing with your opinion.
I believe that most people are good people who want their feelings to be felt and accounted for by their social groups. Not all posts have to have a light, fluffy, omg ponies slant to them. But that is the way of things today, as the new replace the old. Slashdot of long ago is dramatically different from Slashdot today. I remember when Zonk used to post Mac OS X updates as news and those would get feedback about features/bugs/fixes. I have not seen anything like this in many, many years.
Maybe it is due to the world's political climate, the times we live in, or some economy driven thing. Either way, I speak my mind no matter what I'll be moderated. This is free society, speak your mind and give others the benefit of the doubt.
That ends my philosophical rant.
And for the record, there's probably a Dvorak or Cringley story that is just as bad as this story.
Despite my uid, I've been on slashdot since it was running on Taco's laptop. Truth is, the quality wasn't really any better then, but for it to not have improved at all is still a larger indictment now than it would be then.
I've twice thrown out my identity on slashdot and gotten myself a new one. Once it was because I didn't like my old nick, once it's because I got disgusted and changed my email and password to random keyboard-banging strings. I actually did it to this one, but by some weird quirk, firefox remembered my password and kept me logged in. I might fix this one someday, but truth is, I don't much like this nick either, so I'll probably drop it too.
I remember when Half-Empty started up -- I had high hopes for that. Alas, it probably just would have become Digg with extra icons... it eventually comes down to the people, I guess.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Jack's one of the few who actually think a flashy Chewbacca Defense validates his position.
Loony doesn't NEARLY do him justice.
As to the topic.
The only side ANYONE is ever on is THEIR OWN.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
... a reason to sue IBM. Seriously, Microsoft, Judges, Bush... can't we please throw in the Nazgul for good measure?
> Jack Thompson is the crazy guy who's on a personal crusade against video games.
And before that, it was gangsta rap. Remember 2 Live Crew? He's the one that led the charge against them. And before that, it was pornography. He got into some rather interesting exchanges with the then-AG of Florida, Janet Reno over that, while he was running for the same job. His big mouth killed his political aspirations then, and it doesn't look like he's learned now.
He's always been a mean, vindictive, self-righteous foul-tempered loud-mouthed crank. Even his own son can't stand him, and has more than once made that publicly known.
His subpoena to depose the Bushes (if it's even proper -- Jack is notorious for making deficient filings) is only to get their testimony in support of him, i.e. as a friendly witness. Apparently he's written letters to them (no sign that they were actually ever answered) and he thinks they'll come out and say what a great upstanding morally upright dude Jack is. Mmm hmm. Even construing this in a sane light, which is giving Whack Jack *way* too much latitude, it's a dilatory motion meant to confuse and slow proceedings, the Referee in his disciplinary proceedings (whom he has also filed suit against -- real smart Jack!) is going to see it for what it is, and lay the appropriate degree of smack down against it.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
YOU sir may only see the gaming aspect, but the rest of us see the government's encroachment on our civil rights through the use of and regarding to technology. The EFF is often lumped together with the ACLU for a reason.
1. Internet censorship
2. Big Brother use of technology
3. Moral legislation
4. Black-box voting
Having a vested interest in certain political outcomes means we have a vested interest in politics in general, and that's why we can get away with a Politics section.
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
"Lots of tards live really kick ass lives."
Crisis is the rule, not the exception.
OMG. That is just TOO FUNNY. I can totally appreciate the irony of that given all of the pontificating I have done in this thread about how slashdot quality is going down.
For what it's worth, I am sure I used to post before I had an ID, back when you just typed whatever nickname you wanted to show up next to your post, for every post. But, my posts back then probably weren't any more worthwhile than the drivel I have posted since.
How do you tell what year comments or articles come from? Whenever I do a google search and end up on a Slashdot article, or go back and read old articles or comments, I can never tell what year they are from. Neither the page nor the URL contain anything that I can identify as the year. How do you tell?
I have a friend who is bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic. Every so often (6 months or so), he would go into his manic phase, decide that he didn't need to be on his medication, and stop taking it. The no-longer-controlled psychosis would inevitably emerge, and he'd do batshiat crazy things like trying to go to Scotland to get Excalibur from Lady of the Lake.
One time, when he was in court for calling 911 for fires that didn't exist, the judge asked him, "Is there anybody you'd like to call in your defense?" My friend stood up to say that he wanted to call "The President of the United States" and "The King of England" (the fact that England doesn't have a king wasn't really an important factor in his reasoning process). My friend's mother was elated; this was the best possible answer my friend could have given to demonstrate (beyond a shadow of a doubt), to the court, that he was indeed a few cans short of a six pack, (i.e. totally batshiat crazy).
I think Jack Thompson has aptly demonstrated exactly the same thing. His opinion is only worth a shot of Thorazine and a little time in the quiet room with the Mr. Friendly Hugs jacket.
It makes me wonder, though. Schizophrenia quite often starts mild, debatably sane, and progresses over time to padded-room calibre. Just because at some point you might look like just a bit eccentric or slightly bizarre or a bit of a bad case of cognitive dissonance, doesn't mean that 17 years later you can't be diagnosed with proper schizophrenia.
And this guy's delusions started from half-way between mildly annoying and mildly funny, and progressed to outright bizarre. I can't diagnose him anyway, but it makes me, you know, wonder. Maybe a second examination would find it a bit worse than the one almost 2 decades ago? It's a possibility.
Plus, to the best of my knowledge, a lot (most?) doctors tend to prefer to err on the conservative side, especially when it would bury someone's career. If slapping a "yup, he's schizophrenic" label on him would terminate his right to act as a lawyer, even temporarily, they'll give him a lot of benefit of the doubt. He'd pretty much have to be at the raving lunatic stage to get that. It's just a different standard. Even if you'd consider giving him neuroleptics in a private consultation, you'd have to be convinced that he's to deranged to do his job to actually slap that on his dossier.
Plus, in that kind of context, I figure it's hard to diagnose anyway. Noone will start telling you about the voices in his head, when he's sent there to determine whether he's fit to keep working and doing his crusade. Being insane carries a major stigma. So unless they're deranged past the point of hiding it, a lot of people _will_ try to hide it, if you just send them to a psychiatrist. They might admit stuff to their therapist if it was their idea to go there, and it's going to be kept secret. But not to the guy who has to determine whether they're fit to keep their job, and whose conclusion will probably be public record.
What I'm trying to say is that it's entirely possible that he just slipped through the cracks the first time. (_If_ he's indeed nuts.) There's no telling if he'd still pass after all this time.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
I, for once, welcome our Jack Thompson overlord.
Signature has left the building.
Not addressing the point that you have a silly argument, but anyway... It's the slogan RIGHT F'N NOW, and has been since the beginning of slashdot. Seriously. Go to http://slashdot.org/ right now. It's the slogan. It's in the banner. It's in the HTML title. What's wrong with you??
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Won't someone please give Jack Thompson a clue?
He's pleading for his license to practice law.
He thinks the president is going to give him a helping hand for "furthering" the agenda?
It doesn't work that way.
Jack Thompson, you are a lowlife scumbag.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Someone should print up some "Objection!" t-shirts and stand outside the courthouse that day :-)
jack thompson: greatest troll who ever lived
I just heard some great news on the radio - Jack Thompson, 57, was found dead in his Florida home this morning. There weren't any more details, but authorities think he was shot by a deranged, miserable wretch who wasn't allowed to play video games as a child. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will be happy to see the fucker burn in hell - even if you didn't enjoy his constant trolling of the legal system, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture by making GTA amazingly popular. Truly an American icon.
Attorney Lionel Hutz!
Mr. Thompson, you're in luck. Your suit against the President is just the thing I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
whooooooooosh
"," is short form for "on the" ?
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Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
there is one major question that must be asked. I believe Peter Potamus said it best: "Did you get that thing I sent you?"
Thanks Bryan you're last few post's and window into the past have been more interesting than a lot of this weeks news :) /. around 1999 but didn't sign up until somewhere around 2005 or maybe later)
(I too started very occasionally browsing
Anyway, to answer your question immediately under each story or comment title it states :
'by (user id) on (day month year) @ (time) (#comment id)'
was allegedly under the influence of Grand Theft Auto
Whoa.. I've heard of people smoking some crazy stuff, but a video game? How the hell do you smoke that? You can burn the cd, but then you're smokin the cd.. burn the computer? How the hell do you burn a series of 1s and 0s? And how do said binary digits "influence" you?
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Technological Musings
As a subscriber, you can see posts all the way back as far as they have them. I just clicked on your name, and went back to the beginning. You may need to set the date to show the year in your preferences, though.
The point he was making and where you are incorrect on is that the slogan, at least since nov 1998 as has been pointed out, is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" not "News for Nerds on the Stuff that Matters".
When you cant win, ad hominem.
in a company I was at:
"Please contact me if you don't get this message."
Seriously. Yes, the guy was an idiot. I could go on with some of the winner statements this guy had said.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
, but she still said no.
ba-da-bing!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
The parent comment is comedy gold! What twit modded it troll?
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
can't we just have him committed? Please?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Hey Jack,
Aren't you a little too busy to be posting on slashdot right now?
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson
If you want the original story, check out the Gamepolitics article The submitted link is practically word for word plagiarism of the gp article. At the end of the submitted link, they state "thanks gamepolitics", but that hardly makes up for ripping off the article.
In summary, if you want well written and interestering articles on politics and games with no advertisements, check out Gamepolitics.com. I'm not affiliated with the site in any way, I'm just a fan.
Cheers
From the link you gave to the oldest slashdot page:
Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
I don't know what's scarier, the echoes from the past, or the echoes from the present
SB
(remembering with fondness my first 5MB IBM PC drive)
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
George W. Bush was playing Civilization II when he got the idea to invade Iraq for the Oil and resources and gain a lot of gold. So Jack Thompson wants George W. Bush to testify under oath that he did play Civilization II on his PC before or after he held office. Jack Thompson will claim that this is the way the Civilization II game is played, to invade other nations for the gold.
//, before deciding to bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, and Media Player with Windows installed on each new PC sold by PC Vendors. The object in the Monopoly video game, claims Jack Thompson, is to own property and bundle them together to lock out competitors and raise the prices in order to become the richest person in the game.
He might as well subpoena Bill Gates, and accuse him of playing the Monopoly video game for DOS or the Apple
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
Oopsie, I guess I'm not enough of a pedantic prick to notice that completely pointless distinction.
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They're just trying to avoid a classic blunder: forgetting Poland.
I've been reading this site since Rob learned Perl and moved from Chips and Dips to this site, and I think Bob has suffered a stroke or something. Not to mention the content of this site has always been rather vapid. There was a lot of banter about software releases and anime, then later came Katz, and well let's just be blunt: Slashdot is not a site for intellectuals of any caliber and never has been. It's a link magnet for men.
"News for Nerds on the stuff that matters" sounds like it came from the packaging of a very cheap thumbdrive.
Just roll it into a fatty and light it up.
Ol' Jack-o wack-o is nuttier than squirrel poop. If he we'rn REALLY smart, he would have subpoena'd Miss South Carolina as a character witness. THAT would be a nifty.
Does Fred Thompson have fuckall to do with this? No.
Lay off the crackpipe, AC. If you're not going to RTFA, or even RTFS, at least read the fucking HEADLINE.
Yet another pathetic attempt to be an attention whore. He knows (or, should know if he's competent), that he can't do this. The sitting President enjoys immunity from civil liability. See Jones v. Clinton.
The problem with ACs is you can't track them down and make them pay for your new keyboard.
Harvey Birdman: I'll take the case!
Thank you for that - actually it turns out that it's a preference in the "homepage" preferences section. I've gone looking for it in the past, in the "comments" preferences section, where I thought it would logically be, but having not found it there, gave up.
Thanks for the pointer, since you said that it was possible to get the date/time like that I did a more exhaustive search of the user preferences. Turns out it's a setting in the "homepage" section, not the "comments" section, and I didn't find it before. Now I'm golden. Thanks again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ey)
kicking out the democrats and their valued pedophile constituents
Huh? Since when are Republican legislators the Democrat's constituents?
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I Am With The Penny Arcade; Thompson serves a useful purpose. Whenever the media need a quote about the latest case of a sociopath going disco 'because' he played Pong as a child, they go straight to Jack and get an absolutely barking mad, howling at the moon tirade that no sane person would take seriously. If Jack vanished from the public eye, then he might be replaced with someone actually credible.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Now I just wish the cowardly democrats would also suboena Bush for Lying USA into a WAR causing some 4000 US troops deaths.. !
I'll send Bush a DMCA takedown notice!
Anyone who pulls out Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law references deserves at least a 2.
no-one posts content anymore it is all about AGGREGATING (and adwords revenue)
Wow! Did you just fix hate on Disney, Rockstar, hip hop and Democrats all in one email? And, hic. compare them with pedophiles??? i think i found jack thompson's nom de plume on slashdot, or are you Bush. Same difference, y'all are from the same gene pool are'nt you...Yours is definetely not my way, and possibly not many other folks either. So drop the royal "our" and keep it in your fancy pants cowboy.
XenoPhage
Technological Musings
> Huh? Since when are Republican legislators the Democrat's constituents?
You're a loon if you don't think the two major parties are basically the same under the surface...
~Eien no Inori wo Sasagete~ Searching for my Hatsumi...
If Thompson disappears, it will be a sad day for gamers. Why? Because someone new will certainly come along to fight against video games. That new person might actually be reasonably intelligent and charismatic. That would be bad.
http://brandonbloom.name
Please do, as we certainly don't want the executive and legislative branches to both be controlled by one party.
At least, that's what I heard while the Republicans were controlling congress....
Here's your sig.