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Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause
cli_rules! writes "DailyTech has reported that Jack Thompson has been ordered to explain himself. 'Therefore, it is ordered that you shall show cause on or before March 5, 2008, why this Court should not find that you have abused the legal system process and impose upon you a sanction for abusing the legal system, including, but not limited to directing the Clerk of this Court to reject for filing any future pleadings, petitions, motions, letters, documents, or other filings submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than yourself.'"
Don't tell me to get a life. I had one once. It sucked.
that's not sellacious
I *think* you mean "salacious" (which broadly speaking means "appealing to one's baser instincts"), but I love the word "sellacious". Folks, we have the neologism of the day.
He's a lousy joke at best.
+0 Meh
Sorry, but that's Quake3.
Humiliation indeed.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
Probably won't cut it, and if it does, there's some psychiatrists that are going to be out a job.
He's had two evaluations, and supposedly passed both of them. One was recent, and after the first one, he claimed to be the only certified sane lawyer in Florida.
The "picture book" is here. (Warning, this is a word document.)
His basic premise in creating the book was to make his arguments crystal clear, through illustration. In fact, his submission is a wandering and apparently pointless scree. It's reminiscent of the kind of rants people write when their WoW account is suspended.
I can well understand the court's reaction. It isn't because of the fact of using a picture-book style; it's the lack of any coherent argument in said picture book.
Outlawing weapons has always been the first step of dictators to exert more control over the populace. History has proven that.
Dead wrong. In Irak, e.g., almost every houshold had an assault rifle and ammunition under Saddam. Numerous other counterexanples exist.
So if you think gun control is a reliable indicator for the level of freedom in a society, you will wake up surprised one day. And far, far too late.
Seem to me your command of history is right up there with your grasp of the gun problem.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
How about this one?
I'm of the opinion that he has serious problems in reasoning and anger management, yet we should have all the "evidence" and statements he put forward as a testimony against the sort misinformation the anti-gaming people parrot. Sure, we can ignore him on Slashdot and other online venues, but this guy has friends in Fox News, and enough people watch that to become easily deceived.
"We are Microsoft. You shall be assimilated. Competition is futile."
You are wrong: Canada does NOT have more guns per capita than the US. If you have any statistics to back up what you're saying I'd be interested in seeing them.
Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere... and I thought I saw a two.
Er, no. You might want to look at your sources next time you suggest other people do. Overall, the murder rate has been pretty stable.
The number of murders (not the rate) increased about 3% from 2002 to 2006, peaking at 663 before dropping again. The population also increased by about 3.4%. The rate per 100,000 has remained around 1.8, but jumped for a while to about 2.1. I reamember hearing some expert on CBC call 2005's murder rate a statistical anomaly.
http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/legal01.htm
The majority of violent crimes, almost 2/3, are perpetrated against family members; most are minor:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/85-570-XIE/2006001/figures/figure34.htm
"Canada's overall national crime rate, based on incidents reported to police, hit its lowest point in over 25 years in 2006, driven by a decline in non-violent crime."
"The total violent crime rate remained virtually unchanged from 2005, mainly due to the stability in the rate of minor assaults, which account for 6 in 10 violent crimes.
The national homicide rate fell 10%, halting two years of increases. However, increases were reported in many serious violent crimes such as attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, robbery and kidnapping/forcible confinement."
"Police reported 605 homicides in 2006, 58 fewer than in 2005. This resulted in a rate of 1.85 homicides per 100,000 population, 10% lower than in 2005. The national homicide rate has generally been declining since the mid-1970s, when it was around 3.0."
"Robberies involving a firearm increased 4% in 2006, although they are still well below their peak in 1991."
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070718/d070718b.htm
Total violent crime declined about 1% between 2002 and 2006.
http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/legal14a.htm
The gun registry was a mismanaged waste of money, but it didn't affect the murder rate in any meaningful way.