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Utah Senate, House Pass Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill
Ars Technica reports that the Utah State Senate and House have both passed Jack Thompson's proposed legislation that would stiffen penalties for the sale of M-rated games to minors. Oddly, on its trip through the state legislature, amendments rendered it largely ineffective; retailers are in the clear if the employee who sold the game goes through a training program, or if the minor misrepresents his age. It's also possible that the bill could cause some retailers to simply take down their ESRB-related advertising. Thompson's statements about the bill put the focus on advertising, but discussion on the Utah Senate floor had a familiar ring, touching on the story of a Grand Theft Auto player who killed two policemen in 2003. The ESRB wrote an open letter in opposition of the bill, saying it could undo the efforts they've made to popularize their rating system. The bill's sponsors fired back, questioning the industry's overall commitment to ratings, and now it awaits only the governor's signature before becoming law.
He was disbarred, which is sort of like dying for a lawyer. But he's still out there, sort of an undead lawyer now.
Oops. I guess that copy of Dead Rising I sent him was in poor taste.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I'd even settle for guam or puerto rico.
Seriously though I don't have a problem penalizing salesmen of M-Rated games to minors. That being said, I have a huge problem with anything Jack Thompson writes or proposes.
I also have a huge problem with Utah. The whole state is lost. They don't deserve the protections of the constitution while they drag their fake religion into the statehouse.
They're using their grammar skills there.
People on /. were laughing at this guy for getting disbarred and saying he's done but it turns out that Old Jack is pulling some strings at the political level and /. c.s. are still powerless to do anything.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Maybe you should drop dead of lung cancer and not force the person next to you on the bus to suffer the same fate involuntarily. I bet you could do that, in fact, if you take your own advice and just smoke yourself silly there. No one's infringing on your right to smoke... we're barring you from making other people breathe in that noxious poison. I hope you're putting away three packs a day, as long as I'm nowhere near your foul breath.
No genius, I was referring to
Look troll, I don't give a damn about what your stupid comment was referring to, DIAF.
You can't take the sky from me...