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The Star Wars Kid Is Back
An anonymous reader writes "It was eight years ago that Ghyslain Raza slashed his way into our hearts with his Star Wars Kid video. Sadly, Raza suffered from severe bullying and abuse for his video and eventually ended up in a psychiatric ward for children. However, his video was seen 1 billion times and multiple thousands of geeks came immediately to his defense. While those must have been the worst years of his life, things are now looking up."
As I recall, there was a group of people who contributed to buying him an iPod as a way of trying to show that not everyone who saw the video was laughing at him. Any idea whether he got it? TFA doesn't mention it.
There are millions of lawyers, but there is only one Star Wars Kid. Dare to be different!
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I was worried that his negative experience would turn him into a ruthless, soulless shell of a human being. Thank god he became a lawyer instead.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Clearly this article was not submitted by a "true" Star Wars fan. Use the force dude, use the force.
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He was anonymous again. Took him 8 years. His 15 minutes of fame were finally forgotten. He could continue with his life.
Now Slashdot and that other website (rtfa) put up his picture, location, job/study... which will show up in every google search for the "Star Wars Kid", forever linking his new life to that old one.
It's quite disappointing to see that his address, email, phone number, and the name of his friends and girlfriend (if any) are missing. Can we all have that too please, so that it's easier to ruin the rest of his life too? :-)
Of course, he is lawyer now.
Ain't this fate of most bullied nerds? They get attractive ... jobs later. (And opportunity for "lolno, not dating you" to what where popular girls at school)
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... he’s putting his litigious experience to some use, getting his law degree at McGill University in Montreal.
So, he went to the Darkside.
See what happens when you bully kids?
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I don't think he's alone when they say that the worst years of my life were, in fact, high school. Cliques full of assholes and status seeking social climbing butterflies pretty much achieved status by picking on people like me. I actually found the group of punks (smoking, piercings, tattoos, apathy, loud music, etc) to be the most welcoming group of people despite my lack of smoking, the fact that I listened to The Beatles and watched X-Files. The only people that seemed to really thrive in that crap were the popular kids and college was a welcomed change. I went from having four or five close friends in high school to entire crowds of people that I loved to talk to.
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Having been made fun of for reading Star Wars books in grade school, I sympathize with this kid though my pain was not on a global level like his. Still, I bet if you asked him now if he could go back and do things differently it would probably be better not to sue and instead milk that fifteen minutes by going on SNL or Conan O'Brien or even trying for a cameo in one of the Wayans Brothers' parody comedy flicks. Jesus, I bet he could make good money if he charged $5,000 per video and set up a site where he recorded himself doing his spiel and saying "Happy Birthday <insert your name here>" or "I only twirl around like a moron when I'm eating my <insert your food product here>!" And then just kept rerecording himself doing that. You might as well milk it and have fun with it
Anybody know how Daniel Tosh gets around these potential lawsuits when he displays videos on Comedy Central in his show Tosh.0? I mean, I'm sure he gets permission first or it comes from a country with lax copyright laws but what kind of logic do they pitch to the guys that do just outrageously stupid things? "You did something stupid by starting a gasoline can on fire but you have the chance to do something smart and let me show it?"
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"I'm sorry to hear that the Star Wars kid decided to be a blood sucking lawyer."
Yep, they're all evil until YOU need one to help you navigate the law, or until the EFF uses them to fight for your rights.
Lawyers don't sue, PLAINTIFFS sue.
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What's sad is that in the day and age where Napoleon Dynamite is a big selling movie and cool, he's only ironically cool and for anyone who actually does do something in real life that's funny or etc. they get bullied forever and there appear to be no consequences for the bullies.
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I used to do that all the time, but I got tired of my submissions getting passed over for days/(weeks) and then once the rest of the major online media outlets decided it was worthy to report someone else's late submission got pushed though.
Why should I waste my time with submissions that never go though when making snarky comments is infinitely more entertaining and rewarding?
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Yep, they're all evil until YOU need one to help you navigate the law, or until the EFF uses them to fight for your rights.
Speaking as someone who got charged with a crime he didn't commit, my lawyer saved my ass.
There's also NewYorkCountryLawyer to consider. Not all lawyers are evil ambulance chasers you know.....
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It's because they are submitted on time, but the editors are so fricking lazy that things will sit waiting for submission for a week at a time.
Honestly, it's not that hard to dig through the submissions, I have looked at the firehose and they are not getting 80 submissions a second.
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majority of them have proven themselves willing to take frivolous or evil cases
Citation???? "Majority" is a very specific word, with a specific meaning, which is not equal to "lots"
In short, this is utter bullshit. Most lawers never set foot in a courtroom and take "Cases" in the adversarial us vs them sense. They are the people who write contracts, advise clients on how to be compliant with truckloads of government regulations, etc.
I too used to write stuff and post it to slashdot, or find something interesting and have it rejected while stuff that was not half as interesting got through. ... Oh some of the stuff I posted I considered not that great, but I figured, what the hey, if the other stuff gets through maybe this will.
I gave up. I really do think its a club ... if you are not part of the club you don't get your stuff published but I didn't come here to talk about this, I came to comment on that kid being bullied....
In high school, assholes abound so much that instead of acne they should be sprouting assholes instead of little bumps.
Too many punks getting away with insanity. They should have patted the kid on the back and told him it was a cool video - Which it was!!!!
Maybe instead of having emotional damage he might have started feeling better about himself and work out and be buffed up or become the next Spielberg or George Lucas.
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I absolutely agree. You can't whitewash all lawyers as blood suckers just because most of them are. After all, like the joke goes, 99 percent of the lawyers give 1 percent of the lawyers a bad name. But let's look at this a bit more realistically.
The worst of the worst of the lawyers are the ones WE elect to make the laws and run the legal system that is their life blood. Does anyone really believe that lawyers are primarily concerned with the common good as opposed to what is good for their profession/friends/contributors? Your NEED for lawyers would be dramatically reduced if lawyers were not running things. So why do we keep electing these bozos?
Lastly, plaintiffs might be the ones that sue, but it is the lawyers by far and large that take home the booty. If they are the primary beneficiaries of a system they as a profession construct, maintain, run, and profit by, then why blame the plaintiffs? The plaintiffs often suffer nearly as much at the hands of the system as the defendants.
When non-lawyers write the law, they frequently do a lousy job. Laws are written in a very formalized, precise way on purpose.
The Jedi are bound to a code of morality and justice and are trained in the use of the light side of the force but not the Dark side.
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no death, there is the Force.
Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy.
Jedi use their powers to defend and to protect.
Jedi respect all life, in any form.
Jedi serve others rather than ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy.
Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.
If all of that doesn't describe a Lawyer I am not sure what does. Try to keep in mind people that not all (in fact only a very small but highly visible) lawyers are ambulance chasing souless bastards, or greedy corporate shills. Most try to uphold the law as best they can and protect people. I have a bias in that my Dads a lawyer I suppose. However just like Jedi, there are both the dark and the light side of the force. I suppose some lawyers are very Sith like to be sure.
"Lawyer" is not an attractive job...
Most of us are brain-whores for some company or other but only lawyers specialize in S&M.
So why do we keep electing these bozos?
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