I think it the law should be very strict about the sales of games to kids and should punish irresponsible parents for allowing their kids to play lots of games they shouldn't play.
If you decide your child shouldn't be playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, that's your right as a parent. If you buy GTA4 for your child, that's your right too. But you have NO business making morality judgments for anyone else.
In reality this won't happen and I do believe the gaming industry, like most industries love to prey on kids because quite frankly kids are dumb and it's easier to get kids to part with their money.
Advertisers aim at children because they might get their parents to buy stuff. Shocking news at 11. As for me, I'm waiting for the moralizers to be right about something. They whined about rock music, they whined about comic books, they whined about metal and rap, they whined about Dungeons and Dragons, and now they whine about video games. And they've been wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
Careful - one of the reasons no one has been burning flags in protest for the past 20 years is that in 1984 the Supreme Court ruled that is was freedom of speech. Prior to that, there were a lot of flags being burned at protests, because it got the protesters what they wanted - arrest and media.
Aren't you leaving something out? A V-word of some kind involving a quagmire and the draft? If the government decided to go to war with Iran over reasons as bogus as the ones used to invade Iraq, and reinstated the draft, methinks you'd be seeing a lot more flags being burned, banned or not.
Riot, smiot. Some people threw over some trash cans, a horse was startled, so one cop decided it would be a good idea to start shooting the crowd at head level with plastic bullets.
all police get to experience the taser and pepper spray before they are issued the gear, so they know it hurts like a motherfucker.
And yet there's a report of tazer abuse every few weeks. The last one I heard about, a young man died after being tazed 14 times in 9 minutes, the last two when he was unconscious. And all because he didn't stand up fast enough for the officer after being handcuffed on the ground.
until you post a link to a news article i'm going to point out even old grannies can wield a knife.
Ah, so since capacity = intent in your world, if you can type you can squeeze a trigger. Hope the SWAT team doesn't rough you up to much when they break your down down.
The way to deal with this is through the Second Amendment, which properly exercised results in soldiers, cops, and civilians[1] regarding each other with mutual respect and caution.
And when has that ever worked? Using guns on local LEO's or feds just brings more LEO's or feds with bigger guns and a bigger desire to kill you. It didn't work for Leonard Peltier, it didn't work for Gordon Kahl, it didn't work for Randy Weaver, it didn't work for the Branch Dividians, it didn't work for Corey Maye, and it didn't work for Kathryn Johnston.
And if you do defend your home from cops on a bogus warrant and they don't shoot you dead on the spot, you'll probably be hit with the death penalty.
I know. The point wasn't that SCO won, it's that they wasted a lot of IBM's time and money in the process. And the only reason they were able to pursue the case as far as they did was the money SCO got from Microsoft.
based on Microsoft not contesting it. Based on Sony not contesting it.
But that happens all the time. Patent troll starts throwing around a patent, and $BIG_COMPANY gives them a few million dollars up front for a one time license. Then the patent troll takes the money from $BIG_COMPANY and spends it going after $BIG_COMPANY's competitors. Microsoft did exactly this with SCO when the latter company was suing IBM and Novell.
It's a win-win scenario: $BIG_COMPANY doesn't have to worry about having to pay huge royalties if courts uphold the patent, yet it's competitors have to spend millions fighting it.
Wow, "everybody knows" how to fight an asymmetrical war. I guess I was absent that day in school. What is your reference for such strategy, I'd like to see it.
Check out any grade school history book. You know, where the authors engage in backslapping for those brave and clever American patriots, shooting the British troops from behind rocks and trees, for fighting war on our terms not theirs. Now that Iraqis are doing the modern equivalent to us, it's called "terrorism".
Violence is going down
Down to 2006 levels, whoop de fuckin do my friend. And the whole purpose of the surge was to provide the government time to stabilize and establish itself. Since that hasn't happened, the surge has failed.
Are you implying, Libertarianism is inconsistent with the Declaration of Independence or Constitution? It is not...
Oh, but it is. The only part of the Constitution that matters is the 10th Amendment, other parts like Article 1, Section 8 (promote the general welfare) are irrelevant. And the Bill of Rights only applies to the federal government, which is why Ron Paul introduced legislation to strip federal courts of the right to hear first amendment cases. You live in Georgia and and the state government just mandated school prayer in public schools? Too damn bad for you my friend.
Well, sorry to burst your bubble everyone, but I think the fact that Obama can't get even the support of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and has had to distance himself from his church pastor, well he sounds like he has people issues.
Because two black people happen to be unhappy with him?
Criminal proceedings are still on the table, as I understand it.
But you can't launch criminal proceedings if you don't even know you were spied upon. And the best way to find out if you were spied upon were the civil lawsuits, and now that door is shut. Democrats as well as Republicans in Congress have been complicit in this program, and there are powerful members of both parties that want this stuff to never see the light of day, so I'm not hopeful there will ever be a real investigation.
So they can't be sued for tens of billions of dollars (incidentally, not a great idea as the economy tanks to take significant money away from the people who manage our communications infrastructure)
AT&T's market cap is a $190 billion dollars. They need to be hit with sizable consequences to dissuade other companies from breaking the law in the future.
Besides, as I understood, the civil suits weren't going anywhere because the plaintiffs couldn't establish that they were targeted.
But you can't find out if you were targeted without discovery, a nice chicken and egg set up by right wing judges. And all in the name of two words not to be found anywhere in the Constitution: national security.
The cops in my town have never, as far as I know, shot and killed unarmed innocents. Therefor, no cops in the U.S. have ever shot unarmed innocent people.
You don't want politicians to see the wars they're making policy for because, why, exactly? And, judging by your sig, nothing more than a lame excuse to trash Obama.
Then you should have no problem proving it then. But the result is going to be the same as when I ask people to name any actual Kool Aid drinking Apple fanboys - you aren't going to have an answer for me.
Stop throwing feces and look at things objectively.
Pull your head out of your ass and you wont have so much feces to worry about. Today's Democratic party is to the right of Richard Nixon, so calling it leftist is laughable.
It seems as if the most difficult problem with this story is to stick to the facts.
The only problem with the facts is that you and the author of that hit piece keep ignoring them.
The memos have never been proven to be forgeries
CBS did check the memos for the accuracy of the content. If the memos were forged, they forged the truth.
This standard of having all documents not just verified for content but checked by typographical experts never applied to anyone before Dan Rather and has never applied to anyone since.
Then, as I read more and waited for more facts to appear, I began to realize that his opponents were attempting to take another insignificant issue and turn it into something it wasn't. I felt a little better.
You shouldn't have. Bush dodged the draft because strings were pulled to get him ahead of hundreds of other men to get in to a non-combat Air Guard unit, but skipped out early. His campaign's excuse is that he missed a physical and lost his wings - but since when do airmen decide that their signed commitments to the military are optional? Remember that draft dodging was a cardinal sin - when Bill Clinton was running against Herbert Walker Bush and Bob Dole. That this administration is packed to the gills with draft dodgers is not worthy of mention, however, because IOKIYAR.
that there was and is a rational basis for the belief that Saddam Hussein would have been looking for sources of yellowcake uranium.
No, there wasn't. At all. The Niger memos were known to be forgeries at the time. The uranium that was just sold to Canadians was declared and known about since the first Gulf War.
And remember, this issue had fooled the CIA, Most of the US military, the NSA, and British and French intelligence agencies, along with others.
No, the Bush administration just ignored any contradictory evidence. Any hearsay that would support an invasion was left in. Any facts that questioned it were left out.
I find the attempt to demean our President's military service to lack credibility.
There are far more Kool Aid drinking Democrats than Republicans on Slashdot.
Liar.
If you don't think Slashdot leans Left than you've been drinking that Kool Aid yourself.
Here's a helpful suggestion for you: go see a proctologist in North Korea. Once he's done extracting your head from your ass, then you can take a look around and see what left really looks like.
Because as we all know, exactly one class of television show that has very little appeal to children is going to make all the difference.
Translation: don't bother me with pesky facts. One class? We're talking about DOZENS of shows here, to which I can also add Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Smallville. And just which popular kids shows, exactly, encourage boys to enter science but not girls? Dora the Explorer? No, not so much. Kim possible? Nope. Come on, let's see your list. Oh, you don't have one? You were just speaking out of your ass? Contrast that with just about any sitcom made for 20 years where the men on the show can't so much as tie their show laces without their wife's help: Simpsons, Home Improvement, Raymond, Malcom, According to Jim...
Lol, smug self-satisfaction strikes again, are your palms hairy too?
Aha ha, ah ha. Ha. You're wrong, we're right, and we proved it too. And you wonder where the old prejudice that women are too flighty and emotional to think clearly come from...
you lose a lot of credibility in the 2nd ("sold nuke secrets"
Nah, he just leaves a lot out. The central charges of Siebel Edumunds is that top government officials did sell nuclear secrets to Turkey and Pakistan. The skinny is that Valerie Plame was working on nuclear non-proliferation, and was close to busting these guys, so her cover was blown. Which actually makes a lot more sense than the nonsensical "embarrass her husband" story. Which would mean that Rove, Libby and Cheney were in it on it. Which means this would be as big as Watergate times Iran Contra.
All your quibbling aside, those documents have never been proven to be forgeries.
Give it up. Rather was fooled, and willingly so.
Realities well-known liberal bias rears it's head once again. CBS didn't have access to the original documents - only photocopies. And they did have the documents checked - for the accuracy of the content. So if someone actually forged those documents - they forged the truth.
Which also brings up the specter of double standards of a galactic scale. Like the rhetorical standards ("Inventing the Internet") applied to Al Gore in the 2000 election when he was running against a man who can't string together a complete sentence on his own. Or when Bush attacked Kerry for being a flip flopper, when he'd taken credit for passing H.M.O. bill that he'd actually vetoed as governor of Texas. Or the charges of flip flopping being leveled now against Obama, when he's always said "I've always said I would listen to commanders on the ground", when he's running against McCain - who's violating the campaign finance laws that bear his name and refuses to say he'd vote for his own immigration bill.
So why this high standard applied to Rather, when he didn't even produce the story? Why should he be fired over a content accurate memo, yet Bush keeps his job when he launched a war based on a Niger memo that actually was forged? What about all the editors and reporters and pundits who got the whole Iraq war so very, very wrong when there was plenty of data available at the time that said it was a bad move?
The problem with the American educational system is not, at the moment, a lack of money.
Garbage. Salaries are so low that they only people you will attract to the job are the dedicated and those that don't make it to a "real job". You expect someone to educate your kids and act as a babysitter yet pay them less than the guys that pick up your trash? You're just spouting a talking a conservative talking point that covers up the real goal: they want public schools to fail they can be privatized.
Slashdot Mirror
I think, however, your question also says "Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have no influence on the Black American community, politically."
Straw man. And since Obama has 90%+ support in the black community, it makes your whole line of reasoning rather ridiculous.
Well if that is the case then why is it always a huge concern people try to ensure that kids don't play M rated games?
Because it's not your goddamn business.
If so many adults play games why is xbox live filled with so many teenage tards calling me a faggot?
Penny Arcade answered that one a long time ago.
I think it the law should be very strict about the sales of games to kids and should punish irresponsible parents for allowing their kids to play lots of games they shouldn't play.
If you decide your child shouldn't be playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, that's your right as a parent. If you buy GTA4 for your child, that's your right too. But you have NO business making morality judgments for anyone else.
In reality this won't happen and I do believe the gaming industry, like most industries love to prey on kids because quite frankly kids are dumb and it's easier to get kids to part with their money.
Advertisers aim at children because they might get their parents to buy stuff. Shocking news at 11. As for me, I'm waiting for the moralizers to be right about something. They whined about rock music, they whined about comic books, they whined about metal and rap, they whined about Dungeons and Dragons, and now they whine about video games. And they've been wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
Careful - one of the reasons no one has been burning flags in protest for the past 20 years is that in 1984 the Supreme Court ruled that is was freedom of speech. Prior to that, there were a lot of flags being burned at protests, because it got the protesters what they wanted - arrest and media.
Aren't you leaving something out? A V-word of some kind involving a quagmire and the draft? If the government decided to go to war with Iran over reasons as bogus as the ones used to invade Iraq, and reinstated the draft, methinks you'd be seeing a lot more flags being burned, banned or not.
Riot, smiot. Some people threw over some trash cans, a horse was startled, so one cop decided it would be a good idea to start shooting the crowd at head level with plastic bullets.
all police get to experience the taser and pepper spray before they are issued the gear, so they know it hurts like a motherfucker.
And yet there's a report of tazer abuse every few weeks. The last one I heard about, a young man died after being tazed 14 times in 9 minutes, the last two when he was unconscious. And all because he didn't stand up fast enough for the officer after being handcuffed on the ground.
until you post a link to a news article i'm going to point out even old grannies can wield a knife.
Ah, so since capacity = intent in your world, if you can type you can squeeze a trigger. Hope the SWAT team doesn't rough you up to much when they break your down down.
The way to deal with this is through the Second Amendment, which properly exercised results in soldiers, cops, and civilians[1] regarding each other with mutual respect and caution.
And when has that ever worked? Using guns on local LEO's or feds just brings more LEO's or feds with bigger guns and a bigger desire to kill you. It didn't work for Leonard Peltier, it didn't work for Gordon Kahl, it didn't work for Randy Weaver, it didn't work for the Branch Dividians, it didn't work for Corey Maye, and it didn't work for Kathryn Johnston.
And if you do defend your home from cops on a bogus warrant and they don't shoot you dead on the spot, you'll probably be hit with the death penalty.
SCO went to trial and lost.
I know. The point wasn't that SCO won, it's that they wasted a lot of IBM's time and money in the process. And the only reason they were able to pursue the case as far as they did was the money SCO got from Microsoft.
based on Microsoft not contesting it. Based on Sony not contesting it.
But that happens all the time. Patent troll starts throwing around a patent, and $BIG_COMPANY gives them a few million dollars up front for a one time license. Then the patent troll takes the money from $BIG_COMPANY and spends it going after $BIG_COMPANY's competitors. Microsoft did exactly this with SCO when the latter company was suing IBM and Novell.
It's a win-win scenario: $BIG_COMPANY doesn't have to worry about having to pay huge royalties if courts uphold the patent, yet it's competitors have to spend millions fighting it.
Wow, "everybody knows" how to fight an asymmetrical war. I guess I was absent that day in school. What is your reference for such strategy, I'd like to see it.
Check out any grade school history book. You know, where the authors engage in backslapping for those brave and clever American patriots, shooting the British troops from behind rocks and trees, for fighting war on our terms not theirs. Now that Iraqis are doing the modern equivalent to us, it's called "terrorism".
Violence is going down
Down to 2006 levels, whoop de fuckin do my friend. And the whole purpose of the surge was to provide the government time to stabilize and establish itself. Since that hasn't happened, the surge has failed.
Umm, the surge already ended
No, Republicans are saying the surge has ended, when the troop levels are still well above pre-surge levels. Big difference.
Also civilian casualties are way down in Iraq too.
No, they aren't. Saying violence is "down" to 2006 levels is a complete red herring, as 2006 was a bloody year just like the rest.
Are you implying, Libertarianism is inconsistent with the Declaration of Independence or Constitution? It is not...
Oh, but it is. The only part of the Constitution that matters is the 10th Amendment, other parts like Article 1, Section 8 (promote the general welfare) are irrelevant. And the Bill of Rights only applies to the federal government, which is why Ron Paul introduced legislation to strip federal courts of the right to hear first amendment cases. You live in Georgia and and the state government just mandated school prayer in public schools? Too damn bad for you my friend.
So then why won't he even pledge to bring the troops home during his entire first term (should he be elected)?
He's set a clear, but flexible, goal of bringing troops home within 16 months, two brigades at a time - well within his first term.
Well, sorry to burst your bubble everyone, but I think the fact that Obama can't get even the support of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and has had to distance himself from his church pastor, well he sounds like he has people issues.
Because two black people happen to be unhappy with him?
Criminal proceedings are still on the table, as I understand it.
But you can't launch criminal proceedings if you don't even know you were spied upon. And the best way to find out if you were spied upon were the civil lawsuits, and now that door is shut. Democrats as well as Republicans in Congress have been complicit in this program, and there are powerful members of both parties that want this stuff to never see the light of day, so I'm not hopeful there will ever be a real investigation.
So they can't be sued for tens of billions of dollars (incidentally, not a great idea as the economy tanks to take significant money away from the people who manage our communications infrastructure)
AT&T's market cap is a $190 billion dollars. They need to be hit with sizable consequences to dissuade other companies from breaking the law in the future.
Besides, as I understood, the civil suits weren't going anywhere because the plaintiffs couldn't establish that they were targeted.
But you can't find out if you were targeted without discovery, a nice chicken and egg set up by right wing judges. And all in the name of two words not to be found anywhere in the Constitution: national security.
It's been said a million times before, but Powell was not an intelligence officer.
But he WAS head of the joint chiefs of staff, and should have known that he was selling a shit sandwich.
When he found out that the people who had given him the intelligence had lied to him, he quit.
Not before he signed off on the Administration's torture policies, he didn't.
The cops in my town have never, as far as I know, shot and killed unarmed innocents. Therefor, no cops in the U.S. have ever shot unarmed innocent people.
You don't want politicians to see the wars they're making policy for because, why, exactly? And, judging by your sig, nothing more than a lame excuse to trash Obama.
Kool Aid drinker.
Then you should have no problem proving it then. But the result is going to be the same as when I ask people to name any actual Kool Aid drinking Apple fanboys - you aren't going to have an answer for me.
Stop throwing feces and look at things objectively.
Pull your head out of your ass and you wont have so much feces to worry about. Today's Democratic party is to the right of Richard Nixon, so calling it leftist is laughable.
It seems as if the most difficult problem with this story is to stick to the facts.
The only problem with the facts is that you and the author of that hit piece keep ignoring them.
Then, as I read more and waited for more facts to appear, I began to realize that his opponents were attempting to take another insignificant issue and turn it into something it wasn't. I felt a little better.
You shouldn't have. Bush dodged the draft because strings were pulled to get him ahead of hundreds of other men to get in to a non-combat Air Guard unit, but skipped out early. His campaign's excuse is that he missed a physical and lost his wings - but since when do airmen decide that their signed commitments to the military are optional? Remember that draft dodging was a cardinal sin - when Bill Clinton was running against Herbert Walker Bush and Bob Dole. That this administration is packed to the gills with draft dodgers is not worthy of mention, however, because IOKIYAR.
that there was and is a rational basis for the belief that Saddam Hussein would have been looking for sources of yellowcake uranium.
No, there wasn't. At all. The Niger memos were known to be forgeries at the time. The uranium that was just sold to Canadians was declared and known about since the first Gulf War.
And remember, this issue had fooled the CIA, Most of the US military, the NSA, and British and French intelligence agencies, along with others.
No, the Bush administration just ignored any contradictory evidence. Any hearsay that would support an invasion was left in. Any facts that questioned it were left out.
I find the attempt to demean our President's military service to lack credibility.
Then you ignore reality.
There are far more Kool Aid drinking Democrats than Republicans on Slashdot.
Liar.
If you don't think Slashdot leans Left than you've been drinking that Kool Aid yourself.
Here's a helpful suggestion for you: go see a proctologist in North Korea. Once he's done extracting your head from your ass, then you can take a look around and see what left really looks like.
Because as we all know, exactly one class of television show that has very little appeal to children is going to make all the difference.
Translation: don't bother me with pesky facts. One class? We're talking about DOZENS of shows here, to which I can also add Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Smallville. And just which popular kids shows, exactly, encourage boys to enter science but not girls? Dora the Explorer? No, not so much. Kim possible? Nope. Come on, let's see your list. Oh, you don't have one? You were just speaking out of your ass? Contrast that with just about any sitcom made for 20 years where the men on the show can't so much as tie their show laces without their wife's help: Simpsons, Home Improvement, Raymond, Malcom, According to Jim...
Lol, smug self-satisfaction strikes again, are your palms hairy too?
Aha ha, ah ha. Ha. You're wrong, we're right, and we proved it too. And you wonder where the old prejudice that women are too flighty and emotional to think clearly come from...
you lose a lot of credibility in the 2nd ("sold nuke secrets"
Nah, he just leaves a lot out. The central charges of Siebel Edumunds is that top government officials did sell nuclear secrets to Turkey and Pakistan. The skinny is that Valerie Plame was working on nuclear non-proliferation, and was close to busting these guys, so her cover was blown. Which actually makes a lot more sense than the nonsensical "embarrass her husband" story. Which would mean that Rove, Libby and Cheney were in it on it. Which means this would be as big as Watergate times Iran Contra.
This goes both ways really. Anyone remember Dan Rather's fake documents?
Nope.
All your quibbling aside, those documents have never been proven to be forgeries.
Give it up. Rather was fooled, and willingly so.
Realities well-known liberal bias rears it's head once again. CBS didn't have access to the original documents - only photocopies. And they did have the documents checked - for the accuracy of the content. So if someone actually forged those documents - they forged the truth.
Which also brings up the specter of double standards of a galactic scale. Like the rhetorical standards ("Inventing the Internet") applied to Al Gore in the 2000 election when he was running against a man who can't string together a complete sentence on his own. Or when Bush attacked Kerry for being a flip flopper, when he'd taken credit for passing H.M.O. bill that he'd actually vetoed as governor of Texas. Or the charges of flip flopping being leveled now against Obama, when he's always said "I've always said I would listen to commanders on the ground", when he's running against McCain - who's violating the campaign finance laws that bear his name and refuses to say he'd vote for his own immigration bill.
So why this high standard applied to Rather, when he didn't even produce the story? Why should he be fired over a content accurate memo, yet Bush keeps his job when he launched a war based on a Niger memo that actually was forged? What about all the editors and reporters and pundits who got the whole Iraq war so very, very wrong when there was plenty of data available at the time that said it was a bad move?
The problem with the American educational system is not, at the moment, a lack of money.
Garbage. Salaries are so low that they only people you will attract to the job are the dedicated and those that don't make it to a "real job". You expect someone to educate your kids and act as a babysitter yet pay them less than the guys that pick up your trash? You're just spouting a talking a conservative talking point that covers up the real goal: they want public schools to fail they can be privatized.