Personally, I have 2 issues with Napster: 1) Distributing copyrighted material w/out permission is piracy, but that generally isn't a big deal on a small scale (yeah, I've shared MP3's and other such stuff with my friends). Napster, on the other hand, is a LARGE scale operation, equivocable to a quickly growing music store chain that does nothing but pirate. Sure, they don't actually make people pay for this stuff, per se, but that doesn't change things much. 2) Napster eats up bandwidth like an obese draft horse on steroids and pot.
Ah, so I suppose you're an expert on the young men's problems. Somehow I doubt that is was a lack of censorship that made them fly off the handle. The simple fact of the matter is that *sane* people do not do the things that happened in Columbine (oh, let's invoke that name ONE MORE TIME, PLEASE). And mental health may be subtly influenced by media sources, but it gets smacked across the head a lot harder by the more visceral, realistic things in life (parents, schoolmates, genetics, lack of physical health, etc...). I've said it once, and I'll probably scream it a million times more: The problem is indeed our culture, but not in respect to violence, but in respect to ELITISM. Elitist politics. Elitist religion. Elitist sportsmanship. Elitist academics. Elite elite elite elite. And with elitism comes exclusion, and from exclusion comes resentment, and once resentment breaks you, it spawns RETALIATION. Try censoring THAT.
>In the 1980s, arcade games like Pac-Man became >dominant. In Pac-Man, a yellow orb with a mouth >raced around the screen chomping up ghosts and >goblins. I'm sorry, but how can you do two detailed studies on video games and NOT KNOW A DAMNED THING ABOUT PAC-MAN??!! At this point in the report, I was pretty well convinced that their findings were irrelevant.
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Personally, I have 2 issues with Napster: 1) Distributing copyrighted material w/out permission is piracy, but that generally isn't a big deal on a small scale (yeah, I've shared MP3's and other such stuff with my friends). Napster, on the other hand, is a LARGE scale operation, equivocable to a quickly growing music store chain that does nothing but pirate. Sure, they don't actually make people pay for this stuff, per se, but that doesn't change things much. 2) Napster eats up bandwidth like an obese draft horse on steroids and pot.
Ah, so I suppose you're an expert on the young men's problems. Somehow I doubt that is was a lack of censorship that made them fly off the handle. The simple fact of the matter is that *sane* people do not do the things that happened in Columbine (oh, let's invoke that name ONE MORE TIME, PLEASE). And mental health may be subtly influenced by media sources, but it gets smacked across the head a lot harder by the more visceral, realistic things in life (parents, schoolmates, genetics, lack of physical health, etc...). I've said it once, and I'll probably scream it a million times more: The problem is indeed our culture, but not in respect to violence, but in respect to ELITISM. Elitist politics. Elitist religion. Elitist sportsmanship. Elitist academics. Elite elite elite elite. And with elitism comes exclusion, and from exclusion comes resentment, and once resentment breaks you, it spawns RETALIATION. Try censoring THAT.
Yeah, too bad AOL is BUYING EVERYTHING. Personally, I think they're even worse than M$. Let's get some anti-trust action over there...
>In the 1980s, arcade games like Pac-Man became >dominant. In Pac-Man, a yellow orb with a mouth >raced around the screen chomping up ghosts and >goblins. I'm sorry, but how can you do two detailed studies on video games and NOT KNOW A DAMNED THING ABOUT PAC-MAN??!! At this point in the report, I was pretty well convinced that their findings were irrelevant.