"The suit contends that the $20-billion-a-year video game industry will not effectively regulate itself, and that court intervention is necessary to keep violent games out of the hands of minors."
As a teenager who graduated from high school months after the Columbine shooting, I consider myself extremly in tune to what we (teens) "had access" to around the time of the shooting and before. I played the violent games, I saw the R movies. I also respected my parents, my teachers, my family, who knew what movies I was watching, knew what games I was playing, and shielded me from those things until they taught me the things every parent should teach their child.
I was taught right from wrong.
I was taught conflict resolution.
I had respect for other people, and had enough self esteem (and common sense) to know that school teasing was just that.
The notion that the video games these children played and the movies and television shows they watched are responsible in ANY way for the shooting is the most ignorant, misguided thing Ive ever heard. Are we all forgetting that DOOM (mentioned in the article) is set on some distant planet with a man defending himself and the world against evil Demonic creatures? (Did I mention being taught common sense?)
More and more every day I feel that the responsibility of raising a child is taken off of the parents, who forget that even though they gave birth to that child, once it becomes self aware, their respect must be earned. You must be active in your child's life, and, as is evident here, if you must give a damn.
I know very few of the details of the Columbine shooting. But from what I do know about all of the activity going on in the teens HOUSE (gee i remember having a hard tine finding a place and time to look at porn, never mind build bombs), because of the evident lack of caring and responsibility shown by the parents, the children were also obviously disturbed in some way or fashion.
I am in no way belittling what the kids went through at school. Yes, words hurt. When someone doesn't teach you that that's all they are, and tell you that they love you, care about you, are involved in your life, and act like they give a hoot every once and a while.
It's very simple. (And, mind you, I am not an extremly God fearing person.) The parents neglected to raise these children. You cannot blame a video game, movie, television show, or any outside influence on a child's development when a parent, who is ultimatly responsible, does not fulfill their duty as people who bring a life into this world.
Streaming copywritten songs on a shoutcast server is illegal without paying royalties, just like a radio station (at least from what Ive read). BR>Alot of stations play non-copywritten material, but it wont be long (especially with broadband users growing) before they go after them too, when they 'consider them a threat'.
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I hope the google servers can survive being slashdotted.
"The suit contends that the $20-billion-a-year video game industry will not effectively regulate itself, and that court intervention is necessary to keep violent games out of the hands of minors."
As a teenager who graduated from high school months after the Columbine shooting, I consider myself extremly in tune to what we (teens) "had access" to around the time of the shooting and before. I played the violent games, I saw the R movies. I also respected my parents, my teachers, my family, who knew what movies I was watching, knew what games I was playing, and shielded me from those things until they taught me the things every parent should teach their child.
I was taught right from wrong.
I was taught conflict resolution.
I had respect for other people, and had enough self esteem (and common sense) to know that school teasing was just that.
The notion that the video games these children played and the movies and television shows they watched are responsible in ANY way for the shooting is the most ignorant, misguided thing Ive ever heard. Are we all forgetting that DOOM (mentioned in the article) is set on some distant planet with a man defending himself and the world against evil Demonic creatures? (Did I mention being taught common sense?)
More and more every day I feel that the responsibility of raising a child is taken off of the parents, who forget that even though they gave birth to that child, once it becomes self aware, their respect must be earned. You must be active in your child's life, and, as is evident here, if you must give a damn.
I know very few of the details of the Columbine shooting. But from what I do know about all of the activity going on in the teens HOUSE (gee i remember having a hard tine finding a place and time to look at porn, never mind build bombs), because of the evident lack of caring and responsibility shown by the parents, the children were also obviously disturbed in some way or fashion.
I am in no way belittling what the kids went through at school. Yes, words hurt. When someone doesn't teach you that that's all they are, and tell you that they love you, care about you, are involved in your life, and act like they give a hoot every once and a while. It's very simple. (And, mind you, I am not an extremly God fearing person.) The parents neglected to raise these children. You cannot blame a video game, movie, television show, or any outside influence on a child's development when a parent, who is ultimatly responsible, does not fulfill their duty as people who bring a life into this world.
Streaming copywritten songs on a shoutcast server is illegal without paying royalties, just like a radio station (at least from what Ive read).
BR>Alot of stations play non-copywritten material, but it wont be long (especially with broadband users growing) before they go after them too, when they 'consider them a threat'.