Do not pay any attention to the news at all? once a month or so where i am from, there will be a story in the local newspaper about how some tobacco outlet was caught selling to minors for the umpteenth time. Clerks personally get fined, while the store gets fined on an increasing scale based on past history. This is NOT something that warrants jailtime. This should not even be a fedral issue.
"law or self-regulatory," is a key issue here. Game companies have been self regulating for years JUST like the movie industry, yet now the government wants to step in and fedrally 'protect' minors from this material.
more informed must be highly subjective, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
P.S.: as a side note, in the presence of restrictions on drinking age and tobacco, most teens find it easier to score illicit narcotics. This was certainly true for me 5 years ago, and I see no reason why it would not hold now. I'm not saying that kids are going to turn to actual violence in the absence of video games. I am just worried about what other unintended consequences this might have.
Hey, this sounds really great, but does anyone out there have any clue to wheter it is also available in Radio Shacks in Canada? Or is this yet another case when us friendly Canuck geeks get the corporate shaft of ignorance?;)
gotta love phones that sell based on pretty colours and inline games.... talk about quality. plus there is the added bonus of 40 second long tunes for the phone rings... i hate hearing those god-damned rings
Where I live (Saskatchewan, Canada), we get charged per meg on our transfers as well, but that is only after FIVE GIGABYTES. And the rate is 2 cents for each additional meg after that... what they are trying to charge for cable modem access down there is horrendous. Hell, I threatened to switch to ASDL when my ISP was originally charging 10 cents a meg after one gigabyte, but in comparison that is nothing. I'd like to say boycot the service, but I for one know how hard it is to go from highspeed to dialup -- i wouldn't think of going back to a 56k. Seems the only option is to complain and raise awareness until they get their act together.
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Do not pay any attention to the news at all? once a month or so where i am from, there will be a story in the local newspaper about how some tobacco outlet was caught selling to minors for the umpteenth time. Clerks personally get fined, while the store gets fined on an increasing scale based on past history. This is NOT something that warrants jailtime. This should not even be a fedral issue.
"law or self-regulatory," is a key issue here. Game companies have been self regulating for years JUST like the movie industry, yet now the government wants to step in and fedrally 'protect' minors from this material.
more informed must be highly subjective, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
P.S.: as a side note, in the presence of restrictions on drinking age and tobacco, most teens find it easier to score illicit narcotics. This was certainly true for me 5 years ago, and I see no reason why it would not hold now. I'm not saying that kids are going to turn to actual violence in the absence of video games. I am just worried about what other unintended consequences this might have.
Hey, this sounds really great, but does anyone out there have any clue to wheter it is also available in Radio Shacks in Canada? Or is this yet another case when us friendly Canuck geeks get the corporate shaft of ignorance? ;)
gotta love phones that sell based on pretty colours and inline games.... talk about quality. plus there is the added bonus of 40 second long tunes for the phone rings... i hate hearing those god-damned rings
Where I live (Saskatchewan, Canada), we get charged per meg on our transfers as well, but that is only after FIVE GIGABYTES. And the rate is 2 cents for each additional meg after that... what they are trying to charge for cable modem access down there is horrendous. Hell, I threatened to switch to ASDL when my ISP was originally charging 10 cents a meg after one gigabyte, but in comparison that is nothing. I'd like to say boycot the service, but I for one know how hard it is to go from highspeed to dialup -- i wouldn't think of going back to a 56k. Seems the only option is to complain and raise awareness until they get their act together.