..except, instead of making it open to the community (which is not a bad idea, I must say) I thought of having Google do it. This is, perhaps, IMHO, a much better idea. Now, what we really need is a Movie Genome Project, much like the Music Genome project that lead to Pandora.
I have to agree, if only because until the Star Wars series starts production, the only major Sci-Fi franchises filming new episodes will be Outer Limits, Doctor Who, and the Stargate franchise (with Stargate: Atlantis) - and, somehow, I don't see the Stargate ring working that well as an icon for the Sci-Fi section. Maybe the Tardis, but I'd prefer a Dalek. (Preferably with a dome on shot, much like the current icon has a head-on shot of the alien's puppet from The Corbomite Maneuver.
I'm glad to see the good Doctor made the list. My question is before Doctor Who, what was the longest running sci-fi TV show? The original Twilight Zone? The new Outer Limits? Stargate SG-1?
Actually, if you had read up on the case, it isn't, ultimately about that. Thompson may think it's about that, but it's not. What it's about is the family of a sick bastard (Cody's father) who would fit quite nicely into the Roarke family from Sin City trying to cover for the fact that a family member did things which, had the authorities found out about this earlier (and a good forensic investigation team gotten involved), would have gotten him arrested and imprisoned for life for sexual abuse of a minor, assault and battery (of said minor), and various other child abuse charges - and would have gotten that kid out of that home.
You want to know how low Jack really will go, when the rubber hits the road? We're about to find out. That is, of course, provided that Sony and Take Two have done their homework on this case - if they have, then there are numerous expert witnesses who could provide testimony on the psychological effects of the abuse that the real victim in this case, the boy who commited the murders, suffered at the hands of his birth father. Calling the forensic investigators from this case to the stand should bolster their defense as well. Jack might be able to argue that GTA helped provide the motiviation, but unless he completely ignores the disgusting conduct of Cody Posey's father and argues that Cody was either:
Lying and made up his claims (and injured himself to back up his claims of abuse) or...
Telling the truth, but was pushed over the edge by GTA, not getting stuck by his father for not mucking the stalls fast enough then...
Point I missed earlier, that I found out after reading TFA and other posts here - the killer in this case was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by his victims - his father and stepmother. If the parents (or in this case, parent and stepparent) don't deserve a very large share of the blame for this crime, then I don't know who does.
Out of curiosity - have you told this story to the Video Gamer's Voting Network? Also, the next time a piece of anti-gaming legislation comes up on the Federal or State legislatural level (wherever you are), tell your Senator/Represinative/MP/whatever your story. It's worth a shot.
Oh, and by the way - somebody mod this up, please.
Mod parent up - this post cuts to the heart of what's really going on. Hopefully the defendants in the suit will also get the witnesses used by the defense team from the criminal case on the stand. Their testimony might not have helped with the criminal case (as the killer did commit murder, and it may have indeed been pre-meditated - I can't say for certain, as I know nothing about the case) but it may be more helpful here.
Well, Jackie-Boy got in trouble with the Florida State Bar after a flood of well-worded complaints, from among other places the Penny Arcade forums, about Mr. Thompson's conduct lead them to open an investigation. So, Jackie Boy did whatever any other mature adult would do - create a web page attacking the Bar and releasing public statements attacking the Bar (and I believe he either filed or threatened to file a lawsuit).
The articles on these are on GamePolitics - which I can't view at work because it's about games, so somebody else will have to link it.
I see. So if he was 18 and on his own, it would have all been ok?
No, then it would have been his own damn fault.
Anyway, snipping the rest of your argument for the moment, because I don't particularly feel like a point by point rebuttal. In a situation like this, the where the parents were does matter because ultimately they are the ones who are supposed to raise their kids. Not the schools, not the TV, not their peers, but the parents. The parents should see that the kid is playing a game that they're not old enough to play, and take it away from the kid, at least until he's old enough. For that matter, the parents should be making sure that the kid isn't playing video games and watching TV all day, and take a break from the boob tube to play outside.
And, for that matter, how did the kid get the gun in the first place? I have not RTFA yet, but if the parents left their gun unsecured, then they should be held responsible for that as well, since even the NRA agrees that you should keep your firearms secured, especially if you have children. If the gun was obtained from a third party, the third party should be held responsible (especially if the kid bought the gun from the third party - because now said third party has comitted a felony).
There's several points more I could make, but my break is over shortly, so I'll have to stop for now. Hopefully somebody else can pick up where I stopped and provide some points I missed.
For some reason I remember UN Weapons Inspectors being in Iraq and actually looking for WMDs. I also remember the US government not believing their reports and pushing for war and starting a little invasion before they could even finish their inspection.
Well, I also remember reports from the UN inspectors (from before the US invasion) that the Iraq government was pulling the same sort of shenanagans they did the last time inspectors went looking for WMDs: artificially extending the travel time for the inspectors to reach facilities, large trucks leaving the facilities just before the inspectors arrived (large enough to hide some WMDs and/or the equipment to make it.)
If Saddam was trying to show he didn't have WMDs and that he wasn't lying, he was going a godawful job of doing it.
How about those spelling errors? Sounds like teach, looks like speech? Interestingly enough, I *never* used to make those kinds of errors. You can check back through my posting history and you'd be lucky to find an odd typo. However, these days I catch myself making homophone-style errors with increasing, though still infrequent, frequency. Maybe it's my age -- approaching mid 30s -- that is a factor. And I also find that as I have more thoughts on my mind, my attention to detail slips a little bit
I've also noticed that, by default, all spelling & grammar flames must have at 1 spelling and/or grammar error.
Yeah, we had to write the calculations with our noses, because we couldn't afford sticks. My mother would wake me up to start doing the calculations at 1 in the morning, an hour before we went to bed, and spent all day and night doing those vertex calculations. And then, at night, right before we went to bed, our mother (there were about 16 of us living there, in the lake) would kill us and dance on our graves. And then 1 hour earlier, we'd have to get up and start it all over again.
Hmm, this makes me wonder if Boies isn't taking part in the case just for the money. For example, the DOJ and Gore suits (even though one was almost lost and another one was lost) look good on the ol' resume. It gives the appearance that Boies will "fight for the little guy" which in turn looks great on advertisments. Perhaps, when he signed on to SCO's case, he had the wrong impression going in about what the case was about - not because he hadn't read up on the case, but perhaps because he hadn't read up on SCO's other suits, and read up on, for example, Slashdot and Groklaw about the case, and thus learned how tenuous (sp) SCO's claims really were.
On the minus side - if SCO's case get's tossed I won't have cause to wear my "No to SCO" T-Shirt I got from ThinkGeek anymore. I guess I'll have to get their "No to RIAA" shirt instead. Oh, well.
I managed to start getting involved on BBSs a little before they started fading away because of the rise of broadband. Every now and then I still want to find a good old-fashioned local BBS, but unfortnatly, the local computer mag that used to run BBS listings, isn't running them anymore.
Thank you for mentioning that. Frankly, if iTunes started carring some good anime series (like, say Crest of the Stars, or Cowboy Bebop), I'd definitely start picking them up.
My main reason for not using iTunes to get TV shows is, mainly, because I've been needing to get more RAM for my PC and have been on a really tight budget recently. Now my budget has improved. However, I'm far enough behind on Lost and Battlestar Galactica, that it'd have to catch up on DVD anyway. However, for shows like Eureka, I may use iTunes (once I get that RAM update) to get the episodes - as I don't have cable (and, as an added bonus, no commerchals!).
Following World War II, a lot of photography businesses would photograph the discharge and service records of US servicemen and women, so they could present a copy of their records when applying for various benefits offered to veterans. My grandmother did this (the photography) after the war. She was a veteran as well - she worked for US Navy Intelligence working on Japanese military cyphers. She also analysed aerial photographs of enemy positions, but I digress.
Unfortunatly, my grandmother passed away, so I cannot get any information from her on how the photographs were taken, but one of my family members is working on a biography of my grandmother, and she might have the information.
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So, perhaps a better question is - Why are you using an anti-virus program that can expire?
Personally, I wouldn't mind if NetFlix added a 1/2-star rating to their user ratings. They do half-star ratings for their reccomendations, after all.
..except, instead of making it open to the community (which is not a bad idea, I must say) I thought of having Google do it. This is, perhaps, IMHO, a much better idea. Now, what we really need is a Movie Genome Project, much like the Music Genome project that lead to Pandora.
Much apologies, Battlestar Galactica slipped my mind. Bad me, bad me. (*beats self with rolled up newspaper and denies self a cookie*)
I have to agree, if only because until the Star Wars series starts production, the only major Sci-Fi franchises filming new episodes will be Outer Limits, Doctor Who, and the Stargate franchise (with Stargate: Atlantis) - and, somehow, I don't see the Stargate ring working that well as an icon for the Sci-Fi section. Maybe the Tardis, but I'd prefer a Dalek. (Preferably with a dome on shot, much like the current icon has a head-on shot of the alien's puppet from The Corbomite Maneuver.
I'm glad to see the good Doctor made the list. My question is before Doctor Who, what was the longest running sci-fi TV show? The original Twilight Zone? The new Outer Limits? Stargate SG-1?
Actually, if you had read up on the case, it isn't, ultimately about that. Thompson may think it's about that, but it's not. What it's about is the family of a sick bastard (Cody's father) who would fit quite nicely into the Roarke family from Sin City trying to cover for the fact that a family member did things which, had the authorities found out about this earlier (and a good forensic investigation team gotten involved), would have gotten him arrested and imprisoned for life for sexual abuse of a minor, assault and battery (of said minor), and various other child abuse charges - and would have gotten that kid out of that home.
You want to know how low Jack really will go, when the rubber hits the road? We're about to find out. That is, of course, provided that Sony and Take Two have done their homework on this case - if they have, then there are numerous expert witnesses who could provide testimony on the psychological effects of the abuse that the real victim in this case, the boy who commited the murders, suffered at the hands of his birth father. Calling the forensic investigators from this case to the stand should bolster their defense as well. Jack might be able to argue that GTA helped provide the motiviation, but unless he completely ignores the disgusting conduct of Cody Posey's father and argues that Cody was either:
- Lying and made up his claims (and injured himself to back up his claims of abuse) or...
- Telling the truth, but was pushed over the edge by GTA, not getting stuck by his father for not mucking the stalls fast enough then...
Jack will have his work cut out for him.They use the defective non-exploding batteries for their own laptops.
Point I missed earlier, that I found out after reading TFA and other posts here - the killer in this case was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by his victims - his father and stepmother. If the parents (or in this case, parent and stepparent) don't deserve a very large share of the blame for this crime, then I don't know who does.
Out of curiosity - have you told this story to the Video Gamer's Voting Network? Also, the next time a piece of anti-gaming legislation comes up on the Federal or State legislatural level (wherever you are), tell your Senator/Represinative/MP/whatever your story. It's worth a shot.
Oh, and by the way - somebody mod this up, please.
Mod parent up - this post cuts to the heart of what's really going on. Hopefully the defendants in the suit will also get the witnesses used by the defense team from the criminal case on the stand. Their testimony might not have helped with the criminal case (as the killer did commit murder, and it may have indeed been pre-meditated - I can't say for certain, as I know nothing about the case) but it may be more helpful here.
Well, Jackie-Boy got in trouble with the Florida State Bar after a flood of well-worded complaints, from among other places the Penny Arcade forums, about Mr. Thompson's conduct lead them to open an investigation. So, Jackie Boy did whatever any other mature adult would do - create a web page attacking the Bar and releasing public statements attacking the Bar (and I believe he either filed or threatened to file a lawsuit).
The articles on these are on GamePolitics - which I can't view at work because it's about games, so somebody else will have to link it.
Anyway, snipping the rest of your argument for the moment, because I don't particularly feel like a point by point rebuttal. In a situation like this, the where the parents were does matter because ultimately they are the ones who are supposed to raise their kids. Not the schools, not the TV, not their peers, but the parents. The parents should see that the kid is playing a game that they're not old enough to play, and take it away from the kid, at least until he's old enough. For that matter, the parents should be making sure that the kid isn't playing video games and watching TV all day, and take a break from the boob tube to play outside.
And, for that matter, how did the kid get the gun in the first place? I have not RTFA yet, but if the parents left their gun unsecured, then they should be held responsible for that as well, since even the NRA agrees that you should keep your firearms secured, especially if you have children. If the gun was obtained from a third party, the third party should be held responsible (especially if the kid bought the gun from the third party - because now said third party has comitted a felony).
There's several points more I could make, but my break is over shortly, so I'll have to stop for now. Hopefully somebody else can pick up where I stopped and provide some points I missed.
I'll see if I can dig it up - the story would be at least 3-4 years old now. Anybody know if Google News links to stories that old?
*rimshots*
Mod up - punny
If memory serves, it is grammatically incorrect to start a sentance with "And". However, I could be wrong.
If Saddam was trying to show he didn't have WMDs and that he wasn't lying, he was going a godawful job of doing it.
nacturation wrote:
I've also noticed that, by default, all spelling & grammar flames must have at 1 spelling and/or grammar error.Yeah, we had to write the calculations with our noses, because we couldn't afford sticks. My mother would wake me up to start doing the calculations at 1 in the morning, an hour before we went to bed, and spent all day and night doing those vertex calculations. And then, at night, right before we went to bed, our mother (there were about 16 of us living there, in the lake) would kill us and dance on our graves. And then 1 hour earlier, we'd have to get up and start it all over again.
With apologies to Monty Python
Hmm, this makes me wonder if Boies isn't taking part in the case just for the money. For example, the DOJ and Gore suits (even though one was almost lost and another one was lost) look good on the ol' resume. It gives the appearance that Boies will "fight for the little guy" which in turn looks great on advertisments. Perhaps, when he signed on to SCO's case, he had the wrong impression going in about what the case was about - not because he hadn't read up on the case, but perhaps because he hadn't read up on SCO's other suits, and read up on, for example, Slashdot and Groklaw about the case, and thus learned how tenuous (sp) SCO's claims really were.
On the minus side - if SCO's case get's tossed I won't have cause to wear my "No to SCO" T-Shirt I got from ThinkGeek anymore. I guess I'll have to get their "No to RIAA" shirt instead. Oh, well.
I managed to start getting involved on BBSs a little before they started fading away because of the rise of broadband. Every now and then I still want to find a good old-fashioned local BBS, but unfortnatly, the local computer mag that used to run BBS listings, isn't running them anymore.
Thank you for mentioning that. Frankly, if iTunes started carring some good anime series (like, say Crest of the Stars, or Cowboy Bebop), I'd definitely start picking them up.
My main reason for not using iTunes to get TV shows is, mainly, because I've been needing to get more RAM for my PC and have been on a really tight budget recently. Now my budget has improved. However, I'm far enough behind on Lost and Battlestar Galactica, that it'd have to catch up on DVD anyway. However, for shows like Eureka, I may use iTunes (once I get that RAM update) to get the episodes - as I don't have cable (and, as an added bonus, no commerchals!).
Following World War II, a lot of photography businesses would photograph the discharge and service records of US servicemen and women, so they could present a copy of their records when applying for various benefits offered to veterans. My grandmother did this (the photography) after the war. She was a veteran as well - she worked for US Navy Intelligence working on Japanese military cyphers. She also analysed aerial photographs of enemy positions, but I digress.
Unfortunatly, my grandmother passed away, so I cannot get any information from her on how the photographs were taken, but one of my family members is working on a biography of my grandmother, and she might have the information.
Arrr! Ye would think not, as Switzerland be land-locked. Naught but land-lubbers there, me hearty!