Highlights include him thinking Penny Arcade owns Think Geek, and him threatening the FBA. It's most likely however this wasn't actually sent to the FBA, just like his nice letter to the Seattle PD never made it there either.
. Posted Oct 20, 2005, 9:59 AM ET by jack thompson
John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law 1172 South Dixie Hwy., Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146 305-666-4366
October 20, 2005
Alan B. Bookman President The Florida Bar Tallahassee, Florida Via e-mail
Entire Board of Governors The Florida Bar C/o John Harkness and to Governors Directly The Florida Bar Tallahassee, Florida Via e-mails
Re: Targeting of Jack Thompson for Criminal Harassment by "Gamers"
Dear Mr. Bookman and All Governors of The Florida Bar:
As you know, eighteen years ago I commenced efforts against the entertainment industry's illegal distribution of adult entertainment to minors. That fledgling effort resulted in the first decency fines ever levied by the FCC.
The broadcasters struck back with Bar complaints. One happy result of that is that The Bar's insurance carrier had to pay me money damages for The Bar's having taken the bait offered by the SLAPP bar complainants. SLAPP is the acronym for "strategic litigation against public participation." Filing such a complaint violates certain federal civil rights statutes and state laws as well.
As you also know, the Philadelphia law firm of Blank Rome, which is lead lawyer and chief lobbyist registered in the US House of Representatives and in the US Senate for Take-Two Interactive, has chosen to use the SLAPP approach in our wrongful death case in Alabama by asking the Alabama state judge to kick me off that case because 1) I have been so effective in telling the American people about the reckless activity of their clients, Take-Two and Sony, through 60 Minutes and Reader's Digest that they can't now get a "fair trial," and 2) I have a "colorful history" of pornographers filing SLAPP bar complaints against me, which indicates I am unfit to practice law.
Interesting logic, but remember: this is Blank Rome talking. Blank Rome has a very long history of "opposition research" through partners such as "Barbara Comstock," who was called by the Washington Post a "one-woman wrecking crew" for her brilliance in character assassination on behalf of her clients.
Blank Rome's Comstock is the US Congressman Dan Burton staffer who was doing his "work" for him when he was clandestinely keeping a mistress on his federal payroll staff in violation of federal law.
Blank Rome also has been recently caught up in the scandal of securing Department of Homeland Security contracts for its clients allegedly because of its massive campaign contributions to former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Bush-Cheney, and the RNC. This has been covered in the mainstream media. Blank Rome is clearly the most powerful law firm, right now, in America, because of its tight personal and financial relationships with Jeb and George Bush. Blank Rome likes to make stuff up to run over people who are in the way of their clients. Pretty standard stuff, really. But don't you love the fact that a bunch of "family values" Republican loyalists to George Bush are representing Take-Two/Rockstar and fraudulently smearing a conservative Christian Republican who has got Rockstar on the run? But this is wha the GOP has become: the lap dog for corporate America, the parents who provide the party's base be damned.
I hear today, then, from the Internet-based "enthusiast video game press" that "gamers" are going to file or have filed new SLAPP Bar complaints against me. Here's why:
An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." That kind of tells us where they
On the PA forums it seems the focus has shifted to contacting mainstream media outlets in hopes this story will get widespread coverage.
Something like this could certainly hinder Jacks political agenda. We can only hope the rest of the world will see he's nothing more than an ambulance chaser, and networks like CNN will stop classifying him as an 'Expert' of any kind.
As a Canadian, I find it very insulting you would use the name of our 1 dollar coin to describe Jack Thompson. I believe the term wacko, crazy, or insane would be better - however I'm sure you would be insulting wacko, crazy and insane people everywhere. Thanks, Eh.
I've coded fully functional keybindings inside a web app. The reason you don't see it done is simply because *most* people don't use them - especially inside a browser. I told the client this, but hey if they want to pay for it I'm not going to put up much of a fight.
I'll have to check it out again then. At the time there were only crazy half baked hacks people had put together. If MS has given it better support I may switch over since I found it to be a pretty good improvement over VS2003.
Oh well.. I still have faith in Raimi- for now. I'd be lying if I said trying to fit Venom in before doing a movie with Spidey in the alien suit doesn't make me worried.
"digitally insert 30 second ads based upon the demographics of their customers. "
I hope eventually this leads to the ability to rate commercials. There are a few commercials that after the 5th or 6th time I've seen it, does nothing except annoy me and bring about general dislike for the advertiser.
I envision a big red button that says "ANNOYED". This could also be used for Seinfeld reruns.
" Especially since about 80% of the questions could easily be answered by a non-developer, it doesn't make sense to overwhelm the development process by forcing customer support down all the programmer's throats."
My point is that 80% of the questions aren't being answered by anyone. This is just someone at Blizzard PR sending a nice ass kiss to/.
" Oh please, if I had mod points, I would mark you as a troll."
Nope, but I expect more than cluesless CSRs not knowing how anything works, GMs that give the same canned response for everything, and weekly (and sometimes daily) server crashes months after release.
My point was they are here kissing/. ass while paying customers are still holding out for customer service as good as they get at McDonalds.
Square-Enix allowed players of FFXI to play together from either PC or PS2 - and soon Xbox 360. I'm pretty surprised they don't have a Mac version yet.
I'm sure someone who hasn't played WoW, or tried to get a real answer from someone with a clue on the forums will see the parent as a troll.
IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT! I left WoW because they made it obvious they didn't care to give me customer service, and blocked every attempt at getting a question answered by an actual developer. Seeing them catering to/. in this way before their actual users makes me feel even more justified in canning my account.
"What I want to know is, what will happen when all this outsourcing brings the so called 3rd world countries to the same economic level as the 1st world countries? Who will the outsourcing go to then?"
Can't see that being a bad thing, but too bad it'll never happen.
The balance of wealth may be flipped some day, but most companies will always be about making more money by spending less. Someone will get more wealth at the expense of someone else getting less.
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Highlights include him thinking Penny Arcade owns Think Geek, and him threatening the FBA. It's most likely however this wasn't actually sent to the FBA, just like his nice letter to the Seattle PD never made it there either.
. Posted Oct 20, 2005, 9:59 AM ET by jack thompson
John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law
1172 South Dixie Hwy., Suite 111
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
305-666-4366
October 20, 2005
Alan B. Bookman
President
The Florida Bar
Tallahassee, Florida Via e-mail
Entire Board of Governors
The Florida Bar
C/o John Harkness and to Governors Directly
The Florida Bar
Tallahassee, Florida Via e-mails
Re: Targeting of Jack Thompson for Criminal Harassment by "Gamers"
Dear Mr. Bookman and All Governors of The Florida Bar:
As you know, eighteen years ago I commenced efforts against the entertainment industry's illegal distribution of adult entertainment to minors. That fledgling effort resulted in the first decency fines ever levied by the FCC.
The broadcasters struck back with Bar complaints. One happy result of that is that The Bar's insurance carrier had to pay me money damages for The Bar's having taken the bait offered by the SLAPP bar complainants. SLAPP is the acronym for "strategic litigation against public participation." Filing such a complaint violates certain federal civil rights statutes and state laws as well.
As you also know, the Philadelphia law firm of Blank Rome, which is lead lawyer and chief lobbyist registered in the US House of Representatives and in the US Senate for Take-Two Interactive, has chosen to use the SLAPP approach in our wrongful death case in Alabama by asking the Alabama state judge to kick me off that case because 1) I have been so effective in telling the American people about the reckless activity of their clients, Take-Two and Sony, through 60 Minutes and Reader's Digest that they can't now get a "fair trial," and 2) I have a "colorful history" of pornographers filing SLAPP bar complaints against me, which indicates I am unfit to practice law.
Interesting logic, but remember: this is Blank Rome talking. Blank Rome has a very long history of "opposition research" through partners such as "Barbara Comstock," who was called by the Washington Post a "one-woman wrecking crew" for her brilliance in character assassination on behalf of her clients.
Blank Rome's Comstock is the US Congressman Dan Burton staffer who was doing his "work" for him when he was clandestinely keeping a mistress on his federal payroll staff in violation of federal law.
Blank Rome also has been recently caught up in the scandal of securing Department of Homeland Security contracts for its clients allegedly because of its massive campaign contributions to former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Bush-Cheney, and the RNC. This has been covered in the mainstream media. Blank Rome is clearly the most powerful law firm, right now, in America, because of its tight personal and financial relationships with Jeb and George Bush. Blank Rome likes to make stuff up to run over people who are in the way of their clients. Pretty standard stuff, really. But don't you love the fact that a bunch of "family values" Republican loyalists to George Bush are representing Take-Two/Rockstar and fraudulently smearing a conservative Christian Republican who has got Rockstar on the run? But this is wha the GOP has become: the lap dog for corporate America, the parents who provide the party's base be damned.
I hear today, then, from the Internet-based "enthusiast video game press" that "gamers" are going to file or have filed new SLAPP Bar complaints against me. Here's why:
An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." That kind of tells us where they
"a larger percentage of it has lots of free time (i.e. no job, part time job, still living with parents, in college, etc.)."
:(
Hey! I both resent, and resemble that remark!
On the PA forums it seems the focus has shifted to contacting mainstream media outlets in hopes this story will get widespread coverage.
Something like this could certainly hinder Jacks political agenda. We can only hope the rest of the world will see he's nothing more than an ambulance chaser, and networks like CNN will stop classifying him as an 'Expert' of any kind.
It's not an act -- the guy is actually loony.
As a Canadian, I find it very insulting you would use the name of our 1 dollar coin to describe Jack Thompson. I believe the term wacko, crazy, or insane would be better - however I'm sure you would be insulting wacko, crazy and insane people everywhere. Thanks, Eh.
I've coded fully functional keybindings inside a web app. The reason you don't see it done is simply because *most* people don't use them - especially inside a browser. I told the client this, but hey if they want to pay for it I'm not going to put up much of a fight.
I'll have to check it out again then. At the time there were only crazy half baked hacks people had put together. If MS has given it better support I may switch over since I found it to be a pretty good improvement over VS2003.
Thanks for the info.
Not sure if this is an issue still (from what I read it didn't seem like MS was going to change it), or even for you.
.NET 1.0/1.1 - 2.0 only.
Several months ago the beta wasn't able to compile
Not sure why they wouldn't have used Eddie from the first movie: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263472/ He looks more the part.
Oh well.. I still have faith in Raimi- for now. I'd be lying if I said trying to fit Venom in before doing a movie with Spidey in the alien suit doesn't make me worried.
Maybe the US contestants outsourced for the challenge.
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.. oh ok, I'm do..blahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahaha.. *sniff* wahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
This isn't a troll - I'd laugh just as hard (maybe harder) if it was PS3, or Rev.
" tie it into gmail somehow"
Well they might, and it would be smart if they did. I for one always have a tab in firefox opened for gmail.
"such mambo-jumbo study. Very professional!"
I'll have you know Mambo is very professional. If you ment Mumbo, then yeah those guys are a bunch of dead beats.
Seemed like comments were broken.. I started to see comments for posts just moments ago.
Which is better, Star Trek or Babylon 5?
*buy - sorry spelling nazi.
I wouldn't by any kind of electronic device or car from a North American company.
North American electronic engineers are too tall and clumsy, unlike their short and nimble Japanese counter parts.
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I believe is was around the 100000s people stopped RTFA.
Again I have been tricked into reading a terrible Escapist article! This will be the last time I swear.
/. posts anyway?
Now why didn't Warren Spector just write the damn thing? Close to 75% of it is just quotes directly from him.
Ffor fun go and count how many times the author uses the words "said" and, "says".
Why is this terrible rag still getting
"digitally insert 30 second ads based upon the demographics of their customers. "
I hope eventually this leads to the ability to rate commercials. There are a few commercials that after the 5th or 6th time I've seen it, does nothing except annoy me and bring about general dislike for the advertiser.
I envision a big red button that says "ANNOYED". This could also be used for Seinfeld reruns.
" Especially since about 80% of the questions could easily be answered by a non-developer, it doesn't make sense to overwhelm the development process by forcing customer support down all the programmer's throats."
/.
My point is that 80% of the questions aren't being answered by anyone. This is just someone at Blizzard PR sending a nice ass kiss to
" Oh please, if I had mod points, I would mark you as a troll."
Oh well, in that case PFO
Nope, but I expect more than cluesless CSRs not knowing how anything works, GMs that give the same canned response for everything, and weekly (and sometimes daily) server crashes months after release.
/. ass while paying customers are still holding out for customer service as good as they get at McDonalds.
My point was they are here kissing
Square-Enix allowed players of FFXI to play together from either PC or PS2 - and soon Xbox 360. I'm pretty surprised they don't have a Mac version yet.
I'm sure someone who hasn't played WoW, or tried to get a real answer from someone with a clue on the forums will see the parent as a troll.
/. in this way before their actual users makes me feel even more justified in canning my account.
IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT! I left WoW because they made it obvious they didn't care to give me customer service, and blocked every attempt at getting a question answered by an actual developer. Seeing them catering to
Yes, but terrible code - don't even get me started on the commenting!
"What I want to know is, what will happen when all this outsourcing brings the so called 3rd world countries to the same economic level as the 1st world countries? Who will the outsourcing go to then?"
Can't see that being a bad thing, but too bad it'll never happen.
The balance of wealth may be flipped some day, but most companies will always be about making more money by spending less. Someone will get more wealth at the expense of someone else getting less.