An Alternative is to setup an LLC corporation (easy to do), and then have that LLC donate to a not-for-profit that will actually run the games, and pay the organizers for there time, collect the money, etc...
Then if anyone sues, just do what companies and rich people world round do, blame the not-for-profit organization, which has no assets to sue (or very little depending on your cash flow), and start a new one for the next lan party.
Also if they sue dont forget to taunt them, and call them cry babies.
I think this current situation is a byproduct of our increasingly media driven world. It seems more and more that the news is driven by its value as a 'media product' (and to be fair it always has at some level), and less by its 'valid information to the public product'. What does it say about the future of our information society when most of that information is crap like this hoax, or the "swift boat veterans", or "Bush is a monkey", or "Kerry is Frankenstein". It seems that the political arguments of our modern age have succumb to the sound-bytes of our very own media. And now we are so polarized as a society that one side will not believe what the other side says on practically any issue.
If something comes up anti-Bush, it's always the liberal media and some grand conspiracy on the left. When something comes up anti-Kerry, it's the conservative media, and the same conspiracy on the right. No one trusts anyone anymore, and its just this kind of crappy half-assed journalism that builds mistrust rather then any kind of factual opinion.
After some more digging, it seems that the White House re-issued the forged documents as releases for the media after the CBS story. I do find it interesting that they did not examine the documents, nor did they hold them for verification, they just released them as-is.
From CNN's site ("the broadcast" is the one in question):
After the broadcast, the White House, without comment, released to the news media two of the memos, one ordering Bush to report for his physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status.
Here are the documents:
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/election2004/docs.html#ltbush
note that only the last two documents are "forged" or faked or retyped or whatever the current line is now.... and that the first two were released from the whitehouse right after the story, and, perhaps im not reading this correctly, had not been released before. Which would suggest that the white house had been holding them, as its been holding so many of these records.
So are all the documents fake, or just the two, did the administration release those two after the story, and if so, doesnt that mean they are legit?
I think I am also eyeing some canadian realestate...
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An Alternative is to setup an LLC corporation (easy to do), and then have that LLC donate to a not-for-profit that will actually run the games, and pay the organizers for there time, collect the money, etc...
Then if anyone sues, just do what companies and rich people world round do, blame the not-for-profit organization, which has no assets to sue (or very little depending on your cash flow), and start a new one for the next lan party.
Also if they sue dont forget to taunt them, and call them cry babies.
I think this current situation is a byproduct of our increasingly media driven world. It seems more and more that the news is driven by its value as a 'media product' (and to be fair it always has at some level), and less by its 'valid information to the public product'. What does it say about the future of our information society when most of that information is crap like this hoax, or the "swift boat veterans", or "Bush is a monkey", or "Kerry is Frankenstein". It seems that the political arguments of our modern age have succumb to the sound-bytes of our very own media. And now we are so polarized as a society that one side will not believe what the other side says on practically any issue.
If something comes up anti-Bush, it's always the liberal media and some grand conspiracy on the left. When something comes up anti-Kerry, it's the conservative media, and the same conspiracy on the right. No one trusts anyone anymore, and its just this kind of crappy half-assed journalism that builds mistrust rather then any kind of factual opinion.
After some more digging, it seems that the White House re-issued the forged documents as releases for the media after the CBS story. I do find it interesting that they did not examine the documents, nor did they hold them for verification, they just released them as-is.
From CNN's site ("the broadcast" is the one in question): After the broadcast, the White House, without comment, released to the news media two of the memos, one ordering Bush to report for his physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status. Here are the documents: http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/election2004 /docs.html#ltbush
note that only the last two documents are "forged" or faked or retyped or whatever the current line is now.... and that the first two were released from the whitehouse right after the story, and, perhaps im not reading this correctly, had not been released before. Which would suggest that the white house had been holding them, as its been holding so many of these records.
So are all the documents fake, or just the two, did the administration release those two after the story, and if so, doesnt that mean they are legit?
I think I am also eyeing some canadian realestate...