The argument over this law being constitutional (which it isn't) notwithstanding, here are my two cents:
It's stupid to try to legislate the games you can sell and who you can sell them two. I think movies are far worse offenders, often featuring far more violence and language than most computer games. I'm seventeen, and I've never once been carded when I've bought movies. Even when I bought a spectacularly profane, violent and drug-filled double feature: Reservoir Dogs and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Where's the outrage of politicians when kids buy violent movies? IMHO: The government can not legislate things that parents need to do.
I live in New Jersey, and I've been hearing on the news about how a lot of folks in NYC are getting slammed with back taxes for buying cigarettes online, too.
I agree, because if Lucas did there'd be the original version, where the Vogons blast the Earth without provocation, and then another version in which Earth fires first, and the Vogons are just defending themselves:-)
At my school, we have a club that meets every wednesday to play Unreal Tournament on school computers. The administration allows it, and we aren't even as noble as these guys who were working for tsunami releif.
What some people do in the name of "zero tolerence"...
if you ask most people, they actually enjoyed math for a while, then had a bad teacher and they fell behind or were otherwise discouraged, found it hard, and stopped enjoying it
I understand every part, especially the part you left out at the begining, which goes something like this: "A well regulate militia being necessary for the defense of a free state..." In other words, you're supposed to own a gun to be part of a national militia, not the NRA.
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The argument over this law being constitutional (which it isn't) notwithstanding, here are my two cents:
It's stupid to try to legislate the games you can sell and who you can sell them two. I think movies are far worse offenders, often featuring far more violence and language than most computer games. I'm seventeen, and I've never once been carded when I've bought movies. Even when I bought a spectacularly profane, violent and drug-filled double feature: Reservoir Dogs and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Where's the outrage of politicians when kids buy violent movies? IMHO: The government can not legislate things that parents need to do.
Also, if a kids can just blame the game, how do they learn responsibility for their own actions?
I live in New Jersey, and I've been hearing on the news about how a lot of folks in NYC are getting slammed with back taxes for buying cigarettes online, too.
That this wasn't left to George Lucas to create ;)
I agree, because if Lucas did there'd be the original version, where the Vogons blast the Earth without provocation, and then another version in which Earth fires first, and the Vogons are just defending themselves:-)
Don't panic!!!!
Does anyone out there have a recipe for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster that can be mixed on Earth?
I'm having trouble finding Ol' Janx Spirit at my local liquor store, and don't even get me started on Algolian Suntiger teeth...
...I learned how to pick locks from Splinter Cell :-)
If Counterstrike gets made into a movie, it should be done right: as a machinima.
In my opinion, it shouldn't be done at all, the game has no plot, it's all action. What could possibly be done with it?
Imagine that conversation:
Inmate 1: So, what are you in for?
Inmate 2: Murder. You?
Inmate 1: Tsunami donation.
It won't be long before we hear about a Disaster Area concert.
At my school, we have a club that meets every wednesday to play Unreal Tournament on school computers. The administration allows it, and we aren't even as noble as these guys who were working for tsunami releif.
What some people do in the name of "zero tolerence"...
Nobody said eternal life was fair.
Just ask Wowbagger, The Eternally Prolonged.
"Sanity is not statistical"
Neither is safe driving.
if you ask most people, they actually enjoyed math for a while, then had a bad teacher and they fell behind or were otherwise discouraged, found it hard, and stopped enjoying it
You just described my high school career.
If they really want to make physics cool, they should invent the Gravity Gun :-)
Is it safe to assume that there were no real monetary losses?
It is; AA is a free game.
Come and get me; I'm from New Jersey!!
Isn't that the concept behind America's Army?
A friend of mine is planning to sell his Xbox to buy Xbox 2 and keep his old games because he knows that Xbox 2 has to be backward compatable.
Man, he is naive, I mean this is Microsoft we're talking about.
That tee shirt only comes in mens XL. Hmmm... I wonder why...
I understand every part, especially the part you left out at the begining, which goes something like this: "A well regulate militia being necessary for the defense of a free state..." In other words, you're supposed to own a gun to be part of a national militia, not the NRA.