1- It's still a guy in a suit! If you're going full CG, have a fucking ounce of creativity!
You're thinking of the "stand-in", the guy who stood in-camera to show the actors where he was during practise shots. He wasn't in the final shots where they put the CGI Jar Jar in...
On what basis? Gay porn is not illegal to view. Actually, it is, in a public venue. JT was in violation of Florida obscenity laws by doing what he did. Just as much as if he had posted straight porn to a court docket.
Had he presented this in a court-room, it likely would have been a different story.
Remember though that he's not presenting this in court just yet. This was a court filing he made through the electronic docket. He didn't go up to a judge and go "hey, uh, here's some incriminating links, and I've got some screenshots of the links on the site showing where I got them from." Instead he went "OMG WORLD LOOK A PENIS! IN A BUM!" and waved a picture around for the world to see (figuratively).
While including materials irrelevant to the case in court documents may be worthy of censure, I am curious as to how the future review or study of a case will be done based on "A simple reference to the website and its alleged links" in place of hard documents (e.g.: paper or a CD) given the ephemeral nature of many web sites. He could easily have documented the links and downloaded a copy, noting in the filing that he'd be willing to make the material available should the link go down. Instead he just downloaded the pictures, provided no links at all to prove where he got them from, and attached them to a court filing stating he got them "from" site X, but without any info as to when this occurred, what links he used, or how he found them, and especially without any evidence of connection to the site he's originally complaining about.
Are you sure that Florida and New York don't also have personality rights with life-plus terms? Or can't Thompson claim that he was harmed in California by each copy of the game that was sold in California? After some review, Florida has "life+40" protection, and New York has "life".
Florida bans likeness of some form. New York bans photos. Merely having a generic lawyer go "dur games are bad" isn't enough to infringe on JT's likeness.
Still, I would suspect that a judge would insist that JT file a suit in either TT's jurisdiction, or his own. Merely selling the merchandise in Calif is not really enough.
I thought Jackie Boy wasn't allowed to attack Take Two anymore? He's not allowed to do stuff like blame them for crimes, or claim they're breaking the law. He's not allowed to sue them to block sales. And he's not allowed to contact them except through their legal firm.
Other than that, bitching that he's being parodied is fair game.
I don't know if I'd call it 'getting murdered'. I mean, she does have a huge chaingun that she aggressively defends herself with, not to mention all those kids hitting you. Or am I the only person who played that? Ah, I remember now. But in his "Modest Video Game Proposal", he doesn't mention Eibel defending herself(himself), only that your job was to take her(him) out. So while the game creator turned it into a boss fight, in Jack's original proposal, he calls for Paul Eibel's (or a female parody of) murder.
Exclusive personality rights under California law last for life plus 70 years, just like copyrights in works created by one or more individuals on or after January 1978. Except JT lives in Florida, and Take Two is based in New York. Jurisdiction might get in the way there.
Take Two makes a game where a New York lawyer who works for a firm that believes that "guns don't kill people, video games do" gets killed. Jack Thompson doesn't live in New York, doesn't work for a legal firm, and has never uttered that quote, and I'll bet the lawyer in the game doesn't even look like or sound like him.
Jack Thompson proposes a video game where a CEO of New York-based "Take This" called Paula Eibel gets murdered for creating violent videogames. Lawyers who work at "Blank Stare" are also massacred. Paul Eibel was the CEO of Take Two at the time, and their headquarters is in New York, as is Blank Rome, the legal firm that they employ.
Jack's stuff is parody (his claim), but GTAIV is a death threat?
I guess I'll just have to get my pirated copy from US industry insiders, or US movie reviewers... Who seem to be a source of 75% of all pre-release net-leaks... according to AT&T Labs anyway...
While security breaches by students are something to take seriously, should school administrations continue with their knee-jerk mentality to something like this, especially at the times when its obvious that no malicious intent was involved? Yes they should punish kids who break the "spirit" of the rules. The firewall/proxy is there for a reason, as long as the school lays out the rules, just because you found a loophole doesn't make you immune. It just means you found a creative way to get around the rules.
On the other hand, 3 months is clearly a knee-jerk compared to things like school-yard fights, stealing someone's lunch money, plaigerising, etc. If punching another student or stealing their homework also netted you 3 months suspension, fine. But if they are way shorter penalties for clearly way worse offenses, then the school is unjustified in it's punishment for the crime.
the iPhone is also expected to have a number of shortcomings for business users, including... not having buttons, which would make it difficult to dial while driving
Um, good? Anyone who's screwing around with dialing while driving is as much of a road hazard as people who apply makeup, dress themselves, fiddle with the radio too much, and constantly adjust climate controls while driving. IE not paying attention to the road!
If you need to dial, pull the frick over! Or use voice dial...
Ok my experience is a little old but still useful. They advertised as unlimited internet, and trust me I tested the limit. I started hitting the limit and got banned tell I called in to see whats up. They allowed me back on after talking to them. But they could not give me a actual number I had hit, what they where doing is saying ok top 5% or 10% this month are over users, so block them. UM ok next month even if numbers go down they still hit top % range. Hit the cap to much and you where off there service. Now I have heard they have a published max Gigs per month so at least you can figure it out. Same here, but with Shaw Video. They told me there was no limit "per se", but that I was in the top downloaders for my "node", so I was guilty, and should stop out-downloading my neighbors (no info given as to how much my neighbors were downloading). Last year they finally stated in the user agreement what the limit per month is.
Anyone who buys a VCR is CLEARLY only interested in pirating as many movies as they get their hands on, camcorder owners are only interested in filming screeners, people who run spyware scanners and firewalls obviously have something to hide, and anyone who asserts their rights is obviously doing something illegal...
The [handout given to people who complain] made it sound like they're doing it for law enforcement, when in reality they're doing it for sales and marketing,' said [a City Council aide], who received several calls about the company.
Their site mentions that emergency services would benefit from the service, which they are allowed to use for free. It mentions they would be shown the daytime/warm-clime (ie snow free) pics so they can plan responses to that particular location. I imagine it would be helpful for a firefighter to know there's a basement window you can't see because it's covered in snow, or for the police to know ahead of time the house is surrounded by a high fence, or that the living room has a good view of the street...
On the commercial side, I'm shopping for a house, and I'm tired of all the "taken 2 days ago while the yard is buried in snow" pics on real-estate sites. It would be nice to have a (relatively recent) summer-time image of houses I'm looking at.
You can't link a prescription drug with the disease/condition it treats in advertising. So you can have the following ads:
-Couple living a happy life... "Talk to your doctor about X"
-"Condition Y could be serious, talk to your doctor today about treatments available"
So companies produce vague commercials where you have no idea what the drug does, just so they can get the name out there, and commercials hyping up a certain condition just to get people pestering their doctor about possible treatments. This is usually coupled with pestering doctors about their product.
I heard that the DRM used is based on WMP 10 & 11, both of which are unsupported on the mac and linux, due to MS dropping all support for Mac WMP (except through that 3rd party).
Perhaps if FairPlay utilized a similar style of DRM, although I wouldn't really want them to develop time-expiry for iTunes media...
Despite their commitment to mac and linux compatibility on their audio streaming, the iPlayer only runs on windows, disappointing as I'm sure even us mac users pay our licence fees. Does any mac video player even have time-limited DRM? iTunes vids only allow you so many "licences", but once you bought it, you get too "keep" it forever (as long as you remain 'authorized')
And Windows Media Player on the mac is horribly under-supported (that 3rd party company that MS paid to keep WMP up to date isn't doing a great job).
Unlike their audio streaming (which can use Real, WMP, or QT streaming), they'd have to create a new video format & player to handle time-limited DRM. They can't just buy it from Real/MS/Apple.
Perhaps then, a delay built in, so it lets them drive a block or so, then kills it. 30 sec timer or something, like those alarm systems that give you 2 minutes to leave the house before activating. Won't affect you if you're disabling it while parking, since you're not going to disable it and then try to drive away, and saves your butt when you get carjacked, since it won't kick in until you're at a safe distance...
If you cut off the battery, the carjacker will just get out of the car and kick your fucking ass, take the remote and re-enable it. That would be funny. So you stand around, waiting for someone to steal your car so you can disable the battery as they drive off? That would be deserving of a beating... Why not just disable the battery when you park it? They're going to come hunt you down?
Last time I checked a governer prevented a vehicle from going over a certain speed (or in the case of a rev-limiter, from going over a certain RPM) I suppose with a custom governor you could use it to disable your transmission, which would effectively prevent someone from driving off in your car. I mean, all you'd have to do is have some control that adjusted it to prevent a vehicle from going over the speed of 2mph...;)
They have remote battery-cutoffs, why not remote governor adjusters?
A Conservative government here in Canada turns us into a mere appendage of the US Government, compliant to their will most of the time. I'm all for bashing the Conservatives, but that Arar thing happened under the Liberal party's watch...
A "good" wikipedia article has it's sources cited as well, so a student who wants to cite something found on Wikipedia can just double-check the source material, and then cite THAT source.
Wikipedia is a good tool to help with research, but I wouldn't use it as a source. You'd be citing the source of a source afterall, right?
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Had he presented this in a court-room, it likely would have been a different story.
Remember though that he's not presenting this in court just yet. This was a court filing he made through the electronic docket. He didn't go up to a judge and go "hey, uh, here's some incriminating links, and I've got some screenshots of the links on the site showing where I got them from." Instead he went "OMG WORLD LOOK A PENIS! IN A BUM!" and waved a picture around for the world to see (figuratively).
Florida bans likeness of some form. New York bans photos. Merely having a generic lawyer go "dur games are bad" isn't enough to infringe on JT's likeness.
Still, I would suspect that a judge would insist that JT file a suit in either TT's jurisdiction, or his own. Merely selling the merchandise in Calif is not really enough.
Other than that, bitching that he's being parodied is fair game.
Take Two makes a game where a New York lawyer who works for a firm that believes that "guns don't kill people, video games do" gets killed. Jack Thompson doesn't live in New York, doesn't work for a legal firm, and has never uttered that quote, and I'll bet the lawyer in the game doesn't even look like or sound like him.
Jack Thompson proposes a video game where a CEO of New York-based "Take This" called Paula Eibel gets murdered for creating violent videogames. Lawyers who work at "Blank Stare" are also massacred. Paul Eibel was the CEO of Take Two at the time, and their headquarters is in New York, as is Blank Rome, the legal firm that they employ.
Jack's stuff is parody (his claim), but GTAIV is a death threat?
Please.
"and just because he said "don't tase me, man!" doesn't mean it was a taser."
:)
I guess you missed the classic "tztgzgzttgzgzzgzggt" noise in between the screaming...
The crowd heard it too, which is why they started getting upset. Before that, he was just some loon getting pulled away from the mic...
a server thought-crime?
I guess I'll just have to get my pirated copy from US industry insiders, or US movie reviewers... Who seem to be a source of 75% of all pre-release net-leaks... according to AT&T Labs anyway...
On the other hand, 3 months is clearly a knee-jerk compared to things like school-yard fights, stealing someone's lunch money, plaigerising, etc. If punching another student or stealing their homework also netted you 3 months suspension, fine. But if they are way shorter penalties for clearly way worse offenses, then the school is unjustified in it's punishment for the crime.
the iPhone is also expected to have a number of shortcomings for business users, including ... not having buttons, which would make it difficult to dial while driving
Um, good? Anyone who's screwing around with dialing while driving is as much of a road hazard as people who apply makeup, dress themselves, fiddle with the radio too much, and constantly adjust climate controls while driving. IE not paying attention to the road!
If you need to dial, pull the frick over! Or use voice dial...
Anyone who buys a VCR is CLEARLY only interested in pirating as many movies as they get their hands on, camcorder owners are only interested in filming screeners, people who run spyware scanners and firewalls obviously have something to hide, and anyone who asserts their rights is obviously doing something illegal...
The [handout given to people who complain] made it sound like they're doing it for law enforcement, when in reality they're doing it for sales and marketing,' said [a City Council aide], who received several calls about the company.
Their site mentions that emergency services would benefit from the service, which they are allowed to use for free. It mentions they would be shown the daytime/warm-clime (ie snow free) pics so they can plan responses to that particular location. I imagine it would be helpful for a firefighter to know there's a basement window you can't see because it's covered in snow, or for the police to know ahead of time the house is surrounded by a high fence, or that the living room has a good view of the street...
On the commercial side, I'm shopping for a house, and I'm tired of all the "taken 2 days ago while the yard is buried in snow" pics on real-estate sites. It would be nice to have a (relatively recent) summer-time image of houses I'm looking at.
You can't link a prescription drug with the disease/condition it treats in advertising. So you can have the following ads: -Couple living a happy life... "Talk to your doctor about X" -"Condition Y could be serious, talk to your doctor today about treatments available" So companies produce vague commercials where you have no idea what the drug does, just so they can get the name out there, and commercials hyping up a certain condition just to get people pestering their doctor about possible treatments. This is usually coupled with pestering doctors about their product.
I heard that the DRM used is based on WMP 10 & 11, both of which are unsupported on the mac and linux, due to MS dropping all support for Mac WMP (except through that 3rd party).
Perhaps if FairPlay utilized a similar style of DRM, although I wouldn't really want them to develop time-expiry for iTunes media...
And Windows Media Player on the mac is horribly under-supported (that 3rd party company that MS paid to keep WMP up to date isn't doing a great job).
Unlike their audio streaming (which can use Real, WMP, or QT streaming), they'd have to create a new video format & player to handle time-limited DRM. They can't just buy it from Real/MS/Apple.
Whoops! Sorry, I misread. :)
Perhaps then, a delay built in, so it lets them drive a block or so, then kills it. 30 sec timer or something, like those alarm systems that give you 2 minutes to leave the house before activating. Won't affect you if you're disabling it while parking, since you're not going to disable it and then try to drive away, and saves your butt when you get carjacked, since it won't kick in until you're at a safe distance...
They have remote battery-cutoffs, why not remote governor adjusters?
Credit where credit is due, and all that.
A "good" wikipedia article has it's sources cited as well, so a student who wants to cite something found on Wikipedia can just double-check the source material, and then cite THAT source. Wikipedia is a good tool to help with research, but I wouldn't use it as a source. You'd be citing the source of a source afterall, right?