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Chewbacca 11-18-2005 10:05 PM
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.

Hivetyrant 11-19-2005 12:34 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
HA! Take that moron!

Jaradu 11-19-2005 06:24 AM
Hooray! [img]smile.gif[/img]

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=2005-10-12 [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Cerek 11-19-2005 05:01 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
<font color=plum>So an American citizen concerned about the rise in youth violence has his means of making a living hampered while makers of violent video games are given the <font color=green>green light</font> to create games promoting excessive violence against authority figures.

*sigh* how sad. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] </font>

Hivetyrant 11-19-2005 06:16 PM
Hehe, I encourage you all to go to Google's image search, and search for "jack thompson lawyer" and can anyone tell me if the second picture is him? I'm pretty sure it is... [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Sir Degrader 11-19-2005 06:28 PM
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Originally posted by Cerek:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
<font color=plum>So an American citizen concerned about the rise in youth violence has his means of making a living hampered while makers of violent video games are given the <font color=green>green light</font> to create games promoting excessive violence against authority figures.

*sigh* how sad. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] </font> </font>[/QUOTE]The fact remains that Freedom of Speech is an essential part of America. As such, attempts to curb are not in the best interest. /preach

Cerek 11-19-2005 08:36 PM
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Originally posted by Sir Degrader:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Cerek:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
<font color=plum>So an American citizen concerned about the rise in youth violence has his means of making a living hampered while makers of violent video games are given the <font color=green>green light</font> to create games promoting excessive violence against authority figures.

*sigh* how sad. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] </font> </font>[/QUOTE]The fact remains that Freedom of Speech is an essential part of America. As such, attempts to curb are not in the best interest. /preach </font>[/QUOTE]<font color=plum>Freedom of Speech is not unlimited, <font color=orange>Sir D.</font>. You cannot yell "<font color=yellow>FIRE</font>" in a crowded theater because your actions endanger a large group of people.

By the same token, creating games that exalt stealing cars, shooting at police and attacking anybody else that gets in your way sets a trend for glamorizing anti-social behavior. And that trend IS becoming more prevalant in our society. Kids today do NOT have any respect for elders and very little respect for authority.

Are video games, movies and music to blame? Not completely. But neither are they completely blameless as the creators like to claim.</font>

RoSs_bg2_rox 11-19-2005 08:40 PM
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Originally posted by Hivetyrant:
Hehe, I encourage you all to go to Google's image search, and search for "jack thompson lawyer" and can anyone tell me if the second picture is him? I'm pretty sure it is... [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
[quote]Interestingly, while googling that, I found this... (on the site with the picture)

Quote:
Gamers in the know may well have heard of Jack Thompson before. He's the raving loon of a Miami attorney whose unfaltering persecution of various video games, including Rockstar's overrated Grand Theft Auto line-up, has caused much mirth and some degree of worry in the gaming community. His latest target is The Sims 2, the dull sequel to the equally dull The Sims, a "life simulator" that includes, among other things, such activities as the making of babies. Because players are in control of every aspect of the Sims' lives, unsurprisingly there are times when they appear in the nude. To prevent bashful prudes across the USA from crying blue murder, a special filter has been included which obscures the bits the good lord didn't intend people to see. Of course, tricksers that they are, many players have discovered hacks that can be used to remove the digital blurring.

And here's where our friend Jack-Jack is getting into quite a tiff. According to him, this allows gamers to experience the horror of "nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair". If that wasn't bad enough, he claims that this applies to child characters as well as adults, which apparently will allow "pedophiles around the globe [to] rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse". Um, right.

Luckily, egg has been firmly slapped on the face of this clueless nitwit, since EA have pointed out that, underneath the digital blurring, there are no sex organs: the Sims are as dickless as Barbie's boyfriend Ken. According to Jack-Jack, however, this is still unacceptable.

"Only in America" is a popular saying in this part of the world. In this case, I have no choice but to agree. In any other country, this man would be laughed out of the court. In the US, the legal system is actually giving this fruitcake the time of day.
This guy is a moron.

[ 11-19-2005, 08:41 PM: Message edited by: RoSs_bg2_rox ]

Sir Degrader 11-19-2005 08:55 PM
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Originally posted by Cerek:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sir Degrader:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Cerek:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
<font color=plum>So an American citizen concerned about the rise in youth violence has his means of making a living hampered while makers of violent video games are given the <font color=green>green light</font> to create games promoting excessive violence against authority figures.

*sigh* how sad. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] </font> </font>[/QUOTE]The fact remains that Freedom of Speech is an essential part of America. As such, attempts to curb are not in the best interest. /preach </font>[/QUOTE]<font color=plum>Freedom of Speech is not unlimited, <font color=orange>Sir D.</font>. You cannot yell "<font color=yellow>FIRE</font>" in a crowded theater because your actions endanger a large group of people.

By the same token, creating games that exalt stealing cars, shooting at police and attacking anybody else that gets in your way sets a trend for glamorizing anti-social behavior. And that trend IS becoming more prevalant in our society. Kids today do NOT have any respect for elders and very little respect for authority.

Are video games, movies and music to blame? Not completely. But neither are they completely blameless as the creators like to claim.</font> </font>[/QUOTE]By that logic, Payne's "Common Sense" is in the same boat as GTA, and is even worse, due its attempts to exacerbate the situation in the colonies at the time.

Chewbacca 11-19-2005 10:39 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Cerek:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Bye!


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140117.html

Alabama judge tosses Thompson

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead.

Earlier this month, outspoken Florida attorney Jack Thompson withdrew from a high-profile Alabama civil suit against several game makers and retailers. According to Game Politics, the judge today rejected Thompson's withdrawal, and instead kicked him off the case and revoked his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, to boot.
<font color=plum>So an American citizen concerned about the rise in youth violence has his means of making a living hampered while makers of violent video games are given the <font color=green>green light</font> to create games promoting excessive violence against authority figures.

*sigh* how sad. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] </font> </font>[/QUOTE]Cerek,
Thomson's poor behavior, not his political beleifs, got him booted from the Alabama Bar.

Poor parenting is the actual problem when it comes to how youth behave. Blaming video games ain't gonna solve that.


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