Right, but this one is BETTER because it can crash EVERYTHING you have! Even holographic images and your toaster can be crashed by this wand! it's now easier than ever to force a fatal error in your radio, tv, or refrigerator.

Not to mention the fact that I can't see anything gates touches being cheap and easy to implement. I don't know about you, but I'm not taking a vaccine from the guy that is to blame for the blue screen of death. I don't want to know what my biological equivalent is, but I can't reboot myself.

umm ... why is that not "entertainment" again? I'm pretty sure that even serious movies are considered "entertainment". Or was I not entertained watching Schindler's List? that's a pretty limited view of the word, all things considered and if entertainment and enlightenment are mutually exclusive, I'd say you might have missed the boat on pretty much every important piece of art ever made. And no, I don't think that GTA expands my understanding of the human condition. Neither does it make me kill people or steal cars. Then again, I know several people who have been moved and educated by video games. Some games are just for fun and some are a storytelling medium. And anything that is a storytelling medium can be used both to entertain and to educate.

Totally. I play a lot of video games and as a result I'm a savage killing machine. Just on the way to work today I killed a few hundred people on the freeway for bonus points. There is no dangerous path. It's fiction, just like killing trolls.

Jack Thompson may not have more innate value than a phishing scam, but I doubt very much that he is one. he's probably using some run-of-the-mill announce list program. Any list i'm on gets emails that sound just like that every week. "I said remove me!@ You are demons!#%" and the response is always "just follow the remove link at the bottom of the email".

Yet another user who can't follow the links at the bottom of his email. Why can these people never remove themselves? Jack Thompson is a slug, but i doubt he's using magic email lists that you can't remove yourself from.

Agreed. So they made him watch an embarrassing movie with himself in it 9he wasn't even really in it). My mother does this to e on all major holidays. "Oh, let's put in that musical where your pants fell down". thanks, mom.

that is a signifigant difference in regards to quality, not legality. Here's another point that you just made. One of them involves violating national security. The other is a high jackman movie.

You are right. It was a reporter who did something illegal and then write about it. This has been happening since the dawn of journalism. usually it's a good thing. That Fox won't stand by him only shows that they have no understanding of journalism. Breaking the law isn't a reason to lose tour job. "because some movie company said so" is not a reason to lose your job. He should be treated like a criminal. And if anyone cares about this leak, he should be punished legally. Losing your job is not one of the possible outcomes of a piracy trial, last I checked.

How they define their personality is their business, not yours and not microsoft's. You can judge them all you want, and so can MS, for all i care, but nothing I can see here was a TOS violation, was it? I can tell people that I'm a lesbian all day long if I want. (Granted, they'd have to not notice that I'm a man, but you get the point). As long as i'm not spamming the community, i'm golden.

umm ... I'm sorry, like all us WHAT people? How dare you talk about your sexual orientation like that, you evil beast! I don't want to hear about your disgusting straight sex here!

being president doesn't make it legal for him to shoot someone. they'd arrest him right then. that is, the parts of him that weren't torn to shreds by the angry mob.

Ahem ... clearly your findings mean nothing because you had no grant. Once, in the 5th grade, I did an experiment proving that green light made gerbils smarter. Why? Because I was in 5th grade and I didn't know that I was being stupid. Sounds like her experiment is a more advanced version of the same bad science I used.