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Or maybe that does not happen.
Maybe every generation is safer and more efficient. Maybe NIMBY attitudes should not be allowed to place reactors on sea-level beaches in tsunami zones. Maybe the anti-nuke activists should enlighten themselves every now and then.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c209 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:22:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c209
There will always be people who can't distinguish fantasy from reality (schizophrenics) and there will always be people who like violence (psychopaths). Violent video games and movies have nothing to do with either.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01393713442/dailydirt-crackpots-versus-real-scientists.shtml#c282 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:22:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01393713442/dailydirt-crackpots-versus-real-scientists.shtml#c282 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/07475922914/why-even-good-hospitals-doctors-are-obstacle-to-better-cheaper-healthcare.shtml#c127 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:21:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/07475922914/why-even-good-hospitals-doctors-are-obstacle-to-better-cheaper-healthcare.shtml#c127
While they're at it, they can keep pushing AGW denialism, so more extreme weather will harm more people too. I'm just surprised the Big Medicine conspiracy isn't pushing Romneycare so that more people can 'afford' their tender mercies?

AS usual, I am thankful for living in my 'socialist heaven' that is the Tory wasteland I inhabit.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c186 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:20:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c186
7/10 on the troll-meter, someone is actually engaging in discussion on your own level and the subtle way you get that attention is by making wrong assumptions and discrediting on the surface, while being complete nonsense underneath.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c171 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:18:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c171
It's worth remembering that nothing breeds terrorists faster than being instrumental in the deaths of their loved ones.

Between drone strikes and illegal wars the US has alot to answer for. When it ignores it's crimes can anyone really be surprised that it's victims (or their families) want revenge?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c115 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:17:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c115 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c200 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:15:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c200 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c444 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c444 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c346 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c346 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c1103 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c1103
People in glass houses .....]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c159 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:13:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c159
Oh yeah, they are.

Hell though, if it was really videogame related they'd be piloting remote controlled vehicles all over the middle East and killing people whilst sitting safely in a shed in some backwater piece of some redneck state and complaining about the PTSD they suffer for it.

Oh...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c470 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:13:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c470 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c152 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c152 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c778 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c778 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c150 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:09:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c150 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c834 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:09:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c834
First, there is no category in the law of "obscene" versus "really really disgustingly obscene". It's either obscene or not. Once this precedent stands, then *ANY* material that offends the community standards of Lower Podunk, Georgia is grounds for the same prosecution in that jurisdiction. They just found a slam-dunk test case that guarantees a conviction. Now, Fifty Shades or Tropic of Cancer are fair game.

Next - where's the crime. If the material was composed, uploaded, and stored outside the state, in which way is the author or web site responsible? That blame belongs to the person who initiated and committed the act of transporting that data by downloading it from outside the jurisdiction? Since the author had no control (presumably) over how the web site operates, then the total responsibility belongs to the website if they permit inadvertent (i.e. non-deliberate) downloads.

Finally, the law has to be sorted out so that a person cannot be held accountable somewhere where they have not set foot and did not deliberately, specifically target. If I live in New York and you make Widgets in LA, I cannot travel to Witchita to buy one, solely to sue you there. (Although if it's a patent, apparently I can hire someone to sue for me in Texas.)

With prosecutions like Kim Dotcom, we see the USA applying (what a polite word for arm-twisting) its standards to people who have never even set foot in the USA. The Americans could have saved them and their toadies a lot of embarrassment by simply using rendition, if they think these are digital terrorists...

If they couldn't convict McCoy where he lives, maybe there's a moral in that fact. If the court could not convict someone in the jurisdiction where the substantial part of the act - creating the obscenity or hosting it - was done, there's a moral about free speech in there somewhere.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c134 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c134 hate actually reading the articles, so I'll have a good understanding of what has been said and can come up with comments relevant to the article, before posting.

Much easier to just imagine what you think or want the articles to say, and post accordingly, as it's a huge time and thought saver.]]>