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fiit11
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Today i heard on the video game channel (G4) that the pres is going to ban video games
this is bull it make me made. is the video game world coming to an end
please take servey
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K uhh...
1. America is a capitalist society.
2. Capitalist societies know 1 thinkg... money
3. Video Games out Gross Movies in the entertainment industy.
4. Where ever you heard this is reading from a script w/ a moron behind the writing.
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As they say up north. Don't be daft.
No annoying animated GIF here!
Fiit you might not want all of your personal information for all to see. Its not very safe. I mean you have enough for anyone to track you down easily. So...
Anyways video games are just another medium of free speech similar to a book and a movie. Only difference is its interactive. So they would be banning interactive media and of course that is a dictatorship. So if that happened the video game industry with their millions..er billions of dollars and lawyers would all go marching to D.C and they would raise Hell.
Safe to say it would not happen and if it did it would most likely be reversed.
EDIT: Actually there are many examples of the government being unconstitutional. Here's one http://www.orgonelab.org/fda.htm. Look into the FDA and their extreme hypocrisy. Also "Natural Cures they don't want you to know about" by Kevin Trudeau has a lot about the FDA and FTC and many interesting cures. So yeah the government are capable screwing us and making billions off of it.
But this is a little different than video games because natural medicine is taking money away from the Government and video games aren't.
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
Some people are wack. They would have gone postal either way. It's totally bull to blame games for people killing it. But it's the easy thing, just blaming games for the error of the parents, school, society, doctors and so on.
Jack Thompson makes me sick(I know the topic isn't about him... still)
AlexAmore, you read too many "how bad the US government is" websites. I suggest you buy an island somewhere in the Pacific and declare your own nation to be safe from "big brother."
Well, seriously, you need to lay off the net for a day or two and just, I don't know, do something to excersise your right of "having unintelligent fun."
Yeah I know I im pretty intelligent huh? You can't dispute it though, its illegal to call something natural a "cure", thanks to the FDA. So if I said an Orange can cure X, and I started advertising then I could be charged because its not FDA approved (unfortunately it costs millions to get it approved and its not 100% likely to succeed so really only Big Pharma can do it and still be profitable with its drugs). I watch plenty of how the government are good too from TV and stuff. Just because a website says something negative about the government doesn't mean its invalid.
You may not think the government is involved in illegal acts or maybe just a few...but maybe its no big deal. I think it is. I'm an activist outside the net, because I don't want America/world to go to Hell. I'm also an environment activist because of all the evidence pointed toward global warming, pollution,..ect by many climatologists. All this and i'm only 17, I think that warrants a little respect. Atleast i'm not some average numbskull teen who doesn't know what he wants to do in his life. I'm trying to improve the world; ya know pick up where you guys left off...like you guys did anything...
No I don't want to just go to an island because I don't run away from problems like that. Right now i'm working on getting a Maine Governer candidate in office and now i've recently found out about Dexter for Congress so ill be contributing to that too.
If you think "Big Brother" doesn't exist. You'll be in for a nasty wake up call. Heck you can see that stuff on the news with phone tapping and Real ID. They already are asking for fingerprints to get a drivers license! Why? They haven't commited a crime....oh just in case they do. What happened to innocent till proven guilty? All this plus more is where America is at; not completely but it takes time and they certainly don't want to go too fast to alarm anyone.
I remember when I was younger I used to be a Police Cadet. We used to go to children stores and we would fingerprint them... It sounded all fun and games to us teens and the children. Now I realize its just conditioning the children (and us) to just accept authority, not to question, just conform.
Just remember we're on the same team, atleast I am. I'm only an activist because I love America and the world. I'm not doing this to oppose you. I think we can both agree that having a healthy environment is 1st and having a healthy Government is 2nd. Without an environment, we die. WIthout a healthy government, we are oppressed.
So i'm looking out for our best interests. I hope i'm wrong but I prepare for the worst...and try and reverse it.
EDIT: Oh yeah I do fun stuff. I enjoy video games (surprise), juggling, and learning wilderness survival/camping/living skills. I plan on going/volunteering at http://www.thesca.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 and going to National Outdoor Learning School and train to become a wilderness guide.
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
What statements. Now we know why everyone always says that teenagers think that they know
everything.
My advice Alex is to LIGHTEN UP... Stop trying to save the world, or even trying to make us believe that's your goal. You're 17 you said. Have some fun now while you are young. Worry less.
...Lord knows, you'll have plenty of time for such deep thoughts and worrying about the world and a million other things when you are older, hehe.
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Just an off-topic musing...
The youth (14-20) want to change the world. I find that noble and it should be encouraged. There are 2 unfortunate side effects to this though. The youth usually lack the wisdom, and the power, to do it correctly. And secondly, when they get older, they find out that the world doesn't care and it's not going to change. Most will fall in line with the norm, and the ones that continue to make radical change are considered nuts.
You know, this leads right into the old jaunt "man, I hope i'm not like THAT when i'm older"
The frightening truth is that, at one point in time, our parents weren't much different than us at all, and perhaps they shared the same thoughts and epic desires that we do.
They say "the next generation" is going to change the world, but havn't they been saying that for, well, a really long time?
Just some food for thought.
EDIT: Oh, and just in the spirit of the original thread topic- no, that is nothing more than anxious speculation. That sort of news on G4 is the equivalent of over dramatizing a car wreck or a bank robbery on the nightly news. The media is all about the ratings, and excitement and panic simply sells
If congress couldn't ban tobacco because of all the money in it, and it KILLS people, what makes you think they can ban an industry worth as much, if not more than tobacco that DOESN'T kill? Not gonna happen, EVER.
Look, all teenagers worry about all different types of things. Usually teenagers worry about getting that shiny new car or latest bling bling or fashionable blue jeans.
If you met me in person you would see i'm a pretty light hearted person. I have a sense of humor and i'm a very spiritual. I guess part of being an inhabitant of the world is to try and improve it. After everything i've learned on environment and government I don't take anything for granted now. You don't know what you have till you lose it...as they say.
I didn't say i'm trying to save the world of course everything I try and do concerning this topic needs a group. It can't be done alone. If everyone wanted a healthier world, I think we would have it. Unfortunately not many people even care or know how the world works. We're already seeing the affects of global warming http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp. People are dying from it now.
I don't really worry about this because i've come to peace with it. Your first statement said we teenagers think we know everything. I'm here to tell you, all of what I said is supported by many climatologists.
Just ignore the environment...it will go away.
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
Maybe Alex is just really smart and this is how he amuses his intellect? Learning about diverse issues about things that will effect him to a greater degree later in life?
I'm not saying that Alex is any of the below, but some of the brightest people in history were very studious even in adolescence. Washington, Lincoln, Franklin, Jefferson etc. Just saying those traits clearly gave them the ability and perhaps a head start on the mental excercises that later formulated the founding of the country.
Again, sorry Alex, lol, not saying your a founding father but young people educating themselves clearly seems to be a good thing.
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The President of? Where do you live ?
Or which company or religious organisation?
I think video games are already forbidden (as anything tech) if you are a Mormons...don't think they have a president but...I don't really know.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Didn't Greece briefly ban video games as a form of "gambling"? That ban was quickly removed if I remember correctly.
No matter, if video games are banned assume that all forms of entertainment have been and that the US is a dictatorship at that point.
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300 million people, many of them on the brink of being a raging mob(Presidential elections anybody?).
We are as Rome, and although Rome eventually fell from it's corruption, it kept the mob at bay by free entertainment and food. The US IS a dictatorship. You can't do anything without their permission. You can't even gain an income without giving them a piece of the pie. The irony is that our delusioned obsession with entertainment is one of the reasons why we don't think the US is a dictatorship.
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boy some people are simple... the videogame industry last year made more money than hollywood, billions and billions of dollars. not to mention the businesses that are supported by proxy through video games. if video games were going to get banned litterally thousands and thousands of people would be immediately unemployed, entire companies (not just video game companies) would go under. companies like ATI and Nvidia would be bankrupt in under a year, upcoming physics cards would be scrapped, webhosting companies would take a hit, and the development of the future of the internet would be entirely stunted (1/3d of all internet traffic is bittorrent, which is mostly gaming downloads).
its sheer idiocy that someone even took the trouble to post this.
the relevant issue is how badly the goverment plans to censure gaming. Hilary Clinton for example is trying to push through legislation to punish gaming companies for violent games. this will fail because of the ESRB more than likely, but you can never rule out how many ignorant, absoluty SH*T parents there are out there who think a computer or TV is for a substitute for attention, then blame the government when there children are morons and have a predisposion for violence because their family never pays any attention to them. Ill never understand how a game can have an obligitory M rating on the front of the damn box, watch a mother buy GTA for her 10 year old son, and then sue Rockstar games and appeal to the government when her kid comes to the dinner table talking about raping and killing hookers. absolute insanity...
Originally posted by Aldaron
300 million people, many of them on the brink of being a raging mob(Presidential elections anybody?).
We are as Rome, and although Rome eventually fell from it's
corruption, it kept the mob at bay by free entertainment and food. The
US IS a dictatorship. You can't do anything without their permission.
You can't even gain an income without giving them a piece of the pie.
The irony is that our delusioned obsession with entertainment is one of
the reasons why we don't think the US is a dictatorship.
i recently graduated from Ohio State with a degree in history, and i can say that a lot of this is baseless. not a personal insult to you, and its not out of love for bush, if you can find prior post from me you will clearly see im against nearly all of his policies, but a lot of your agruement is false. yes Rome was a multinational state, but due to the checks put in place by the pretorian guard (they had to be constantly bribed), the senate (which planned several assassinations), rival conuls and later on the German border and immenent invasion and the bankrupting of the state due to lack of conquest, you can hardly call it a dictatorship. it was a republic first, a brutal one second, and at some rare times a brief dictatorship (nero, commodus, Augustus briefly, Caligula (especially, but he was killed real fast...) then the year of the 4 emporerors).
America now, yes you have to pay taxes but that is mostly to keep the beaurocracy in place. we elect a guy every four years, but hes hardly an emperor, im sure bush wants to move things in that direction but i think this movement will fizzle out within 10-20 years. a lot of what is happening now, with the patriot act, wire tapping, iraq, soon to be iran, syria, saudi arabia (if the crown gets deposed) are all results of scared, mostly white soccer moms who cry bloody murder at the first sign of trouble (mostly the same people mentioned above). Bush just needs to remind people of the terror level and we give up rights. its a sad state of affairs but when McCain takes office in 2008 (which is likely to happen, especially if Hilary makes the ticket, which she wont, though she would likely be the best choise) a lot of these problems i think will level out. that and a lot of the nation i think is clueing in to how terrible things are going (33% approval rating...)
one last note, Rome did not fall to corruption. Rome fell because its entire existance was based upon conquest. from its inception it was a conquering state. Rome depended upon the spoils of war to pay off everyone (legions, preatorian guard, senate, building projects, food, welfare projects, etc..). When Marcus Aurelius froze the borders on germany and persia he basically destroyed his best source of income and spelled the end of Rome. it slowely bankrupted itself having to pay for soldiers to sit on a wall and die without gaining anything for the empire.
just a little history for you.
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
what would happen to all the Virtual Currency Farmers in China, if they banned video games????
that is the real question
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you''re one of the 2% who hasn''t, copy & paste this in your signature.