Like we have nothing better to do with $800,000

**dc dalton** · October 15th, 2008, 10:52 AM

Gee nothing better to do these days with $800,000 so we decide to start monitoring online gaming to see who doesn't 'play nice' and see if that can relate to criminal activity?

This has to go into that old John Stossel "Give me a break" category

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewr...es/023513.html

**Evolution** · October 15th, 2008, 12:15 PM

Give me a f'n break... this is just ridiculous!

**adymond** · October 15th, 2008, 02:29 PM

And the "Thought Police" take another step into our lives.

**billamj** · October 15th, 2008, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by adymond

And the "Thought Police" take another step into our lives.

The thought police have been a part of our lives since they passed the first "hate crimes law" into being. Personally I think that if you are willing to kill someone you really do hate them and you do not need an extra charge against you, you've actually proven that you hated them. Silly me though I use logic when thinking things through.

**adymond** · October 15th, 2008, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by billamj

The thought police have been a part of our lives since they passed the first "hate crimes law" into being. Personally I think that if you are willing to kill someone you really do hate them and you do not need an extra charge against you, you've actually proven that you hated them. Silly me though I use logic when thinking things through.

Shame on you x2. You used logic AND you thought about something. Don't you know you are just supposed to believe everything the dumb box tells you?

**dc dalton** · October 15th, 2008, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by adymond

Shame on you x2. You used logic AND you thought about something. Don't you know you are just supposed to believe everything the dumb box tells you?

SHH SHH SHH SHH SHH! Come on now guys, 'THEY' might hear you !

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**adymond** · October 16th, 2008, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by dc dalton

SHH SHH SHH SHH SHH! Come on now guys, 'THEY' might hear you !

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You almost just killed me. I almost choked on my Nature's Valley granola bar. I needed a laugh after the debate last night. It's a choice between worse and worser.

I wonder if any of the video games they are monitoring are the ones that have Obama advertisements. I wonder what would happen if someone started to destroy one of the bilboards online saying what a piece of shite he is.

**Aran** · October 16th, 2008, 08:37 AM

I can speak for my gaming circle - No, being assholes online doesn't mean they're criminals. Just means they're assholes.

**adymond** · October 16th, 2008, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by Aran

I can speak for my gaming circle - No, being assholes online doesn't mean they're criminals. Just means they're assholes.

The problem is that it has come to be asshole=criminal. Look at hate crime legislation. Hate speech is illegal. I have heard some pretty hateful Black Liberation speech coming from "legitimate" congregations to the nutjobs who stand at 15th and Market (near the clothes-pin statue), but that's not hate speech or a hate crime because they aren't white. If you are white though you had better not come even close to using any speech that can be deemed hateful.

Sure hateful speech makes makes you an asshole, but that doesn't make you a criminal.

**Kenshin** · October 16th, 2008, 01:52 PM

Dear GOD this is retarded... Most WoW players are whiney little kids who get pissed because they are addicted to the game and when things don't go their way they get pissed. (Cough) None of this is from personal experience. (Cough)

Now I've met people who have been complete dicks inside online game but are some of the nicest people outside of the game. Online gaming allows you to escape and be someone else who isn't you. And you can play them however you want. You can be a egotistical manaic in a game and be completely different outside. Sure there are those people who are the same in game and out of game but this is such a stretch that it makes me wonder what is really going on.

What a complete waist of tax dollars...

OH yea BTW one more point on this.

IF they are monitoring the people who are playing the game a lot they will know that the people they are monitoring aren't going to do anything cause they are too addicted and caught up in the game to actually go outside and see the sun... So what was the point of this again?