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Witness a murder. The Feds will make up new names for you and hubby and also give you a nice house. Problem solved.

George W Bush a miserable failure?

This is the first I've ever heard of such a thing.

I'd be happier if they cut out "harass" as well. Harassment is bad, harmful and unproductive, but internet harassment should not be an issue of law unless it reaches the level of abuse or threats. I reserve the right to harass the leader of Halliburton, for example, assuming I bothered to spell it right. If it gets to the point of threats...

Of course, all such laws are disproportionately used against the poor and less powerful. I read some stats on hate laws lately, and it seems that hate laws are more often persecuted against people of colour or various non-white ethnicities by a large factor, while the majority of violence and propaganda is perpetuated by white people like most of us here. In fact, in BC, the province I live in, something like one or two cases of hate crimes had actually been procecuted (before the agency was disbanded by the current crazy neo-liberal government), and at least half were against underprivileged minorities.

So the law is likely to be used to bolster power for those who already have it, rather than the other way around as progressive people would hope.

More state or corporate control over speech is *almost* always a bad thing, IMHO, but that opinion tends to change from situation to situation.

This law just strikes me as consolidation that will probably be poory executed anyway and hopefully be ignored due to hazy definitions.

Yeah, "harass" is open to interpretation too. The legislation (I assume) is criminal law. Okay, that's fine but how does the law interpret terms like "annoy" or "harass"? There are many different definitions and contexts one could consider to be "annoying" or "harassment". What about very minor "annoyances", like someone casually writing to someone else "u suck"? Is that simple comment worth the time of the Intarn3t P01ice to come raid your home? Or is there a level of "annoyance" or "harassment" where if one exceeds one can be prosecuted? If so, what device can I use to measure it? (I plan to build my own and call it something generic like "The Annoy-O-Meter". It will use the measurement "annoyics" to measure bothersome content and runs on two AA batteries.)

That's why I suggested "stalk". It seems pretty obvious what stalking is and seems more specific than "annoy" or "harass". Although, could there be any fault with using the term "stalk"? It's still a subjective term, even though a more specific one.

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On another, but slightly related, topic: Here some irony. A gubernatorial candidate in Florida is "annoying" people with spam e-mail. He's against spam BUT (and this is the kicker) he believes his e-mails are "politcal speech" and not spam.

EDIT: I had a think about the new law and since it was created to stop cyber-stalking, does anyone see any problems with replacing the word "annoy" with "stalk"? For example:

Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to stalk, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

I replied to this thread in the nik of time.

lol see waht i did there

Wait, I'm in Australia. US Federal law doesn't apply to me.











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Annoying people over the internet is a crime now?

Well, that's goodbye internet for me!

@DGMacphee: Don't say anything against King of Queens!

Too late. I already did.

I never said I wanted him to act patriotic... He does so already, but is unbelievably stupid about it.  I guess what I mean is, Peter and Homer are both oafs, whereas Stan Smith is a moron.

Welcome to satire.

OR DOES HE... ?

Indeed. He has "got the girl" in several earlier episodes most notably around Valentine's day, not to mention having married her in one episode, and each time it didn't work.

OR... DOES IT... ?

OR DOES HE... ?


On another note, there's still the comics, so Futurama hasn't actually ended.

I don't people are saying it's "quality" as such. It's not something that's pushing the boundries of animation. But I do think Seth MacFarlane knows how to write and tell a good joke.

Let me put it this way: I think it's fresher and funnier than the majority of shows out there. Given that we have a zillion generic sitcoms out there (Joey/Two and a Half men/King of Queens/According to Jim) that are about as funny as a fractured fart, I'm happy to have Family Guy on the airwaves.

The Writer's Guild of America (WGA) recently announced their nominees.

http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1493

Scroll down to the Animation section. Gee, I wonder if The Simpsons will win anything.

On Family Guy: I still get a kick out of it. Say what you will (i.e. they just use "references" or "jokes about stupid people") but Seth MacFarlane's timing is impeccable, way better than The Simpsons of recent times. I find The Simpsons' writers tend to labour their jokes and leave me with an "oh i see what you did there ho hum" feeling.

Then again, the WGA would probably disagree with me.

And on Futurama...

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935453?categoryid=1050&cs=1&s=h&p=0

Bah, what difference does all of it make? In a thousand years time, none of C.S. Lewis' texts will matter because most of the Earth's population will convert to Jedi and wage a holy war against those who speak Klingon. Also, scientists will genetically modify trees to grow muffins. The future is bright for all.

Bong is something cows go.

Jesus replies: "Thank you, my son! I'm really hoping for a Sony PSP for my birthday! Could you buy me one, pretty please? If so, send it to DGMacphee's house and he will make sure to pass it on to me."

I have a mental image of Vader singing "Cat's in the Cradle".

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

YAAAAAHOOOOO!

It's on that thing Gilbert posted.

It used to be on my tripod space but I had to delete it cause I needed the space for something else.

oh i see waht you did there

Is this another PR stunt for Dumb quest?   

No, it can't be: DG is not here, is he?

Dumb Quest is starting to get overhyped, which annoys me now. 

I would change Phantasmagoria, especially the bit where the whole game sucks.