Try when he joined Prenda and figured out what they were actually up to.
My sympathy for Brett Gibbs is absolutely zero. He partook of an odious scheme that imo extorted people. He furthered said scheme and wants sympathy because he got sick? I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone and do not rejoice in his affliction, but none of that obviates his responsibility for his actions.
"Why did you take down the hospital network, leading to problems in retrieving patient info that lead to 8 deaths?"
"Someone there downloaded Fast and Furious 26: Fasterer and Furiouserer"
"There you have it your honour, justifiable homicide!"
There's a notion in law of assuming responsibility for pre-existing conditions.
Consider a case where someone steals a car with faulty breaks, runs a red light when they fail and kills someone. The car thief will be charged with the death, even if it was an "accident" in the narrow sense.
Consider another case of someone with a skull defect. Someone else gets annoyed at them, knocks them on the head, kills them. That's not murder (i.e. no intent), but it sure as hell is manslaughter.
When you take illegal actions, you assume responsibility for pre-existing conditions and are responsible for outcomes.
Sorry, but I have a huge problem with your statement.
I smoke pork shoulders on my Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker. I brine them in a apple-tweaked brine for a day, then cook for 20 hours straight over pecan chips and lump hardwood charcoal until the internal temp gets to about 195.
The May 20th linked article has the same line you mentioned above:
It is common to place law enforcement officers on paid leave during investigations of arrest-related deaths, but the Californian reported the deputies involved remain on duty.
"We're following the same protocol, as far as the administrative process is concerned, that we'd follow in similar-type incidents," sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said.
for a small minority of nut cases they are training for mayhem which no rational person can comprehend.
Ahhh, the heart of the bullshit, served with the duck included. No rational people can comprehend but trust us, it's there.
This notion that video games train people is such epic bullshit. Let's break it down shall we?
Let's analyze a bit what's needed to kill, and how videogames do or do not help:
1. Knowledge of how to use weapons - I've never fired a gun in my life, but I've heard tell from people who have that video games don't help you shoot. I've never learned shit about knife work from video games, though two years in a butcher shop sure helped.
2. Physical conditioning - Running around attacking people takes a certain amount of stamina. Halo never helped my endurance of anything except junk food.
3. Strategy and tactics - Video game AI is pretty lame sauce when compared to the real thing, even to this day, and game scenarios are rarely realistic.
Now, if what you're trying to convey is that video games somehow morally "train" people to kill (which is nonsense on its face) bear in mind that the VAST majority of games have strong moral overtones, at least in the broad strokes. DOOM is fighting demons from Hell, Halo is fighting aliens who want to exterminate humanity, Warcraft is fighting the undead who want to exterminate life (there are other baddies in WoW, but that's 40 paragraphs on its own). Sure there are outliers such as indie/homegrown stuff with any kind of content you can imagine (and probably some sick shit you would have never thought of), but that's not what we're really talking about, is it?
In fact part of the appeal of many video games is being the good guy, saving the civilians, blah blah blah. It aligns with our pre-existing morals and hero fantasies.
So, how exactly does a video game train someone in ways no one can understand? Cause I sure can't understand it.
Re: Mike admitz what we knowz: "I'm no expert on extortion law".
Tort is a wrong. "Extortion" means "outside of being wronged". The premise of the threatened cases is that someone committed a wrong against the copyright holder, but could escape a trial by paying off. -- See how that goes? A party is wronged first giving them a "tort" at law, THEN the 2nd party may be forced to pay off, but can avoid it by out-of-court settlement. Happens many times every day.
Hi, no.
So, grade 4 latin. "Ex" = "out" or "out of", "tort" is actually rooted in "torquere" meaning "to twist", so "out of twisting" or "extract by twisting" is about what "ex tort" in Latin translates to.
Further, while the word is rooted in Latin, and we don't actually use Latin, so grade 4 transliteration into a dead language isn't the pithy or biting argument you seem to believe, and probably doesn't carry much legal weight either.
But other than the incorrect translation which is meaningless anyways, that was a great argument.
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My sympathy for Brett Gibbs is absolutely zero. He partook of an odious scheme that imo extorted people. He furthered said scheme and wants sympathy because he got sick? I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone and do not rejoice in his affliction, but none of that obviates his responsibility for his actions.
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(i.e. labelling things what they are)
This is like patenting crap "on the internet" except this "on the piano" and its copyright which is... odd...
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Justification!
"Someone there downloaded Fast and Furious 26: Fasterer and Furiouserer"
"There you have it your honour, justifiable homicide!"
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Consider a case where someone steals a car with faulty breaks, runs a red light when they fail and kills someone. The car thief will be charged with the death, even if it was an "accident" in the narrow sense.
Consider another case of someone with a skull defect. Someone else gets annoyed at them, knocks them on the head, kills them. That's not murder (i.e. no intent), but it sure as hell is manslaughter.
When you take illegal actions, you assume responsibility for pre-existing conditions and are responsible for outcomes.
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Re: Smoked pork
I smoke pork shoulders on my Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker. I brine them in a apple-tweaked brine for a day, then cook for 20 hours straight over pecan chips and lump hardwood charcoal until the internal temp gets to about 195.
It tastes much better hot.
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Ahhh, the heart of the bullshit, served with the duck included. No rational people can comprehend but trust us, it's there.
This notion that video games train people is such epic bullshit. Let's break it down shall we?
Let's analyze a bit what's needed to kill, and how videogames do or do not help:
1. Knowledge of how to use weapons - I've never fired a gun in my life, but I've heard tell from people who have that video games don't help you shoot. I've never learned shit about knife work from video games, though two years in a butcher shop sure helped.
2. Physical conditioning - Running around attacking people takes a certain amount of stamina. Halo never helped my endurance of anything except junk food.
3. Strategy and tactics - Video game AI is pretty lame sauce when compared to the real thing, even to this day, and game scenarios are rarely realistic.
Now, if what you're trying to convey is that video games somehow morally "train" people to kill (which is nonsense on its face) bear in mind that the VAST majority of games have strong moral overtones, at least in the broad strokes. DOOM is fighting demons from Hell, Halo is fighting aliens who want to exterminate humanity, Warcraft is fighting the undead who want to exterminate life (there are other baddies in WoW, but that's 40 paragraphs on its own). Sure there are outliers such as indie/homegrown stuff with any kind of content you can imagine (and probably some sick shit you would have never thought of), but that's not what we're really talking about, is it?
In fact part of the appeal of many video games is being the good guy, saving the civilians, blah blah blah. It aligns with our pre-existing morals and hero fantasies.
So, how exactly does a video game train someone in ways no one can understand? Cause I sure can't understand it.
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Re: Mike admitz what we knowz: "I'm no expert on extortion law".
Hi, no.
So, grade 4 latin. "Ex" = "out" or "out of", "tort" is actually rooted in "torquere" meaning "to twist", so "out of twisting" or "extract by twisting" is about what "ex tort" in Latin translates to.
Further, while the word is rooted in Latin, and we don't actually use Latin, so grade 4 transliteration into a dead language isn't the pithy or biting argument you seem to believe, and probably doesn't carry much legal weight either.
But other than the incorrect translation which is meaningless anyways, that was a great argument.
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