Jack Thompson faces disciplinary hearing

X_Stickman

<div class="IPBDescription">lol</div>I hate posting news but this made me lol, so here ya go:

<a href="http://gamepolitics.com/2007/02/03/jack-thompson-faces-florida-bar-disciplinary-hearing/" target="_blank">http://gamepolitics.com/2007/02/03/jack-th...linary-hearing/</a>

BlackMage

mage is pleased

Zig

this fker's disbarment is LONG overdue. cheers to the Florida supreme court for finally realizing it.

Xyth

Yeah this guy really deserves the ###### of the century award.

Joking about donating money to charities? Perfectly acceptable!

TychoCelchuuu

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Yeah this guy really deserves the ###### of the century award.

Joking about donating money to charities? Perfectly acceptable!
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Uh, actually, it <i>is</i> perfectly acceptable.

Mantrid

Man, this is awesome. Its a good thing no one took him seriously to begin with, though.

lolfighter

Joking about giving money to charities is certainly not illegal. It isn't the stuff that will earn you brownie points or credibility though.

Xyth

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Joking about giving money to charities is certainly not illegal. It isn't the stuff that will earn you brownie points or credibility though.
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I wasn't saying it was illegal. It doesn't have to be illegal for somebody to be nominated for ###### of the year because of it.

TychoCelchuuu

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I wasn't saying it was illegal. It doesn't have to be illegal for somebody to be nominated for ###### of the year because of it.
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It's not even egregiously reprehensible. In bad taste at best, really, but you can joke about just about anything and it's really not so bad. The point is that you're joking.

Xyth

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It's not even egregiously reprehensible. In bad taste at best, really, but you can joke about just about anything and it's really not so bad. The point is that you're joking.
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I think "Joking" isn't the right term either. He said he would donate the money if somebody made his game idea, then when somebody did make it he went back on his promise.

Merkaba

Saying you shall donate money to charity to make a point, even if it was a 'joke', is acceptable. But it makes you a total tool. Or maybe I'm biased because the man is a tool.

Kouji_San

Everybody has an opinion, not all opinions are based on solid grounds ^___^

CplDavis

lol people make half assed pledges to charity all the time.

No one really realises it but everytime you hear a nation's govt pledge money or aid to a nation in times of a great diaster or something, (Tsunamis good example) lots of nations make the news saying they regret the situatation and they pledge X millions of dollers in aid.

In reality more than half of those nations will never actually send over the full amount if any of what they pledged.

lolfighter

Yeah, but they're governments. Run by politicians. Says it all really. In this case we're talking about a lawyer, we really expect mo-.. oh wait.

X_Stickman

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lol people make half assed pledges to charity all the time.

No one really realises it but everytime you hear a nation's govt pledge money or aid to a nation in times of a great diaster or something, (Tsunamis good example) lots of nations make the news saying they regret the situatation and they pledge X millions of dollers in aid.

In reality more than half of those nations will never actually send over the full amount if any of what they pledged.
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Or they bleed off a sizable chunk of the "donation" into things like the military, since the military could potentially give aid (rescue operations etc...).

The world sure does suck as a whole.