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What's your verdict on sarcasm in EVE people?

another thwarted terrorist attack \o/ working as intended

You couldn't find a more credible source than the wannabe metalhead pacing in front of a gaming library?

Sarcasm dead? I hope not, that's an English pastime.

Your choice of source says a lot about you is all.

I'm sorry, but your response makes me severely doubt that you are in fact English... we don't live in the 1800s.

Mainly that you rage because some youtuber tells you to and not because you bothered to look into it.

That makes you just as much of a sheep as the angry soccer moms if you ask me; it's important to be indignant for the right reasons.

EDIT: If you don't want to watch the youtube vid, links to the news article are in the description. I just find AlphaOmegaSin's reaction brilliant, and it pretty much mirrors my own view on the topic.

You mean that stuff you read after I called you out? It's a step in the right direction I guess. I urge you to go slightly deeper than "The Daily Caller" though.

Like I've said, looking into threats can be a good thing.
Throwing people into prison for them is not a good thing.

Even if you don't care about the life (or lives) being ruined by bad law(?) enforcement, do you really think as a tax-payer that this is a good idea? If we start putting everyone in prison who has made a violent joke on the internet, all prisons in all the world will see a spike of new inmates every one of which take tax money to keep alive and well.

I agree that actions have consequeces, but is 8 years in prison really the right consequece for this particular action?
I think not. I hope you think not as well.
Altho I don't really care what you think.

I this case a private citizen filed charges against a person.
The police by law can't ignore it, they have to investigate.
Obviously they found enough evidence to arrest him and he goes to trial, and now the courts have to decide if he guilty or just foolish.
3 things could have prevented the entire incident.

1 - The kid could have used good judgement (which he didn't or maybe he wasn't joking now wouldn't that be a twist)
2 - The lady could have done nothing, she had to fill out all kinds of paperwork to get the police to respond (think about that)
3 - Change the law to give the police more power to ignore the law and do whatever they want (now that is not a good idea)

Last as other have stated the guy is NOT serving a 8 year sentence he is awaiting trial, nothing more.
He is still innocent as it stands right now.

I feel sorry for the kid, but it was bound to happen eventually, especially when people who watch in from the outside get involved. Stuff that's taken out of context, combined with not understanding gamer lingo, can lead to some pretty odd conclusions. And there is a LOT of prejudice about games and gamers to start with. Apparently we're all psychos who are rehearsing in game what we'd like to perpetrate in real life*... or so some media would have you believe. I'm pretty sure actual research shows gamers are LESS likely to have RL violent tendencies, but hey, who cares about facts when there's nicely bloodcurdling urban legends to be had...

* so OK, I know this gaming lawyer who's THE worst in game price gouger you'll ever see, but let's call him an exception. Besides, his only contribution to violence is making his customers want to commit it.

Therein lies the problem. Most people don't see a problem with this kind of thing. "It's for your own good" is being lapped up by useful idiots (pardon the Leninist phrasing) left and right. I once thought it was strange, but now it's getting downright pathetic.

Any word yet on how the hearing went yesterday?

errrm ... I`m sort of confused on this one so please enlighten me

a person in Canada takes offence about what someone says in another country and has that person prosecuted ?.

am I understanding this correctly ?
sorry im not that clued up with international law ...but as far as I`m aware he actually hasn't broken any laws as far as I can see (he`s a fkn twatt for what he said )
but I don't believe 8 years in prison is justified

what ever happened to a punch in the face


please ...someone enlighten me on this one

From what I understand that there's been more than one or two incidents in American schools and colleges by teens who, for little reason, become unhinged and then end up on a killing spree.

I would imagine that the authorities are sick and tired of these incidents. The NRA wouldn't be too pleased neither because it'll put them in a negative light. Don't get me wrong, I am no supporter of the NRA but I can equally appreciate their frustrations as some idiot runs amok with automatic weapons; even the most dyed-in-the-wool NRA supporter woudl say that this isn't really what they want.

So, we have a young lad who then makes a threat which is completely out of order. The authorites have a number of choices; ignore him and hope he doesn't do anything stupid or, two, lock him up for a few days and tell him to grow a brain or, thirdly, make an example of him because (2) won't stop the next imbecile from mouthing off.

In the US one of the basic principles there is Free Speech. But that even has its limits; I thinkl that everyone understand that shouting "Fire" in a crowded theatre without reason is beyond the scope of free speech.

This is much the same; the lad made a threat and the sort of idot who makes such a threat which, let's face it no normal straight thinking person would, can be seen to the sort of person to go Postal.

I have no complaint about the possibility of the eight year term. He won't get it but he does deserve to be very worried about it and, perhaps, just perhaps, it may stop other idiots from issuing a threat before engaging the brain.

just out of interest .. does anyone have the name of the person who accused him ?.

You know what.

While this certainly displayes the flaws within the US legal system, and that's not just knocking the US, as I gather that there is a similer case happening in the UK.

I actually find it difficult to have any sympathy at all for this rather stupid little boy.

"It was only a joke" The famous defence of just about every bully that has been caught out.

Trolls and so called 'hacktavist' have been pigging the world off for, as long as the internet has been about, and it looks like the worlds patience is starting to run out. The fact that I am typing this may be evidence, as once I would have been in the front line of shouting in support of the lad. But now it's more a case off "To***r, got what he deserves."

That is wrong I know, but perhaps it is evidence of how uncaring the world is becoming, I don't know. What I do know, is that this youth is not high on my list of priorities to beat a drum on to defend.