Saturday, October 15, 2005

arrest Jack

ok.. not-so-recently state attorney Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton pushed for the renaming of GTA:san andreas from an "M for Mature" to "AO: Adults Only" (which is, 1 year's difference btw)

alright. in light of the recent arrest of 2 Singaporeans for speaking against the Malay community, i would like to use this opportunity to call for an arrest for Jack, for harrassment (of ms Reno) and for publicly insulting quite a large number of people (for e.g. call all gamers drug addicts)

he also had this to say of Islam:

In an interview with the Sun-Sentinel, Thompson expressed his views on Islam [29][30][31][32]:
"The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people," Thompson said. "Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does.""Islam promotes the killing of innocent people," Thompson said. "The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. … That's a core essence of the religion. … Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition."

all of which is untrue, unless i am horribly mistaken about the Muslim religion. So, our dear Jack is a jerk, rascist and insults anyone who disagrees with him. All of which is more then enough to put him behind bars in Singapore, no?

i would like to point out that the above is taken from a Wikipedia post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
you can check it out if you want a full account of his insanity

Friday, October 07, 2005

of the internet, and Naruto

have you guys heard? In the US thousands suddenly find themselves unable to connect to many of the websites of the internet yesterday. It may not matter to us in Singapore yet, but such things *may* become more common as time wears on. Heres the situation: 2 big companies, CogentCo. and Level3 in the US are having a row right now, and Level3 (imho, childishly) partitioned its part of the internet away from CC. So now customers of the 2 cant connect to each other.

We may not know it (i didnt until i read a recent article), but the Internet's backbone is made up of a few large companies providing net bandwith. I do hope this kind of thing doesnt spread to the extent where the Internet is broken into fragments and partitions, only to be connected on the whims of companies. this is the kind of time where i feel a super-sized coorparation (such as, microsoft) taking over the internet is best for the survival of the web.

on a side not, the latest manga of Naruto totally rawks. even tho theres not much action =3