Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD 289
mytrip brings us a Wired blog about Jack Thompson's recent press release, which claims an "unholy alliance" exists between the gaming industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Game Politics also has a discussion of Thompson's main points. From Wired:
"Jim Blank, the head of the modeling and simulation division of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, says that commercial games don't meet the demand of the military, adding, 'first-person shooter games really don't apply in this environment.' Blank's point is that game-like simulations are a valuable tool for training soldiers in situations that would be too expensive to simulate in reality."
So we've got old and false info? That it? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:And if you play really well, you get abducted.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Wait (Score:3, Interesting)
Could it be, that one of the most complained about things on
The Patriot Act gets Thompson tossed in Guantanamo for an unspecified period, then there's one less problem to worry about.
Probably too good to be true, but we could dream.
Decline in Violence may be linked to unleaded gas (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:and? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Mussolini != Hitler (?) (Score:3, Interesting)
It's a fair comparison, not hyperbole at all, to take what some of the founding members of the neo-conservative movement have said, and the fact that some politicians have claimed to be inspired by those people, and compare that, not to Hitler in general, but to Mussolini quoting Machiavelli, or even Hitler quoting Von Clausewitz. When someone talks to a nation's leader about repeating a lie often enough that the public believes it's the Truth, there's no exaggeration at all in comparing that someone to Gobels. Whether that makes the leader more similar to Hitler or not is something for the listener to infer if he wants to, not part of what's actually being said.
In the same way, Jack Thompson isn't a U. S. senator, but he's a politically committed lobbyist, what most would call a Washington insider, so it's only a moderate stretch to compare him to McCarthy. He's tried to turn this issue into something that will give him tremendous political power, so comparing his desire for power with Hitler's desire isn't really hyperbole either. Someone would have to greatly exaggerate his chances of success or number of followers to be drawing an inappropriate parallel.