How serious of a crime would y'all consider hacking?
I play on a small game (~600-700 during the day, ~400-500 at singa tz, hitting to around ~800 on weekends). Recently, there were some Chinese hackers that hacked the game and gave themselves a lot of resources. However, certain players gave their password out to these hackers who then used those characters to hack and give those characters resources too. The group in charge of the game decided to ban the hackers as well as those that took advantage of the hackers. Now, this has spawned a huge discussion on what exactly is the proper punishment for those that gave the hackers access to their accounts.
Assuming first time offense and only giving access, if you were the company, would you choose to ban their accounts (note: not the isp) anyway?
My personal inclination is yes, but I'm interested in what y'all think.

1. Quoth the Uchiha brat: "I will become stronger, even if I must eat the devil's fruit!" Hmmm... Girugiru Rocket no Jutsu? A lot of those Rubber Style fighting moves look like the stuff Snakepants pulls off with snaking limbs and neck, after all.
2. Air Gear is hyperactive highschoolers doing strange battles and playing extreeme sports, right? Sounds right up Ranma's alley.... now just for kicks, what if Furinkan kicked him out at the end of that year (Fo attackin' my staff and not wearin' da regulation haircut, brudda!) and he had to switch to the only other high school in Tokyo so lax it would let him in, where the ruling tough guys just discovered Air Trek... Sakigake Cromartie High. WHy? Because the idea of Mechazawa, Gorilla, Freddie Mercury, Mayashida, and Kamiyama vs. Ranma and the inevitable entourage of mostly-opponents-sometimes-allies in an Air Trek battle would be funny, espescially with the Nerima crew's poor history on skates.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Everybody's building ships and boats,
Some are building monuments
And others jotting down notes.
Everybody's in despair,
Every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Everybody's gonna jump for joy.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet.
But guarding fumes and making haste,
Just ain't my cup of meat.
Everybody's 'neath the trees,
Feeding pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
All the pigeons gonna run to him.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Let me do what I wanna do, I can't decide them all
Just tell me where to pull
And I'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get no sleep,
There's someone on everyone's toes.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Everybody's gonna wanna doze.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
-- Manfred Mann, The Mighty Quinn

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

"H.M.J."
from Dragonslayer by Dream Evil
2:46
On my way to kill the beast
I met a holy man from the east
His name was Jesus & he was son of man
He warned me about the danger ahead
He was godsend, he was gonna bring the Metal back
And take away the sins that people did in the past
He came down here to change our lives
He said to me while he looked me in the eyes
"I'm the Heavy Metal Jesus!
I'm the Heavy Metal thunderstriking Jesus"
He said, "if you wanna kill the beast
You gotta be blessed from the man from the east
So why don't you get down on your knee
And I will bless you with my Flying V?"
Summons Heavy Metal Jesus who will warn Doug and company about future dangers and bless them with his Flying V.
While this song has both practical and humorous value, I think it's questionable whether or not Doug would use it.
However, the image of Doug and the crew from DW5 on bended knee being blessed by a Flying V wielding Jesus is just too funny.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

...sucks! I don't really think you guys may be interested in my country elections, but I must complain with someone. We've been ruled by criminals for five years, our economy is crushed, the vatican seems to consider us a colony and the elections almos came to a stalemate? How can be possible that half of the country still believe in Silvio Berlusconi? Many of you are Americans, so maybe you know...

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-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

Take a look www.youtube.com/watch?v=h...=5&t=a&f=b

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London and British crime rates have been increasing for years. Recently total crime rates for London have been estimated at about seven times those of New York for a slightly smaller population and some authorities suggest these figures have been minimized. England and Wales are now accounted by some estimates as the most dangerous places for crime in the developed world.
...New York and London have populations of 8 million and 7 million respectively and comparable police budgets, though New York has about 40 percent more police actually on the beat. British papers retail many incidents of British police, rather than preventing crime, being kept busy "celebrating diversity" and prosecuting politically incorrect remarks and behavior (large amounts of money and court time have been spent by the Crown Prosecution Service on cases of children who have made politically incorrect remarks in school playground fights, for instance).
In Norfolk, where the Tony Martin affair and other matters revealed a state of professional criminal gangs systematically robbing and terrorizing isolated rural dwellers, police recently alerted all officers to the fact a man was still at large after having stolen four soft porn magazines. This desperado's picture was sent to stations throughout the county, and the police released closed circuit television footage of the crime and appealed to members of the public to ring a Crimestopper number if they knew his identity and could help bring him to justice.
There have also been numerous and well-publicized cases of people being prosecuted and jailed for defending themselves from criminal attacks. A storekeeper was knifed in the back as he tackled a gang of youths stealing wine from his Norwich store. He was arrested on two charges of assault.
Shirley Best, owner of the Rolander Fashion Boutique, was ironing some garments when two youths broke in. They pressed the hot iron into her side and stole her watch, leaving her badly burnt. "I was frightened to defend myself," said Miss Best, "I thought if I did anything I would be arrested." In July 2002, a shopkeeper, Richard Barnes, hit a teenage thief whom he had confronted with a single blow. The thief had previously thrown a punch at him. Mr. Barnes was arrested, tried before a jury, and eventually acquitted after a three-day trial in the Hull Crown Court.
There have been doubts expressed that a right to self-defense still exists in British law. Following one homicidal home burglary Dr. Ian Stephen, an Honorary Lecturer (Forensic Psychology) at Glasgow Caledonian University, told householders:
"If you attack the burglar, or react in an 'over-the-top' manner... you will inevitably end up on the receiving end of a prison sentence that will far outstrip that imposed on the intruder in your own home.... when individuals are confronted by intruders there are some actions they should follow. Direct contact should be avoided whenever possible. If unavoidable, the victim should adopt a state of active passivity..."

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Immigration Policy
Abortion/Reproductive Rights
Seperation of Church and State
Globalisation
Surveillance
Iraq
North Korea
Iran
Israel-Palestine
"War on Terror"
"War on Drugs"
Strong feelings on both sides of the issue. Rational thought and mutual respect for both sides . . . probably never existed at all. But the moderates and undecideds seem to be garnering much more vitriol than before.
Hmm. What else am I missing?
-murmur
Ah! Original Battlestar Galactica vs. New Battlestar Galactica.

For my Poli Sci class, we have to write a 10 page paper, the prompt of which is "what is at stake in this conflict and in what sense is the conflict in the Middle East* a conflict between traditional and modern forces? If those categories aren't a useful way of thinking about the conflict, why not?"
* Iraq basically.
I'm not actually done with it yet (9 pages atm...!), but I'm wondering if people would be interested in reading it and giving me comments when/if I post it up. Due to the nature of the prompt, it'll be fairly limited in terms of scope, but I'd be glad to engage in a discussion regarding the issues at stake.
In particular, I have a problem with not explaining what's in my head onto the paper. So, sometimes I think I clearly explain a point when to everyone else it's all gibberish.
Thanks to anyone willing to do this!