GLBT MPAA FUCK ELEPANT CRUSHING

[jack]

http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ga&article_code=1172 - OK, I'm turning into Jennie by posting this, but I came across it and had to wibble. Apparently, a Worlds of Warcraft guild described itself as "GLBT friendly", and was warned under the sexual harassment conditions. "the suggested penalty for violating the Sexual Orientation Harassment Policy is to 'be temporarily suspended from the game.' However, as there was clearly no malicious intent on your part, this penalty was reduced to a warning."

http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/cl-et-mpaa24jan24,0,2188275.story - I can't make out the truth of this one, but the MPAA was accused of breaking copyright on a film made specifically not giving them the right to copy it to rate it. It's not clear if they did so under fair use (I can see either side) or as as evidence because it was a documentary about them they claimed breached their employees' rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_ordered_by_uses_of_the_word_%22fuck%22 - The title says it all. The factual accuracy is disputed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crushing_by_elephant - I don't know why the wikipedia article on excecution by elephant amuses me, but it does. I was momentarily thrown by the last sentence, which referred to animal rights groups protesting, but they were protesting 'crushing' meaning a method of training elephants. Before I realised, I thought "What are they compaining about? Most domesticated animals would give their left nut to bne employed to crush humans, which is why they're sliced off."

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The Fuck!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The ones I've seen from that list are Twin Town, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, South Park, Platoon, Dogma; Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels; 25th Hour and Trainspotting.

[mair_in_grenderich]

*thinks happily of elepants*

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

yes, the world of warcraft thing is pretty bad. also bad is that Jagex would probably behave in exactly the same way. Ignorant, unthinking PC-ness combines with stupid, unreactive corporate hierarchies in bad ways. Also, nobody seems to accept that players should have rights of any kind. It's analogous to the issue with lack of freedoms in places that are privately owned but effectively replacing public spaces (e.g. shopping centres). I'd like to think this will change a bit over the next five or ten years, but I'm not too confident.