Police? Lying? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you! [/s]

Note the non-denial response: “However, this report is not based on any announcement by Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.”

It’s become abundantly clear that Republicans are incapable of, well, acting civilized. They’ll find a way to warp this law to protect one another and harm everyone else. As they have always done.

Never. It’s not a symptom. Cruelty is the whole point.

This issue has already gone before the courts in the US. People were imitating the voices of Tom Waites and Bette Middler without permission. They lost. The method used to create those imitations is entirely irrelevant. People’s voices are *NOT* fair use. They are covered under Right of Publicity.

The people providing the tools aren’t responsible for how those tools are used (see: Sony v Universal). It’s the people using those tools who are liable for how they use them. And we’ve seen cases move through the courts that involve modding and mods, so this isn’t exactly a new legal area (though certainly not…

I suspect there will be legal wrangling over this issue in the semi-near future. The Right of Publicity includes an individual’s voice, and yes, this has gone to court and been upheld. It’s the same legal doctrine that protects a person’s likeness from usage without that person’s permission.

I would counter this with a question about how much some of the big tech companies spend on PR and advertisement.

Well, no, but it sure felt like it! Missed opportunities, I suppose.

Don’t forget the call out in said Bible about the path-to-hell reminder about hypocrisy, which those same people practice in abundance.

It’s also no coincidence that America has a massive for-profit private prison system.

Reminds me of a group mission in Star Trek Online. Big group of enemies, all spread out, minimal cover for you, and a half dozen of the enemies are snipers with elevation and clear line of sight across the entire area. And they’ll fight ‘smart.’ The first player in gets instantly picked off by the snipers all firing…

It’s just a little attempted murder. No big deal. Police gotta police somehow! [/s]

Yup. The only ‘pre-existing’ ‘condition’ relevant was the fact that the man was alive and well before an ‘officer’ smothered him to death.

True, there’s nothing specifically standout or memorable about Quake 4, and yet, it’s still the Quake game I liked the most. Maybe it’s because everything did meld together just right. Nothing ‘stood out’ because it was an equally good time the whole way through.

Having the Governor hold all the keys in the process AND have a vested personal interest in refusing to do the right thing is definitely a MASSIVE conflict of interest.

That’s the thing. It *IS* a crime. Framing someone, which is what they’re doing, makes you an accomplice after the fact. But the people who are supposed to be prosecuting these crimes are the very criminals engaging in it.

Yup. A semi-similar situation is playing out in Texas with ERCOT trying to repeat the electrical-grid fuckery that killed ~100 people — it’s a for-profit criminal conspiracy of reckless endangerment and public endangerment...and nobody with the power to stop it gives enough of a damn to step in.

If you aid a criminal in getting away with a crime by pinning it on someone else, that makes you an accomplices after the fact, and so are any officers who don’t inform defense attorneys about such acts on the part of the prosecution. Which means *THEY* can all be charged with the crime as well. Furthermore, if the…

A police officer used lethal force in response to a non-lethal situation — there was no immediate or significant threat to ANYONE. It doesn’t matter if the victim was Hannibal ****ing Lechter , killing someone without cause is, at the very least, 2nd degree murder, and Chauvin belongs in prison for it, just like…