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join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | Re: Wow It's sweeps month. What did you expect? | |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
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join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
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| Re: Wow Yeah everyone just rolls around with picto chat open, don't you have to have the DS open and in pic to chat to "chat"? sems dumb like the rest of the stories that have blown the wifi thing out of proportion.
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Re: Wow DS has to be on, Pictochat has to be open, evil pedophile has to be within 300 yards, and then I think there's some degree of the kid having to authorize him as a buddy.... | |
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join:2006-02-16
Nashville, TN
| Re: Wow 300 feet actually  . They were in a pretty open area for testing though, through walls or moving cars I imagine it'd be cut down from that.
Pictochat doesn't use the friend code system from what I understand, but even then it's a 1-in-a-million shot that a pedophile happens to have a DS, kid(s) have a ds with pictochat open (not playing a game), and they're in range.
I highly doubt most of the kids that have a DS even care about pictochat. Their comment about a pedo seeing a kid from their moving car and typing to them is stupid as well, how are you supposed to drive and do that at the same time? | |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Re: Wow Feet, yeah sorry...my bad. That was my though too -- kids probably got bored with Pictochat on day two.... | |
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Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ
| Re: Wow said by DHRacer  :Well, the news media has certainly gone from: "We report the facts." to "We make up the facts in the absence of same because there's nothing else to report.". Another reason why I take my 8:00 news with a 5 pound block of salt, and don't beleive a word they say. Then why do you continue to watch. The best way to stop someone is stupid banter if you do not have the power to physically stop is just to not listen to the point of not even re-iterating it to others.
Do you want make the major media outlets smarter so they can come up with more sophisticated ways to lie?  | |
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
·Charter Pipeline
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| Re: Wow I continue to watch because I just want some idea of what's going on in the world. I want to hear about the EVENTS. The "analysis" part of newscasts I just tune out.
Also, I pick my newscasts carefully. For example, I won't watch CNN, Fox, MSNBC and I try to avoid the other big three (CBS, NBC, ABC). Unfortunately, SeeBS just bought the independent channel I was enjoying for news.
I like Google News online, but it doesn't cover much local stuff.
I think the news should be limited to the FACTS and small words, and that sensationalist reporting be outlawed. Not to mention, any news reporter with an opinion ought to keep it to themselves because I'd like to make up my own mind, not listen to theirs.
There is this one channel in L.A. called Channel 5, and the one newscast guy does a good job. He reports the news (FACTS), and then later has a "Commentary" section where he gives his opinion of the news, and they are very clear it's a Commentary because they announce it as such. Too bad its only one station that does this.
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join:2001-09-10
Falls Church, VA | Agreed I smell lawsuit  | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
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1 edit | sounds about right.
I guess it was a slow news day for Fox then or someone up there was wanting to get there hands on a Wii still.
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA | Re: sounds about right. "slow news day for FoxABC" fixed that for ya. | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: sounds about right. opps i was talk about the video. thx for fix. | |
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kaila
join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL
clubs: | I'm sure glad we..... have ISP log retention laws coming. That will surely save us from this menace...... /sarcasm | |
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mr weather
Premium
join:2002-02-27
Mississauga, ON | Breaking news! Anna Nicole Smith just died.
Now THERE'S a news story for them to jump on.
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join:2000-05-11
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| Re: Breaking news! Well, actually, she died yesterday. Pedophiles make much better sweeps "news" stories than dead adults.
Now, if some blond 9 year old beauty pageant contestant should turn up dead...
Seriously, if you're tired of this kind of crap, call the station doing the "reporting" and let 'em have it.
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Mchart
Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL
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1 edit | Re: Breaking news! I bet pedophiles killed the 9 year old beauty pageant contestant using a DS from 300' away, 15 years into the future. Remember kids, pedophiles can molest you in any space-time continuum.
Of course, they won't report that thousands of children just died from starvation in Africa, or that another soldier died in Iraq. Them pedophiles are much worse. | |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | Good ridence to a piece of shit. I lost all respect for when she married that 90yr old. Well, Ive never had respect for her. hahaha great news!! | |
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thender2
Glamour Profession
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| No fun for Thasp When I was a kid, I had a game boy with the yellowish screen, and a link cable.
The chances of finding someone else who had a game boy on them and the same game as you in 1996 was as high as FUCK SHIT CUNT getting through post watch right now. 
Now there are all sorts of games you can play, tons of other kids with a DS, and even pedos around if no kids are. It's more fun today.
Time to be serious, though - this is is a communication medium. If you want to bash the DS, bash cellphones, bash web browsing, bash the internet, bash having your kid socialize in the schoolyard basketball court after school. There comes a point where you have to stop being a sick paranoid freak and let your kid enjoy a fucking video game without yelling TERRORISM AND PEDOPHILES ARE EVERYWHERE AND THEY'RE COMING TO KILL YOUR CHILDREN! You don't realize you sound like Wade in Garfield.
I can't imagine living in a world where parents shield their kids from video games, NOT because it prevents them from getting good grades/going outside, but because of pedos.
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Mchart
Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | Re: No fun for Thasp Yeah. I love how the news isn't reporting on how pedophiles could just as easily call up your kid on their cellphone (Yes, sadly for some reason parents are buying their kids cellphones..). | |
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StumpMan
Premium
join:2001-07-26
Clinton, NC | ratings...pure ratings WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!
Seriously though, I think more damage often winds up being done when someone goes to lengths to protect children. | |
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Jodokast96
R.I.P Bassman442
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join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ | Here's a novel idea... READ THE F***ING MANUAL!! | |
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Mchart
Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | Re: oh no Back in the day the popular news topic for slow news days would have been -
REPORT - How a pedophile can rape or molest your child through the newspaper. | |
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NyQuil Kid
8f The Nyquil Kid
join:2001-01-06
Brick, NJ | Blinding glimpse of the obvious... Is it being suggested that the mainstream media shapes its reports without resorting to facts? Be still my heart :-p
[8F] The NyQuil Kid | |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ
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| Let's see: Sweeps? Check. Popular Game Platform? Check. Wireless "Internet"? A two-fer. Child Porn? Pedophiles? You just knew that this was gonna be in there.
Fox News?
I don't think I will belabor the obvious.
Ok, let's everybody get in a circle, hold hands and jump up and down, screaming in our most terrified manner, "CHILD PORN! Child porn! Child porn!".
There. You are now good, receptive and well-educated citizens.
This has been your Two Minutes of Hate. We have always been at war with Child Porn. Or was that drugs? | |
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Middieman
Eschew Obfuscation
join:2001-02-05
Elkins Park, PA
| child porn? Must have been a slow news day. (I saw the actual story on my local ABC station. Knew it was BS. What else is new?)
Usually we have much more interesting things going on. For instance: »abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?secti···=5012770
Yep. Head coach of the Philly Eagles' kids are into drugs and guns with a little road rage mixed in. Oh my.
The station didn't need to manufacture that one. (This week ABC 6 is investigating mattress manufacturers refurbishing used mattresses and selling them as new. Evil! ...and possibly true. Yawn.)
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viperpa33s
Why Me?
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join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL
·Bright House
| Just keeping parent's informed I seen the video and though they may have gone a little overboard, I think they were just keeping parent's informed. Not that this issue could happen but it may happen. Basically telling parents just to keep an eye out for it. The news story never said to never buy a Nintendo DS because of this. | |
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belawrence
It's All About The Games
join:2000-08-06
Santee, CA
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| this is why This is why online play on Nintendo's systems is inferior to everything else. Because they're seen as the 'Disney' of videogames they came up with that convoluted 'friend code' system that only allows you to play with people you exchange a ridiculously long multi-digit code with, the exception being a few DS games where you can play with anyone, but there's no chat or any other type of communication between players-just a avatar, if that. And every time one of these FUD stories about little Timmy being sent text messages from from the 'net on his DS from some pedophile just makes Nintendo think that they're doing the right thing, even though what is being reported is about as likely as being struck by lightning.
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Chivalry
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join:2005-02-10
Chula Vista, CA
·AT&T DSL Service
| We should be scared of words. Since they're talking about the possibility of the DS's Wi-Fi capability being used by pedophiles to target children, let's disregard the range limitations, the fact that the kid has to add them as a buddy, and so forth for a moment. Yes, I suppose in some imaginative world it could be used by pedophiles to target children.
Hey, I just thought of something else pedophiles could use to communicate to children: Words! Why, if they were in the 300 feet range the DS has on its Wi-Fi, they could use words to communicate evil things to children. We should sew everyone's mouth shut just to be safe. | |
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The Nintendo DS Pedophile Nightmare
Can we afford to take chances?
oh no