03-09-2002 00:14									#1
	Greeks ban computer games! and mobile phones! Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5206

quote: ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilisation appears to have got its Aristotles all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter. The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles. The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake. And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU. The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment. And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones. Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF. Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose. Here are some details of the **** up in Greek. And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organisation. Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates! µ

So Markos; stop playing Civ; you are breaking the law .

	03-09-2002 00:17									#2
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if it was a mistake then why don't they fix it?

	03-09-2002 00:20									#3
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Since this is a "computer gaming forum" so to speak, does that mean that Apolyton could be raided at anytime now?!

	03-09-2002 00:27									#4
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When games are outlawed, only outlaws will play games! Which is good, because then they'll spend all their time honing their Warcraft III Battle.net rushing strategies instead of committing murder and recreational pillage.

	03-09-2002 00:31									#5
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20th century madness...

	03-09-2002 01:19									#6
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You know, say what you will, Turkey's never banned games.

They've banned freedom of speech, but you can't have everything, right?

	03-09-2002 01:23									#7
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This is outrageous.... Greece is actually a dictatorship.

	03-09-2002 01:44									#8
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I hope this means they'll close Apolyton.

	03-09-2002 02:39									#9
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Dear God!

Something must be done about this Greek place.

	03-09-2002 02:49									#10
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EASY PEOPLE!!! The server is in Texas, so we are cool.

Markos might be arrested though......

	03-09-2002 02:52									#11
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Markos, get out of that backward country! Maybe Turkey will be more tolerant.

	03-09-2002 03:35									#12
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"The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles. "

There in good hands with mother england now

	03-09-2002 03:49									#13
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I hope they won't say games are evil and attack us .

Why can't people waste their money on slots etc? I thought democracy was about choices..

	03-09-2002 18:18									#14
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korea's always a good bet too, markos:

good food, and computer games have professional leagues there...

	03-09-2002 18:45									#15
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Wouldn't it just be a hoot and a holler if it turned out that they accidently banned the Olympics too? I mean, the Olympics are televised and televisions are electronic aren't they? We can't have the Olympics without television cameras can we? It only stands to reason that the Athens Olympics must go!

	03-09-2002 19:29									#16
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oh, **** you all

	03-09-2002 20:18									#17
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The Poly Greeks have lost all authority to make fun of the US now.

My sig seems oddly appropiate for this thread.

BTW, how long would the government of South Korea survive if it tried something like that Q Cubed?

	03-09-2002 20:22									#18
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not that Greeks are needed to make fun of america but this non enforcable law hardly equates for the shame of american society as a whole or its murderous ways abroad. only an american would think it does...

	03-09-2002 20:25									#19
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It is a violation of basic freedoms comparable to Nazi book burnings and makes alot of the "stupid" American laws seem like a blessing in comparison.

	03-09-2002 20:26									#20
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it's only on paper though. and civ 3 is not the same as thus said zarathustra.

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oh that edit: no american laws retain their full redicule compared to this.

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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 it's only on paper though. and civ 3 is not the same as thus said zarathustra.

So you mean that if I reported Mark for running an underground criminal website and you for rampant violations of the law, nothing would happen?

	03-09-2002 20:34									#23
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right, thats sooo believable.

	03-09-2002 20:36									#24
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i would prolly think that the young adults and teenagers, being the type typically to have protested in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s every september and what not, would be back doing the same.

the gov't is prolly happy that they're all in cybercafes now... saves on riot police, no?

	03-09-2002 20:41									#25
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dino, that's right. it only affects illegal gambling. i thought you would have understood it by now, if not for your intentded troll oriented thickness. (and the fact that you live in mississippi)

	03-09-2002 20:44									#26
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breakin' the law breakin' the law

	03-09-2002 20:59									#27
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 dino, that's right. it only affects illegal gambling.

That's the way it is intended to work but that isn't the way it is written.

	03-09-2002 21:06									#28
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yes.
and Greece is still officially at war with Albania from WW2 because it sided with Italy and we occupied it.
(again this serves a purpose)

You don't see us throwing rockets at it.

It's in the way that you use it.

	03-09-2002 21:48									#29
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So this

quote: so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF

never happened?

	03-09-2002 21:55									#30
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AFAIK No. They arrested a man who was using his PCs for illegal gambling.

The rest is funny stories.