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  • #76
    I agree, Paiktis, but I assume you understand why I put it like that. Anyway, I'm a realist so I don't believe my signature won't make a difference, but I want to encourage other Apolytoners to sign. BTW is it you who have spamed the F word in the petition?
    "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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    • #77
      Could you post the links Rasbelin? I'm not having any luck finding them (though I'm having to move quickly since I'm at work and shouldn't even be here )
      I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...

      Civ and WoW are my crack... just one... more... turn...

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      • #78


        No.

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        • #79
          Okay, here's a brief list on different activities.

          Current petitions

          Greek gaming community in danger
          Greek Internet Cafe Union - Real life paranoia!

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          gameland.gr

          Post your thoughts regarding this law to the Greek Parliament. The law is "Proedriko Diatagma 174, Teyxos 1, 30 July 2002 'Apagoreush Paigniwn.' "
          Hellenic parliament
          "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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          • #80
            Markos it seems you were right all along. I owe an apology. The goverment makes no discretion of games and gambling.

            I am currently studying in larisa for my degree and as i have regretably found out all the coin-up shops have been closed down.All people did in those shops was to play a couple of VIRTUA STRIKER games, not gamble.

            Moreover most net-cafes have forbiden games to be played by their custommers, just so they have no problems with the police.

            1-2 shops had indeed gambling machines installed but that doesn't mean they should close them all.

            I have been informed that the same situation applies to my home town of Thessalonica.

            Simply put, it's absurd.
            "Military training has three purposes: 1)To save ourselves from becoming subjects to others, 2)to win for our own city a possition of leadership, exercised for the benefit of others and 3)to exercise the rule of a master over those who deserve to be treated as slaves."-Aristotle, The Politics, Book VII

            All those who want to die, follow me!
            Last words of Emperor Constantine XII Palaiologos, before charging the Turkish hordes, on the 29th of May 1453AD.

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            • #81
              I know, our greek friends should disguise their computers as cookers or tables or something.

              Maybe this law is so that the police can take any computer that they suspect of being used for terrorism..

              We should all put a stop to this insanity, before it gives G Bush some mad ideas.

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              • #82
                I might come in too late here... but the greek government is full of crap... what the hell are they trying to pull? Does Greece have a constititution that provides rights? I am a conservative and I play computer games too... and even if I am a conservative this banning is idiotic.

                I doubt Bush would even think about following the same path.
                For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                • #83
                  I'll agree with Fez on this one... though I think the government is waiting to see how the courts receive a test case in a few weeks... that is, if the news I read is correct.
                  I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...

                  Civ and WoW are my crack... just one... more... turn...

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                  • #84
                    The biggest possibility is, hopefully, the Supreme Court in Greece would probably overturn this law... most likely being unconstitiutional... that is if Greece really is democratic.
                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Fez
                      The biggest possibility is, hopefully, the Supreme Court in Greece would probably overturn this law... most likely being unconstitiutional... that is if Greece really is democratic.

                      I got the feeling any nation east of the danube is not.



                      This is a load of crap. I would be picket lining and protesting so fast it would make your head spin. But with my luck, we would have a greek version of the Tiananmen Square.
                      I drink to one other, and may that other be he, to drink to another, and may that other be me!

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                      • #86
                        Thrawn,

                        bloodbath on Syntagma in Athens? That would be... absurd.
                        "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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                        • #87
                          Thrawn05: Greece is south of Danube. If you really want to fit it into east/west, it is west of the Danube.
                          Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                          • #88
                            Does it apply to TV games? I mean, the games
                            need electricity to function: People register
                            by phone: Electricity - > BAN.
                            Not that I like TV games, mind you, but do the lawyers realize how much silly hte law they made are?
                            And what about toys? No electronic toys for
                            Greek children for Christmas? I suggest the Greeks here start a new doll and wood-toys industry. There will be lots of demand. Of course parents will have to convince their boy that this slick wooden sword is so much cooler than a gameboy...
                            Seriously, is there some massive reaction from the people or will this silly law stay there forever?
                            Clash of Civilization team member
                            (a civ-like game whose goal is low micromanagement and good AI)
                            web site http://clash.apolyton.net/frame/index.shtml and forum here on apolyton)

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                            • #89
                              If you have been surfing around for information and discussions/outbursts related to this new law, you have most likely seen plenty of rants and general discussion. In general I would recommend signing the petitions and using gameland.gr as a starting point for your excurison into this subject.
                              "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by Adalbertus
                                Thrawn05: Greece is south of Danube. If you really want to fit it into east/west, it is west of the Danube.

                                I was thinking of the part of the danube that moves from north to south, by Budapest. That's were I drew the line.
                                I drink to one other, and may that other be he, to drink to another, and may that other be me!

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