Friday, February 06, 2009

Steve Englebright, Deck Chair Re-arranger extraordinaire

As New York struggles with a crippling budget shortfall, State Assemblymember Steve Englebright has reintroduced a bill to post warning labels on all videogames sold in the state giving notice that people who have photosensitive epilepsy might have a seizure triggered by the lights or patterns in the game. This despite the fact that games already have this warning in the instruction manuals, and that anybody who knows that he or she has photosensitive epilepsy almost certainly already knows that flashing lights can trigger a seizure, because that's the definition of photosensitive epilepsy.

Of course this is about par for the course re: New York, redundant laws, videogames, and why the budget can't ever be passed on time

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