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9th Circuit: Thumbnails Are Big Enough For Fair Use
An anonymous reader submits: "According to an article from law.com, yesterday's decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.) will have far-reaching effects on web publishing. From the article: '... The court found that reproducing photographs to create thumbnail images is a fair use of the material, but displaying full-sized images violates the copyright owner's exclusive right to publicly display his works....But the court found that displaying the full-sized images through linking and framing was not transformative and harmed the market for the original photographs.' One lawyer is quoted as saying, 'It's basically going to do away with linking or framing without permission.'"
Just in case anybody missed my earlier post - I have to come clean -- I'm done Karma whoring. Apologies to any and all who wasted mod points modding me up. Soon as my karma = 0, I'm finished.
Oh you better believe that's a paddlin'
Shouldn't you be drowning your sorrows in Molsen, you worthless fucking Canadian?
Feline poop!
OK.
Illness caused by sin says Vatican official
FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME
A SENIOR Vatican official has asserted that illness is the result of sin and that people have a natural desire to be ghealthy and good-lookingh.
Presenting the Popefs message for Lent, Archbishop Paul Cordes, the German head of the Vaticanfs agency for humanitarian aid, maintained that there was scriptural authority for the idea that those who contract illnesses do so because they have sinned.
Father Georges Cottier, the Popefs chief theologian, immediately stepped in to reassure those who were ill that they were not in fact gpaying for their sinsh.
The Pope, in his message, had urged genetic scientists and other health experts not to succumb to the temptation of gtampering with the Tree of Lifeh under the illusion that advances in biotechnology had made man his own creator.
Monsignor Cordes, elaborating on the Popefs remarks, went further and said that the root of much modern illness lay in sinful or immoral behaviour.
gJesus heals sickness and banishes sin,h he said. gHe therefore teaches us that there is a link between sin and illness. This does not happen in every individual case, but it is a fundamental law. The history of salvation shows us that illness is a consequence of sin.h
The theory was enshrined in Roman Catholic doctrine, he said. gManfs desire to be healthy, good-looking and strong is justified because it anticipates our future salvation. One cannot deny that death, of which illness is an anticipation, has always been seen as a consequence of sin.h
He quoted the Gospel of St John, which describes Jesus curing a crippled man he found lying on a pallet by the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. Jesus told the man, who had been crippled for 38 years: gTake up your bed and walkh. Finding him later in the temple, Jesus ordered the cured man to ggo and sin no more, or something worse may happen to youh.
Father Cottier said that the original sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden had gintroduced sin and suffering into the human conditionh. This was not the same as saying the sick were guilty and it was unacceptable to use passages from the Gospel in which Jesus gfrees people from sinh to suggest otherwise.
Commenting on the altercation, La Repubblica said that the idea that those who were vigorous and good-looking were blessed while the ugly and the sick were damned was an ancient one that predated Christianity. La Stampa said that if illness really was the result of sin and crime, then gthe great dictators and criminals of the world would all have been struck downh.
Father Bruno Moriconi, a leading theologian, said that illness was neither a blessing nor a curse, but simply a result of the malfunctioning of the human organism. gThere is no point in looking to the Bible for an explanation.h
What if is was Code and not a picture?
And it was your code.
These formats are sufficient lossy transformations of the real thing. No matter how good a rip is, it cannot be reverted.
fp?
CyberBandal or no