i had heard something about universities beginning to ban napster, though i never thought it would actually happen at ohio state, where i go to school. but this past monday, the school announced that they were blocking campus access to napster- and they have. disturbing, considering we're one of the biggest colleges in the country. we've responded by sharing all the mp3s we have on the school network... but it just isn't as efficient or easy as napster to find the songs you want. c'est la vie.
>And as you may know, it took European inventiveness to put a practical use to paper, i.e. the printing press that actually isn't true. believe it or not, the chinese actually invented the first printing press, too. europeans are responsible for movable type, not the printing press itself. and, johannes gutenberg, who is generally thought to have invented moveable type, didn't. he merely invented a new alloy used in movable type blocks. it's actually this kind of egoistic attitude not based on fact that causes a lot of countries to think of the US as a nation of belligerent hegemonists: "we made everything." so untrue.
actually, china was included in the above-ground test ban treaty signed by the US and USSR so many years ago. detonations of nuclear devices in space by china are therefore a violation of this treaty.
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the university is banning access to the service. as a philosophy major, i'm not really sure how, but as i understand it, that's what they're doing.
i had heard something about universities beginning to ban napster, though i never thought it would actually happen at ohio state, where i go to school. but this past monday, the school announced that they were blocking campus access to napster- and they have. disturbing, considering we're one of the biggest colleges in the country. we've responded by sharing all the mp3s we have on the school network... but it just isn't as efficient or easy as napster to find the songs you want. c'est la vie.
>And as you may know, it took European inventiveness to put a practical use to paper, i.e. the printing press that actually isn't true. believe it or not, the chinese actually invented the first printing press, too. europeans are responsible for movable type, not the printing press itself. and, johannes gutenberg, who is generally thought to have invented moveable type, didn't. he merely invented a new alloy used in movable type blocks. it's actually this kind of egoistic attitude not based on fact that causes a lot of countries to think of the US as a nation of belligerent hegemonists: "we made everything." so untrue.
actually, china was included in the above-ground test ban treaty signed by the US and USSR so many years ago. detonations of nuclear devices in space by china are therefore a violation of this treaty.