I would argue that Pink Floyd intended for their albums to be listened to as a whole, but that the reality of the music business meant that they had to release singles during the time of those album releases. I would also argue that when writing up their contract with EMI they decided that they would prefer people listen to the whole concept album rather than one catchy song.
I mean, is it really that bad that they regret the singles being release and wish to rectify that in the future?
Oh dear...you know I didn't even consider that before posting the comment, but I see what you're getting at. Unfortunately due to an overactive imagination, now I've got an image stuck in my head of politicians stealing bags of brains.
and I'm sure many of you will. But wasn't this already accomplished, at least at a basic, rudimentary level with Braingate? And that was seven years ago, I would have thought that there would been much more improvement on their system by now.
I'm still waiting to play, and I believe you that it's going to be a fun system to try out, maybe participate in a campagin or a few one shots. But you seemed the most resonable person to ask my question, and maybe make a point to.
You see I know there are plenty of good fantasy RPG systems out there, and I'm willing to bet 4e is a good fantasy RPG system. Heck, I may even enjoy it more than other D&D systems, but it seems to be so reworked (Saving Throws, Spell Memorization, etc., on top of the original 3e changes to Thac0, altering of proficiencies, etc...) into a fantasy gaming system that seems not to be tied in anyway mechanical way to D&D editions of the past. Now I'm certain I'll enjoy it like the first time I played Whitewolf or Cyberpunk, I'm sure I'll have fun, but what am I missing that's going to remind me this is a D&D Game and not a new fantasy RPG by a new company?
Once again it's not a bad thing if there isn't anything to really harken back, but I'm just curious.
Believe he is using this definition.
Race
2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
I don't suppose you believe they should be prosecuted either? Maybe you've got a point, but I guess my basic desire to be left alone by the internet unless I go out and seek its involvement in my life is behind my dislike of the entire program of streetview. In the end I really don't want people taking pictures of my house so anyone can see it, something that may be useful for commercial establishments I find to be pointless when applied to private residences. And when I see something to be pointless my imagination begins to start working on things that it could be used for, silly and ridiculous at they may seem.
My last sill statement on the matter is that this is why we need to keep our grandparents at home instead of nursing homes. So they can sit on the porch with a shotgun and shoot people who tresspass onto our property.
Understandably, but I was attempting to bolster Anonymous Brave Guy's argument by pointing out that zooming into a window for the purpose of voyeurism could be achieved by simply taking a higher resolution photo. Trying to underline how improving technology can result in the same outcome as something that is currently illegal like framing a window in a shot due to increasing detail in photographs that can be taken.
It's a very touchy subject, privacy. It's something that wealthy people can afford and poor people cannot, but that's always been the case. Me, I think I'll just invest in a ED-209 to protect my property and a small herd of pigs to hide the evidence.
Recently the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled against the use of private roads for personal or commercial use without express permission of the owner(s). I think the Google van is clearly a commercial use of the private road.
How high a resolution does a picture have to be before it's considered equivalent to using a telephoto lens? I mean, the higher resolution images can quite easily be blown up to sizes equal to any telephoto.
In the state of Pennsylvania, private roads are considered private property and may not be used for personal or commercial reasons without the permission of the land owner. In this case it is the Borings. I don't really care about the civil charges, but the google van tresspassed on private property, and so criminal charges can be pressed.
Penn. is a strange state in the ways that its laws give homeowners and property owners additional rights and privledges beyond those found in most other states. Fewer things need to be clearly posted, as they give the homeowner greater rights than the public.
Regardless of the legalities (which will eventually be worked out), or my belief as to the intelligence of the Borings, I refuse to feel bad for a multi-billion dollar company getting sued over a matter of 25K. Their lawyers will spend more money on this case in ball point pens and working lunches than the entirety of this lawsuit. Then again, I'm convinced that Google will eventually grow to become Umbrella Corp., so my own sanity is iffy.
As I stated before, in the State of Pennsylvania private roads cannot be used for personal or commercial purposes without the express permission of the landowners. This may be different then you are used to but it is the law.
It wasn't a private road in the first place, it was actually their private property: "The Borings say the images of their home on the Google site had to be taken from their long driveway, labeled "Private Road," and that violated their privacy." This means that the Google van drove up their driveway, onto their private property from the main road and took photographs of their home from their own property. I fail to see anyway that this can't be seen as tresspassing and invasion of privacy.
In the State of Pennsylvania private roads cannot be used for personal or commercial purposes without the express permission of the landowners. This may be different then you are used to but it is the law.
http://www.williamsscheetz.com/newsletter/PASP07.HTM
But if you read the article:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/04/05/google_sued_over_street_view/
It wasn't a private road in the first place, it was actually their private property: "The Borings say the images of their home on the Google site had to be taken from their long driveway, labeled "Private Road," and that violated their privacy." This means that the Google van drove up their driveway, onto their private property from the main road and took photographs of their home from their own property. I fail to see anyway that this can't be seen as tresspassing and invasion of privacy.
"The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please."
Actually a similar idea was turned into a Reality TV show for Discovery Channel called "It takes a Thief" where former burglers would be invited to break into people's homes and buisnesses and later would offer advice on how to better protect those places from buglaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Thief_(2005_TV_series)
Lizzie Compton, Malinda Blalock, Laura J. Williams, Albert Cashier, Florena Budwin, Mollie Bean, Doctor James Barry. These are just some of the women who were able to convince everyone that they were men while living, sleeping, washing, and fighting alongside these men in wars during the 19th century. There are also hundreds of examples of men passing themselves off as women as any visit to Lucky Cheng's in NYC will show you. In real life people tend to see and believe what they want to see, similar to online. The major difference is, when the girl some boy has been courting IRL turns out to to have the anatomy of a guy, he tends not to spread it around or joke about it usually due to some level of embarassment.
Of course having been around transgendered or crossdressing people most of my life I certainly have a different perspective on the importance of gender and age in the formation of my friendships. And as for everything being about sex...well most interactions between young adults are based around sex, drugs or rock and roll. It's a cliche but true, and it makes sense that it would be expressed similarly online.
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I would argue that Pink Floyd intended for their albums to be listened to as a whole, but that the reality of the music business meant that they had to release singles during the time of those album releases. I would also argue that when writing up their contract with EMI they decided that they would prefer people listen to the whole concept album rather than one catchy song. I mean, is it really that bad that they regret the singles being release and wish to rectify that in the future?
Apostrophe? Isn't that a punctuation error and not a spelling one?
That's just a silly statement. That's like me saying,"Air isn't dangerous, unless we force 200 cubic feet of it into your lungs all at once."
Oh dear...you know I didn't even consider that before posting the comment, but I see what you're getting at. Unfortunately due to an overactive imagination, now I've got an image stuck in my head of politicians stealing bags of brains.
and I'm sure many of you will. But wasn't this already accomplished, at least at a basic, rudimentary level with Braingate? And that was seven years ago, I would have thought that there would been much more improvement on their system by now.
http://www.braingate.com/
Nothing happened? Pssst. Press the power button! There, much better.
I'm still waiting to play, and I believe you that it's going to be a fun system to try out, maybe participate in a campagin or a few one shots. But you seemed the most resonable person to ask my question, and maybe make a point to.
You see I know there are plenty of good fantasy RPG systems out there, and I'm willing to bet 4e is a good fantasy RPG system. Heck, I may even enjoy it more than other D&D systems, but it seems to be so reworked (Saving Throws, Spell Memorization, etc., on top of the original 3e changes to Thac0, altering of proficiencies, etc...) into a fantasy gaming system that seems not to be tied in anyway mechanical way to D&D editions of the past. Now I'm certain I'll enjoy it like the first time I played Whitewolf or Cyberpunk, I'm sure I'll have fun, but what am I missing that's going to remind me this is a D&D Game and not a new fantasy RPG by a new company?
Once again it's not a bad thing if there isn't anything to really harken back, but I'm just curious.
Believe he is using this definition. Race 2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
Well put sir! Well put.
Succinct, and yet brimming with irony. Clever sirrah, you have won this round.
I don't suppose you believe they should be prosecuted either? Maybe you've got a point, but I guess my basic desire to be left alone by the internet unless I go out and seek its involvement in my life is behind my dislike of the entire program of streetview. In the end I really don't want people taking pictures of my house so anyone can see it, something that may be useful for commercial establishments I find to be pointless when applied to private residences. And when I see something to be pointless my imagination begins to start working on things that it could be used for, silly and ridiculous at they may seem.
My last sill statement on the matter is that this is why we need to keep our grandparents at home instead of nursing homes. So they can sit on the porch with a shotgun and shoot people who tresspass onto our property.
Understandably, but I was attempting to bolster Anonymous Brave Guy's argument by pointing out that zooming into a window for the purpose of voyeurism could be achieved by simply taking a higher resolution photo. Trying to underline how improving technology can result in the same outcome as something that is currently illegal like framing a window in a shot due to increasing detail in photographs that can be taken. It's a very touchy subject, privacy. It's something that wealthy people can afford and poor people cannot, but that's always been the case. Me, I think I'll just invest in a ED-209 to protect my property and a small herd of pigs to hide the evidence.
Actually that isn't correct.
http://www.williamsscheetz.com/newsletter/PASP07.HTM
Recently the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled against the use of private roads for personal or commercial use without express permission of the owner(s). I think the Google van is clearly a commercial use of the private road.
How high a resolution does a picture have to be before it's considered equivalent to using a telephoto lens? I mean, the higher resolution images can quite easily be blown up to sizes equal to any telephoto.
In the state of Pennsylvania, private roads are considered private property and may not be used for personal or commercial reasons without the permission of the land owner. In this case it is the Borings. I don't really care about the civil charges, but the google van tresspassed on private property, and so criminal charges can be pressed.
Penn. is a strange state in the ways that its laws give homeowners and property owners additional rights and privledges beyond those found in most other states. Fewer things need to be clearly posted, as they give the homeowner greater rights than the public. Regardless of the legalities (which will eventually be worked out), or my belief as to the intelligence of the Borings, I refuse to feel bad for a multi-billion dollar company getting sued over a matter of 25K. Their lawyers will spend more money on this case in ball point pens and working lunches than the entirety of this lawsuit. Then again, I'm convinced that Google will eventually grow to become Umbrella Corp., so my own sanity is iffy.
That's not a point. That's just you acting like an idiot.
Well said, couldn't have put it better myself.
As I stated before, in the State of Pennsylvania private roads cannot be used for personal or commercial purposes without the express permission of the landowners. This may be different then you are used to but it is the law.
http://www.williamsscheetz.com/newsletter/PASP07.HTM
But if you read the article:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/04/05/google_sued_over_street_view/
It wasn't a private road in the first place, it was actually their private property: "The Borings say the images of their home on the Google site had to be taken from their long driveway, labeled "Private Road," and that violated their privacy." This means that the Google van drove up their driveway, onto their private property from the main road and took photographs of their home from their own property. I fail to see anyway that this can't be seen as tresspassing and invasion of privacy.
In the State of Pennsylvania private roads cannot be used for personal or commercial purposes without the express permission of the landowners. This may be different then you are used to but it is the law. http://www.williamsscheetz.com/newsletter/PASP07.HTM But if you read the article: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/04/05/google_sued_over_street_view/ It wasn't a private road in the first place, it was actually their private property: "The Borings say the images of their home on the Google site had to be taken from their long driveway, labeled "Private Road," and that violated their privacy." This means that the Google van drove up their driveway, onto their private property from the main road and took photographs of their home from their own property. I fail to see anyway that this can't be seen as tresspassing and invasion of privacy.
"The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please."
Actually a similar idea was turned into a Reality TV show for Discovery Channel called "It takes a Thief" where former burglers would be invited to break into people's homes and buisnesses and later would offer advice on how to better protect those places from buglaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Thief_(2005_TV_series)
Wow, I wish I had mod points to give you. This was very informative. Thank you!
Here's an article about flying cars in the CBS news: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454.shtml
Here's a link to the Moller Skycar: http://www.moller.com/skyc.htm
Lizzie Compton, Malinda Blalock, Laura J. Williams, Albert Cashier, Florena Budwin, Mollie Bean, Doctor James Barry. These are just some of the women who were able to convince everyone that they were men while living, sleeping, washing, and fighting alongside these men in wars during the 19th century. There are also hundreds of examples of men passing themselves off as women as any visit to Lucky Cheng's in NYC will show you. In real life people tend to see and believe what they want to see, similar to online. The major difference is, when the girl some boy has been courting IRL turns out to to have the anatomy of a guy, he tends not to spread it around or joke about it usually due to some level of embarassment. Of course having been around transgendered or crossdressing people most of my life I certainly have a different perspective on the importance of gender and age in the formation of my friendships. And as for everything being about sex...well most interactions between young adults are based around sex, drugs or rock and roll. It's a cliche but true, and it makes sense that it would be expressed similarly online.