If it's 1st edition rules you want, OSRIC is an OGL'ed clone of them, and you can either use old 1e adventures or there's also now a small ecology of new supplements out that go with it. I wish it'd get more attention.
The story I heard via word of mouth was that they were actually going to play Wrath of Khan, with ten minutes of sneak-preview footage from the movie that hadn't been seen before as a bonus. However shortly after Wrath started playing, the old and damaged film caught fire and was destroyed. Then Nimoy revealed himself, and instead of showing the 10 minute teaser, they showed the whole film.
Wow, that doesn't sound at all unlikely. By the way, did you know that because of a bizarre lexicographical quirk that the word "gullible" isn't actually in the dictionary?
I think they got him in trade for letting George Takei be on Heroes. Anyway, I think he'll be good. Remember that a core message of Star Trek is to have optimism about the future even in the face of what seems like adversity. Why not apply that philosophy to the series itself?
I do understand the whole "taxation without representation" problem there, but I've always thought that D.C. folks were trying to resolve that in totally the wrong direction.
I expect there is a lot of movie copying where the bandwidth is sufficient. But I also meant things like software, where if people are going to learn to create multimedia they're going to have to use unlicensed applications, and other kids of content, especially educational content.
As you noticed, I'm involved with open educational resources. And that's great, and the more of them there are the better. But the reality is that there's not enough open content available that's in a useful form, especially for K-12 purposes. And that means that right now poor kids in Lagos or Karachi or wherever are better off with an errant photocopy of a closed content textbook than with whatever can be cobbled together from available OERs. Even more so for kids who aren't learning in English.
I'm not saying that you all at CC are villains for promoting open licensing. But that doesn't mean that a healthy disregard for copyright might not sometimes be a better solution. And one doesn't even necessarily need to hoist the black flag to do that; even something like educators banding together to expand fair use/fair dealing for educational purposes could be part of that.
You assume there's only one culture involved. In much of the non-Western world copyright is a culturally alien concept foisted on people as a means of economic colonialism. In many places it's worthwhile to encourage resistance to copyright instead of assuming that copyright is just there to stay and that observance of it can only grow.
No private company did this, until the Ansari X Prize subsidized them. That prize money was donated, making SS1 of charitable origins. Capitalism is anything but charitable.
Oh, please -- if you knew anything about capitalism you wouldn't be quoting Keynes as an authority on it.
Simply put, there's nothing whatsoever that's anti-capitalist about private charity, in fact quite the opposite. It's the coerced "charity" of the welfare state with which capitalists disagree. But if something's voluntary, capitalists are fine with it.
Remember that the Bill of Rights was written as a "sure, we'll put it in just to be safe" thing. It wasn't part of the original negotiated plan, and was likely written by a legislator who was trying to compe up with a good inclusive list one afternoon.
The way you say "likely" shows that even you can tell that you don't know what you're talking about. The U.S. Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison the year after the Constitution was ratified. It was a compromise with anti-federalists who had been (rightly) suspicious of the power that was being ceded to the federal government. And it wasn't cobbled together in an afternoon, it was based on George Mason's earlier Virginia Declaration of Rights which was included with the Virginia state constitution thirteen years before. Indeed, Mason had refused to endorse the Constitution because it hadn't included that sort of explicit set of guarantees of individual rights.
Just because something's on a required reading list doesn't mean its ideas are inherently endorsed. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays are on the reading list at the U.S. Naval Academy, but I doubt a midshipman would do well to espouse all of Emerson's ideas.
I did work for a firm in 2001-2 that used HavenCo. I recall only one significant outage, which, given the advantage, was worth it for my client. Nor did we have problems with bandwidth. Anyway, I'm sorry to hear of the fire, and hope they'll recover, although I suppose it doesn't look good.
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Let's test it on Venus first.
If it's 1st edition rules you want, OSRIC is an OGL'ed clone of them, and you can either use old 1e adventures or there's also now a small ecology of new supplements out that go with it. I wish it'd get more attention.
-=Steve=-
The story I heard via word of mouth was that they were actually going to play Wrath of Khan, with ten minutes of sneak-preview footage from the movie that hadn't been seen before as a bonus. However shortly after Wrath started playing, the old and damaged film caught fire and was destroyed. Then Nimoy revealed himself, and instead of showing the 10 minute teaser, they showed the whole film.
Wow, that doesn't sound at all unlikely. By the way, did you know that because of a bizarre lexicographical quirk that the word "gullible" isn't actually in the dictionary?
I still can't imagine Sylar as Spock, though...
I think they got him in trade for letting George Takei be on Heroes. Anyway, I think he'll be good. Remember that a core message of Star Trek is to have optimism about the future even in the face of what seems like adversity. Why not apply that philosophy to the series itself?
I work for a university, and for many of my students, Facebook is the only way to send messages, unless you count text messaging.
Hey, I didn't know Hillary Clinton posts here!
first thing you need to buy is a company copy of Belarc Advisor or similar
There's not a torrent somewhere?
-1, Evil.
I do understand the whole "taxation without representation" problem there, but I've always thought that D.C. folks were trying to resolve that in totally the wrong direction.
My geek imagination is now all atwitter imagining an alternate gopher-driven universe.
That sounds a lot like Minitel.
I expect there is a lot of movie copying where the bandwidth is sufficient. But I also meant things like software, where if people are going to learn to create multimedia they're going to have to use unlicensed applications, and other kids of content, especially educational content.
As you noticed, I'm involved with open educational resources. And that's great, and the more of them there are the better. But the reality is that there's not enough open content available that's in a useful form, especially for K-12 purposes. And that means that right now poor kids in Lagos or Karachi or wherever are better off with an errant photocopy of a closed content textbook than with whatever can be cobbled together from available OERs. Even more so for kids who aren't learning in English.
I'm not saying that you all at CC are villains for promoting open licensing. But that doesn't mean that a healthy disregard for copyright might not sometimes be a better solution. And one doesn't even necessarily need to hoist the black flag to do that; even something like educators banding together to expand fair use/fair dealing for educational purposes could be part of that.
You assume there's only one culture involved. In much of the non-Western world copyright is a culturally alien concept foisted on people as a means of economic colonialism. In many places it's worthwhile to encourage resistance to copyright instead of assuming that copyright is just there to stay and that observance of it can only grow.
Why, is that the open source alternative?
-=Steve=-
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Indeed, which is why when President Bill Pullman gets into a F-15 to help fight the aliens in Independence Day its call sign becomes Air Force One.
Denmark is pretty good about not censoring their cartoons.
No private company did this, until the Ansari X Prize subsidized them. That prize money was donated, making SS1 of charitable origins. Capitalism is anything but charitable.
Oh, please -- if you knew anything about capitalism you wouldn't be quoting Keynes as an authority on it.
Simply put, there's nothing whatsoever that's anti-capitalist about private charity, in fact quite the opposite. It's the coerced "charity" of the welfare state with which capitalists disagree. But if something's voluntary, capitalists are fine with it.
Remember that the Bill of Rights was written as a "sure, we'll put it in just to be safe" thing. It wasn't part of the original negotiated plan, and was likely written by a legislator who was trying to compe up with a good inclusive list one afternoon.
The way you say "likely" shows that even you can tell that you don't know what you're talking about. The U.S. Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison the year after the Constitution was ratified. It was a compromise with anti-federalists who had been (rightly) suspicious of the power that was being ceded to the federal government. And it wasn't cobbled together in an afternoon, it was based on George Mason's earlier Virginia Declaration of Rights which was included with the Virginia state constitution thirteen years before. Indeed, Mason had refused to endorse the Constitution because it hadn't included that sort of explicit set of guarantees of individual rights.
Just because something's on a required reading list doesn't mean its ideas are inherently endorsed. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays are on the reading list at the U.S. Naval Academy, but I doubt a midshipman would do well to espouse all of Emerson's ideas.
"We?" Dude, the whole point is that you're not supposed to tell people you're a Cylon.
It does, but only if you're still paying attention to that particular subject, and by then I wasn't.
I did work for a firm in 2001-2 that used HavenCo. I recall only one significant outage, which, given the advantage, was worth it for my client. Nor did we have problems with bandwidth. Anyway, I'm sorry to hear of the fire, and hope they'll recover, although I suppose it doesn't look good.
I guess ten minutes of snatch is better than nothing....
Someone wake me when there's a version of Flash (or even Swish) for Linux. Until then any talk of equality is way premature.
...buy a Congressman.