However, someone unstable enough to drive 70 miles with an axe because of an online argument was probably going to snap at some point, it was not the internet that set him off, it could have been anyone, it only happend to be a guy in a chat room.
true, but the guy in the chat room wasn't getting all the signals that someone in person would have gotten. Email, IM, Chat rooms all lose subtext.
Of course it works both ways, maybe the guy that snapped wouldn't have been rubbed the wrong way if he had been getting all the signals.... We've been social creatures in person a lot longer than we have been social across distances.
You've never spoken to a Democrat have you? Ms. Pelosi from CA and Mr. Kerry from MA are both very critical of the current government and I haven't heard either of them called "a commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die." While I think both of them are asshats, they're not terrorists.
They aren't called that, but they are watched. Since they are in the public eye so much, they don't need to be monitored very much by the government. Reporters will do that for the government. Reporters don't seem to mind asking tough questions of Democrats. No, the FBI needs to watch out for the peace activists, militas, and other such groups.
If prolifers can commit terrorist acts, then who is to say if a peace activist group won't get it into their head that taking out the government will promote peace. Though I think I'd be more afraid of the group with access to weapons, than cookies.
Along the way, BBSes, games, etc gave us the motivation to get under the hoods of our computers, learn to write batch files or even programs, set up modem init strings, resolve IRQ conflicts.
Exactly how I would describe myself learning about computers.
I think the kids of today get lazy with the internet. Instead of looking how to do something themselves they search and search and search on the internet for someone that has already done it.
And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.
That is the nice thing about working at Chevron. We use smartbadges (+pin#) to log into our computers. The worst a user could do is give away their pin#. They usually don't give away their badges since those are used to access the floors too.
Now if I could just get the users to lock their workstations. Even if they computer is set to lock when their badges are removed, I find computers unlocked with badges in the computer and with the user no where around.
A. The MP3s are legal because at the time you ripped them, they were legal. The intervening act was not your own, so I'd be hard pressed to see how a competent trier of fact would rule it infringement.
Also, don't think of the thief as "owning" your CDs. They're still yours. Title does not transfer upon a successful theft.
B. Since you have legal MP3s, then the AHRA says that the answer is "yes."
C. You can certainly make an insurance claim for the value you have lost - the physical CD, which represents the ultimate backup copy, and the album art, etc.
D. The manner in which you have been deprived of the original CD doesn't matter.
To prove that you own something though you need a receipt. Even if he had the CD and was questioned about the MP3s, he'd have to provide proof that he purchased it. A receipt is the only way. Otherwise the CD could be a stolen or fake.
Or at least that is the case in the software realm.
In a way I can answer. I had a similar problem with scanned books and lucky for me I provide IT support for a bunch of lawyers. So I went over to our IP lawyers and asked what I needed to be concerned about with digital copies. After talking to 3 different IP lawyers it all came down to the receipt. If you do not have a receipt you do not own the product.
One example an IP attorney gave me was you could have the original CD with books and still need to produce a record of where you purchased the product...otherwise you could be installing stolen software or have a very good fake.
Not a problem for me since I was scanning books...I just scanned in the receipt.
Hasbro bought out WotC a few years ago and they're running the company about as innovatively as MS is in software.
They've closed all the WotC retail stores which were a great spot to play the games. They paid lucas huge amounts for the rights to star wars, destroying seveal other good games made by others.
It is a bit harsh to compare MS with WotC....I mean WotC has the open gaming license....when do you think MS will do that?
Monte Cook used travel guides as examples of how to do the layout for the book. The end result is the book is very DM friendly. There are reference and side notes on every page. It is the City of the Invincible Overlord for a new generation and much better in quality.
For me it has set the bar on what level of detail I want for my worlds.
Beside the book is beautiful with pictures/art work on every single page. I highly recommend buying the book.
but I have one problem. The demon princes seem extrodinarily weak.
I believe either Erik or James (two of the 3 authors) said that a sentence was removed in editing by WotC. Those CR ratings were supposed to be off their home plane. On their home plane the CRs are supposed to be much higher. As an example look at the difference between James Jacobs' version of Kostchtchie in Dragon Magazine issue 345 (CR28) and the Fiendish Codex I (CR21.
Offtopic a bit, but I wish that nobody required my birthday to identify me. Too many people already know my birthday, so I don't see what is so special about it. You want people to know it, so they can celebrate it.
If birthdays were not a privacy concern, then sites that did genelogy could host many more family trees.
There is this really old technology that deprecates lectures entirely, it is called the "book". Books are lectures you can read at any time for any reason.
However the point is to learn at college and some people learn better by sound.
Podcasts sound like an excellent way to combine both.
material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
Wouldn't that outlaw many movies in addition to pictures....and no where in that does it say sexual violence. Are murders with no sex illegal too...I guess newspapers need to watch what they print.
The movie Titus (Shakespeare)has a rape in the story where the hands of the woman are cut off and her tongue ripped out...I guess they are going to have to edit Shakespeare in the UK.
I don't wish to be mean, but if this is caused by a lousy diet, surely it is.
I guess he could stop eating. I am faced with that choice frequently. It hurts to eat. It is similar to food allergies...you have no clue what is in what you are eating. Playing russian roulette isn't always fun. I usually eat a ton when I know I am in a safe place to suffer....such as at home...thus when I am out people always get mad because I didn't eat very much. Well, you wouldn't eat very much if you knew 20 minutes after you did, you'd be spending 4 hours in the toliet in pain.
So long as he lives in my house, it's my rules in and out of the house. After he leaves, he can get his privacy but not until then.
to quote Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
While I agree that it is your house and your rules, a parent should take away all of their children's rights at some point in the child's life. The children need to understand that they should want those rights returned. They need to earn those rights....they need to understand that somethings are worth fighting for...
It could just be the religious thing; a lot of european social democracies are much less religious than we are.
hmm...I wonder if it has to do with society supporting the individual. My ex-sister-in-law went to church as a support group. When she was in trouble the church bailed her out...all she had to do was bring her kids to be raised the same. When her mother was alive she really didn't go to church. Mom was their to bail her out. Then after the death, she attended church only once she ran into trouble.
If you depend on the state, I guess you wouldn't have to brown nose the church.
Given that evolution suggests selective improvement through change over time, I'd says that the grammatical skills of the Slashdot editors are evidence against that theory...
not enough time has passed...the average slashdot user hasn't had a chance to breed. The Fundies are currently out breeding them.
ok...though I love Stargate (any version), Firefly, and Enterprise or even the new Dr. Who
and BSG and B5....
I find it hard to judge BSG until it is over. It may go the way of Farscape which I love too. I love the SciFi channel, but I fear them messing with successful shows. B5, Firefly, Enterprise are done and can be judged....SG or SGA are still running like BSG and it is up in the air where they will land after all is said and done...
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I've always been confused why some people get harassed, and others don't.
I guess you don't live in a battle state.
Seriously I haven't had any political phone calls, but I live in Texas....
Offtopic> Does anyone else see CN and think 'Choatic Neutral?'
China's not evil.
They play Chaotic Neutral so the paladin in the party with detect evil won't beat them up.
Ok...I'm a geek.
And I'm single.
However, someone unstable enough to drive 70 miles with an axe because of an online argument was probably going to snap at some point, it was not the internet that set him off, it could have been anyone, it only happend to be a guy in a chat room.
true, but the guy in the chat room wasn't getting all the signals that someone in person would have gotten. Email, IM, Chat rooms all lose subtext.
Of course it works both ways, maybe the guy that snapped wouldn't have been rubbed the wrong way if he had been getting all the signals.... We've been social creatures in person a lot longer than we have been social across distances.
You've never spoken to a Democrat have you? Ms. Pelosi from CA and Mr. Kerry from MA are both very critical of the current government and I haven't heard either of them called "a commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die." While I think both of them are asshats, they're not terrorists.
They aren't called that, but they are watched. Since they are in the public eye so much, they don't need to be monitored very much by the government. Reporters will do that for the government. Reporters don't seem to mind asking tough questions of Democrats. No, the FBI needs to watch out for the peace activists, militas, and other such groups.
If prolifers can commit terrorist acts, then who is to say if a peace activist group won't get it into their head that taking out the government will promote peace. Though I think I'd be more afraid of the group with access to weapons, than cookies.
On behalf of Texas and most of the South, I will gladly send all our fireants to space.
Along the way, BBSes, games, etc gave us the motivation to get under the hoods of our computers, learn to write batch files or even programs, set up modem init strings, resolve IRQ conflicts.
Exactly how I would describe myself learning about computers.
I think the kids of today get lazy with the internet. Instead of looking how to do something themselves they search and search and search on the internet for someone that has already done it.
And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.
That is the nice thing about working at Chevron. We use smartbadges (+pin#) to log into our computers. The worst a user could do is give away their pin#. They usually don't give away their badges since those are used to access the floors too.
Now if I could just get the users to lock their workstations. Even if they computer is set to lock when their badges are removed, I find computers unlocked with badges in the computer and with the user no where around.
5 years ago gas was $1.50
What I want is prices before the first Gulf War....or below 80 cents.
How can one hack a diebold voting machine when they are open?
Shouldn't these just be considered mods?
A. The MP3s are legal because at the time you ripped them, they were legal. The intervening act was not your own, so I'd be hard pressed to see how a competent trier of fact would rule it infringement.
Also, don't think of the thief as "owning" your CDs. They're still yours. Title does not transfer upon a successful theft.
B. Since you have legal MP3s, then the AHRA says that the answer is "yes."
C. You can certainly make an insurance claim for the value you have lost - the physical CD, which represents the ultimate backup copy, and the album art, etc.
D. The manner in which you have been deprived of the original CD doesn't matter.
To prove that you own something though you need a receipt. Even if he had the CD and was questioned about the MP3s, he'd have to provide proof that he purchased it. A receipt is the only way. Otherwise the CD could be a stolen or fake.
Or at least that is the case in the software realm.
In a way I can answer. I had a similar problem with scanned books and lucky for me I provide IT support for a bunch of lawyers. So I went over to our IP lawyers and asked what I needed to be concerned about with digital copies. After talking to 3 different IP lawyers it all came down to the receipt. If you do not have a receipt you do not own the product.
One example an IP attorney gave me was you could have the original CD with books and still need to produce a record of where you purchased the product...otherwise you could be installing stolen software or have a very good fake.
Not a problem for me since I was scanning books...I just scanned in the receipt.
My AD&D texts haven't moved from my filing cabinet in 10 years. Do people still play with them? Dice, paper and pencil?
Of course....and some are adding more to experience...with laptops/computers and projectors on the ceiling
SRD version
or you can try this one too
Enworld
Hasbro bought out WotC a few years ago and they're running the company about as innovatively as MS is in software.
They've closed all the WotC retail stores which were a great spot to play the games. They paid lucas huge amounts for the rights to star wars, destroying seveal other good games made by others.
It is a bit harsh to compare MS with WotC....I mean WotC has the open gaming license....when do you think MS will do that?
Monte Cook used travel guides as examples of how to do the layout for the book. The end result is the book is very DM friendly. There are reference and side notes on every page. It is the City of the Invincible Overlord for a new generation and much better in quality.
For me it has set the bar on what level of detail I want for my worlds.
Beside the book is beautiful with pictures/art work on every single page. I highly recommend buying the book.
but I have one problem. The demon princes seem extrodinarily weak.
I believe either Erik or James (two of the 3 authors) said that a sentence was removed in editing by WotC. Those CR ratings were supposed to be off their home plane. On their home plane the CRs are supposed to be much higher. As an example look at the difference between James Jacobs' version of Kostchtchie in Dragon Magazine issue 345 (CR28) and the Fiendish Codex I (CR21.
Offtopic a bit, but I wish that nobody required my birthday to identify me. Too many people already know my birthday, so I don't see what is so special about it. You want people to know it, so they can celebrate it.
If birthdays were not a privacy concern, then sites that did genelogy could host many more family trees.
There is this really old technology that deprecates lectures entirely, it is called the "book". Books are lectures you can read at any time for any reason.
However the point is to learn at college and some people learn better by sound.
Podcasts sound like an excellent way to combine both.
material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
Wouldn't that outlaw many movies in addition to pictures....and no where in that does it say sexual violence. Are murders with no sex illegal too...I guess newspapers need to watch what they print.
The movie Titus (Shakespeare)has a rape in the story where the hands of the woman are cut off and her tongue ripped out...I guess they are going to have to edit Shakespeare in the UK.
So, yeah, I'm unhealthy -- but it's not my fault
I don't wish to be mean, but if this is caused by a lousy diet, surely it is.
I guess he could stop eating. I am faced with that choice frequently. It hurts to eat. It is similar to food allergies...you have no clue what is in what you are eating. Playing russian roulette isn't always fun. I usually eat a ton when I know I am in a safe place to suffer....such as at home...thus when I am out people always get mad because I didn't eat very much. Well, you wouldn't eat very much if you knew 20 minutes after you did, you'd be spending 4 hours in the toliet in pain.
You see, the federal government has a responsibility to train people how not to do work
Since most US Americans don't vote, which do you want, a governemt that does work or one that doesn't?
If people in the federal government did their jobs, you'd have to worry about what they were doing and that means voting.
If people in the federal government didn't do their jobs, it won't matter to you unless you need the federal government to work (see above)
Now if you are insisting that the government work because...well you are paying for it, good luck on getting the average US citizen to vote.
So long as he lives in my house, it's my rules in and out of the house. After he leaves, he can get his privacy but not until then.
to quote Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
While I agree that it is your house and your rules, a parent should take away all of their children's rights at some point in the child's life. The children need to understand that they should want those rights returned. They need to earn those rights....they need to understand that somethings are worth fighting for...
It could just be the religious thing; a lot of european social democracies are much less religious than we are.
hmm...I wonder if it has to do with society supporting the individual. My ex-sister-in-law went to church as a support group. When she was in trouble the church bailed her out...all she had to do was bring her kids to be raised the same. When her mother was alive she really didn't go to church. Mom was their to bail her out. Then after the death, she attended church only once she ran into trouble.
If you depend on the state, I guess you wouldn't have to brown nose the church.
Given that evolution suggests selective improvement through change over time, I'd says that the grammatical skills of the Slashdot editors are evidence against that theory...
not enough time has passed...the average slashdot user hasn't had a chance to breed. The Fundies are currently out breeding them.
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http://gametable.galactanet.com/
http://rptools.net/doku.php?id=maptool:intro
http://trisrpg.bronzeforge.com/index.htm
http://users3.ev1.net/~mem5000/
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/index.html
http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com/index.php?mod
http://www.enworld.org/RolePlayingMaster/
http://www.fantasygrounds.com/
http://www.geocities.com/trainz_ca/ID/
http://www.ghostorb.com/
http://www.kloogeinc.com/
http://www.nbos.com/products/screenmonkey/screenm
http://www.openrpg.com/
http://www.opnpw.com/
http://www.tabletopmapper.hpg.ig.com.br/
http://www.travellerrpg.com/Catalog/software.html
http://www.triaxe.co.uk/dnd/index.php?page=Online
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/viewingdale/index.htm
http://www.webrpg.com/gamesystem/
ok...though I love
Stargate (any version), Firefly, and Enterprise or even the new Dr. Who
and BSG and B5....
I find it hard to judge BSG until it is over. It may go the way of Farscape which I love too. I love the SciFi channel, but I fear them messing with successful shows. B5, Firefly, Enterprise are done and can be judged....SG or SGA are still running like BSG and it is up in the air where they will land after all is said and done...
Hubris.....