Re:First photo? Wild Turin Shroud theories...
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Wrong - it is certainly NOT a painting. The simplest reason is that the pigment on the extremely fine linen showed NO seepage to the underside of the thin fibers, impossible if a liquid is applied. There are many other points of proof.
It is almost certainly a camera obscura image - see this page, halfway down, for a description. It may or may not have been Leonardo (the painted version showed up earlier, but is posited in this case to have been redone under commission by Leonardo), but if not, it was done by another extremely capable artist using available painter's chemicals to create the light-sensitive substrate. To the point that the artist would have used his own body, probably there are better ways to spend one's time than standing motionless covered in white paint in the hot Italian sun for hours (a cadaver would do just as well).
Need some strong evidence? A recreated version of the shroud as a photograph that is extremely compelling can be seen halfway down this page. It is actually of much higher resolution than the shroud, but was made using the same camera obscura process.
The DMCA allows anyone to easily force an ISP (or something like Napster) to kick off others by alleging copyright violations. However, the catch is that, if you are wrong, you face the penalty of perjury.
Metallica/NetPD admit that the list may not be completely accurate. Let's say that it is 99% accurate. That still leaves 3,000 people kicked off unfairly. If those people were to hit back, Metallica/NetPD would be faced with serious risk of massive perjury.
Use the AT&T/IBM ISP service. It works almost anywhere you would travel to. Ten bucks gets you a universal adapter kit, and you usually connect at 24 Kbps or better.
In my case, the laptop has completely replaced the TV and the newspaper - I still get out as much, still have (some) friends, just choose to use the Internet for news and information rather than other means. The Internet has simply displaced other information sources for me.
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It is almost certainly a camera obscura image - see this page, halfway down, for a description. It may or may not have been Leonardo (the painted version showed up earlier, but is posited in this case to have been redone under commission by Leonardo), but if not, it was done by another extremely capable artist using available painter's chemicals to create the light-sensitive substrate. To the point that the artist would have used his own body, probably there are better ways to spend one's time than standing motionless covered in white paint in the hot Italian sun for hours (a cadaver would do just as well).
Need some strong evidence? A recreated version of the shroud as a photograph that is extremely compelling can be seen halfway down this page. It is actually of much higher resolution than the shroud, but was made using the same camera obscura process.
Microsoft has cash on hand (cash and short-term investments) of $26.9B (report).
The DMCA allows anyone to easily force an ISP (or something like Napster) to kick off others by alleging copyright violations. However, the catch is that, if you are wrong, you face the penalty of perjury.
Metallica/NetPD admit that the list may not be completely accurate. Let's say that it is 99% accurate. That still leaves 3,000 people kicked off unfairly. If those people were to hit back, Metallica/NetPD would be faced with serious risk of massive perjury.
Takers?
Use the AT&T/IBM ISP service. It works almost anywhere you would travel to. Ten bucks gets you a universal adapter kit, and you usually connect at 24 Kbps or better.
In my case, the laptop has completely replaced the TV and the newspaper - I still get out as much, still have (some) friends, just choose to use the Internet for news and information rather than other means. The Internet has simply displaced other information sources for me.