I attend Clemson University in South Carolina and my freshman year, a friend of mine created a page which does the exact same thing. The site, http://hubcap.clemson.edu/PSP/ryp.htm is located on the Phi Sigma Pi web site. A national Honors fraternity.
I believe it was a Dr. Li in the Math department (MTHSC) who threatened for several months to sue the web-site creator and the fraternity for libel. The school paper picked up the story and there was a big stink for a couple of months.
Now the lawsuit's basis was that the former web master (it is now automated via Perl) was attempting to remove profanity and total flamage from some of the posts. Dr. Li threatened to sue because of the fact that the former webmaster edited some of the submissions... just not enough b/c there was still profanity and the like. In the web masters defense, there were way too many submission for only one person and he had a hard time keeping up w/ both the site and his classes.
The KICKER here is that I was with this former web master when the idea presented itself. The presenter was another college professor who was meeting with students from the Honors College. He/she was one of the best professors I have had to date so its obvious why he/she pushed this concept. As a matter of fact, he/she remains one of the top ranked teachers on the site.
He/she was also a wonderful connection to have because any conversations between the faculty were forwarded to the former web master and friends and eventually to the web master's lawyer.
So, after several months of B.S., the buffon finally got over the whole liberal thing and the web site was transformed into an automated message board w/ a little math functionality to compute rankings. Go BigBlue!!!
Moron! Do you seriously think that the referenced Oxy tanks would actually have compressed oxygen in them? I'm registered by NASDS as an open water diver and there are strict regulations for the oxygen canisters we use. You have to have your tanks regularly inspected for corrosion and any other number of problems. I can't even begin to imagine what type of regs there are for oxygen canisters in outer space when the ones for inner space are so stringent.
Now, do you actually think that they would leave maxed out canisters laying around. I think not...
They probably had a minimum amount of pressure (probably 1+ atm) which amounts to a minimum amount of danger.
Next time go harp about world hunger and keep your little tabloid posts to yourself.
does neone else think that this could cause a few hiccups for future AV innovations akin to those of icravetv.com.
oh the other hand, in the not so distant future i can easily imagine a unified network for all information/entertainment/etc. admittedly, this would be of some use when utilizing a dumb terminal type setup (akin to Citrix) over a broad network. maybe even the internet.
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I attend Clemson University in South Carolina and my freshman year, a friend of mine created a page which does the exact same thing. The site, http://hubcap.clemson.edu/PSP/ryp.htm is located on the Phi Sigma Pi web site. A national Honors fraternity.
I believe it was a Dr. Li in the Math department (MTHSC) who threatened for several months to sue the web-site creator and the fraternity for libel. The school paper picked up the story and there was a big stink for a couple of months.
Now the lawsuit's basis was that the former web master (it is now automated via Perl) was attempting to remove profanity and total flamage from some of the posts. Dr. Li threatened to sue because of the fact that the former webmaster edited some of the submissions... just not enough b/c there was still profanity and the like. In the web masters defense, there were way too many submission for only one person and he had a hard time keeping up w/ both the site and his classes.
The KICKER here is that I was with this former web master when the idea presented itself. The presenter was another college professor who was meeting with students from the Honors College. He/she was one of the best professors I have had to date so its obvious why he/she pushed this concept. As a matter of fact, he/she remains one of the top ranked teachers on the site.
He/she was also a wonderful connection to have because any conversations between the faculty were forwarded to the former web master and friends and eventually to the web master's lawyer.
So, after several months of B.S., the buffon finally got over the whole liberal thing and the web site was transformed into an automated message board w/ a little math functionality to compute rankings. Go BigBlue!!!
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Moron!
Do you seriously think that the referenced Oxy tanks would actually have compressed oxygen in them? I'm registered by NASDS as an open water diver and there are strict regulations for the oxygen canisters we use. You have to have your tanks regularly inspected for corrosion and any other number of problems. I can't even begin to imagine what type of regs there are for oxygen canisters in outer space when the ones for inner space are so stringent.
Now, do you actually think that they would leave maxed out canisters laying around. I think not...
They probably had a minimum amount of pressure (probably 1+ atm) which amounts to a minimum amount of danger.
Next time go harp about world hunger and keep your little tabloid posts to yourself.
does neone else think that this could cause a few hiccups for future AV innovations akin to those of icravetv.com.
oh the other hand, in the not so distant future i can easily imagine a unified network for all information/entertainment/etc. admittedly, this would be of some use when utilizing a dumb terminal type setup (akin to Citrix) over a broad network. maybe even the internet.
IMHO J-Tempte