lmnopf... despite what many people at rpi might tell you means NOTHING it was a social experiment to see what people would do and say about a random string of letters posted EVERYWHERE on campus... a true 'campus hack' of the student mind that is... it was followed by an easter event but nobody noticed that...
Perhaps we should all re-examine this chain of thinking... the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity were done by ATHIESTS (such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, ect.) these atrocities merely seem to be the greatest beacuse of their temporal proximity... but really lets look at some recent but not nearly so publicized (recently) atrocities: Slobodan Milosevic (that guy in Croatia... the patron saint of ethnic cleansing) or just glance at the relations between northern Ireland and the UK... whats with these people... it seems then that if you even examine the earlier examples of Hitler, Mao... they were also killing in the name of 'god' or perhaps themselves as they saw it. But I must say that the number of atrocities commited every day, and I don't just mean killings I speak of social ostacization and other mean and nasties, in the name of 'our friend' the christian god makes those 'atheist' killers seem like children. Now I don't mean to just launch into an all day anti-christian rant, we all know i can do that forever... This can indeed be brought back to the topic at hand. While it would be true that if more people belived in the christian religion as it is WRITTEN the world would be a better place, problem: it only takes one disaffector to bring the whole thing down. That and it could probably be shown that many 'christians' are exactly those responsible for the feelings of ostrasization and isolation that fellows like Klebold and Harris felt. You see religions themselves and their believers are not at fault its the pretenders... those who want to believe but don't want to go to the trouble of actually finding out what it is that they need to do to be better human beings... they want a 10 or so item 'code of conduct' to pay lip service to that will make them feel superior to the next guy, and possibly speed him on his way to whatever post-mortem fate may be his due. -- My two cents nothing more, nothing less. I speak for no-one but myself, and not even that most of the time.
The RPG 'license' debate has been flowing fairly freely for a while now. I remember having seen TSR shut down a couple of large repositories of AD&D based material claiming copyright infringement. I always thought that was kind of odd when half of what they published was information on how to create your own stuff. Fanfic strikes me as living in the same genre... I know I have often written or at least thought out alternate plot twists to my favorite books/comics/movies/tv shows what have you... and even occasionaly posted them for the enjoyment of like minded individuals who also like to speculate about what might have been. Done with this intent in mind i fail to see why a company or author would be displeased by this. Now as to the question of revenues or whatever as far as I see it if nobody's selling the fan-fic then no harm done. I will admit to having seen a number of adolescent fantasies played out in fan-fic in fact I would even go so far as to say that that would encompass the majority of what I have seen, but again I do not see such things as harming the origonal product, the're just bad fan-fic.
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lmnopf... despite what many people at rpi might tell you means NOTHING it was a social experiment to see what people would do and say about a random string of letters posted EVERYWHERE on campus... a true 'campus hack' of the student mind that is... it was followed by an easter event but nobody noticed that...
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Perhaps we should all re-examine this chain of thinking...
the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity were done by ATHIESTS (such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, ect.)
these atrocities merely seem to be the greatest beacuse of their temporal proximity... but really lets look at some recent but not nearly so publicized (recently) atrocities: Slobodan Milosevic (that guy in Croatia... the patron saint of ethnic cleansing) or just glance at the relations between northern Ireland and the UK... whats with these people... it seems then that if you even examine the earlier examples of Hitler, Mao... they were also killing in the name of 'god' or perhaps themselves as they saw it. But I must say that the number of atrocities commited every day, and I don't just mean killings I speak of social ostacization and other mean and nasties, in the name of 'our friend' the christian god makes those 'atheist' killers seem like children. Now I don't mean to just launch into an all day anti-christian rant, we all know i can do that forever... This can indeed be brought back to the topic at hand. While it would be true that if more people belived in the christian religion as it is WRITTEN the world would be a better place, problem: it only takes one disaffector to bring the whole thing down. That and it could probably be shown that many 'christians' are exactly those responsible for the feelings of ostrasization and isolation that fellows like Klebold and Harris felt. You see religions themselves and their believers are not at fault its the pretenders... those who want to believe but don't want to go to the trouble of actually finding out what it is that they need to do to be better human beings... they want a 10 or so item 'code of conduct' to pay lip service to that will make them feel superior to the next guy, and possibly speed him on his way to whatever post-mortem fate may be his due. -- My two cents nothing more, nothing less. I speak for no-one but myself, and not even that most of the time.
The RPG 'license' debate has been flowing fairly freely for a while now. I remember having seen TSR shut down a couple of large repositories of AD&D based material claiming copyright infringement. I always thought that was kind of odd when half of what they published was information on how to create your own stuff. Fanfic strikes me as living in the same genre... I know I have often written or at least thought out alternate plot twists to my favorite books/comics/movies/tv shows what have you... and even occasionaly posted them for the enjoyment of like minded individuals who also like to speculate about what might have been. Done with this intent in mind i fail to see why a company or author would be displeased by this. Now as to the question of revenues or whatever as far as I see it if nobody's selling the fan-fic then no harm done. I will admit to having seen a number of adolescent fantasies played out in fan-fic in fact I would even go so far as to say that that would encompass the majority of what I have seen, but again I do not see such things as harming the origonal product, the're just bad fan-fic.