Because we all live in a club, called "society", where we make certain sacrifices to personal freedom to help everybody. As a society, we've decided that you can't be a jerkass by building unsightly properties next to others, because it takes too much away from property values and deprives others' of their own enjoyment of their property.
Unless you have enough money to ignore/change the regulations as you see fit. If you are rich you may ignore most of these sacrifices (as well as being able to outright buy yourself out of traffic tickets/other minor infractions). If you are poor you are out of luck, sorry.
And I seem to remember many liberals thinking that Bush should be impeached. I don't know what the numbers were, but you didn't cite a source for yours, so...
That's because Bush should have been impeached...We really ought to hold our leaders to higher standards (present case included) and stop killing people for profits (er...killing terrorists for freedom...right...).
So if I make a page about my school, good or bad, I shouldn't use the colors that the whole town is plastered in? His site was about the school, I don't see why he shouldn't use the colors associated with the subject matter...
"made a site with a name that could be confused with the school's main site, "
As far as I know, official college sites belong in the.edu domain. IMO it has become standard not to expect much from.com sites.
"and even put links to the main site for further confusion (deliberate or not)."
Now this and the location of his disclaimer may be misleading... but... it seems as though he intended for the site to be informative, so why not provide links to relevant matter (a.k.a. the school's official information) As for the disclaimer, I noticed it almost immediately when I visited the page.
Also, this is taken from the "about" page which is the first link on the top of the page...
"If you want boring facts about the school, read the catalog; if you have questions about the school, this site, or the meaning of life, email me; if you have suggestions for improvements to this site, go here.
Seriously, this site is the creation of one law student at a prominent Louisiana Law School. This site represents the views of that student and many of his classmates."
I think that this is a rediculous waste of resources, and that this student was well within his rights to publish the site. As stated in other comments, this page was not commercial in any sense, just one student's criticisms/mockery of the school he attends.
Although the upcomingmovies page seemed to have plenty of information, I think they could have utilized a little more than half the page... Two columns less than half the page wide combined makes for some unnecessary eyestrain at this time of night.
I was a little surprised to see Blacksburg Electronic Village as one of the examples, because compared to Seattle we are a very small town. On the other hand, we do have a very successful electronic community here, and I think the are two main reasons for this:
The first reason is that Blacksburg as a whole supports this online community. The whole town is devoted to improving local connections and online information. The second reason is the support received from Virginia Tech. We have several research oppurtunities related to BEV, and have played a large roll in deveoping and improving this community continuously.
From this it seems large-scale community involvement and university support help promote a healthy electronic community.
That's funny, because I too came up with a similar idea and tried explaining it to my girlfriend.
My idea however was based largely on not only a cyclic universe, but the cycle of time as well. That is, the universe goes through cycles because time runs in a loop, there is no starting or ending point, just one continuous circle.
I like the idea of prophets being beings who remember the previous cycle, that one had never crossed my mind before.
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Because we all live in a club, called "society", where we make certain sacrifices to personal freedom to help everybody. As a society, we've decided that you can't be a jerkass by building unsightly properties next to others, because it takes too much away from property values and deprives others' of their own enjoyment of their property.
Unless you have enough money to ignore/change the regulations as you see fit. If you are rich you may ignore most of these sacrifices (as well as being able to outright buy yourself out of traffic tickets/other minor infractions). If you are poor you are out of luck, sorry.
And I seem to remember many liberals thinking that Bush should be impeached. I don't know what the numbers were, but you didn't cite a source for yours, so...
That's because Bush should have been impeached...We really ought to hold our leaders to higher standards (present case included) and stop killing people for profits (er...killing terrorists for freedom...right...).
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
So does that mean a Beowolf cluster of these would be considered Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Because if they started "price gouging" then everyone on slashdot would be outraged :)
So if I make a page about my school, good or bad, I shouldn't use the colors that the whole town is plastered in? His site was about the school, I don't see why he shouldn't use the colors associated with the subject matter...
"made a site with a name that could be confused with the school's main site, "
As far as I know, official college sites belong in the .edu domain. IMO it has become standard not to expect much from .com sites.
"and even put links to the main site for further confusion (deliberate or not)."
Now this and the location of his disclaimer may be misleading... but... it seems as though he intended for the site to be informative, so why not provide links to relevant matter (a.k.a. the school's official information) As for the disclaimer, I noticed it almost immediately when I visited the page.
Also, this is taken from the "about" page which is the first link on the top of the page...
"If you want boring facts about the school, read the catalog; if you have questions about the school, this site, or the meaning of life, email me; if you have suggestions for improvements to this site, go here.
Seriously, this site is the creation of one law student at a prominent Louisiana Law School. This site represents the views of that student and many of his classmates."
I think that this is a rediculous waste of resources, and that this student was well within his rights to publish the site. As stated in other comments, this page was not commercial in any sense, just one student's criticisms/mockery of the school he attends.
Although the upcomingmovies page seemed to have plenty of information, I think they could have utilized a little more than half the page... Two columns less than half the page wide combined makes for some unnecessary eyestrain at this time of night.
I was a little surprised to see Blacksburg Electronic Village as one of the examples, because compared to Seattle we are a very small town. On the other hand, we do have a very successful electronic community here, and I think the are two main reasons for this:
The first reason is that Blacksburg as a whole supports this online community. The whole town is devoted to improving local connections and online information.
The second reason is the support received from Virginia Tech. We have several research oppurtunities related to BEV, and have played a large roll in deveoping and improving this community continuously.
From this it seems large-scale community involvement and university support help promote a healthy electronic community.
That's funny, because I too came up with a similar idea and tried explaining it to my girlfriend.
My idea however was based largely on not only a cyclic universe, but the cycle of time as well. That is, the universe goes through cycles because time runs in a loop, there is no starting or ending point, just one continuous circle.
I like the idea of prophets being beings who remember the previous cycle, that one had never crossed my mind before.