Looks like SunnComm learned their lesson from the RIAA, MPAA and SCO: Filing lawsuits because your organization sucks just makes more people realize that your organization sucks.
Using the campus network from dorms is a privledge, not a right. UofF has not only the right but the responsibility to ensure that their network resources are protected, not only from without but from within as well.
If students want to file share (legit or otherwise), or game, or whatever, without restrictions, they can drop the cash for DSL or cable.
Using any connection you paid for should be a right. When I paid for my dorm room, the cost included food, TV, water, electricity and Internet. I should be allowed to use the services I paid for regardless of whether or not they're on campus.
But even if adopted your stance, I couldn't get cable or DSL even if I wanted to spend the money. The campus has its own phone system and wiring. The best alternative would be dial-up.
Result: I moved out of the dorms and pay for DSL from a local provider who lets me use the bandwidth I paid for (just as long as their asses are in the clear).
This isn't about sex and violence, but about the DVD owner's rights to fair use. As well as other things, fair use is supposed to guarentee us the right to edit and view DVD's we own however we want. As most of you are aware, the MPAA doesn't like this and is trying to prevent it. That is what the EFF is standing up against.
Well, you're right that this movie not having much of a chance as a religion. It has as much of a chance as becoming a religion as Star Trek did. Err, hmm.
But to say that it has nothing to do with religion and philosophy is an extremely inaccurate statement. Even going back to the beginning of the first movie, Neo picks up "Simulation and Simulacra" and opens it up to the last chapter of the ("On Nihilism"), but we quickly see that the book is fake. It has been hollowed out; empty and void. You don't see any philosophical implications there?
After getting a disk out of the book he goes to the door and gives a guy the disk. The guy responds: "Hallelujah. You're my savior man; my own personal Jesus Christ." And in The Matrix Reloaded we find out that Neo was created by the Architect so that a piece of him could be used to create the rest of humanity. Not seeing the connection?
There are plenty of connections, from Alice in Wonderland to the the Greek gods. (Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and was abducted by Plato to reign with him over the underworld.) But if you cannot catch one of them, don't fret. You can always just enjoy seeing Neo kick ass with nifty special effects.
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No, no. I don't think you understand. This is /. CBG is never offtopic.
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For you Canadians, that's about 70 elk.
I ussally just rent the first season on DVD, if it's good, me and my girlfriend rent the next, and so on.
That's exactly what I do, except I "borrow" them from a friends I suddenly met over the Internet.
Looks like SunnComm learned their lesson from the RIAA, MPAA and SCO: Filing lawsuits because your organization sucks just makes more people realize that your organization sucks.
But even if adopted your stance, I couldn't get cable or DSL even if I wanted to spend the money. The campus has its own phone system and wiring. The best alternative would be dial-up.
Result: I moved out of the dorms and pay for DSL from a local provider who lets me use the bandwidth I paid for (just as long as their asses are in the clear).
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This isn't about sex and violence, but about the DVD owner's rights to fair use. As well as other things, fair use is supposed to guarentee us the right to edit and view DVD's we own however we want. As most of you are aware, the MPAA doesn't like this and is trying to prevent it. That is what the EFF is standing up against.
Haha. It doesn't matter if it was meant to be funny. It just is funny.
Well, you're right that this movie not having much of a chance as a religion. It has as much of a chance as becoming a religion as Star Trek did. Err, hmm.
But to say that it has nothing to do with religion and philosophy is an extremely inaccurate statement. Even going back to the beginning of the first movie, Neo picks up "Simulation and Simulacra" and opens it up to the last chapter of the ("On Nihilism"), but we quickly see that the book is fake. It has been hollowed out; empty and void. You don't see any philosophical implications there?
After getting a disk out of the book he goes to the door and gives a guy the disk. The guy responds: "Hallelujah. You're my savior man; my own personal Jesus Christ." And in The Matrix Reloaded we find out that Neo was created by the Architect so that a piece of him could be used to create the rest of humanity. Not seeing the connection?
There are plenty of connections, from Alice in Wonderland to the the Greek gods. (Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and was abducted by Plato to reign with him over the underworld.)
But if you cannot catch one of them, don't fret. You can always just enjoy seeing Neo kick ass with nifty special effects.