Fair use protections take into account, among other things, the impact on the viability of sales of the copyrighted work from the perspective of the copyright holder. Unless DirectBuy is in the business of selling C&D form letters (which is unlikely, since templates on the Intarweb are far less than a dime a dozen), they're blowing smoke up their own asses. If they did try to file suit for reposting the letter, they'd face a real risk of paying the target's legal costs when they lose, according to copyright law.
I fell victim to the Rush for the first time in 1995 playing Command and Conquer. An aggressive strategy involving starting units or the bottom units of the tech tree will prove successful against a defensive player in a great many RTSes.
wouldn't be a problem in a Randian paradise because artists whose artistic integrity has been transgressed would frequently blow up venues Or just make them disappear?
Oh, and one other duty of the Executive branch is that the Vice President presides over the Senate, and casts tie-breaking votes (but only votes if there is a tie).
He's also responsible for preventing disruptions in the space-time continuum.
Mola Ram: The computers are mine! Indiana Jones: You betrayed Spielberg! Oy, vey, lotta chutzpah that took! You betrayed Spielberg! The computers glow red hot and plummet into the gorge. Mola Ram grabs the last one, burns his hand, loses his grip, and plunges after them, only to be eaten by a rancor when he reaches the river below. Cue gratuitous ring explosion, roll credits.
Your statement doesn't actually refute anything that I said, though. It's certainly true that not all religions are the same, but likewise, two different religions don't necessarily have mutually exclusive sets of properties.
I know it's poor form to reply to one's own post, but I thought I'd share an explanation of the first Crusade.
The Pope wanted to maintain political and military control (as I mentioned above), so he made it a holy duty for knights and armies to go take the Holy Land from the Muslims, much to the consternation of the European kings who found themselves without the military support necessary to increase their own power.
King Montgomery Burns I: Noble knights! Get out there and win me some land! Sally for... er... knights? Where are those blasted knights? Smithers: Uh, the Holy Land, sir. Burns: What in blazes are they doing there? Smithers: Pope Quimby XXXVIII sent them, sir. Burns: Confound that Pope! Well, at least I have you. Smithers: You certainly do, sir. Burns:..........Well? Don't just stand there! Get out there and win me some land! Smithers: (chuckles) Oh, sir, I'd be much more useful to you here. Perhaps you could send some of your many peasants. Burns: Capital idea! Hmm.... Who's that fat lummox there? We'll just send him and call it good enough. Smithers: That's... Homer J. Simpson, sir.
Islam today suffers from the same problems that Christianity suffered from through much of the Middle Ages. It's not so much a problem with the religion itself as it is the organization. The common factor: there's power in the hands of the people in charge of the religious establishment that goes beyond the bounds of religion. With Christianity, it was the Pope, archbishops, etc., vying with kings for political and military power (e.g., the Crusades). Today, Islam has the same problem, with secular political leaders being subject to the whims of religious leaders under the pain of death now and who-knows-what after that.
It's a first person shooter, featuring Nazis against Scientologists. I'm not sure who the protagonists are. It's kind of like the anti-Alien-versus-Predator. Whoever loses, we win.
Too true, but seriously, you ask a good question: Why the web?
For tax preparation software, I can understand it. It changes considerably every year, you only need it for one or two days out of the year, and it facilitates electronic filing.
But where's the convenience in trying to cram a full-featured word processor or spreadsheet into a web browser? I can see this going one place only: micropayments. Clippy says, "It looks like you're trying to write a letter. Please deposit twenty-five cents."
The amazing thing is that CmdrTaco has enough time on his hands to change the OP title to something more appropriate (compared to how it appears in the Firehose), and expands the link to contain more words, but can't be bothered to fix the three other typographical errors that all occur within the first 10% of the OP.
This should be fairly easy for Google to get around, by re-requesting pages within a short time frame using, say, the IE user-agent string, perhaps from a different IP address. If the pages come up hugely different, toss the page out of the index altogether.
Way back in the day, Doom's first implementation of multiplayer used broadcast packets to communicate amongst client machines. The university I attended was, at the time, home to the world's largest unswitched Ethernet. Doom's popularity led to the swift collapse of the entire network on a regular basis, since a broadcast packet would result in a response from every other machine on the network.
id shortly thereafter patched the game not to use broadcast packets anymore. Once the cause of the network failures became apparent, playing the unpatched version of Doom became grounds for having your Intargopher turned off (we didn't call it the Intarweb back in those days, ya whippersnapper).
There used to be an Obfuscated Perl Contest (in the spirit of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest). I suspect that the reason they stopped holding the contest is because of the risk of someone inadvertently causing a universe-collapsing paradox with their contest entry.
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Well, I get the "rip" and "burn" parts, but how do you mix your pants?
Of course, if you do end up overheating and having a seizure, standing in water is probably not the best place to be.
Fair use protections take into account, among other things, the impact on the viability of sales of the copyrighted work from the perspective of the copyright holder. Unless DirectBuy is in the business of selling C&D form letters (which is unlikely, since templates on the Intarweb are far less than a dime a dozen), they're blowing smoke up their own asses. If they did try to file suit for reposting the letter, they'd face a real risk of paying the target's legal costs when they lose, according to copyright law.
Too bad there's only one slot in the head for a heatsink. I wonder if stacking the arms and torso full of them would work.
I fell victim to the Rush for the first time in 1995 playing Command and Conquer. An aggressive strategy involving starting units or the bottom units of the tech tree will prove successful against a defensive player in a great many RTSes.
I grok helmet.
Oh, and one other duty of the Executive branch is that the Vice President presides over the Senate, and casts tie-breaking votes (but only votes if there is a tie).
He's also responsible for preventing disruptions in the space-time continuum.
27. The device according to claim 26 wherein said device goes "WHAM", "POW", or "BIFF" when used.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
In response, Electronic Arts stated that it has agreed to reduce the company's cats-o'-nine-tails down to only seven tails.
Mola Ram: The computers are mine!
Indiana Jones: You betrayed Spielberg! Oy, vey, lotta chutzpah that took! You betrayed Spielberg!
The computers glow red hot and plummet into the gorge. Mola Ram grabs the last one, burns his hand, loses his grip, and plunges after them, only to be eaten by a rancor when he reaches the river below. Cue gratuitous ring explosion, roll credits.
Your statement doesn't actually refute anything that I said, though. It's certainly true that not all religions are the same, but likewise, two different religions don't necessarily have mutually exclusive sets of properties.
I know it's poor form to reply to one's own post, but I thought I'd share an explanation of the first Crusade.
..........Well? Don't just stand there! Get out there and win me some land!
The Pope wanted to maintain political and military control (as I mentioned above), so he made it a holy duty for knights and armies to go take the Holy Land from the Muslims, much to the consternation of the European kings who found themselves without the military support necessary to increase their own power.
King Montgomery Burns I: Noble knights! Get out there and win me some land! Sally for... er... knights? Where are those blasted knights?
Smithers: Uh, the Holy Land, sir.
Burns: What in blazes are they doing there?
Smithers: Pope Quimby XXXVIII sent them, sir.
Burns: Confound that Pope! Well, at least I have you.
Smithers: You certainly do, sir.
Burns:
Smithers: (chuckles) Oh, sir, I'd be much more useful to you here. Perhaps you could send some of your many peasants.
Burns: Capital idea! Hmm.... Who's that fat lummox there? We'll just send him and call it good enough.
Smithers: That's... Homer J. Simpson, sir.
Islam today suffers from the same problems that Christianity suffered from through much of the Middle Ages. It's not so much a problem with the religion itself as it is the organization. The common factor: there's power in the hands of the people in charge of the religious establishment that goes beyond the bounds of religion. With Christianity, it was the Pope, archbishops, etc., vying with kings for political and military power (e.g., the Crusades). Today, Islam has the same problem, with secular political leaders being subject to the whims of religious leaders under the pain of death now and who-knows-what after that.
Too true, but seriously, you ask a good question: Why the web?
For tax preparation software, I can understand it. It changes considerably every year, you only need it for one or two days out of the year, and it facilitates electronic filing.
But where's the convenience in trying to cram a full-featured word processor or spreadsheet into a web browser? I can see this going one place only: micropayments. Clippy says, "It looks like you're trying to write a letter. Please deposit twenty-five cents."
The amazing thing is that CmdrTaco has enough time on his hands to change the OP title to something more appropriate (compared to how it appears in the Firehose), and expands the link to contain more words, but can't be bothered to fix the three other typographical errors that all occur within the first 10% of the OP.
This should be fairly easy for Google to get around, by re-requesting pages within a short time frame using, say, the IE user-agent string, perhaps from a different IP address. If the pages come up hugely different, toss the page out of the index altogether.
Arrrooooo!
Way back in the day, Doom's first implementation of multiplayer used broadcast packets to communicate amongst client machines. The university I attended was, at the time, home to the world's largest unswitched Ethernet. Doom's popularity led to the swift collapse of the entire network on a regular basis, since a broadcast packet would result in a response from every other machine on the network.
id shortly thereafter patched the game not to use broadcast packets anymore. Once the cause of the network failures became apparent, playing the unpatched version of Doom became grounds for having your Intargopher turned off (we didn't call it the Intarweb back in those days, ya whippersnapper).
I think they should bite the bullet and go with "Sextium".
There used to be an Obfuscated Perl Contest (in the spirit of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest). I suspect that the reason they stopped holding the contest is because of the risk of someone inadvertently causing a universe-collapsing paradox with their contest entry.
Old Mac OS:
The Hoff: KITT, I need ya, buddy!
KITT: I'm sorry, Michael, but an error of type -37 has occurred.
Let's try this the other way, then - what's the difference?