Or, for that matter, try out the games from Cheapass Games. Honestly, do you need another set of plastic pawns and dice for your game? Admittedly, for games like this Doom game, I'm sure the figurines is half the fun, but the average geek probably still has tons of lead miniatures that would provide sufficient demons for this usage.
That said, is anyone else reminded of the Day of the Dead boardgame? (link can't be checked, at work and the filters don't allow anything with "game" in it. Alt link or use Google to find it yourself)
Back to your argument: if you had two cars, one which got you from point A to B killing people, and the other which killed no one, the no-killing version is better.
You're absolutely right. Which makes me wonder why no one is happy when the government enforces speed limits. After all, it reduces fatalities, right? Heck, we ought to have a little governor built into the engine to ensure people don't go too fast.
That said, I'm against capital punishment too. I'm a strong believer that anyone can eventually reform or at least see the error of their ways. (Ok, treatment of actual psychopaths is pretty useless after age 5 or so...) Death is just so... final. I think what needs to be done is to simply enforce life incarcerations and reduce amenities for people who misbehave. Can't get along with your cellmates? Oops... there goes visiting priveleges. Abusing the Internet system? Sorry, no computer. Throwing away food? Well, we can supply exactly enough caloric content for you to keep going on and no more. Why waste tasteful food on you at this point?
You're lucky. I was born in Kentucky and people mistake me for having an Australian accent. In Kentucky. I suspect the "accent" for me is simply that I clearly enunciate my words and in a lot of peoples' minds, that means "foreign."
And even identical twins don't have identical genetics, as there are random mutations going on during development after the split. They're just very similar. Heck, there's even a very small chance of identical twins with different genders, although some would say that that large of a difference keeps them from being identical no matter how they developed. Gosh, and that's not even getting into half-identical twins, where the split in the egg happens before fertilization...
In addition, in order to be logically consistent, an anti-ES person must be against women's birth control hormones. Why? Because typically the contraceptive hormones do NOT prevent conception, they merely make the uterine wall lining a less hospitable place for a zygote to develop. So then the next time the woman goes to the bathrooom...wooosh, down the toilet goes the "person".
{nods} Which was an interesting bit of semantic wordplay when they put the change through to allow "contraceptive" to refer to items which didn't prevent conception at all. Then, there's that little factoid where a small percentage of them do implant, but are then essentially starved by the horomones cutting out their food supply. Makes you wonder how long it will be before methods of early-term abortion (other than RU486) are also labeled as "contraceptives." *wry grin* And again, at the least the Catholic position is consistent here.
Unfortunately, the media presents the issue as if little babies were being killed for their cells...infact, a cluster of 32 cells that have not differentiated into any of the embryonic germ layers hardly constitute an organism at all, let alone what we consider a "person".
Probably doesn't help the case when the media was talking all about harvesting stem cells from victims of partial-birth abortions. There, I'm guessing it was actually adult stem cells of some sort being used, but since the average viewer doesn't know the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells...
Where's the logic here ? If stem-cell research should be banned because allowing a Day-5 blast to arrest is killing a baby, why do they not have any issue with, or even debate over the effects of the IVF treatments where the stem-cells for this research are obtained ?
Actually, Catholics are indeed against IVF, as well as a number of other reproductive technologies that involve planned deaths. *shrug* Just figured it was worth mentioning that they are consistent, even if you don't agree with them.
I wonder if they could practice doing it with different voices in each ear? That would be pretty amazing...
As I understand it, there's a hardwired limit in the human brain that keeps one from processing information coming in from seperate ears, at least without some surgery on the corpus callosum, same as how there was that recent study showing that you can't ignore an angry voice; your brain will still process it and act upon it.
I guess the question would be whether they were really asking for your ethnicity or for your location of birth. I'm caucasian no matter where I was born (and boy am I white...). I think part of the problem is that it's become politically correct to not refer to an ethnicity by a term like Mongoloid or Negroid. Therefore, we get terms like "Asian" or "African American" that refer to locations rather than ethnicity.
Check out http://www.ageofconsent.com. Interestingly enough, the age of consent is actually 16 in most states of the US, 18 without parents' consent. On the other hand, "Corruption of a minor," which technically includes kissing, has an upper limit of 18 in Ohio. So in other words, I can have sex with a 16 year old with her parents' consent, but I can't kiss her? Weird...
*tired smile* Sure, if you can condense your candidates down to a single issue, it's no problem voting for someone who supports your side, but has no chance of winning. After all, neither of the candidates who have a chance support your side, so why not toss away a vote? The rest of us have to deal with the fact that there's a number of issues involved and throwing away your vote on a third-party candidate also voids your chances of influencing other issues. And no, I don't buy the "if enough people wake up and vote for a third-party candidate..." line given that none of them are listed on a firm majority of state ballots, let alone the swing states.
*sigh* I'm probably being a bit harsh here. But honestly, you're not coming off so soft in your comment which I'm replying to.
Know why sound technicians say "Check One Two. Check One Two"?
If they could count any higher, they'd be lighting technicians.
I agree that there probably was more to the case. Heck, after seeing that they're involved in a campaign involving a van with billboard and seeing the list of other jokes, I wouldn't be surprised if the joke were less of a quiet aside to a friend and more of a shouted at the top of the lungs announcement. *shrug* But honestly, they're doing a pretty good job. They'll get massive publicity for this and I doubt the media will paint them as anything but a pair of fun-loving jokesters unjustly persecuted by the law. After all, everyone loves an underdog and haven't all of us wanted to start cracking jokes like that when stuck in tortuous legal situations?
Isn't "people of color" un-PC?
Heck if I know anymore... I remember when that became the "correct term" in grade school, FWIW. Personally, I just say "blacks" in conversation and "negroes" when speaking in a paper. I figure the first is common enough and the second is properly recognizing the defined physiology terms.
To bring this (sort of) on topic, do we refer to the X-men as "mutants" or "differently abled people" these days?
Nobody wants to play a fat guy or an ugly gal.
I disagree. Start playing the various anime-based dating games and you'll find that often, you're not playing the most stunning piece of humanity in the game. Admittedly, a minority of them are truly ugly, but they adhere a bit closer to the reality of the kind of person who desires to play a game where choosing the right dialogue choices will result in non-stop sex.
That said, there's an interesting double-standard there. Jackie's Fridge said it pretty well when one of the characters (female) commented that when you see an ugly guy walking down the street with a beautiful girl on his arm, you think "lucky bloke" whereas when you see a good-looking guy with an ugly girl on his arm, you think "poor sod." (admittedly, I tend to use less British slang, but I'm trying to get close as possible to the original quote without trying to access said site from work)
FWIW, I remember that story too, I think. The author (female) using it got damned depressed because the computer's books were selling better than hers. Can't remember the name, but just verifying you're not crazy (this time).
Actually, as I understand it, the amount of people with bad vision isn't that high. Most people get along fine without glasses or contacts. Now, on the other hand, in technical areas, bad vision seems to be the norm. Supposedly long hours of television or monitor viewing at an early age can do something to defocus your eyes. *shrug* The results of that study keep ping-ponging back and forth depending on what result the tester wants. Personally, I think eyeglasses are just such "geek chic" that they're more noticeable.
On the other hand, you might have a point in that diet plays a role in vision. (Oh, and to answer your question, glasses were likely invented around 1280, at least according to Wikipedia, grains of salt implied.
It varies from college to college and sometimes upon the course. While a history class will probably be valid 10 years later (We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia), the same can't be said for programming courses.
Oh man, this is so true. Every single class, everyone sits there and listens to the lecture, and then without fail some bonehead will raise his hand and ask what material they should actually look at for the test. It drives me up the wall, and is very disrespectful, as it basically just tells the prof he's just wasted his time trying to get these people to learn anything new and interesting. All they want to know is what they need to cram into their brains the night before the test so they can pull that all-important "C" grade.
I don't know what your professors were like, but I had several who had an amazing talent for winding up talking about things that had nothing to do with the subject on hand. On one hand, the tangents could be very useful when they pointed out esoteric shortcuts or highlighted practical experience. On the other hand, when the professor already knows what things he's going to put on the test, I prefer that he cover that material rather than ramble on about his Air Force days with their less-than-one safety factors or the time when he impressed a girl by how rapidly he solved an ODE. (Both true stories, sadly enough) Asking if things were on the test was a good way to shock them out of it.
As for the extensions, I also don't entirely agree. College is a time for exploring limits and it's not uncommon for a student to find he can't handle his 17 credit hours of classes, 20 hours of work per week, and other obligations, especially in those times when everyone schedules things on the same day. Repeat or career offenders whould not be given slack. Ditto for students who can't display an excuse and/or preliminary work. But if a student comes in the day before a project is due, explains their situation, and shows what work they have done, I don't see extending the deadline for a day or so to be so bad, maybe under slightly reduced credit for the work, and definitely ofering extending the deadline for the rest of the class under the same terms too. In "The Real World," deadlines slip too. That said, no matter how good the excuse, if a student has to rely on deadline extensions more than once, he needs to work on his time-management skills. Maybe he's better off taking 5 years to graduate rather than 4, or to take a slightly lower-paying job which allows for better hours and/or opportunity to work on his homework during slack periods (I did food services for my first semester and computer labs for the next 6. Definitely an improvement. Heck, it even paid better...).
I thought about the same regarding my math skills at one time. Then, Slashdot ran that feature on free calculus textbooks. I read one of them and have managed to recoup most of my progress there. You've already learned this stuff once. Re-learning it is much easier as long as you don't try to jump stright into higher levels. Start with as basic of a level as you need. You'll ramp up faster than you expect. It's like riding a bike.
That would be Songmaster. And definitely a good book. That one was particularly interesting because essentially, Ansset didn't properly understand gender as it related to sexual activity. He was an innocent in most senses of the word. ^_^ And that funneling of death benefits in the middle of the story... societies change; corruption endures.
Overall, I would say that Orson Scott Card has his views on life and probably holds to them in this world, but as he writes science fiction and fantasy, he feels comfortable in having his characters act entirely different. It's that "what-if" mentality that drives the genre.
Gun safety essentially reduces accidents and introduces a healthy respect for the power of the gun. IIRC, most of the school shootings involved kids who had been raised with guns and were quite safe with their usage. *wry grin* I'm sure they didn't shoot any kids accidentally...
That said, those were fairly degenerate cases. Most children instead come away from gun safety courses with an increased understanding that guns really can kill even when you don't mean to whether it's from accidentally triggering the gun when fiddling around with it or if it's brandishing your gun at someone while in a fit of anger and having it go off. They face the reality that when they pull that trigger, someone's likely to get badly wounded or killed. Given as most people are not murderers at heart, they're probably less likely to wind up killing someone.
ATITD seems more of a treadmill in large part because the main timesinks are not challenging or puzzling. That is a flaw in the design of the game, not a flaw inherent in MMOs.
I would disagree. While there were indeed some tasks that were tedious (for instance, the first task you get in the tutorial of gathering clay for bricks, building a kiln, getting knives, making flax...), there were also some truly interesting challenges like creating an artistic work that was judged by peers. Or, for instance, the test of leadership where you had to prove you could engender trust by hiding a chest of gold, telling 10 people how to get into it, then have said chest unmolested for a week of game time. To me, the "Maces of Blud-Kurdle" and "+50 Swords of Nymph-Poking" were the tests. You had to grind your way up to them, but once you started hitting upper levels, you were faced with more and more interesting tasks. The fact that once an advance was reached, it was available to everyone made it easier for people to catch up, producing more of a sloping pyramid of skill levels. The fact that you could only advance to the next level if there were a sufficient number of people on the level below you meant that there was a good reason to help and train others in the game.
But again, I think the tedium was a problem. While registered users could set themselves traveling, log off, then log back on to find themselves having moved in the interim, piddling things like producing bricks and such still needed to be babysat. I believe that MMOs should allow you to set up a routine task list to be accomplished when you're not online. Maybe it would be at a slightly lower effectiveness (only 4/5 as much wood picked up per time unit, scaled for how much wood is actually in your vicinity when you leave). The list would probably need to be refreshed at least once a day as the items are depleted and of course, they wouldn't spontaneously advance (if you were gathering mud for bricks, you might be able to build the bricks, but you couldn't schedule building the kiln or schedule firing items in the kiln). *shrug* But of course, people would likely complain, just like they did in World of Warcraft when the rest system introduced diminshing returns for long hours of play.
... but why? It's not like the terrorists need thosuands of frames per second. Although I'm sure a thousands-of-frames-per-second film clip as the sniper bullet hits would spread like a bad social disease across the Internet.
That's what meta-moderation is for. Although how it actually changes anything is somewhat foggy.
Outside of a warm and fuzzy feeling and maybe a higher chance for moderator points for the meta-moderator? Well, if you mark a moderation unfair, the mod does receive a nice little message telling them their moderation has been metamoderated unfair. Assuming they haven't turned the nice little messages off. Assuming they care. *shrug*
If you are linking directly to the mp3 files, as many of these torrent tracking sites do, then yes, I'd wager that you can be found liable.
We're both kind of guilty of only targetting a particular part of each others' arguments. When you used "linking," I think you were referring exclusively to the direct linking to files, specifically torrent files whereas I initially responded thinking "link to a website" as in the DeCSS case and 2600 and probably didn't properly fix things up to show that I was thinking a more broad sense of links.
With a bittorrent link, yes, I would be pretty definitely liable unless I were linking blindly to files, in which case I'd just be ignorant and probably deserving of being punished. With a regular weblink, I might link to her MP3 recitation of "Love's Labor Party's Loss.MP3" and then she puts up a file with that name containing Britney Spears' latest hit. There, I linked in good faith, but the content was changed. With torrent files, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to change the destination file. (I think I remember someone posting here about how to break the hash, so I won't say impossible)
That said again, the torrent tracking sites were duly warned and it was only when they kept at their wicked course that they were prosecuted. I think that's fair. *wry grin* Admittedly, those warnings, when used with ISPs like Adelphia, can mean your contract is abruptly severed because they want to avoid legal trouble whether or not the complainers own the files in question... *grumble* Ok, so I'm still a bit bitter, but I'm digressing. Different kinds of links and torrents are awfully hard to be accidentally linking to illegal material.
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You forgot Gordon.
You need to shell out an additional $30 for the expansion set if you want to play him.
That said, is anyone else reminded of the Day of the Dead boardgame? (link can't be checked, at work and the filters don't allow anything with "game" in it. Alt link or use Google to find it yourself)
You're absolutely right. Which makes me wonder why no one is happy when the government enforces speed limits. After all, it reduces fatalities, right? Heck, we ought to have a little governor built into the engine to ensure people don't go too fast.
That said, I'm against capital punishment too. I'm a strong believer that anyone can eventually reform or at least see the error of their ways. (Ok, treatment of actual psychopaths is pretty useless after age 5 or so...) Death is just so... final. I think what needs to be done is to simply enforce life incarcerations and reduce amenities for people who misbehave. Can't get along with your cellmates? Oops... there goes visiting priveleges. Abusing the Internet system? Sorry, no computer. Throwing away food? Well, we can supply exactly enough caloric content for you to keep going on and no more. Why waste tasteful food on you at this point?
You're lucky. I was born in Kentucky and people mistake me for having an Australian accent. In Kentucky. I suspect the "accent" for me is simply that I clearly enunciate my words and in a lot of peoples' minds, that means "foreign."
And even identical twins don't have identical genetics, as there are random mutations going on during development after the split. They're just very similar. Heck, there's even a very small chance of identical twins with different genders, although some would say that that large of a difference keeps them from being identical no matter how they developed. Gosh, and that's not even getting into half-identical twins, where the split in the egg happens before fertilization...
{nods} Which was an interesting bit of semantic wordplay when they put the change through to allow "contraceptive" to refer to items which didn't prevent conception at all. Then, there's that little factoid where a small percentage of them do implant, but are then essentially starved by the horomones cutting out their food supply. Makes you wonder how long it will be before methods of early-term abortion (other than RU486) are also labeled as "contraceptives." *wry grin* And again, at the least the Catholic position is consistent here.
Unfortunately, the media presents the issue as if little babies were being killed for their cells...infact, a cluster of 32 cells that have not differentiated into any of the embryonic germ layers hardly constitute an organism at all, let alone what we consider a "person".
Probably doesn't help the case when the media was talking all about harvesting stem cells from victims of partial-birth abortions. There, I'm guessing it was actually adult stem cells of some sort being used, but since the average viewer doesn't know the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells...
Where's the logic here ? If stem-cell research should be banned because allowing a Day-5 blast to arrest is killing a baby, why do they not have any issue with, or even debate over the effects of the IVF treatments where the stem-cells for this research are obtained ?
Actually, Catholics are indeed against IVF, as well as a number of other reproductive technologies that involve planned deaths. *shrug* Just figured it was worth mentioning that they are consistent, even if you don't agree with them.
I wonder if they could practice doing it with different voices in each ear? That would be pretty amazing...
As I understand it, there's a hardwired limit in the human brain that keeps one from processing information coming in from seperate ears, at least without some surgery on the corpus callosum, same as how there was that recent study showing that you can't ignore an angry voice; your brain will still process it and act upon it.
I guess the question would be whether they were really asking for your ethnicity or for your location of birth. I'm caucasian no matter where I was born (and boy am I white...). I think part of the problem is that it's become politically correct to not refer to an ethnicity by a term like Mongoloid or Negroid. Therefore, we get terms like "Asian" or "African American" that refer to locations rather than ethnicity.
Check out http://www.ageofconsent.com. Interestingly enough, the age of consent is actually 16 in most states of the US, 18 without parents' consent. On the other hand, "Corruption of a minor," which technically includes kissing, has an upper limit of 18 in Ohio. So in other words, I can have sex with a 16 year old with her parents' consent, but I can't kiss her? Weird...
*sigh* I'm probably being a bit harsh here. But honestly, you're not coming off so soft in your comment which I'm replying to.
If they could count any higher, they'd be lighting technicians.
I agree that there probably was more to the case. Heck, after seeing that they're involved in a campaign involving a van with billboard and seeing the list of other jokes, I wouldn't be surprised if the joke were less of a quiet aside to a friend and more of a shouted at the top of the lungs announcement. *shrug* But honestly, they're doing a pretty good job. They'll get massive publicity for this and I doubt the media will paint them as anything but a pair of fun-loving jokesters unjustly persecuted by the law. After all, everyone loves an underdog and haven't all of us wanted to start cracking jokes like that when stuck in tortuous legal situations?
Heck if I know anymore... I remember when that became the "correct term" in grade school, FWIW. Personally, I just say "blacks" in conversation and "negroes" when speaking in a paper. I figure the first is common enough and the second is properly recognizing the defined physiology terms.
To bring this (sort of) on topic, do we refer to the X-men as "mutants" or "differently abled people" these days?
I disagree. Start playing the various anime-based dating games and you'll find that often, you're not playing the most stunning piece of humanity in the game. Admittedly, a minority of them are truly ugly, but they adhere a bit closer to the reality of the kind of person who desires to play a game where choosing the right dialogue choices will result in non-stop sex.
That said, there's an interesting double-standard there. Jackie's Fridge said it pretty well when one of the characters (female) commented that when you see an ugly guy walking down the street with a beautiful girl on his arm, you think "lucky bloke" whereas when you see a good-looking guy with an ugly girl on his arm, you think "poor sod." (admittedly, I tend to use less British slang, but I'm trying to get close as possible to the original quote without trying to access said site from work)
FWIW, I remember that story too, I think. The author (female) using it got damned depressed because the computer's books were selling better than hers. Can't remember the name, but just verifying you're not crazy (this time).
On the other hand, you might have a point in that diet plays a role in vision. (Oh, and to answer your question, glasses were likely invented around 1280, at least according to Wikipedia, grains of salt implied.
It varies from college to college and sometimes upon the course. While a history class will probably be valid 10 years later (We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia), the same can't be said for programming courses.
I don't know what your professors were like, but I had several who had an amazing talent for winding up talking about things that had nothing to do with the subject on hand. On one hand, the tangents could be very useful when they pointed out esoteric shortcuts or highlighted practical experience. On the other hand, when the professor already knows what things he's going to put on the test, I prefer that he cover that material rather than ramble on about his Air Force days with their less-than-one safety factors or the time when he impressed a girl by how rapidly he solved an ODE. (Both true stories, sadly enough) Asking if things were on the test was a good way to shock them out of it.
As for the extensions, I also don't entirely agree. College is a time for exploring limits and it's not uncommon for a student to find he can't handle his 17 credit hours of classes, 20 hours of work per week, and other obligations, especially in those times when everyone schedules things on the same day. Repeat or career offenders whould not be given slack. Ditto for students who can't display an excuse and/or preliminary work. But if a student comes in the day before a project is due, explains their situation, and shows what work they have done, I don't see extending the deadline for a day or so to be so bad, maybe under slightly reduced credit for the work, and definitely ofering extending the deadline for the rest of the class under the same terms too. In "The Real World," deadlines slip too. That said, no matter how good the excuse, if a student has to rely on deadline extensions more than once, he needs to work on his time-management skills. Maybe he's better off taking 5 years to graduate rather than 4, or to take a slightly lower-paying job which allows for better hours and/or opportunity to work on his homework during slack periods (I did food services for my first semester and computer labs for the next 6. Definitely an improvement. Heck, it even paid better...).
I thought about the same regarding my math skills at one time. Then, Slashdot ran that feature on free calculus textbooks. I read one of them and have managed to recoup most of my progress there. You've already learned this stuff once. Re-learning it is much easier as long as you don't try to jump stright into higher levels. Start with as basic of a level as you need. You'll ramp up faster than you expect. It's like riding a bike.
Overall, I would say that Orson Scott Card has his views on life and probably holds to them in this world, but as he writes science fiction and fantasy, he feels comfortable in having his characters act entirely different. It's that "what-if" mentality that drives the genre.
That said, those were fairly degenerate cases. Most children instead come away from gun safety courses with an increased understanding that guns really can kill even when you don't mean to whether it's from accidentally triggering the gun when fiddling around with it or if it's brandishing your gun at someone while in a fit of anger and having it go off. They face the reality that when they pull that trigger, someone's likely to get badly wounded or killed. Given as most people are not murderers at heart, they're probably less likely to wind up killing someone.
I would disagree. While there were indeed some tasks that were tedious (for instance, the first task you get in the tutorial of gathering clay for bricks, building a kiln, getting knives, making flax...), there were also some truly interesting challenges like creating an artistic work that was judged by peers. Or, for instance, the test of leadership where you had to prove you could engender trust by hiding a chest of gold, telling 10 people how to get into it, then have said chest unmolested for a week of game time. To me, the "Maces of Blud-Kurdle" and "+50 Swords of Nymph-Poking" were the tests. You had to grind your way up to them, but once you started hitting upper levels, you were faced with more and more interesting tasks. The fact that once an advance was reached, it was available to everyone made it easier for people to catch up, producing more of a sloping pyramid of skill levels. The fact that you could only advance to the next level if there were a sufficient number of people on the level below you meant that there was a good reason to help and train others in the game.
But again, I think the tedium was a problem. While registered users could set themselves traveling, log off, then log back on to find themselves having moved in the interim, piddling things like producing bricks and such still needed to be babysat. I believe that MMOs should allow you to set up a routine task list to be accomplished when you're not online. Maybe it would be at a slightly lower effectiveness (only 4/5 as much wood picked up per time unit, scaled for how much wood is actually in your vicinity when you leave). The list would probably need to be refreshed at least once a day as the items are depleted and of course, they wouldn't spontaneously advance (if you were gathering mud for bricks, you might be able to build the bricks, but you couldn't schedule building the kiln or schedule firing items in the kiln). *shrug* But of course, people would likely complain, just like they did in World of Warcraft when the rest system introduced diminshing returns for long hours of play.
... but why? It's not like the terrorists need thosuands of frames per second. Although I'm sure a thousands-of-frames-per-second film clip as the sniper bullet hits would spread like a bad social disease across the Internet.
That's what meta-moderation is for. Although how it actually changes anything is somewhat foggy.
Outside of a warm and fuzzy feeling and maybe a higher chance for moderator points for the meta-moderator? Well, if you mark a moderation unfair, the mod does receive a nice little message telling them their moderation has been metamoderated unfair. Assuming they haven't turned the nice little messages off. Assuming they care. *shrug*
We're both kind of guilty of only targetting a particular part of each others' arguments. When you used "linking," I think you were referring exclusively to the direct linking to files, specifically torrent files whereas I initially responded thinking "link to a website" as in the DeCSS case and 2600 and probably didn't properly fix things up to show that I was thinking a more broad sense of links.
With a bittorrent link, yes, I would be pretty definitely liable unless I were linking blindly to files, in which case I'd just be ignorant and probably deserving of being punished. With a regular weblink, I might link to her MP3 recitation of "Love's Labor Party's Loss.MP3" and then she puts up a file with that name containing Britney Spears' latest hit. There, I linked in good faith, but the content was changed. With torrent files, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to change the destination file. (I think I remember someone posting here about how to break the hash, so I won't say impossible)
That said again, the torrent tracking sites were duly warned and it was only when they kept at their wicked course that they were prosecuted. I think that's fair. *wry grin* Admittedly, those warnings, when used with ISPs like Adelphia, can mean your contract is abruptly severed because they want to avoid legal trouble whether or not the complainers own the files in question... *grumble* Ok, so I'm still a bit bitter, but I'm digressing. Different kinds of links and torrents are awfully hard to be accidentally linking to illegal material.