The Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... eory-falls]RIAA's 'making available' theory falls

At least in New Haven, "making available" is not sufficient proof that copyright infringement actually happened; "distribution requires an 'actual dissemination' of a copy".

(Slowly but surely, the courts are actually requiring the RIAA to follow the law of the land...)

 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Gurporia: the Green Plague, by Wade Woodbury

"Gurporia was the most beautiful land anyone could imagine. The Gurps who lived in this wonderful place had done so for countless generations, until now. A massive plague, the Green Plague, is devouring all of Gurporia, which forces a small band of Gurps on a tiring quest for their survival. Their journey is by far, not safe, as they encounter savage Tolspick, conniving Barbits and numerous other foe as they struggle to find a safe haven."

I'm sure there's an appropriate game system to adapt this book to, but I can't imagine what it might be...
 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Announcing my recent acquisition of a fairly modest Gateway wireless laptop, henceforth named Nogitsune.

Now I just need to strip Vista Premium to Vista Basic or XP and load my favorite programs and peripheral drivers.

Definitely CoH-capable, with the addition of a USB numpad and Optical mouse. Hopefully this will enable me to do more stuff without having to wait for my Dad
to finish his school work online.

CorruptedFlame gets to see it in the silicon-based technomatter next time we pen-and-paper. Expected resonse? "Yeah, yeah, whatever. It sucks. "
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Has anyone else seen http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1197]the trailer for this film yet? It looks to be amazing...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

According to this article on DailyTech, Microsoft labled a
lot of severely underpowered computers as being 'Vista Capable.' Sure, this isn't really a big deal. The computers can run Vista, just not at all
like how a real computer can. Nah, the trouble is (and this is what the people in the comments thread keep on missing, dammit) that the prices of these
machines were jacked up. To quote one Microsoft employee who himself got suckered into the scheme, "I PERSONALLY got burnt ... Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100 e-mail
machine."

Half-Life: Real Life
Consequences

Made of LOL WIN!!!!

Here we go for the fourth time. This time i'm on a Buffy kick, and I've been having rather poor luck at finding anything engrossing to read, and given
the success of my previous Sailor Moon, Dragonball and Tenchi Muyo fic searchs, and given the the huge variety of experience and depth of knowledge of the
subject of fanfiction here (and buffy mentions aplenty), I was hoping for some more suggestions? What in your opinion are the best Buffyverse stories out
there?

Blame Rob for this, because I know I do. A very rough first pass, stealing the organizational structure of the article from Wikipedia's USAF article. More holes than filling at this point, so if you see something demanding your attention don't be shy about it.

I'm thinking that the image I added to Haruhi's character writeup just isn't right for the commander of Operation Great Justice. I've screencaped a few more appropriate ones... but I'm having trouble deciding which one best captures her personality.

Anybody have a preference between these?

Image 1:


Image 2:


Image 3:


(I'm leaning towards #2, myself, but I'm sure that's Noah talking to me...)

 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I'm not interested myself, but I figured some folks here might be...

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.htm ... EOSL-12604]Kochokore / Maho Shojo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Box preorder page. There's no guarantee they'll still be available on the release date - if you want them, order a box quickly...

 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012