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Old 07-24-2009, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Absolutely stunning photos, TexasPatriot.
They're gone. It took me a good 15 minutes to collect them too. Oh well.
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Old 07-24-2009, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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They're gone. It took me a good 15 minutes to collect them too. Oh well.
Yes, that copyright policy must be adhered too. Well, they were lovely and you tried.
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Old 07-24-2009, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Yes, that copyright policy must be adhered too. Well, they were lovely and you tried.
Yep. Darned inconvenient, respecting the work product of others and all that! (Never mind copyright law and the TOS.)

Links work nicely, though, if you want to share something beautiful like that.
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Old 07-25-2009, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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Yes, that copyright policy must be adhered too. Well, they were lovely and you tried.
Might I add, I'm sure you didn't do it intentionally or sneakily. You were just showing your admiration of the state via photos. I just can't think of anyone who hasn't made a mistake.

Do you know that one time last week, I caught myself driving 67 mph in a 60 mph zone? I surely didn't mean to break the law and I let up on the accelerator really fast when I discovered my error. To err is human, to forgive divine. Apparently, the moderators forgave you and allowed you to stay on the forums.
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Old 07-25-2009, 06:03 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Sorry, copyright violation is one of my hot buttons as it's become a real problem in the internet age. Way too many people think that if you find it on the internet, it's fair game, even when there's a copyright notice on it (and a copyright notice isn't required for copyright to exist - copyright exists from the moment something is put in fixed form, and on a computer counts). Nothing could be further from the truth, but lots of people get caught by this misconception.

Safest and easiest thing to do is to remember that copyright is all about permission. If you have explicit (written - email will do) permission from the copyright owner (usually the photographer or author) to use their work, then you're good to go. If you don't, then you need to get it before using it. Just like your Mom taught you - don't use somebody else's things without their permission applies to intellectual property, too.
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Old 07-25-2009, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in the universe
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I always use those special websites that give you free photos.
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Old 07-25-2009, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Yep, that's an alternative, and I also use a couple of websites where you can pay a minimal amount for the right to the use of a photo for a specific purpose (or a little more if you want to use it for more than one kind of use, or for commercial use).
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Old 07-25-2009, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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They're gone. It took me a good 15 minutes to collect them too. Oh well.
It is perfectly OK to post links to the photo on its original website.
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Old 07-25-2009, 04:53 PM
 
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Pride cometh before the fall. The problem with pride is that it allows you to overlook massive problems right in your back yard.
1. Worst educational standards this side of Mississppii
2. Absolutely 0 environmental standards
3. Largest prison population of any state
4. Has most children without health insurance in country
5. Drugs pouring across the border
6. One of the highest poverty rates in country

Despite all this many Texans and the Politicians here dont get embarassed by being a backwards state. They see no role for the government in taking some of the brutality out of working families life.
They simply dont see the current state of their citizenry as something to be concerned about.

An educated person can obviously see the mentality of the politicians and many of those who they represent is in fact causing things to be far worse than it has to be. But they are too ignorant and blind to see their own complicity in the faults of this state.

At some point I think decent educated people have to ask themselves if this type of cycle of ignorance, and brutality towards average citizens is something they really want to be a part of.

Myself I can committed to moving out of this state fairly soon.
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Old 07-25-2009, 04:55 PM
 
Location: southern california
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guts and willing to take a stand against evil.
southerners, the people that fight our wars.
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