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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 10, 2015 - 05:44am PT
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Beyond wanting the hernial surgery, there are no plans.
For the early birds, one of the greatest fires on record.
Walter Cronkite, are you there?
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This illustrates something which is not unique to our species.
The individual may have lost all and become dispirited after a catastrophic event, but the tribe as a whole responds differently, taking the opportunity to re-grow bigger and better. See what happened in Chicago, where Sullivan's architectural genius rose to the forefront? And I will mention, too, the city of San Francisco, following its fire and earthquake of April, 1906.
There are other historical places, former cities, like Troy and several out in the Asian deserts, in the jungles of Central America, however, where the civilizations just dried up and blew away.
I've imagined what the Ahwahnee Hotel would look like if it burned totally.
I hope that it never happens, of course. But what if it did? What would be the response of those on high? Would rebuilding be allowed? I kinda don't think so.
"Remember the Ahwahnee." (Ban rebuilding of unnatural "wonders.")
"Remember the Maine." (Ban the Yellow Press.)
"Remember El Capitan." (Ban Big Wall climbing.)
"Yeah, that's so-o-ome cawfee, Barney!"
"Rmember the Ritz, Andy?"
"Hell yeah, BarnDawg!. That was so-o-ome hotel."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2015 - 10:41am PT
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Purple Peephole Seers
Purple People Eaters
Purple Pauls and Purple Peters
Howie fly o'er Islay
When we wear purple
--Gilbert Grape
Deep Blue Sea to Highest Purple Peak
With a tatoo on his hand
He beat a tatoo with the band
Deep Bass Sound was all fished out
The wardens weren't around
To see me land the pale white flounder on the ground
I turned him o'er so we saw eyes to eyes
He says to me that purple lure was a good disguise
He takes one last breath and then he dies
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Dylan Donovan Donald Davidson
Wanted to change his names to Paul.
Paul Paul Paul Paulsen.
Donovan, Dylan, What's the diff?
Matthew Donohoe, Sgt. Donohue., two peaceful hash smokers with smeared eyes
Mingus Mellow Fantastic Fellow
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2015 - 01:14pm PT
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Cran Kloon is dumbest most paranoid anonymous nutcase stalker on the forum.
--Hair Braun aka Braun Tosoris aka Braunie
Kloon is his real last name, Cran is short for Crandall.
Crandall Kloon aka Tony Crandall aka Berry abides near Merced Pass.
He claimed at one time to have brought the planeload of Colombian down by using ancient Sherpa magic. He has since then revised his story many times.
Eyewitnesses are often the least-positive evidence, we all know that. When their stories change from telling to telling, then we know we're dealing with Cran Kloon types.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm Berry positive."
Did you know that the Canadian One Dollar coin is called a "loonie?"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2015 - 03:29pm PT
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Turbulent times two plus three minus one, Gnome.
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"I hate the Gnu Math."
"Well, I hate the Old Math."
This leads to the bird, then a shove, then turbulence breaks out and it's all up to the Mathters of War from then on.
So pay attn. to yer kid's homework.
Counting back the change from a large bill is a lost retail art, BTW. It happened in the fifties or sixties that registers were able to tell you the total amt. of change due back, so clerks were never required to learn the chant,
"Seven ninety five out of twenty, that's eight, nine, ten, and ten makes twenty dollars."
Sitting here in pain and practicing curmudgeonship, I guess. But I don't feel sorry for myself, just sore.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 05:17am PT
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"Happenings 60 years time ago."
50 (NOW 60) Years of the Video Cassette Recorder
November 2006
April 14, 1956. Ampex’s Charles Anderson described the scene when the VRX-1000 unveiling ceremony was played back to the audience moments after the event: "There was a deafening silence. Then came a roar. People started to swarm back around the machine." (Courtesy TV Technology)
Press Play
Invented in 1956, the technology which produced the video cassette recorder (VCR) is already at the end of its days. But in its 50 years life span the VCR revolutionized the movie industry, changed television-watching habits, triggered the first "format wars," and raised new copyright questions, establishing jurisprudence on fair use.
When television first took off in the 1950s, the only means of preserving video footage was through kinescope, a process in which a special motion picture camera photographed a television monitor. Kinescope film took hours to develop and made for poor quality broadcasts. So most television networks just made live broadcasts direct from the studio. But in countries with several time zones, live broadcast was a problem. In the U.S., for example, the 6 p.m. news broadcast in New York, if aired direct, would be on at 3 p.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles. The only solutions were to repeat the live broadcast three hours later for LA, or to develop the kinescope film of the first broadcast and rush to air it on time. There was a pressing need for new recording technology.
The big electronic companies of the day raced to develop the technology, working on recorders that used magnetic tape. The Ampex Corporation, however, working in secrecy, based its research on a rotating head design, which had been patented by an Italian inventor in 1938 for use in audio recordings. After several failed attempts, and having abandoned the project altogether at one point, Ampex released the world’s first magnetic tape video recorder, the VRX-1000, in April 1956. It caused a sensation. But with a price tag of US$50,000 (equivalent to some US$325,000 today), expensive rotating heads that had to be changed every few hundred hours, and the need for a highly skilled operator, it was far from a consumer item.
The orders from the television networks, however, came pouring in. CBS was the first to use the new technology, airing Douglas Edwards and the News on November 30, 1956, from New York then replaying the broadcast from its Hollywood studios a few hours later. From that day on, Edwards never had to repeat a broadcast, and television changed forever.
Fast-forward to home video
The other companies abandoned their research and followed Ampex’s lead. RCA pooled patents with Ampex and licensed in the Ampex technology. The new goal was to develop a video machine for home use. It had to be solid, low-cost and easy to operate.
Sony released a first home model in 1964, followed by Ampex and RCA in 1965. While these machines, and those that followed over the next 10 to 15 years, were much less expensive than the VRX-1000, they remained beyond the means of the average consumer, and were bought primarily by wealthy customers, businesses and schools. But the consumer electronics industry could feel the first tremors of VCR revolution and everyone wanted a piece of the pie. Fortunes were sunk into further research and development.
The competition between the companies led to the release of three different, mutually incompatible VCR formats: Sony’s Betamax in 1975, JVC’s VHS in 1976, and the Philips V2000 in 1978. Two of these would come head-to-head in the 1980s in what became known as the first Format War.
Before the technology battle could begin, however, the consumer electronics industry had to find an answer to a more pressing problem: content. Where would it come from? What would people watch on their VCRs? At this stage, the industry regarded the VCR’s television recording feature as a bonus option of little utility to the average home user. – Why, they asked, would anyone want to record a TV show and watch it later? They thought movie videos would provide an answer to the content problem. But the studios had something to say about that.
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When giving testimony in front of the U.S. Congress in 1982, Jack Valenti, then President of the Motion Picture Association of America, famously stated: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
He need not have worried. In 2001, the best year on record for the home video industry, the Video Software Dealers’ Association reported that U.S. consumers spent a whopping US$7 billion on video rentals and US$4.9 billion on video purchases
Pause – The copyright challenge
Home video sent the movie industry into a spin. Television had already stolen a big part of their market, and they saw the VCR as a massive new threat. Copyright, they argued, was at stake. Did not the mere recording of a television show constitute an infringement of the copyright owner’s rights over reproduction? The studios took the issue to court. In 1976, the year after Sony’s release of the Betamax VCR, Universal City Studios and the Walt Disney Company sued Sony, seeking to have the VCR impounded as a tool of piracy.
New communications technology – then as now – has always challenged previous assumptions and jurisprudence in the area of copyright. Just as the printing press, by making possible the mass reproduction of books, led to the first copyright laws, and cinematography raised the question of authors’ rights to derivative works, now it was the turn of the VCR. The first court decision in 1979 went against the studios, ruling that use of the VCR for non-commercial recording was legal. The studios appealed and the decision was overturned in 1981. Sony then took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a landmark judgement in 1984, the Supreme Court ruled that the home recording of television programs for later viewing constituted "fair use."1 An important factor in the Court’s reasoning was that "time-shifting" – i.e. recording a program to watch it at another time – did not represent any substantial harm to the copyright holder, nor did it diminish the market for the product.
By then, the VCR had become a popular consumer product, and, contrary to their fears, the film studios found themselves to be major beneficiaries of the technology as the sale and rental of movie videos began generating huge new revenue streams. In 1986 alone, home video revenues added more than US$100 million of pure profit to Disney’s bottom line. The television stations, on the other hand, having found that the "useless" recording option was a big hit with viewers, faced a different problem. They had to find new ways to keep their advertisers happy now that viewers could fast-forward through the commercial breaks.
Betamax versus VHS: the battle to set the standard
Meanwhile, the format war between VHS and Betamax was underway. When Sony released Betamax, they were confident in the superiority of their technology and assumed that the other companies would abandon their formats and accept Betamax as the industry-wide technical standard. They were wrong. On their home turf in Japan, JVC refused to comply and went to market with their VHS format. In the European market, Philips did not play along either, but technical problems were to take Philips out of the fight almost before it began.
From where Sony stood, the only clear advantage of the VHS format was its longer recording time. So, Sony doubled the Betamax recording time. JVC followed suit. This continued until recording times were no longer an issue for potential customers, and marketing overtook superior technology as the key to the battle.
The two companies were on a par for several years until JVC’s VHS format pulled ahead. This was due in part to JVC’s broader licensing policy. Counting on increased royalties to make money on their VHS machines, JVC licensed the technology to big consumer electronics companies like Zenith and RCA. As a result, VHS machines became more abundant on the market and prices fell, increasing their consumer appeal.
At about the same time in the early 1980s, video rental shops started springing up on every street corner. Early on, the video shop owners recognized that they would have to make VCRs available for cheap rental to attract a larger client base. The high-quality Betamax machines were more expensive, harder to repair, and the first models were only compatible with certain television sets. So VHS became the obvious choice for the rental shops. The domino effect – greater availability of VHS machines leading to more VHS video releases – eventually squeezed out Betamax.
Press eject
Technology, of course, did not stand still. Already by 2003 DVD sales had overtaken those of the VCR, signaling the dying days of magnetic tape. Video rental shops, sensitive to market trends, switched to DVD, accelerating the demise of the VCR. And so it continues, as providers of the latest digital video recorders, of film streaming to mobile telephones and of other new technologies tumble over each other to offer consumers ever more options.
Nor have all related copyright issues been resolved. The digital revolution of communications media will continue to pose new challenges for copyright. Complex questions ranging from the use of digital rights management, to the exceptions and limitations that define fair use of copyrighted works, continue to fuel international debate in policy and legal norm-setting fora, so contributing to the ongoing evolution of copyright law and practice.
Fair Use, Fair Dealing, Statutory Exceptions
A crucial element of copyright law concerns the exceptions which limit its reach, i.e. the various uses of copyrighted works that do not "conflict with a normal exploitation of the work," nor "unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author," as stated in the Berne Convention, and which give the public a certain leeway in making free use of the work.
Such uses are commonly enumerated as fair dealing categories in some common law jurisdictions, and as statutory limitations and exceptions to copyright in civil jurisdictions. In addition, there is a concept known as fair use. Established in the legislation of the United States of America, the fair use doctrine allows the use of works without the authorization of the rights owner, taking into account factors such as: the nature and purpose of the use, including whether it is for commercial purposes; the nature of the work; the amount of the work used in relation to the work as a whole; and the likely effect of its use on the potential commercial value of the work.
The interpretation of exceptions has changed over time, as in the VCR case, and will continue to evolve as new technologies open up new possibilities.
Exceptions may exist in various areas, such as:
public performance, e.g. for music played in religious services;
broadcasting, e.g. for the television transmission of an art work caught on film incidentally during a news report;
reproduction, e.g. the VCR "time-shifting" exception; or copies of a small part of a work made by a teacher to illustrate a lesson; or quotations from a novel, play or movie.
By Sylvie Castonguay, WIPO Magazine Editorial Staff, Communications and Public Outreach Division
1. U.S. Supreme Court SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) 464 U.S.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Nov 13, 2015 - 06:52am PT
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better?
as the next few pages of the worst way to die un-foldded ,
& the other, "?"I read to # 41or9 I'm not sure ?
( thats the way, I would add, to that other very tempting to respond to thread)
I was,-----., dissed and appointed to respond , you know that that was auto correct
Distressed at the very funny answers and touched by the understanding.
Variously, NO EXCUSES , I WAS clic-kliken, live real time
with, as some one called it, Stinging Scotch
[Click to View YouTube Video]Well thats a bit much or so are the words that went ((Cptn. Beef hart On My Myno/ My? I had, had a few good belts - hit post to read it in that moment i fell asleep .
nee bee's post reminding all to try to sleep real sleep,
By-ways... of putting it in perspective in context
the name was ,for most of the versions of the letter,
meant to be the initials of OhNo onHooks,es. Erik Sloan not Adam Burch.
then I had some how hit on the conversation
that Ab was having(somewhere ?)
It hit me . . . that if I was him, that is young strong but most of all in the zone
With a bone to pick and a need for the lime light
I would cozy up with an anti Sloan crew - or that I felt - he should by wit and action,
be The OhNo onHooks, worst nightmare. Or at least give a......
an ear, to the sad thing that his age group has condoned through inaction.
Some one should be taking off the gear that lone sloan is leaving.
climb behind him by 6 hours, . . .
hiding in anticipation that it was going to be . . .
a run up leave bolts and run away thing,. . .
Face Plant.?? Drunken sleep....
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Hanging on to a real strong set of ethics, climbing long scary runouts,
A series of exciting events with a steep curve of deminishing returns.
ok, that the level of purely clean free climbing ethics were
growing with the increasingly higher grades.
Even though I did not step up the hardest stuff I climbed hard stuff that way.
The next generation of climbers will only see the bolts and not the space in between
I was wasted & was swinging at windmills, thinking it was 88?
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so That is why in a burst of evil booze soaked depression I added ABs name, thanx for drawing on my forehead.
Happy veterans day These panels are the winning submissions by mt sister-in-law who won the prize of getting to put that painting on a wall of a building , I think It is in Hudson Ohio
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Now as to the most fun you can have while dying, is that the name of that Treatment ? wait is the fool back & spewing uck, Hide the women and children , or get the popcorn , Im all about spam n' tickle but fish wilds a short shovel too, He knows , so what to do .
Mob best advice STFU N)oOb,
but that is not my way of things ,
it would feel like I ran and Hid
and after the way
and what I Did climb
I stand , stupid and sure[Click to View YouTube Video]to get hit but, my words are clear and plainly spoken , If you don't understand it? just Google itI made clear that I was not fishing . I don't like to fish. and no nothing about it. ,
wait, need to screen shot - I work here from notes. . .
wait for the thoughts very much below to go through edit and medical approval...
to decide which one? i really laughed at most of them ,
That was what was holding me back from posting , That and that darn IT problem, Derp
I could not get recognized from the old but new to me G% Mac rig ,,,, so
I liked the answers and want to thank those who recognized that my life of ups and downs is
Real and I am glad and thANKS for it being taken down.
that is with a old Chinese menu = One from column A, Two from column B,
& 3 from the desert cart .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 07:27am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 07:27am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 07:38am PT
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PUSHIN" UP DAISIES
Rod Whittaker/Unique Entertainment
Its' the same old story you've heard all your life
About a jealous husband and a cheatin' wife
That American Tragedy
About a gal like that and a fool like me
Well, I loved her and she loved me
And our love would last for eternity
And that's kinda how it turned out to be
chorus
Now I'm a-layin' here pushin' up daisies
And the world's stopped drivin' me crazy
I got little bitty bugs crawlin' all around
And it sure gets dark and lonely
When you're the one and only
Buried in a box six feet undergound
We was huggin' and a-kissin' and havin' some fun
About that time things came undone
Cuz the door flew oopen and there he was
Had a gun in his hand and hate in his eye
It was about that time I realized
That my love and I were about to see the light
Now I'm a-layin' here pushin' up daisies
And the world's stopped drivin' me crazy
I got little bitty bugs crawlin' all around
And it sure gets dark and lonely
When you're the one and only
Buried in a box six feet undergound
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 09:04am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
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4/10 above automatic brain shift:
The nursing staff at PAVHCS hospital, mostly Asian females past having to wear braces on their teeth.
They were mostly homegrown American/Chinese lasses & Filipinas who've moved to the US after having graduated nursing school
There were several male nurses on staff, but not that many veterans among them
One particular male Filipino nurse from the non-intensive care unit the last weekend was worth several of the ladies, he was that fast and sure of his moves, which were routine to him after so many years, but he brought a willingness to serve and a joyful verve to the act all his own
My best single encounter with nursing staff was the night I awoke from sedation in the ICU on floor three with Matt, a homegrown product of Modesto and UCSF. First, he washed me and gave me a dry shampoo (I'd been in the hospital four or five days by this time, no showers yet); he then dressed me in a clean new gown and he applied some cream to my legs, fed me ice water, and quietly told me what he knew of the results of the operation to repair my mitral valve.
He said I was gonna die, fer sure!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2015 - 02:50pm PT
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Some peaceful, serene, meditative music for healing.
Just what I needed. Thanks,feralfae.
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Tired from cruisin'?
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Gnome, along with the music's earnest attempt at soothing, I request that you refrain henceforth from placing Rainbow Vomit at the top of the pages.
It kinda takes away the shine.
Nawmean, brother?
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