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Old 03-28-2007, 03:50 PM   #53
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Originally Posted by rkzenrage View Post
I'll also tend to use a lot of humor when I'm in a lot of pain.
You may not notice, but I often miss days at a time.
This is when I am unable to be on.
Respect - and heart. I have read you discussing these things many times and when I read into your words, I have never read you feeling truly sorry for yourself, in all that time. You are sorry for the situation, but not sorry for yourself. That is what I admire the most. You da man, sir!!

What I read into LJ is that he was not trying to poke at you, that he was truly trying to work out what would be best. He doesn't poke at people - he is direct with them. So no biggie - no harm done and none intended, unless I'm wrong.

As for HM's point, the careful-eyed will notice that IotD is often a horrible copyright problem. But it's a strange one too, in that it's hard to have some sort of "fair use" on images, and huge numbers of people on the Internet take images wholesale. Most people figure that once an image is on the net it's "out there", but that's clearly not the case. So, I try to avoid some images from places like National Geographic where they have clearly spent a fortune on special photographers to get the shots, and I ask permission from individuals when they have created something.

I asked a group of wire service photographers about this and they said, just use 'em, don't go through the ridiculous process of getting the rights when everybody and their sister is passing the shots along anyway.
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