not many photos on here !!!

[bribrius]

Nearly 200,000 members.
846 photo albums on here according to the records.

Thats about 30 pixels per member ! .
C'mon folks...get some more put on, don't be afraid .

lot of the members probably don't even come on here anymore. Active members and membership are two different things. 190k of them could have moved on long ago.
Also, seasonal, people are probably out enjoying themselves or busy, working, living life, whatever....
They just may not have a reason to post photos.

 

[bribrius]

I would like to add to Overread's post, that simply because you didn't see a response to a given situation, does not mean that there wasn't one (or many). With only a couple of exceptions, all matters of "discipline" or enforcement on TPF are dealt with by the moderating team through the use of PMs and restricted-access forums so that only the moderating staff and the member(s) in question will be aware of what is going on.

In that case, I would like to add that I was explicitly given responses by PM from the staff that ever-so-clearly spelled out EXACTLY the response and zero-level of concern for our copyrights from the staff as I stated above, so your response here is irrelevant to the actual situation in question.

In addition, the TPF staff clearly has no reservations about posting those warnings in public when editing posts to remove photos that the poster doesn't have copyright of, or when posters suggest violating the copyrights associated with software.

Once again, double-standards and attempts at justification that don't actually justify the immoral, unethical and illegal actions being defended by the staff as no big deal are rather unimpressive, IMHO.

wow, ain't you on a tangent today. Geez, just don't post photos, or your better photos, or photos you intend to receive proceeds from, or post lower quality files so use is limited. Takes like 300 dpi to print.
How are the meds working out?

)just messing with you( LOL

 

[tirediron]

...are rather unimpressive, IMHO.

To which you are fully entitled.

 

[Buckster]

that is why i hardly ever post photos of my dog here. I am afraid someone will steal them and violate my copyright. And my dog.

No surprise there, given how you feel if someone even dares to take a photo of someplace or something you've taken a photo of, let alone taking the photo you actually shot yourself and doing something with it without your permission.

 

[Buckster]

Geez, just don't post photos, or your better photos, or photos you intend to receive proceeds from, or post lower quality files so use is limited.

See, the problem with that mentality is that copyright exists explicitly to protect artists so that we CAN post our works for others to view, read, listen to in their full glory, without having to worry about losing our rights to be the only ones who can legally do so.

It's like advising those who produce movies to only make and let people see them at a much-reduced size and clarity that makes them so crappy looking and sounding, that nobody would even want to make a copy of them. Same with music. If all the music on the radio and CDs and so on were of a quality that is so reduced that nobody would even want to copy it, there's little point to the artist creating it in the first place. It's like telling a writer to only include every other word in the book and don't include the big surprise ending, so that nobody will want to copy and steal it.

It's like telling someone that if they don't want someone to break in and steal their TV, they should mess up the TV so that the picture is so garbage-looking that nobody would WANT to steal it, or to scratch up their expensive car all to hell and put a few dents in it with a hammer so that nobody would WANT to steal it.

It is, in effect, blaming the victim for dressing their art so nicely that they got raped and saying, "well, you had it coming."

No sir, those are not acceptable solutions. Dealing head-on with those who would violate our rights and perpetrate crimes against us is the proper response to criminals, not cowering from them, and certainly not by ignoring their activities and crimes against others.

How are the meds working out?

All in all, pretty well I'd say, since they're still keeping me alive.

I saw my oncologist on Friday and she's satisfied that I'm likely to live at least another 4 months on my present daily chemo treatments, till the next PET scan in October. If things start to get out of hand before then, I'll let her know, so that we can plan for the next step on this journey with my incurable blood cancer.

The neuropathy has now extended from my leg to my foot, so I can't feel anything at all anymore on that limb, but I can still get around, if not for long periods at a time, sitting down to rest it every 10 to 30 minutes, as necessary.

The increasing muscle aches and horrible, crippling cramping I experience out of the blue from head to toe are probably from the daily chemo, according to her. She suggested that if it gets too bad, we may have to cut back on the chemo, which I'm opposed to, since I'm kinda keen on continuing to live as long as possible, even if I'm not in the greatest physical condition to fully enjoy it the longer it goes.

The side-effect rash from the chemo has moved to my face again, leaving scars on my arms where it last manifested itself. It looks bad, but at least it doesn't itch until it bursts and scabs, which are almost all healed now on my arms.

Breathing is getting more difficult with time also, and she said she's going to set me up with a pulmonary specialist to try to help with that.

But it all beats the alternative, which is death, so I'm pretty happy with that latest medical assessment.

just messing with you( LOL

Much appreciated.

 

[bribrius]

Geez, just don't post photos, or your better photos, or photos you intend to receive proceeds from, or post lower quality files so use is limited.

See, the problem with that mentality is that copyright exists explicitly to protect artists so that we CAN post our works for others to view, read, listen to in their full glory, without having to worry about losing our rights to be the only ones who can legally do so.

It's like advising those who produce movies to only make and let people see them at a much-reduced size and clarity that makes them so crappy looking and sounding, that nobody would even want to make a copy of them. Same with music. If all the music on the radio and CDs and so on were of a quality that is so reduced that nobody would even want to copy it, there's little point to the artist creating it in the first place. It's like telling a writer to only include every other word in the book and don't include the big surprise ending, so that nobody will want to copy and steal it.

It's like telling someone that if they don't want someone to break in and steal their TV, they should mess up the TV so that the picture is so garbage-looking that nobody would WANT to steal it, or to scratch up their expensive car all to hell and put a few dents in it with a hammer so that nobody would WANT to steal it.

It is, in effect, blaming the victim for dressing their art so nicely that they got raped and saying, "well, you had it coming."

No sir, those are not acceptable solutions. Dealing head-on with those who would violate our rights and perpetrate crimes against us is the proper response to criminals, not cowering from them, and certainly not by ignoring their activities and crimes against others.

How are the meds working out?

All in all, pretty well I'd say, since they're still keeping me alive.

I saw my oncologist on Friday and she's satisfied that I'm likely to live at least another 4 months on my present daily chemo treatments, till the next PET scan in October. If things start to get out of hand before then, I'll let her know, so that we can plan for the next step on this journey with my incurable blood cancer.

The neuropathy has now extended from my leg to my foot, so I can't feel anything at all anymore on that limb, but I can still get around, if not for long periods at a time, sitting down to rest it every 10 to 30 minutes, as necessary.

The increasing muscle aches and horrible, crippling cramping I experience out of the blue from head to toe are probably from the daily chemo, according to her. She suggested that if it gets too bad, we may have to cut back on the chemo, which I'm opposed to, since I'm kinda keen on continuing to live as long as possible, even if I'm not in the greatest physical condition to fully enjoy it the longer it goes.

The side-effect rash from the chemo has moved to my face again, leaving scars on my arms where it last manifested itself. It looks bad, but at least it doesn't itch until it bursts and scabs, which are almost all healed now on my arms.

Breathing is getting more difficult with time also, and she said she's going to set me up with a pulmonary specialist to try to help with that.

But it all beats the alternative, which is death, so I'm pretty happy with that latest medical assessment.

just messing with you( LOL

Much appreciated.

such a save the world idealist......nice soap box. Realizing of course you can't fix most of these problems, and don't at least find my suggestions suitable to you, i guess you are taking the measures that you fancy. What "should be" and what "just is" are hardly ever the same thing. To each their own.

and yeah, i never knew anyone with cancer where it turned out well. In the end morphine, hospice, some surgery on the way maybe end up missing a organ or pieces, and did i mention morphine? Lots and lots of morphine. Not a good way to go, think i would rather throw myself in front of a Amtrak. Suppose with the morphine overload in the end though you probably won't feel a thing on the way out. Still the Amtrak though, if it were me, Save me from the ordeal of the sympathy and making people feel obligated to stand by the bedside too. suppose everything dies some day eh? wth...
Hopefully things get a little better for you.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I don't know that it would be possible for any website or mods to be able to completely prevent people viewing a site from taking photos from the site. But Buckster does make some interesting points. (Didn't realize your health situation, hope you continue to improve.)

I would think the intent of the Terms was to enable the site to display users' photos but to me it wouldn't be necessary to allow for unlimited usage, etc.

I did look up the company again which was not exactly a quick easy task and mostly what I could find without having to send a fee etc. to get a copy was who is listed as the registered agent, who is listed as the three company officers; it didn't indicate who actually owns the company that I could find.

 

[bribrius]

Geez, just don't post photos, or your better photos, or photos you intend to receive proceeds from, or post lower quality files so use is limited.

See, the problem with that mentality is that copyright exists explicitly to protect artists so that we CAN post our works for others to view, read, listen to in their full glory, without having to worry about losing our rights to be the only ones who can legally do so.

It's like advising those who produce movies to only make and let people see them at a much-reduced size and clarity that makes them so crappy looking and sounding, that nobody would even want to make a copy of them. Same with music. If all the music on the radio and CDs and so on were of a quality that is so reduced that nobody would even want to copy it, there's little point to the artist creating it in the first place. It's like telling a writer to only include every other word in the book and don't include the big surprise ending, so that nobody will want to copy and steal it.

It's like telling someone that if they don't want someone to break in and steal their TV, they should mess up the TV so that the picture is so garbage-looking that nobody would WANT to steal it, or to scratch up their expensive car all to hell and put a few dents in it with a hammer so that nobody would WANT to steal it.

It is, in effect, blaming the victim for dressing their art so nicely that they got raped and saying, "well, you had it coming."

No sir, those are not acceptable solutions. Dealing head-on with those who would violate our rights and perpetrate crimes against us is the proper response to criminals, not cowering from them, and certainly not by ignoring their activities and crimes against others.

How are the meds working out?

All in all, pretty well I'd say, since they're still keeping me alive.

I saw my oncologist on Friday and she's satisfied that I'm likely to live at least another 4 months on my present daily chemo treatments, till the next PET scan in October. If things start to get out of hand before then, I'll let her know, so that we can plan for the next step on this journey with my incurable blood cancer.

The neuropathy has now extended from my leg to my foot, so I can't feel anything at all anymore on that limb, but I can still get around, if not for long periods at a time, sitting down to rest it every 10 to 30 minutes, as necessary.

The increasing muscle aches and horrible, crippling cramping I experience out of the blue from head to toe are probably from the daily chemo, according to her. She suggested that if it gets too bad, we may have to cut back on the chemo, which I'm opposed to, since I'm kinda keen on continuing to live as long as possible, even if I'm not in the greatest physical condition to fully enjoy it the longer it goes.

The side-effect rash from the chemo has moved to my face again, leaving scars on my arms where it last manifested itself. It looks bad, but at least it doesn't itch until it bursts and scabs, which are almost all healed now on my arms.

Breathing is getting more difficult with time also, and she said she's going to set me up with a pulmonary specialist to try to help with that.

But it all beats the alternative, which is death, so I'm pretty happy with that latest medical assessment.

just messing with you( LOL

Much appreciated.

rethinking this (yeah, i know, another post). If you believe you will deteriorate to death you could actually make your last photo project this. Document it, lot of selfies, film, commentary. Maybe donate something to the cancer society. Use you knowledge and experience toward a good. Last will and testament kind of project. Just throwing this out there.

 

[bribrius]

I don't know that it would be possible for any website or mods to be able to completely prevent people viewing a site from taking photos from the site. But Buckster does make some interesting points. (Didn't realize your health situation, hope you continue to improve.)

I would think the intent of the Terms was to enable the site to display users' photos but to me it wouldn't be necessary to allow for unlimited usage, etc.

I did look up the company again which was not exactly a quick easy task and mostly what I could find without having to send a fee etc. to get a copy was who is listed as the registered agent, who is listed as the three company officers; it didn't indicate who actually owns the company that I could find.

some sites can, never seen it on a forum though. This is a interesting thing to consider. I wonder if there is a code they could come up with to prevent copy and paste, save as etc. off here. Then just provide a checkbox to activate it on your account just like the "photos not okay to edit", or make it a default setting. Then any right click would just be ineffective and pop up with "you do not have allowable permissions" or something.

 

[Buckster]

such a save the world idealist......nice soap box. Realizing of course you can't fix most of these problems, and don't at least find my suggestions suitable to you, i guess you are taking the measures that you fancy. What "should be" and what "just is" are hardly ever the same thing. To each their own.

To live in even a remote semblance of a civilized society where a person can feel even reasonably secure from criminals, the populace must insist together that they will not tolerate being victims, and that means standing up for each other against becoming victims, not just one's self.

It's why we have laws at all.
It's why we have law enforcement at all.
It's why we have courts and judges at all.
It's why fines are imposed at all.
It's why large judgments are imposed at all.
It's why we have jails at all.
It's why we have prisons at all.
It's why we, as a people, can feel that, while not a perfect system by any means, nor in a perfect world, there IS STILL some sense of justice to be had when crimes are committed against us IF we persist and pursue justice.

Obviously, there will always be those who want the benefits without putting in the effort. They're commonly known as "free riders" because they reap the benefits in rights and laws that protect them, but let others put in the effort to support their continuation and effectiveness. That's their choice as well, but it seems a rather selfish one to me.

and yeah, i never knew anyone with cancer where it turned out well. In the end morphine, hospice, some surgery on the way maybe end up missing a organ or pieces, and did i mention morphine? Lots and lots of morphine. Not a good way to go, think i would rather throw myself in front of a Amtrak. Suppose with the morphine overload in the end though you probably won't feel a thing on the way out. Still the Amtrak though, if it were me, Save me from the ordeal of the sympathy and making people feel obligated to stand by the bedside too. suppose everything dies some day eh? wth...
Hopefully things get a little better for you.

I'm already way past my due date anyway. When I first got sick and was diagnosed, it was October, I was in stage 4, and nobody thought I'd make it to Christmas. That was a LOT of chemos, a lot of transfusions, a lot of hospital beds for long stays, like a month at a time in bed feeling like death warmed over, a few surgeries, a lot of other drugs, giving myself shots a couple times per day, a wheelchair, a therapist to teach me to balance and walk again to get out of the wheelchair, a lot of medical staff, a stem cell transplant, and 14 years ago, so I've got no complaints at all.

Gotta say an emphatic "no" on the morphine though. They gave it to me once, and I never want it again. It was like being smothered with a giant pillow to me. I'll figure it out when the time comes.

 

[Buckster]

I don't know that it would be possible for any website or mods to be able to completely prevent people viewing a site from taking photos from the site. But Buckster does make some interesting points. (Didn't realize your health situation, hope you continue to improve.)

I would think the intent of the Terms was to enable the site to display users' photos but to me it wouldn't be necessary to allow for unlimited usage, etc.

I did look up the company again which was not exactly a quick easy task and mostly what I could find without having to send a fee etc. to get a copy was who is listed as the registered agent, who is listed as the three company officers; it didn't indicate who actually owns the company that I could find.

some sites can, never seen it on a forum though. This is a interesting thing to consider. I wonder if there is a code they could come up with to prevent copy and paste, save as etc. off here. Then just provide a checkbox to activate it on your account just like the "photos not okay to edit", or make it a default setting. Then any right click would just be ineffective and pop up with "you do not have allowable permissions" or something.

If it can be seen on a screen, it can be copied. There's no such thing as a software that can prevent it. They can make it a bit more difficult, but only by a fraction - not enough to matter.

There's really nothing that can be done by TPF to prevent anyone from copying any photos that are seen here. But that's not the point. The same is true for people illegally downloading software - they have no possible way to prevent that from happening either.

What they DO have the power to do, and they exhibit it with the illegal software downloads, is rebuke it. They COULD make it known that it's not acceptable at TPF, just as it's made known that it's not acceptable to illegally post or download software or suggest it at TPF, just like it's not acceptable to post photos you don't hold copyright to at TPF (minor exceptions to the rule noted).

They just choose not to.

 

[pixmedic]

In the name of the Holy Admins, I hereby REBUKE thee, oh unholy image downloaders of the forum, and cast thee down amongst the fallen with thine foul demons...and software pirates. Forever banished from the sight of our congregation of law abiding forum goers, lest ye suffer the great smiting of the banhammer.

Glory be to TPF,

Amen.

 

[Derrel]

In the name of the Holy Admins, I hereby REBUKE thee, oh unholy image downloaders of the forum, and cast thee down amongst the fallen with thine foul demons...and software pirates. Forever banished from the sight of our congregation of law abiding forum goers, lest ye suffer the great smiting of the banhammer.

Glory be to TPF,

Amen.

How much is it for that engraved on a nice brass and walnut plaque, suitable for wall mounting?

 

[Buckster]

Related:

TPF Article Of Interest Link

 

[BrickHouse]

TL: DR