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    Quote Originally Posted by The Heretic Azazel
    I got another cease and desist order, this time for downloading Frost/Nixon.

    WHY DOES THIS KEEP FUCKING HAPPENING TO ME???
    That's fucking lame. I can understand the companies being vigilant with something new, like Avatar, but this movie is 2 years old now.

    I got one for downloading South Park a few days after I stopped the download and deleted the data.

    EDIT: Plus we pay for high-speed and bandwidth. Do they seriously think people use 10+ megabit connections to just check email?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fahoumh
    EDIT: Plus we pay for high-speed and bandwidth. Do they seriously think people use 10+ megabit connections to just check email?
    They like to believe you use it for Youtube

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu
    They like to believe you use it for Youtube
    Sounds like they're either in denial or completely brain-dead. Plus, more than 90% of Youtube content is unwatchable.

    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
    To be honest, that's like saying the police should let you drive 120mph on the freeway since your car can handle it.
    I disagree with your analogy. If anything, I would say it's like car companies manufacturing cars with 300+ hp and going 0-60 mph in less than 5 seconds then not expecting people to drive fast.

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    I'm pissed at my stats professor. He intentionally did not cover some material that is on our homework so we're expected to read the book, figure it out ourselves, and do the homework before the material is ever discussed in class. What's the point of attending the f*cking lectures then if I can just read the book to do the work? Might explain why 40% of the class has stopped attending lectures since class began 5 weeks ago.

    To make things even more frustrating, he emails us the formulae to use on the homework and writes it like a 2nd grader. We're talking math formulae written in straight line with no parentheses, so it looks like x*y+2/z-8*3. And NO it's not a simple task of just going by operator priority, it's a math formula to calculate a result from given inputs.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
    I'm pissed at my stats professor. He intentionally did not cover some material that is on our homework so we're expected to read the book, figure it out ourselves, and do the homework before the material is ever discussed in class. What's the point of attending the f*cking lectures then if I can just read the book to do the work? Might explain why 40% of the class has stopped attending lectures since class began 5 weeks ago.

    To make things even more frustrating, he emails us the formulae to use on the homework and writes it like a 2nd grader. We're talking math formulae written in straight line with no parentheses, so it looks like x*y+2/z-8*3. And NO it's not a simple task of just going by operator priority, it's a math formula to calculate a result from given inputs.
    Heh, that reminds me of a lecturer we had 2 years ago. For some reason she liked teaching with a tablet-PC, and thinks drawing diagrams fron stratch with it while explaining as she drew was more effective than showing a completed diagram and explaining that instead. Basically she talks at half speed then to match her drawing pace, and she never finishes the lecture in time, thereby asking us to read the rest of the stuff at home. (usually the hardest bits of the lecture are in the end, or at least the most detailed stuff).

    I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose, but it was rather pointless. Half of us slept as soon as she starts drawing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
    Heh, that reminds me of a lecturer we had 2 years ago. For some reason she liked teaching with a tablet-PC, and thinks drawing diagrams fron stratch with it while explaining as she drew was more effective than showing a completed diagram and explaining that instead. Basically she talks at half speed then to match her drawing pace, and she never finishes the lecture in time, thereby asking us to read the rest of the stuff at home. (usually the hardest bits of the lecture are in the end, or at least the most detailed stuff).

    I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose, but it was rather pointless. Half of us slept as soon as she starts drawing.
    It's unfortunate but since my uni is a "research uni" that means a lot of the professors are actually researchers who lecture classes on the side. You can tell where their priorities are, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to be properly teaching classes.

    I started checking classpoint.com to get reviews of professors but since this is my current prof's first semester as a lecturer (you can tell this too), there were no reviews available. His class fit in best with my schedule, but now I'm regretting taking his class.

    Our only recourse is the end of semester instructor feedback form, and in the meantime our studies, our GPA, and our futures have to suffer.


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    Quote Originally Posted by fahoumh
    Sounds like they're either in denial or completely brain-dead. Plus, more than 90% of Youtube content is unwatchable.


    I disagree with your analogy. If anything, I would say it's like car companies manufacturing cars with 300+ hp and going 0-60 mph in less than 5 seconds then not expecting people to drive fast.
    Well your analogy is flawed in that the car manufacturers aren't the ones punishing you for driving fast, neither are the ISPs the ones punishing you for downloading copyrighted content. They are simply acting on behalf of the MPAA and RIAA and copyright owners.

    You can get anything in super mega capacity/power/style, but just like buying that super duper Mac with 10 patties, it doesn't mean you should eat the whole thing.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
    Well your analogy is flawed in that the car manufacturers aren't the ones punishing you for driving fast, neither are the ISPs the ones punishing you for downloading copyrighted content. They are simply acting on behalf of the MPAA and RIAA and copyright owners.

    You can get anything in super mega capacity/power/style, but just like buying that super duper Mac with 10 patties, it doesn't mean you should eat the whole thing.
    You suck at reasoning and argumentation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fahoumh
    You suck at reasoning and argumentation.
    Effective enough to whomp your ass at both.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fahoumh
    EDIT: Plus we pay for high-speed and bandwidth. Do they seriously think people use 10+ megabit connections to just check email?
    To be honest, that's like saying the police should let you drive 120mph on the freeway since your car can handle it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Carnage
    Yeah I got caught for downloading Ironman 2 year ago.I've been a little bit more cautious ever since.
    You got caught downloading Ironman 2 a year ago or Ironman 2 years ago?


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