Digital Media Rights

boy meets girl. boy makes mixed tape for girl. is it illegal?

boy meets girl online. boy sends digital playlist of mp3's. is it illegal?

If being attacked by a bear

why play dead? first find an object big enough to draw attention. (think about all the animals you've drawn away by throwing a stick). then throw it in the direction where the bear is less able to pivot back from quickly -- perhaps right over his head. the goal here is not to hit the bear but to distract him for the quickest moment in which you run your ass to the direction you came from... so as not to enter his "domain". besides, at least you know you didn't see any other bears in that direction. with a strike of luck, the bear will not wander too far from the zone he thought you were infiltrating.

Letters to the Editor (huh?)

Judicial Process

Is it not flawed?

How do we advance the will of justice if we don't consider a new approach to 12 angry jurers?

How rational is the one man who disagrees with other 11? How rational are the "other 11"?

Our growing with other beings

We've lived together for a very long time. How advanced is our communication? What is its hope for further advancement? How much do other beings already understand humans?

Basic Plan to Run Shell Commands with Adobe AIR

Not yet developed, but hopefully in the works soon:

1.) Install "AIRExecute" (.NET) to C:\Program Files\AIRExecute\run.exe
- How run.exe is to be initially opened I'm unsure of currently
- Checks $(AIRExecute)\commands.txt for new commands.
- "run" causes new execution of command, removes command on execute and pushes new processe to array.
- "killAll" kills all processes in process array and removes entry from process array.

2.) AS3 AIRExecute Class -> appends to $(AIRExecute)\commands.txt:
- run(command:String)
- killAll()

Example of commands.txt for starting new transcode using "run" command:
-killAll
-run C:\Program Files\FFMpeg\ffmpeg.exe -i somefile.wma -y somefile.mp3

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Additional development would allow for specifying the AIR application issuing the command, so that "killAll" will only kill processes initiated by that application.

Web page background colors and time of day

Too many websites have all white backgrounds. A fair number of them have dark ones all the time. What if a website's background color changed by user's current TOD?

My current blog's dark gray background is especially soothing on the eyes at 15 til 3 A.M., but imagine it might get "drowsy" on a daytime user.

...noted.