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[Greg Berge]

> how did I go from getting a $1900 refund last year to owing $1200 this year. Grrr

Nothing more attractive than an Ivy League graduate complaining about his tax burden.  ::rolleyes::

[jeh25]

Go back to the People's Republic of Oregon you hippy... :-P

Not that you care, but the inability to deduct the majority of my student loan interest is a large part of the problem.  And you can almost hit the deduction income cap working OT at Burger King...

[Greg Berge]

"Well, the world needs ditch diggers too." -- Caddyshack

[ugarte]

However you slice it, your original comment made no sense.  You didn't post the URL for the cheers page because you were worried about copyright concerns (on a website that hosts the cheers page, no less)? By that logic, it is a wonder that books ever get published. My god, someone, as we speak, may be making illicit copies of Stephen King's latest gorefest! I hope he has some sort of legal remedy . . . wait, nevermind. HE DOES (as do you).

Your publicly available page is a resource for anyone who comes across it; they have to decide for themselves whether to honor your copyright (and I think this falls well within "fair use").  Copyright exists so that you can enforce your rights to the originality in your work, not to keep the work itself hidden - you have to do that work yourself.

Finally, while your work is automatically copyrighted, if you want to enforce your copyright, mark it. If you don't let people know that a work is copyrighted, you are limited in what you can do to violators.

[jy3]

ok i assume that u were referring to my post in ur post and then withdrew some of the anger, which is cool.
lemme just clarify what i meant...
i was not condoning someone stealing someone else's work. being a bit of "writer" myself, i hate it when people steal stuff.
i think that everyone who said "he is gonna steal __" is over reacting and taking fears of losing hard work to someone who can just point and click out on a guy who is asking for help. not everyone in this world is trying to screw everyone else.
and to think that a clarkson-cornell rivalry would motivate someone to take copywritten material for their own is a bit paranoid. i mean hostilities should stay in the rink, and that includes judging other people by their collegiate association.
my point was, if you are so afraid of someone taking your stuff for their own, then add some code that prevents copying of pages (which is possible to some extent) or take stuff off of the web. There is no reason why you should think of this guy differently in terms of copyrighted material than the average joe who hits your site everyday. if you trust that unknown person, then shouldn't you trust this kid?
but u realize all this, i just wanted to clarify. i should have explained myself more and i am sorry. i didnt realize that my post could be read in a different manner than i meant. i totally condemn stealing of work.
that said, LGR!

[jy3]

ps
dont know if there is a way to prevent this, but a google search for cornell cheers lists the cheer page.

[Jim Hyla]

But isn't the point to get as wide a following as possible? If all we do is let ourselves know about it, what's the point? Anyway anybody who wants to know about our cheers only has to go to Michigan. After all, they got a good percentage of them from us, and frankly I'm happy to be able to point that out to them. The more the merrier.

[jy3]

i agree jim, i just wanted to point out that the info to get to the site is out there. all u need is google.