Mahoneyt^.[blog]

I’m not one to base my political opinions / know-how on what celebrities say but… Matt says it best.

I was looking through some of my friends’ blogs and I liked the way that one of them looked. It was hosted on BlogSpot so I decided I’d make an account to check out the user interface and ease of use. You see, hosting your own blog with its own design isn’t exactly easy to update. Anyway, when I went to make an account the first thing that I saw was this:

Should I be offended?

I got my car almost two years ago exactly. I remember because as soon as I got it, I was getting on a plane to go to San Jose, California for a Leadership Forum. I never realized how many miles we actually drive and the immense amount of time that is spent in our cars. On an average of 5,000 miles per year, that works about to be close to fourteen miles a day. More math: At $3.00 per gallon, that’s about $1.50 per day for most of us. Over the course of a year, I spent approximately $550 on gasoline. In my opinion, if everyone could cut these costs in half, the world would be a much happier place. Hooray for Hydrogen!

As usual, the My.RIT webportal has a poll running which regards a “taboo” issue. These polls often affect the student body; Other times, these polls are simply useless opinion polls about popular culture and entertainment. However, I was surprised to find this question being posed considering the placement:

I’m assuming that the 14% of people who did answer “yes” to the question were either faculty or students who didn’t understand the question. Peer-to-peer file sharing is a growing and ever-changing outlet for retrieving movies, music, and more. Regardless if the file sharing that is occurring is violating copyright, it is not RIT’s responsibility to make sure these copyrights are being upheld. It is the responsibility of the copyright holder – in this case the RIAA, MPAA and major software development companies.