Posted by dorayme on 01/25/06 02:02

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"PeterMcC" <peter@mccourt.org.uk> wrote:

> dorayme wrote in

> > you cannot know what some folk might want to
> > protect against, It might be irksome to someone that any Tom,
> > Dick or Harry can grab their pics and use them. I am not sure any
> > real damage happens when webmasters use web pictures they grab
> > without asking... it is because the damage is more purely
> > psychological that stopping every ordinary Tom from using them
> > might be worth doing for someone. If someone comes in a steals
> > stuff from the house, one might have to replace it and work to do
> > it. Not so with pics, the aggrieved party still has them and can
> > use them...
>
> You weren't visiting the planet around the end of the 14th century (local
> calendar) were you?
>

As it happens I was.

> I wonder if you heard the Wife of Bath saying, when her husband complained
> that she was allowing others to... erm... "grab her pics"
>

And, as it happens, yes I did.

> For certeyn, olde dotard, by youre leve,
> Ye shul have queynte right ynogh at eve.
> He is to greet a nygard, that wolde werne
> A man to lighte his candle at his lanterne;
> He shal have never the lasse light, pardee,
> Have thou ynogh, thee thar nat pleyne thee.
>
> Rough trans: You old fool, you'll get enough c*** at night. It's a miserable
> sod that won't let someone light a candle from his lantern since he won't
> end up with any less light. You've got enough, stop moaning.

And, this time but not just as it happens, I am most sympathetic
to her sentiments...

(nice one Peter!)

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dorayme

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