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[Furtuka]

Is it worth paying the extra few dollars to get the the tenth anniversary version of American Gods?

[Helgoland]

Nope, books like that need to be stolen permanently borrowed from Irish pubs. Along with the beer glasses.

Damn, I miss that pub already...

[My Name is Immaterial]

So a company has copyrighted a piece of material, in this case a RPG system, and then releases it for free on their website. They later go out of business. Is it illegal to host a mirror of said material online, and would it be against forum rules to post a link to said material?

[LordSlowpoke]

if a company has copyright and goes bankrupt, product is considered abandonware. abandonware is verboten

however if it was released for free it should be fine

don't trust me, though

pm toady and see if it works

[My Name is Immaterial]

Hmm. After some research, which I should have done first, it may be an orphan work, where the creators are unreachable. This puts it into a weird spot, and means that it can only be used in contexts of Fair Use. I'll send Toady a PM about it.
I'm talking about F.A.T.A.L. I didn't want to come out and say it, because of the stigma surrounding it. I'm planning on running a game here to figure out if it is THAT bad.
Edit: Actually, on further thought, I'll just not link it.

[tuypo1]

man copyright law needs to be completely overhauled and replaced with better copyright law

[tuypo1]

man copyright law needs to be completely overhauled and replaced with better copyright law

Even if you could get the majority of people bothered, many influential people would oppose it because then they'd lose the power to sue prectically anything they dislike the look of.

indeed and you would also have to contend with people saying there shouldn't be any copyright law at all who would constantly complain that the new rules are to restrictive

[Lightningfalcon]

Would it be accurate to call the poem Aristotle, by Bill Collins, an allegory for life?  If not what kind of literary symbol would it be?

[hops]

I thought all poetries are required by law to be allegory for life?

[Graknorke]

Got physics induction stuff that I'm supposed to be able to understand how to work out by tomorrow. I'm fine with most of them, but one of the supposedly easiest ones completely eludes me.

A skier is dragged up a slope by a ski-tow, which exerts a force on the skier of 300 N at an angle of 40 to the ground. What work is done by the tow when the skier moves 300 m?

The answer is supposed to be 69000J, but I have no idea how to arrive there.

[Helgoland]

Assuming the skis are frictionless, just look at how high the skier has been towed: 300m*sin 40°
There's also the more direct way: 300 N = 300 kg*m/s^2, so the work done after 300m is 90000 Nm = 90000 J, and apparently I've made a mistake.

E: 300m*sin 40° * g of course, with g being the gravity constant.

[Biowraith]

After inadvertently spending most of my evening re-learning physics I've not touched in ~20 years and ultimately coming to the same answer as Helgoland, I'm very curious to know what the official answer/working is.

[sjm9876]

....It's a poorly worded question. The force is at an angle of 40 degrees to the slope.

Thus the force perpendicular to the slope (plane of travel) = 300cos(40)

Word done = Fd = 300cos(40)*300 ~= 69000

These are the situations where diagrams really help.

[Graknorke]

....It's a poorly worded question.

Indeed it is.
Someone explained the answer to me already though so I'm good. Thanks anyway.

[Helgoland]

Edit: Nevermind, just realized that we don't have the object's mass.