File Sharing

How many people that go to cortland share files over the internet? Cortland acknowledges that the following websites such as: Kazaa, Napster, Cheetah and Grokster may be utilized for a small fee, however sit on the fence of dangerous legal consequences. One person may pay for a movie or song, which is allowable, however when the person who paid for this shares the file with friends it infringes on the copyright of the original creators. Copyright infringement is a serious issue and can lead to legal problems down the road.

I believe Cortland should, and is, doing the right thing when it comes to protecting campus from a potential lawsuit. I went to Cortlands peer to peer file sharing page where the schools administration talks about cracking down on file sharing. Cortland is following the Digital Millenium Copyright act which protects the copyright legalities that companies have from people sharing their files illegally. Futhermore, as said in the P2P file sharing document, Cortland has installed programs that will cause the illegal file sharing websites to not work properly. I believe this is a good step toward protecting Cortlands campus, as well as their database. I know from person experience that using these services (I used Limewire) can lead to your computer getting viruses. Cortland offers a free service to all students called Ruckus, which students can use to download music, virus free. It seems like Cortland is cracking down on an issue that most people think is harmless and simply getting “free” music and movies...But in the end, who cares....everybodys doing it right?

The Stanley Cup Is In Cortland

I was watching TV today with a few friends and I have been noticing all the new advertisements that describe how bad smoking and chewing is for you, that have been all over TV lately. These people put disgusting pictures on TV to try to show you what tobacco will do to someone over time if theyre a constant user. The last one I saw was the one where the doctor is about to cut someones infected leg off bacause the guy used to smoke. These commercials make me wonder if these advertisements really stop people from lighting up or putting a dip in. I do know one thing for sure though, a friend of mine surely wasn't affected by the commercials on TV. After three years of constantly ripping through chewing tobacco tins, he finally had enough to create his dream. To make a replica of Lord Stanley himself, the Stanley Cup. As me and a few of my roommates sat around and drank a thirty pack, he began the long process of laying out the foundation for stanley on a board we found and began to glue hundreds of tins together. Thinking about it now, I really have no idea as to why we all sat around on a Saturday night and watched him glue tins together but we just did..Gettinig back to what I was saying, it always seemed impossible to do, but after a while the cup began to take shape.It took many long hours to finish, but in the end it came out very nice and now is a nice addition to the living room of our house..I wish I could put a picture of it on here to show everyone..

Also, to anyone who thinks that I am trying to make smoking, chewing and drinking look cool I'm not. And I do not think smoking or chewing is good ; however I do think making a replica of the Stanley Cup out of tins is.

Kids up the street

Everyone at college waits for the weekend to come...or at least everyone I know (including myself) does. My weekends are most usually a really good time but unproductive, unless I have a ton of work to do which I usually dont, but this weekend I didn't have as much fun as usual because of the kids up the street. As I was sitting with a few of my roommates friday night watching the game we both hear a smash on our porch. We run outside to see what happened and notice a smashed coffee cup on the stairs to our porch, and the kids up the street running into their house. This was unacceptable to me and my roommates so we all decided to go over to their house and have a talk with them. After our talk with them they said the same excuse they always say when they act like clowns which is "Sorry dude, our friends just drunk." This time was different because they were told to come clean the steps off, which they did while saying they were sorry the whole time. Later that night while sitting on the porch watching people stumble from the bar back to their house, the kids up the street caused another scene and the police were at their house. I really have no problem with the cops being there all the time but I feel as if it looks bad on me when I'm sitting outside close by hanginig out.Anyways..it really never stops with these people...I was just wondering if anyone else has idiot neighbors?

i guess college kids dont sleep enough

I think the adequate number of sleep hours per night is around eight. I guess college kids dont get enough sleep, because as i sit in my morning class, ( which begins at 10:20) everyone seems to be still sleeping, and in some cases the students are sleeping! Some students simply walk into the class, put their head down on the desk and are asleep before the professor begins teaching a class. The professor must have caught on today because about midway through the class, as he was drawing diagrams on the board that everyone was supposed to be copying in their notebooks, he walked around the room to look and make sure everyone was staying on task. As the professor was walking around the room, he tapped some kids on the head to wake them up and get them back to reality for a few minutes. As I see this I wonder how the professor feels as he or she is trying to teach a class and turns around expecting everyone to be attentive and catches some kids sleeping? I know I have never fallen asleep in class, maybe because I need it to be completely silent and dark... but one of my roommates can fall asleep in class without a problem at all. What should professors do to a student who is always sleeping in class?....lower his grades, throw the student out of class...who knows...Anyway, a student is paying good money to come to college and get an education and sleeping through a class isnt a good way to be educated, nor a good way to prepare for an upcoming exam...is it?

07' Road Atlanta Results

Ben Spies wins again in Atlanta!! The Yomishura Suzuki team rider 23 year old Ben Spies claims yet another win after winning the 2006 AMA Superbike and 2003 Formula Extreme titles and Spies is also leading the superbike points leaderboard this year. The Texas native has completely dominated the superstock division, taking seven wins of the last eight races. Spies did not have an easy race on Sept. 2 because he saw tough competition from Ben Bostrom riding for team Graves Yamaha. Team jordan Suzuki's Aaron Yates also trailed Spies for the last five laps of the race. Yates was expected to steal the win, however he collided with a slower rider which caused him to loose his shot at the win, or even taking top three. Spies was quoted saying after the race..“The bike worked really good. Those were some pretty consistent lap times. I didn’t know if my lap timer was broken or not. Ben and Aaron rode real good races."

Erion Honda’s Josh Hayes pulled off a thrilling victory in Sunday’s Pro Honda Oils Supersport contest at Road Atlanta to keep his ’07 title hopes alive heading into the Laguna Seca finale.


Hayes battled a fierce dogfight throughout the 15-lap contest with rival Monster Energy Kawasaki Jamie Hacking, the two championship hopefuls trading the lead countless times as they battled for the number one position with Team M4 EMGO Suzuki’s Martin Cardenas right on their heels pushing them the entire time. As Hayes and Hacking repeatedly swapped positions Roger Hayden put his head down and came from more than three seconds back to turn the race into a four-rider showdown on the race’s final four laps. Hayes made a strong overrun just prior to the white flag, dicing past a slower rider coming down the Turn 12 hill and grabbing almost a half second’s cushion for the final dash to the checkered flag. The Mississippian’s job was made a bit easier when Cardenas challenged Hacking for second in Turn 1 but the British-born reigning class champ immediately took the position back on his factory ZX-6RR. The Colombian didn’t back down however, diving into 10 alongside Hacking as they approached the checkered flag. Hacking had better positioning, however, and continued on in second. Hayden took maximum advantage of the late clash, stealing third away from the former World 250 Grand Prix rider at the checkered flag.

Why do kids play sports

As I see little kids playing sports today I ask myself the question.."Did that kid want to play t-ball or did his father put a bat and glove in his hand and tell him that playing baseball was what every kid does." Maybe the reason i thought of this is because in a way, my father told me somethinig along that line when i was a kid. My father always told me to go out and play sports as a kid and I thank him for that today. My father from day one went to all my games and never stopped until i graduated from high school. Sometimes he seemed to be a thorn in my side when he was screaming to me from the sidelines when i was on the football or lacrosse field, then it hit me. In a way it seemed he was playing the sport through me. My father played sports all his life, and maybe when it came time for him to stop playing, he wanted me to play so he could still be in the sport atmosphere. As i look back now I wonder if this is a good or bad thing to influence your kids to play sports, or let them decide if they want to play sports on their own. Maybe some of these kids want nothing to do with football or lacrosse but they feel that by not playing they will disappoint their parents. I know that I hated going to practices as a kid and dad was always telling me to go, but after a while the forcing stopped and I actually wanted to play. Getting back to my point, I feel that a parent should let their kids decide to play sports on their own, but looking back on my own life I may have missed some of the best times of my life if i wasnt encouraged to play sports, simply because going to practice in the rain and snow isn't all that appealing to a young kid. It makes me wonder if those kids playing the little league world series on ESPN were told to go out for baseball as kids....