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[janekane (imported)]

It hit me like a pencil in the eye (pun intended). So i drew it out on MS paint.

As may be obvious to those who bother to unriddle copyright law in the U.S. and in Great Britain, my original acrylic painting is fully covered under the automatic provisions of current copyright law, and therefore, the use of my copyrighted original work in the artwork of punkypink constitutes copyright infringement, and, were I fan of adversarial legal proceedings, would I suppose, entitle me to file a lawsuit for infringement.

Entitlement is not what guides my life. Rather, I am guided by an inner sense of conscientious decency.

There is no infringement action in the works.

Besides, I got a laugh from punkypink's creativity that was worth, I surmise, about ten years of my life.

Unfortunately, punkypink, I cannot afford to pay you fair market value for that laugh.

Perhaps we simply call it even?

[punkypink (imported)]

No, I don't. <I realize you were being cynical.> Political Correctness is simply sugar-coating the words, instead of changing people's hearts and minds to be more open and understanding. People who use PC language are simply trivializing us in what they perceive to be a socially-acceptable manner. It's still a label, no matter how socially acceptable it might seem. That's a bit too trivializing for me to accept, honestly.

Of course that's not to say that someone being un-PC is any less trivialising when they fetishise or stereotype a certain demographic group. In any case I don't think a fear of lawsuits was what prompted the change. That isn't the way EA works. When EA implement chan

ges, it's usually to try to help with social progress.

As may be obvious to those who bother to unriddle copyright law in the U.S. and in Great Britain, my original acrylic painting is fully covered under the automatic provisions of current copyright law, and therefore, the use of my copyrighted original work in the artwork of punkypink constitutes copyright infringement, and, were I fan of adversarial legal proceedings, would I suppose, entitle me to file a lawsuit for infringement.

Entitlement is not what guides my life. Rather, I am guided by an inner sense of conscientious decency.

There is no infringement action in the works.

Besides, I got a laugh from punkypink's creativity that was worth, I surmise, about ten years of my life.

Unfortunately, punkypink, I cannot afford to pay you fair marke

t value for that laugh.

Perhaps we simply call it even?

Even it is =) Maybe you could paint a bigger one of an actual face, Greg seems to really like it.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

Never had a avatar before

Thanks for the instruction.

I was wondering about that myself and finally got brave enough to bluff my way through it.

At the top of the page, you should see a "button" named "Settings". Click on that. It takes you to a page showing various things about your account. On the left, find a link named "Edit Avatar". Click on that. If you have a Web-compatible image on your computer that you want to use, click on the Browse button under "Option 2" to locate the image to upload. You also have the option to grab one from another Web site or select "Do not use an avatar". If you want to change your avatar, you can simply go through the same process you used to get the initial one activated.

Sandi