For anyone who missed it, last week's Isthmus predicts the end of the world--including Hoofers--as we know it, with comics illustrating the twelve signs of the apocalypse. However, their cartoon on Hoofers doesn't really make sense. Are they suggesting that you have to be a student to buy beer at the Terrace..? Not so. Anyone including professors and UW staff can buy beer (members of the general public can get a day pass). And does the cartoon suggest that drunken Hoofers are actually timid babies that would put away their weapons and go home just because some dickless Union staffer asked them to? Everyone around the Union and Hoofers who isn't employed there does live in constant fear of breaking the rules, so many Hoofer "pirates" probably would drop what they're doing if a building manager demanded to see their IDs.
The comic is realistic in that many HSC members are not current students (not that they have to be), and the Union is already run by crooked old white boys (and young boys) who will harass anyone they don't like.
All naturally confusing to anyone encountering Hoofers or the Union for the first time. Fortunately, that will all end in 2012....
And did you get written permission from The Isthmus or license the image you PIRATED from them? Or as Fleet Commander you are above the rules and regulations that all others must abide by? Oh the hypocrisy from one who sticks it to anyone who abuses rank and privilege. Here you are breaking the law yourself. You have become all that you preach against.
ReplyDeleteI think that would fall under the "fair use" doctine, in that the blog is apparently criticizing the Isthmus article. If not, yes it's a terrible, outrageous act of online piracy.
ReplyDeleteFleet Commander must be a Hoofer sailor!