serleran wrote:
Not to be argumentative, but Nickelodeon (yeah, that's right, the children's network) ran a week-long marathon of All in the Family. Of course, they did put a "warning" before it. At least they gave it a shot... not like Wal-Mart.

I'm not talking about reruns...which have the slightly sanitized aspect of being "30 years old"...I'm talking about an actual remake or even a debut of a show similar to All in the Family.  There is not 1 in 1 million chance in hell a show like this could be greenlighted in our overly sensitive PC society nowadays. Consider:

The main character is an unapologetic racist and misogynist, and is never really punished for such behavior throughtout the show.  True, he is ridiculed, but each episode ends with him still secure in his beliefs.  Although his uneducated viewpoint is played for laughs, it's made clear that this is an "everyman" and not some aberration.

His wife, who he calls "dingbat", is a loving but incredibly unintelligent woman, and not noticibly smoking hot.  The trend nowadays is to give the fat, ignorant husband of sitcoms a smoking hot (or at least attractive) woman that is (of course!) much more intelligent than him, so she can wink her eye at the audience when her husband says something over the top.

His daughter and son in law are freewheeling liberal lefties, yet everything they say and do, when sometimes much more intelligent compared to the main character's stubborn prejudice, isn't given profound social relevance. Instead, often their over the top liberalism is also made fun of as much as the main character's strident conservatism.  

I could go on and on, but so many standard TV tropisms are broken in this show, if you were to pitch this today, they would toss you out of the office so hard your ass would bounce.  The closest show to it nowadays is South Park, which is possibly the most politically incorrect show of all time, and was supposedly inspired by Parker and Stone's love of All in the Family.  However, since it's a cartoon, the episodes don't have the same impact that a "real" show of this type would have (although it's inspired lots of controversy over the years).

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:
I'm not talking about reruns...which have the slightly sanitized aspect of being "30 years old"...I'm talking about an actual remake or even a debut of a show similar to All in the Family.  There is not 1 in 1 million chance in hell a show like this could be greenlighted in our overly sensitive PC society nowadays. Consider:

The main character is an unapologetic racist and misogynist, and is never really punished for such behavior throughtout the show.  True, he is ridiculed, but each episode ends with him still secure in his beliefs.  Although his uneducated viewpoint is played for laughs, it's made clear that this is an "everyman" and not some aberration.

His wife, who he calls "dingbat", is a loving but incredibly unintelligent woman, and not noticibly smoking hot.  The trend nowadays is to give the fat, ignorant husband of sitcoms a smoking hot (or at least attractive) woman that is (of course!) much more intelligent than him, so she can wink her eye at the audience when her husband says something over the top.

His daughter and son in law are freewheeling liberal lefties, yet everything they say and do, when sometimes much more intelligent compared to the main character's stubborn prejudice, isn't given profound social relevance. Instead, often their over the top liberalism is also made fun of as much as the main character's strident conservatism.  

I could go on and on, but so many standard TV tropisms are broken in this show, if you were to pitch this today, they would toss you out of the office so hard your ass would bounce.  The closest show to it nowadays is South Park, which is possibly the most politically incorrect show of all time, and was supposedly inspired by Parker and Stone's love of All in the Family.  However, since it's a cartoon, the episodes don't have the same impact that a "real" show of this type would have (although it's inspired lots of controversy over the years).

Mike B.

On a side note what was the English show that All in the Family was based on? (Was it Rising Damp?)

I always thought All in the family was heavy left-wing propaganda  myself, but that's just me.

Another show that wouldn't work in the USA would be 'House of Cards" three British TV movies, I think that was the title. It's done from the villains point of view with cool asides to the audience. The first two are excellent and the third seems to have been made to PC the series because the villain was way to succesful. Can't have the bad guy win.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chainmail-3rd-ed-TSR-rul ... dZViewItem

All of his items seem to be in very nice condition.
The seller also placed an ad in the Acaeum Classifieds, but some folks here may not look at the classified ads.

He started his listing VERY high on the Chainmail (TOO high IMO)
100 (USD+/-)  seems too high to me for this book.
It is a Nice looking 3rd Chainmail (Dont know which printing though)

He also has a VERY NICE looking Greyhawk 8th print and a good looking 5th White Box Set with no Reference/Errata sheets.

killjoy32 wrote:
so anny...er...how is he infringing copyright?

wrong thread man.
sorry......

Pennfarms wrote:Being new to the forum, I wasnt around for much of the posts in the thread, and all the old links are dead.  

Im curious as to what are the most common violation of copyright infringements?  discs full of scanned books?  scans of old and out of print books and mods?  ever see fake books or anything like that?  if someone were selling a new T shirt with the vintage TSR logo is that copyright infringement?

The thought of policing EBAY for WOC is a bit odd, I think.

Generally it's DVDs/CDs full of scanned books.

I am selling my DATASETS for the software programs PCGEN and ETOOLS.  I purchased them legally and am selling all interest in them now that I am moving to 4th edition.    I have the original receipts and software for this program that will be shipped to the buyer of record.

The DATASETS are NOT PDF's of the books and Deadlord39 if you have any additional questions I will be more than happy to answer them.

I will not be selling multiple copies on EBAY after this auction.   This is a one shot chance to purchase the datasets that CODE MONKEY PUBLISHING can no longer sell.

eh?

looks like blatant copyright infringement to me.

Al

stephenf wrote:I'm selling software that I purchased.  I am legally and rightfully entitled to.

Not if the software is illeagal to begin with.

stephenf wrote:I'm selling software that I purchased.  I am legally and rightfully entitled to.

If you go to the Code Monkey website and read the about what you bought, I don't think you have the right to resell the items you purchased from them.  In fact, you do not even have the right to share any datasets you create yourself.