User:Megapixie

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Welcome to my vanity page.

Checkout User:Megapixie/Photographs, User:Megapixie/Diagrams, some of the images I have contributed to the wikipedia and put in the public domain.

Also see User:Megapixie/OldPDfinds for public domain images that I have found and uploaded.

If you'd like to contact me - please leave a message on my talk page. If it's urgent drop me an email but I will probably reply via your talk page.

I also have an account on the commons that I use to upload images.

1 Completed
2 Photo repair
3 Currently working on
4 Things that make me smile on wikipedia
5 My thoughts on IP
6 Todo
7 Some of the nice things people have said about me
8 Useful stuff

[edit] Completed

Examples of some of the better articles I have churned out:

AT-3 Sagger - which didn't exist surprisingly since it's linked from several places BMP-1 Yom Kippur War.
MIM-23 Hawk - spent months on the re-write.
D4 video connector.
Cinemiracle.

[edit] Photo repair

I occasionally dabble in fixing very old PD photos:

Before
After (Going back to the original 22 mb TIFF and cloning a lot of the image and blurring the background. Then recompressing.)

If you have something you'd like me to take a look at - let me know on my talk page.

[edit] Currently working on

Category: Weapon stubs (it's like trying to hold back the sea)
Random article patrol. Always a trip.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Falklands War.
SDDS
Movie projector
BMP-1 rewrite User:Megapixie/BMP-1 rewrite

Currently hiding in Japan

[edit] Things that make me smile on wikipedia

Hitting random article and seeing an article that you started - odds of probably about 4000 to 1. Times its happened:
- Pendulum and Hydrostat Control 19 Dec 2005.

http://www.codebunny.org will find me in the end.

[edit] My thoughts on IP

It can be summed up as:

30 year copyright protection for "major works" : films, novels.
15 year copyright protection for "minor works" : software, photographs, drawings, paintings, articles (say less than 10,000 words) video camera footage (that is not part of a larger work - i.e. news footage).
10 year patents - with the caveat that it is challenged in a mock trail before it is granted.
No software patents, but software can be copyright. But reverse engineering is legal.
No DRM legal protection (DCMSS, EuroDCMSS), you can implement whatever you like - it's just not protected by law.

I'm not crazy about the copyleft, GNU stuff (I hate that stupid logo for one). But Wikipedia seems like a good idea.

[edit] Todo

SA-19 Grisom move to Grison ?
ZSU-57-2 - cite "hole in the sky.."

[edit] Some of the nice things people have said about me

You are a propaganda machine User:ArmanJan
[1] "sigh" you are also an asshole who writes out "sigh".

[edit] Useful stuff

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