Yes, but only if you do so in an appropriate manner.

Those of you contributing to this thread will be please to note that I will no longer be embedding images in the post itself. I am taking this course of action both for the benefit of those with slow connections, as well as to help avoid an unnecessary burden on the third-party image server which hosts the image.

Instead, I will be using one of three methods available to us all:

1. Providing a URL with others can copy and paste into their own browsers. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aeroforces.svg

2. Providing a URL, with link, that others can click on if they want to follow it. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aeroforces.svg

3. Including it as an attachment, which will produce a thumbnail at the bottom of the post. Example: See bottom of post.

In addtion, I will limit my use of images to those which are either in the public domain, possess a general use license, or those which I myself have taken/created and have uploaded to a server such as PhotoBucket which expressly allows such links.

From what I gather, the terms hotlinking, inline linking, offsite embedded images, and offsite image grabs are all synonomous. Put simply, if a person is viewing a BAUT page and one of the images they see is pulled directly from another site, as an inline part of the post, that's hotlinking.

True, I understand the confusion behind the rapidly changing terminology of the Internet. While Microsoft may be pioneers with the introduction of some terms, they're not the watchdogs to ensure those terms do not morph over time into how people will come to use them.

For those of you with a morbid sense of curiosity, no, I am not doing this in response to a mod's or admin's PM. I am doing this of my own volition, because:

1. I took the time to read through the messages and concerns of others.

2. Am a responsible member of this community and dislike mass confusion or contention.

3. I am hoping that I, as one of the original detractors of this thread, can set an example!

If I can put aside my own way of doing things and find two good reasons (other than the rules) why images should be handled as noted above, while still maintaining 100% useability, then so can the rest of you.

I hope my examples above have reduced the confusion over this topic.

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.