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I like this solution a lot. You are not using all the power yet but if you go into the black, it won't be important to do so.

I recently came across this letter about working with passive solar that has some good ideas in it. http://ncuc.commerce.state.nc.us/cgi-bin/webview/senddoc.pgm?dispfmt=&itype=Q&authorization=&parm2=1AAAAA22260B&parm3=000123984

Blumenthal has been leading this fight for a year, but got beat down by the legislature and a bunch of bloggers. This vastly scaled-back, opt-in approach is a very positive sign. However, if you live in North Carolina, your legislature actually did rush through the more punitive bill (making any site with user-generated content practically impossible to operate under the law) without bothering to read the thing first. You can see the bill -- S.132 -- here.

E. Norris Tolson Secretary of Revenue (919) 733-7211

Julian W. Fitzgerald, Sr. Director Motor Fuels Division (919) 733-8200

The full departmental directory can be found here: http://www.dor.state.nc.us/aboutus/department.html

Gov. Michael Easley's contact info page: http://www.governor.state.nc.us/Contact.asp

(info courtesy of a post on Digg: http://digg.com/environment/Driver_ticketed_for_us ing_biofuel)

E. Norris Tolson Secretary of Revenue (919) 733-7211

Julian W. Fitzgerald, Sr. Director Motor Fuels Division (919) 733-8200

The full departmental directory can be found here: http://www.dor.state.nc.us/aboutus/department.html

Gov. Michael Easley's contact info page: http://www.governor.state.nc.us/Contact.asp

(info courtesy of a post on Digg: http://digg.com/environment/Driver_ticketed_for_us ing_biofuel)

by WindBourne (631190) Alter Relationship on Monday May 21, @04:10AM (#19205905)

"Within my lifetime, copper is going to head towards being VERY valuable. It seems that it would benefit the countries to garbage dump any waste and then work on creating GOOD extraction approaches. The idea of paying to ship our electronic "waste" to other countries has to be one of the most ludicrous actions that the west takes.
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I have to agree; there seems to be some small scale progress in that direction in the U.S. I found this report, from the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Minnesota, on "Removal of Lead from Printed Circuit Board Scrap by Electrolysis-Chemical Precipitation Method"

A brief quote from the article:

"Printed circuit board scrap with external solder coating is classified as a hazardous waste by the EP Toxicity test because of lead ion release, and is shipped out of state to landfill sites at high cost." ...

"In their manufacture, substantial amounts of the laminated boards become scrap which, according to one estimate, amounts to half a million to a million lbs per year in the Twin Cities area. Because of the lead content in the solder layer, printed circuit board scrap is classified as a hazardous waste. Therefore, the removal of lead would allow the scrap to be reclassified as non-hazardous waste."

This was a pilot project for metals recovery; if projects like this were to become more widespread, a lot more valuable metals could be recylced here in the U.S.

The reason the news stories don't actually post the teacher salaries is because they are public information that is easily available. It only takes a quick google search.

For my state, North Carolina, that information is here.

For Texas, it is here.

For Louisiana, it is here.

The real problem with teacher shortages is that new teachers do not stick around very long. Usually after a couple of years they realize how low the pay is, how long it will take to get to a reasonable pay level, and how much better they could do in a non-teaching career. I think the pay scale is completely imbalanced. New teachers should ramp up with large raises quickly. After they have been in the system for 10 years, they are less likely to leave and smaller raises can be provided. This could help retain good, young teachers without actually costing the government money.

Sigh...do my fellow Americans understand basic civics anymore?

In a democracy...

Apparently not. America is not a democracy, it is a constitutional republic.

Although your explanation seems reasonable and I tend to agree with you, your not understanding the form of government, and not looking up the answer (yes, I did look at North Carolina's Constitution), means I can't trust what you say.

In case anyone was interested about the garbage or communal dumpster issue, please see this link (federal) and this link (North Carolina).

Where do you assume this is physically hardwired?

That is specious and presumptious at best, and intellectually dishonest at worst.

As far as I know there have existed a number of socieities that have been quite permissive of pedophiles and in some cases made it socially expected.

This hardly indicates a hard-wired aversion.

It IS social conditioning of the strongest kind. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, but you are inventing science to support your moral argument, which is disingenuous.

Ok, now lets actually address what you SAID.

statistics show paedophilia charges and convictions are on the rise.

The only thing that is "obvious" is that media reports of these charges are on the rise.

Please cite statistics that show charges and convictions are on the rise. Or you can simple let me illustrated that you are ignorant of the facts and are simply pontificating on moral grounds with your "epidemic" "on the rise" claims

Here, let me do it for you

Statistics show a decline in child abuse and neglect
The decline in child sex abuse cases
national child abuse and neglect statistics continued to decline
Child-Abuse and Neglect Cases Decline for Fifth Year, HHS Says ...
national child abuse and neglect statistics reported by states continued to decline
Statistics Show Decline in Child Abuse
national child abuse and neglect statistics reported by states continued to decline
total decline of 39% in identified sexual abuse cases over a 7-year period
New Child Maltreatment Statistics Show Continuing Decline
Department of Justice: CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CASES FALL 31 PERCENT OVER SIX YEARS
he hotline has seen a 24 percent annual decline in child abuse reports

I'm sorry, that's just the first two pages out of about 40 in my google search.

Speaking of head in the sand...

Stewed

Also another link: http://www.wildlife.state.nc.us/pg03_fishing/pg3g3 .htm

Simply go down to your Register of Deeds office. Countless documents that are public record and available to anyone with a quarter have Social Security Numbers on them. The only restrictions are birth certificates, military discharges, and death certificates, which are available only to the immmediate family of the individual. And since a fake ID template can be downloaded from Kazaa, you've spent less time ripping off someone's identity than cooking dinner.

Deeds offices are becoming more cognizant of it, but in so many states with millions of documents already on record (and so many of which are available over the net), most of the states don't even have laws to redact SSNs, though legislation is pending in some states, and people don't know enough to understand that the SSN is never required (nor do the banks, lawyers, etc., it seems).

Check your mortgages and deeds of trust.

143-743. Restrictions on certain information technology [...] (a) The head of each State agency shall not accept delivery of information technology that is loaded with game programs not required for an official purpose under the terms of the contract under which information technology is delivered.

In order to submit IRS returns electronically, the software developer and/or the agency submitting the returns has to be an authorized E-File provider. (Read that, it's chock full of insightful information on this subject, as is this one.) When you use TurboTax, you don't end up submitting directly to the IRS, but via TurboTax's systems as a middleman, which passes your return along to the IRS via "e-file transmitters".

Furthermore, you also have to get approval from every state you want to be able to support state returns for. 1, 2, 3

Which is, no doubt, why there aren't a lot more tax software options.

In the unlikely scenario that an open source project received this approval, the trusted endpoint problem would wreak havoc with its success.

Such a project would have to function like a foundation, with its own online middleman service to process the returns through. (Or, perhaps more ambitiously, operate its own e-file Transmitter.)

Anyway, I'm a big fan of TurboTax for the Web. I don't need to download anything, or worry about upgrading each year, and the cost is somewhat dependent on the complexity of my return and the added features I want, so I don't end up buying a shrink-wrapped flat-rate option that I end up underusing.

you have to pay tax on coke in North Carolina

Marijuana stems & stalks that have
been separated from the plant.

$.40 for each gram
or fraction thereof

More than 42.5 grams

Marijuana other than
separated stems and stalks

$3.50 for each gram
or fraction thereof

More than 42.5 grams

Cocaine

$50.00 for each gram
or fraction thereof

7 or more grams

Any other controlled substance
that is sold by weight

$200.00 for each gram
or fraction thereof

7 or more grams

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/records/local/school schedulefinal.pdf

*- there are some exceptions- operation of offroad vehicles on public land which is not a road, such as in state or national parks, may also require another kind of license depending on the jurisdiction. Almost all traffic laws do not apply on private property.

We already do prison labor in the US. So do contries such as China.

From NC DOT For an additional annual fee of $30.00, most plates issued by the Division may be personalized. The plate may bear up to 8 spaces made up of letters, numbers and/or special characters.
INBOXSTR works here. Don't know if those rules are nationalized or state by state though.

Man, we totally just clearcut their servers.

This submission is a quick mock-up. I can do a better one if you think it's good...

However, it is also illegal to pass someone on the right unless they are in the process of making a left turn or are stopped on the road. Because someone is traveling at the speed limit does not make passing them legal, at least not in any state i've been in.

I guess you've never been in NC then.

Excerpt from NCDOT:

Passing on the right

Passing on the right is against the law except in areas where it is specifically permitted. Passing on the right places your vehicle on the blind side of the car you are passing. The car you are passing could unexpectedly make a right turn or pull over to the right side of the road. Exceptions where passing on the right is allowed:

*
* on highways having at least two lanes traveling in each direction;
* on one-way streets where all lanes of traffic move in the same direction;
* when passing a vehicle that is in the left-turn lane; and/or
* when driving in a lane set aside for right turns.

On three-lane highways, you must not pass except in the center lane, and then only where the center lane is marked for passing in your direction. Exception: When the car in the center lane is making a left turn.

When your vehicle is being passed

If you want to see ugly, take a look at the North Carolina 12th district. It's been re-drawn more times than I can remember, and been ruled illegal almost as many.

The NC Libertarian Party offered to redraw the districts as a disinterested 3rd party to the process (theirs would have mostly followed county lines), but the Democrats & Republicans would have none of that, and so we have our snake-like boundaries. A better view is available in this pdf (area in gray).

Chip H.

If you want to see ugly, take a look at the North Carolina 12th district. It's been re-drawn more times than I can remember, and been ruled illegal almost as many.

The NC Libertarian Party offered to redraw the districts as a disinterested 3rd party to the process (theirs would have mostly followed county lines), but the Democrats & Republicans would have none of that, and so we have our snake-like boundaries. A better view is available in this pdf (area in gray).

Chip H.

NC has had this for a while too:

http://sbi.jus.state.nc.us/DOJHAHT/SOR/Default.htm

Overall I consider it a good idea, as I am personally not very lenient when it comes to the rights of convicted felons.

However, I was shocked to discover that a guy I knew during high school and worked with during high school summers was on the list. Even his picture. Later I discovered that he had been hooking up with a 17-year old girl in a mutually consenting relationship (some even said *she* pursued him) and he was I think 27, when her father found out, reported him, and pressed charges. Kind of a shitty deal for him, and made me start to wonder about current laws of consent. In a world where kids know all about sex from the Internet and Britney, and 40% of 16 year old girls are not virgins, is it just to charge an older guy for becoming involved with a significantly younger girl, even though she's no longer innocent and may have been just as much the instigator of the relationship as he was? The assumption of the law is that the older male is, by nature of experience, hormones, and ability to manipulate the young and naive, the instigator. But if that assumption is incorrect, should the law still apply?

A lot of people have commented on how laws might only apply to people in your state. NC has a very lax law on spammers. The e-mail must be unsoclicted, commercial, and deceptive. They did also ammend the "LONG ARM JURISDICTION" statue also. This means you just have to be in the US for it to apply to you. I hope other states would do the same.

I'm not sure what you guys want. Maybe you all are just anarchists that don't believe in laws.

So this means that they could restrict content in such a fashion that no content dipicting blacks is allowed? How about Jews, no Jewish literature is allowed? I doubt it. It looks to me like these people are violating North Carolina law at the very least and perhaps violating the civil rights act of 1964.

Cat

I'm not sure of any software in specific to test computer skills, but I found this link to a North Carolina State Board of Education page about what they put in thier computer skills tests. It gives an explanation of content with some of their sample questions. Not sure if this is what you had in mind though. I found it to be quite interesting.

My own ideas on the subject are that I know how to use Word and other Office applications for what I need them for and that's it. I'm sure that's the same boat the kids are in. But I don't know all the little nuances and specifics that a class might teach them. For instance, in a class I learned to use mail merge. I'd never use that in my day to day life, but that skill turned out to be somewhat helpful in an office setting where I could help the admin assistants with their duties.

Sure, it might be a bit boring, but everyone now and then they'd pick up on a new concept. If they know everything that you're teaching already, I'd say let them work ahead and finish all the projects for the term and then start to work on a project of their choice in something a little more interesting, such as programming, web site design, etc. Do make sure they do the work that everybody else has to do. That makes it seem fair to the other kids.

Heh - yeah, it's the same in the states. You can actually purchase "unauthorized substance" tax stamps. Although having the proper taxes paid on your stash won't make it legal, the man can't railroad you for tax evasion if they bust you (which is common practice - hence impounded cars & such). You actually don't have to identify yourself in order to purchase the stamps, and any state employee that gives out info on purchasers of these stamps can be found guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. Most states have a similar arrangement. I couldn't find any pricing info, but IIRC, the tax on illegal drugs is an order of magnitude higher than their street price.

I've had the pleasure of working some with Senator Eric Reeves, of the North Carolina General Assembly, who is quite up on things technically, especially when it comes to education and public schools and whatnot.

Although he's only in North Carolina's General Assembly at this point, the techies are very glad to have him.

BTW, his website is here, or at http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/sena te/senator.pl?nUserID=15 for those of you that don't use a real browser (real browsers show you the URL when hovering over the link).

Oh my GOD! This poster is actually right! People, please moderate this up!

I just went to this site. Notice the "Select by County" option. There's a Wilkes County, and a Wilson County, but no "Wise County".

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You are correct. A quick search at Google turned up:

This little ditty, which says that:

STOP THE PRESSES! HOLD YOUR HORSES! A NEW STATUTE EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1, 1997! SPEEDING TO ELUDE ARREST! AND FINALLY - ON SOME OCCASIONS IT WILL BE A FELONY! OH YES! G.S. 20-141.5 Speeding to elude arrest. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle on a street, highway, or public vehicular area while fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer who is in the lawful performance of his duties. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, violation of this section shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor. (b) If two or more of the following aggravating factors are present at the time the violation occurs, violation of this section shall be a Class H felony. (1) Speeding in excess of 15 miles over the legal speed limit. (2) Gross impairment of the person's faculties while driving due to a. Consumption of an impairing substance; or b. A blood alcohol concentration of 0.14 or more within a relevant time after driving. (3) Reckless driving as proscribed by G.S. 20-140.

etc, etc...

Of course you have to do TWO of the things in there, but me thinks they would get you on (1) and (3)...

The inferences and conclusions I made from the referenced material is wrong. See, the governor of North Carolina did indeed start the Working Against Violence Everywhere (WAVE) program. The press release announcing it is here, and was made February 10 of this year. The actual description of the program is very close to where I already listed, and can be found at this site. Which means, of course, that it's my credibility, not Jon's, which leaves something to be desired.

Sorry for the misleading information and the impugning of Jon's professionalism.

The phone number for reporting to the WAVE system is 1-888-960-9600

Every employee of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction can be found at here. You can search the list or download it in PDF format.

It took me a while to track this down, and it leads me to suspect that our Mr Katz didn't do very good research either.

1) The name of the organization isn't W.A.V.E, it's S.A.V.E - Students Against Violence Everywhere. Its home page can be found here.

2) The program is not about a month old. This site lists the coordinator of the program from October of 1994. That makes it about 65 months old instead. Actually, according to the organization's history SAVE was begun in 1989.

3) What has happened is that the program - Pinkerton's toll free phone number - was included as part of the recommendations from the Task Force on Youth Violence and School Safety, which in April of 1999 was tasked with further reducing school violence. You can read a press release from August 11, 1999 here.

4) The official connection is here, the page of the School Programs of the Crime Prevention Unit of the NC Governor's Crime Commission. (I assume it's supposed to be the crime prevention commission, but we all have an opinion about government these days.)

5) Part of the information is loosely correct. There is a toll-free phone number. The reporting, however, is to notify law enforcement of school violence either in progress or anticipated soon. It is not a place to report students who might be potential "dangerous students" someday - the geeks, the depressed, the lonely, or whatever.

6) The program is run very much like the DARE program. This is intentional as the source material indicates. I am not discussing whether this is good or bad.

As with any such program there is a potential for abuse, and I'm not in a location to evaluate it. But the degree of error in Mr. Katz's report leaves him with a significant loss of credibility - which is too bad because I actually find most of his columns interesting. Now I'll have to verify his facts before I trust his opinions.

It took me a while to track this down, and it leads me to suspect that our Mr Katz didn't do very good research either.

1) The name of the organization isn't W.A.V.E, it's S.A.V.E - Students Against Violence Everywhere. Its home page can be found here.

2) The program is not about a month old. This site lists the coordinator of the program from October of 1994. That makes it about 65 months old instead. Actually, according to the organization's history SAVE was begun in 1989.

3) What has happened is that the program - Pinkerton's toll free phone number - was included as part of the recommendations from the Task Force on Youth Violence and School Safety, which in April of 1999 was tasked with further reducing school violence. You can read a press release from August 11, 1999 here.

4) The official connection is here, the page of the School Programs of the Crime Prevention Unit of the NC Governor's Crime Commission. (I assume it's supposed to be the crime prevention commission, but we all have an opinion about government these days.)

5) Part of the information is loosely correct. There is a toll-free phone number. The reporting, however, is to notify law enforcement of school violence either in progress or anticipated soon. It is not a place to report students who might be potential "dangerous students" someday - the geeks, the depressed, the lonely, or whatever.

6) The program is run very much like the DARE program. This is intentional as the source material indicates. I am not discussing whether this is good or bad.

As with any such program there is a potential for abuse, and I'm not in a location to evaluate it. But the degree of error in Mr. Katz's report leaves him with a significant loss of credibility - which is too bad because I actually find most of his columns interesting. Now I'll have to verify his facts before I trust his opinions.

It took me a while to track this down, and it leads me to suspect that our Mr Katz didn't do very good research either.

1) The name of the organization isn't W.A.V.E, it's S.A.V.E - Students Against Violence Everywhere. Its home page can be found here.

2) The program is not about a month old. This site lists the coordinator of the program from October of 1994. That makes it about 65 months old instead. Actually, according to the organization's history SAVE was begun in 1989.

3) What has happened is that the program - Pinkerton's toll free phone number - was included as part of the recommendations from the Task Force on Youth Violence and School Safety, which in April of 1999 was tasked with further reducing school violence. You can read a press release from August 11, 1999 here.

4) The official connection is here, the page of the School Programs of the Crime Prevention Unit of the NC Governor's Crime Commission. (I assume it's supposed to be the crime prevention commission, but we all have an opinion about government these days.)

5) Part of the information is loosely correct. There is a toll-free phone number. The reporting, however, is to notify law enforcement of school violence either in progress or anticipated soon. It is not a place to report students who might be potential "dangerous students" someday - the geeks, the depressed, the lonely, or whatever.

6) The program is run very much like the DARE program. This is intentional as the source material indicates. I am not discussing whether this is good or bad.

As with any such program there is a potential for abuse, and I'm not in a location to evaluate it. But the degree of error in Mr. Katz's report leaves him with a significant loss of credibility - which is too bad because I actually find most of his columns interesting. Now I'll have to verify his facts before I trust his opinions.

Look at the bill. Scroll down. Scroll down some more. Stop.

14-458. Computer trespass; penalty.

Read that bit.

"It shall be unlawful for any person to use a computer or computer network without authority [to] temporarily or permanently remove, halt, or otherwise disable any computer data, computer programs, or computer software from a computer or computer network... cause a computer to malfunction, regardless of how long the malfunction persists... alter or erase any computer data... Make an unauthorized copy [of] any printed or electronic form of computer data"

I think this section is far more powerful than the anti-spam bit. Not only can that stuff get you fired, kicked out of school, or your ISP account cancelled, but as of 12/1/99 you can get prosecuted and fined, too. Were it not for the "without authority" clause, installing Windows 98 over a LAN could be classified as criminal. Even so...