I'm going to go even further and say the family hasn't even seen the picture in question, if there even is a picture to be seen, and are randomly guessing at its content and explanation. Everyone is in the dark here.
The kid has to be lying. As outrageous as the claims against the school are, and to be sure they are outrageous and will require equally outrageous evidence, this is the part for me that just doesn't pass the smell test. No one in their right mind is going to mistake a kid eating candy for a kid popping pills. This is so unbelievable that it sounds like just the kind of lie a young teenager would come up with when caught. I know I used to try. His parents are going along with his obvious ridiculousness because they smell money. It brings to mind the case of the kid in MA over Christmas who supposedly "got suspended for drawing a picture of Jesus". In reality, it wasn't a picture of Jesus, and he didn't get suspended, but because there was a lawsuit and publicity to be had, his father knowingly played up the false claims. I would bet my right arm the same thing is going on here. "If my kid says he was eating candy, then he was eating candy!" No way. Regardless of what the school did or didn't do, the family's account of it is utterly ridiculous. I'm withholding judgment accordingly.
This is so wrong as to be flamebait. As has been discussed ad nauseum for the last week, Iran is not the country the western media under Bush had said it was. Over 60% of the population now lives in cities, expected to be 80% by 2030, and it has had one of the highest urban growth rates in the world for the past several decades. Tehran isn't the only city in Iran. It's not even the only city with more than a million people, and coincidentally not the only city that has been rioting over this election.
That's why this is such a big deal, and why the election was such an obvious sham: Ahmedinejad may have majority support in those "mud huts" you talk about, but since rural people make up a diminishing minority of Iranians, the claim that the election results accurately reflect the current demographics of Iran is laughable if you've been paying even the slightest attention.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Calling a mix of HTML, CSS, and JS a "mess" is uniformed FUD. The vast majority of the visible web is based on these three technologies, and at least in their current form, they are designed to work together pretty well. I'm not sure how you could have written any scripts in your life and not come to this conclusion. What exactly did you do with GreaseMonkey if you weren't using it to manipulate HTML and CSS?
Also, jQuery is terribly popular. Not including support for it would have been a huge oversight. Did you just step out of a time machine from 1999?
I lied to my parents all the time about how classes were going. The more the lie made me sound like the victim, the better it came across. I bet if he told you the administration is completely on the side of the prof, you would believe him, because why not? Your son wouldn't lie, and all universities these days are new-age feel-gooderies.
I would suggest a more likely scenario is that the event went down in exactly the opposite way. Your son started an argument he couldn't win, his fellow classmates shouted him down, and he dropped the class in shame.
I was in the first required TEAL class, so I have first-hand knowledge that this stat is bullshit. There are two reasons for improvement, and neither of them have to do with the quality of the class (which is anecdotally awful). First, the class coincided with the first term on grades for freshman. Previously, all freshman classes had been graded on a Pass/No Record basis, so all former iterations of 8.02 E&M had been taken by students with *no chance of actually failing the class*. A=B=C=P, and if you got a D or F, it didn't show up on your transcript, and you just took it again. For my class, we didn't have this option, so we all had to try a little bit harder, because Cs don't look that good, it turns out.
Secondly, freshman classes have the highest failure rate at MIT, so the noted improvement is also weighted by that fact. As above, the failure rate wasn't necessarily because the classes are too hard or taught poorly, it was because it's tough to do just enough to get a C-. Sometimes you undershot that goal and got a D or F.
I think the program is out of money because a lot of people who don't even need coupons are getting them - my guess is that probably half of the people at least do not understand that if they have cable they don't need a different box.
This isn't happening. You can't get the coupon if you don't need it. I mean, I suppose you could lie and say you don't have cable, but the application makes it pretty clear that cable subscribers don't need a box.
The giant assumption behind your entire argument is that there are more, or at least similar amounts of, illegal immigrants than poor citizens. This is just not true. There are somewhere between 7-12 million illegal immigrants, but 40% of Americans have lived below the poverty line sometime in the last decade. That's an order of magnitude difference.
Regarding paying no income tax, yes, it's likely that these immigrants don't pay any, but again, this is irrelevant. The "unskilled laborers" you believe have been deprived of jobs by illegal immigrants wouldn't make enough money to pay income taxes either, and they would use more public services. We're talking about jobs that need to be done, but pay next to nothing. I fail to see how installing legal citizens in these jobs would generate any additional revenue for the government.
I really don't understand your point. Very very few people in this country make enough to pay $14k in income taxes...does that mean their children shouldn't be attending public school either? Let's imagine a person who makes enough to pay $14k in taxes. Does he have to choose between sending his child to school or partaking of local police service? We've already established that these illegal immigrants you're convinced are ruining 'Merka are paying taxes. What's the issue? Illegal immigration is a problem, for myriad reasons, but poor immigrants not making enough money to pay the full share of their children's education costs is not one of them, especially since illegal immigrants are less likely to use other public services than citizens.
I also disagree with your numbers and would like a citation
you didn't cite anything yourself. Your numbers are probably more made up than the GP's.
I played GoW for PC and for 360, and I must say, the PC version was completely useless. They prettified the graphics and made it 'harder' by making your weapons useless. No thanks. I'm not one to argue for 'realism' in games, but come on: it takes 40+ rounds to take down the first guys you fight in the game. That doesn't make the PC version harder, just repetitive. Those stupid holes in the ground from which enemies appear are just disheartening, because you know you're going to have to take about 5 or more enemies, and since each enemy takes upwards of 30 seconds to kill, you've got minutes of stock-still pointing and shooting on your hands.
I wasn't a fan of the 360 version, but at least you didn't have to try so damn hard for so long to hit the enemies. That fact improved the gameplay 10-fold.
Without realizing it, you've just reaffirmed what a lot of people are saying here: McCain picked Palin because she's a woman and for no other reason, making her both a pander and a gimmick to steal headlines. Obama chose someone he thought would be an asset to him as president; McCain someone who would be an asset during the campaign. One choice shows presidential judgment, they other fundamental unseriousness towards the office.
Sure, she'd have liked a nice, fat, free bridge, but the project would have stuck Alaska with 80 percent of the bill.
Interesting you mention this, because just today she said, "I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves."
Seems like either you're wrong or she's changed her tune now that she's on the MAVERICK ticket. This is also the second post of yours I've corrected today. You've got to get some better arguments.
You're making an even bigger assumption in saying that the reason there aren't more members of NOW is because they've already got everybody who agrees with them. It could be just that it's hard to get people to join activist groups or marches. By your metric, nearly no one on slashdot supports the ACLU.
This is also ludicrous on the face, since 59% of Americans support abortion rights as they now stand. The poll doesn't give a gender breakdown, so I suppose that could mean every man and 11% of women, but that seems unlikely to me
You're wrong, because 17 USC Section 117(a)(1) makes agreement to EULA unnecessary. By its terms, you don't need to be "authorized" to run the program in memory. Violating the EULA does not result in infringement according to the terms of this law, and until now, purchasing a copy of software entitled you to its protections. The judge got around this by saying that law doesn't apply here.
But in addition to this, the judge said, "You're breaking the EULA, paying customer of WOW, and that makes you guilty of copyright infringement. Blizzard has standing to sue you now."
I can't help but agree that MDY is guilty of tortious interference (impeding the contract), but the judge has also got them for contributory infringement, which is only logical if you buy the argument that users of software are not allowed to use the software without the express permission of the copyright holder, something the law already says they don't need.
Very true. MDY has not lost anything yet. All that's been determined is that uses of Glider and WOW are guilty of copyright infringement. I think that actually makes a better headline.
I disagree that the EULA can legally force you into giving up your rights under section 117. The judge hasn't addressed this either. He says section 117 doesn't apply here because of the word "owner". Users of WOW are not the owners of anything WOW-related, so they have no rights not granted by the EULA. In other words, if there was no EULA, they wouldn't be able to user the software at all. A very questionable ruling.
One more thing. If the USER is not the OWNER of the software copy in question, who exactly does Section 117 apply to? If it only applies to the publisher, it is completely redundant, because it grants rights already given to the publisher in section 106.
Except that the court was also ignoring other precedents that say the opposite thing (read Public Knowledge's briefs). The law may have been "applied as written", but the judge made a very questionable interpretation of an existing statute. Besides that, copyright holders *cannot* decide for themselves (through unsigned contracts with the user) which sections of the law apply to consumers of their works. The law is clear that purchasing a copy of software (thus making you the "owner" of that copy, regardless of what this court says), gives you the right to use that software, regardless of what the copyright holder says. If the copyright holder doesn't want to give anyone that right, he has to refrain from selling the software. Monetary transactions carry a lot of weight in our legal system.
The judge says this law does not apply to users of WOW. That's probably what an appeal will focus on: who the "owner" of a copy of software is, and whether purchasing software gives you rights under this law.
This neither what Blizzard alleged, nor what was ruled on. Blizzard is saying that by violating the EULA, users are forfeiting their right to even load that first copy, let alone subsequent copies, into RAM. The judge agreed and said that the law quoted above *does not even apply* to users of WOW.
Note that this is not a loss for MDY, per se. MDY itself can not be guilty of copyright infringement by this ruling, only users of Glider can. The court has yet to rule on whether MDY is guilty of contributory infringement and direct violation of the DMCA.
Wrong! The court did not find this. The court found that you, as a purchaser of software, are not entitled to the legal protections given by 17 USC section 117 to owners of copies of software, because you can never be the owner of that copy! You are merely a "licensee" and are governed by USC 17 section 106, which makes *any* copy you make illegal and allows the publisher to set any terms they want for its use, including the denial of resale (also granted in 117). That is the precedent. It makes section 117 completely redundant and gives you no legal rights upon purchasing a copy of software. That is alarming to me.
EULAs are considered valid contracts, but until now, they have not legally governed the ability for legitimate purchasers of software to actually use the software. Section 117 explicitly gives that right to purchasers, and this court ruling sidesteps that law with a bizarre definition of who the "owner" of a copy is. If the owner of a copyright is also the only owner of all copies of the software, then section 117 makes no sense. You don't need to be granted the legal right to use a copy of your own copyright work. The law cannot have been intended to be read that way, and this judge is either dense or deliberately obtuse.
That sounds like an excellent candidate. These cheap home routers have very small routing tables (probably less than 512 entries for the WRT54G). If they're not ejecting old entries because of these extremely long timeouts and the table fills up, you're not going to be able to connect to anything new.
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I'm going to go even further and say the family hasn't even seen the picture in question, if there even is a picture to be seen, and are randomly guessing at its content and explanation. Everyone is in the dark here.
The kid has to be lying. As outrageous as the claims against the school are, and to be sure they are outrageous and will require equally outrageous evidence, this is the part for me that just doesn't pass the smell test. No one in their right mind is going to mistake a kid eating candy for a kid popping pills. This is so unbelievable that it sounds like just the kind of lie a young teenager would come up with when caught. I know I used to try. His parents are going along with his obvious ridiculousness because they smell money. It brings to mind the case of the kid in MA over Christmas who supposedly "got suspended for drawing a picture of Jesus". In reality, it wasn't a picture of Jesus, and he didn't get suspended, but because there was a lawsuit and publicity to be had, his father knowingly played up the false claims. I would bet my right arm the same thing is going on here. "If my kid says he was eating candy, then he was eating candy!" No way. Regardless of what the school did or didn't do, the family's account of it is utterly ridiculous. I'm withholding judgment accordingly.
This is so wrong as to be flamebait. As has been discussed ad nauseum for the last week, Iran is not the country the western media under Bush had said it was. Over 60% of the population now lives in cities, expected to be 80% by 2030, and it has had one of the highest urban growth rates in the world for the past several decades. Tehran isn't the only city in Iran. It's not even the only city with more than a million people, and coincidentally not the only city that has been rioting over this election.
That's why this is such a big deal, and why the election was such an obvious sham: Ahmedinejad may have majority support in those "mud huts" you talk about, but since rural people make up a diminishing minority of Iranians, the claim that the election results accurately reflect the current demographics of Iran is laughable if you've been paying even the slightest attention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iran_cities_by_population
You have no idea what you are talking about. Calling a mix of HTML, CSS, and JS a "mess" is uniformed FUD. The vast majority of the visible web is based on these three technologies, and at least in their current form, they are designed to work together pretty well. I'm not sure how you could have written any scripts in your life and not come to this conclusion. What exactly did you do with GreaseMonkey if you weren't using it to manipulate HTML and CSS?
Also, jQuery is terribly popular. Not including support for it would have been a huge oversight. Did you just step out of a time machine from 1999?
I lied to my parents all the time about how classes were going. The more the lie made me sound like the victim, the better it came across. I bet if he told you the administration is completely on the side of the prof, you would believe him, because why not? Your son wouldn't lie, and all universities these days are new-age feel-gooderies.
I would suggest a more likely scenario is that the event went down in exactly the opposite way. Your son started an argument he couldn't win, his fellow classmates shouted him down, and he dropped the class in shame.
I was in the first required TEAL class, so I have first-hand knowledge that this stat is bullshit. There are two reasons for improvement, and neither of them have to do with the quality of the class (which is anecdotally awful). First, the class coincided with the first term on grades for freshman. Previously, all freshman classes had been graded on a Pass/No Record basis, so all former iterations of 8.02 E&M had been taken by students with *no chance of actually failing the class*. A=B=C=P, and if you got a D or F, it didn't show up on your transcript, and you just took it again. For my class, we didn't have this option, so we all had to try a little bit harder, because Cs don't look that good, it turns out.
Secondly, freshman classes have the highest failure rate at MIT, so the noted improvement is also weighted by that fact. As above, the failure rate wasn't necessarily because the classes are too hard or taught poorly, it was because it's tough to do just enough to get a C-. Sometimes you undershot that goal and got a D or F.
I think the program is out of money because a lot of people who don't even need coupons are getting them - my guess is that probably half of the people at least do not understand that if they have cable they don't need a different box.
This isn't happening. You can't get the coupon if you don't need it. I mean, I suppose you could lie and say you don't have cable, but the application makes it pretty clear that cable subscribers don't need a box.
The giant assumption behind your entire argument is that there are more, or at least similar amounts of, illegal immigrants than poor citizens. This is just not true. There are somewhere between 7-12 million illegal immigrants, but 40% of Americans have lived below the poverty line sometime in the last decade. That's an order of magnitude difference.
Regarding paying no income tax, yes, it's likely that these immigrants don't pay any, but again, this is irrelevant. The "unskilled laborers" you believe have been deprived of jobs by illegal immigrants wouldn't make enough money to pay income taxes either, and they would use more public services. We're talking about jobs that need to be done, but pay next to nothing. I fail to see how installing legal citizens in these jobs would generate any additional revenue for the government.
I also disagree with your numbers and would like a citation
you didn't cite anything yourself. Your numbers are probably more made up than the GP's.
I played GoW for PC and for 360, and I must say, the PC version was completely useless. They prettified the graphics and made it 'harder' by making your weapons useless. No thanks. I'm not one to argue for 'realism' in games, but come on: it takes 40+ rounds to take down the first guys you fight in the game. That doesn't make the PC version harder, just repetitive. Those stupid holes in the ground from which enemies appear are just disheartening, because you know you're going to have to take about 5 or more enemies, and since each enemy takes upwards of 30 seconds to kill, you've got minutes of stock-still pointing and shooting on your hands.
I wasn't a fan of the 360 version, but at least you didn't have to try so damn hard for so long to hit the enemies. That fact improved the gameplay 10-fold.
Without realizing it, you've just reaffirmed what a lot of people are saying here: McCain picked Palin because she's a woman and for no other reason, making her both a pander and a gimmick to steal headlines. Obama chose someone he thought would be an asset to him as president; McCain someone who would be an asset during the campaign. One choice shows presidential judgment, they other fundamental unseriousness towards the office.
Sure, she'd have liked a nice, fat, free bridge, but the project would have stuck Alaska with 80 percent of the bill.
Interesting you mention this, because just today she said, "I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves."
Seems like either you're wrong or she's changed her tune now that she's on the MAVERICK ticket. This is also the second post of yours I've corrected today. You've got to get some better arguments.
You're making an even bigger assumption in saying that the reason there aren't more members of NOW is because they've already got everybody who agrees with them. It could be just that it's hard to get people to join activist groups or marches. By your metric, nearly no one on slashdot supports the ACLU.
This is also ludicrous on the face, since 59% of Americans support abortion rights as they now stand. The poll doesn't give a gender breakdown, so I suppose that could mean every man and 11% of women, but that seems unlikely to me
You're wrong, because 17 USC Section 117(a)(1) makes agreement to EULA unnecessary. By its terms, you don't need to be "authorized" to run the program in memory. Violating the EULA does not result in infringement according to the terms of this law, and until now, purchasing a copy of software entitled you to its protections. The judge got around this by saying that law doesn't apply here.
But in addition to this, the judge said, "You're breaking the EULA, paying customer of WOW, and that makes you guilty of copyright infringement. Blizzard has standing to sue you now."
I can't help but agree that MDY is guilty of tortious interference (impeding the contract), but the judge has also got them for contributory infringement, which is only logical if you buy the argument that users of software are not allowed to use the software without the express permission of the copyright holder, something the law already says they don't need.
Very true. MDY has not lost anything yet. All that's been determined is that uses of Glider and WOW are guilty of copyright infringement. I think that actually makes a better headline.
I disagree that the EULA can legally force you into giving up your rights under section 117. The judge hasn't addressed this either. He says section 117 doesn't apply here because of the word "owner". Users of WOW are not the owners of anything WOW-related, so they have no rights not granted by the EULA. In other words, if there was no EULA, they wouldn't be able to user the software at all. A very questionable ruling.
Oh, that's where you're wrong. The judge understands it. He simply says it doesn't apply to users of WOW.
One more thing. If the USER is not the OWNER of the software copy in question, who exactly does Section 117 apply to? If it only applies to the publisher, it is completely redundant, because it grants rights already given to the publisher in section 106.
Except that the court was also ignoring other precedents that say the opposite thing (read Public Knowledge's briefs). The law may have been "applied as written", but the judge made a very questionable interpretation of an existing statute. Besides that, copyright holders *cannot* decide for themselves (through unsigned contracts with the user) which sections of the law apply to consumers of their works. The law is clear that purchasing a copy of software (thus making you the "owner" of that copy, regardless of what this court says), gives you the right to use that software, regardless of what the copyright holder says. If the copyright holder doesn't want to give anyone that right, he has to refrain from selling the software. Monetary transactions carry a lot of weight in our legal system.
The judge says this law does not apply to users of WOW. That's probably what an appeal will focus on: who the "owner" of a copy of software is, and whether purchasing software gives you rights under this law.
This neither what Blizzard alleged, nor what was ruled on. Blizzard is saying that by violating the EULA, users are forfeiting their right to even load that first copy, let alone subsequent copies, into RAM. The judge agreed and said that the law quoted above *does not even apply* to users of WOW.
Note that this is not a loss for MDY, per se. MDY itself can not be guilty of copyright infringement by this ruling, only users of Glider can. The court has yet to rule on whether MDY is guilty of contributory infringement and direct violation of the DMCA.
Wrong! The court did not find this. The court found that you, as a purchaser of software, are not entitled to the legal protections given by 17 USC section 117 to owners of copies of software, because you can never be the owner of that copy! You are merely a "licensee" and are governed by USC 17 section 106, which makes *any* copy you make illegal and allows the publisher to set any terms they want for its use, including the denial of resale (also granted in 117). That is the precedent. It makes section 117 completely redundant and gives you no legal rights upon purchasing a copy of software. That is alarming to me.
EULAs are considered valid contracts, but until now, they have not legally governed the ability for legitimate purchasers of software to actually use the software. Section 117 explicitly gives that right to purchasers, and this court ruling sidesteps that law with a bizarre definition of who the "owner" of a copy is. If the owner of a copyright is also the only owner of all copies of the software, then section 117 makes no sense. You don't need to be granted the legal right to use a copy of your own copyright work. The law cannot have been intended to be read that way, and this judge is either dense or deliberately obtuse.
I was searching for this exact post and was going to make it if it didn't exist. EXACTLY!
That sounds like an excellent candidate. These cheap home routers have very small routing tables (probably less than 512 entries for the WRT54G). If they're not ejecting old entries because of these extremely long timeouts and the table fills up, you're not going to be able to connect to anything new.