Minnesota institutions have the right to not recognize credits from any university they choose to ignore. That's where it should stop. They don't have the right to tell someone not to read or learn something...
Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
I was an enthusiastic user of Boxee in their early days and ran it on top of Ubuntu. But the basically gave the finger to the entire community. I also bought a Boxee Box as I thought it could be a cheap way to easily stream movies off my main XBMC box. It's not good for that, either. File scraping is a nightmare. They add nothing to XBMC and, as a matter of fact, take a lot of stuff out that makes XBMC terrific. For instance Boxee's file scraping isn't good for anything other than straight mainstream viewers. If you like anime then you're SOL. You can only use their scraper.
There is *nothing* out there even remotely close to the quality of regular XBMC. When they get their Android version perfected there is going to be a flood of cheap XBMC boxes base don Android that really will be high quality. Boxee is not the way to go.
As we grow up most of us seem to forget that even as children and teenagers we were still people.
While children don't (and shouldn't) have all the privileges of an adult I still think they still be treated as humans. I think the march towards public schools treating children as product should stop. People keep pointing to corporate, assembly-line like models for education and it just won't work. The more we put dehumanizing elements into the schools the worse education is going to be.
Schools haven't been run for the students since the era of the Greeks.
You're lucky if even the parents are seen as some sort of customer. Schools are run for the administrators and maybe in some cases the teachers. Look at how they are structured. It's a great case study of a how an institution changes from driven by a final goal to simple self-perpetuation.
As an Indiana student from the *1980s* (to '91) it was often drummed into us (even as students) that funding levels were dependent on attendance and absentee levels.
As crazy as administrators and politicians have gotten since then about metrics I'm sure it is ten times worse by now....
Which is also cognitive dissonant because they want the end of the world to happen anyway because they are perfect and they are going to be magically vacuumed to heaven.
The word "libertarian" has been shot to hell. The general usage of it right now means nothing more than "Corporate Anarchism". Right now "libertarians" like Ron Paul believe in free reign for corporate groups and are fine with limiting of individual rights. Libertarians used to believe just the opposite.
That's because abortion and gay rights are issues that amoral people use to make themselves look moral. That's why the same group of people are fine if the baby dies because of malnutrition or bad healthcare as long as it isn't aborted.
In other words, it's a bullshit issue. Most people fighting against gay rights and abortion actually have no morals at all. Emphasize most...
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What worries me more are the people that vote for her.
Or in some cases violates IP laws.. :P
Minnesota institutions have the right to not recognize credits from any university they choose to ignore. That's where it should stop. They don't have the right to tell someone not to read or learn something...
An American-based government actually punishing a corporate entity instead of slapping it on the wrist?
Yeah... right now that *is* pretty difficult to imagine, actually.
.forward files don't cut it ?
Sorry. Stupid.
There is no alternative if you want access to ebay. Nothing.
For many small sellers ebay is the only choice. The other auction sites are often too small to be significant.
I guess you could argue Amazon is in the hunt... but they're still small compared to ebay.
Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
Sounds like a recipe to get you to screw it up and mark you opt-out as "invalid."
You should be able go to their web site and check a box. Anything else is shenanigans.
You can easily opt out of civilization. Just move to Somalia.
It's an out of control supreme court handing new powers to corporations while taking the rights of individuals away.
I am not a lawyer either, but it sure seems like a due process violation to me.
Cue the people that say "due process" only applies to criminal trials.. I know.
Yeah. An uphill battle with millions of lobbying dollars coming at you like flak towards a B52.
For laws that are good for people instead of artificial people there has to be a huge change in direction first.
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I was an enthusiastic user of Boxee in their early days and ran it on top of Ubuntu. But the basically gave the finger to the entire community. I also bought a Boxee Box as I thought it could be a cheap way to easily stream movies off my main XBMC box. It's not good for that, either. File scraping is a nightmare. They add nothing to XBMC and, as a matter of fact, take a lot of stuff out that makes XBMC terrific. For instance Boxee's file scraping isn't good for anything other than straight mainstream viewers. If you like anime then you're SOL. You can only use their scraper.
There is *nothing* out there even remotely close to the quality of regular XBMC. When they get their Android version perfected there is going to be a flood of cheap XBMC boxes base don Android that really will be high quality. Boxee is not the way to go.
Glass houses. The U.S. is corrupted but in a different way.
What bullshit. It's two sides of the same coin. It's just a different group of items to ban or a different group to oppress.
Why don't they just fucking issue balls and chains.
Jesus Christ... I felt like I was in prison and I went to school 20 years ago.
As we grow up most of us seem to forget that even as children and teenagers we were still people.
While children don't (and shouldn't) have all the privileges of an adult I still think they still be treated as humans. I think the march towards public schools treating children as product should stop. People keep pointing to corporate, assembly-line like models for education and it just won't work. The more we put dehumanizing elements into the schools the worse education is going to be.
Schools haven't been run for the students since the era of the Greeks.
You're lucky if even the parents are seen as some sort of customer. Schools are run for the administrators and maybe in some cases the teachers. Look at how they are structured. It's a great case study of a how an institution changes from driven by a final goal to simple self-perpetuation.
As they already treat them like cattle and as a commodity this is just the next logical step.
As an Indiana student from the *1980s* (to '91) it was often drummed into us (even as students) that funding levels were dependent on attendance and absentee levels.
As crazy as administrators and politicians have gotten since then about metrics I'm sure it is ten times worse by now....
This was the most important line in the article:
"The article said the Northside Independent School District receives about $30 per day in state funding for each student reporting."
This is the only reason anything gets done at a public school EVER.
Well.. only because OMG666 preachersaysThisISbad.
Which is also cognitive dissonant because they want the end of the world to happen anyway because they are perfect and they are going to be magically vacuumed to heaven.
The word "libertarian" has been shot to hell. The general usage of it right now means nothing more than "Corporate Anarchism". Right now "libertarians" like Ron Paul believe in free reign for corporate groups and are fine with limiting of individual rights. Libertarians used to believe just the opposite.
This is one of the few points I agree with Scalia on. More speech is preferable to banning speech that you don't like.
He makes this argument in the context of "money is speech," however, and I don't go that far.
That's because abortion and gay rights are issues that amoral people use to make themselves look moral. That's why the same group of people are fine if the baby dies because of malnutrition or bad healthcare as long as it isn't aborted.
In other words, it's a bullshit issue. Most people fighting against gay rights and abortion actually have no morals at all. Emphasize most...