Somebody from the IT department sold the school board on this. And the school board claims that only two people in the IT department had access to activate the security software.
The entire premise of a religion where you have to slog through 70 years of life in order to get an eternal reward is a prime example of what the poster was talking about. Particularly with the "I am Saved" variety of Christianity.
So, you would prefer a religion that says you should kill yourself now?
I would like to know what Christian teaching has an ends justifies the means take. Just one specific example.
Actually, the school has not addressed the issue ofthis picture at all. They say that the security feature that allows them to remotely activate the webcam has only been used on laptops that have been reported stolen. They never admit to using that feature on this particular laptop. The school never addresses the disciplinary issue that led to this law suit. The school doesn't even make a statement saying that they can't address the issues raised about this disciplinary issue. They completely ignore it in their statements.
"Attack with deadly force on civilian targets for a political motive. "
Umm, try GOVERNMENT target. IRS Building.
It wasn't a terrorist attack, it was him exercising our birthright, which you so conveniently forget - America was born from war and terrorism. Our founding fathers were classified as terrorists.
As far as I know the IRS is still a civilian agency. I am pretty sure I would have heard about it if it had been made part of the Defense Department. See, if you aren't part of the military, you are a civilian.
That is because insurance is a bad model for paying for healthcare. Insurance is for things that I may or may not need. I may or may not have an accident in my car. That means that if I am one of those people who don't have an accident, the insurance company can use the money I pay in premiums to pay for the repairs needed by the guy who does have an accident. This means that my premiums are low enough that they aren't a trial to pay. On the other hand, everybody is going to need healthcare sooner or later. At some point in your life you are almost guaranteed to need very expensive healthcare. Healthcare insurance isn't insurance.
Yes, the WHO rates the U.S. healthcare relatively low. However that is largely because they put how much of medical expense is paid by tax dollars into the calculation, so that is not really an accurate reflection of relative healthcare delivery. If the people of country A get exactly the same healthcare as the people in country B, but in country A the people pay for their healthcare themselves and in country B healthcare is paid for by the government, the WHO will rank country A significantly lower than country B. Using the WHO rankings of country healthcare to support the argument for government run healthcare is circular reasoning.
I much prefer the "I pay you more than I should all year and then at the end of the year you work out what I should not have paid you."
How exactly do you get the IRS to figure out how much you should have paid them? I have to figure that out myself, or pay someone to do it for me. I thought that was the way everybody did it.
I think what you do is send them way too much and then in April you figure out how much you should have paid and ask them to send the amount you overpaid back. Does that sound about right?
And you do realize that if you have your own business, there isn't someone to do the "just having it withheld," don't you?
No, he is saying that politicians have been spending money the country doesn't have by borrowing to do things that are not in the purview of the federal government according to the Constitution. You may disagree with what the Constitution authorizes Congress to spend money on, but that doesn't mean he is saying he has no obligation. He is saying that the system is broken and it is past time to fix it.
Ultimately, you're wrong, because nobody (apart from you, it seems) uses "video" to refer to visual stimulus in general, it is always used to refer to something that is electronically mediated.
So, the person in the summary didn't use it the way I use it?
An aside, but Do schools in the US give/lend laptops to kids? Is this normal? "... officials brag that they give every one of their 1800 high-schoolers laptop computers"
This is not normal. Lower Merion School District is among the wealthiest school districts in the country. There are only a few areas with greater concentrations of wealth than Lower Merion.
Because the school doesn't offer an alternate explanation for where the photo came from, nor do they deny that the photo exists. If the school said that the picture in question had been obtained in some other manner, then we could evaluate the logic of that story, but they haven't.
It wasn't a secret that there was security software on the laptops. Parents and students knew about it, they just weren't required to sign an acknowledgement.
Where did you come by this info. None of the news articles I have seen mentioned that the parents and students knew about the ability of the school district to remotely activate the webcam. Do you have a source for the statement that the parents and students knew about this ability?
The school denies Misuse, however they have photographic evidence of a child committing inappropriate behavior in the child's bedroom.
I am not defending the school, but at this point, I have not seen the school (or anybody other than the plaintiff) mention the photo. Therefore we don't know that was actually the case. However, if the school official didn't show the child and his parents a photo of him engaged in "inappropriate behavior", why doesn't the school say that that never happened? If the picture came from somewhere other than the school using the laptop webcam, again, why doesn't the school say so?
Basically, the school statement never addresses how the plaintiff came to know about the "security" on the laptop that lets them turn on the laptop webcam.
You don't just look like an ass, you are an ass because you appear to have missed the important point of his post. Those questions came from the poster's brother, not from the poster.
The poster wasn't bitching about the lack of Start menu, or about his inability to find the calculator, or about him having any of the problems. He was saying that these are the type of questions that someone who converts someone close to being a computer illiterate to Linux will have to deal with. Further he was pointing out that these will be difficult questions to address remotely if the converter is relatively a Linux newbie.
The problem with your angle is that the behavior in question wasn't in the schoolhouse. Not only wasn't it in the schoolhouse, it was in the child's own home, where presumably it is the parent's responsibility (and right) to determine what is and is not appropriate behavior.
The reason they are getting nailed for this is because the parents of kids in the Lower Merion School District are very well off. Lower Merion School District is one of the wealthier school districts in the country. Additionally, many of the people who live in the Lower Merion School District work in high levels of IT. The school district is located in one of the centers of IT professionals.
No it isn't see the following link. Look at history of the word.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/video
That may not be the way you use the word, but guess what you don't all by yourself get to decide what words mean.
They are two completely different technologies with completely different purposes filling completely different needs.
You mean sort of like telephones and cameras?
Actually, I think the logic for a projector in your cellphone is what another poster mentioned earlier, an easy way to display the photos you have taken on your phone to people.
So, what this means is that as people get more Blu-Ray players they will pirate more and buy less. Since once again the industry is preparing to make the pirated version more valuable (and less of a hassle) to the end user than the legitimately purchased copy.
Actually, that means that this would make the perfect case to test how the courts in the U.S. would rule on a legal theory that has recently been put forward by several legal scholars (sorry I don't remember where I came acros it). The theory is that treaties do not supercede other laws until Congress specifically passes laws implementing the provisions of the treaty. Under U.S. law, if Lindsay Vonn had signed her agreements with UVEX before she signed the Olympic agreements, unless UVEX specifically waived the agreement for the duration of the Olympic agreement she had to sign to be part of the Olympics, the Olympic agreement is invalid.
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Somebody from the IT department sold the school board on this. And the school board claims that only two people in the IT department had access to activate the security software.
The entire premise of a religion where you have to slog through 70 years of life in order to get an eternal reward is a prime example of what the poster was talking about. Particularly with the "I am Saved" variety of Christianity.
So, you would prefer a religion that says you should kill yourself now?
I would like to know what Christian teaching has an ends justifies the means take. Just one specific example.
Actually, the school has not addressed the issue ofthis picture at all. They say that the security feature that allows them to remotely activate the webcam has only been used on laptops that have been reported stolen. They never admit to using that feature on this particular laptop. The school never addresses the disciplinary issue that led to this law suit. The school doesn't even make a statement saying that they can't address the issues raised about this disciplinary issue. They completely ignore it in their statements.
"Attack with deadly force on civilian targets for a political motive. "
Umm, try GOVERNMENT target. IRS Building.
It wasn't a terrorist attack, it was him exercising our birthright, which you so conveniently forget - America was born from war and terrorism. Our founding fathers were classified as terrorists.
As far as I know the IRS is still a civilian agency. I am pretty sure I would have heard about it if it had been made part of the Defense Department. See, if you aren't part of the military, you are a civilian.
Glen Beck goes around quoting "progressives."
But not in a manner that reflects approval of their philosophy. This guy's quote of Marx seems to indicate he approved of Marx's philosophy.
Maybe they got a good tax accountant who understood the law and got them to set things up properly for their taxes.
As for my client pool, my client is the largest employer in the country, so I'm not exactly looking to build a private practice.
Oh, so you work for the Federal Government.
The market has categorically failed.
That is because insurance is a bad model for paying for healthcare. Insurance is for things that I may or may not need. I may or may not have an accident in my car. That means that if I am one of those people who don't have an accident, the insurance company can use the money I pay in premiums to pay for the repairs needed by the guy who does have an accident. This means that my premiums are low enough that they aren't a trial to pay. On the other hand, everybody is going to need healthcare sooner or later. At some point in your life you are almost guaranteed to need very expensive healthcare. Healthcare insurance isn't insurance.
Yes, the WHO rates the U.S. healthcare relatively low. However that is largely because they put how much of medical expense is paid by tax dollars into the calculation, so that is not really an accurate reflection of relative healthcare delivery. If the people of country A get exactly the same healthcare as the people in country B, but in country A the people pay for their healthcare themselves and in country B healthcare is paid for by the government, the WHO will rank country A significantly lower than country B. Using the WHO rankings of country healthcare to support the argument for government run healthcare is circular reasoning.
I much prefer the "I pay you more than I should all year and then at the end of the year you work out what I should not have paid you."
How exactly do you get the IRS to figure out how much you should have paid them? I have to figure that out myself, or pay someone to do it for me. I thought that was the way everybody did it.
I think what you do is send them way too much and then in April you figure out how much you should have paid and ask them to send the amount you overpaid back. Does that sound about right?
And you do realize that if you have your own business, there isn't someone to do the "just having it withheld," don't you?
No, he is saying that politicians have been spending money the country doesn't have by borrowing to do things that are not in the purview of the federal government according to the Constitution. You may disagree with what the Constitution authorizes Congress to spend money on, but that doesn't mean he is saying he has no obligation. He is saying that the system is broken and it is past time to fix it.
Ultimately, you're wrong, because nobody (apart from you, it seems) uses "video" to refer to visual stimulus in general, it is always used to refer to something that is electronically mediated.
So, the person in the summary didn't use it the way I use it?
An aside, but Do schools in the US give/lend laptops to kids? Is this normal? "... officials brag that they give every one of their 1800 high-schoolers laptop computers"
This is not normal. Lower Merion School District is among the wealthiest school districts in the country. There are only a few areas with greater concentrations of wealth than Lower Merion.
Because the school doesn't offer an alternate explanation for where the photo came from, nor do they deny that the photo exists. If the school said that the picture in question had been obtained in some other manner, then we could evaluate the logic of that story, but they haven't.
It wasn't a secret that there was security software on the laptops. Parents and students knew about it, they just weren't required to sign an acknowledgement.
Where did you come by this info. None of the news articles I have seen mentioned that the parents and students knew about the ability of the school district to remotely activate the webcam. Do you have a source for the statement that the parents and students knew about this ability?
The school denies Misuse, however they have photographic evidence of a child committing inappropriate behavior in the child's bedroom.
I am not defending the school, but at this point, I have not seen the school (or anybody other than the plaintiff) mention the photo. Therefore we don't know that was actually the case. However, if the school official didn't show the child and his parents a photo of him engaged in "inappropriate behavior", why doesn't the school say that that never happened? If the picture came from somewhere other than the school using the laptop webcam, again, why doesn't the school say so?
Basically, the school statement never addresses how the plaintiff came to know about the "security" on the laptop that lets them turn on the laptop webcam.
You don't just look like an ass, you are an ass because you appear to have missed the important point of his post. Those questions came from the poster's brother, not from the poster.
The poster wasn't bitching about the lack of Start menu, or about his inability to find the calculator, or about him having any of the problems. He was saying that these are the type of questions that someone who converts someone close to being a computer illiterate to Linux will have to deal with. Further he was pointing out that these will be difficult questions to address remotely if the converter is relatively a Linux newbie.
The problem with your angle is that the behavior in question wasn't in the schoolhouse. Not only wasn't it in the schoolhouse, it was in the child's own home, where presumably it is the parent's responsibility (and right) to determine what is and is not appropriate behavior.
The reason they are getting nailed for this is because the parents of kids in the Lower Merion School District are very well off. Lower Merion School District is one of the wealthier school districts in the country. Additionally, many of the people who live in the Lower Merion School District work in high levels of IT. The school district is located in one of the centers of IT professionals.
Follow the link and look at the history of the word.
No it isn't see the following link. Look at history of the word. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/video That may not be the way you use the word, but guess what you don't all by yourself get to decide what words mean.
I didn't say I wanted that. I rarely even use the camera. I said that I thought that was the logic.
They are two completely different technologies with completely different purposes filling completely different needs.
You mean sort of like telephones and cameras?
Actually, I think the logic for a projector in your cellphone is what another poster mentioned earlier, an easy way to display the photos you have taken on your phone to people.
So, what this means is that as people get more Blu-Ray players they will pirate more and buy less. Since once again the industry is preparing to make the pirated version more valuable (and less of a hassle) to the end user than the legitimately purchased copy.
Actually, that means that this would make the perfect case to test how the courts in the U.S. would rule on a legal theory that has recently been put forward by several legal scholars (sorry I don't remember where I came acros it). The theory is that treaties do not supercede other laws until Congress specifically passes laws implementing the provisions of the treaty. Under U.S. law, if Lindsay Vonn had signed her agreements with UVEX before she signed the Olympic agreements, unless UVEX specifically waived the agreement for the duration of the Olympic agreement she had to sign to be part of the Olympics, the Olympic agreement is invalid.