189 comments already and not-a one has even made the connection that the guy engineering the common cold has the last name Wold. This is a comedy goldmine, here people! Come all ye and make merryment. Merryment I say!
IANAL, however I believe the in loco parentis statute only applies to minors. I know this is the case in high schools, and is often the reasoning given for random drug testing, etc.
However, I do believe that you are correct in that the school is taking a nuturing, parenting role in this case. I would expect that of any respectible institution. It is in MTU's best interests to do so. Despite the fact that the students are paying the school for their degree, the school has a vested interest in how that student goes out into the world and portrays the school.
So, seeing that the statute doesn't apply, I see it more as a corporation going to bat for one of its employees; which happens more often than you would think...
What this is actually saying is that the matter would have been handled in-house, and probably would have only reached the school's disciplinary system, not the oft-quoted $98.7 billion lawsuit. If anything, MTU is trying to protect its students from the wrath of the RIAA.
This is probably due to the fact that MTU students provide more revenue to the school than the RIAA does; and the fact that MTU doesn't want to see a drop in enrollment as a consequence.
But still...just because your university isn't allowing you to break the law, doesn't mean they're conspiring against you.
The main reason you see low attendance at baseball games is because there is oh, I dunno 100 games per teamin the regular season.
American football has maybe a fifth of that and its TV ratings are constantly on top. Not to mention it almost always packs 50,000-seat stadiums to capacity, even if tickets are $50 (or in many cases much more).
A shorter regular season would make everything worthwhile. No more 30 minutes of highlights on the 11 'oclock news. No more sparsely populated million dollar stadiums (which, urgh, my tax dollars paid for). It would make the game far more exciting, for every game counts tenfold. Teams wouldn't be able to say, "Too bad we lost...oh well we have another 80 games to make it up..."
What the/. community seems to be missing is, that 2002 is a (re)election year. Many Senators/Reps are proposing bills that would never actually get passed (for instance the ludicrous Constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages).
Every politician is looking for their ticket into the next term, and it looks like Rep. Lampson is going for the space angle. Hell, he may be even trying to capitalize on the ATOC sci-fi brouhaha (it wouldn't suprise me, knowing how the political system works in the USA).
With an administration that has been chopping NASA's budget left and right, this has very little chance of actually taking place.
Dys.
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A few years back, buy.com advertised a 19" monitor for sale at a price of $169 (list at the time was in the mid $400s). I saw the ad and ordered a monitor, thinking it was a great deal.
Well, word aparrently got out and buy.com got flooded with orders for the monitor. Buy.com sent out a couple e-mails explaining the typo. They decided the only fair way to award their stock of monitors, was by taking a random pick of all purchasers. I did not end up with a monitor. Buy.com apologised profusely, and for the most part was very responsible in the matter. It was not like the bait and switch that BBY is known to do in the past (don't think for a second that this is the first time they've tried to pull this trick).
I was not really upset over the matter. I was not really looking for a monitor at the time, but the big size and low price appealed to me. Granted, I would not probably order from buy.com ever again, but I was not furious. It's not as if I was charged for a product I did not recieve.
Fast foreward a year and a half. I recieved a letter from a law firm that was handling a class action lawsuit against buy.com in the monitor mishap. The judge in the case found that buy.com was responsible for their typo and awarded the suit a large settlement. Well, after legal feeds were subtracted, each customer in the suit gained somewhere around $300. IANAL, but wouldn't this set some kind of legal presecent to force Best Buy to honor their online price, typo or not?
Up at State College, PA (the home of Penn State University), there exists a quaint little arcade filled with all of the classics. You got your Pac-Man, your Street Fighter II (the original), the Speed Racer racing game, you name it. On top of that, everything there is $0.25. Tons of games of every genre and quite the selection of pinball machines. Probably because of the nature of the area (college town), the place was jumpin at 3am on a Wendsday. For $5, you could mash buttons for hours on end. I'm not quite sure how this place stays in business, but whatever it's doing, it's doing a great job of it. I just wish I could re-locate that arcade to my home town.
According to the interview Mike Myers was doing with Rosie O'Donnel on her fascist political platform-based talkshow, Mike Myers re-dubbed all of his lines for Shrek. After seeing a first showing of the movie, he felt that his character lacked a certain fairy tale quality. He asked Steven Spielberg to redub his lines with the scottish accent that you hear in the film today. They had to go through the entire film and adjust to the new dialogue, which added a few extra months of production and a couple extra $million to boot. While technology may be advanced, it is not as advanced as you think. If Square were to do a dub of this magnitude, it would tack a few months of production on to the already overdue project, not to mention a couple $million extra. The film is already overbudget by about twice its original budget; Square could not possibly recoup the money from doing a separate dub.
Hemp is the fastest growing industrial plant in the world. It can be harvested 30 days after planting. It grows even better temporate (mid-atlantic, north-pacific, and south eastern) climate zones. If hemp were not demonized and it were allowed to be a very useful industrial crop, modern technology could cut down even that 30 day "waiting period" to next to nothing. Hemp does not even leech the nutrients out of the soil like corn does (which prevents multiple re-planting in the same area). It is by far the world's most useful illegal plant. Paper, cooking oil, clothes...anything can be made out of hemp. Pity.
Alrighty after reading through the document (and the team's FAQ on the challenge), I feel like I'm not getting something here. Basically it says that after SDMI is implemented, if you make an mp3 out of a SDMI-watermarked CD, you will have a hard time playing a burned cd of that mp3 on a SDMI CD player.
Alright. Why would anyone buy a SDMI CD player?!
I know in my house alone, we have atleast 9 non-SDMI CD players that I can think of off the top of my head. The CD format is so widespread right now that I'd imagine it's a similar situation pretty much everywhere. I have no reason to go out and buy a new CD player. I have a portable AIWA discman that I bought in 1997. It has worked like a charm. It has all the neccessary features; 10 second anti-skip, hold, and play controls. What else could they put in there to make you want to go out and buy a CD player that won't work in alot of cases? Are they trying to play the public for fools. This is sounding alot like the DIVX fiasco, and we all know how that turned out...
I've been working at a small-sized computer integrations/web hosting/repair/support company (http://www.pbtg.com) for almost 4 years now (I'm 17, at the moment). I've learned so much in my time here. I've learned about things that I wouldn't even have access to if I was just toiling around in my spare time. I've been lucky enough to have a boss who trusts and respects me and treats me as an asset to the company.
However, in another year, I'll be going to college. While in college, I will most likely still be working for this company. I have no problems with that. After college however, I will more than likely move on. What I want to know is, will my 8+ years of on-the-job experience superceed my age? When I am fresh out of college will I be back to square one?
No, they shouldn't. The R&D department has nothing to do with the supply & demand world of chip manufacturing. They can't exactly do R&D on lowering the price either. It normally takes atleast a year for a second version of the same console to come out. In this one-year span, many leaps and bounds are made in technology and technology manufacturing processes. Okay, fine. It's been out in Japan for awhile, however I doubt that they will scrap their new plants to get it refitted to make cheaper PS2s. It's probably more beneficial to Sony to start looking into the PS3 now. If they were to wait, that's more time that competitors have to get a head-start on them.
Heya all. I went to see this movie with my family for my father's birthday last Wendsday. Overall, I'm pretty undecided about this one here. I really liked the first one. I don't know why, I guess I just love DePalma's style. I LIKED the fact that it was confusing as hell to most people. I LIKED that they didn't spit out every damn detail in your face. So, that puts in a bit of a position for this sequel. The overall thing that pissed me off about this movie, was that it was James Bond. I really HATED the "Ladies Man" angle. WTF? In the first movie it wasn't like he was trying to bone Emmanuel Beart every 5 minutes, as he was with Thandie (Sandy with a lisp?) Newton. I was really disgusted with the last Bond offering, and this "homage" didn't excite me one bit. Ok, fine, there were plot holes out the ass, I didn't mind those as much. If you have seen more than 1 John Woo movie, you know that these, along with continuity errors, happen ALOT. I've come to forgive those in leiu of some BADASS ACTION SCENES! Yes, I really really enjoyed the action sequences. Give me slo mo, give me 2,000ft cliff climbing, give me wheelie-popping motorcycle chases, I dig it all. The only action sequence that I thought blew was the Thandie/Tom car chase. Ok, the script really did treat you like an idiot, *SPOILER WARNING* ok who here just did NOT see it coming whenever Thandie shot up. I sure did. A mile away. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. The last fight scene just did it completely for me. However, I will take M:I over M:I2 anyday. On a sorta tangent here, is it just me or does it seem like the M:I franchise is just going to be "such and such famous director's" interpretation of the M:I world? I mean, Tom Cruise was trying for quite some time to get Oliver Stone to direct this movie! I'm not so sure that this approach is going to work; it'll be like a tribute album that never dies.
Now, I understand that this doesn't apply to all situations, but is non-anonymous purchasing really all that bad? Let's pause and think about it here. What's the worst case? Ok, say you buy a howto guide to S&M, does it really matter? Sure, people will know, but you will also know about their little dark secrets. People would be less inclined to judge and ridicule whenever their secrets are opened up as well. Like I said, this wouldn't apply to all situations, but this might have a positive effect if applied to book selling. Think of an America where we don't have stupid little taboos. Think of an America where we can better understand others.
Kinda OT, but an interesting fact for those who don't know...For the past year and a half, Chris Cunningham has been developing Neuromancer. That's right, the Gibson novel. I am chomping at the bit to see this one. I have tried to collect all of his music videos. He definately has a flare for the abstract, which is so refreshing. We as an audience need to see less re-hashed junk, (sequels, prequels, horror, teen movies), and something more along the lines of A Clockwork Orange. Here are some premises from some of Chris' videos: An Osaka insane asylum for children, in which the minds of a dog and an orderly are switched (Squarepusher's Come on my Selector), Some Ultra-Violent little children running around breaking stuff, scaring the crap out of an old lady and her dog (of which is wearing a neuter collar), while carrying around a TV. A Nosferatu-like being comes out of the TV and screams at the old lady. (Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy). A mock-rap video, with a Michael Jackson-like dancing Aphex Twin, alot of booty, and some bearded ladies on a beach (Aphex Twin's Windowlicker). A band that is hovering in a dank alley, flowing as if they were under water, oblivious to everything else (Portishead's Sour Times). This is definately the guy I would want to be working on Neuromancer. I just can't wait.
Hrm, I suggest you pull your head up on outta your ass. The TV-Ratings system is no where near as restrictive as the MPAA (thank god for that one). Case-in-point, the Friar's Club Roast of Jerry Stiller had more fucks-per-minute (FPM's) than any episode of south park I've ever seen, and it was only rated TV-14. That's right. Hell, watch COPS some time. Bleeps out the wazoo, and that's TV-PG. The TV-Ratings is just a suggestion whenever it comes to bleeped material. If you ever watch Tracy Ullman on HBO, I saw an episode where they said fuck, twice, unbleeped, and it was only TV-14...that might have been for the fact that it's on HBO, but then again it may not have. So, in summation, the TV-Ratings system is just a ploy of the *cringe* *spit* *puke* American Family Association.
Williamette. Why not just name it Floralprintdress or PussyProc? Come on, it sounds like a type of doily. It does not strike me as 'speedy' or 'powerful'. Maybe that's why an AMD Sledgehammer is on my list of things to buy...
quote.com...hell I've never even seen ads (online or othewise) for that website? Did they pull that out of their ass? According to Netcraft, Solaris keeps sites like att.com and pepsi.com up and running, if THEY were to switch over (not bloody likely) it would be news. This is just some really sloppy PR. I don't give a shit about quote.com, and I will probably give less of a shit if it is going to be down all the time running IIS.
Support. Corel already has a massive support base for Wordperfect Suite. RedHat has been struggling with support for awhile. Sure, their promises of fulltime tech support doesn't cut it. If RHAT were to buy Corel, then they would also gain a fully operational support center for all of their needs.
...was in Enemy of the State, that duck/naturalist guy analyzed that video dat with a nice Sparc station using a rather ugly CDE interface. Bravo for Sun. Also later featured in the movie was what appeared to be Linux (!) on Brill's laptop when he's in the car after his compound exploded.
In my 9th grade English class we just finished up a unit on books that have been banned. For the most part, schools and libraries banned such moderm classics as Brave New World and The Catcher in the Rye. Also on the list I was dumbfounded to read that "A Light in the Attic" was banned in numerous places, one of which is a town not more than 15 minutes from me. When seeing this, I asked my teacher the reason for the ban, and she said that the book was banned based on the drawing for the poem "Spelling Bee". In this poem, a bee signs a rather amusing message on someone's bare bottom. It saddens me to see that children will not get to read the great poems because of that. In 4th grade our class loved our Shel Silverstein books so much that our teacher let us act out a Silverstein poem of our choice. We toured the school to different classrooms showing our appreciation.
There is Calvin propaganda everywhere. A couple years ago I picked up a shirt in DC that had a sulking Calvin and said, "Every day of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who really PISS ME OFF!" It reminded me of my personality so I got it. No biggie.
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189 comments already and not-a one has even made the connection that the guy engineering the common cold has the last name Wold. This is a comedy goldmine, here people! Come all ye and make merryment. Merryment I say!
However, I do believe that you are correct in that the school is taking a nuturing, parenting role in this case. I would expect that of any respectible institution. It is in MTU's best interests to do so. Despite the fact that the students are paying the school for their degree, the school has a vested interest in how that student goes out into the world and portrays the school.
So, seeing that the statute doesn't apply, I see it more as a corporation going to bat for one of its employees; which happens more often than you would think...
This is probably due to the fact that MTU students provide more revenue to the school than the RIAA does; and the fact that MTU doesn't want to see a drop in enrollment as a consequence.
But still...just because your university isn't allowing you to break the law, doesn't mean they're conspiring against you.
American football has maybe a fifth of that and its TV ratings are constantly on top. Not to mention it almost always packs 50,000-seat stadiums to capacity, even if tickets are $50 (or in many cases much more).
A shorter regular season would make everything worthwhile. No more 30 minutes of highlights on the 11 'oclock news. No more sparsely populated million dollar stadiums (which, urgh, my tax dollars paid for). It would make the game far more exciting, for every game counts tenfold. Teams wouldn't be able to say, "Too bad we lost...oh well we have another 80 games to make it up..."
Dys.
Every politician is looking for their ticket into the next term, and it looks like Rep. Lampson is going for the space angle. Hell, he may be even trying to capitalize on the ATOC sci-fi brouhaha (it wouldn't suprise me, knowing how the political system works in the USA).
With an administration that has been chopping NASA's budget left and right, this has very little chance of actually taking place.
Dys.
A few years back, buy.com advertised a 19" monitor for sale at a price of $169 (list at the time was in the mid $400s). I saw the ad and ordered a monitor, thinking it was a great deal.
Well, word aparrently got out and buy.com got flooded with orders for the monitor. Buy.com sent out a couple e-mails explaining the typo. They decided the only fair way to award their stock of monitors, was by taking a random pick of all purchasers. I did not end up with a monitor. Buy.com apologised profusely, and for the most part was very responsible in the matter. It was not like the bait and switch that BBY is known to do in the past (don't think for a second that this is the first time they've tried to pull this trick).
I was not really upset over the matter. I was not really looking for a monitor at the time, but the big size and low price appealed to me. Granted, I would not probably order from buy.com ever again, but I was not furious. It's not as if I was charged for a product I did not recieve.
Fast foreward a year and a half. I recieved a letter from a law firm that was handling a class action lawsuit against buy.com in the monitor mishap. The judge in the case found that buy.com was responsible for their typo and awarded the suit a large settlement. Well, after legal feeds were subtracted, each customer in the suit gained somewhere around $300. IANAL, but wouldn't this set some kind of legal presecent to force Best Buy to honor their online price, typo or not?
Dyslexic.
Dyslexic.
Hemp is the fastest growing industrial plant in the world. It can be harvested 30 days after planting. It grows even better temporate (mid-atlantic, north-pacific, and south eastern) climate zones. If hemp were not demonized and it were allowed to be a very useful industrial crop, modern technology could cut down even that 30 day "waiting period" to next to nothing. Hemp does not even leech the nutrients out of the soil like corn does (which prevents multiple re-planting in the same area). It is by far the world's most useful illegal plant. Paper, cooking oil, clothes...anything can be made out of hemp. Pity.
Dyslexic.
Alright. Why would anyone buy a SDMI CD player?!
I know in my house alone, we have atleast 9 non-SDMI CD players that I can think of off the top of my head. The CD format is so widespread right now that I'd imagine it's a similar situation pretty much everywhere. I have no reason to go out and buy a new CD player. I have a portable AIWA discman that I bought in 1997. It has worked like a charm. It has all the neccessary features; 10 second anti-skip, hold, and play controls. What else could they put in there to make you want to go out and buy a CD player that won't work in alot of cases? Are they trying to play the public for fools. This is sounding alot like the DIVX fiasco, and we all know how that turned out...
Dys.
However, in another year, I'll be going to college. While in college, I will most likely still be working for this company. I have no problems with that. After college however, I will more than likely move on. What I want to know is, will my 8+ years of on-the-job experience superceed my age? When I am fresh out of college will I be back to square one?
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Heya all. I went to see this movie with my family for my father's birthday last Wendsday. Overall, I'm pretty undecided about this one here. I really liked the first one. I don't know why, I guess I just love DePalma's style. I LIKED the fact that it was confusing as hell to most people. I LIKED that they didn't spit out every damn detail in your face. So, that puts in a bit of a position for this sequel. The overall thing that pissed me off about this movie, was that it was James Bond. I really HATED the "Ladies Man" angle. WTF? In the first movie it wasn't like he was trying to bone Emmanuel Beart every 5 minutes, as he was with Thandie (Sandy with a lisp?) Newton. I was really disgusted with the last Bond offering, and this "homage" didn't excite me one bit. Ok, fine, there were plot holes out the ass, I didn't mind those as much. If you have seen more than 1 John Woo movie, you know that these, along with continuity errors, happen ALOT. I've come to forgive those in leiu of some BADASS ACTION SCENES! Yes, I really really enjoyed the action sequences. Give me slo mo, give me 2,000ft cliff climbing, give me wheelie-popping motorcycle chases, I dig it all. The only action sequence that I thought blew was the Thandie/Tom car chase. Ok, the script really did treat you like an idiot, *SPOILER WARNING* ok who here just did NOT see it coming whenever Thandie shot up. I sure did. A mile away. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. The last fight scene just did it completely for me. However, I will take M:I over M:I2 anyday. On a sorta tangent here, is it just me or does it seem like the M:I franchise is just going to be "such and such famous director's" interpretation of the M:I world? I mean, Tom Cruise was trying for quite some time to get Oliver Stone to direct this movie! I'm not so sure that this approach is going to work; it'll be like a tribute album that never dies.
Dyslexic.
Now, I understand that this doesn't apply to all situations, but is non-anonymous purchasing really all that bad? Let's pause and think about it here. What's the worst case? Ok, say you buy a howto guide to S&M, does it really matter? Sure, people will know, but you will also know about their little dark secrets. People would be less inclined to judge and ridicule whenever their secrets are opened up as well. Like I said, this wouldn't apply to all situations, but this might have a positive effect if applied to book selling. Think of an America where we don't have stupid little taboos. Think of an America where we can better understand others.
Dyslexic.
Kinda OT, but an interesting fact for those who don't know...For the past year and a half, Chris Cunningham has been developing Neuromancer. That's right, the Gibson novel. I am chomping at the bit to see this one. I have tried to collect all of his music videos. He definately has a flare for the abstract, which is so refreshing. We as an audience need to see less re-hashed junk, (sequels, prequels, horror, teen movies), and something more along the lines of A Clockwork Orange. Here are some premises from some of Chris' videos: An Osaka insane asylum for children, in which the minds of a dog and an orderly are switched (Squarepusher's Come on my Selector), Some Ultra-Violent little children running around breaking stuff, scaring the crap out of an old lady and her dog (of which is wearing a neuter collar), while carrying around a TV. A Nosferatu-like being comes out of the TV and screams at the old lady. (Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy). A mock-rap video, with a Michael Jackson-like dancing Aphex Twin, alot of booty, and some bearded ladies on a beach (Aphex Twin's Windowlicker). A band that is hovering in a dank alley, flowing as if they were under water, oblivious to everything else (Portishead's Sour Times). This is definately the guy I would want to be working on Neuromancer. I just can't wait.
Dyslexic.
Hrm, I suggest you pull your head up on outta your ass. The TV-Ratings system is no where near as restrictive as the MPAA (thank god for that one). Case-in-point, the Friar's Club Roast of Jerry Stiller had more fucks-per-minute (FPM's) than any episode of south park I've ever seen, and it was only rated TV-14. That's right. Hell, watch COPS some time. Bleeps out the wazoo, and that's TV-PG. The TV-Ratings is just a suggestion whenever it comes to bleeped material. If you ever watch Tracy Ullman on HBO, I saw an episode where they said fuck, twice, unbleeped, and it was only TV-14...that might have been for the fact that it's on HBO, but then again it may not have. So, in summation, the TV-Ratings system is just a ploy of the *cringe* *spit* *puke* American Family Association.
Dyslexic.
Williamette. Why not just name it Floralprintdress or PussyProc? Come on, it sounds like a type of doily. It does not strike me as 'speedy' or 'powerful'. Maybe that's why an AMD Sledgehammer is on my list of things to buy...
Dyslexic.
quote.com...hell I've never even seen ads (online or othewise) for that website? Did they pull that out of their ass? According to Netcraft, Solaris keeps sites like att.com and pepsi.com up and running, if THEY were to switch over (not bloody likely) it would be news. This is just some really sloppy PR. I don't give a shit about quote.com, and I will probably give less of a shit if it is going to be down all the time running IIS.
Dyslexic.
Support. Corel already has a massive support base for Wordperfect Suite. RedHat has been struggling with support for awhile. Sure, their promises of fulltime tech support doesn't cut it. If RHAT were to buy Corel, then they would also gain a fully operational support center for all of their needs.
Dyslexic.
...was in Enemy of the State, that duck/naturalist guy analyzed that video dat with a nice Sparc station using a rather ugly CDE interface. Bravo for Sun. Also later featured in the movie was what appeared to be Linux (!) on Brill's laptop when he's in the car after his compound exploded.
later.
Dyslexic.
In my 9th grade English class we just finished up a unit on books that have been banned. For the most part, schools and libraries banned such moderm classics as Brave New World and The Catcher in the Rye. Also on the list I was dumbfounded to read that "A Light in the Attic" was banned in numerous places, one of which is a town not more than 15 minutes from me. When seeing this, I asked my teacher the reason for the ban, and she said that the book was banned based on the drawing for the poem "Spelling Bee". In this poem, a bee signs a rather amusing message on someone's bare bottom. It saddens me to see that children will not get to read the great poems because of that. In 4th grade our class loved our Shel Silverstein books so much that our teacher let us act out a Silverstein poem of our choice. We toured the school to different classrooms showing our appreciation.
Sad.
Dyslexic.
There is Calvin propaganda everywhere. A couple years ago I picked up a shirt in DC that had a sulking Calvin and said, "Every day of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who really PISS ME OFF!" It reminded me of my personality so I got it. No biggie.
later.
Dyslexic.