A private school has no particular obligation to deal with anyone in particular; so long as they don't explicitly step on some protected class or (as is being argued in this case) fail to make reasonable accommodation per the ADA.
An ADA claim is going to be a tough sell; they would have to prove that wi-fi sickness is a real thing, IE, not psychosomatic, to count as a reasonable accommodation that the administration would have to implement. We've seen exactly the opposite so far.
For all we know, he could be an unvaccinated child who's been living in a moldy, dirty-ass environment until they sent him off
Lack of vaccines is pretty bad, but it's the kids in the moldy, dirty-ass environment who are likely to have better immune systems. If your environment is sterilized all the time, your immune system is not exposed to things it needs to fight off, so later on when the kid IS exposed to those things, they have little built-up defense.
but labeling isn't in the interests of any producer,
In addition to the other rebuttals, labeling is in the interests of the producer because it gives the consumer confidence that the product is what it says it is.
It lets people who need to avoid certain ingredients (like wheat or salt or excess sugar) or who just want to watch their calories buy your product. Without that labeling, most of them would probably avoid the purchase altogether. Food labeling is one of those rare situations where everyone's benefited, producers and consumers.
"Australia take note.... It's amazing what a bit of competition can do in this area."
First, Comcast has no competition. They are protected from it -- if you want Comcast in your area, you have to give them monopoly power. That's how they work. You're also assuming that Comcast has any intention of following through on this. They've made promises like this before, usually to secure funding. They take the money and run, rolling out networks that come nowhere close to the advertised speed while declaring success (and record profits).
Robert Cringely wrote about this eight years ago, discussing how the cable and telco companies received 200 billion dollars to roll out a bidirectional 45 Mbit network to the whole US back in the mid-90s. They didn't get pallets of cash, but they were allowed to put some surcharges on your monthly bill and received tax credits averaging $2000 / customer.
Eventually they claimed they only promised "broadband," and broadband was defined as Internet service with a download speed of 200 kbit/sec or more.
So when Comcast promises Gigabit cable for all, I'd love to know 1) What are the restrictions on the network, 2) Which neighborhoods -aren't- getting it, 3) What they're getting from the local municipalities in return (probably further banning of municipal broadband, and banning of competition to enforce Comcast's monopoly), and 4) What the funding source for this is. Somehow, I suspect that the funding for this isn't just being footed by Comcast. That's never been how they've operated in the past. They promise, they receive cash, they underdeliver, and they declare success despite the glaring failures around them.
If you refuse to pay your $100 Comcast bill or otherwise violate their terms of service, they worst they'll ever do is cut off your service and you'll switch to a competing competing, maybe even DSL.
They could also sue you. And get court judgements against you if you want to blow them off. And then comes the other things you mentioned if you still don't want to pay.
You CAN have government like that, where the leader is the absolute authority and there is no debate, no public discussion, no accountability to the public, so things get done quickly. North Korea has such a system I don't want that.
But this is the promise of a Donald Trump presidency, a CEO in the executive office who just does what he wants and everyone has to follow his commands.
Huh. Interesting. My Microsoft Natural keyboard at home has the 6 on the left. At work, my Kinesis advantage keyboard has the 6 on the right. And I never noticed.
You remove your hand from your mouse, move it across your desk, just to hit a number?
I have my mouse on the left side, and I use the numpad and the nearby arrow keys with my right hand. It's really the perfect layout for gaming. And I'm right handed. Using a mouse with my right hand gave me RSI, but not when I used it with the left hand.
So, when you talk about "equals", you have to consider that some "equals" have much more bargaining power than others. I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, but I'd suggest that it falls on senior developers to take on some leadership in these sorts of fights against bad managerial practices.
Senior developers have to be able to gauge the mood of the company as well. There are a lot of places looking for an excuse to shed their expensive senior staff and go with a younger, hungrier, cheaper, less independent work force.
I agree with you, I do... But as a guy who has worked in tech for 20+ years now, there have been so many times where I realize that people can be so smart, yet so stupid at the same time. Specifically, tech people - suckers... So many time I've looked around the room for someone else to share a look of "what the fuck?" with me, but most of the time, no one dares. When they offer people "free pizza" to work past 8:00, I look around for people to say, "Yeah, thanks, but I'll go home now and buy my own $6.99 pizza thanks" - but no one does, and they work, and they eat the pizza like it's some incredible gift.
You know, it depends on what you're going home too as well. If the only thing you have to look forward to is a couple of hours of mind-numbing Counter-Strike while avoiding annoying roommates, then maybe staying at work to do something intellectually stimulating while saving you the hassle of looking for food is appealing. I did that long ago.
But if you have a family at home that you spend quality time with, suddenly the prospect of spending a late night at work becomes much more of a bad one. Sometimes it's not even an option. When I was starting out I was given a lot of late shifts (without choice) because the other people on my team flat-out told me that they had home responsibilities and I didn't. I thought that was pretty fucking unfair. Fortunately that job didn't last long. Now I pretty much stick to a 40-hour work week. Sometimes there's weekend work, but it's not a regular thing.
Wage slavery is essentially equal to captivity dumbshit.
I'm laughing at the idea of software dev wage slavery. A decent software developer has perhaps the best work mobility of anyone in the world. You have tons of job opportunities with excellent wages. Now the grunts doing manual labor in Amazon warehouses, that's a different story.
There is no “culling of the staff” annually. That’s just not true. No one would be here if that actually took place and it was a thing" Even with Amazon's terrible reputation, how many tens of thousands of resumes do they get every year?
When people get sick of the horrible working conditions and leave to find a better job on their own, you don't need to 'cull the staff.' Or, put better, you're constantly culling but calling it by another name.
You have to change your corporate culture first. NOTE: This may involve firing your boss. And his boss
This is important, because the more people you have, the easier it will be to find work for them to maintain the same hours, all of it "critical" and "demanded by customers."
You seem to be confusing the conquest of the new world with the original colonization by humanity
To some extent, the 15th/16th century migration really was a colonization of empty land -- disease had destroyed the majority of Native American cities; the settlers only got a real foothold in the New World when most of the villages they came across were empty. There was a fair amount of conquest, especially later, but diseases that the natives had little resistance to did most of the work, partially emptying a land that used to have more people in it than all of Europe combined.
But even if he's the real deal, I'm afraid he would turn out to be an Obama (ie. mostly powerless).
I'd be afraid he'd turn out much like Arnold Schwarzeneggar who made similar promises and seemed to have good ideas when he was elected governor of California, but since he aliened many of the legislators on a daily basis, had a difficult time getting anything done. He helped make California a leader in environmental policy, but otherwise was somewhat ineffective.
By now you should have learned that dirty bathwater is no reason to throw out the baby.
But why do I bother when there are utter losers that want to throw out democracy and have "libertarian" warlords running the place who can pollute upstream as much as they want because they have bigger guns than the guys downstream?
Mmmm, technically Libertarians would believe that this is one of the very few incidents where government intervention might be appropriate. They're big on remuneration if the actions of one property owner befoul another owner's property. They're generally anti-government, but they're not wild-west types or anarchists.
So nothing is better than trying at all? Should I mutter about the kids of today and getting off my lawn?
Oh please stop trying to make seniors look bad. By now you should have learned doing things badly is worse than doing nothing.
Maybe. But what if the total good outweighs the total bad? Don't get me wrong, the bad could be inexcusable and need to be fixed, but for every Colorado river disaster, how many other disasters have been prevented?
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That's interesting, but TFA does mention that they were using wi-fi-connected laptops in the classroom, and that sort of thing is difficult to hide.
A private school has no particular obligation to deal with anyone in particular; so long as they don't explicitly step on some protected class or (as is being argued in this case) fail to make reasonable accommodation per the ADA.
An ADA claim is going to be a tough sell; they would have to prove that wi-fi sickness is a real thing, IE, not psychosomatic, to count as a reasonable accommodation that the administration would have to implement. We've seen exactly the opposite so far.
For all we know, he could be an unvaccinated child who's been living in a moldy, dirty-ass environment until they sent him off
Lack of vaccines is pretty bad, but it's the kids in the moldy, dirty-ass environment who are likely to have better immune systems. If your environment is sterilized all the time, your immune system is not exposed to things it needs to fight off, so later on when the kid IS exposed to those things, they have little built-up defense.
but labeling isn't in the interests of any producer,
In addition to the other rebuttals, labeling is in the interests of the producer because it gives the consumer confidence that the product is what it says it is.
It lets people who need to avoid certain ingredients (like wheat or salt or excess sugar) or who just want to watch their calories buy your product. Without that labeling, most of them would probably avoid the purchase altogether. Food labeling is one of those rare situations where everyone's benefited, producers and consumers.
"Australia take note.... It's amazing what a bit of competition can do in this area."
First, Comcast has no competition. They are protected from it -- if you want Comcast in your area, you have to give them monopoly power. That's how they work. You're also assuming that Comcast has any intention of following through on this. They've made promises like this before, usually to secure funding. They take the money and run, rolling out networks that come nowhere close to the advertised speed while declaring success (and record profits).
Robert Cringely wrote about this eight years ago, discussing how the cable and telco companies received 200 billion dollars to roll out a bidirectional 45 Mbit network to the whole US back in the mid-90s. They didn't get pallets of cash, but they were allowed to put some surcharges on your monthly bill and received tax credits averaging $2000 / customer.
Eventually they claimed they only promised "broadband," and broadband was defined as Internet service with a download speed of 200 kbit/sec or more.
So when Comcast promises Gigabit cable for all, I'd love to know 1) What are the restrictions on the network, 2) Which neighborhoods -aren't- getting it, 3) What they're getting from the local municipalities in return (probably further banning of municipal broadband, and banning of competition to enforce Comcast's monopoly), and 4) What the funding source for this is. Somehow, I suspect that the funding for this isn't just being footed by Comcast. That's never been how they've operated in the past. They promise, they receive cash, they underdeliver, and they declare success despite the glaring failures around them.
If you refuse to pay your $100 Comcast bill or otherwise violate their terms of service, they worst they'll ever do is cut off your service and you'll switch to a competing competing, maybe even DSL.
They could also sue you. And get court judgements against you if you want to blow them off. And then comes the other things you mentioned if you still don't want to pay.
You CAN have government like that, where the leader is the absolute authority and there is no debate, no public discussion, no accountability to the public, so things get done quickly. North Korea has such a system I don't want that.
But this is the promise of a Donald Trump presidency, a CEO in the executive office who just does what he wants and everyone has to follow his commands.
Now we're really getting off topic. :-9
Do you really think Blue Cross would have done any different? As if that's not what they'd been doing before the health care law?
Low priority, but it's kindof refreshing to see a tech-related story that only obsessive nerds would care about.
Huh. Interesting. My Microsoft Natural keyboard at home has the 6 on the left.
At work, my Kinesis advantage keyboard has the 6 on the right.
And I never noticed.
Wrong. Microsoft Hardware developed the mice, keyboards and XBox. Since they make decent products, their jobs are now being cut.
Ugh. Not a fan of Windows, use Linux at home for most things... but I love the Microsoft Natural Keyboard. Sad news.
Maybe I should stock up.
You remove your hand from your mouse, move it across your desk, just to hit a number?
I have my mouse on the left side, and I use the numpad and the nearby arrow keys with my right hand. It's really the perfect layout for gaming.
And I'm right handed. Using a mouse with my right hand gave me RSI, but not when I used it with the left hand.
So, when you talk about "equals", you have to consider that some "equals" have much more bargaining power than others. I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, but I'd suggest that it falls on senior developers to take on some leadership in these sorts of fights against bad managerial practices.
Senior developers have to be able to gauge the mood of the company as well. There are a lot of places looking for an excuse to shed their expensive senior staff and go with a younger, hungrier, cheaper, less independent work force.
I agree with you, I do... But as a guy who has worked in tech for 20+ years now, there have been so many times where I realize that people can be so smart, yet so stupid at the same time. Specifically, tech people - suckers... So many time I've looked around the room for someone else to share a look of "what the fuck?" with me, but most of the time, no one dares. When they offer people "free pizza" to work past 8:00, I look around for people to say, "Yeah, thanks, but I'll go home now and buy my own $6.99 pizza thanks" - but no one does, and they work, and they eat the pizza like it's some incredible gift.
You know, it depends on what you're going home too as well. If the only thing you have to look forward to is a couple of hours of mind-numbing Counter-Strike while avoiding annoying roommates, then maybe staying at work to do something intellectually stimulating while saving you the hassle of looking for food is appealing. I did that long ago.
But if you have a family at home that you spend quality time with, suddenly the prospect of spending a late night at work becomes much more of a bad one. Sometimes it's not even an option. When I was starting out I was given a lot of late shifts (without choice) because the other people on my team flat-out told me that they had home responsibilities and I didn't. I thought that was pretty fucking unfair. Fortunately that job didn't last long. Now I pretty much stick to a 40-hour work week. Sometimes there's weekend work, but it's not a regular thing.
Wage slavery is essentially equal to captivity dumbshit.
I'm laughing at the idea of software dev wage slavery. A decent software developer has perhaps the best work mobility of anyone in the world. You have tons of job opportunities with excellent wages. Now the grunts doing manual labor in Amazon warehouses, that's a different story.
There is no “culling of the staff” annually. That’s just not true. No one would be here if that actually took place and it was a thing"
Even with Amazon's terrible reputation, how many tens of thousands of resumes do they get every year?
When people get sick of the horrible working conditions and leave to find a better job on their own, you don't need to 'cull the staff.' Or, put better, you're constantly culling but calling it by another name.
You have to change your corporate culture first. NOTE: This may involve firing your boss. And his boss
This is important, because the more people you have, the easier it will be to find work for them to maintain the same hours, all of it "critical" and "demanded by customers."
Because licensing is always cheaper than the labor costs associated with switching to the cheaper software... right?
Depends on the licence, but yes, that's often correct.
You seem to be confusing the conquest of the new world with the original colonization by humanity
To some extent, the 15th/16th century migration really was a colonization of empty land -- disease had destroyed the majority of Native American cities; the settlers only got a real foothold in the New World when most of the villages they came across were empty. There was a fair amount of conquest, especially later, but diseases that the natives had little resistance to did most of the work, partially emptying a land that used to have more people in it than all of Europe combined.
Oh well, unless Hillary switches (Oy! Don't we wish!),
I think that would result in mass head-explosions on both sides of the aisle. In a sense, that would be a dream of mine.
Borders are global "Jim Crow".
Bull. Shit.
Every country has the right to decide who lives in their country. It's a pretty primary reason for the existence of "countries" in the first place.
But even if he's the real deal, I'm afraid he would turn out to be an Obama (ie. mostly powerless).
I'd be afraid he'd turn out much like Arnold Schwarzeneggar who made similar promises and seemed to have good ideas when he was elected governor of California, but since he aliened many of the legislators on a daily basis, had a difficult time getting anything done. He helped make California a leader in environmental policy, but otherwise was somewhat ineffective.
Then wouldn't it make sense to allow NASA to profit on it's patents? They could have all the funding they need if they could collect royalties...
Maybe, but you also have a lot of people (and it's not an unreasonable assertion) who says that if it's publicly funded, it should be public domain.
By now you should have learned that dirty bathwater is no reason to throw out the baby.
But why do I bother when there are utter losers that want to throw out democracy and have "libertarian" warlords running the place who can pollute upstream as much as they want because they have bigger guns than the guys downstream?
Mmmm, technically Libertarians would believe that this is one of the very few incidents where government intervention might be appropriate.
They're big on remuneration if the actions of one property owner befoul another owner's property. They're generally anti-government, but they're not wild-west types or anarchists.
So nothing is better than trying at all?
Should I mutter about the kids of today and getting off my lawn?
Oh please stop trying to make seniors look bad. By now you should have learned doing things badly is worse than doing nothing.
Maybe. But what if the total good outweighs the total bad? Don't get me wrong, the bad could be inexcusable and need to be fixed, but for every Colorado river disaster, how many other disasters have been prevented?
Way to take a joke way too seriously, Doctor Killjoy.
And your assertion that "aliens never visited Earth (sic)" is as much unsubstantiated nonsense as "aliens created the pyramids."