I know it's/. and I know people don't read articles, but she was suspended. For a week. When she still refused to take the phone out from her knickers, the teachers (wisely) decided to call in the police to remove the phone.
Wow, I am not attacking you personally here Grym, but there are a lot of points you make that I would consider rather alarming.
public school system which treats students like inmates and citizens like subjects
I don't know about you, but I went to both a public schools and private schools (In Australia). The public schools ther students had the "upper hand" so to speak. Teachers had next to no rights over the kids, couldn't touch, couldn't this, couldn't that. The result was an overall poor education - though every liberty in the world. I then moved to a private (Catholic) school. It was a rude awakening of a much smaller set of rights for each student. There were after school detentions (staying back for just over an hour writing lines). There was homework - and you actually had to really get it done. Oh, and my favorite, with some teachers who didn't believe in detention, you got the cane - hand out, generally three to five. That fucker stung for a good ten minutes too. And you know what? My kids are going to private schools. Why? I learned discipline. I learned respect for others. I learned that there were consequences to my actions and to my lack of actions at other times. That is a GOOD life lesson to have.
So she had a cellphone... What exactly is the big deal?
Lets look at that.
1) A student in a school is there to learn. Sure, it might seem okay to just leave her alone and do nothing. But when her grades start to plummet, who parents do you think will come baying for blood demanding to know why their precious Snowflake can't read at a level three years below her?
2) She is sitting in a class of ten to thirty other students (No idea of class numbers there) and not paying attention. When teacher asks her a question she can't answer, the teacher then has to explain things over again taking up the other students learning time because Little-MIss-Chatty wants to SMS.
It's interesting they chose to charge her with disorderly conduct, of all things. She was not drunk. She was not loitering
People who are drunk and disorderly are charged with being drunk and disorderly. People who are loitering after being asked to move on are charged with loitering. People who are being disorderly are charged with being disorderly. What's not to get? Let me spell it out more clearly.
Disorder is the opposite of order. At a school, the order for teachers is to teach. Students generally attend school to learn, ergo the general order for students is to learn, listen and obey teachers/instructors. When a student disobeys a teacher they are being disorderly. When the refusal is escalated to the level where the student outright refuses under strict instruction to obey, there is a number of options available. The school chose to call the police. If this was the school I went to, my phone would have been confiscated the first time I dared to bring it out and was caught. If I refused, an afternoon detention would have quickly been written up along with a phone call to my parents.
If banning the girl from school for a week and a minor misdemeanor is what it takes to learn a life lesson here that it's not always alright to do anything you want and that in situations, you might have to do what others want you to do even if you don't like it... Then that's a very cheap price for that lesson.
I am not running around crying "evil microsoft" I didn't so much as use microsoft in the post. Yes, the thread is about Windows 7, but I am making a more general statement. No operating system that I buy will have a list of "files" and "acceptable versions" and refuse to run others.
If I change a DLL in a program, what gives my operating system the right to stop the program functioning?
This isn't talking about a DLL that didn't work. This is a working DLL and windows shit-canning the application because it doesn't match what the vendor wants.
People didn't trawl through 60 terabigadits of data to find out things about being social. They went down to road to the local shindig and tried to talk to a girl.
Keyboards aren't so cheap if you get a good one. I was quite happy to pay substantially more for a G15 gaming keyboard and I was so happy with it I decided to get a second one for my other PC. I still have the keyboards I bought for my earlier PC (which also connected via a PS/2 heh) but for example at work, they wanted us two use the keyboards that "came with the PC" which were some rubbish Dell $5 jobs. I went out and bought a good logitech one figuring that spending a hundred or so dollars for a keyboard/mouse was a good investment for something that I use five to eight hours a day.
I totally agree however that there is no need to keep giving new ones away with a PC.
Also, the cake is not a lie. I actually got it the other day.
When a law does more harm than good it needs to be abolished.
Similarly, please end drug prohibition laws.
ktnxbye.
This has nothing to do (really) with copyright law. These chaps are not being charged with copyright infringement. They are being charged with helpings others do it - which is an interesting pickle indeed. In effect, it's like going after a photocopier manufacturer when the users start to mainly photocopy books illegally... Oh.. wait.
There is a point to copyright law, and there is a point to drug prohibition laws. Neither of these do more harm than good. If you had content (a song for example) that was a method for you to put food on the table, you would be thinking differently about copyright laws. Similarly, if you had really been affected by drug abuse whether personally or by those close to you, you wouldn't be spouting such jibberish about ending it.
Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files.
Yes, I can just see the lines of linux users just queuing up in anxious trepidation waiting to be able to use Windows Media Video and Audio files on their beloved linux systems...
Everything would be really well with this idea... till one of the pythons got a little frisky...
"Why hello there you cheeckly little thing... I have seen you like to hang out here... I just love the way you always have an end that goes into the wall over there... So, what do you think about first dates?"
In other words, what do you call a cross between optical/cat5/power cord and Python? A "Powerthon"? A "Snake5"?
The only atrocities here are to the English Language! Have a quick peek to learn something about Double Negatives and make a choice to improve yourself.
If you don't want to do it for yourself, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Maybe the EU parliament members are too young to have read Clockwork Orange or even bothered to see the movie.
Or maybe, they did in fact watch it, but had no idea of what it was all about, thought there were "a few good fights" and "a bit of skin" and the rest was trash.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity - especially in today's world.
Slashdot Mirror
I know it's /. and I know people don't read articles, but she was suspended. For a week. When she still refused to take the phone out from her knickers, the teachers (wisely) decided to call in the police to remove the phone.
public school system which treats students like inmates and citizens like subjects
I don't know about you, but I went to both a public schools and private schools (In Australia). The public schools ther students had the "upper hand" so to speak. Teachers had next to no rights over the kids, couldn't touch, couldn't this, couldn't that. The result was an overall poor education - though every liberty in the world. I then moved to a private (Catholic) school. It was a rude awakening of a much smaller set of rights for each student. There were after school detentions (staying back for just over an hour writing lines). There was homework - and you actually had to really get it done. Oh, and my favorite, with some teachers who didn't believe in detention, you got the cane - hand out, generally three to five. That fucker stung for a good ten minutes too. And you know what? My kids are going to private schools. Why? I learned discipline. I learned respect for others. I learned that there were consequences to my actions and to my lack of actions at other times. That is a GOOD life lesson to have.
So she had a cellphone... What exactly is the big deal?
Lets look at that.
1) A student in a school is there to learn. Sure, it might seem okay to just leave her alone and do nothing. But when her grades start to plummet, who parents do you think will come baying for blood demanding to know why their precious Snowflake can't read at a level three years below her?
2) She is sitting in a class of ten to thirty other students (No idea of class numbers there) and not paying attention. When teacher asks her a question she can't answer, the teacher then has to explain things over again taking up the other students learning time because Little-MIss-Chatty wants to SMS.
It's interesting they chose to charge her with disorderly conduct, of all things. She was not drunk. She was not loitering
People who are drunk and disorderly are charged with being drunk and disorderly. People who are loitering after being asked to move on are charged with loitering. People who are being disorderly are charged with being disorderly. What's not to get? Let me spell it out more clearly.
Disorder is the opposite of order. At a school, the order for teachers is to teach. Students generally attend school to learn, ergo the general order for students is to learn, listen and obey teachers/instructors. When a student disobeys a teacher they are being disorderly. When the refusal is escalated to the level where the student outright refuses under strict instruction to obey, there is a number of options available. The school chose to call the police. If this was the school I went to, my phone would have been confiscated the first time I dared to bring it out and was caught. If I refused, an afternoon detention would have quickly been written up along with a phone call to my parents.
If banning the girl from school for a week and a minor misdemeanor is what it takes to learn a life lesson here that it's not always alright to do anything you want and that in situations, you might have to do what others want you to do even if you don't like it... Then that's a very cheap price for that lesson.
or possibly he couldn't make bail because he's not as filthy rich as Paris
or possibly he couldn't make bail because he's not as filthy as Paris
There, fixed that for you.
...and the plural of mongoose is polygoose ....
While the female mongoose is referred as the woomongoose...
I am not running around crying "evil microsoft" I didn't so much as use microsoft in the post. Yes, the thread is about Windows 7, but I am making a more general statement. No operating system that I buy will have a list of "files" and "acceptable versions" and refuse to run others.
If I change a DLL in a program, what gives my operating system the right to stop the program functioning?
This isn't talking about a DLL that didn't work. This is a working DLL and windows shit-canning the application because it doesn't match what the vendor wants.
If two submarines crash in the ocean, and neither is running sonar, does it make a sound?
yes. it sounds like "crunch" followed by "oh, shit".
Then followed by "merde!"
Oh, if only my mod points where with me, you would go up up and away!
People didn't trawl through 60 terabigadits of data to find out things about being social. They went down to road to the local shindig and tried to talk to a girl.
Now, get off my porch.
Keyboards aren't so cheap if you get a good one. I was quite happy to pay substantially more for a G15 gaming keyboard and I was so happy with it I decided to get a second one for my other PC. I still have the keyboards I bought for my earlier PC (which also connected via a PS/2 heh) but for example at work, they wanted us two use the keyboards that "came with the PC" which were some rubbish Dell $5 jobs. I went out and bought a good logitech one figuring that spending a hundred or so dollars for a keyboard/mouse was a good investment for something that I use five to eight hours a day.
I totally agree however that there is no need to keep giving new ones away with a PC.
Also, the cake is not a lie. I actually got it the other day.
I mean, you ought to be able to just fire keyboards out of a machine for pretty cheap, I would think. why do you need people at all for this?
This is the machine, it just has cheap replaceable human parts in it that cost about 41cents per hour to maintain.
Average consumers decided to do the right thing (a good part of them anyhow) with coffee. I can't see why it wouldn't happen with electronics?
Fair Trade for coffee
Probably in Africa.
Won't get much done if there is any copper in those keyboards.
When a law does more harm than good it needs to be abolished.
Similarly, please end drug prohibition laws.
ktnxbye.
This has nothing to do (really) with copyright law. These chaps are not being charged with copyright infringement. They are being charged with helpings others do it - which is an interesting pickle indeed. In effect, it's like going after a photocopier manufacturer when the users start to mainly photocopy books illegally... Oh.. wait.
There is a point to copyright law, and there is a point to drug prohibition laws. Neither of these do more harm than good. If you had content (a song for example) that was a method for you to put food on the table, you would be thinking differently about copyright laws. Similarly, if you had really been affected by drug abuse whether personally or by those close to you, you wouldn't be spouting such jibberish about ending it.
I would like to call Pirate #4 to the witness stand Your Honor...
Pirate 4: Yaaarrrr?
I thought that they had long ago tested the laws (and won) on whether the site was legal and how they couldn't end up in the slammer for this?
Even in interviews in mags and the like, they certainly came across as super-positive about potential legal issues?
From TFA:
Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files.
Yes, I can just see the lines of linux users just queuing up in anxious trepidation waiting to be able to use Windows Media Video and Audio files on their beloved linux systems...
A couple of Ball pythons in the cable runs
Everything would be really well with this idea... till one of the pythons got a little frisky...
"Why hello there you cheeckly little thing... I have seen you like to hang out here... I just love the way you always have an end that goes into the wall over there... So, what do you think about first dates?"
In other words, what do you call a cross between optical/cat5/power cord and Python? A "Powerthon"? A "Snake5"?
It's arguably less inhumane than the glue...
The only atrocities here are to the English Language! Have a quick peek to learn something about Double Negatives and make a choice to improve yourself.
If you don't want to do it for yourself, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Which pretty much means the cats did nothing useful, other that fill a plastic tray with shit and piss and get hair all over.
br> Wow, you crazies on the interweb think the most peculiar things are useful!
*snicker*
ICanHaSSkript?
No do homewerks?
Maybe the EU parliament members are too young to have read Clockwork Orange or even bothered to see the movie.
Or maybe, they did in fact watch it, but had no idea of what it was all about, thought there were "a few good fights" and "a bit of skin" and the rest was trash.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity - especially in today's world.
Hmmm, this is a moment for CAPTAIN SNICKER!
/snicker
They just don't release that sort of information to the public.
Anyone want some cheap hardware? It's not cutting edge, but you don't need to put any lights in it either...
I think what you meant to say was this:
In space, you get out of RUSSIA'S way.