Tell that to my local Mayor who passed a law banning Lawn Signs... even on private property. Yes, he's allowed to do that. He's not the Federal Government and Local Ordinances can do almost _anything_.
You have NO IDEA what the Constitution is for, do you?
It is to prevent the Federal Government, and by some interpretations, the State Government, from infringing on your rights. NO ONE ELSE.
Your Constitutional Rights are infringed all the time... and rightly so. Try and exercise your 1st Amendment Rights by yelling FIRE in a movie theater. You'll get arrested. Try and exercise your religious rights as a Muslim by praying your prayers in a Catholic Church during a service. Try and exercise your right to "Free Speech" by blasting a KKK rant at full volume a la "Blues Brothers" from your car while driving through a small town... you'll get arrested for disturbing the peace if not "Inciting Unrest". Try distributing porn on the streets. Try and exercise your 2nd Amendment Rights near a school building. Try exercising your right to due process when you get fired from a job because your manager doesn't like the color of your shirt (They can fire you for undisclosed reasons).
Etc, etc.
The Constitution is about how the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TREATS YOU. Not how you and I treat each other.
To save anyone from having to look it up, parent is referring to the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment, which has been interpreted as giving the several states the same responsibility for upholding the Bill of Rights as the federal government. The fact that school boards are not the federal government in no way diminishes their responsibilities under the First Amendment.
Alright. I'll bite. So are schools breaking the First Amendment when they give a kid detention for talking in class? How about by enforcing a dress code? How about forcing the kid to sit still and listen in class for 8 hours?
To me, those are all clear examples of the School _actually_ infringing on someone's rights. On ther hand, how, exactly, are they breaking ANY amendments or infringing on anyone's rights by installing Blocker software on computers which they are providing to the students?
You're going to have to flesh out an actual argument instead of just making an offhand comment if you want to make any sense.
Exactly what laws is the school breaking by not allowing them to access certain sites?
It may be wrong and hardheaded and backwards... but I'm sorry... it _is_ the schoolboard's right to do it. If they really wanted to, they could block Mac Sites and keep IBM sites or block Evolution Sites and keep Creationist ones. They're not bound by the US Constitution since they're not the Federal Government and I highly doubt that you can classify a local school board as the State Government, so they're probably not bound by the State's Constitution, either. The schoolboard is subject to state _laws_ and local ordinances, neither of which say anything about this, I am guessing.
This sort of thing is determined at PTO meetings by elected school board officials, and therefore, the appropriate action is to take it before the schoolboard, before a PTO meeting, and to parents and teachers who make the decisions, not some judge who is likely to uphold whatever the aforemetioned committee happens to decide, even if it's something as stupid as the right to ban a kid for wearing a t-shirt.
This may sound weird and backwards and stupid but I actually think that's how it should be: the local community decides what they want, specifically, so long as it meets certain state standards. Some may want 5th Grade Sex Education, others may want to wait until high school. Some may want to "shield" their kids from the influences of the world and keep out anything related to sexuality, others may think it's important to teach tolerance. Certainly, if this were a predominantly Quaker Community, nobody would even raise an eyebrow. And if you don't like the community, there are several million others in the US to choose from.
I would just like to point out that the URL for that PDF report indicates it is stored in a directory named 'mktginfo.' I wonder what that stands for... "Mortal Kombat: The Game Info" perhaps?
If you search the folder, there's another file, 'info.txt' with one line:
So you both think that the _actual Spammers don't make any money, but are just being bamboozled by the Mass E-Mail Providers into becoming Spammers on promises of wealth?
Banks prefer a conservative approach, using tried and tested 18th century steam punk hardware.
"I wasn't aware that boiling water could form allegiances."
But you're right.
One of the banks I go to still requires filled out deposit slips, ink signatures, and still has a "next business day before 2" in regards to processing your deposits. To that I say, "Come on, this is the digital age!"
One of the Banks I go to, the one near my college, does EVERYTHING instantaneously. You deposit money, it is now in your checking account. You can go outside to the ATM to withdraw it or go spend it at the supermarket. Pay with a debit card? It instantly deducts it from your account. Pay with the spoof "Credit Card" option? It deducts it that night.
Many banks are indeed stuck in the bygone era of paper trails and physical filing, when much faster, more convenient digital solutions are available.
First, doesn't using a PIN require the physical debit/credit card? I didn't there was any way to use them on their own.
I've seen a lot of my friend's and family's PINs by pure happenstance. They usually make absolutely no effort to hide it, and most of their PINs are absolutely trivial 1-2-3-4 sort of thing.
I think whoever's taking these is going about it the hard way... any Supermarket Cashier with a pad of sticky notes could theoretically have hundreds of PINs.
The problem, I would think, is "How are they getting the physical cards to use them?" Or am I missing something fundamental?
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
I recently had to write code in a hot dusty room for 20 days with temperatures near 107F (~41C); having nothing to sit on; a 64 Kbps inconsistent internet connection; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions and interruptions.
Basically anyone, professor or student, commercial or non-profit, willing to fill out a sheet of paper can get Supercomputer Time. The damn thing is so fast that there's really nothing for it to do. It accomplishes every task very quickly, and ends up sitting around doing nothing half the time.
I guess the difference is that people have to go to the facility to use it... they can't utilize it through a Web Service.
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Tell that to my local Mayor who passed a law banning Lawn Signs... even on private property. Yes, he's allowed to do that. He's not the Federal Government and Local Ordinances can do almost _anything_.
For example, I do not have the right to suppress your freedom of speech.
See my above post.
And yes, you do... assuming you have Mod Points.
Uh... NO.
You have NO IDEA what the Constitution is for, do you?
It is to prevent the Federal Government, and by some interpretations, the State Government, from infringing on your rights. NO ONE ELSE.
Your Constitutional Rights are infringed all the time... and rightly so. Try and exercise your 1st Amendment Rights by yelling FIRE in a movie theater. You'll get arrested. Try and exercise your religious rights as a Muslim by praying your prayers in a Catholic Church during a service. Try and exercise your right to "Free Speech" by blasting a KKK rant at full volume a la "Blues Brothers" from your car while driving through a small town... you'll get arrested for disturbing the peace if not "Inciting Unrest". Try distributing porn on the streets. Try and exercise your 2nd Amendment Rights near a school building. Try exercising your right to due process when you get fired from a job because your manager doesn't like the color of your shirt (They can fire you for undisclosed reasons).
Etc, etc.
The Constitution is about how the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TREATS YOU. Not how you and I treat each other.
Going by another response...
To save anyone from having to look it up, parent is referring to the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment, which has been interpreted as giving the several states the same responsibility for upholding the Bill of Rights as the federal government. The fact that school boards are not the federal government in no way diminishes their responsibilities under the First Amendment.
Alright. I'll bite. So are schools breaking the First Amendment when they give a kid detention for talking in class? How about by enforcing a dress code? How about forcing the kid to sit still and listen in class for 8 hours?
To me, those are all clear examples of the School _actually_ infringing on someone's rights. On ther hand, how, exactly, are they breaking ANY amendments or infringing on anyone's rights by installing Blocker software on computers which they are providing to the students?
You're going to have to flesh out an actual argument instead of just making an offhand comment if you want to make any sense.
Even if his body dies, he will still live on...
...in his Robotic ExoSkeleton.
Exactly what laws is the school breaking by not allowing them to access certain sites?
It may be wrong and hardheaded and backwards... but I'm sorry... it _is_ the schoolboard's right to do it. If they really wanted to, they could block Mac Sites and keep IBM sites or block Evolution Sites and keep Creationist ones. They're not bound by the US Constitution since they're not the Federal Government and I highly doubt that you can classify a local school board as the State Government, so they're probably not bound by the State's Constitution, either. The schoolboard is subject to state _laws_ and local ordinances, neither of which say anything about this, I am guessing.
This sort of thing is determined at PTO meetings by elected school board officials, and therefore, the appropriate action is to take it before the schoolboard, before a PTO meeting, and to parents and teachers who make the decisions, not some judge who is likely to uphold whatever the aforemetioned committee happens to decide, even if it's something as stupid as the right to ban a kid for wearing a t-shirt.
This may sound weird and backwards and stupid but I actually think that's how it should be: the local community decides what they want, specifically, so long as it meets certain state standards. Some may want 5th Grade Sex Education, others may want to wait until high school. Some may want to "shield" their kids from the influences of the world and keep out anything related to sexuality, others may think it's important to teach tolerance. Certainly, if this were a predominantly Quaker Community, nobody would even raise an eyebrow. And if you don't like the community, there are several million others in the US to choose from.
The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st'
I'm not a fan of the new slashdot achievement system, either.
They're only delaying the inevitable takeover at the hooves of the Cow People.
Robotic Overlords were just a diversion.
Just in case it was lost in translation, my initial astonishment was GOOD.
Modern science truly works miracles.
Sweet mother of Jesus!!
Watch that video!!
NOW.
Would you consider copying the secret blueprints for BMW's latest engine to be "stealing their ideas" or "copyright infringement?"
TI-86
I would just like to point out that the URL for that PDF report indicates it is stored in a directory named 'mktginfo.' I wonder what that stands for ... "Mortal Kombat: The Game Info" perhaps?
If you search the folder, there's another file, 'info.txt' with one line:
UP DOWN UP DOWN A B A B A B A B A B START SELECT
Interesting @ You and SamSchnooks.
So you both think that the _actual Spammers don't make any money, but are just being bamboozled by the Mass E-Mail Providers into becoming Spammers on promises of wealth?
I never thought of it like that.
Please stop responding to SPAM. If no one responds to it, then they won't make any money and they'll stop.
Sincerely,
A. Bettik
Banks prefer a conservative approach, using tried and tested 18th century steam punk hardware.
"I wasn't aware that boiling water could form allegiances."
But you're right.
One of the banks I go to still requires filled out deposit slips, ink signatures, and still has a "next business day before 2" in regards to processing your deposits. To that I say, "Come on, this is the digital age!"
One of the Banks I go to, the one near my college, does EVERYTHING instantaneously. You deposit money, it is now in your checking account. You can go outside to the ATM to withdraw it or go spend it at the supermarket. Pay with a debit card? It instantly deducts it from your account. Pay with the spoof "Credit Card" option? It deducts it that night.
Many banks are indeed stuck in the bygone era of paper trails and physical filing, when much faster, more convenient digital solutions are available.
First, doesn't using a PIN require the physical debit/credit card? I didn't there was any way to use them on their own.
I've seen a lot of my friend's and family's PINs by pure happenstance. They usually make absolutely no effort to hide it, and most of their PINs are absolutely trivial 1-2-3-4 sort of thing.
I think whoever's taking these is going about it the hard way... any Supermarket Cashier with a pad of sticky notes could theoretically have hundreds of PINs.
The problem, I would think, is "How are they getting the physical cards to use them?" Or am I missing something fundamental?
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
I recently had to write code in a hot dusty room for 20 days with temperatures near 107F (~41C); having nothing to sit on; a 64 Kbps inconsistent internet connection; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions and interruptions.
We were evicted from our Hot Dusty Room! We had to go code in a lake!
That's what we do at VT.
Basically anyone, professor or student, commercial or non-profit, willing to fill out a sheet of paper can get Supercomputer Time. The damn thing is so fast that there's really nothing for it to do. It accomplishes every task very quickly, and ends up sitting around doing nothing half the time.
I guess the difference is that people have to go to the facility to use it... they can't utilize it through a Web Service.
Will give head for WOW Gold. PST!!!
Exactly. Why upgrade to new comments when the current ones provide all the insight you need?
You should be modded up because your post is the only one that defends Germany and actually makes any sense.
Sad, but true.
Care to explain _how_?
What competitor are they undercutting? Open office?