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  1. Re:Simple on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    How does it work for the private school situation? At work, you work for your boss and your boss pays you. At a private school, the teachers and administration work for the parents (by teaching the students) and the parents pay them.

  2. Re:Simple on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    If you make that accusation, the principal can sue you for slander.

    We are talking about constitutionally protected parody, not defamation.

  3. Re:Simple on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    If you follow the 'free speech' mantra, students should be able to shout abuse at a teacher all lesson long

    I never mentioned free speech. I clearly stated that if it happens at school, the school should be able to discipline.

  4. Re:Simple on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    The result of which would be a lessening of respect for the teachers and principals. . .

    Are you suggesting that any respected authority should punish any deed that led to decrease in respect? If not, why for the case of teachers?

    If you posted a "parody" like this of your boss, on your own time and using your own resources, you'd still be fired. And with cause. It's no different just because these kids are in school.

    There is a significant difference between the school situation and the work situation. At work, you work for your boss. At school, the teachers and administration work for the students.

  5. Simple on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If something happens on school grounds or using school equipment, the school can discipline.

    If something happens off school grounds and not using school equipment that is damaging or may be illegal, involve the criminal justice system or sue.

    Why is this so hard?

    side note: Homeschooling parents are looking pretty smart, aren't they?

  6. Re:Libertarian alert! on FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business · · Score: 1

    And like your comment, Atlas Shrugged offered no solution to the problem whatsoever.

  7. Re:Not surprising police don't know the law . . . on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    The police told the suspect that he had the right to remain silent. The suspect talked anyway. SCOTUS deemed the suspects statements admissible in court.

    What exactly is the problem?

  8. Re:LOL...let's re-do the headline on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    If you think baseball teaches that rules are enforced uniformly and fairly, you have not been following baseball.

  9. Re:Yeah... on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    I suspect it is a guy looking for investor capital.

    1. Show solution in search of a problem.
    2. Get investor capital.
    3. Buy new car and house.
    4. Hookers and blow
    5. ???
    6. Investors have shares of bankrupt company.
    7. Keep car and house. (Profit!!!)

  10. Re:This isn't going to compete with Windows on Google's Chrome OS To Launch In Fall · · Score: 1

    So, it is competing with the iPad?

  11. Re:Credit card companies, airlines,... on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I am baffled, however, how any such contract can be considered legal and binding

    Because the companies pushing these contracts have lots of lawyers and lobbyists, and you do not.

  12. Wrong on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 1

    Bertrand Competition assumes no colluding or price fixing, intelligent consumers, no lock-in, and no long term contracts.

    The connection providers will play games with consumers forever.

  13. Re:Bullshit on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Many programmers write business applications that deal with other business applications, many of which only work with Administrator access.

    The problem is not Windows, but the lousy applications written for it that have no hope of being ported or fixed.

  14. Re:Why? on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which one of them only half understands?

  15. Re:include 'common-sense' returns false. on Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones · · Score: 1

    If a stupid law is proposed that would harass, inconvenience, and violate the privacy and liberty of law-abiding citizens without doing anything towards fixing any problem, real or imagined, you can safely bet that Chuck Schumer is involved.

    Why? Because bills like this get attention.

    "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera." -Bob Dole

  16. Re:Amazing on USAF Scramjet Hits Mach 6, Sets Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like incandescent light bulbs?

  17. Re:Apple topic? on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    I did not notice until reading your comment, but I correctly guessed the answer immediately. kdawson posted it.

  18. Re:Great. :( on Steve Jobs To Keynote WWDC iPhone Announcement · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet you think people who bought bellbottoms and hammer pants bought them because they worked well for them.

  19. Re:For the record, his stance on copyright on Mark Twain To Reveal All After 100 Year Wait · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A reason that copyright extends past death is to discourage murder to get access to copyrighted material.

  20. Re:Already in progress on BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    You think the government knows what the hell they are doing?

  21. Re:2 things on BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) Why are they poring dispersants on the oil spill instead of coagulants?

    Does it have something to do with enabling the microorganisms in the ocean that are capable of consuming hydrocarbons to consume them?

  22. Re:So when does MPGE4 AVC/H.264 expire? on MPEG-LA Considering Patent Pool For VP8/WebM · · Score: 1

    One of the constraints when developing codecs is the processor power required to do the encoding and decoding. If processor power goes up (and it will), you can compress more at the expense of requiring additional processor power.

  23. Re:Not right on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, what are you going to do about it? Nothing? Yeah, the government figured that out. The constitution is irrelevant.

  24. Re:Action: on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what to do, guys. Call into the anonymous tipline and accuse all of your Congressmen of burglary.

    FTFY

  25. Re:Show me the software! on German High Court Declares All Software Patentable · · Score: 1

    I do not think length matters. Take David McCord's poem "Epitaph on a Waiter". The poem is shorter than its title.