Right and then you sue them for damages caused (as a result of weeks without pay, and also damage to your rep when the next employer learns you were fired).
Besides I don't buy into the whole "corporations are people" argument. Corporations no more have human rights than does a tree or rock, and therefore wouldn't have the Right of Association. The individuals inside the corporation would retain that right (and can quit if they don't like me), but the corporation itself has no such right.
Yay for Alberta judges. I still don't think "you use a lot of electricity" should be considered evidence of marijuana growth. Lots of people use lots of electricity - like my neighbor down the street who was recently investigated. Why? They suspected her of marijuana usage too, but in reality she just has a fountain in her backyard.
When there are alternative, perfectly innocent explanations for high power usage, those should be considered, and the warrant rejected by the judge.
Unconstitutional laws are null-and-void. It's as if they never existed. The proper way to ban marijuana would have been to add an amendment such as "Congress shall have power to ban or limit access to plants or drugs considered dangerous to the people." THEN these laws would be constitutional. Otherwise not.
>>>To all of you who think that it's some kind of social repression to frown upon people who make a habbit of unashamedly expressing themselves in a vulgar and crass manner >>>
Please define "vulgarity" and explain why these words are vulgar, but not others. For example why it is okay to say "defecate" or "poo" but not "shit"? Or "intercourse" but not "fuck"? Why is it okay to say "I'm eating beef and ham for supper" but not "I'm eating cow and pig for supper"? If you can convince me why some words are bad to use, I'll stop using them; otherwise not.
Point -
- I get a little fed up with these arbitrary cultural rules that seem to have no basis for existing.
Okay first off "pussy" is a word. Nothing more. No more offensive than saying "vagina" or "penis". Stop being so sensitive Americans.
Second in a truly FREE country you should be able to do whatever you want *outside of work*, and not be fired for it. Just last week we read a story about a guy who was fired *on mere suspicion* of downloading child porn (and later proved to be innocent). That's just not right. Companies should not be able to fire people for non-work-related things.
I'd sue this school for unjustified dismissal. Even if I eventually lose the case, it's worthwhile purely as a form of revenge (wasting the time of the principal and hopefully scaring him). I learned that tactic from RIAA. Also last week's Medium episode.
>>>enforce contracts as a way to not have to compete. Libertarian ideas about competition are just as utopian as socialist ideas about cooperation
I agree, but you forget that you don't "have" to sign contracts. I didn't have a contract with my old Cingular/AT&T service, nor do I have one with my new VirginMobile service. I also don't have a contract with Netscape ISP, or Dish Network. I *chose* not to take their offered contracts, and you could do the same, if you don't like being locked-in for 1-2 years.
No my cellphone's turned off so I don't get annoying phone calls that waste my money.
"Verizon argued that the ads clearly indicated that the maps were only of 3G coverage, and that AT&T is only suing because it doesn't want to face the truth about its network."
How sad for the late, great monopoly AT&T. They once controlled virtually the entire U.S. phone network, and now they are falling to a distant last place. I almost feel sorry for them.
Ok that's enough. Let's break-up the Comcast monopoly next.
>>>These graphics weren't used as CGI, the were put on a display that was running in the scene. Computers were not used to render the scene.
By this flawed reasoning, Tron is not CGI, Last Starfighter is not CGI, Babylon 5 is not CGI, and so on, because these did not render the CGI in real time either. They generated their CGI at a rate of 1 frame every ~5 minutes.
And what were the first uses of CGI within television?
Doctor Who 1987 used a CGI-generated opening sequence, and as far as I know Babylon 5 was the first to replace model ships with computer-generated ships (as well as CGI aliens). BTW I think this is my favorite version of the Doctor's music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJeM2buWAw8
It's "real" within the world of Tron; the CGI had to be believable. In contrast the Star Wars film was just projecting a CGI wireframe on a screen. It was okay if it looked fake because it was supposed to fake, in the context of that world.
Yeah but if you set your mouse wheel to an ultra-fine granularity (say 1/2 line per click), then you have to spin your mouse wheel like mad. A potentiometer-based design (like an old Atari paddle) with true analog control is a much friendlier option.
Babylon 5 used a limited amount of CGI due to their computer (amiga) only running 7 megahertz. Towards the end of the show they upgraded to Macs and IBM PCs, but they were still only running around 200 megahertz, so that naturally limited how much CGI could be done.
BTW ever seen Sanctuary on Syfy? Major chunks of that show doesn't exist. They use a lot of greenscreen sets and fill-in with CGI later
During the 1900s governments killed almost 100 million of their *own* citizens via eugenics, ethnic cleansing, gassing, and so on. How many citizens have insurance companies rounded-up and gassed/shot? Near-zero. So yeah I trust my insurance company more than I trust my government.
>>>Perhaps they're just hitting people with [$5 wrenches]?
+1 funny? Or +1 informative.
In the UK they lock you in jail for 2 years until you give them the encryption key. So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty. This law assumes whatever's on your drive is a criminal offense, and presumes guilt.
Do you really want your wife to use the camera and track your car as you sneak into a hotel for a fling? Or your boss to see if your "I was late due to traffic accident" was a lie, and discover you left home late? Government tracking isn't great but at least it's confined to just a few security guards. If that same tracking was made available to all, such that citizens can spy on one another, then society would break down. It would give whole new meaning to the word "gossip" if your nosy neighbor can follow you everywhere you go
Clearly with more-and-more of our information being held by outside entities (megacorps and government), the United States needs to copy this protection from the EU Charter of Rights:
Article 8. Protection of personal data
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her. 2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified. 3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.
And even if you ARE doing something illegal, you have no reason to expect privacy in a public domain. Do your illegal activities inside the house behind closed curtains.
What REALLY pisses me off is when various citizens, trying to protect themselves from police abuse or to document police activities, are told THEY are not allowed to use their video cameras. If it's okay for the government to watch us on the public street, then it's equally okay for us to watch THEM with our handycams. And yet time-after-time I see videos on youtube where cops tell citizens "turn that off or face arrest". These cops not only violating our rights to document what we see on public streets, they are being hypocritical, and need to spend a couple weeks in jail as punishment (violating constitutional law).
I also see these citizens placidly complying, but I'm afraid I'd be spending a night in jail. I will not comply with illegal orders from cops that violate my natural, innate rights to observe and report what I see in my own city
Nope. Searches performed with the permission of a judge (warrant) are perfectly legal. ----- That's fine. It's the law that needs to be changed. IMHO there should actually be three stages - childhood, teenager, and adulthood. Then we'd no longer have the nonsense of teenaged boy/girlfriends being charged for "child porn" simply because they took photos of their own bodies. (For that matter nudity shouldn't even be illegal, regardless of age.)
>>>wiretap without a warrant is what I am worried about.
Agreed, As Judge Napolitano keeps repeating, the Patriot Act gives federal cops the ability to write their own warrants, without need to stand before a judge and swear an oath. That's just plain ridiculous.
Is that why Pennsylvania prosecutors have *twice* locked-up teens (for one night in each case)? Just because they took "mirror photos" of themselves nude? I suppose those prosecutors believed they were thinking of the children, when they locked-up these minors and charged them with a child pornography crime, but I don't agree. If a young adult can't even take a photo of his/her own body, then freedom is dead.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's not forget to break-up the Apple monopoly over MP3 players and MP3 stores as well.
There. The Slashdot equivalent of holding fresh meat
>>>for any reason whatsoever.
Right and then you sue them for damages caused (as a result of weeks without pay, and also damage to your rep when the next employer learns you were fired).
Besides I don't buy into the whole "corporations are people" argument. Corporations no more have human rights than does a tree or rock, and therefore wouldn't have the Right of Association. The individuals inside the corporation would retain that right (and can quit if they don't like me), but the corporation itself has no such right.
I don't believe you. LINK TO THE STORY, or else we'll all just assume the "20 out of 25" stat was made up.
Caught you.
>>>I've heard of that and there's no compensation.
If that happened to me I'd sue for recovery of the thousands-of-dollars lost repairing the damaged drywall
Yay for Alberta judges. I still don't think "you use a lot of electricity" should be considered evidence of marijuana growth. Lots of people use lots of electricity - like my neighbor down the street who was recently investigated. Why? They suspected her of marijuana usage too, but in reality she just has a fountain in her backyard.
When there are alternative, perfectly innocent explanations for high power usage, those should be considered, and the warrant rejected by the judge.
Doesn't matter.
Unconstitutional laws are null-and-void. It's as if they never existed. The proper way to ban marijuana would have been to add an amendment such as "Congress shall have power to ban or limit access to plants or drugs considered dangerous to the people." THEN these laws would be constitutional. Otherwise not.
>>>To all of you who think that it's some kind of social repression to frown upon people who make a habbit of unashamedly expressing themselves in a vulgar and crass manner
>>>
Please define "vulgarity" and explain why these words are vulgar, but not others. For example why it is okay to say "defecate" or "poo" but not "shit"? Or "intercourse" but not "fuck"? Why is it okay to say "I'm eating beef and ham for supper" but not "I'm eating cow and pig for supper"? If you can convince me why some words are bad to use, I'll stop using them; otherwise not.
Point -
- I get a little fed up with these arbitrary cultural rules that seem to have no basis for existing.
Okay first off "pussy" is a word. Nothing more. No more offensive than saying "vagina" or "penis". Stop being so sensitive Americans.
Second in a truly FREE country you should be able to do whatever you want *outside of work*, and not be fired for it. Just last week we read a story about a guy who was fired *on mere suspicion* of downloading child porn (and later proved to be innocent). That's just not right. Companies should not be able to fire people for non-work-related things.
I'd sue this school for unjustified dismissal. Even if I eventually lose the case, it's worthwhile purely as a form of revenge (wasting the time of the principal and hopefully scaring him). I learned that tactic from RIAA. Also last week's Medium episode.
>>>enforce contracts as a way to not have to compete. Libertarian ideas about competition are just as utopian as socialist ideas about cooperation
I agree, but you forget that you don't "have" to sign contracts. I didn't have a contract with my old Cingular/AT&T service, nor do I have one with my new VirginMobile service. I also don't have a contract with Netscape ISP, or Dish Network. I *chose* not to take their offered contracts, and you could do the same, if you don't like being locked-in for 1-2 years.
>>>Verizon's EVDO CDMA '3G' network is much slower than the HSDPA GSM '3G' that ATT has
Upon what data do you draw this conclusion? (just curious)
No my cellphone's turned off so I don't get annoying phone calls that waste my money.
"Verizon argued that the ads clearly indicated that the maps were only of 3G coverage, and that AT&T is only suing because it doesn't want to face the truth about its network."
How sad for the late, great monopoly AT&T. They once controlled virtually the entire U.S. phone network, and now they are falling to a distant last place. I almost feel sorry for them.
Ok that's enough.
Let's break-up the Comcast monopoly next.
>>>These graphics weren't used as CGI, the were put on a display that was running in the scene. Computers were not used to render the scene.
By this flawed reasoning, Tron is not CGI, Last Starfighter is not CGI, Babylon 5 is not CGI, and so on, because these did not render the CGI in real time either. They generated their CGI at a rate of 1 frame every ~5 minutes.
And what were the first uses of CGI within television?
Doctor Who 1987 used a CGI-generated opening sequence, and as far as I know Babylon 5 was the first to replace model ships with computer-generated ships (as well as CGI aliens). BTW I think this is my favorite version of the Doctor's music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJeM2buWAw8
It's "real" within the world of Tron; the CGI had to be believable. In contrast the Star Wars film was just projecting a CGI wireframe on a screen. It was okay if it looked fake because it was supposed to fake, in the context of that world.
Yeah but if you set your mouse wheel to an ultra-fine granularity (say 1/2 line per click), then you have to spin your mouse wheel like mad. A potentiometer-based design (like an old Atari paddle) with true analog control is a much friendlier option.
Babylon 5 used a limited amount of CGI due to their computer (amiga) only running 7 megahertz. Towards the end of the show they upgraded to Macs and IBM PCs, but they were still only running around 200 megahertz, so that naturally limited how much CGI could be done.
BTW ever seen Sanctuary on Syfy? Major chunks of that show doesn't exist. They use a lot of greenscreen sets and fill-in with CGI later
During the 1900s governments killed almost 100 million of their *own* citizens via eugenics, ethnic cleansing, gassing, and so on. How many citizens have insurance companies rounded-up and gassed/shot? Near-zero. So yeah I trust my insurance company more than I trust my government.
>>>Perhaps they're just hitting people with [$5 wrenches]?
+1 funny? Or +1 informative.
In the UK they lock you in jail for 2 years until you give them the encryption key. So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty. This law assumes whatever's on your drive is a criminal offense, and presumes guilt.
No.
Do you really want your wife to use the camera and track your car as you sneak into a hotel for a fling? Or your boss to see if your "I was late due to traffic accident" was a lie, and discover you left home late? Government tracking isn't great but at least it's confined to just a few security guards. If that same tracking was made available to all, such that citizens can spy on one another, then society would break down. It would give whole new meaning to the word "gossip" if your nosy neighbor can follow you everywhere you go
I am named after Trojans' home city. Yeah I guess my mom had little imagination. ;-) I RTFA but I don't know where these arrests happened. UK?
Clearly with more-and-more of our information being held by outside entities (megacorps and government), the United States needs to copy this protection from the EU Charter of Rights:
Article 8. Protection of personal data
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.
And even if you ARE doing something illegal, you have no reason to expect privacy in a public domain. Do your illegal activities inside the house behind closed curtains.
What REALLY pisses me off is when various citizens, trying to protect themselves from police abuse or to document police activities, are told THEY are not allowed to use their video cameras. If it's okay for the government to watch us on the public street, then it's equally okay for us to watch THEM with our handycams. And yet time-after-time I see videos on youtube where cops tell citizens "turn that off or face arrest". These cops not only violating our rights to document what we see on public streets, they are being hypocritical, and need to spend a couple weeks in jail as punishment (violating constitutional law).
I also see these citizens placidly complying, but I'm afraid I'd be spending a night in jail. I will not comply with illegal orders from cops that violate my natural, innate rights to observe and report what I see in my own city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWFmGtsTxg - man arrested for taping in public area
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdlkKsyZY5w - woman arrested for posting video taken *inside* her own home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQvHWgaVACE - another wrongful arrest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NASIcf-LCyM - I can't find the original video but this guy was arrested for using a camera in a public hallway - the same thing local news shows do every, single, day.
and on
and on
and on
Why is it necessary to record the police? So you can document abuses like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM - Young man detained, refused right to travel, and interrogated because "you're carrying too much cash" ($4000). Last I checked it's not illegal to carry money from St. Louis to Arlington Virginia.
>>>There is nothing wrong with this legally.
Nope. Searches performed with the permission of a judge (warrant) are perfectly legal. ----- That's fine. It's the law that needs to be changed. IMHO there should actually be three stages - childhood, teenager, and adulthood. Then we'd no longer have the nonsense of teenaged boy/girlfriends being charged for "child porn" simply because they took photos of their own bodies. (For that matter nudity shouldn't even be illegal, regardless of age.)
>>>wiretap without a warrant is what I am worried about.
Agreed, As Judge Napolitano keeps repeating, the Patriot Act gives federal cops the ability to write their own warrants, without need to stand before a judge and swear an oath. That's just plain ridiculous.
If there's grass on the field, play through
If not, retreat
Is that why Pennsylvania prosecutors have *twice* locked-up teens (for one night in each case)? Just because they took "mirror photos" of themselves nude? I suppose those prosecutors believed they were thinking of the children, when they locked-up these minors and charged them with a child pornography crime, but I don't agree. If a young adult can't even take a photo of his/her own body, then freedom is dead.