FWIW The summary says it was a school issued laptop. The article doesn't specify, but as you quoted implies that it was a personal computer. Obviously the summary could very well be wrong, but it's also possible that the student is confused about who owns the computer and the article wasn't thorough enough to elaborate.
Also, the guy's tweet was hardly all that offensive. It uses a naughty word for sure. But in the context of describing how it can be used for various parts of speech, not as a swear word directed at somebody or something. Either this is another zero tolerance policy gone out of control, or this kid has other issues and the school needed a reason to expel him.
Especially in this case, where the retrieval effort is happening in an environment that 1) is rich with exploitable resources and 2) we don't have a lot of experience working in.
As far as I'm concerned, any project that lets us learn a little more about living and working on the ocean floor is money well spent.
The concern with fair trade is that 'fair trade' goods are increasingly produced by businesses rather than local farmers (as they advertise). Allegedly, by buying fair trade goods at first world prices the first world is supporting export-only businesses that 'rob' already starving nations of their food production. These businesses then use their comparatively vast wealth to buy the best available farmland to grow more food to ship off to the first world.
Thus the 'distribution problem' is that fair trade food is being distributed as luxury goods to first world consumers who want to think they're supporting impoverished farmers.
If you can build a star ship, you can probably also build one capable of launching/retrieving a set of durable, reusable satellites. Those sats could serve several functions (data gathering, line-of-sight communications, ray gun platforms, etc).
It probably wouldn't be "GPS" gps. But the concept of using 3+ satellites as points of reference for a coordinate system is pretty robust. Obviously we can't predict future tech with any accuracy, but keeping a gps style system sounds feasible.
The widely held concept of 'free speech' entitles people to protection from government's intrusion into their expression. It protects the rights of people to say the things they want, when they want. Nothing more.
This guy's comments, which in fact he was not prohibited from making, represented a 'racially aggravated public order offence' (the actual charge that he admitted to) and was probably a violation of his University's code of conduct. As an adult in the real world he has to face consequences for that.
Also concur. Good drama is stories about people. Sci-fi allows authors incredible opportunities to set whatever backdrop they wish to tell, at the core, stories about people. There are also great opportunities to address current social issues in isolation. BSG had some great story arcs that dealt with terrorism and the moral issues surrounding how societies respond to terror. BSG was able to address this irrespective of our current political context, and made the issue a little more generalizable.
When did it become established beyond doubt that children can't consent to sex?
Certainly a three year old can't consent to sex. Young children cannot grasp the full nature of the act to make a fully informed decision to consent. No way, no how.
You're right in that there is no magic switch. No discrete event happens that makes it suddenly ok for a person to consent. But a practical reality is that we cannot make individual determinations about age of consent. Unless you would seriously propose that we create some kind of external authority to which minors apply and are granted the ability to consent to sex.
We have to draw a line somewhere. Maybe 18 isn't the right place to draw that line. But the line has to be drawn somewhere.
I know exactly what you are talking about, and I've seen it a lot. Teachers in academia (especially research universities) often don't receive a great deal of training in adult education. The stereotype is that they are specialists in their field first, and educators second. Some decent educators do emerge, but not often. Teaching universities are better at this, but
Compare this to the training that most youth educators receive and it seems silly. Especially when you consider that transition that young adults go through from High School to college. Even trainers in corporate environment typically have a stronger adult education background than professors.
This article doesn't support the point you are making.
This article is about TSA putting people at weight stations to encourage commercial drivers to be alert for suspicious vehicles. "See something, say something" kind of thing. It also discusses Tennessee Highway Patrol stepping up random searches of those same commercial vehicles.
Nowhere does this article imply that the TSA has any investigative or arresting authority on state highways. They serve as consultants to advise on counter-terrorism screening methods. Nothing more. Just like they do with the railways.
If the users are gobbling the data by tethering to computer(s), the phone probably is living on a charger. I ran like this for a while for my home internet.
Is that limited to the municipality of Boston level or at the Massachusetts state level?
I only ask because my understanding is that the MBTA Transit Police are State Police officers. And the MBTA system runs through a lot of different municipalities.
TSA, and possibly police, receive some counterintelligence training that deals with casual information gathering. Basically they're trained to be really suspicious of anybody approaching them and trying to collect information about staffing, patrols, objectives, or personal details.
Chit-chat about the weather, or the local sports team, but nothing about their job or personal life. The worst case is you get hauled into secondary screening interviews, where the can detain you for hours if they feel like it.
If they have probable cause to search, they're going to search with or without your consent. If they're asking you to consent to a search, they have no grounds to force you.
In the case of this specific submission and discussion topic, it is worth nothing that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) officers are in fact State Police officers.
Cops with badges on the Boston Subway system are real police officers. They're also probably drunk. This is Boston after all.
I mean if they did that in a bomb range. What would happen if average joe did it in their back yard.
For me your point raises an interesting thought. Who are these people that are living within cannon shot of a bomb range? And would they really be all that surprised when some of their things accidentally get boomed?
Also, assuming we don't have FTL travel, they would need to have a lot of oil to justify the 1200+ year trip
Yes. Not only oil, It's hard to imagine any natural resource being so valuable that it justifies the trip. Unless we find some super efficient energy source that allows us to zoom around the galaxy like they do on Star Trek, acquiring resources will likely never be worth the effort.
My understanding is that there are a lot of American football players with brain damage, as their (well protected) heads get sloshed about...
The problem is that American Football helmets do a good job of preventing most head or face injuries, but are very poor at preventing concussions.
On top of that, because the NFL takes concussions so seriously now (in large part because of the stereotyped brain damaged retired football player) players have an incentive to hide and play through minor concussive symptoms so they aren't benched. Obviously, this increases the chance of re-injury.
As an example (for the Patriots fans out there), Rob Gronkowski came as close to breaking his neck as I've ever seen. After that play he showed some wobbliness and confusion so he had to get himself checked out, but later went back into the game. In a post-game interview someone asked him about that play, his response was:
"Uh, I remember the moment and everything. And, if I didn't, I still wouldn't even say I didn't [because] I want to play this week."
I think that's more about the relationship between retailers and manufacturers. For example to make sure that retailers have to negotiate a purchasing agreement from distributors, and aren't lust buying the bulk boxes of candy bars from Costco. I think the only government involvement is in mandating that packaged food be labeled with the appropriate nutritional information, and of course the license to actually function as a food vendor.
So what, we should pull back to a pre WWI isolationist state? Just keep on expanding that American frontier and hoping the rest of the world doesn't bother us?
The reality is that economic (and to a lesser extent social) issues are global issues. Our national houses are deeply interrelated. What happens elsewhere in the world affects the US, and vice versa.
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FWIW The summary says it was a school issued laptop. The article doesn't specify, but as you quoted implies that it was a personal computer. Obviously the summary could very well be wrong, but it's also possible that the student is confused about who owns the computer and the article wasn't thorough enough to elaborate.
Also, the guy's tweet was hardly all that offensive. It uses a naughty word for sure. But in the context of describing how it can be used for various parts of speech, not as a swear word directed at somebody or something. Either this is another zero tolerance policy gone out of control, or this kid has other issues and the school needed a reason to expel him.
Especially in this case, where the retrieval effort is happening in an environment that 1) is rich with exploitable resources and 2) we don't have a lot of experience working in.
As far as I'm concerned, any project that lets us learn a little more about living and working on the ocean floor is money well spent.
The concern with fair trade is that 'fair trade' goods are increasingly produced by businesses rather than local farmers (as they advertise). Allegedly, by buying fair trade goods at first world prices the first world is supporting export-only businesses that 'rob' already starving nations of their food production. These businesses then use their comparatively vast wealth to buy the best available farmland to grow more food to ship off to the first world.
Thus the 'distribution problem' is that fair trade food is being distributed as luxury goods to first world consumers who want to think they're supporting impoverished farmers.
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If you can build a star ship, you can probably also build one capable of launching/retrieving a set of durable, reusable satellites. Those sats could serve several functions (data gathering, line-of-sight communications, ray gun platforms, etc).
It probably wouldn't be "GPS" gps. But the concept of using 3+ satellites as points of reference for a coordinate system is pretty robust. Obviously we can't predict future tech with any accuracy, but keeping a gps style system sounds feasible.
Neat idea. It could sit on a keyring and work just like the keyless transponders for cars.
I like that. A long code on powerup would give you the option of just yanking your battery.
Instead we have essentially nothing.
Hey, we've got the Russians. Right?
Horse Puckey.
The widely held concept of 'free speech' entitles people to protection from government's intrusion into their expression. It protects the rights of people to say the things they want, when they want. Nothing more.
This guy's comments, which in fact he was not prohibited from making, represented a 'racially aggravated public order offence' (the actual charge that he admitted to) and was probably a violation of his University's code of conduct. As an adult in the real world he has to face consequences for that.
Also concur. Good drama is stories about people. Sci-fi allows authors incredible opportunities to set whatever backdrop they wish to tell, at the core, stories about people. There are also great opportunities to address current social issues in isolation. BSG had some great story arcs that dealt with terrorism and the moral issues surrounding how societies respond to terror. BSG was able to address this irrespective of our current political context, and made the issue a little more generalizable.
When did it become established beyond doubt that children can't consent to sex?
Certainly a three year old can't consent to sex. Young children cannot grasp the full nature of the act to make a fully informed decision to consent. No way, no how.
You're right in that there is no magic switch. No discrete event happens that makes it suddenly ok for a person to consent. But a practical reality is that we cannot make individual determinations about age of consent. Unless you would seriously propose that we create some kind of external authority to which minors apply and are granted the ability to consent to sex.
We have to draw a line somewhere. Maybe 18 isn't the right place to draw that line. But the line has to be drawn somewhere.
I know exactly what you are talking about, and I've seen it a lot. Teachers in academia (especially research universities) often don't receive a great deal of training in adult education. The stereotype is that they are specialists in their field first, and educators second. Some decent educators do emerge, but not often. Teaching universities are better at this, but
Compare this to the training that most youth educators receive and it seems silly. Especially when you consider that transition that young adults go through from High School to college. Even trainers in corporate environment typically have a stronger adult education background than professors.
This article doesn't support the point you are making.
This article is about TSA putting people at weight stations to encourage commercial drivers to be alert for suspicious vehicles. "See something, say something" kind of thing. It also discusses Tennessee Highway Patrol stepping up random searches of those same commercial vehicles.
Nowhere does this article imply that the TSA has any investigative or arresting authority on state highways. They serve as consultants to advise on counter-terrorism screening methods. Nothing more. Just like they do with the railways.
If the users are gobbling the data by tethering to computer(s), the phone probably is living on a charger. I ran like this for a while for my home internet.
Is that limited to the municipality of Boston level or at the Massachusetts state level?
I only ask because my understanding is that the MBTA Transit Police are State Police officers. And the MBTA system runs through a lot of different municipalities.
When it comes to police in most civilized societies
You do realize that Boston (mentioned in TFS) is within the USofA, right?
Boston is not what most would call a civilized society.
Actually, this kind of thing is probably a no-no.
TSA, and possibly police, receive some counterintelligence training that deals with casual information gathering. Basically they're trained to be really suspicious of anybody approaching them and trying to collect information about staffing, patrols, objectives, or personal details.
Chit-chat about the weather, or the local sports team, but nothing about their job or personal life. The worst case is you get hauled into secondary screening interviews, where the can detain you for hours if they feel like it.
Boom. This is pretty simple.
If they have probable cause to search, they're going to search with or without your consent. If they're asking you to consent to a search, they have no grounds to force you.
In the case of this specific submission and discussion topic, it is worth nothing that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) officers are in fact State Police officers.
Cops with badges on the Boston Subway system are real police officers. They're also probably drunk. This is Boston after all.
But I think you are being too inclusive with the term "abuse". Many of these guys are allegedly using these substances without abusing them.
I mean if they did that in a bomb range. What would happen if average joe did it in their back yard.
For me your point raises an interesting thought. Who are these people that are living within cannon shot of a bomb range? And would they really be all that surprised when some of their things accidentally get boomed?
Also, assuming we don't have FTL travel, they would need to have a lot of oil to justify the 1200+ year trip
Yes. Not only oil, It's hard to imagine any natural resource being so valuable that it justifies the trip. Unless we find some super efficient energy source that allows us to zoom around the galaxy like they do on Star Trek, acquiring resources will likely never be worth the effort.
My understanding is that there are a lot of American football players with brain damage, as their (well protected) heads get sloshed about...
The problem is that American Football helmets do a good job of preventing most head or face injuries, but are very poor at preventing concussions.
On top of that, because the NFL takes concussions so seriously now (in large part because of the stereotyped brain damaged retired football player) players have an incentive to hide and play through minor concussive symptoms so they aren't benched. Obviously, this increases the chance of re-injury.
As an example (for the Patriots fans out there), Rob Gronkowski came as close to breaking his neck as I've ever seen. After that play he showed some wobbliness and confusion so he had to get himself checked out, but later went back into the game. In a post-game interview someone asked him about that play, his response was:
"Uh, I remember the moment and everything. And, if I didn't, I still wouldn't even say I didn't [because] I want to play this week."
I think that's more about the relationship between retailers and manufacturers. For example to make sure that retailers have to negotiate a purchasing agreement from distributors, and aren't lust buying the bulk boxes of candy bars from Costco. I think the only government involvement is in mandating that packaged food be labeled with the appropriate nutritional information, and of course the license to actually function as a food vendor.
So what, we should pull back to a pre WWI isolationist state? Just keep on expanding that American frontier and hoping the rest of the world doesn't bother us?
The reality is that economic (and to a lesser extent social) issues are global issues. Our national houses are deeply interrelated. What happens elsewhere in the world affects the US, and vice versa.