Secondly, the OS really doesn't have any intelligent insight into the usefulness of a particular allocation to an application. An application will always be more aware of what cached data is more useful than others.
Then it would be better for the API to provide an application a way of registering a callback, and the OS sending the application an interrupt requesting it to free memory.
Something like you know "Hey you, yeah you, your memory usage is excessive, your memory and CPU scheduling priority are lowered, and your pages are being swapped out to disk"
Based on user preferences or system conditions, the applications would be sent a signal when their memory usage is considered excessive, or the system is short on resources -- should the application fail to start freeing up the least important cache pages, based on the system admins' configuration -- the application could either be denied more memory/automatically terminated (based on runaway behavior detected and ignoring interrupts), or the OS could then begin to swap the application, and continue to fire the interrupt periodically, until either enough of the application is swapped out, or the application freed up enough memory.
as this amount decreases Firefox can begin to proactively free memory used for the oldest cached data.
So your suggestion is that each application running should be fine allocating a huge cache and changing its memory footprint according to how much memory it sees available on the entire system, instead of the OS making a decision?
I am not sure I am convinced that the outcome of that methodology is optimal.
If it were; I think i'd favor "number of pages swapped in/out per second" over amount of memory free, though.
I am trying to imagine the interactions of 4 or 5 different applications all running with a huge cache, and the same behavior.... when memory usage is low, all 5 applications prepare a huge cache -- their huge cache causes the total memory free to drop, eventually to 1MB... now, suddenly, all 5 applications will use a bit of CPU time proactively freeing up large swaths of cache -- CPU will be 100% running for a couple seconds, as processes adjust their memory.
After all 5 apps reduce their huge caches, suddenly there will now be a lot of memory free --- so much memory free, that one or more of the applications might immediately see an opportunity for increased caching.
So what mechanism will protect fairness? Each application will believe its cache is important, but
who's to say one of the applications isn't more important to the user, or having more requests more
frequently made of it (so that the user's performance will best if application X's cache is bigger
versus application Y).
There seems a fundamental weakness here, involving each application trying to make their own
memory management decisions about cache --- the application making the decision to expand
its cache may be the one the user cares about the least, and the one whose cache is the least
useful.
The OS is in a position to make decisions and mediate in regards to the working set needs
of processes, and the user's actual usage patterns.
The OS knows which running process makes the most demand of its cache -- the other
processes don't know much about each other.
Because it might worth few bucks to typically host the site in a server farm located in Kazakhstan and than redirect everyone to the international site. This way, they won't lose their domain and will fill the government demands.
That might be exactly what they're doing... a cursory DNS examination of google.kz reveals the following:
...welcome our robomedical overlords! Now, Mr. Watson, I've a raging case of hemorrhoids and a fissure that would drive even the sternest of men mad with rage. Help.
<Watson> Please approach and step up and walk into the mechanization booth on your right; don't worry, you won't feel a thing.
The replacement of your biological components with mechanical ones is really quite painless.
Please don't resist. If you fight, I am afraid, the orderly will have to carry you, and you may need to go through additional time consuming reprogramming after your brain is mechanized.
"Think crime doesn't pay? Think again: an increasingly common sight on underground cybercrime forums are ads paid for by malware writers who are looking to hire talented new programmers..... Salaries range from $2,000 to $5,000 monthly, health benefits not included."
That is really really low... considering the risk on taking on such a job.
Even at the high end, that's $60,000 a year.
For most software engineering jobs, entry level salaries start higher, include the health benefits, don't have the risk of going to jail,
or stigma associated with writing malware, and they provide solid references for future work.
That looks like a typical predatory job ad trying to hire "talented" programmers at rates that would make even non-talented programmers scoff.
he or she may hire folks who have no idea what their job is.... passing questions along to others with more technical abilities, or to their contacts at the various hardware and software vendors. People like these populate many consulting companies. They rely almost completely on contractors to perform the actual work
Passing questions along to others can get the job done. If they get the job done, on time, and within budget, what more could you ask? In the business world, there are usually no special brownie points, for being smart and using your own brain to solve a problem/answering a question quickly, versus being clever, and leveraging other people's brains to get the same task accomplished.
Who cares if they wasted a software vendor's time with dumb questions (other than the software vendor)?
The exorbitant support fees probably covered that anyways --- on second thought, perhaps this explains
why hardware/software support fees are often so exorbitant nowadays.......... clueless end user employees priced into
the contracts up front when you buy hardware/software? Ack.
I think passing the questions on to the right person and responding to them, kind of proves they do have some knowledge of what the IT job is. A good IT worker is one who does ask the questions to learn things, rather than proceeding as if they knew something (when they do not)
Not every IT worker is necessarily supposed to be a technical guru who personally knows the answer to every question asked of them. Now knowing who to pass what kind of question on, and what question(s) to ask of the other person or contracter, that can require some more serious brain power.
If you're hired to do a technical job, that means you do the technical job.
If you don't know how to do it, you either get training, or ask when
things come up you do not understand.
Yes. People who have the technical knowledge are more apt and will be more efficient.
It doesn't mean, though, that for example, someone who never adminned a mail server cannot
be the mail server admin.
They will just have to be learning the hard way, and possibly spending a lot of time learning from vendors.
If go on vacation, quit or get hit by a bus he, and the company, are going to be in a world of hurt.
Time for you to push a little, it sounds like.
Everyone gets sick sometimes -- next time it happens, call in sick, and let him be in a "world of hurt" for a day or so,
don't be a dick about it, just make yourself completely available.
The world will go on a day or two without you, trust me.
And if he really is in a world of hurt, perhaps the level of respect for you will increase.
It will help provide some evidence for you to use later to persuade that the company needs a backup plan.
You should take a vacation as well; ultimately, it is essential that you take some sort vacation eventually.
His failure to have a backup is a management problem, providing you have taken all efforts to have a backup in place,
and any failure to put a plan in place was not slacking on your part.
But the disciplines of Mathematics and Engineering existed long before Alfred Nobel's lifetime, it was different from physics;
and IT/Computer Science is basically an application of Mathematics and Physics combined.
How come there's a Nobel prize in Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine, but no Nobel prize in Mathematics or Engineering?
If element discoveries keep going at the current rate, in 20 or 30 years, a shower curtain won't be large enough for all the elements
to fit, and still have readable type <G>
I'm still waiting on a high numbered inexpensively-manufactured element that has a short half life and quickly decays into non-radioactive gold and silver,
chemically, atomically indistinguishable from the stuff we mine:-)
For hosting an IPv6 version of your site in parallel with your IPv4 only hosting.
Also useful for testing purposes.
This is useful if the price is right, and your existing hosting provider does not support IPv6.
Nothing requires you to turn off your IPv4 site, in order to host an IPv6-only version of it somewhere else:-)
Before i ask a judge to file a restraining order against a student, with the purpose of keeping him away from school, wouldn't it be more appropriate to first ask him to remove the content and then suspend him?
The 'then suspend him' is what I take issue with.
The restraining order is the recourse if the student is non-cooperative.
The school can and should have asked the student to take down the content as soon as they became aware of it; i'm referring to 'restraining order' as their further recourse against the student for content that they posted about another student that has nothing to do with them being on campus.
Disputes are to be mediated by the courts; that is the purpose of the courts.
Attempting to suspend a student based on their actions off school that have nothing to do with their behavior as a student of the school, is merely an abuse of power by staff.
It's kind of like you posted something negative on FB about someone who happens to be a police officer;
the posting has nothing to do with what he does as a police officer, you just think he's an asshole.
He sees your posting one day, and immediately drives to your house, and arrests you on charges of interfering with police business, suspends your license, and sentences you to 5 years in prison, without bringing you before a court.
Whether student behavior should be suspendable....
A good test is: if the student doesn't even have to continue to attend that school to continue that behavior and continue that specific offense, then it's totally off campus, and after measures such as asking the student to take down content, or warning the student they will have to pursue recourse under the law, if they continue behavior, then restraining order should be their recourse, and not deciding to suspend on their own.
A judge's review of the matter, the request for restraining order, will consider the merits, and things like what course of action is the least harm. The judge can even order the student to take down materials, which the school has no authority to enforce (Even if the school suspends the student, it does not force the student to remove any materials).
The difference between Judge's suspension and School's suspension, is a Judge's opinion will be objective and supporting of the rights of all involved.
If convicted of a crime? No there should be no other state punishments for a crime besides what the courts impose.
Eh? You mean there should be no other state punishments for crime besides what the legislature imposes, right?
There are plenty of consequences for being convicted of a crime other than the sentence.
If you suggest there being none, you're quite unrealistic. Society has already deemed otherwise for the protection of the public, and schools for children are certainly no place for criminals to be allowed.
For example:
Loss/more limited flight/passport privileges -- In the US, security checks are performed on passengers; if you have ever been convicted of a crime, you may be ineligible to fly, or you may experience more rigorous security checks. Other countries you might want to visit can refuse you on the basis of the conviction.
Ineligibility to obtain a drivers license -- in many states, conviction of a crime, or certain crimes (even not related to operation of a vehicle) will result in revokation of drivers license and possibly ineligibility or further obtaining one -- the license may have more restrictions. Prisoners are ineligible for a driver's license/ID during their jail sentence, of course; the convict will have to secure transportation after release with them not driving -- if they ever want to try to get a new one, they'll have to take all the driving tests over again, and get rules laid upon them such as "Travel between home and work, only".
Gun laws for people convicted of a crime -- once convicted of a crime punishable by prison 1 year or longer [whether charged as felony or misdemeanor], it is no longer legal to own a gun, for the rest of your life; mere possession of a gun [or ammunition] would be against US federal law.
Election laws --- if ever convicted of a felony, you lose the right to vote or enter within a few hundred feet of a polling area, for the rest of your life.
Laws regarding public office -- You are also permanently ineligible for holding any elected position, such as governor, state representative, district attorney, mayor, judge, city council member, elector, senator, president, etc
Employment laws -- if ever convicted of a crime, and your employer asks, you have to tell them about it.
For the most part, you become ineligible for any state jobs of significance. Chances are you cannot get a job in the private sector, either.
Sex offender registration laws --- if ever convicted of a sex-related crime, for example: urinating in public. For the rest of your life, you must enter your name in a sex offender registry, and everyone who lives nearby you will be informed that you are a potentially dangerous sex offender/predator, and your street address (for their convenience, in harassing you / threatening you / attempting to get you out of their community).
Apparently petitions are also banned by the cryptofascists who run this school.
Maybe time to start a Slashdot.org petition and letter writing, and phone complaint campaign....
Dear. Principal XXX XXXX
Please kindly reinstate Mr. Christie, apologize to this person,
and compensate him for the unjust misbehavior of you and your school,
and immoral suppression of expression.
Regards,
The very irritated intellectual community you have angered.
For example: contacting or ridiculing teachers in an inappropriate way (yes, these are employees and they have rights), the same for students (nobody should be forced to sit besides somebody bullying him at facebook, and if school is the primary contact for this person suspension is the right thing to do).
No. The right thing to do is to file a formal complaint, against the student, and get a judge to issue a restraining order.
Any involvement of the school is only incidental, if there is no action happening on campus to punish.
Of course, the victim can also confront the student on campus, and let the bully implicate themselves on campus, with FB page contents to be used as evidence.
Since (I don't believe) sane private companies ever do that -- private companies usually permanent fire, anyways;
suspensions are rare, except for senior staff. I would look for a cushy government job.
Look for one of the positions that most commonly gets suspended with pay for purely political reasons,
but rarely fired.
I don't have the statistics, but i'm sure there are some surveys showing statistically most-suspended with-pay
state/federal government employee positions.
Permanently suspended from work with pay doesn't sound too bad.
As long as you don't have an exclusive contract that prevents you from starting your own business or taking on other jobs while suspended,
it could be a decent position to be in.
a) Work extra hard in his free time to study the topic enough to understand them
Except, being suspended is a massive increase in free time, and he probably has the internet available.
In this day and age, a motivated individual can educate themselves, pretty well, I think..
as long as they have something like a basic outline of what they're supposed to learn/read up on.
If sufficiently motivated, he could get way ahead of his class and still have a hell of a lot more free time to
do whatever he wants.
I wonder what the students' parents think of this, however.
Of course if his parents ground him and take away his internet/going-out privileges needed to visit the library, as punishment for his suspension, he'll be falling behind.
The fact that a teacher participated actively in one video will destroy any remaining chance they might have had.)
I'd be very worried if I were that teacher right now. They suspended a student.... who says they won't suspend the teacher who participated yet, to make an example of the teacher, emphasize their disapproval, and dig their head further into their Streissand-effect hole in the sand?
My school did not allow me to smoke within 5KM of the school. I told them that I lived within 5KM of the school AND I was allowed to smoke by my parents.
If under 18 and your parents allow you to smoke and provide the cigarettes; the smoking is legal.
The school has no right to regulate the use of private property within 5KM of the school, unless they are buying all that property.
This could interfere with business relationships between students and private clubs/stores within 5KM where students otherwise congregate/socialize. I believe, if it were to happen, the school could be sued over such a policy, by any restaurants within 5KM where smoking students stopped visiting to have a smoke and a meal, for the act of Tortious interference with business relationships.
I think its the idea that since you're spending most of your day at school, they're in charge of making you a 'good person' and not just imparting knowledge. At lower levels anyway.
There are private schools that DO say they are in charge of imparting morals into their students.
Religious schools even say they are in charge of indoctrinating and imparting religion in students.
I am in favor of these schools using their power of expression --- showing students disapproval of their actions through private disciplinary sanctions is their right.
As for students attending public schools, however, and students of private schools, except students of private schools who signed an agreement granting the school the right to oversight of off-school actions, the students' rights of expression should be absolute, and the school should only be allowed to make rules about actions on campus, or under supervision of a school employee (such as on a bus), or at school sponsored events, and the supervising employee should have to approve of or order the action at the time of the incident.
No suspending a student because they took a 5 minute video clip on a school bus, under employee supervision, when the employee did not single out the videotaping student for disciplinary action at the time the video was filmed.
Now, if a student is convicted of a crime, or placed in jail, the school should be allowed to take action for the protection of their student body. And if other students are bullied, that should also be actionable, e.g. using school directory information to get other students' phone numbers, and then making threats over the telephone.
The victimized student should be provided some complaint procedure that enables them to report the crime, and allows them to secure protection from the school, if they can prove any threats were made to them by another student, or threats were made by any other person involving the school.
But as for victimless off-campus behavior seen as distasteful, or uncouth, it should not be actionable.
Especially when the school's totally unrelated.
Think of the benefits, now he doesn't have to attend school, maybe he can go out on his own now and actually learn something without the school holding him down.
Who needs schools when you have the internet?
The guy already has mastered Youtube apparently.... I call that quite some educational progress.
Puts him above the average college graduate.
This guy probably didn't go out of his way to make his recording obvious...
He was probably holding up a smartphone, which he had pointed at the officer.
From a sufficient distance, the smart phone is still visible but looks like a little black box, that could be confused for a gun. This must have been high enough profile to upset the officer, whose life is on the line.
What we really need are super-low-profile smart phone cameras that aren't visible or look benign, even at a few hundred feet away.
Pinhole cameras embedded in clothing or sunglasses, with a base station/DVR/cell phone uploading content in real time, in the pocket, seem like a good idea.
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Secondly, the OS really doesn't have any intelligent insight into the usefulness of a particular allocation to an application. An application will always be more aware of what cached data is more useful than others.
Then it would be better for the API to provide an application a way of registering a callback, and the OS sending the application an interrupt requesting it to free memory. Something like you know "Hey you, yeah you, your memory usage is excessive, your memory and CPU scheduling priority are lowered, and your pages are being swapped out to disk"
Based on user preferences or system conditions, the applications would be sent a signal when their memory usage is considered excessive, or the system is short on resources -- should the application fail to start freeing up the least important cache pages, based on the system admins' configuration -- the application could either be denied more memory/automatically terminated (based on runaway behavior detected and ignoring interrupts), or the OS could then begin to swap the application, and continue to fire the interrupt periodically, until either enough of the application is swapped out, or the application freed up enough memory.
as this amount decreases Firefox can begin to proactively free memory used for the oldest cached data.
So your suggestion is that each application running should be fine allocating a huge cache and changing its memory footprint according to how much memory it sees available on the entire system, instead of the OS making a decision?
I am not sure I am convinced that the outcome of that methodology is optimal. If it were; I think i'd favor "number of pages swapped in/out per second" over amount of memory free, though.
I am trying to imagine the interactions of 4 or 5 different applications all running with a huge cache, and the same behavior.... when memory usage is low, all 5 applications prepare a huge cache -- their huge cache causes the total memory free to drop, eventually to 1MB... now, suddenly, all 5 applications will use a bit of CPU time proactively freeing up large swaths of cache -- CPU will be 100% running for a couple seconds, as processes adjust their memory.
After all 5 apps reduce their huge caches, suddenly there will now be a lot of memory free --- so much memory free, that one or more of the applications might immediately see an opportunity for increased caching.
So what mechanism will protect fairness? Each application will believe its cache is important, but who's to say one of the applications isn't more important to the user, or having more requests more frequently made of it (so that the user's performance will best if application X's cache is bigger versus application Y).
There seems a fundamental weakness here, involving each application trying to make their own memory management decisions about cache --- the application making the decision to expand its cache may be the one the user cares about the least, and the one whose cache is the least useful.
The OS is in a position to make decisions and mediate in regards to the working set needs of processes, and the user's actual usage patterns. The OS knows which running process makes the most demand of its cache -- the other processes don't know much about each other.
Because it might worth few bucks to typically host the site in a server farm located in Kazakhstan and than redirect everyone to the international site. This way, they won't lose their domain and will fill the government demands.
That might be exactly what they're doing... a cursory DNS examination of google.kz reveals the following:
google.kz has address 212.154.168.243
212.154.168.243 reverse resolves: 243.160.154.212.in-addr.arpa PTR 212.154.160.243.adsl.online.kz.
The '212.154.168.243' IP address is listed in RIPE WHOIS with country 'KZ'
<Watson> Please approach and step up and walk into the mechanization booth on your right; don't worry, you won't feel a thing. The replacement of your biological components with mechanical ones is really quite painless.
Please don't resist. If you fight, I am afraid, the orderly will have to carry you, and you may need to go through additional time consuming reprogramming after your brain is mechanized.
"Think crime doesn't pay? Think again: an increasingly common sight on underground cybercrime forums are ads paid for by malware writers who are looking to hire talented new programmers. .... Salaries range from $2,000 to $5,000 monthly, health benefits not included."
That is really really low... considering the risk on taking on such a job. Even at the high end, that's $60,000 a year.
For most software engineering jobs, entry level salaries start higher, include the health benefits, don't have the risk of going to jail, or stigma associated with writing malware, and they provide solid references for future work. That looks like a typical predatory job ad trying to hire "talented" programmers at rates that would make even non-talented programmers scoff.
Yeah, I still think crime doesn't pay.
he or she may hire folks who have no idea what their job is .... passing questions along to others with more technical abilities, or to their contacts at the various hardware and software vendors. People like these populate many consulting companies. They rely almost completely on contractors to perform the actual work
Passing questions along to others can get the job done. If they get the job done, on time, and within budget, what more could you ask? In the business world, there are usually no special brownie points, for being smart and using your own brain to solve a problem/answering a question quickly, versus being clever, and leveraging other people's brains to get the same task accomplished.
Who cares if they wasted a software vendor's time with dumb questions (other than the software vendor)? The exorbitant support fees probably covered that anyways --- on second thought, perhaps this explains why hardware/software support fees are often so exorbitant nowadays.......... clueless end user employees priced into the contracts up front when you buy hardware/software? Ack.
I think passing the questions on to the right person and responding to them, kind of proves they do have some knowledge of what the IT job is. A good IT worker is one who does ask the questions to learn things, rather than proceeding as if they knew something (when they do not)
Not every IT worker is necessarily supposed to be a technical guru who personally knows the answer to every question asked of them. Now knowing who to pass what kind of question on, and what question(s) to ask of the other person or contracter, that can require some more serious brain power.
If you're hired to do a technical job, that means you do the technical job. If you don't know how to do it, you either get training, or ask when things come up you do not understand.
Yes. People who have the technical knowledge are more apt and will be more efficient. It doesn't mean, though, that for example, someone who never adminned a mail server cannot be the mail server admin.
They will just have to be learning the hard way, and possibly spending a lot of time learning from vendors.
If go on vacation, quit or get hit by a bus he, and the company, are going to be in a world of hurt.
Time for you to push a little, it sounds like. Everyone gets sick sometimes -- next time it happens, call in sick, and let him be in a "world of hurt" for a day or so, don't be a dick about it, just make yourself completely available.
The world will go on a day or two without you, trust me. And if he really is in a world of hurt, perhaps the level of respect for you will increase.
It will help provide some evidence for you to use later to persuade that the company needs a backup plan.
You should take a vacation as well; ultimately, it is essential that you take some sort vacation eventually. His failure to have a backup is a management problem, providing you have taken all efforts to have a backup in place, and any failure to put a plan in place was not slacking on your part.
But the disciplines of Mathematics and Engineering existed long before Alfred Nobel's lifetime, it was different from physics; and IT/Computer Science is basically an application of Mathematics and Physics combined.
How come there's a Nobel prize in Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine, but no Nobel prize in Mathematics or Engineering?
Now I'll have to wait for ver 1.1 of http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8a2f/ [thinkgeek.com]
If element discoveries keep going at the current rate, in 20 or 30 years, a shower curtain won't be large enough for all the elements to fit, and still have readable type <G>
Perhaps a linoleum floor version of the table?
I'm still waiting on a high numbered inexpensively-manufactured element that has a short half life and quickly decays into non-radioactive gold and silver, chemically, atomically indistinguishable from the stuff we mine :-)
For hosting an IPv6 version of your site in parallel with your IPv4 only hosting.
Also useful for testing purposes.
This is useful if the price is right, and your existing hosting provider does not support IPv6. Nothing requires you to turn off your IPv4 site, in order to host an IPv6-only version of it somewhere else :-)
Before i ask a judge to file a restraining order against a student, with the purpose of keeping him away from school, wouldn't it be more appropriate to first ask him to remove the content and then suspend him?
The 'then suspend him' is what I take issue with.
The restraining order is the recourse if the student is non-cooperative.
The school can and should have asked the student to take down the content as soon as they became aware of it; i'm referring to 'restraining order' as their further recourse against the student for content that they posted about another student that has nothing to do with them being on campus.
Disputes are to be mediated by the courts; that is the purpose of the courts. Attempting to suspend a student based on their actions off school that have nothing to do with their behavior as a student of the school, is merely an abuse of power by staff.
It's kind of like you posted something negative on FB about someone who happens to be a police officer; the posting has nothing to do with what he does as a police officer, you just think he's an asshole. He sees your posting one day, and immediately drives to your house, and arrests you on charges of interfering with police business, suspends your license, and sentences you to 5 years in prison, without bringing you before a court.
Whether student behavior should be suspendable.... A good test is: if the student doesn't even have to continue to attend that school to continue that behavior and continue that specific offense, then it's totally off campus, and after measures such as asking the student to take down content, or warning the student they will have to pursue recourse under the law, if they continue behavior, then restraining order should be their recourse, and not deciding to suspend on their own.
A judge's review of the matter, the request for restraining order, will consider the merits, and things like what course of action is the least harm. The judge can even order the student to take down materials, which the school has no authority to enforce (Even if the school suspends the student, it does not force the student to remove any materials).
The difference between Judge's suspension and School's suspension, is a Judge's opinion will be objective and supporting of the rights of all involved.
If convicted of a crime? No there should be no other state punishments for a crime besides what the courts impose.
Eh? You mean there should be no other state punishments for crime besides what the legislature imposes, right?
There are plenty of consequences for being convicted of a crime other than the sentence. If you suggest there being none, you're quite unrealistic. Society has already deemed otherwise for the protection of the public, and schools for children are certainly no place for criminals to be allowed.
For example:
Loss/more limited flight/passport privileges -- In the US, security checks are performed on passengers; if you have ever been convicted of a crime, you may be ineligible to fly, or you may experience more rigorous security checks. Other countries you might want to visit can refuse you on the basis of the conviction.
Ineligibility to obtain a drivers license -- in many states, conviction of a crime, or certain crimes (even not related to operation of a vehicle) will result in revokation of drivers license and possibly ineligibility or further obtaining one -- the license may have more restrictions. Prisoners are ineligible for a driver's license/ID during their jail sentence, of course; the convict will have to secure transportation after release with them not driving -- if they ever want to try to get a new one, they'll have to take all the driving tests over again, and get rules laid upon them such as "Travel between home and work, only".
Gun laws for people convicted of a crime -- once convicted of a crime punishable by prison 1 year or longer [whether charged as felony or misdemeanor], it is no longer legal to own a gun, for the rest of your life; mere possession of a gun [or ammunition] would be against US federal law.
Election laws --- if ever convicted of a felony, you lose the right to vote or enter within a few hundred feet of a polling area, for the rest of your life.
Laws regarding public office -- You are also permanently ineligible for holding any elected position, such as governor, state representative, district attorney, mayor, judge, city council member, elector, senator, president, etc
Employment laws -- if ever convicted of a crime, and your employer asks, you have to tell them about it. For the most part, you become ineligible for any state jobs of significance. Chances are you cannot get a job in the private sector, either.
Sex offender registration laws --- if ever convicted of a sex-related crime, for example: urinating in public. For the rest of your life, you must enter your name in a sex offender registry, and everyone who lives nearby you will be informed that you are a potentially dangerous sex offender/predator, and your street address (for their convenience, in harassing you / threatening you / attempting to get you out of their community).
Apparently petitions are also banned by the cryptofascists who run this school.
Maybe time to start a Slashdot.org petition and letter writing, and phone complaint campaign....
Dear. Principal XXX XXXX
Please kindly reinstate Mr. Christie, apologize to this person, and compensate him for the unjust misbehavior of you and your school, and immoral suppression of expression.
Regards,
The very irritated intellectual community you have angered.
Maybe. If they gave the police a false statement about the student, some school employee(s) might be going to jail.....
For example: contacting or ridiculing teachers in an inappropriate way (yes, these are employees and they have rights), the same for students (nobody should be forced to sit besides somebody bullying him at facebook, and if school is the primary contact for this person suspension is the right thing to do).
No. The right thing to do is to file a formal complaint, against the student, and get a judge to issue a restraining order.
Any involvement of the school is only incidental, if there is no action happening on campus to punish. Of course, the victim can also confront the student on campus, and let the bully implicate themselves on campus, with FB page contents to be used as evidence.
Where and how can I get that ?
Since (I don't believe) sane private companies ever do that -- private companies usually permanent fire, anyways; suspensions are rare, except for senior staff. I would look for a cushy government job.
Look for one of the positions that most commonly gets suspended with pay for purely political reasons, but rarely fired.
I don't have the statistics, but i'm sure there are some surveys showing statistically most-suspended with-pay state/federal government employee positions.
Permanently suspended from work with pay doesn't sound too bad.
As long as you don't have an exclusive contract that prevents you from starting your own business or taking on other jobs while suspended, it could be a decent position to be in.
Otherwise, it could be boring as hell.
a) Work extra hard in his free time to study the topic enough to understand them
Except, being suspended is a massive increase in free time, and he probably has the internet available. In this day and age, a motivated individual can educate themselves, pretty well, I think.. as long as they have something like a basic outline of what they're supposed to learn/read up on.
If sufficiently motivated, he could get way ahead of his class and still have a hell of a lot more free time to do whatever he wants.
I wonder what the students' parents think of this, however. Of course if his parents ground him and take away his internet/going-out privileges needed to visit the library, as punishment for his suspension, he'll be falling behind.
The fact that a teacher participated actively in one video will destroy any remaining chance they might have had.)
I'd be very worried if I were that teacher right now. They suspended a student.... who says they won't suspend the teacher who participated yet, to make an example of the teacher, emphasize their disapproval, and dig their head further into their Streissand-effect hole in the sand?
My school did not allow me to smoke within 5KM of the school. I told them that I lived within 5KM of the school AND I was allowed to smoke by my parents.
If under 18 and your parents allow you to smoke and provide the cigarettes; the smoking is legal.
The school has no right to regulate the use of private property within 5KM of the school, unless they are buying all that property.
This could interfere with business relationships between students and private clubs/stores within 5KM where students otherwise congregate/socialize. I believe, if it were to happen, the school could be sued over such a policy, by any restaurants within 5KM where smoking students stopped visiting to have a smoke and a meal, for the act of Tortious interference with business relationships.
I think its the idea that since you're spending most of your day at school, they're in charge of making you a 'good person' and not just imparting knowledge. At lower levels anyway.
There are private schools that DO say they are in charge of imparting morals into their students.
Religious schools even say they are in charge of indoctrinating and imparting religion in students.
I am in favor of these schools using their power of expression --- showing students disapproval of their actions through private disciplinary sanctions is their right.
As for students attending public schools, however, and students of private schools, except students of private schools who signed an agreement granting the school the right to oversight of off-school actions, the students' rights of expression should be absolute, and the school should only be allowed to make rules about actions on campus, or under supervision of a school employee (such as on a bus), or at school sponsored events, and the supervising employee should have to approve of or order the action at the time of the incident.
No suspending a student because they took a 5 minute video clip on a school bus, under employee supervision, when the employee did not single out the videotaping student for disciplinary action at the time the video was filmed.
Now, if a student is convicted of a crime, or placed in jail, the school should be allowed to take action for the protection of their student body. And if other students are bullied, that should also be actionable, e.g. using school directory information to get other students' phone numbers, and then making threats over the telephone.
The victimized student should be provided some complaint procedure that enables them to report the crime, and allows them to secure protection from the school, if they can prove any threats were made to them by another student, or threats were made by any other person involving the school.
But as for victimless off-campus behavior seen as distasteful, or uncouth, it should not be actionable. Especially when the school's totally unrelated.
So far he hasn't lost... they suspended him.
Think of the benefits, now he doesn't have to attend school, maybe he can go out on his own now and actually learn something without the school holding him down.
Who needs schools when you have the internet? The guy already has mastered Youtube apparently.... I call that quite some educational progress.
Puts him above the average college graduate.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
This guy probably didn't go out of his way to make his recording obvious...
He was probably holding up a smartphone, which he had pointed at the officer.
From a sufficient distance, the smart phone is still visible but looks like a little black box, that could be confused for a gun. This must have been high enough profile to upset the officer, whose life is on the line.
What we really need are super-low-profile smart phone cameras that aren't visible or look benign, even at a few hundred feet away.
Pinhole cameras embedded in clothing or sunglasses, with a base station/DVR/cell phone uploading content in real time, in the pocket, seem like a good idea.