Or you could do a citizen arrest. Basicly touch the kid say your under arrest and call the local athorities as soon as posible. This is completly acceptable in most countries including the US as a good corse of action when dealing with someone doing something illegal that you witness.
Comparing drugs to ID seems a little bit of a stretch btw.
I get what your saying but are you telling me that you can't see the screen when you play the Wii? I think the one you were playing was broken, last time I played the Wii I could see everything that was being outputted to the screen, and it didn't look that bad.
Not sure if I agree with the only a fool will want it. I think that there are plenty of apps that aren't out there for linux that would be a good candidate for wine. Of course there are apps out there that replace windows equivalent and do a good job, openoffice comes to mind. There are things out there where the linux equivalent isn't there or isn't there yet. A good example is adobe applications, yeah gimp v2 might be nice to run for me, I don't do alot of advanced stuff, but photoshop is still better. Also you have to remember gaming can be done with wine, I've used it a few times to play a round or two of counter strike, and I hear it can run other games like WOW.
It may be a crutch for some, but for others its a way to lean into linux if they have an app that they need that can't be run in linux nativly.
I agree that its not ready for the average user but maybe at some point it will be able to run most apps that arn't ported over yet that need to be run by end users.
if a lawsuite is frivolous it means that it should never gone to court in the first place. Alot of the cases that come up on court tv are not frivolous. They may be Joe Redneck wanting his cousin to give him back his trans am seat cover but its still a legitimate claim. Just because its in small claims court doesn't mean its frivolous. Remember most of these people don't even have lawyers.
probably because having a disagreement with an employee doesn't constitute firing him. Its not like the CEO told McCracken to shove off, he told him to be nicer to the advertisers. This is still a buisness and though we might not like it as well as McCracken you have to see where the CEO is coming from. He sees the advertisers as what is keeping the magazine aflot without their money subscriptions would have to go up and you would loose readership because of cost increases. Lets face it as an advertiser I don't want to be putting my ad beside a colume that just said my product was sub par.
How we see it(or at least how I see it). We look at the magazine looking for objective material. End of story. Most of use could care less about advertising unless its some new product we haven't hear of before. Usually if its a new product it will be talked about in depth in the magazine.
Did he do something wrong he pissed off the wrong guy, he rightfully didn't take his crap, cause a PR problem and it was fixed.
I can't believe you listed tourchwood and left out dr. who:( I watched 3 episodes and wasn't too impressed, maybe I should give it anouther shot.
So you have an HD-TV thats great, but you have to remember that alot of people don't have HD-TV and if your not playing an XBOX 360 on an HD-TV it levels the playing field a little bit. You also have to stop at some point and start thinking of new ways to advance a console, make it different and stand out from the rest, make it more and more real. Graphics are a big part of this but they arn't the only way to go. Motion sensors are going to be a huge part of gaming in the future, but not all games will translate to it. I think the biggest problem that pluegs a new controller system is that its over used or not used correctly, I think developers will have growing pains with the wiimote and how to use it. I don't know why nintendo didn't update the power of the wii, it may hurt it later on when titles will run on the PS3 and xbox360 but not the wii because it can't render the graphics(but only time will tell).
If someone says that if they upped the graphics on the Wii it would cost as much as a 360 or PS2 remember this, the wii is one of the few conosoles in recent years to be sold at a profit. If nintendo had sold it to break even or even loose money on the system like other manufatures did it could still sell for about the same with a few small graphics improvements. On that note as well if it is a simular model to the game cube I think you would have to face facts that manufaturing costs wouldn't go down as much as if you created a completely new system.
In the end out of the 360 and wii(the only two I've played) I much prefer the wii.
you do know it takes like 4 clicks to install wine right? It has a package manager that is hard to beat, infact its nicer than installing things on windows sometimes. Go to applications->add/remove->look for wine check it off->click apply. If thats harder than in windows I'll shoot myself in the foot. Granted thats if the repository is there.
Chances are that a user that knows about wine will know how to go through that process and set it up. Why would you setup a system with wine so that you would have users wondering why their applications are starting to install but not finishing, crashing, or just don't work after the install. If you know how to use wine thats great, if you don't know you probably should hold off on it. I'm not trying to be pompus but it can be hard to get some applications to work on it, its not the easiest tool to use(hence if you can't install it you should double think about it) and its not to the point where it works perfectly.
If I was selling a system, I wouldn't want to add something that would make it not look as good. Some people will say that not having it will make it look bad because office, some games and such won't work. I think you would be better off to go with cedega with games because theres a big database of games that work with it, its more user friendly. I wouldn't be suprised if at some point Dell doesn't cut a deal where they sell subscriptions to cedega.
Honestly people still do it, they still say I'm going to kill you for that all the time. I've said it at work, and I still work there. It comes down to some twit who honestly feals threatened. It's rediculous, he stood up and picketed sharing his feeling of scientology, should be free speech. I don't know how many people offend Chatholics a day or Muslims or so forth. Honestly I believe some jerk decided this guy needed to told to shut up and looked for some way to make him be quiet. It wasn't like he had plans to blow up the building, even if he made the joke of Tom Cruise missles(which is funny). If anything he felt threatend by Scientology because they were not being in his mind properly investigated for the death of said person. His fear is more substantial and yet hes the one going to court.
If it is a California law it should be deemed un-constitutional to be used in this case.
What Lucas did when he was younger was pure gold. I have seen alot of his movies when I was younger not knowing that they were his movies and thinking it was awsome. I grew up with Lucas. I don't know what happend, maybe he tried to do for the current generation what he did for my generation, and couldn't quite figure it out. I find it sad in one comment that he said he would no longer make films after Indy 4. I think Lucas just needs to develop a new story for a new generation instead of trying to adapt an old story to a new geration.
Honestly if you put the three episodes up by themselves and didn't call them star wars they would be pretty good. Not epic like the original ones or his other movies, but still watchable. I found the hardest part in watching the new movies was that he ruined my love for the original ones. It was okay it grew back and now I think I could even watch them and be okay. Lucas has changed over the years as any director should, so he changed the story a bit. He probably shouldn't have changed his own creations though, because like I said they were gold.
Britney Spears music is composed in a studio writen and synthasized by other people and machines, it should be more or less called the Britney Spears project and the people in the studio should be the ones taking credit for her work. Paris Hilton inherited her money and it shows, shes a snob who would rather people just love her because shes rich. At least thats the impression I get.
Britney herself is a sad story, I don't know if shes ever had her own life, now she doesn't know what to do. I can't blame her for whats happend in the last couple years, shes basicly acting out against her career. Mickey mouse Club all that junk maybe was her idea at one time, but I don't know if she was ever alowed to grow into her own person and now shes trying to. I think she will figure it out in the end.
fair enough locking yourself in is not the smartest thing to do. Typically theres a backdoor that the employee would know about and be able to leave so whats the point anyways. The point that the parent was trying to make is that your likening the clerks actions to a police officer. While the officer is allowed to take your illegal document or other such things, that doesn't give said person the same rights. I would like you to quote me where this is stated in a federal law(state laws very too much). The parent is also right, you keep saying that is like calling the cops about someone stealing your drugs, first of all if you called the cops and told them who stole your drugs the person who stole them would be going to jail as well. Secondly the story strongly implies that the ID was not fake and that is why he called the cops making the store clerk a theif.
The point the original poster was saying was that what right does a store clerk have to confenscate illegal property and keep it for themselves. thats like saying to your buddy, hey I see your smoking pot you better let me confenscate it. Thats not freaking legal either, but in this case we are talking about something that was his that was not fake.
As for locking the store door it might be considered a kind of citizen arrest.
All states other than North Carolina permit citizen arrests if a felony crime is witnessed by the citizen carrying out the arrest, or when a citizen is asked to help apprehend a suspect by the police. The application of state laws varies widely with respect to misdemeanor crimes, breaches of the peace, and felonies not witnessed by the arresting party. Note particularly that American citizens do not have the authorities or the legal protections of the police, and are strictly liable before both the civil law and criminal law for any violation of the rights of another.[6] In the United States, the police do not have to determine the legality of the citizens arrest and this practice has been greatly criticized
I always watch this UK show called Top Gear, and they are always making fun of the Prius for not having better fuel economy than a Diesel car. From what I gather its not hybrid cars in general that have a problem is the Prius its self that is not a very good hybrid car, it is also quite common.
This is all second hand from a show that would rather you have 10mpg and go 250mph than a car that could go 100mpg and 100mph.
But I'm sure if this is a myth it started with that or shows like it. It is a good show though you should check it out.
I hate doing this, as I agree that its stupid to think everything could be a bomb, but your statement of when was the last subway or bridge bombed in the USA is poor. I bet people were saying the same thing about planes flying into the twin towers if it was brought up. I think this whole thing is blown out of proportion and this bill only stands to hurt people not benifit them.
The people that were going out putting up the mooninites signs were not doing so on the idea of terrorism or trying to scare people. The mooninites are pixilated charaters, so a light bright type thing works great for it. Did the city of Boston over react? Of corse it did, but did they take improper actions? Probably not. Maybe in the future there should be a large fine for not getting something like this sanctioned so that when the police are notified they can be like, oh its an ad campaign. To give out jail sentances on an arbitrary idea that something may or maynot be a bomb depending on what you think is stupid.
This bill makes it so that if forget your homemade computer(I've built computers when I was in school that look like bombs had wire wrapping and a red LCD the kind you see on bombs in the movies) on a park bench and some jackass opens it and calls the bomb squad, the city can sue you and you may get a prison sentance? Sounds like a pretty shitty deal for being forgetfull.
Interestingly I was reading a few articals today on Reiser as I hadn't heard much about him lately and came across a few stories on this. The man that is said to have confessed says that he had nothing to do with Nina Reiser and that the person who is responsible for her disappearance should take responsabilty. He also is sorry that his actions have interfeared with the Reiser case. On further reading of articals on news.google I found that Nina was his boyfriend for awhile, but that she broke off the relationship.
Besides being a killer, he does sound pretty honest about not having anything to do with Nina. It may be used by the defence to put some cloud of doubt over the jury, but I don't think he was involved. Though I could be mistaken(not like I know all of the evidence)
I think your point of view is correct, but we can agree in practice that the soliers do not have the same rights. One of the things that soldiers are used to is obaying orders, technically this is just a new order and the current as well as the new soldiers should be expected to obay it.
I do have one point, that civilians have rights. When you are in the army are you a civilian? When you get home and are no longer on the job you are. Then you can write to your hearts content. If you do something while in the army(correct me if I'm wrong) don't you usually face a military trial not a civilian trial?
This is because laws and such in an army are different if I'm correct(once again correct me if I'm wrong) so normal rights and privilages do not apply. Like quiting the day before an attack. You could be court marshalled or what ever they do. If you quit your job the day before a presentation thats no big deal. The stakes and such are different in the army and you are subject to different laws and standards. You can't shoot your enemy at work, if you do you could go to jail. Rights in the army are backwards, and for good reason.
If you don't agree with it you probably shouldn't have signed up. If your signed up you do your job and write about it and protest when your done. If your really worried you face court. The options aren't plesant but neither is war.
It's a good thing I'm not one then. I'm sorry if that sentence didn't come out right. I was saying English teachers in general receiving a paper from someone can be and insight into someone.
It's pretty bad when your going through Slashdot looking for spelling and grammar mistakes. You seem pretty upset about my spelling. I'll try harder next time.;)
Once again sorry for the confusion about me being an English teacher(which I am not). Spelling was never my forte and I didn't have my Firefox spell checker at work.
Even so the beauty about the way a democracy works is that laws can be changed you proved that. The law was created, mostly for the wrong reasons(in regards to hemp) but also because it harmed the populace. If a majority of people wanted it legalized, then it would probably be legal. The majority of people that vote you have to remember are seniors, they have been taught that its bad. Maybe in the next 20 years you will see reforms on this issue.
The sad part about any government is that they usually have lobbist that infuence change. This is a big problem for any democratic system, laws can be instituted without the peoples consent. This still doesn't take away from it being a free country because you still have the freedom to take the position in government and change those laws back. Of course this isn't always the option, but like I said a country is never free from all laws, anarchy is the result. Freedom is the ability to institute change, and even with the current government in the states I still believe that can be done.
I agree with you, a teacher being concerned should be taken seriously. As an english teacher receiving a paper from someone can be an insite into someone. The teacher probably has seen hundreds of papers with a simular topic to write about so having one be concerning is a warning flag.
Now the warning flag goes off you don't go have a meeting about disaplinary actions. You have a meeting with the school counceler. You get the student help, if help is refused then you might want to seek some other means to communicate with the student or talk to the parents. If this doesn't work then maybe escalate it higher.
It sounds like the student in this case was not even told about the concerns in the paper, I'm sure this has to do with the recent school shooting. I mean a school teacher felt there was something wrong and had them removed. Good decision, at that point there is no need to involve the police because someone is disturbed. No one was specificly threatened in this case. But the student wasn't even talked to, he was just treated as a criminal.
Its a sad day indeed. If your writing your personal feelings and handing them in I believe that you are reaching out. The teacher pulled away from the student and betrayed them. Thats the saddest thing you could do. Giving the student some one on one time might have been all he needed. I'm sure that there are millions of students that have gone out and wrote things that could be taken the same way this one was. Only a small percentage of that percentage ever escalate their fealings in the real world. Most of those might have been able to get help if the person reached out to them.
Wow thats an interesting thought. Direct contact with insecticides may not harm a bee but make them more vulnerable to other things. Thats a good questions, I wish I knew more about it. I would like to think that it was just a more wide spread disease. Hopefully they will do some research into your theory, I believe it has merit.
On that note I'm no scientist and biology isn't my forte.
I agree, fungi parasites and disease have caused coloney collapse before. I do agree that they should have gone through all the claims such as cell phone usage to make sure they figured it out. I never believed that was the reason(this has happend in other years with less deaths) and I'm glad they found out what it was(I got the impression be farmers who have experianced this before figured it would be something like this). The media jumped on board with the cell phone usage and I think I read a couple articals on google news that even outright said it was cellphones.
Fact finding. Find a fact that you like run with it. Oh how I miss the day when they did research:(
On your first point of who you can marry (this comes from wikipedia)" Massachusetts has recognized same-sex marriage since 2004. Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey and California have created legal unions that, while not called marriages, are explicitly defined as offering all the rights and responsibilities of marriage under state law to same-sex couples. Maine, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and Washington have created legal unions for same-sex couples that offer varying subsets of the rights and responsibilities of marriage under the laws of those jurisdictions." The united states are not stopping you from same sex marriage your state is.
On your second point the coca plant can make cocain so your saying it should be un regulated. Now your probably talking about marijuana, this is highly debatable topic. marijuana is thought be used for medical treatment, but it is also a drug. Drugs in general have to go through testing and FDA approval before they can be sold. Now there are alot of people that will not alow that to happen but i'll talk more on this point later.
on your third point I'm assuming this is directly related to point 2 so I'm guessing you like some substance that comes from plants;) talk more on that later.
On your third point of dress, I have seen some skimpy dress so I wouldn't say its a matter of how you dress unless its your work or your school which you have the freedom to quit and go somewhere else. Now to if you should wear cloths at all. It is true that you could get a fine or worse if you go naked down the street. This is because as well as your own freedom other people shouldn't have to suffer from seing your naked body go down the street. As well as being a free country the US is also a country based on religion(though religion and state shouldn't be mixed they are) and it is known that this should be wrong. I'll get more to this later as well when I talk about freedom and country.
Onto point five this like your first point is actually legal in some countys of Nevada. Meaning its not a US thing its a state thing. In Rhode Island it is not illegal to take money for sex as long as its not solicitated at a brothel or on the street(taken from wiki as well). So this point is invalid when stating the country wouldn't let you do that. Your state just follows the norm.
As for your last point on travel, theres not much I can say there. Your country is arguing with theirs so they won't let you go directly. On that note they aren't going to arrest you if you have traveled there and came back. They won't deny you to go to cuba you just can't leave from the US to get there. It is completely legal for you(if your an american well or anybody) to go to Cuba. Also you may be permited to go to cuba is you have a special license that you obtain. As far as I know(I only know of cuba) this is the case with most countries.
Now onto my point of freedom. Freedom is a term used with the united states I'm going to break everything that I have said and say that the United States is not a free country. No country is completly free. Free of rules laws that would be just crazy. Your free to talk about those rules and laws. To bring them to your government and get them changed. You want to walk around naked take it up with your congresmen. Tell them I believe that I am being injusticed by this. This is how laws are made in the states. You can run for congres you can vote differently in the next election. The truth is though your country is as free as the person beside you lets it be. A country can't have a rule that will hard its population thats just not sane. If the majority disagree whole heartily about something it will most likely eventually be changed. If you country was not free in the term that its used in. There would be no avenue for change except revolution, which by the constitution it seems to be an option as well. The truth is that you need to have people in government that understands the people and that is usually
I was thinking in particular with batman. Besides celebrating someones death isn't nessasrily bad. Its the I'll piss on his grave and stuff like that. Hell the irish when someone dies have a big party(when its a close friend). I have read Homer and Tolkien most of the time they arn't being disrespectful when celebrating, I believe in tolkiens they are celebrating freedom and honoring the victors, not trying to piss on the enemy. Who at one time was a great and wise man.
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Or you could do a citizen arrest. Basicly touch the kid say your under arrest and call the local athorities as soon as posible. This is completly acceptable in most countries including the US as a good corse of action when dealing with someone doing something illegal that you witness.
Comparing drugs to ID seems a little bit of a stretch btw.
I get what your saying but are you telling me that you can't see the screen when you play the Wii? I think the one you were playing was broken, last time I played the Wii I could see everything that was being outputted to the screen, and it didn't look that bad.
Not sure if I agree with the only a fool will want it. I think that there are plenty of apps that aren't out there for linux that would be a good candidate for wine. Of course there are apps out there that replace windows equivalent and do a good job, openoffice comes to mind. There are things out there where the linux equivalent isn't there or isn't there yet. A good example is adobe applications, yeah gimp v2 might be nice to run for me, I don't do alot of advanced stuff, but photoshop is still better. Also you have to remember gaming can be done with wine, I've used it a few times to play a round or two of counter strike, and I hear it can run other games like WOW.
It may be a crutch for some, but for others its a way to lean into linux if they have an app that they need that can't be run in linux nativly.
I agree that its not ready for the average user but maybe at some point it will be able to run most apps that arn't ported over yet that need to be run by end users.
if a lawsuite is frivolous it means that it should never gone to court in the first place. Alot of the cases that come up on court tv are not frivolous. They may be Joe Redneck wanting his cousin to give him back his trans am seat cover but its still a legitimate claim. Just because its in small claims court doesn't mean its frivolous. Remember most of these people don't even have lawyers.
I know you were kidding around I'm just bored.
probably because having a disagreement with an employee doesn't constitute firing him. Its not like the CEO told McCracken to shove off, he told him to be nicer to the advertisers. This is still a buisness and though we might not like it as well as McCracken you have to see where the CEO is coming from. He sees the advertisers as what is keeping the magazine aflot without their money subscriptions would have to go up and you would loose readership because of cost increases. Lets face it as an advertiser I don't want to be putting my ad beside a colume that just said my product was sub par.
How we see it(or at least how I see it). We look at the magazine looking for objective material. End of story. Most of use could care less about advertising unless its some new product we haven't hear of before. Usually if its a new product it will be talked about in depth in the magazine.
Did he do something wrong he pissed off the wrong guy, he rightfully didn't take his crap, cause a PR problem and it was fixed.
I can't believe you listed tourchwood and left out dr. who :( I watched 3 episodes and wasn't too impressed, maybe I should give it anouther shot.
So you have an HD-TV thats great, but you have to remember that alot of people don't have HD-TV and if your not playing an XBOX 360 on an HD-TV it levels the playing field a little bit. You also have to stop at some point and start thinking of new ways to advance a console, make it different and stand out from the rest, make it more and more real. Graphics are a big part of this but they arn't the only way to go. Motion sensors are going to be a huge part of gaming in the future, but not all games will translate to it. I think the biggest problem that pluegs a new controller system is that its over used or not used correctly, I think developers will have growing pains with the wiimote and how to use it. I don't know why nintendo didn't update the power of the wii, it may hurt it later on when titles will run on the PS3 and xbox360 but not the wii because it can't render the graphics(but only time will tell).
If someone says that if they upped the graphics on the Wii it would cost as much as a 360 or PS2 remember this, the wii is one of the few conosoles in recent years to be sold at a profit. If nintendo had sold it to break even or even loose money on the system like other manufatures did it could still sell for about the same with a few small graphics improvements. On that note as well if it is a simular model to the game cube I think you would have to face facts that manufaturing costs wouldn't go down as much as if you created a completely new system.
In the end out of the 360 and wii(the only two I've played) I much prefer the wii.
you do know it takes like 4 clicks to install wine right? It has a package manager that is hard to beat, infact its nicer than installing things on windows sometimes. Go to applications->add/remove->look for wine check it off->click apply. If thats harder than in windows I'll shoot myself in the foot. Granted thats if the repository is there.
Chances are that a user that knows about wine will know how to go through that process and set it up. Why would you setup a system with wine so that you would have users wondering why their applications are starting to install but not finishing, crashing, or just don't work after the install. If you know how to use wine thats great, if you don't know you probably should hold off on it. I'm not trying to be pompus but it can be hard to get some applications to work on it, its not the easiest tool to use(hence if you can't install it you should double think about it) and its not to the point where it works perfectly.
If I was selling a system, I wouldn't want to add something that would make it not look as good. Some people will say that not having it will make it look bad because office, some games and such won't work. I think you would be better off to go with cedega with games because theres a big database of games that work with it, its more user friendly. I wouldn't be suprised if at some point Dell doesn't cut a deal where they sell subscriptions to cedega.
check out the synaptic package manager http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
Either way good call.
Honestly people still do it, they still say I'm going to kill you for that all the time. I've said it at work, and I still work there. It comes down to some twit who honestly feals threatened. It's rediculous, he stood up and picketed sharing his feeling of scientology, should be free speech. I don't know how many people offend Chatholics a day or Muslims or so forth. Honestly I believe some jerk decided this guy needed to told to shut up and looked for some way to make him be quiet. It wasn't like he had plans to blow up the building, even if he made the joke of Tom Cruise missles(which is funny). If anything he felt threatend by Scientology because they were not being in his mind properly investigated for the death of said person. His fear is more substantial and yet hes the one going to court.
If it is a California law it should be deemed un-constitutional to be used in this case.
What Lucas did when he was younger was pure gold. I have seen alot of his movies when I was younger not knowing that they were his movies and thinking it was awsome. I grew up with Lucas. I don't know what happend, maybe he tried to do for the current generation what he did for my generation, and couldn't quite figure it out. I find it sad in one comment that he said he would no longer make films after Indy 4. I think Lucas just needs to develop a new story for a new generation instead of trying to adapt an old story to a new geration.
Honestly if you put the three episodes up by themselves and didn't call them star wars they would be pretty good. Not epic like the original ones or his other movies, but still watchable. I found the hardest part in watching the new movies was that he ruined my love for the original ones. It was okay it grew back and now I think I could even watch them and be okay. Lucas has changed over the years as any director should, so he changed the story a bit. He probably shouldn't have changed his own creations though, because like I said they were gold.
Britney Spears music is composed in a studio writen and synthasized by other people and machines, it should be more or less called the Britney Spears project and the people in the studio should be the ones taking credit for her work. Paris Hilton inherited her money and it shows, shes a snob who would rather people just love her because shes rich. At least thats the impression I get.
Britney herself is a sad story, I don't know if shes ever had her own life, now she doesn't know what to do. I can't blame her for whats happend in the last couple years, shes basicly acting out against her career. Mickey mouse Club all that junk maybe was her idea at one time, but I don't know if she was ever alowed to grow into her own person and now shes trying to. I think she will figure it out in the end.
The point the original poster was saying was that what right does a store clerk have to confenscate illegal property and keep it for themselves. thats like saying to your buddy, hey I see your smoking pot you better let me confenscate it. Thats not freaking legal either, but in this case we are talking about something that was his that was not fake.
As for locking the store door it might be considered a kind of citizen arrest. wiki
I always watch this UK show called Top Gear, and they are always making fun of the Prius for not having better fuel economy than a Diesel car. From what I gather its not hybrid cars in general that have a problem is the Prius its self that is not a very good hybrid car, it is also quite common.
This is all second hand from a show that would rather you have 10mpg and go 250mph than a car that could go 100mpg and 100mph.
But I'm sure if this is a myth it started with that or shows like it. It is a good show though you should check it out.
I hate doing this, as I agree that its stupid to think everything could be a bomb, but your statement of when was the last subway or bridge bombed in the USA is poor. I bet people were saying the same thing about planes flying into the twin towers if it was brought up. I think this whole thing is blown out of proportion and this bill only stands to hurt people not benifit them.
The people that were going out putting up the mooninites signs were not doing so on the idea of terrorism or trying to scare people. The mooninites are pixilated charaters, so a light bright type thing works great for it. Did the city of Boston over react? Of corse it did, but did they take improper actions? Probably not. Maybe in the future there should be a large fine for not getting something like this sanctioned so that when the police are notified they can be like, oh its an ad campaign. To give out jail sentances on an arbitrary idea that something may or maynot be a bomb depending on what you think is stupid.
This bill makes it so that if forget your homemade computer(I've built computers when I was in school that look like bombs had wire wrapping and a red LCD the kind you see on bombs in the movies) on a park bench and some jackass opens it and calls the bomb squad, the city can sue you and you may get a prison sentance? Sounds like a pretty shitty deal for being forgetfull.
Interestingly I was reading a few articals today on Reiser as I hadn't heard much about him lately and came across a few stories on this. The man that is said to have confessed says that he had nothing to do with Nina Reiser and that the person who is responsible for her disappearance should take responsabilty. He also is sorry that his actions have interfeared with the Reiser case. On further reading of articals on news.google I found that Nina was his boyfriend for awhile, but that she broke off the relationship.
Besides being a killer, he does sound pretty honest about not having anything to do with Nina. It may be used by the defence to put some cloud of doubt over the jury, but I don't think he was involved. Though I could be mistaken(not like I know all of the evidence)
I wonder how many hate emails he gets a day, and the relation with fan mail.
I think your point of view is correct, but we can agree in practice that the soliers do not have the same rights. One of the things that soldiers are used to is obaying orders, technically this is just a new order and the current as well as the new soldiers should be expected to obay it.
I do have one point, that civilians have rights. When you are in the army are you a civilian? When you get home and are no longer on the job you are. Then you can write to your hearts content. If you do something while in the army(correct me if I'm wrong) don't you usually face a military trial not a civilian trial?
This is because laws and such in an army are different if I'm correct(once again correct me if I'm wrong) so normal rights and privilages do not apply. Like quiting the day before an attack. You could be court marshalled or what ever they do. If you quit your job the day before a presentation thats no big deal. The stakes and such are different in the army and you are subject to different laws and standards. You can't shoot your enemy at work, if you do you could go to jail. Rights in the army are backwards, and for good reason.
If you don't agree with it you probably shouldn't have signed up. If your signed up you do your job and write about it and protest when your done. If your really worried you face court. The options aren't plesant but neither is war.
I figured as much, I just felt like bugging you.
It's a good thing I'm not one then. I'm sorry if that sentence didn't come out right. I was saying English teachers in general receiving a paper from someone can be and insight into someone.
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It's pretty bad when your going through Slashdot looking for spelling and grammar mistakes. You seem pretty upset about my spelling. I'll try harder next time.
Once again sorry for the confusion about me being an English teacher(which I am not). Spelling was never my forte and I didn't have my Firefox spell checker at work.
Even so the beauty about the way a democracy works is that laws can be changed you proved that. The law was created, mostly for the wrong reasons(in regards to hemp) but also because it harmed the populace. If a majority of people wanted it legalized, then it would probably be legal. The majority of people that vote you have to remember are seniors, they have been taught that its bad. Maybe in the next 20 years you will see reforms on this issue.
The sad part about any government is that they usually have lobbist that infuence change. This is a big problem for any democratic system, laws can be instituted without the peoples consent. This still doesn't take away from it being a free country because you still have the freedom to take the position in government and change those laws back. Of course this isn't always the option, but like I said a country is never free from all laws, anarchy is the result. Freedom is the ability to institute change, and even with the current government in the states I still believe that can be done.
P.S. I'm not an American.
I agree with you, a teacher being concerned should be taken seriously. As an english teacher receiving a paper from someone can be an insite into someone. The teacher probably has seen hundreds of papers with a simular topic to write about so having one be concerning is a warning flag.
Now the warning flag goes off you don't go have a meeting about disaplinary actions. You have a meeting with the school counceler. You get the student help, if help is refused then you might want to seek some other means to communicate with the student or talk to the parents. If this doesn't work then maybe escalate it higher.
It sounds like the student in this case was not even told about the concerns in the paper, I'm sure this has to do with the recent school shooting. I mean a school teacher felt there was something wrong and had them removed. Good decision, at that point there is no need to involve the police because someone is disturbed. No one was specificly threatened in this case. But the student wasn't even talked to, he was just treated as a criminal.
Its a sad day indeed.
If your writing your personal feelings and handing them in I believe that you are reaching out. The teacher pulled away from the student and betrayed them. Thats the saddest thing you could do. Giving the student some one on one time might have been all he needed. I'm sure that there are millions of students that have gone out and wrote things that could be taken the same way this one was. Only a small percentage of that percentage ever escalate their fealings in the real world. Most of those might have been able to get help if the person reached out to them.
Wow thats an interesting thought. Direct contact with insecticides may not harm a bee but make them more vulnerable to other things. Thats a good questions, I wish I knew more about it. I would like to think that it was just a more wide spread disease. Hopefully they will do some research into your theory, I believe it has merit.
On that note I'm no scientist and biology isn't my forte.
I agree, fungi parasites and disease have caused coloney collapse before. I do agree that they should have gone through all the claims such as cell phone usage to make sure they figured it out. I never believed that was the reason(this has happend in other years with less deaths) and I'm glad they found out what it was(I got the impression be farmers who have experianced this before figured it would be something like this). The media jumped on board with the cell phone usage and I think I read a couple articals on google news that even outright said it was cellphones.
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Fact finding. Find a fact that you like run with it. Oh how I miss the day when they did research
On your first point of who you can marry (this comes from wikipedia)" Massachusetts has recognized same-sex marriage since 2004. Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey and California have created legal unions that, while not called marriages, are explicitly defined as offering all the rights and responsibilities of marriage under state law to same-sex couples. Maine, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and Washington have created legal unions for same-sex couples that offer varying subsets of the rights and responsibilities of marriage under the laws of those jurisdictions."
;) talk more on that later.
The united states are not stopping you from same sex marriage your state is.
On your second point the coca plant can make cocain so your saying it should be un regulated. Now your probably talking about marijuana, this is highly debatable topic. marijuana is thought be used for medical treatment, but it is also a drug. Drugs in general have to go through testing and FDA approval before they can be sold. Now there are alot of people that will not alow that to happen but i'll talk more on this point later.
on your third point I'm assuming this is directly related to point 2 so I'm guessing you like some substance that comes from plants
On your third point of dress, I have seen some skimpy dress so I wouldn't say its a matter of how you dress unless its your work or your school which you have the freedom to quit and go somewhere else. Now to if you should wear cloths at all. It is true that you could get a fine or worse if you go naked down the street. This is because as well as your own freedom other people shouldn't have to suffer from seing your naked body go down the street. As well as being a free country the US is also a country based on religion(though religion and state shouldn't be mixed they are) and it is known that this should be wrong. I'll get more to this later as well when I talk about freedom and country.
Onto point five this like your first point is actually legal in some countys of Nevada. Meaning its not a US thing its a state thing. In Rhode Island it is not illegal to take money for sex as long as its not solicitated at a brothel or on the street(taken from wiki as well). So this point is invalid when stating the country wouldn't let you do that. Your state just follows the norm.
As for your last point on travel, theres not much I can say there. Your country is arguing with theirs so they won't let you go directly. On that note they aren't going to arrest you if you have traveled there and came back. They won't deny you to go to cuba you just can't leave from the US to get there. It is completely legal for you(if your an american well or anybody) to go to Cuba. Also you may be permited to go to cuba is you have a special license that you obtain. As far as I know(I only know of cuba) this is the case with most countries.
Now onto my point of freedom. Freedom is a term used with the united states I'm going to break everything that I have said and say that the United States is not a free country. No country is completly free. Free of rules laws that would be just crazy. Your free to talk about those rules and laws. To bring them to your government and get them changed. You want to walk around naked take it up with your congresmen. Tell them I believe that I am being injusticed by this. This is how laws are made in the states. You can run for congres you can vote differently in the next election. The truth is though your country is as free as the person beside you lets it be. A country can't have a rule that will hard its population thats just not sane. If the majority disagree whole heartily about something it will most likely eventually be changed. If you country was not free in the term that its used in. There would be no avenue for change except revolution, which by the constitution it seems to be an option as well. The truth is that you need to have people in government that understands the people and that is usually
I was thinking in particular with batman. Besides celebrating someones death isn't nessasrily bad. Its the I'll piss on his grave and stuff like that. Hell the irish when someone dies have a big party(when its a close friend). I have read Homer and Tolkien most of the time they arn't being disrespectful when celebrating, I believe in tolkiens they are celebrating freedom and honoring the victors, not trying to piss on the enemy. Who at one time was a great and wise man.