Public schools always cater to the lowest common denominator. They are more a tool for socialization than education, readying a workforce for a life of 9 to 5 conformity. I don't recall innovative thought being rewarded in school. Memorization, maybe.
Thus, the movement for home schooling. [http://www.nationalhomeschool.com/socialization.asp]
Most teachers don't want or have time to teach each child as an individual. It's not their fault. Grading and assessment alone would overwhelm them. Finding the material to challenge each student's ability individually would be impossible with given resources and mindset.
It is a tribute to our children's tenacity that so many succeed despite the public school system.
Take a look at "Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works" http://bit.ly/vOEEbt
Senator Ted Stevens described the internet as “a series of tubes;” Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina "seemed particularly comfortable about his own lack of understanding;" and Rep. Maxine Waters of California stated "any discussion of security concerns is 'wasting time' and that the bill should move forward without question."
The issue is similar to the Japanese concept of "heijunka." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_leveling Pressure for speed of production of software vs. quality of product in speed and lack of bugs demand compromise. No one will use your software if you get beat to market by the competition. No one will buy your product if it's unreliable.
I spend $100 a month for basic cable card rental and service from Time Warner Cable in NY. I spent over $400 to buy lifetime service for a new HD TiVo. There's still nothing on.
FOIA is the Freedom of Information Act first signed into law by LBJ in 1966. Various states have similar laws that allow requests of state gov't bodies as well. The Act only deals with non-Constitutionally enumerated bodies [courts, Congress and the President] and instead deals only with executive branch government agencies. There are lots, as Rick Perry can attest. ["Name 3!"]
The statute is intended to be broad in scope, with documents only excluded from a request based on specifically enumerated causes: national defense secrets, trade secrets, etc. [all are in the statute here: http://1.usa.gov/aaLL5o ]
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant” is a well-known quote from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. FOIA lets the sun shine in.
With regards to Medicare, I'd imagine (hope?) that HIPAA would trump FOIA.
The concept of "preemption" in the law is exactly that - where a state has a law and the federal government has a similar law, the fed loses to the state law [Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 US 64 1938 (certain rights are "reserved by the Constitution to the several States" and not preempted unless there is a specific Constitutional basis)].
However, the Congress has the right under the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce [which is practically everything] so can enact laws that specifically preempt State and other laws Congress has created.
HIPAA is a very strong privacy statute. Without reading the language of both you can't say for sure, but it's damn likely no one gets records protected under HIPAA from a FOIA request. Double damn sure.
Justice is to be doled out by a disinterested third party. Proportionality and scope are key in the concept. Angry mobs tend to go overboard on both.
Who gets to say who is right or wrong? In a republic, we all do when we vote for our representatives. We vote when we buy products a la Adam Smith's Invisible Hand economics. We vote when we consume internet media with ads or contribute money to causes.
I don't think Anon is wrong in what it does. There is a place in the world for rebels. Just don't glorify what they do. What they serve is not justice. It is retaliation. And that's mob rule.
The purpose is clear for retaliation: deterrence. The Torah states that punishments should deter wrongdoers in our society ("and you shall eliminate the evil from your midst," Deut. 19:19) Does hacking an organizations mail servers and exposing it's members (who may themselves have done nothing wrong) serve that purpose?
Martin Luther King, Jr. said: "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." Let the blinding begin.
True. But famous kids would stop coming home to the 'rents house for the holidays if they thought they weren't getting royalties down the road when the death rattle sounds.
Money protects money by the overwhelming use of money. If you can't afford the same legal team Yoko has scouring indie film makers for infringement, you whimper and give in right or wrong. Same with the RIAA: bow unless you have a defense team assembled.
Kids, think "breach of contract." I paid for a lifetime subscription. It included certain features. TiVo is seeking to take away one of those features from me without asking me.
No party to a contract may unilateraly change it. Even if there is a clause in the contract allowing for any change TiVo wants, the contract would be unconscionable as one of adhesion and a court would disallow it.
In other words, they probably can't legally do what they are doing. I'm sure no one will object to it, though....
Actually, they were a Norwegian punk band. Influences included The Knack, The Romantics, Jonny and the the Charged Leptons and the little known NYC band Electric Dipole Moments.
Some of their songs included "You Changed My Polarisation Asymmetrically" and the dance favorite "Boson and The Jets" which Elton John would later change slightly and catch a number one single.
The lead singer died tragically and explosively when he met his antimatter self at CBGB OMFUG in NYC on April 1, 1982.
and some scotch, wait another 3,000 years for the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf to break up some more and it will make for some dandy scotch on the rocks. Or get an ice pick. Just my 2 cents.
I own a 15" and a 17" and there is a HUGE heat difference. I've got to think a G5 will melt glass unless the good people at Apple can work miracles.
I use the 17" PB to make mirowave popcorn at the end of the day. Run more than 3 apps and browse a while on Slashdot and mmmmmmm. Buttery goodness. That's multitasking.
Beleloved ABCNews anchor Peter Jennings reports from Bagdad:
"And from the world of science, professors from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts tell us there is no need to worry about impacts from Earthbound asteroids"
I don't know if that's the point. One person negotiating a problem for himself still leaves the problem for the many that were unaware of the illegal activity.
Clearly, a company will take care of the squeaky wheel while allowing a breach of contract and deceptive trade practice to continue for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of others, if it profits from the practice.
I am a class action attorney. [Ah, yes. I feel the love in the room.] The big fees certainly are an incentive to litigate. Judges award these fees to encourage plaintiffs to bring suits and attorneys to take them on as "private attorneys general".
That's why Congress and State Legislatures enact laws with a private right of action: so that the public can enforce the law if need be. Otherwise, to fund enforcement of every AG's office would cost a fortune, more than the fees paid to the class attorney.
And since I don't get paid unless I win, I only bring suits that have merit. I would be a fool to waste my time and treasure to take a shot at a non-sure thing.
Thus, Judges have seen fees as an incentive to enforce the law, but only in cases where it is obvious the law has been broken.
Slashdot Mirror
... you've got an audience of 500 exactly like you in China. Guaranteed.
Come again? How's that? Say it slower.
Damn thing doesn't work, I can't hear a word.
Turn up the TV.
I understand the GPL issues, but I am uncomfortable giving this to the North Korean government for starters.
Public disclosure isn't always best for the public. Just saying.
Public schools always cater to the lowest common denominator. They are more a tool for socialization than education, readying a workforce for a life of 9 to 5 conformity. I don't recall innovative thought being rewarded in school. Memorization, maybe.
Thus, the movement for home schooling. [http://www.nationalhomeschool.com/socialization.asp]
Most teachers don't want or have time to teach each child as an individual. It's not their fault. Grading and assessment alone would overwhelm them. Finding the material to challenge each student's ability individually would be impossible with given resources and mindset.
It is a tribute to our children's tenacity that so many succeed despite the public school system.
Because they understand it so well.
Take a look at "Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works" http://bit.ly/vOEEbt
Senator Ted Stevens described the internet as “a series of tubes;” Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina "seemed particularly comfortable about his own lack of understanding;" and Rep. Maxine Waters of California stated "any discussion of security concerns is 'wasting time' and that the bill should move forward without question."
The issue is similar to the Japanese concept of "heijunka." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_leveling
Pressure for speed of production of software vs. quality of product in speed and lack of bugs demand compromise. No one will use your software if you get beat to market by the competition. No one will buy your product if it's unreliable.
The article says "There, the 8-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) dark-green branches of the rockrose bush conceal a radio tower painted to match."
So how come AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, etc. can't hide THEIR damn equipment.
Let's get some Mexican telecom engineers. Apparently they can get the job done....
I spend $100 a month for basic cable card rental and service from Time Warner Cable in NY. I spent over $400 to buy lifetime service for a new HD TiVo. There's still nothing on.
"Who gets to say who is right or wrong? In a republic, we all do when we vote for our representatives."
I didn't sign up for that when I was born. Fuck you. Keep on votin' pansy.
You can vote with your feet too, little man. Pansy here says "Buh-bye."
FOIA is the Freedom of Information Act first signed into law by LBJ in 1966. Various states have similar laws that allow requests of state gov't bodies as well. The Act only deals with non-Constitutionally enumerated bodies [courts, Congress and the President] and instead deals only with executive branch government agencies. There are lots, as Rick Perry can attest. ["Name 3!"]
The statute is intended to be broad in scope, with documents only excluded from a request based on specifically enumerated causes: national defense secrets, trade secrets, etc. [all are in the statute here: http://1.usa.gov/aaLL5o ]
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant” is a well-known quote from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. FOIA lets the sun shine in.
With regards to Medicare, I'd imagine (hope?) that HIPAA would trump FOIA.
The concept of "preemption" in the law is exactly that - where a state has a law and the federal government has a similar law, the fed loses to the state law [Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 US 64 1938 (certain rights are "reserved by the Constitution to the several States" and not preempted unless there is a specific Constitutional basis)].
However, the Congress has the right under the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce [which is practically everything] so can enact laws that specifically preempt State and other laws Congress has created.
HIPAA is a very strong privacy statute. Without reading the language of both you can't say for sure, but it's damn likely no one gets records protected under HIPAA from a FOIA request. Double damn sure.
Justice is to be doled out by a disinterested third party. Proportionality and scope are key in the concept. Angry mobs tend to go overboard on both.
Who gets to say who is right or wrong? In a republic, we all do when we vote for our representatives. We vote when we buy products a la Adam Smith's Invisible Hand economics. We vote when we consume internet media with ads or contribute money to causes.
I don't think Anon is wrong in what it does. There is a place in the world for rebels. Just don't glorify what they do. What they serve is not justice. It is retaliation. And that's mob rule.
The purpose is clear for retaliation: deterrence. The Torah states that punishments should deter wrongdoers in our society ("and you shall eliminate the evil from your midst," Deut. 19:19) Does hacking an organizations mail servers and exposing it's members (who may themselves have done nothing wrong) serve that purpose?
Martin Luther King, Jr. said: "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." Let the blinding begin.
True. But famous kids would stop coming home to the 'rents house for the holidays if they thought they weren't getting royalties down the road when the death rattle sounds.
"Take this job and shove it. I got a famous Dad."
Woz came to my house.
"I see dead iPods."
"How often do you see them?"
"All the time. They're everywhere."
Money protects money by the overwhelming use of money. If you can't afford the same legal team Yoko has scouring indie film makers for infringement, you whimper and give in right or wrong. Same with the RIAA: bow unless you have a defense team assembled.
Think "Ishtar" & "Waterworld" Expensive don't mean good.
Kids, think "breach of contract." I paid for a lifetime subscription. It included certain features. TiVo is seeking to take away one of those features from me without asking me.
No party to a contract may unilateraly change it. Even if there is a clause in the contract allowing for any change TiVo wants, the contract would be unconscionable as one of adhesion and a court would disallow it.
In other words, they probably can't legally do what they are doing. I'm sure no one will object to it, though....
of these? Oh. Never mind.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion .html
Remember how exciting it seemed? I'll wait for the other shoe to drop....
Actually, they were a Norwegian punk band. Influences included The Knack, The Romantics, Jonny and the the Charged Leptons and the little known NYC band Electric Dipole Moments.
Some of their songs included "You Changed My Polarisation Asymmetrically" and the dance favorite "Boson and The Jets" which Elton John would later change slightly and catch a number one single.
The lead singer died tragically and explosively when he met his antimatter self at CBGB OMFUG in NYC on April 1, 1982.
and some scotch, wait another 3,000 years for the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf to break up some more and it will make for some dandy scotch on the rocks. Or get an ice pick. Just my 2 cents.
I own a 15" and a 17" and there is a HUGE heat difference. I've got to think a G5 will melt glass unless the good people at Apple can work miracles.
I use the 17" PB to make mirowave popcorn at the end of the day. Run more than 3 apps and browse a while on Slashdot and mmmmmmm. Buttery goodness. That's multitasking.
Beleloved ABCNews anchor Peter Jennings reports from Bagdad:
"And from the world of science, professors from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts tell us there is no need to worry about impacts from Earthbound asteroids"
Wooooosh.
"WTF? Run! Arrrrrrggggh!!!!"
Shot of fire from sky, ending transmission.
I don't know if that's the point. One person negotiating a problem for himself still leaves the problem for the many that were unaware of the illegal activity.
Clearly, a company will take care of the squeaky wheel while allowing a breach of contract and deceptive trade practice to continue for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of others, if it profits from the practice.
I am a class action attorney. [Ah, yes. I feel the love in the room.] The big fees certainly are an incentive to litigate. Judges award these fees to encourage plaintiffs to bring suits and attorneys to take them on as "private attorneys general".
That's why Congress and State Legislatures enact laws with a private right of action: so that the public can enforce the law if need be. Otherwise, to fund enforcement of every AG's office would cost a fortune, more than the fees paid to the class attorney.
And since I don't get paid unless I win, I only bring suits that have merit. I would be a fool to waste my time and treasure to take a shot at a non-sure thing.
Thus, Judges have seen fees as an incentive to enforce the law, but only in cases where it is obvious the law has been broken.
He hasn't got sh#t all over him.
"native Quark sucks royal ass" -- different than sucking regular ass? Hmmm. Camilla Parker Bowles would know....
I bought the dual 1.42 ghz G4 but the lust factor of the G5 draws me like a $3000 siren song.
Why does it always cost me $3000 to get the one I want? 17 inch Powerbooks, G5s, etc.
Just because a watery tart hurls a scimitar is no basis to choose a leader. Supreme executive power comes from a mandate from the masses....