Since he would not be facing a policeman but the opposition lawyer, can he simply walk away anytime he wants or refuse to sign anything? No. The subpeona is issued by the court. There are limits, but deposition rules are waaay complex - generally they have questions prepared ahead of time and you have to go through them all.
Lawyers work weekends as a matter of course. Asking them to put off the deposition till a mutually useful time is no injustice - giving 24hrs notice is.
I thought school was supposed to be about the education of students, for their benefit, that of their parents, of other citizens, and of society and democracy at large. And here I thought they were about training workers for industry. Hmm.. still have the bells that command you to rise and sit.. still can't go off to the bathroom or talk out of turn. Still taught to obey teachers and "hall monitors" without ability to break out.. yehp. Still bringing bagged lunches or eating at a shitty cafe? Yehp. Still expected to repeat by rote memorization over academic thought - er yehp. Don't even get me started on shop class and gym.
I'm not bothering to cite sources for you (sorry, busy) but there has been a great deal of complaining in the academic press over the last decade or so that our schools are still churning out factory workers. The purpose of education is to produce the workers out country needs - and yet students graduating from HS can't program or participate in problem solving exercises until after they get untrained by four years in college where they're taught to think differently.
If you're advocating blocking Wikipedia in a serious manner, please do explain how you're going to--at the same time--teach the students about the rights they have. It will entertain me, the excuses that fascists come up with always have. Ha Ha.. you're funny.
More seriously, you have no guaranteed right to access the internets from a government facility. Students have no right to direct the work of the school. Neither of these are rights that have been guaranteed in the constitution or held up in court.
Actually, according to Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988) - students don't even have the right to publish text which runs counter to the educational goals of the school district - when that text could reasonably seen as being endorsed by the school. Ie. - School speeches, School newspapers, etc. Schools (below the college level) like airports, are government buildings with a specific purpose. The U.S. gov't is not bound to allow protests or protest speech, or free speech at all - in the classroom durring lessons, in an airport ever, in common areas of prisons, in police stations, and in court houses. This isn't seen as a first amendment breach beacause (dur) allowing unfettered speech in those environments would defeat the gov't purpose for which they were built. Schools can't teach over student protest, etc.
Now, how much more attenuated is your free speech argument when the students aren't even the speakers. The school has the right to block the broadcast of messages into a school building. We don't allow porn in schools. Objection to that? Is your objection method or quality of use? Do you assume that a student cannot seek out access to these sites at home? Do you think the school must support any use of the internet, even when it encourages students to engage in behavior which will cause them difficulties in college (citing Wikipedia for example)?
Do you actually have a policy argument other than your inflated view of the First Amendment as a guarantor of any speech any where any time (which is patently false in our society)?
And.. 30 seconds of googling "UAE labor conditions" brings us - this.
The UAE labor law does not cover domestic workers. Many are physically and sexually abused. Stories abound of housemaids who try to escape their employers' homes knowing neither the address nor the phone number, nor even the family's full name. Some end up in hospitals, victims of rape. Rarely is an employer prosecuted. Authorities are threatening to shut down Dubai's only shelter for women and children survivors of violence, including women domestic workers who have suffered abuse by their employers. The best that an abused domestic worker can hope for is an airline ticket back home and a lifetime of shame. Which also had this quote which reminded me of our own H1B indentured servants
A Qatari citizen--the sponsor--procures a visa for a worker and thereby controls that worker's movements for the duration of his or her contract while in Qatar. Just because we're not in the middle east, dosen't mean we don't like to enslave indiana tech workers. Check out the H1B.. it's bloody evil.
Considering the fact that microsoft games are very few why we have to pay the same fee of xbox live for much less game, but maybe the right question is why we have to pay for play online? we have already paid 50-60 euros for the game, WoW costs 5 euros and you also get some free weeks also lineage2 it's totally free to download you just pay the monthly fee. And why we have to pay for trailers and demo too? we can get them for free Welll..
A) Microsoft is starting a new labeling scheme they call "games for windows" where they certify games as of reasonable quaility, within the bounds of the MS standardized control scheme, and capable of working with Xbox Live. So what you are paying for is access to that community of members, including ladder boards and a bare handful of competitions. You also get to accrue "gamer points" apparently a new way to measure penis length.
B) I have no idea what you mean by "pay to download trailers and demos" those are free when I download them off live.. and they're just as free for silver (non-paying) accounts. It's a good service, it makes it easy (stupid easy) to find quick pick-up games online.
I'm not a big fan of M$ generally, but I've been really happy with the 360 and Live.. and of course I get more out of it if more of you join, so I'm willing to talk it up a bit. (more people = more opponents = faster match finding)
...I had to create a second xbox live account so my friends who came over to play Gears of War splitscreen. I also keep a second account... but not just for gears. Ever since Halo2 came out, and they created a distinction between free play vs. ranked (have be be gold member) play. I want to play in ranked matches. I want to play with my friends. An extra $7 a month +/- is practically nothing for the privledge of enjoying these great games with my friends.
If Nasa has the capability to colonize other planets, I'm pretty sure they can also destroy one asteroid or change its course... That was sorta my point. If we don't develope the tools, we won't.. but we need something to build tools for, and "colony" is a far better goal than "big bomb."
Everyone wants nuclear disarmarment...
And there's a big freaking rock heading towards our planet... As I understand it (I am not a phsicist), nukes operate by superheating air and creating a compresion wave which does most of the damage to rocks, buildings, and all them. The actual radiation release creates a good deal of heat, but this is not a sudden conversion of chemicals into gases which creates its own blast effect, vis. most explosives.
Well, there are three kinds of lubricants that would be reasonable for different tasks on Mars: petroleum, plant, and silicone ..and water..and super smooth surfaces.. and magnetic bearings... and whatever solution NASA will develope to use in the place of your options. Before the first moon mission, "plastics" would not be on any ley-man's list of materials options, "computers" were mainly people with a calculator, and "rockets" were things you fired blindly at the enemy with minimal steerage.
Here's a question.. if we don't start developing the technologies we need for long-distance space travel.. what will you do when NASA ids a killer asteroid on a collision course... wish it gone?
These were men who were willing to risk everything on some very simple and core ideals that have largely been ignored. So much legal wrangling over the constitution disgusts me, it ultimately was very simple, and still is if you look at the spirit of the law instead of the letter, but these days we have a government full of corrupted freaks trying to find loopholes in the document that was to secure our future. Precious few politicians understand it, or care. Politics was never meant to be a career, it was meant to be a service to your country. If you really are patriotic those inscriptions will bring at least a tear to your eye. Forget the wingers of both sides...Liberal and Conservative alike are so far gone from what was supposed to be, its sad. You do know that Thomas Jefferson was the first one to wrangle with the constitutional review process and lose right? Good Ole TJ took a legalistic and broad view of his powers as president - of course that's not the worst - It was Adams who presented the argument that the president's executive power encompassed all powers not explicity reserved to the other branches.. TAKE THAT STATES!! He based it on the fact that when they were writing the constitution, he and hamilton had decided that Article II did not state "The executive powers here enumerated" but rather "executive authority."
We are a nation of written law. It is not wrong to argue over the meaning of the constitution.. we just have to makes sure the Adams and Bushes of the world keep losing the argument.
Not to mention the folks with a dangerous sense of humor.. how long will it be before someone hacks a machine to give mickey mous 10,000,000 votes in florida?
So tell me, are you really upset with my take on this story or are your panies in a not over the plame stuff i set you straight on? I don't really think we could have read the same stories or you are trolling me because of something else. So I guess this reveals your general level of interest in the opinions of others. "You disagree with me because I am wrong and reading hate and bile into the words of this reporter? HAH! It's because you got your panties in a bind over something else I said."
Or no, it's because I disagree with your assement of the facts - and no - I don't think you've read the article in a fair and neutral manner. You have invented and inserted your own beliefs over the pattern of the stated facts. I raised my argument because I disagreed with your argument. You, as a person, are slightly less important to me than a worm I should happen to see crawling along after a rain storm.
As an example of your "interesting" bent on reality:
And other journalist don't expect free playstations for writing stories about the president. And yes, It is secondary advertising. The majority of game journalist don't pay for their games or game systems because of their reviews. This story even admits they got review playstations and games from sony. And publishing press releases, just like with the White House press releases is advertising. You really believe journalists pay for the books, movies, computers, etc that they review? If you do, you're wrong. Even consumer reports expects donated equipment to test on. If you cover the president, you don't pay for the flights on air force one to follow him around. Your fundamental error is in assuming that the agent being covered is the actor with the power to negotiate.. Sony wants coverage of it's PS3, it lends out its equiprment to encourage that coverage - much the same way that the auto-industry lend cars to auto-journalists, and host events where thouse journalists can meet the designers and the corporate big-wigs so that their cars get covered. If BMW stopped throwing parties to attract attention, it is BMW, not car and driver, that would suffer from decreased exposure. The reason Chenny and company can get away with hard ball negotiations is that there IS no other source for your government services. The minority producer is Chenny, the majority consumer is the journalist. Here, that's not the case. While there are many gaming magazines, those magazines are more likely to attract readers by playing hardball with the gaming companies, even if it costs them privledged access - you talk to gamespy and gamepro (and increasingly Kotaku) because if you don't, readers will simply not hear about your product.
As for your "correction" that is again an interesting example of where you have substituted your opinion for the facts. An argument that I have no interest in hashing out with someone with your glaringly self-centered world view and fact focus.
According to quoted experts, Diebold might dump its poorly-rated electronic voting division. Or it might not. OR they're using this to drum up interest before announcing their new Presidential Candidate Consulting division.:)
From the article quoted by the parent:
Even worse, many electronic machines don't produce a paper record that can be recounted when equipment malfunctions - an omission that practically invites malicious tampering. "Every board of election has staff members with the technological ability to fix an election," Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Leon County, Florida, told me. "Even one corrupt staffer can throw an election. Without paper records, it could happen under my nose and there is no way I'd ever find out about it. With a few key people in the right places, it would be possible to throw a presidential election." Just because it's a conspiracy theory, dosen't mean it's flamebait.
Not trying to be a troll here, but why is knowledge of latin often seen as a requirement for intellectualism? Because translating texts from Latin to english reduces the precision of the speech. Similarly, Kant is a fairly easy read in german - in english he's horrid.. because the nuance of many of his terms changes in meaning, or gains unforseen meaning, when translated to english.
Language does not allow for one for one conversion like an exchange from decimal to hexidecimal - the value of the work is lost or altered in the transition.
This guy may know a bit of programming, but this kind of stuff makes it pretty clear to me that he has no idea how people can and do manipulate information. It's pretty clear to me that he's done little more than investigate only those things which might support their case and has completely ignored anything which might cast doubt upon it. Given the statements of other posters who claim to have taken his class on network security - I think a darker motive should be added as an alternative to your suggestion.. he may be claiming ignorance.. that dosen't necesarily mean he's ignorant.
My original point was that there are substantive criticisms to be made that are much more useful than this ad hominem "He doesn't even know what inculpated means, the fool!" It's easy to assert that someone is stupid for not knowing something you know, but there's a reason we have the word "pretentious." There's no reason not to take your time and hit that point in addition to all the others.
...I really don't intend this to be a flame, but I have got to tell you, if you're going to be a pretentious bastard about the meaning of a word, you have got to at least spell dictionary right. Yes, my spelling sucks. And now you know why Mr. Beckerman beat the witness up for failing to know the meaning of a common term. Taken on its own, it's petty.. lumped in with a series of more substantive attacks, it's just one more grain of sand on the scale. Yes, he's splitting hairs. That's what lawyers do. If one of your Profs puts 12 issues into a final exam, and you discuss 10 of them masterfully while dismissing the other two as (in your opinion) "petty".. does that help or hinder your pursuit of A's?
If Mr. Beckerman were to draw this out at length in court, the judge would probably side with you.. but there is NO reason not to explore everything the witness says carefully and thoroughly during a deposition.
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Actually, they're humans wearing dark suits and crisp white or light blue ties - and they smile alot. >shiver
-GiH
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Lawyers work weekends as a matter of course. Asking them to put off the deposition till a mutually useful time is no injustice - giving 24hrs notice is.
-GiH
If you put the right wires down there, this "tube" could allow more room for those "packages" of "data" in the "internets".
-GiH
ha ha, republicans are stupid troglodites.. laff
-GiH
slavery makes things cheaper!!
I'm not bothering to cite sources for you (sorry, busy) but there has been a great deal of complaining in the academic press over the last decade or so that our schools are still churning out factory workers. The purpose of education is to produce the workers out country needs - and yet students graduating from HS can't program or participate in problem solving exercises until after they get untrained by four years in college where they're taught to think differently.
-GiH
More seriously, you have no guaranteed right to access the internets from a government facility. Students have no right to direct the work of the school. Neither of these are rights that have been guaranteed in the constitution or held up in court.
Actually, according to Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988) - students don't even have the right to publish text which runs counter to the educational goals of the school district - when that text could reasonably seen as being endorsed by the school. Ie. - School speeches, School newspapers, etc. Schools (below the college level) like airports, are government buildings with a specific purpose. The U.S. gov't is not bound to allow protests or protest speech, or free speech at all - in the classroom durring lessons, in an airport ever, in common areas of prisons, in police stations, and in court houses. This isn't seen as a first amendment breach beacause (dur) allowing unfettered speech in those environments would defeat the gov't purpose for which they were built. Schools can't teach over student protest, etc.
Now, how much more attenuated is your free speech argument when the students aren't even the speakers. The school has the right to block the broadcast of messages into a school building. We don't allow porn in schools. Objection to that? Is your objection method or quality of use? Do you assume that a student cannot seek out access to these sites at home? Do you think the school must support any use of the internet, even when it encourages students to engage in behavior which will cause them difficulties in college (citing Wikipedia for example)?
Do you actually have a policy argument other than your inflated view of the First Amendment as a guarantor of any speech any where any time (which is patently false in our society)?
-GiH
Is Sony doing anything to promote the development of RPG games by companies other than Square - Enix?
-GiH
If he kills them.. we are stupid for not seeing it coming.
:).
Well.. I guess I'm now going to be stupid if he dosen't try to kill them.. but.. whatever
-GiH
The UAE labor law does not cover domestic workers. Many are physically and sexually abused. Stories abound of housemaids who try to escape their employers' homes knowing neither the address nor the phone number, nor even the family's full name. Some end up in hospitals, victims of rape. Rarely is an employer prosecuted. Authorities are threatening to shut down Dubai's only shelter for women and children survivors of violence, including women domestic workers who have suffered abuse by their employers. The best that an abused domestic worker can hope for is an airline ticket back home and a lifetime of shame. Which also had this quote which reminded me of our own H1B indentured servants A Qatari citizen--the sponsor--procures a visa for a worker and thereby controls that worker's movements for the duration of his or her contract while in Qatar. Just because we're not in the middle east, dosen't mean we don't like to enslave indiana tech workers. Check out the H1B.. it's bloody evil.
-GiH
Don't be evil (to white people living in western nations.)
-GiH
A) Microsoft is starting a new labeling scheme they call "games for windows" where they certify games as of reasonable quaility, within the bounds of the MS standardized control scheme, and capable of working with Xbox Live. So what you are paying for is access to that community of members, including ladder boards and a bare handful of competitions. You also get to accrue "gamer points" apparently a new way to measure penis length.
B) I have no idea what you mean by "pay to download trailers and demos" those are free when I download them off live.. and they're just as free for silver (non-paying) accounts. It's a good service, it makes it easy (stupid easy) to find quick pick-up games online.
I'm not a big fan of M$ generally, but I've been really happy with the 360 and Live.. and of course I get more out of it if more of you join, so I'm willing to talk it up a bit. (more people = more opponents = faster match finding)
-GiH
...I had to create a second xbox live account so my friends who came over to play Gears of War splitscreen. I also keep a second account... but not just for gears. Ever since Halo2 came out, and they created a distinction between free play vs. ranked (have be be gold member) play. I want to play in ranked matches. I want to play with my friends. An extra $7 a month +/- is practically nothing for the privledge of enjoying these great games with my friends.That's my take on it.
-GiH
And there's a big freaking rock heading towards our planet... As I understand it (I am not a phsicist), nukes operate by superheating air and creating a compresion wave which does most of the damage to rocks, buildings, and all them. The actual radiation release creates a good deal of heat, but this is not a sudden conversion of chemicals into gases which creates its own blast effect, vis. most explosives.
So.. probably not a nuke.
-GiH
Here's a question.. if we don't start developing the technologies we need for long-distance space travel.. what will you do when NASA ids a killer asteroid on a collision course... wish it gone?
-GiH
We are a nation of written law. It is not wrong to argue over the meaning of the constitution.. we just have to makes sure the Adams and Bushes of the world keep losing the argument.
-GiH
Not to mention the folks with a dangerous sense of humor.. how long will it be before someone hacks a machine to give mickey mous 10,000,000 votes in florida?
-GiH
Or no, it's because I disagree with your assement of the facts - and no - I don't think you've read the article in a fair and neutral manner. You have invented and inserted your own beliefs over the pattern of the stated facts. I raised my argument because I disagreed with your argument. You, as a person, are slightly less important to me than a worm I should happen to see crawling along after a rain storm.
As an example of your "interesting" bent on reality: And other journalist don't expect free playstations for writing stories about the president. And yes, It is secondary advertising. The majority of game journalist don't pay for their games or game systems because of their reviews. This story even admits they got review playstations and games from sony. And publishing press releases, just like with the White House press releases is advertising. You really believe journalists pay for the books, movies, computers, etc that they review? If you do, you're wrong. Even consumer reports expects donated equipment to test on. If you cover the president, you don't pay for the flights on air force one to follow him around. Your fundamental error is in assuming that the agent being covered is the actor with the power to negotiate.. Sony wants coverage of it's PS3, it lends out its equiprment to encourage that coverage - much the same way that the auto-industry lend cars to auto-journalists, and host events where thouse journalists can meet the designers and the corporate big-wigs so that their cars get covered. If BMW stopped throwing parties to attract attention, it is BMW, not car and driver, that would suffer from decreased exposure. The reason Chenny and company can get away with hard ball negotiations is that there IS no other source for your government services. The minority producer is Chenny, the majority consumer is the journalist. Here, that's not the case. While there are many gaming magazines, those magazines are more likely to attract readers by playing hardball with the gaming companies, even if it costs them privledged access - you talk to gamespy and gamepro (and increasingly Kotaku) because if you don't, readers will simply not hear about your product.
As for your "correction" that is again an interesting example of where you have substituted your opinion for the facts. An argument that I have no interest in hashing out with someone with your glaringly self-centered world view and fact focus.
-GiH
-GiH
-GiH
Language does not allow for one for one conversion like an exchange from decimal to hexidecimal - the value of the work is lost or altered in the transition.
-GiH
-GiH
...I really don't intend this to be a flame, but I have got to tell you, if you're going to be a pretentious bastard about the meaning of a word, you have got to at least spell dictionary right. Yes, my spelling sucks. And now you know why Mr. Beckerman beat the witness up for failing to know the meaning of a common term. Taken on its own, it's petty.. lumped in with a series of more substantive attacks, it's just one more grain of sand on the scale. Yes, he's splitting hairs. That's what lawyers do. If one of your Profs puts 12 issues into a final exam, and you discuss 10 of them masterfully while dismissing the other two as (in your opinion) "petty".. does that help or hinder your pursuit of A's?If Mr. Beckerman were to draw this out at length in court, the judge would probably side with you.. but there is NO reason not to explore everything the witness says carefully and thoroughly during a deposition.
By the way, what IS the meaning of "is"?
-GiH