Re:"google do offer a telephone service..." Does [sic] they, now?;)
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interesting... where do i find this? (g**gle it, i know that's the answer) what's the service called? i thought their voice was a big dial-thru call forwarding listen to all of your phone-calls and contacts service. I didn't know they ran a conference call center like those rural midwestern states local phone companies do to rack up charges from att and such...
re: the kind of altruistic endeavour he's proposing:
Hmmm, altruism? What if g**gle suddenly decided to subsidize free telephones for all: smart phones for the kiddies, non-smart phones for the non-smarties, all they asked was to be able to track and keep and use all of the data they could gather from you (net access, telco PEN trace stuff, hell google could even keep every uttered voice and word and sneeze with their HW, GPS and location info along with timing info of when you are where). Now a lot of people might fall for this and want these g**FoneZ, but would you call the motivation behind this altruism? Or could you perhaps see a business benefit that the offeror of such a plan might get
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And now to use a perfectly parallel analogy, let's say that g**gley-minds came up with the idea of giving everyone tablets and chromebooks that came with free wifi/3g/cellular broadband access and all had strong umbilical links to the mothership. That's a strong parallel to subsidizing a wide-fiber-pipe from the USA to NZ. Would you call that altruism?
I'm sure that there are very viable profit-making opportunities to be made in putting in and having access to that wide-fiber-pipe: all of his redo-megaupload ideas would then also have an easy route of entry for any US based customers. Perhaps this is the missing step before the "Profit" step in the recipe.
Yeah, but how can you get information about the communique(accent)s and diplomatic cables that passed back-and-forth involving the governmental entities now that the slash-and-burn tactics used on wikileaks has destroyed any of the good reputation / goodwill that a site like wikileaks had? Where can you get information about the rogue partnership that turns copyright infringement (a civil matter) into criminal matters that force extradition without valid criminal complaints (even if there ultimately could have been a valid criminal prosecution, the ends do not justify the means).
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Actually, the US military leadership probably did have a say: they said "How high?" when asked to jump.;>)
The cube and others: I tend to use LXDE when I run Knoppix (off usb-stick at school so that I can run a browser with plug-ins and settings I've already set and with the correct use noscript) but I always boot it up with no3d as a boot-option so that I don't have to bother with the Compiz Fusion 3-d rotating cube and animations. The desktop switcher works nicely and I don't need the visual eye-candy to tell me I'm whooshing left or right.
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I will admit to playing with it and putting the old sharks and whales in the center of the cube, trying the 3-gears in the cube, etc, but I got over it quiclky. But if you turn off Compiz and 3-d, then the desktop is super-responsive, even on the school computers with just 1GB of RAM. I've got a Debian setup at home (can't take the credit for picking it or setting it up, thanks Daddio) that uses KDE3.
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I've tried the early versions of KDE4 on Knoppix (use desktop=KDE as a bootup option) and it has the ugly windows style start box micro-menu with the macro-sized-icons that requires too much scrolling left/right/up/down to get anything done easily. You can also start knoppix with desktop=gnome to try it out, but I have'nt played with it as much. Too many variables. Not enough time. or even enough time to sleep (!)
Do you see the two drop-down lists on the right-half column of that image you pointed to? The top drop-down list says "Resfresh Rate" and currently is selected to be "60 Hz". That second drop-down list is labelled Rotation and currently is selected to be "Standard."
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Select that second drop down list and switch from "Standard" to "Portrait" and the selection of x\by-y resolutions will change to a valid set of portrait-mode resolutions.
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Tadaa! or La voila (with an accent placed as necessary)! whichever you prefer.
Interestingly enough, the box of an old old Apple Powerbook G3 laptop that my parents bought in 1998 a bit after I was born (yes they still have the box for it sitting in the garage, as well as a box for an Apple II, and a TRS-80 in its cardboard box that does NOT have any logo or signage on it but has gray foam) says on the sticker that the laptop was actually manufactured in Ireland. I don't know if that means it really was manufactured in Ireland, or just that it passed through a waystation there so that they could say it was assembled in Ireland for tax purposes.
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I think there are maquiladoras (named after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquiladora#Growth_and_development>millers of grain = maquiladora in spanish which are manufacturing or assemby plants across the border from San Diego in Mexico (actually, all along the USA-Mexico border) which import materiel and equipment, assemble them and ship them out to other countries or back to the country of origin. I think the CRT manufacturers moved all of their operations across to Tijuana after they shut up shop in the USA. These areas are free trade zones or export processing zones where work can be dones in these FTZ's/EPZ's without incurring customs duties and tariffs and can use lower wage labor for the manufacturing process. Zenith tv stuff used to be across the border (classmates parent used to talk about it).
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So maybe that PBG3 was made in an Ireland EPZ/FTZ before it was shipped to Frys in California.
Yep, just like Fry's or Office Depot or (heaven forbid) Best Buy: if you see a rebate offer attached to something, do not buy it. The odds of the rebate ever getting back to you are infinitesimally small and they want to make it as difficult as possible for you to complain, and they always put up many hoops for you to jump through (in a bizarre non-rational sequence, with flames on some hoops to singe you!) so that they can say you did something wrong and forgot to cut along the dotted line so you no longer qualify for the rebate, too bad. WPh8?? Nothing to see here, nothing to develop here. Let's move along.
Well, the reason it's so hard to decode is obviously because it doesn't follow standards that did not yet exist: RFC 1149:- Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avia
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If people only used standards, then even multi-decades old avian-datagrams could route around the blockage of chimneys and continue onward!;>)
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The RFC even discusses encryption and tactical issues:
``Security Considerations
Security is not generally a problem in normal operation, but special
measures must be taken (such as data encryption) when avian carriers
are used in a tactical environment.'' This BBN place sounds like a fun place to work if they've got this much time on their hands!
Well, if Apple didn't do its due diligence when applying for trademark status for "iPhone", that is its own fault. And obviously, they did not even do a cursory review of trademark status for their due diligence because Cisco already had an iPhone trademark, which they sued Apple for. Now they're in a situation that's even stronger than Cisco's (Cisco was not actively using "iPhone" even though it already had the trademark on it). iFone appears to have been actively and continuously used in trade in Mexico prior to Apple using "iPhone". Court battles can be long, so who knows.
You're right that I used the wrong words. Your words were: "Service members were not told they must re-up, but rather some had their service period involuntarily extended by a "Stop Loss" order due to critical wartime need." However, there is no functional difference between thou must stay on the job vs. thou shall not be let go from your duty obligations even though the obligations may have ended in fact your duty obligations must continue onwards.
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Those are two phrases that parse out to the same functional content. It's like a breach of contract, even if they add on extra money ex post facto. Signing up for something which is supposed to be for period x and then having it involuntarily exchanged for period y, where $y\gtx$ (y is greater than x). I don't know if you see the non-difference between "involuntarily extended" and "forced to re-up": my opinion is that you'd have to concede that there is no functional difference.
There are too many possible recipes that use maple syrup and walnuts. It may, however, be possible, to infer what the evil villain's dastardly plan once we learn what the third batch ingredient heist is.
If it had involved eight large tankers of oil (one each of lime, cassia oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander oil, neroli oil, and lavendar oil, plus 3 tankers of food grade gum arabic , then there plans would be obvious:
They're planning on making industrial quantities of Open Cola, and they know all of the ingredients of the GPL'ed recipe for open cola fromOpenCola. Next they'll be stealing a large tanker of vinegar and a large truck with calcium-carbonate in order to create the vast quantities of fizzy water to reconstitute with the syrup.
Don't forget the big example of the city so nice that they named it twice: NYNY is New York named for the York in England, and before that, the southern tip of Manhattan was
Nieuw-Amsterdam and was the captial city of
New Netherland. If they weren't naming colonies after rulers, e.g. Virginia and Georgia, they were naming them after familiar territories back home, e.g. New Hampshire.
re: If it worked like the Army reserve, I'd be in. Think about it, you participate one weekend a month for,,,
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You do know that:
-- quite a few of the reserves are actually deployed at the present;
--a lot of the National Guard is called out and deployed at the present;
-- a lot of people who have finished their tours are told that they must re-up.
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Even if they are not deployed overseas, they are often activated to take the place on base of combat troops who are deployed overseas. So if you're part of the
Ready Reserve,
be ready to be deployed at any time of need. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just know about that ahead of time.
Good story. It's a lot like how people can often ignore the multitudes around them, say in a restaurant or a movie theater, and go on as if they live in a private world (smooching, talking on the cell phone, etc) until someone does something very annoying and the "background person" pops into attention, and a ripple/wave of silence goes across the lunchroom cafeteria or movie theater.
And I agree that people are more likely to fight against him: people always want to kill the messenger to avoid dealing with the existence of the underlying message. Killing the messenger doesn't nullify the existence or validity of the message. He's saying we're under check, and we better do something before we're under check-mate. At the check-mate message, well, we may accept the message, but it's too late to do a damn thing about it.
Re: Not getting fired is covered. Here's the relevant text from the Kansas courts: "(c) State law should prohibit employers from discharging, laying off, denying advancement opportunities to, or otherwise penalizing employees who miss work because of jury service."
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I notice that the courts phrasing is "should prohibit" rather than "does prohibit" or "prohibits". This could simply be poorly worded, but considering that the court's main business is to parse the specific wording of laws, I would be a little worried that the court's text merely implies that it would be nice if there were to be a law passed that would prohibit such a thing and that passing such a law should happen.
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If such a law already existed, I'd bet the phrasing would be "State law prohibits" with a reference to or citation of the relevant law. Maybe a lawyer (IANAL) could jump in and comment. Double-bonus points if it's a Kansas lawyer who might even really know.:)
Let say that my parents and I live in a "fancy neighborhood", not gated, it's really San Diego ( but like Dr. Suess' moniker for where he lived) they call it La Jolla instead of San Diego. Anyway, one evening we got a bunch of rowdy teens from a different high-school banging on the door shouting at my parents to return their phone. We ended up calling the police and got an amazing fast response with 2 squad cars and three officers. It turns out that the kid's phone was stolen and they'd tracked it with the "where's my iphone app" to the intersection near our house. They went to the trouble of taking stories from everybody, took my parent's word for it that the stolen iphone wasn't in the house, wouldn't even let the kids wander around our yard looking for it, and essentially told the kids to scram and they wouldn't do anything. Now I don't imagine that a different neighborhood would get any response at all. There's a bus stop for junior high and high-school kids about half-a-block north, and I figure who-ever stole the phone must have thrown it in the bushes on the outer curve of the intersection. We never found any signs of the phone. And that's my only interaction with police thus far.
They refused to give the kids a case number or police report number. In fact, they told the kids that if they wanted a number, they'd be happy to run the kids in for a trespassing and loitering and something about bothering/scaring my parents and then their parents would have to come get them out from being arrested. So I really think the cops were not interested in doing any paperwork at all in that case. But they were obviously bored and unoccupied enough to come out for such a trivial thing.
I think I tried to say almost the same thing about the lack of actual content here [at/. in general], though I didn't state it as well as you do here and I was griping about the non-content of the long post by Cowboy Neal which seemed like a pre-teen writing a book-report that he did not want to write: So what is this, a book report style droning on? asking about the future of free and open source software. .
There was nothing original said in the main post; there was no pointer to some external story of interest; there seemed to be no main thread or motivation holding it all together. It was as if it was just a perfunctory performance of an assignment. There was no feeling of an idea driving the article or motive pushing the concept.
As to your comment about Bombeck, I had to look up who that was, and soon learned that my mom must have plagiarized the comment she taught me as I started sitting in and listening to adults conversing after dinner at the table: i paraphrase her as saying "if you find yourself thinking about what you're going to say next at the next pause instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying, then you're just a pair of people interrupting each other's stories rather than a pair of people having a conversation." She gave me a brilliant insght into having actual conversations and actually listening to people, even if she lifted the idea from Erma Bombeck. (I'll have to point that out to her at tomorrow's dinner.)
BTW, I found this post of your following your interesting comment about using {X}\times{Y} for screen resolution rather than {Y}\times{X}. I try to follow interesting (content filled) comments to see if the posters have dropped other breadcrumbs of interest recently.
Interesting. How can the government legislate that you are not allowed to fence in your property? Is that a wild-west must allow cattle and livestock to graze on all open property and all open property must remain as open property sort of thing? Are you not even allowed to fence immediately around your domicile/curtilage?
The Open fields doctrine is what has become a standard ruled upon by the US Supreme Court. The curtilage of a house is the house, its immediate surroundings, and any closely associated buildings or structures but excluding 'any open fields beyond'. .
So the application of fencing around a yard turns it from an open field to a fenced enclosure, thus no longer an open field. A real lawyer would have to fight the issue for farm land. But if the field is unfenced, that's probably open field. Fenced and posted "no trespassing" fields, well, I don't think you can call those open fields anymore, even if they are not the "curtilage." .
Sometimes, when I see words that I do not know, like curtilage, I look them up. Sometimes, when I see a combination of words that seem to have an obvious meaning, like open field, I also look them up. Which is how I found the open field doctrine concept. Whew, I think I learned more than one thing today in each period, plus two more concepts just now. That might make it time for ice-cream to drop the bio-cpu brain-core temperature.
Yeah, but have you observed any sort of noticeable cycle or pattern to it, perhaps a biorhythm that maybe seems to entrain to the phase of the moon?;>) (joke) .
For the not joking part of this comment, I have to say that I'm not (yet?) experiencing the monthly moody emotionalness that I observe in many of my female peers. I do have the physical water-retention, the physical pain that ibuprofen cannot solve, and the aches, but not the emotional stress aspect. Maybe that happens a little further in life? Or is it a psycho-social thing: you expect it to happen so you make it happen... The packs of women/girls roving together in a high-school do form cliques and do reinforce each others' behaviours and attitudes...
Sorry, it was early in the morning. I missed the sarcasm and the "yeah like this would ever happen" point of your post. My sarcasto-detector needed a few more awake hours to get up to running speed. Mea culpa.
Wow! re :
``She has to sneak because she's not teaching him religion, she's teaching him to sneak when it comes to religion. Making it a habit for him to avoid you (and your point of view) when it comes to religion, and instead only discuss the subject with 'the right people'. '' .
This completely explains some relatives of mine that felt the need to state that "they were going for a walk" on the night before Christmas, disappeared for 3 hours (a mom+dad+three kids), and reappeared later that evening with no talking about what they'd done. My parents already knew what religion they practices, already knew that they and the kids went to church, already had no problem with them doing that, so it was completely incomprehensible to me and to my parents which this pack of relatives would behave in this bizarre and sneaky way. It was only the next day when going to the park in their minivan that it became apparent that the brochures for evening services in their vehicle showed that they'd felt the need for sneaking off.
But your concept of "teaching him to [be] sneak[y] when it comes to relgion" has enlightened me. That must be the explanation. Wouldn't good people just be honest and up-front about their beliefs? It just seems to be people who want to indoctrinate others into becoming unquestioning followers of something who go around being sneaky about their beliefs. Thank you, thank you, thank you! (truly, not sarcastically). I now feel like I understand (a subset) of other human beings better (or at least a little bit more about their motivation).
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interesting... where do i find this? (g**gle it, i know that's the answer) what's the service called? i thought their voice was a big dial-thru call forwarding listen to all of your phone-calls and contacts service. I didn't know they ran a conference call center like those rural midwestern states local phone companies do to rack up charges from att and such...
Hmmm, altruism? What if g**gle suddenly decided to subsidize free telephones for all: smart phones for the kiddies, non-smart phones for the non-smarties, all they asked was to be able to track and keep and use all of the data they could gather from you (net access, telco PEN trace stuff, hell google could even keep every uttered voice and word and sneeze with their HW, GPS and location info along with timing info of when you are where). Now a lot of people might fall for this and want these g**FoneZ, but would you call the motivation behind this altruism? Or could you perhaps see a business benefit that the offeror of such a plan might get
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And now to use a perfectly parallel analogy, let's say that g**gley-minds came up with the idea of giving everyone tablets and chromebooks that came with free wifi/3g/cellular broadband access and all had strong umbilical links to the mothership. That's a strong parallel to subsidizing a wide-fiber-pipe from the USA to NZ. Would you call that altruism?
I'm sure that there are very viable profit-making opportunities to be made in putting in and having access to that wide-fiber-pipe: all of his redo-megaupload ideas would then also have an easy route of entry for any US based customers. Perhaps this is the missing step before the "Profit" step in the recipe.
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Actually, the US military leadership probably did have a say: they said "How high?" when asked to jump. ;>)
The cube and others: I tend to use LXDE when I run Knoppix (off usb-stick at school so that I can run a browser with plug-ins and settings I've already set and with the correct use noscript) but I always boot it up with no3d as a boot-option so that I don't have to bother with the Compiz Fusion 3-d rotating cube and animations. The desktop switcher works nicely and I don't need the visual eye-candy to tell me I'm whooshing left or right.
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I will admit to playing with it and putting the old sharks and whales in the center of the cube, trying the 3-gears in the cube, etc, but I got over it quiclky. But if you turn off Compiz and 3-d, then the desktop is super-responsive, even on the school computers with just 1GB of RAM. I've got a Debian setup at home (can't take the credit for picking it or setting it up, thanks Daddio) that uses KDE3.
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I've tried the early versions of KDE4 on Knoppix (use desktop=KDE as a bootup option) and it has the ugly windows style start box micro-menu with the macro-sized-icons that requires too much scrolling left/right/up/down to get anything done easily. You can also start knoppix with desktop=gnome to try it out, but I have'nt played with it as much. Too many variables. Not enough time. or even enough time to sleep (!)
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Select that second drop down list and switch from "Standard" to "Portrait" and the selection of x\by-y resolutions will change to a valid set of portrait-mode resolutions.
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Tadaa! or La voila (with an accent placed as necessary)! whichever you prefer.
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I think there are maquiladoras (named after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquiladora#Growth_and_development>millers of grain = maquiladora in spanish which are manufacturing or assemby plants across the border from San Diego in Mexico (actually, all along the USA-Mexico border) which import materiel and equipment, assemble them and ship them out to other countries or back to the country of origin. I think the CRT manufacturers moved all of their operations across to Tijuana after they shut up shop in the USA. These areas are free trade zones or export processing zones where work can be dones in these FTZ's/EPZ's without incurring customs duties and tariffs and can use lower wage labor for the manufacturing process. Zenith tv stuff used to be across the border (classmates parent used to talk about it).
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So maybe that PBG3 was made in an Ireland EPZ/FTZ before it was shipped to Frys in California.
Yep, just like Fry's or Office Depot or (heaven forbid) Best Buy: if you see a rebate offer attached to something, do not buy it. The odds of the rebate ever getting back to you are infinitesimally small and they want to make it as difficult as possible for you to complain, and they always put up many hoops for you to jump through (in a bizarre non-rational sequence, with flames on some hoops to singe you!) so that they can say you did something wrong and forgot to cut along the dotted line so you no longer qualify for the rebate, too bad. WPh8?? Nothing to see here, nothing to develop here. Let's move along.
Did you happen to see Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers on /. just about three days ago? What kind of huge developer base is that? MS is not being very developer friendly, considering that last week, /. featured
"Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store" . Maybe they are letting WPhone7 applications run on 8 and that's what they're counting as part of that "huge developer base."
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If people only used standards, then even multi-decades old avian-datagrams could route around the blockage of chimneys and continue onward! ;>)
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The RFC even discusses encryption and tactical issues: ``Security Considerations Security is not generally a problem in normal operation, but special measures must be taken (such as data encryption) when avian carriers are used in a tactical environment.'' This BBN place sounds like a fun place to work if they've got this much time on their hands!
Well, if Apple didn't do its due diligence when applying for trademark status for "iPhone", that is its own fault. And obviously, they did not even do a cursory review of trademark status for their due diligence because Cisco already had an iPhone trademark, which they sued Apple for. Now they're in a situation that's even stronger than Cisco's (Cisco was not actively using "iPhone" even though it already had the trademark on it). iFone appears to have been actively and continuously used in trade in Mexico prior to Apple using "iPhone". Court battles can be long, so who knows.
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Those are two phrases that parse out to the same functional content. It's like a breach of contract, even if they add on extra money ex post facto. Signing up for something which is supposed to be for period x and then having it involuntarily exchanged for period y, where $y\gtx$ (y is greater than x). I don't know if you see the non-difference between "involuntarily extended" and "forced to re-up": my opinion is that you'd have to concede that there is no functional difference.
If it had involved eight large tankers of oil (one each of lime, cassia oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander oil, neroli oil, and lavendar oil, plus 3 tankers of food grade gum arabic , then there plans would be obvious:
They're planning on making industrial quantities of Open Cola , and they know all of the ingredients of the GPL'ed recipe for open cola from OpenCola. Next they'll be stealing a large tanker of vinegar and a large truck with calcium-carbonate in order to create the vast quantities of fizzy water to reconstitute with the syrup.
Don't forget the big example of the city so nice that they named it twice: NYNY is New York named for the York in England, and before that, the southern tip of Manhattan was Nieuw-Amsterdam and was the captial city of New Netherland. If they weren't naming colonies after rulers, e.g. Virginia and Georgia, they were naming them after familiar territories back home, e.g. New Hampshire.
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You do know that :
-- quite a few of the reserves are actually deployed at the present;
--a lot of the National Guard is called out and deployed at the present;
-- a lot of people who have finished their tours are told that they must re-up.
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Even if they are not deployed overseas, they are often activated to take the place on base of combat troops who are deployed overseas. So if you're part of the Ready Reserve, be ready to be deployed at any time of need. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just know about that ahead of time.
And I agree that people are more likely to fight against him: people always want to kill the messenger to avoid dealing with the existence of the underlying message. Killing the messenger doesn't nullify the existence or validity of the message. He's saying we're under check, and we better do something before we're under check-mate. At the check-mate message, well, we may accept the message, but it's too late to do a damn thing about it.
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I notice that the courts phrasing is "should prohibit" rather than "does prohibit" or "prohibits". This could simply be poorly worded, but considering that the court's main business is to parse the specific wording of laws, I would be a little worried that the court's text merely implies that it would be nice if there were to be a law passed that would prohibit such a thing and that passing such a law should happen.
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If such a law already existed, I'd bet the phrasing would be "State law prohibits" with a reference to or citation of the relevant law. Maybe a lawyer (IANAL) could jump in and comment. Double-bonus points if it's a Kansas lawyer who might even really know. :)
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but carriers also suck big fat elephant balls.
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We now return to our regularly scheduled /. rants and raves.
I don't know how to reply to this... it's true, sadly. But is it worth dwelling on?
They refused to give the kids a case number or police report number. In fact, they told the kids that if they wanted a number, they'd be happy to run the kids in for a trespassing and loitering and something about bothering/scaring my parents and then their parents would have to come get them out from being arrested. So I really think the cops were not interested in doing any paperwork at all in that case. But they were obviously bored and unoccupied enough to come out for such a trivial thing.
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There was nothing original said in the main post; there was no pointer to some external story of interest; there seemed to be no main thread or motivation holding it all together. It was as if it was just a perfunctory performance of an assignment. There was no feeling of an idea driving the article or motive pushing the concept.
As to your comment about Bombeck, I had to look up who that was, and soon learned that my mom must have plagiarized the comment she taught me as I started sitting in and listening to adults conversing after dinner at the table: i paraphrase her as saying "if you find yourself thinking about what you're going to say next at the next pause instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying, then you're just a pair of people interrupting each other's stories rather than a pair of people having a conversation." She gave me a brilliant insght into having actual conversations and actually listening to people, even if she lifted the idea from Erma Bombeck. (I'll have to point that out to her at tomorrow's dinner.)
BTW, I found this post of your following your interesting comment about using {X}\times{Y} for screen resolution rather than {Y}\times{X}. I try to follow interesting (content filled) comments to see if the posters have dropped other breadcrumbs of interest recently.
Interesting. How can the government legislate that you are not allowed to fence in your property? Is that a wild-west must allow cattle and livestock to graze on all open property and all open property must remain as open property sort of thing? Are you not even allowed to fence immediately around your domicile/curtilage?
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So the application of fencing around a yard turns it from an open field to a fenced enclosure, thus no longer an open field. A real lawyer would have to fight the issue for farm land. But if the field is unfenced, that's probably open field. Fenced and posted "no trespassing" fields, well, I don't think you can call those open fields anymore, even if they are not the "curtilage."
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Sometimes, when I see words that I do not know, like curtilage, I look them up. Sometimes, when I see a combination of words that seem to have an obvious meaning, like open field, I also look them up. Which is how I found the open field doctrine concept. Whew, I think I learned more than one thing today in each period, plus two more concepts just now. That might make it time for ice-cream to drop the bio-cpu brain-core temperature.
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For the not joking part of this comment, I have to say that I'm not (yet?) experiencing the monthly moody emotionalness that I observe in many of my female peers. I do have the physical water-retention, the physical pain that ibuprofen cannot solve, and the aches, but not the emotional stress aspect. Maybe that happens a little further in life? Or is it a psycho-social thing: you expect it to happen so you make it happen... The packs of women/girls roving together in a high-school do form cliques and do reinforce each others' behaviours and attitudes...
Sorry, it was early in the morning. I missed the sarcasm and the "yeah like this would ever happen" point of your post. My sarcasto-detector needed a few more awake hours to get up to running speed. Mea culpa.
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This completely explains some relatives of mine that felt the need to state that "they were going for a walk" on the night before Christmas, disappeared for 3 hours (a mom+dad+three kids), and reappeared later that evening with no talking about what they'd done. My parents already knew what religion they practices, already knew that they and the kids went to church, already had no problem with them doing that, so it was completely incomprehensible to me and to my parents which this pack of relatives would behave in this bizarre and sneaky way. It was only the next day when going to the park in their minivan that it became apparent that the brochures for evening services in their vehicle showed that they'd felt the need for sneaking off.
But your concept of "teaching him to [be] sneak[y] when it comes to relgion" has enlightened me. That must be the explanation. Wouldn't good people just be honest and up-front about their beliefs? It just seems to be people who want to indoctrinate others into becoming unquestioning followers of something who go around being sneaky about their beliefs. Thank you, thank you, thank you! (truly, not sarcastically). I now feel like I understand (a subset) of other human beings better (or at least a little bit more about their motivation).