Firstly, expression is essentially the transmission and reception of thoughts, ideas, and
feelings by action, notably written and somatically, and therefore code itself is not pure
expression, as neurons firing in your brain are not; however, code is a series of
instructions that allow a device to automate the expression of an individual by creating
output whose forms clearly are expression. Whether or not to concern oneself with the
regulation of those instructions must be context dependent, and must preside over the
EXPRESSION, not the critical components necessary for achieving it (within the realm of the
public interest). It therefore seems that any legislation crafted with the intent of
specifically preventing the accomplishment of expression must sufficiently argue the
expression's harm weighed against the positive uses of expression in order to protect the
reasonable right of the freedoms of expression the Constitution affords.
To vastly simplify, code is the automation of action, and therefore code isn't expression.
It is the use of code whose actions must be regulated. However, to restrict the dissemination of information to everyone because someone may violate a law or cause harm seems unreasonable when NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF ACTUAL HARM has been presented.
As to another legitimate use? Statistical analysis of format-specific content.
Steganography. Once you own a digital copy, you would have the right to alter for both
practical and artistic uses. Artisitic includes parody and, art necessarily demands the
ability to recycle previous expression. Any society dedicated to freedom of expression
cannot forbid the reuse of artistic expression within reason.
I'd be interested in a rebutal at my email address.
It could be that it could be done open source, submitted to capable peer-review, and then implemented. That, for one, would greatly reduce the chances of this happening. Waiting until a technology is in use and then opening it up to the general research community to "prove" it's a proven technology is absurd.
Re:So far everything I've read has missed the poin
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Sean In The Middle
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Our schools are dysfunctional, but the proper thing to do isn't to crash a server. The proper thing to do is report the facts as they are. I advocate strong journalism, and being a journalist personally, I have to advocate having the facts. If you're interested in supporting the school or raising hell in protest against it, then you have to do your homework.
For instance,
http://www.mckinneyisd.net/gen_info/board.html
reports that the President of the board is Geralyn Kever.
Furthermore,
http://www.lwvcollin.org/YEOmckin.html
reports the following contact information which could be theoretically used to contact the President for comments and fact finding and proper journalism:
Geralyn Kever
2409 Clublake Trl
Mc Kinney, TX 75070-4003
(972)562-1186
(home address and number?)
She's a public official who functions as the executive ombudsman. Her facts and the facts of the school should be open to use under the full extent the law permits! The reason I present this information is that what is needed is objective journalism: an inquiry into the situation. Investigation!
The following links might aid in healthy investigation of the scenario. All are public informaiton.
http://www.tasb.org/legislative/reports/1998/mar ch.shtml
http://askted.tea.state.tx.us/cd-rom/start/quick rp t/roles/boardpre/rpt/zip.htm
http://www.mckinneytexas.org/government/Council% 20 agendas/oct17_CCminutes.htm
http://www.duncanville.k12.tx.us/txschdir/quickr pt/district/boardmem/fmt/zip.htm
http://mckinneyisd.net/board/minutes-10-20-99.ht m
Furthermore,
Robb Temple
Sales
Lynn Sperry
Magazine Publisher
Wade Cramer
Vice President
Engineer/Self Employed
Leonard Evans
Driving School Owner
Betty Petkovsek
Secretary
Pharmacist
Wade Johnson
Insurance Agent
are additional names listed by the school district as being possible sources... investigate investigate and report, as I say!
Perhaps a website might be started to a journalistic approach to gathering the facts. A healthy journalism is the blood of free speech and the enemy of tyranny. Free speech.
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Sean In The Middle
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Teaching would be fine if the system didn't suck on a massive scale, but the fact is that the average school district couldn't keep truly excellent teachers because of constraints that legal/financial departments would place upon them. This is why finances and ethics aren't taught in schools. It would expose the self-serving morons who run them.
This makes sense, because after all, why would you possibly want to stop the abuse and help the student with his problems. Actually. Perhaps he should be expelled from social settings in public. After all, if one has a hard time dealing with harassment to which the establishment is indifferent, it makes sense to do the easiest thing, and remove the picked on. Right?
Re:Quit asking slashdot and go do something about
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Sean In The Middle
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Why can't you? It's not illegal to want things now, is it?
Slashdot Mirror
Firstly, expression is essentially the transmission and reception of thoughts, ideas, and
feelings by action, notably written and somatically, and therefore code itself is not pure
expression, as neurons firing in your brain are not; however, code is a series of
instructions that allow a device to automate the expression of an individual by creating
output whose forms clearly are expression. Whether or not to concern oneself with the
regulation of those instructions must be context dependent, and must preside over the
EXPRESSION, not the critical components necessary for achieving it (within the realm of the
public interest). It therefore seems that any legislation crafted with the intent of
specifically preventing the accomplishment of expression must sufficiently argue the
expression's harm weighed against the positive uses of expression in order to protect the
reasonable right of the freedoms of expression the Constitution affords.
To vastly simplify, code is the automation of action, and therefore code isn't expression.
It is the use of code whose actions must be regulated. However, to restrict the dissemination of information to everyone because someone may violate a law or cause harm seems unreasonable when NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF ACTUAL HARM has been presented.
As to another legitimate use? Statistical analysis of format-specific content.
Steganography. Once you own a digital copy, you would have the right to alter for both
practical and artistic uses. Artisitic includes parody and, art necessarily demands the
ability to recycle previous expression. Any society dedicated to freedom of expression
cannot forbid the reuse of artistic expression within reason.
I'd be interested in a rebutal at my email address.
IB
It could be that it could be done open source, submitted to capable peer-review, and then implemented. That, for one, would greatly reduce the chances of this happening. Waiting until a technology is in use and then opening it up to the general research community to "prove" it's a proven technology is absurd.
Our schools are dysfunctional, but the proper thing to do isn't to crash a server. The proper thing to do is report the facts as they are. I advocate strong journalism, and being a journalist personally, I have to advocate having the facts. If you're interested in supporting the school or raising hell in protest against it, then you have to do your homework.
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For instance,
http://www.mckinneyisd.net/gen_info/board.html
reports that the President of the board is Geralyn Kever.
Furthermore,
http://www.lwvcollin.org/YEOmckin.html
reports the following contact information which could be theoretically used to contact the President for comments and fact finding and proper journalism:
Geralyn Kever
2409 Clublake Trl
Mc Kinney, TX 75070-4003
(972)562-1186
(home address and number?)
She's a public official who functions as the executive ombudsman. Her facts and the facts of the school should be open to use under the full extent the law permits! The reason I present this information is that what is needed is objective journalism: an inquiry into the situation. Investigation!
The following links might aid in healthy investigation of the scenario. All are public informaiton.
http://www.tasb.org/legislative/reports/1998/ma
http://askted.tea.state.tx.us/cd-rom/start/quic
http://www.mckinneytexas.org/government/Council
http://www.duncanville.k12.tx.us/txschdir/quick
http://mckinneyisd.net/board/minutes-10-20-99.h
Furthermore,
Robb Temple
Sales
Lynn Sperry
Magazine Publisher
Wade Cramer
Vice President
Engineer/Self Employed
Leonard Evans
Driving School Owner
Betty Petkovsek
Secretary
Pharmacist
Wade Johnson
Insurance Agent
are additional names listed by the school district as being possible sources... investigate investigate and report, as I say!
Perhaps a website might be started to a journalistic approach to gathering the facts. A healthy journalism is the blood of free speech and the enemy of tyranny. Free speech.
Teaching would be fine if the system didn't suck on a massive scale, but the fact is that the average school district couldn't keep truly excellent teachers because of constraints that legal/financial departments would place upon them. This is why finances and ethics aren't taught in schools. It would expose the self-serving morons who run them.
This makes sense, because after all, why would you possibly want to stop the abuse and help the student with his problems. Actually. Perhaps he should be expelled from social settings in public. After all, if one has a hard time dealing with harassment to which the establishment is indifferent, it makes sense to do the easiest thing, and remove the picked on. Right?
Why can't you? It's not illegal to want things now, is it?