"The point is that the school's policy, as applied, appears to infringe unreasonably."
Really? So the school should allow a student to bulk email whatever they want without restriction? I don't think so. It would infringe unreasonably if it prevented communication based on content, or in some way prevented the student from expressing her views, but establishing rules for the university's communication systems doesn't even come close to what the Bill of Rights is talking about.
A better example using the post office metaphor would be as follows: You sign up for a USPS commercial account, and sign their agreement. You use this service to mail out some form of protected speech on a regular basis. One day, you print a label for a 1 pound box, and slap it on a 50 pound box of your literature and drop it off. USPS returns the box, and explains that they are happy to ship your materials, but you must follow the terms of the contract you agreed to when shipping materials. You tell USPS that you'll do whatever you want and they can't stop you. When they cancel your account, you scrape up some lawyers and scream that your 1st amendment rights have been violated.
But of course they haven't. USPS hasn't prevented you from speaking, they've merely prevented you from distributing your writings using their "network" in a way that would be detrimental to the efficacy of said system.
The same is true for the student. They haven't prevented her from distributing her message in other ways. She's not being censured for the content. The University's sole complaint is that she has used their resources in a manner inconsistent with the terms she agreed upon. They even started reasonably nicely, informing her what she did was inappropriate and advising her as to the proper way to go about it in the future.
The sole issue here is her violation of agreed upon policy. She now having an 'Oh Shit' moment, as she realizes that what she did and her subsequent behavior could have real consequences to her academic career, and is attempting to get MSU to back off by throwing the 1st amendment into the mix.
I find this misuse of our most precious amendment extremely distasteful, and sincerely hope that the University doesn't cave in to such obvious redirection.
It takes a special person to poke fun at people's religious beliefs. If sacred clothing is really that amusing to you, perhaps you would like to come up with a clever and "funny" name for the Jewish kippah (aka yarmulke), and then post it in a Slashdot discussion in a similarly off-point way. If you are stumped, I'm sure there are Neo-Nazi organizations out there that could help you come up with one.
Does the movie start out "One Large Hadron Collider to rule them all, one Large Hadron Collider to find them, one Large Hadron Collider to bring the protons, and in the 14 teraelectron darkness bind them" ?
So that special little something that you need once a year, but when you need it, you need it RIGHT NOW is tied to the foot of a pigeon fluttering around the warehouse somewhere. Frequency of use does NOT denote importance.
For us, "settle privately" would be a nice way of saying "take into the back parking lot and kick the crap out of." I mean what are they going to do, call the cops? I'd love to hear THAT conversation.
Bad Guy: "Officer, these men beat me severely with IBM model M keyboards!" Officer: "What possessed you to to this?" Good Guys: "Sir, he defrauded our company of 3 million dollars." Officer: "Oh, in that case, try this nightstick."
" I'd definitely rather see my tax dollars spent on a project to deter meteorites as opposed to seeing money thrown around with people crying "Al Qaeda" anytime."
Why not combine the two? A project that deflects meteors into certain areas of the Middle East could kill two birds with one stone. Ok, technically, it would kill one stone and one bird with a hyper-expensive government project, but you know what I mean.
Informative yes, but a bit wrong. Hoosier refers to ALL residents of Indiana, not merely the athletes of IU. The term Hoosier was in use long before it was adopted by Indiana University's sports teams. Its just that the folks at IU aren't creative enough to come up with anything else. Go Boilermakers!!:)
Each person could be implanted with a small, embedded device to monitor, run diagnostics, and transmit an alert to a monitoring station, just like our servers.
Of course the danger of friends hacking your system there is apparent: knock knock "Uh...Mr.Jones? Its the paramedics, we're here about your um...Hamster problem. Don't worry, we brought the KY!";)
"This is exactly the kind of behaviour that makes me hate Intel & Microsoft. This is not politics, it is clearly abuse of power, clearly the attitude of a monopolist that can't stand a bit of competition."
Since when is politics NOT about abuse of power? Don't you watch the news?
In any case, actually hating MS and Intel is simply ridiculous. They are merely behaving like any other major player in an "open and free market economy." This is what the market economy is all about, the companies provide a needed service or product, and the people buy from the company that gives them the best product at the most reasonable cost.
To believe that this situation in the motherboard market is in any way unique, and a sign that it is a closed market, is ludicrous. It occurs any time one or two companies dominate a market for any length of time. Recall with me the late 70/early 80s, when people discovered that the Japanese could provide them with cars that got better gas mileage than Detroit even dreamed of offering. The shakeup that resulted therein led to a massive paradigm-shift in the domestic auto industry, and a readjustment to the demands of the consumer. Any time a corporation ignores the needs of the consumer for too long, it pays the price in the marketplace.
Jeeesh...good thing this is a fairly anonymous type of deal..else you could be in some serious trouble from the ABATE legal defense team. What's wrong with biker bars?
In any case, while I'm not generally one to get overly excited about this sort of thing, I did immediatly have one reaction, and that is this:
Without providing a little information as to why you're an expert, making a disparaging remark about "the Maori way" seems somewhat inappropriate. It is off-the-cuff remarks like this which cause people to react (and overreact) to other references to their culture which are legitimately meant to be harmless. If the Maori are paranoid about their culture/tattoos/language, could it be because they feel they are not treated with respect by the rest of the world? By making statements of a snide, disrespectful nature, you are perpetuating the the very thing which you claim to despise.
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President Obama has decreed that money will now fall from the sky, which is how he will pay for most of his initiatives.
"Not enough money in the pension fund?"
What's a pension fund?
"i thought this was a news site"
Really? That's so cute!
I'm with you. GalCiv and GalCiv 2 are the games MOO3 should have been.
Combine it with a motion sensor near your door, and have it warn you to duck under your desk.
"The point is that the school's policy, as applied, appears to infringe unreasonably."
Really? So the school should allow a student to bulk email whatever they want without restriction? I don't think so. It would infringe unreasonably if it prevented communication based on content, or in some way prevented the student from expressing her views, but establishing rules for the university's communication systems doesn't even come close to what the Bill of Rights is talking about.
A better example using the post office metaphor would be as follows:
You sign up for a USPS commercial account, and sign their agreement. You use this service to mail out some form of protected speech on a regular basis. One day, you print a label for a 1 pound box, and slap it on a 50 pound box of your literature and drop it off. USPS returns the box, and explains that they are happy to ship your materials, but you must follow the terms of the contract you agreed to when shipping materials. You tell USPS that you'll do whatever you want and they can't stop you. When they cancel your account, you scrape up some lawyers and scream that your 1st amendment rights have been violated.
But of course they haven't. USPS hasn't prevented you from speaking, they've merely prevented you from distributing your writings using their "network" in a way that would be detrimental to the efficacy of said system.
The same is true for the student. They haven't prevented her from distributing her message in other ways. She's not being censured for the content. The University's sole complaint is that she has used their resources in a manner inconsistent with the terms she agreed upon. They even started reasonably nicely, informing her what she did was inappropriate and advising her as to the proper way to go about it in the future.
The sole issue here is her violation of agreed upon policy. She now having an 'Oh Shit' moment, as she realizes that what she did and her subsequent behavior could have real consequences to her academic career, and is attempting to get MSU to back off by throwing the 1st amendment into the mix.
I find this misuse of our most precious amendment extremely distasteful, and sincerely hope that the University doesn't cave in to such obvious redirection.
You do realize this is /., not the BET forums, right?
It takes a special person to poke fun at people's religious beliefs. If sacred clothing is really that amusing to you, perhaps you would like to come up with a clever and "funny" name for the Jewish kippah (aka yarmulke), and then post it in a Slashdot discussion in a similarly off-point way. If you are stumped, I'm sure there are Neo-Nazi organizations out there that could help you come up with one.
Forget "bad odor liquid," use pig's blood and a grenade to send the perpetrator out in style..
Sure, she's 12 years old in MERMAID years, but how old is that in HUMAN years?!?!
Land mines?! If the sailors are THAT bad at navigation, magnetic fields are going to be the least of their worries...
Well, they watched it on TV, duh. :)
Does the movie start out
"One Large Hadron Collider to rule them all, one Large Hadron Collider to find them, one Large Hadron Collider to bring the protons, and in the 14 teraelectron darkness bind them" ?
We wonders, precious, we wonders...
"idle data goes on slower/cheaper storage"
So that special little something that you need once a year, but when you need it, you need it RIGHT NOW is tied to the foot of a pigeon fluttering around the warehouse somewhere. Frequency of use does NOT denote importance.
For us, "settle privately" would be a nice way of saying "take into the back parking lot and kick the crap out of." I mean what are they going to do, call the cops? I'd love to hear THAT conversation.
Bad Guy: "Officer, these men beat me severely with IBM model M keyboards!"
Officer: "What possessed you to to this?"
Good Guys: "Sir, he defrauded our company of 3 million dollars."
Officer: "Oh, in that case, try this nightstick."
" I'd definitely rather see my tax dollars spent on a project to deter meteorites as opposed to seeing money thrown around with people crying "Al Qaeda" anytime."
Why not combine the two? A project that deflects meteors into certain areas of the Middle East could kill two birds with one stone. Ok, technically, it would kill one stone and one bird with a hyper-expensive government project, but you know what I mean.
Call the Israelis. That Trophy system isn't quite a shield, but it sure looks like one on the video (wmv).
So you've seen Waterworld too, then?
Your cat is inanimate? Is he stuffed?
Informative yes, but a bit wrong. Hoosier refers to ALL residents of Indiana, not merely the athletes of IU. The term Hoosier was in use long before it was adopted by Indiana University's sports teams. Its just that the folks at IU aren't creative enough to come up with anything else. Go Boilermakers!! :)
How the crap do you smoke a floppy? Or more importantly, why? ;)
Each person could be implanted with a small, embedded device to monitor, run diagnostics, and transmit an alert to a monitoring station, just like our servers.
Of course the danger of friends hacking your system there is apparent: ;)
knock knock "Uh...Mr.Jones? Its the paramedics, we're here about your um...Hamster problem. Don't worry, we brought the KY!"
Ooohh...can we really be like Canada? The puppet of dead empire. Oh, GOODY!
"This is exactly the kind of behaviour that makes me hate Intel & Microsoft. This is not politics, it is clearly abuse of power, clearly the attitude of a monopolist that can't stand a bit of competition." Since when is politics NOT about abuse of power? Don't you watch the news? In any case, actually hating MS and Intel is simply ridiculous. They are merely behaving like any other major player in an "open and free market economy." This is what the market economy is all about, the companies provide a needed service or product, and the people buy from the company that gives them the best product at the most reasonable cost. To believe that this situation in the motherboard market is in any way unique, and a sign that it is a closed market, is ludicrous. It occurs any time one or two companies dominate a market for any length of time. Recall with me the late 70/early 80s, when people discovered that the Japanese could provide them with cars that got better gas mileage than Detroit even dreamed of offering. The shakeup that resulted therein led to a massive paradigm-shift in the domestic auto industry, and a readjustment to the demands of the consumer. Any time a corporation ignores the needs of the consumer for too long, it pays the price in the marketplace.
Jeeesh...good thing this is a fairly anonymous type of deal..else you could be in some serious trouble from the ABATE legal defense team. What's wrong with biker bars? In any case, while I'm not generally one to get overly excited about this sort of thing, I did immediatly have one reaction, and that is this: Without providing a little information as to why you're an expert, making a disparaging remark about "the Maori way" seems somewhat inappropriate. It is off-the-cuff remarks like this which cause people to react (and overreact) to other references to their culture which are legitimately meant to be harmless. If the Maori are paranoid about their culture/tattoos/language, could it be because they feel they are not treated with respect by the rest of the world? By making statements of a snide, disrespectful nature, you are perpetuating the the very thing which you claim to despise.