the NDAA killed the first, fourth, and sixth amendments.
The NDAA provision is a statutory law, it CANNOT overrule any amendment. If they are in conflict, then the NDAA loses.
And after that, WTF? How did it kill the first amendment? Did it establish a relgion? Prohibit the free exercise of religion? Abridge the freedom of speech, or press? Or our right to peacefully assemble? Or did it eliminate our ability to petition the government for a redress of our grievances?
All of the industries you named have prominent examples of companies and styles that have go under because people just stopped being interested or because their product or style was not fashionable anymore.
All the industries? When have people ever been uninterested in drugs?
Marketcetera recently saw a 1.0 release, and is currently deployed in over 20 financial institute production deployments according to their confluence page. It uses the open and standard FIX financial data protocol, and personally its one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I would love to get a team of coders and quant. analysts together, hook Marketcetera up to a FIX compatible provider like Penson or Lime Brokerage (yes, same people as Limewire), and start a blackbox fund. You could rival any major financial institute for almost no start up costs. Truly amazing.
Things have matured a lot lately, and you can almost get by without writing any browser specific hacks. Umm kinda. Tons of browser specific Javascript (and CSS!!!) hacks are still needed to write an app that plays nice across all platforms. The only difference is that developers of libraries such as JQuery, Prototype, and ExtJS have done an excellent job of encapsulating all the hacks into a library with a consistent API for you to use. They give you normalized event handling, keycode input, DOM element lookup etc. However if you tried to fly solo and develop without one of these libraries, Javascript would still suck as much as it ever did. BTW, my company wrote a fairly large web app using ExtJS and made extensive use of its templating system, giving a very snappy Ajax app. I highly recommend it.
I haven't RTFA, obviously, but I'm willing to bet that "Circumvents the bootup process" = bootloader. If not, Microsoft would probably be sending in the DMCA hounds with bees in their mouths.
I would like for the Slashdot community to clarify matters. Sure, I can give you my expert legal opinion as soon as I get back from getting medical advice from my butcher and some advice on my love life from my carpenter.
Besides the cool art, I think its very cool that they can do this and not get suspended, washable chalk or not. It takes a certain kind of advanced learning on the administration's part, that you might not expect from a TX high school, or anywhere else for that matter.
Umm, maybe you haven't checked, but HD ready TVs can be had for as low as $200 these days: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub mit=ENE&N=2102640411+4018&name=%24200+-+%24300 If your not working so many jobs that you dont have time to read/. you can afford an HDTV, even if its not a big one. The price went back up, but my roommate and I just split this Hitachi 55" TV, which we got for 899 from Circuit City right before the 4th of July. The picture quality on SD and HD content is amazing. Its only 720p but still looks great, and the price was impossible to turn down. So I would definitely say at this point, anyone can get an HD tv. Getting HD content to watch is another story though, and maybe more expensive than the TVs now.
Since you obviously don't go to UCSB, let me clue you in on two things. 1st - Facebook has already become a huge part of the social interacion of students here in the 1 year or so we have had it. Every few days we get notified by friends about upcoming parties and concerts, and it is an easy way to share pictures of say, our GIANT halloween celebration. I use my account alot, and I refuse to use MySpace(even pre-News Corp). 2nd - When you are a freshman, you really do have alot of time on your hands. 3rd - We haven't actually started class yet. Due to the crazy UC quarter system, classes don't start until Sept. 28th!
Don't give someone a hard time for making a short drive to protest something which really does affect his or her life, even if its not a huge deal in your eyes. All you guys are doing is complaining that there is something better to protest about. At best, you are protesting his actions. At worst, you are promoting complacency.
For possession of an ounce or less, it is a ticket not an arrestable offense. However, it is the only non arrestable offense in California that is a misdemeanor. It is not an infraction like a motor vehicle violation. You cannot pay by mail. Court appearance is mandatory. Furthermore, misdemeanors can show up on backround checks and influence job hiring etc. Not to mention, if you are over 18 yet under 21, you can lose your driver's license a year, even if your possession had nothing to do with driving. So it is a big deal for many people. As far as raising revenue for a town in need, what makes you think our town sees a penny of the hundreds of dollars in fines a person has to pay? It goes to the police and courts, none of it gets invested in our public parks or health programs or anything that would benefit the citizens.
Despite what some might believe, this is not uncommon. It has to do with the way police are trained, and will remain an inherent flaw until something changes. I personally see it all the time. I live in Isla Vista, California, which is what I affectionately call the nicest ghetto in the world. It is only one to two square miles, with a population of about 20,000 people (not a typo). It is comprised almost entirely of students attending UCSB and Santa Barbara City College, as well as a large latino population. Here, we have the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, which many people don't exactly like. They constantly lie to students, illegally enter property, and illegal search people, usually in the name of writing an alcohol or marijuana possesion ticket. I was at a friends house when the IVFP entered the party for a "noise violation" and proceeded to bang on the door of the room we were in. The door was opened and the office claimed that he could smell marijuana. No one would admit they had any, and no one had been smoking atleast since I had entered the room. The cop proceeded to take people out of the room one by one. When he called me up, he stuck his hands in my pockets, and I immediately objected, claiming he had no probably cause or consent from me to enter my pockets. In my pockets, I had nothing illegal, though I did happen to have rolling papers, which I made quite clear were legal. This caused me to be taken into another room, and tested to see if I was drunk. As RajivSLK mentioned, this is what happens when you anger a police officer. Aslo, as he pointed out, there is no evidence(i.e. breathalyzer) required to cite you with drunk in public, or drunk and disorderly conduct. After determing I was not drunk, the other officer said he was "going to be nice and let me go this time" as if I had commited a crime. No marijuana citations were issued that night. A month later, at another house, police arrived, again for a noise violation. One of the officers promptly recognized me and called me "the marijuana man", and proceeded to pat me down. He stayed over my clothes, keeping the search legal this time, however he kept yelling at me to spread my legs farther apart until you would have sworn I was an olympic gymnast. Furthermore, I was lucky. I can't even fit on one hand the number of friends I have had arrested for saying something to the police when someone else was being arrested. Things were so bad here at one point that the student government had to launch a campaign against the police, informing students of their rights and accepting police complaint reports that they would then file for you. Thankfully we also have free legal advice available to all students and are currently forming an official position called Office of the Student Advocate. Anyways, here is the point: Police officers operate this way on purpose. This is how they are trained! It is not really good cop bad cop thing as much as you would believe. The police's job is not really to uphold the law. That is the court's job. The police are there to investigate crime and catch "bad guys". If the 4th ammendment gets in their way, oh well, let the courts decide that. They are trained to lie, decieve, and push the boundaries, usually in search of a verbal confession. Most cops don't even know the law, they are just there to do what they were trained to due. Read Breaking Rank, by Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, to learn about how the police system fosters violence, racism, and homophobia as a matter of practice. Finally, if you don't know how to deal with police and refuse a warrantless search, please please please watch Busted. There is a YouTube link already in the slashback. Finally, if you are afraid to talk to police officers in such a situation, keep something like the NORML Freedom Card in your wallet. Simply invoke your right to remain silent, and hand the card to the officer. Its simple yet very effective.
Dmitri Martin on the Daily Show segment about MySpace and Social Networking sites: "On the downside they're loaded with sexual predators. On the upside they're loaded with sexual prey."
I believe that he is, tho I'm admittedly lacking a site a the moment. I do know that Peter Lewis, CEO of Progressive, and Soros' major partner in drug law reform, was arrested for posession in New Zealand. He was never charged because he donated a large amount of money, but thats just standard politics. And whoever modded my original post as flamebait? You are the people whose minds I am working to change.
"This fellow seems quite intelligent and able to express himself in writing. I wonder if he wrote that or if his publicist did it for him.I've had this idea that rockers are spaced-out potheads."
You mean you had the idea that people who played music and smoked pot can't write.
Intelligent responsible cannabis users are the silent majority. You just hear about stereotype potheads. Ever heard of Carl Sagan or billionaire George Soros?
And you'd be shocked at the large overlap of the computer nerd and pothead demographics if you didn't see it firsthand.
Glad to see that you've opened your mind atleast a little though.
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the NDAA killed the first, fourth, and sixth amendments.
The NDAA provision is a statutory law, it CANNOT overrule any amendment. If they are in conflict, then the NDAA loses.
And after that, WTF? How did it kill the first amendment? Did it establish a relgion? Prohibit the free exercise of religion? Abridge the freedom of speech, or press? Or our right to peacefully assemble? Or did it eliminate our ability to petition the government for a redress of our grievances?
Actually yes, a strong case has been made for how NDAA abridges freedom of speech for the press: http://www.alternet.org/story/153843/chris_hedges%3A_why_i'm_suing_barack_obama/
All of the industries you named have prominent examples of companies and styles that have go under because people just stopped being interested or because their product or style was not fashionable anymore.
All the industries? When have people ever been uninterested in drugs?
Marketcetera recently saw a 1.0 release, and is currently deployed in over 20 financial institute production deployments according to their confluence page. It uses the open and standard FIX financial data protocol, and personally its one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I would love to get a team of coders and quant. analysts together, hook Marketcetera up to a FIX compatible provider like Penson or Lime Brokerage (yes, same people as Limewire), and start a blackbox fund. You could rival any major financial institute for almost no start up costs. Truly amazing.
If you haven't seen it:
The Flying Car - A short by Kevin Smith
Think Monster is expensive?
http://www.pearcable.com/
Anjou Speaker Cable
3 foot pair - $2750
8 foot pair - $5250
12 foot pair - $7250
You can start laughing/crying now.
I haven't RTFA, obviously, but I'm willing to bet that "Circumvents the bootup process" = bootloader. If not, Microsoft would probably be sending in the DMCA hounds with bees in their mouths.
Besides the cool art, I think its very cool that they can do this and not get suspended, washable chalk or not. It takes a certain kind of advanced learning on the administration's part, that you might not expect from a TX high school, or anywhere else for that matter.
A short commissioned by Jay Leno, Dante and Randal were demanding a flying car in 2002. Watch this if you've never seen it.
Building on your great joke:
plz use cvr sheet 4 tps, also need u @ ofc sat TBG
If you guys didnt know, the EFF helped with this case. http://www.eff.org/news/
Umm, maybe you haven't checked, but HD ready TVs can be had for as low as $200 these days: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub mit=ENE&N=2102640411+4018&name=%24200+-+%24300 /. you can afford an HDTV, even if its not a big one. The price went back up, but my roommate and I just split this Hitachi 55" TV, which we got for 899 from Circuit City right before the 4th of July. The picture quality on SD and HD content is amazing. Its only 720p but still looks great, and the price was impossible to turn down. So I would definitely say at this point, anyone can get an HD tv. Getting HD content to watch is another story though, and maybe more expensive than the TVs now.
If your not working so many jobs that you dont have time to read
Just wait until they can fit all of Disneyland on one bootleg HDDVD or BluRay Disc.
Since you obviously don't go to UCSB, let me clue you in on two things.
1st - Facebook has already become a huge part of the social interacion of students here in the 1 year or so we have had it. Every few days we get notified by friends about upcoming parties and concerts, and it is an easy way to share pictures of say, our GIANT halloween celebration. I use my account alot, and I refuse to use MySpace(even pre-News Corp).
2nd - When you are a freshman, you really do have alot of time on your hands.
3rd - We haven't actually started class yet. Due to the crazy UC quarter system, classes don't start until Sept. 28th!
Don't give someone a hard time for making a short drive to protest something which really does affect his or her life, even if its not a huge deal in your eyes. All you guys are doing is complaining that there is something better to protest about. At best, you are protesting his actions. At worst, you are promoting complacency.
For possession of an ounce or less, it is a ticket not an arrestable offense. However, it is the only non arrestable offense in California that is a misdemeanor. It is not an infraction like a motor vehicle violation. You cannot pay by mail. Court appearance is mandatory. Furthermore, misdemeanors can show up on backround checks and influence job hiring etc. Not to mention, if you are over 18 yet under 21, you can lose your driver's license a year, even if your possession had nothing to do with driving. So it is a big deal for many people. As far as raising revenue for a town in need, what makes you think our town sees a penny of the hundreds of dollars in fines a person has to pay? It goes to the police and courts, none of it gets invested in our public parks or health programs or anything that would benefit the citizens.
Despite what some might believe, this is not uncommon. It has to do with the way police are trained, and will remain an inherent flaw until something changes. I personally see it all the time. I live in Isla Vista, California, which is what I affectionately call the nicest ghetto in the world. It is only one to two square miles, with a population of about 20,000 people (not a typo). It is comprised almost entirely of students attending UCSB and Santa Barbara City College, as well as a large latino population. Here, we have the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, which many people don't exactly like. They constantly lie to students, illegally enter property, and illegal search people, usually in the name of writing an alcohol or marijuana possesion ticket. I was at a friends house when the IVFP entered the party for a "noise violation" and proceeded to bang on the door of the room we were in. The door was opened and the office claimed that he could smell marijuana. No one would admit they had any, and no one had been smoking atleast since I had entered the room. The cop proceeded to take people out of the room one by one. When he called me up, he stuck his hands in my pockets, and I immediately objected, claiming he had no probably cause or consent from me to enter my pockets. In my pockets, I had nothing illegal, though I did happen to have rolling papers, which I made quite clear were legal. This caused me to be taken into another room, and tested to see if I was drunk. As RajivSLK mentioned, this is what happens when you anger a police officer. Aslo, as he pointed out, there is no evidence(i.e. breathalyzer) required to cite you with drunk in public, or drunk and disorderly conduct. After determing I was not drunk, the other officer said he was "going to be nice and let me go this time" as if I had commited a crime. No marijuana citations were issued that night.
A month later, at another house, police arrived, again for a noise violation. One of the officers promptly recognized me and called me "the marijuana man", and proceeded to pat me down. He stayed over my clothes, keeping the search legal this time, however he kept yelling at me to spread my legs farther apart until you would have sworn I was an olympic gymnast. Furthermore, I was lucky. I can't even fit on one hand the number of friends I have had arrested for saying something to the police when someone else was being arrested. Things were so bad here at one point that the student government had to launch a campaign against the police, informing students of their rights and accepting police complaint reports that they would then file for you. Thankfully we also have free legal advice available to all students and are currently forming an official position called Office of the Student Advocate.
Anyways, here is the point:
Police officers operate this way on purpose. This is how they are trained! It is not really good cop bad cop thing as much as you would believe. The police's job is not really to uphold the law. That is the court's job. The police are there to investigate crime and catch "bad guys". If the 4th ammendment gets in their way, oh well, let the courts decide that. They are trained to lie, decieve, and push the boundaries, usually in search of a verbal confession. Most cops don't even know the law, they are just there to do what they were trained to due. Read Breaking Rank, by Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, to learn about how the police system fosters violence, racism, and homophobia as a matter of practice. Finally, if you don't know how to deal with police and refuse a warrantless search, please please please watch Busted. There is a YouTube link already in the slashback. Finally, if you are afraid to talk to police officers in such a situation, keep something like the NORML Freedom Card in your wallet. Simply invoke your right to remain silent, and hand the card to the officer. Its simple yet very effective.
802.11(pre)N and Super Duper Ultra G routers have had MIMO for some time now. I guess this is new because it was rolled out on a larger scale?
Dmitri Martin on the Daily Show segment about MySpace and Social Networking sites:
"On the downside they're loaded with sexual predators. On the upside they're loaded with sexual prey."
Anyone else suprised we got first?
But that should be illegal! It might make some one want to try marijuana, which is a Gateway Drug(tm)!
Why don't you just hold CTRL when you hit reply, so the reply window will open in a new tab, and the summary will be right where your left it?
The screenshots look alot to me like Musicmatch Jukebox, which was around before iTunes and the iTMS.
I believe that he is, tho I'm admittedly lacking a site a the moment. I do know that Peter Lewis, CEO of Progressive, and Soros' major partner in drug law reform, was arrested for posession in New Zealand. He was never charged because he donated a large amount of money, but thats just standard politics. And whoever modded my original post as flamebait? You are the people whose minds I am working to change.
"This fellow seems quite intelligent and able to express himself in writing. I wonder if he wrote that or if his publicist did it for him.I've had this idea that rockers are spaced-out potheads."
You mean you had the idea that people who played music and smoked pot can't write.
Intelligent responsible cannabis users are the silent majority. You just hear about stereotype potheads. Ever heard of Carl Sagan or billionaire George Soros?
And you'd be shocked at the large overlap of the computer nerd and pothead demographics if you didn't see it firsthand.
Glad to see that you've opened your mind atleast a little though.