You obviously don't know anything about living near the north shore of Chicago. Libertyville has very few crying poverty. They pay very well for their children's educations.
Libertyville Community High School District 128 School District Facts 2004 Number of Students - 3,007 2004 Spending Per Student ($) - 13,663
Enrollment of Students with Special Needs (2005) Economically Disadvantaged (%) - This District 2.6 - State 40.0 - County 21.4 English Language Learners (%) - This District 1.6 - State 6.6 - County 7.5
...require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
Participation in extracurricular activities is a privilege not a right. Many schools have had morals and behavior agreements for participants in extracurricular activities for years. This new interpretation of those policies is merely extending that agreement, which the students enter into of their own free will, to cover a new medium.
Besides that what the hell is wrong with kids that want to post pictures of themselves performing illegal and lewd acts online? Didn't get enough attention from Mommy and Daddy?
That's only a threat if you really want to look at it like one.
Bullshit. If he would've made all the complaints that he made without bringing up Columbine then it wouldn't have been able to be perceived as a threat. He did make the comparisson and therefore he made a threat of violence.
It makes no difference where he was or whose hardware he used. The school has a complete responsibility to the other students in that school to protect them from a threat of violent retribution from this ignorant kid. The welfare of the students is their primary responsibility. They are completely justified in their response.
He could've made his point completely clear without making reference to the Columbine murders. If he would've said everything that he said without making reference to those unwarranted killings then he would have a case in complaining that his rights had been violated. But, instead he made a thinly veiled threat and he suffered the consequences of his actions.
Since you aren't clear on this point, that's what happened at Columbine, regardless of their motivation a group of kids got together and went on a killing spree, they murdered their classmates in cold blood. They plotted and planned out what they did. They didn't take it to their families or the autorities at the school to fix what they saw as a problem, they murdered other people for teasing them.
I don't give a rats ass what he was going through at the time. He wasn't being bullied physically by other students, he claims he was bullied by the administration. He had alternatives to what he decided to do, he could've taken it to the PTA or gotten himself a lawyer, which is what he's done now that he made a stupid decision. He certainly hadn't explored all of his options and his decision was a bad one.
Being oppressed is hardly the same as being teased or being abused by your peers, which is what you are describing. Clearly you don't know the difference. A school administrators reaction to utter stupidity is not oppression.
As for saying something about myself and the school board, I comprehend the fact that it's the school's initial and single most important priority to make certain that kids don't get severely injured or killed by other kids. I am also fully aware that a school is not a democratic environment where the students have much say at all in how the school operates. While ignorant children seem to believe otherwise, that's simply the way that it is. The school would have been remiss in not punishing this kid for making threats of violence. The answer is to get a supposedly unstable individual away from the rest of the shcool's population. The way to do that is to suspend or expel him. His complaints did not justify his actions, he was wrong to do what he did.
Everybody gets hassled at one time or another and some get hassled much more than others, but the bottom line is that nobody has the right to threaten or commit violent retribution against another. Grow up.
I feel threatened by you, I cant even have a public Web page with out you bullying me and telling me what has to be removed.... Did you ever stop to think this will start a community backlash? The kids at Columbine did what the did because they were bullied...
He says this after claiming that he feels threatened and bullied and goes on to compare how he feels to a group of mass murderers. This is an implied threat against the entire school population. After reading this, it's quite obvious why the school district would take action against this kid. For all intents and purposes this kid is claiming to relate to a group that committed mass murder. He says that there will be a backlash. In this country, after Columbine, it's not a good idea to relate yourself to those kids and threaten that there will be a backlash.
Come on, this kid will be lucky if he's only been suspended rather than just being expelled altogether. The first amendment does not allow for people to make threats.
After re-reading your posts, and the responses, I don't disagree with you. I interpreted your statements to be supporting Yager's interpretation as fact.
Yager's speculation as to why they might close it sounds viable, but Prabhakar says that it's merely speculation. Which it is. Yager's assumption doesn't seem to address the possibility that Apple might be changing from XNU to something else entirely, which has been continually speculated for years now. Yager also ignores the possibility that they might be drastically changing it and how it operates and withholding it until they've gotten it to the point that they are comfortable with releasing it. Nobody but those inside Apple know for sure and speculation presented as fact is useless, it only serves to exacerbate matters.
Since they have never released XNU under X86 thus far it is still "business as usual" at Apple even though they've always made XNU under PPC available. They have time to make their decision and it's well within their right to do so. So, as I said before, be patient. The news will come when they are ready to release it. Until then, it doesn't matter if you or anybody else demands them to make their intentions known now or not. They've, according to Yager, stated that "...the state of an OS X-compatible open source x86 Darwin kernel is in flux." Until they release it or announce that they won't we've got unsupported speculation based on a lack of evidence.
If I called Apple because I'd waited a month for my MacBook to arrive, and asked if the MacBook had been discontinued, they'd be pretty open about the fact it's still in production.
This is what I saw as your straw-man. This has nothing at all to do with your point. While you may be attempting to make a valid correlation here, it really isn't one. Your attributing this position to Apple, your true opponent, as they haven't given you what you want, information/code. This is not as simple as your hardware shipping late and Apple needing to explain themselves. I can see the point you are getting at, but the statement doesn't really apply the same way as the situation under discussion.
The fact that Apple has made no comment suggests that the future release of the source code is open to question.
This is very true. Sorry for getting into reactionary/. mode. It was a long day and sometimes that will happen...
Uh, you don't appear to be presenting an argument, you seem to have an unsupported opinion. By the way, your position (not argument) makes sense to you. Yet you have at least two people who appear to disagree with the "logic" which lead you to your position, not that that really matters.
...you don't have a counter-argument.
He doesn't need one. He's merely presenting what he sees as relevant facts to the seemingly unreasonable.
...by delaying and refusing to confirm it will be released, they're sending exactly the opposite message.
Actually, they're not, they're sending no message whatsoever. The opposite message would be to say that they're not going to release it and then release it anyhow. You're choosing to assume that the lack of a information is what you are interpreting it to be.
You might be right, but you also might be wrong. The issue here seems to be that you are certain that your interpretation of the lack of information has to be the correct one.
Wow. What a horribly sad little straw man you've constructed to support your interpretation of Apple's non-disclosure. You clearly don't understand how this company works. There has been zero substantiation of whether they will close the source or not. The analysts are speculating, which is what they do.
Apple has been known, on many occasions, to not reveal free improvements to hardware until it was in their customers hands. Which is just as unimportant as your argument.
Apple is notorious for playing their hand close to their chest. If they want you to know something officially, then they'll tell you. If they don't they won't. Speculation about Apple has never gotten people very far...
Whew!!! Thanks for small favors. Now that Symantec is suing Microsoft, they're able to use the lawsuit as an excuse for delaying the launch of VISTA for a few more months.
How much cash is Billy going to "settle" for so that they can hold back the launch of the biggest piece of vapor in history?
Microsoft needs to give up on the backwards compatible bloatware concept and finally release a quick streamlined version of their OS. Faster processors and more memory shouldn't be what's required to run the OS faster every single time. Nobody cares if they can run Windows 98 software or not.
They say that the bio-diesel made from used cooking oil makes the emission smell like french fries. Sort of makes you wonder what sewage is going to smell like.
I don't think so. I think that's what Sony's marketing is doing.
If there wasn't interest in the 360 for things other than gaming then MS wouldn't have built in all the other functionality and they wouldn't have been scrambling at the E3 to get the HD-DVD add-on announced. Like they did. This isn't a generation about gaming, no matter what Nintendo thinks.
Sure PS is synonymous with video games just like Sony is synonymous with home entertainment. The price of the system isn't that much more than the 360 and it's got much more to offer. Besides that, look at it this way, for a measly $200 more than you'd spend on the 360 you get a 1080p HD optical media device that would cost 5 times as much alone. The price is more than worth it. The HD-DVD add-on from MS will probably cost at least $200 anyhow. Heck. they want $100 for a 20GB HDD.
Heh, it's funny that you say that. We have a guy here in our office who says that his code is "very complex". This strikes me as being a bit redundant.:)
I believe in this case, that "highly" is an adverb which describes the adjective "more" and "educated" is a verb, I think, all of these are describing the "people/person" which is the noun. Educated is the tough one here because it is also an adjective and in this case is more of an adjective than a verb.
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You obviously don't know anything about living near the north shore of Chicago. Libertyville has very few crying poverty. They pay very well for their children's educations.
Libertyville Community High School District 128
School District Facts 2004 Number of Students - 3,007
2004 Spending Per Student ($) - 13,663
Enrollment of Students with Special Needs (2005)
Economically Disadvantaged (%) - This District 2.6 - State 40.0 - County 21.4
English Language Learners (%) - This District 1.6 - State 6.6 - County 7.5
So, please, don't worry about Libertyville.
Besides that what the hell is wrong with kids that want to post pictures of themselves performing illegal and lewd acts online? Didn't get enough attention from Mommy and Daddy?
It makes no difference where he was or whose hardware he used. The school has a complete responsibility to the other students in that school to protect them from a threat of violent retribution from this ignorant kid. The welfare of the students is their primary responsibility. They are completely justified in their response.
He could've made his point completely clear without making reference to the Columbine murders. If he would've said everything that he said without making reference to those unwarranted killings then he would have a case in complaining that his rights had been violated. But, instead he made a thinly veiled threat and he suffered the consequences of his actions.
Since you aren't clear on this point, that's what happened at Columbine, regardless of their motivation a group of kids got together and went on a killing spree, they murdered their classmates in cold blood. They plotted and planned out what they did. They didn't take it to their families or the autorities at the school to fix what they saw as a problem, they murdered other people for teasing them.
I don't give a rats ass what he was going through at the time. He wasn't being bullied physically by other students, he claims he was bullied by the administration. He had alternatives to what he decided to do, he could've taken it to the PTA or gotten himself a lawyer, which is what he's done now that he made a stupid decision. He certainly hadn't explored all of his options and his decision was a bad one.
Being oppressed is hardly the same as being teased or being abused by your peers, which is what you are describing. Clearly you don't know the difference. A school administrators reaction to utter stupidity is not oppression.
As for saying something about myself and the school board, I comprehend the fact that it's the school's initial and single most important priority to make certain that kids don't get severely injured or killed by other kids. I am also fully aware that a school is not a democratic environment where the students have much say at all in how the school operates. While ignorant children seem to believe otherwise, that's simply the way that it is. The school would have been remiss in not punishing this kid for making threats of violence. The answer is to get a supposedly unstable individual away from the rest of the shcool's population. The way to do that is to suspend or expel him. His complaints did not justify his actions, he was wrong to do what he did.
Everybody gets hassled at one time or another and some get hassled much more than others, but the bottom line is that nobody has the right to threaten or commit violent retribution against another. Grow up.
I'm sorry, was I unclear. Apparently I was. Let me restate.
Threats of violence are not covered under the constitution. Whether or not you agree with the correlation, that's what this kid did.
Come on, this kid will be lucky if he's only been suspended rather than just being expelled altogether. The first amendment does not allow for people to make threats.
With entire companies that sprang up to create the resale market it's ludicrous for Sony to suggest that they would stop it from happening.
I would bet that the time that they will make the announcement as to whether or not they intend to release XNU for x86 will happen at the WWDC.
Yager's speculation as to why they might close it sounds viable, but Prabhakar says that it's merely speculation. Which it is. Yager's assumption doesn't seem to address the possibility that Apple might be changing from XNU to something else entirely, which has been continually speculated for years now. Yager also ignores the possibility that they might be drastically changing it and how it operates and withholding it until they've gotten it to the point that they are comfortable with releasing it. Nobody but those inside Apple know for sure and speculation presented as fact is useless, it only serves to exacerbate matters.
Since they have never released XNU under X86 thus far it is still "business as usual" at Apple even though they've always made XNU under PPC available. They have time to make their decision and it's well within their right to do so. So, as I said before, be patient. The news will come when they are ready to release it. Until then, it doesn't matter if you or anybody else demands them to make their intentions known now or not. They've, according to Yager, stated that "...the state of an OS X-compatible open source x86 Darwin kernel is in flux." Until they release it or announce that they won't we've got unsupported speculation based on a lack of evidence.This is what I saw as your straw-man. This has nothing at all to do with your point. While you may be attempting to make a valid correlation here, it really isn't one. Your attributing this position to Apple, your true opponent, as they haven't given you what you want, information/code. This is not as simple as your hardware shipping late and Apple needing to explain themselves. I can see the point you are getting at, but the statement doesn't really apply the same way as the situation under discussion.
This is very true. Sorry for getting into reactionary
You might be right, but you also might be wrong. The issue here seems to be that you are certain that your interpretation of the lack of information has to be the correct one.
Wow. What a horribly sad little straw man you've constructed to support your interpretation of Apple's non-disclosure. You clearly don't understand how this company works. There has been zero substantiation of whether they will close the source or not. The analysts are speculating, which is what they do.
Apple has been known, on many occasions, to not reveal free improvements to hardware until it was in their customers hands. Which is just as unimportant as your argument.
Patience is a virtue my friend. Have some...
Wait for the conformation or denial of the rumor. Rumors are what they are. Until they are corroborated, they are just rumors. Take the recent Sony Blu-ray report as an example and wait for the facts rather than jumping to unsupported conclusions.
Apple is notorious for playing their hand close to their chest. If they want you to know something officially, then they'll tell you. If they don't they won't. Speculation about Apple has never gotten people very far...
Nice to see a response from Apple. What did Creative expect when they sued one of the most notoriously litigious companies in the US?
Whew!!! Thanks for small favors. Now that Symantec is suing Microsoft, they're able to use the lawsuit as an excuse for delaying the launch of VISTA for a few more months.
How much cash is Billy going to "settle" for so that they can hold back the launch of the biggest piece of vapor in history?
Are you suggesting that's a bad thing?
I can't get over the idea that it requires 15 GB of hard drive space.
Heck, OS X comes in needing a measly "3GB of available hard disk space (4GB if you install the developer tools)" and most of the new features in VISTA were essentially stolen concepts from Apple, again...
Microsoft needs to give up on the backwards compatible bloatware concept and finally release a quick streamlined version of their OS. Faster processors and more memory shouldn't be what's required to run the OS faster every single time. Nobody cares if they can run Windows 98 software or not.
It doesn't render properly in Safari either...
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They say that the bio-diesel made from used cooking oil makes the emission smell like french fries. Sort of makes you wonder what sewage is going to smell like.
I don't think so. I think that's what Sony's marketing is doing.
If there wasn't interest in the 360 for things other than gaming then MS wouldn't have built in all the other functionality and they wouldn't have been scrambling at the E3 to get the HD-DVD add-on announced. Like they did. This isn't a generation about gaming, no matter what Nintendo thinks.
Sure PS is synonymous with video games just like Sony is synonymous with home entertainment. The price of the system isn't that much more than the 360 and it's got much more to offer. Besides that, look at it this way, for a measly $200 more than you'd spend on the 360 you get a 1080p HD optical media device that would cost 5 times as much alone. The price is more than worth it. The HD-DVD add-on from MS will probably cost at least $200 anyhow. Heck. they want $100 for a 20GB HDD.
So, is it that there will be no HDMI support on the lower priced version or is it that there will only be single monitor HDMI?
It seems unreasonable to remove it completely from the less expensive unit and more likely that it would only have a single HDMI connection.
This is not a gaming system. The PS3 is vying to control the living room. Let those that can't afford it buy a Wii.
What's stopping you? PAL and shipping...
I believe in this case, that "highly" is an adverb which describes the adjective "more" and "educated" is a verb, I think, all of these are describing the "people/person" which is the noun. Educated is the tough one here because it is also an adjective and in this case is more of an adjective than a verb.