The belief that schools are a part of congress, or that schools are agents of the government in general is a concept created soley by the courts, as determined by their interpretation of the law. My point was your assertation SCOTUS interpreting and applying policy based on their reading of the law being unconstitutional was a dangerous assertation given that th e current interpretations of the law (including the reason this case was brought to them in the first place) is based entirely on the SCOTUS doing exactly what you decry.
Careful with your direct quoting. You wouldn't want people to take the things you quote literaly. Otherwise you might notice it says Congress shall make no law. Clearly the school is not congress, nor is a school rule and suspension for violation of that rule a law, merely a policy set forth by an entity that isn't an agent of congress. Nor did the supreme court make any law, they merely ruled that the act of suspending this student for violations of school policies was not a "law" made by "congress" abridging his free speech. Furthermore, you best be glad that the Supreme Court can make policy which dictates how the constitution is interpreted, otherwise, we would still live in an age where congress may not abridge your speech, but the governor of your state can lock you up for saying somethng he doesn't like.
For example, a few years ago, I decided on a specific LCD HDTV (an extravagant purchase that I still regret to this day). At the time, MSRP for the set was $8999. All retail outlets sold it for that price. However, I was able to go online and buy it for only $5499. Had the price floor been set at MSRP or something else favorable to the big retailers, I could've lost thousands of dollars in the purchase.
In theory, a price floor could have saved you even more money. You say that you regret your purchase. Had you not been able to find your TV for less than 8999 you might have reconsidered the purchase and not even bought it at all, saving you $5499 more than the lack of price floors saved you.
Because it'a tax exempt purchase. In order for it to be tax exempt the purchase must be made with the exempt organizations funds and must be used for the purposes of the exempt organization's business. Employee gifts would not count.
The difference was, he was trying to make a tax exempt purchase. When it's a consumer buying a business machine, Dell assumes no real liability. When Dell doesn't charge you tax however, they are 100% liable for that tax until they prove to the tax department that your purchase was on the up and up. When you're dealing with tax exempt purchases, you better expect the merchant to follow the book exactly to the letter. If they don't it's their ass on the line. The submitter should puchase on his card and go through the reimbursement process with the state if he doesn't want to pay tax and still wants a linux based dell.
Yes. As my friends and neighbors, they should get preferential treatment. In addition to that, they favor me with their business in return. That's called having a local economy.
So provide them with your business. What everyone else does with their business though, is none of your concern.
The proof is in the government agreeing to an extended repayment plan. Admission that the debt is valid and owed. If there was any question as to the validity of the debt, it should have been raised 15 years ago.
I wouldn't. Why the hell should my investment go down even 1 cent to help a clearly mismanaged and corrupt school district survive? Solve the corruption problem and maybe we'll talk, but until then, all you're doing is hurting the school district by keeping the people responsible for it's failure from paying the price.
You've never been number 3 have you? Let me tell you how that works. You have management down your back because you're taking up a lot of time with each customer (good quality tech support takes time) and making more work for other people, plus you're not getting through enough people and so the company is spending more on each person who you're helping.
As if that wasn't bad enough, every other customer starts every conversation with you bitching about how long they had to wait for service (remember good quality tech support takes time). Inevitably half of them have no clue what they're talking about, and are so jaded from other tech support experiences they don't belive you.
On top of all of that, at least 5% of your customers will have entirely unreasonable demands, where even after speding every reasonable effort to resolve their problem they're still not satisfied. These people will take up the most of your time and generate more problems from paragraph 1 and 2.
Good, quality, fast and efficient tech support can be had. But until people are willing to pay what a business pays for business class support, tech support for consumers will always be shit.
Allow me to introduce you to a concept called the law of unintended consequences. The people of the state of PA concerned very much for their privacy and protection from an overberring government, put into place a law which forbids people from taping or recording conversations between people without the consent of all involved. Now, Joe Police Officer can't tap your phone, and neither can Private Eye Paul. Nor can Officer Jim sit outside your home with a parabolic mic and record your conversations with your wife. Unfortunately, because the road to hell is paved with good intentions, this also means you can't record a police officer stopping another citizen or even yourself.
The officer may be a public official, but the person he's arresting isn't. Not saying it's right, but just because the officer is a public official doesn't mean the law just goes away.
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Because if your laptop is stolen, the first concern you should have is that the thief might know your name and email address. The ipod being stolen is a bit more reasonable of an argument, but 99% of the people who steal your iPod will erase it and many people already engrave their name and contact info on the iPod anyway. Not to mention your name is usually in the name of the iPod. Honestly, if someone wanted your personal information, routing through your trash would be more effective and safer than swiping your iPod.
I mean, Google is #1 in search easily, but does that make Yahoo! the best because Google gets hit by spammers and the like way way way more often than the rest? No, it does not.
Yes, yes it does. Or at the least, it can certainly mean that Yahoo! is better. In fact, one of the reasons google got to be so popular was precisely because it took less searching to find exactly what you were looking for. That is, when google was new, it had less spam and garbage than Yahoo! or any other search engine simply by virtue of being smaller, therefore google was better for people. As google has gotten more and more popular however, the amount of garbage results returned has jumped considerably. While I still use google primarily, I am very comfortable saying that as a result of increased garbage, google of today is less than google of yesteryear when talking about searching.
Whether it's via obscurity, specific security policies or policing of it's community, mac freeware is 99.9% guaranteed to have no spyware. That makes the freeware community on the mac better than on windows. It doesn't matter why, just that it is.
You miss the point then. Why should I even have to ask that the software I want to download be spyware free? If you use a mac, it's a given. You don't specify it, you just know it. That's what people mean when they say abundance of free quality software for the mac. When you can search for a piece of software and not have to specify that the software be spyware free. And it's the thing I hate about having to work with my PC when I do. There's always one last step or one last search term you need to get the obvious result.
I can't speak for the author, but I can certainly give my experience. I recently had need to burn an ISO file (or perhaps it was a.bin, I don't recall) to a disk. Windows comes with no software built in to handle such a task, so it was off to seek out alternatives. Yes, NERO does it, but I recently had to format my PC, and thus NERO was not installed, nor could I find the NERO disks. All I needed was a piece of software to burn this one image. A search online and through downloads.com turns up many many hits for windows. Out of the first 10 that I found, 8 of them would do exactly what I wanted, but with one minor flaw, they all wanted to install some form of spyware or adware (you do read those EULAs right?). The 9th promised to do what I wanted, but the interface was so out of this world (and in another language to boot) that I couldn't get it to do what I wanted. The 10th program did what I wanted to do , but for some reason couldnt' see my burner. Finaly I hunted down an OSS burning package which had made a windows version (and I specificaly had to search for a *NIX pagkage as this never showed up on any of the windows sites). That worked. Total time spent hunting down burning software: 2 hours.
By contrast, my mac has built in software to burn the image, but assuming I wanted different software:
1) Versiontracker.com 2) Search for "burn" 3) download SimplyBurns (7th hit down, 1st hit that has a description matching task at hand) 4) burn
total time (including checking developer site to ensure support for ISO and.bin): 5 minutes.
And in my experience, this is not an unusal occurance. Finding quality free software to accomplish a specific task and do it easily is a chore for windows and considerably easier for macs. This mostly has to do with mac users having a comunity grown up arround do it yourself, because no one else will.
In 10.4 it's in Keyboard and Mouse preferences: "Use F1-F12 keys to control software features".
Though as I recall, that's only on notebooks. If you have a desktop and your F keys are still being eaten, check your expose preffs and also your universal access stuff for things like full keyboard navigation (which IIRC, used a lot of the lower F keys for menu and focus navigation.
I used to do the same thing, but then the cycle just got too fast. Upgrading the video card meant either picking a lower end card to support older technology, or buying a new mother board to support the new graphics card. Buying new RAM didn't see any boost until you bought a new motherboard, and recently, the purcahse of a new processor has dictated the purchase of a new motherboard as when you're going to spend a hundred or so anyway, you might as well be upgrading. Modular is nice if you want to stay where you are (and even then, only for so long) but if you want to upgrade, everything is relying on everything else, so it doesn't matter. The hard drives are the only things in my years of upgrading that I can say I've kept around long enough to be worth the frustration of the upgrade path, but even then, if I had to get new ones as part of a whole machine purchase, I could put together a nice big array of all the old disks.
Here's what happend to me. My home built athlon machine died. Processor or motherboard, I'm not quite sure which, but it was one of them. I could buy a new processor to test it out, but then I'm out the cost of the processor if it doesn't work. So I went to buy a new motherboard, figuring I would grab one with some expansion room so that if I needed a new processor, I could up it just a little. Turns out, there aren't many boards like mine anymore, at least not at the shops. Sure I could buy it online, but I need this today. Of the options, none appeal to me, not for the money and because the few ones that are worth the money are unuseable for me because they only have PCI E and not AGP. In the end, I settled for an upgrade to both the CPU and the motherboard, but as I didn't want to upgrade my RAM at this time, I was limited a bit even in that selection and I still need a PCI E graphics card. When I'm all said and done with this, I'll have put about $400-$500 into this computer, and even then, I won't have a great machine, just one that I can say is better than what I had before.
By contrast, my father just had his old mac tower die (processors). He found used tower that was a generation after his, swapped out the various expansion cards and harddrive. Same general idea as my repair about $500 for a computer that's better than what he had before, but no where near top of the line. In the end, in my experience, it's about the same, PC or Mac. If you want top of the line, you'll pay thousands, no matter if you upgrade or buy outright. If you want to move up a little, you'll pay a couple hundred, no matter if you upgrade or buy it outright. If you want to stay with the exact machine you have, that's the only place I've seen upgrading do any reall good.
Right, you own it, but it isn't up to Tivo to make it easy or convenient for you to change it or modify it to your liking. Nor is it up to tivo to ensure or even allow a modified box to work with the various services they privide. So yes, you bought the box, it's yours, you can do whatever the hell you want to it. But that doesn't mean Tivo has to let you keep using their services.
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The joy of email is you don't have to answer it right away. If the email you are getting is keeping you from doing real work, then it's because you being to OC over checking and replying and researching every email that comes your way every 15 minutes. Stop checking it so often and learn to prioritize and it's no longer a distraction.
Entrapment is basicaly forcing a crime where none would normaly be comitted. If I offer to sell you drugs, and you accept, that isn't entrapment. If I threaten to kill you if you don't buy my drugs, that is entrapment.
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The belief that schools are a part of congress, or that schools are agents of the government in general is a concept created soley by the courts, as determined by their interpretation of the law. My point was your assertation SCOTUS interpreting and applying policy based on their reading of the law being unconstitutional was a dangerous assertation given that th e current interpretations of the law (including the reason this case was brought to them in the first place) is based entirely on the SCOTUS doing exactly what you decry.
Careful with your direct quoting. You wouldn't want people to take the things you quote literaly. Otherwise you might notice it says Congress shall make no law. Clearly the school is not congress, nor is a school rule and suspension for violation of that rule a law, merely a policy set forth by an entity that isn't an agent of congress. Nor did the supreme court make any law, they merely ruled that the act of suspending this student for violations of school policies was not a "law" made by "congress" abridging his free speech. Furthermore, you best be glad that the Supreme Court can make policy which dictates how the constitution is interpreted, otherwise, we would still live in an age where congress may not abridge your speech, but the governor of your state can lock you up for saying somethng he doesn't like.
For example, a few years ago, I decided on a specific LCD HDTV (an extravagant purchase that I still regret to this day). At the time, MSRP for the set was $8999. All retail outlets sold it for that price. However, I was able to go online and buy it for only $5499. Had the price floor been set at MSRP or something else favorable to the big retailers, I could've lost thousands of dollars in the purchase.
In theory, a price floor could have saved you even more money. You say that you regret your purchase. Had you not been able to find your TV for less than 8999 you might have reconsidered the purchase and not even bought it at all, saving you $5499 more than the lack of price floors saved you.
Because it'a tax exempt purchase. In order for it to be tax exempt the purchase must be made with the exempt organizations funds and must be used for the purposes of the exempt organization's business. Employee gifts would not count.
The difference was, he was trying to make a tax exempt purchase. When it's a consumer buying a business machine, Dell assumes no real liability. When Dell doesn't charge you tax however, they are 100% liable for that tax until they prove to the tax department that your purchase was on the up and up. When you're dealing with tax exempt purchases, you better expect the merchant to follow the book exactly to the letter. If they don't it's their ass on the line. The submitter should puchase on his card and go through the reimbursement process with the state if he doesn't want to pay tax and still wants a linux based dell.
Yes. As my friends and neighbors, they should get preferential treatment. In addition to that, they favor me with their business in return. That's called having a local economy.
So provide them with your business. What everyone else does with their business though, is none of your concern.
The proof is in the government agreeing to an extended repayment plan. Admission that the debt is valid and owed. If there was any question as to the validity of the debt, it should have been raised 15 years ago.
I wouldn't. Why the hell should my investment go down even 1 cent to help a clearly mismanaged and corrupt school district survive? Solve the corruption problem and maybe we'll talk, but until then, all you're doing is hurting the school district by keeping the people responsible for it's failure from paying the price.
Only assuming "wealth" is a finite resource.
You've never been number 3 have you? Let me tell you how that works. You have management down your back because you're taking up a lot of time with each customer (good quality tech support takes time) and making more work for other people, plus you're not getting through enough people and so the company is spending more on each person who you're helping.
As if that wasn't bad enough, every other customer starts every conversation with you bitching about how long they had to wait for service (remember good quality tech support takes time). Inevitably half of them have no clue what they're talking about, and are so jaded from other tech support experiences they don't belive you.
On top of all of that, at least 5% of your customers will have entirely unreasonable demands, where even after speding every reasonable effort to resolve their problem they're still not satisfied. These people will take up the most of your time and generate more problems from paragraph 1 and 2.
Good, quality, fast and efficient tech support can be had. But until people are willing to pay what a business pays for business class support, tech support for consumers will always be shit.
But do you have the right to record the private citizen the cop is arresting?
Allow me to introduce you to a concept called the law of unintended consequences. The people of the state of PA concerned very much for their privacy and protection from an overberring government, put into place a law which forbids people from taping or recording conversations between people without the consent of all involved. Now, Joe Police Officer can't tap your phone, and neither can Private Eye Paul. Nor can Officer Jim sit outside your home with a parabolic mic and record your conversations with your wife. Unfortunately, because the road to hell is paved with good intentions, this also means you can't record a police officer stopping another citizen or even yourself.
The officer may be a public official, but the person he's arresting isn't. Not saying it's right, but just because the officer is a public official doesn't mean the law just goes away.
Because if your laptop is stolen, the first concern you should have is that the thief might know your name and email address. The ipod being stolen is a bit more reasonable of an argument, but 99% of the people who steal your iPod will erase it and many people already engrave their name and contact info on the iPod anyway. Not to mention your name is usually in the name of the iPod. Honestly, if someone wanted your personal information, routing through your trash would be more effective and safer than swiping your iPod.
But if people did read them and stopped ignoring them out of "day to day practicallity" then perhaps the EULAs would become more practical.
GraphicConverter (I'm surprised no one has pointed you at this one):
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It used to come free with every mac, I wish it still did, but a good piece of software none the less.
I mean, Google is #1 in search easily, but does that make Yahoo! the best because Google gets hit by spammers and the like way way way more often than the rest? No, it does not.
Yes, yes it does. Or at the least, it can certainly mean that Yahoo! is better. In fact, one of the reasons google got to be so popular was precisely because it took less searching to find exactly what you were looking for. That is, when google was new, it had less spam and garbage than Yahoo! or any other search engine simply by virtue of being smaller, therefore google was better for people. As google has gotten more and more popular however, the amount of garbage results returned has jumped considerably. While I still use google primarily, I am very comfortable saying that as a result of increased garbage, google of today is less than google of yesteryear when talking about searching.
Whether it's via obscurity, specific security policies or policing of it's community, mac freeware is 99.9% guaranteed to have no spyware. That makes the freeware community on the mac better than on windows. It doesn't matter why, just that it is.
You miss the point then. Why should I even have to ask that the software I want to download be spyware free? If you use a mac, it's a given. You don't specify it, you just know it. That's what people mean when they say abundance of free quality software for the mac. When you can search for a piece of software and not have to specify that the software be spyware free. And it's the thing I hate about having to work with my PC when I do. There's always one last step or one last search term you need to get the obvious result.
I can't speak for the author, but I can certainly give my experience. I recently had need to burn an ISO file (or perhaps it was a .bin, I don't recall) to a disk. Windows comes with no software built in to handle such a task, so it was off to seek out alternatives. Yes, NERO does it, but I recently had to format my PC, and thus NERO was not installed, nor could I find the NERO disks. All I needed was a piece of software to burn this one image. A search online and through downloads.com turns up many many hits for windows. Out of the first 10 that I found, 8 of them would do exactly what I wanted, but with one minor flaw, they all wanted to install some form of spyware or adware (you do read those EULAs right?). The 9th promised to do what I wanted, but the interface was so out of this world (and in another language to boot) that I couldn't get it to do what I wanted. The 10th program did what I wanted to do , but for some reason couldnt' see my burner. Finaly I hunted down an OSS burning package which had made a windows version (and I specificaly had to search for a *NIX pagkage as this never showed up on any of the windows sites). That worked. Total time spent hunting down burning software: 2 hours.
.bin): 5 minutes.
By contrast, my mac has built in software to burn the image, but assuming I wanted different software:
1) Versiontracker.com
2) Search for "burn"
3) download SimplyBurns (7th hit down, 1st hit that has a description matching task at hand)
4) burn
total time (including checking developer site to ensure support for ISO and
And in my experience, this is not an unusal occurance. Finding quality free software to accomplish a specific task and do it easily is a chore for windows and considerably easier for macs. This mostly has to do with mac users having a comunity grown up arround do it yourself, because no one else will.
In 10.4 it's in Keyboard and Mouse preferences: "Use F1-F12 keys to control software features".
Though as I recall, that's only on notebooks. If you have a desktop and your F keys are still being eaten, check your expose preffs and also your universal access stuff for things like full keyboard navigation (which IIRC, used a lot of the lower F keys for menu and focus navigation.
I used to do the same thing, but then the cycle just got too fast. Upgrading the video card meant either picking a lower end card to support older technology, or buying a new mother board to support the new graphics card. Buying new RAM didn't see any boost until you bought a new motherboard, and recently, the purcahse of a new processor has dictated the purchase of a new motherboard as when you're going to spend a hundred or so anyway, you might as well be upgrading. Modular is nice if you want to stay where you are (and even then, only for so long) but if you want to upgrade, everything is relying on everything else, so it doesn't matter. The hard drives are the only things in my years of upgrading that I can say I've kept around long enough to be worth the frustration of the upgrade path, but even then, if I had to get new ones as part of a whole machine purchase, I could put together a nice big array of all the old disks.
Here's what happend to me. My home built athlon machine died. Processor or motherboard, I'm not quite sure which, but it was one of them. I could buy a new processor to test it out, but then I'm out the cost of the processor if it doesn't work. So I went to buy a new motherboard, figuring I would grab one with some expansion room so that if I needed a new processor, I could up it just a little. Turns out, there aren't many boards like mine anymore, at least not at the shops. Sure I could buy it online, but I need this today. Of the options, none appeal to me, not for the money and because the few ones that are worth the money are unuseable for me because they only have PCI E and not AGP. In the end, I settled for an upgrade to both the CPU and the motherboard, but as I didn't want to upgrade my RAM at this time, I was limited a bit even in that selection and I still need a PCI E graphics card. When I'm all said and done with this, I'll have put about $400-$500 into this computer, and even then, I won't have a great machine, just one that I can say is better than what I had before.
By contrast, my father just had his old mac tower die (processors). He found used tower that was a generation after his, swapped out the various expansion cards and harddrive. Same general idea as my repair about $500 for a computer that's better than what he had before, but no where near top of the line. In the end, in my experience, it's about the same, PC or Mac. If you want top of the line, you'll pay thousands, no matter if you upgrade or buy outright. If you want to move up a little, you'll pay a couple hundred, no matter if you upgrade or buy it outright. If you want to stay with the exact machine you have, that's the only place I've seen upgrading do any reall good.
Right, you own it, but it isn't up to Tivo to make it easy or convenient for you to change it or modify it to your liking. Nor is it up to tivo to ensure or even allow a modified box to work with the various services they privide. So yes, you bought the box, it's yours, you can do whatever the hell you want to it. But that doesn't mean Tivo has to let you keep using their services.
The joy of email is you don't have to answer it right away. If the email you are getting is keeping you from doing real work, then it's because you being to OC over checking and replying and researching every email that comes your way every 15 minutes. Stop checking it so often and learn to prioritize and it's no longer a distraction.
It's worth noting that in most states, trespassing law does not require that there be notice on the property for one to commit trespass.
Entrapment is basicaly forcing a crime where none would normaly be comitted. If I offer to sell you drugs, and you accept, that isn't entrapment. If I threaten to kill you if you don't buy my drugs, that is entrapment.