but how many small states with 3-5 Electoral votes does a guy have to get to counter the 40 or so votes states like California and New York have? There's no match because states put ALL their electoral votes to one guy or the other so the individual "votes" they don't split 40/40/20 like the voters vote, they take all 40 votes to 1 guy, so the little voter is ignored anyway... there's not much to complain about.
the electoral college is the number of senators plus reps. It's exactly the same as what he's talking about. But again, it's set up by numbers for Senate and House, they didn't want to play numbers games all day, just sick with a reasonable number of reps already being used.
As a Representative Republic House districts should directly match local political units. They should match whole counties, cities, etc.. using the existing boarders accepted by the local govt. The whole idea of the federal govt having different district rules than the local is against the whole concept of representatives.... that there is accountability not just to the group of "people" but to the government units beneath you, other people elected to do their jobs but the citizens. The current situation strips localities of all control in federal government.. in the name of the "people".. which is exactly what the founders were trying to prevent!!!!
correct, originally it was 1 rep per 10,000 voters... by the mid 1800's the House was so big it was unmanagable to get any work done. So they fixed the number and divide it as best possible but each state gets at least 1 whole rep.
but the small states get a minimum of 1 rep per state. In a small state that accounts for many more citizens than in a big state. For instance Alaska gets 1 rep but that rep has have the voters that a rep from New York city would be representing. Of course the larger states get 20-30 reps, that so out classes the 1 vote the smaller states get that we're haggling over trivia.
in a Representative Republic, the idea is that each "political unit" elects representatives to the unit above it. House seats should be apportioned by whatever discrete political units are from their states. The largest whole unit of lower government dividable should be included with it's local boundaries in tact. If you had a state with 50 counties and 5 reps, you should have 10 whole counties in each district, with their official local boundaries. The current system allow states to snake their populations all over as long as the same "number" of people are in each "district".. that's not really the spirit of representation.
The imbalance was planned for all along, that's why there's a minimum of 2 per state. Sure, small states will always have a slightly more "power" per person than bigger ones... if you don't like it move to a smaller state! Also, the Senate represents each state equally. Of course the REAL point is that the House represents the PEOPLE and the Senate represents the State GOVERNMENTS... what your state legislature wants. The idea that the federal govt should be "fair" on a individual voter basis is silly, the federal government is based on fairness to whole STATES, not "people". We're in the mess of a powerless congress and an insubbordiante "cowboy" president because they're worried about the "people", there's not a clear chain of representation and accountability to light a fire under their asses!
they SELL servers and write OSes... and think they should pay somebody else to run it!
That's kind of crappy. If you don't "eat your dog food" as a HARDWARE and OS company, who can take you seriously? If you aren't running your own stuff, you're loosing the BEST opportunity to improve your product!!! If you run your product in production, then you can make your CUSTOMER experience better... something all these people forget. Nothing beats dealing with a company that can take a day and REPEAT your problem on their in house hardware... But if they don't ever USE the software they way you might, they'll NEVER be able to do that.
the point of IT policies and practices is to PREVENT damage as much as possible... keep the doors locked and the fences mended, prevent damage from "idle hands" as much as possible. After all, the law can only PUNISH after the fact! The police won't stop the 3 weeks of recovery of your business from such an attack and your job may be gone before the criminal ever gets to jail!
the sentence seems reasonable considering the damage was planned and not carried out. In this case the guy got LESS time than if he had physically damaged 70 servers worth of property. The sentence was of REASONABLE and comparative length to what you'd get for malicious destruction of property say busting up cars on a lot or something, but it wasn't over the top either, with extensions and circumstances to inflate the crime because it was "on a computer" and the law can't understand that.
except some of the parties were over the summer or last year... yet the students are being given suspensions THIS year.. that is 100% unreasonable under any concept of the rule of law. If these parties were last week and you had proof from parents or something I could see the suspension of sports, etc. But Facebook amounts at best to hearsay under any "legal" terms and that has no business being enforced in school.
I have a kid about to be in high school and I'd be punching people in the face if this happened to my kid... even if they were 100% wrong, a random picture from 6 months ago is not cause for "legal" action that goes on a permanent record.
Exactly, I though schools were supposed to be teaching our future voters proper civics and how the Government follows the Constitution and LAW.. not arbitrarily making it up as they go.
I can't wait until this crop of kids gets to vote and run things. Boy will it be fun... Let's see, maximum driving age, maximum drinking age (it's a PRIVILEGE after all!) all the other things kids have been told "aren't their rights"...
except he claims this was last year before he joined that team!!! If the administrator is going to punish then it has to be appealed legally. Last I checked we had LAWS here, not some administrator's whim on who to punish.
More to the point, if the pictures stay on facebook, can the kid be punished NEXT year too!!! What if he goes to a different school? Can that administrator over react and punish him again? This whole "moral right" school administrators are taking is ILLEGAL, and they have no place. Period.
there wasn't even an "official" drinking age in many US states until the late 60's early 70's when the Feds unconstitutionally bullied states into it for highway money. In short the very people most vocal about under age drinking being something terrible weren't actually subject to the laws themselves!!!!!
But the school administrator is not a LEGALLY authorized authority for dealing with these "crimes". It didn't happen on school ground, or hell, even during the school year, these were pictures from last year, or over the summer!!! There's nothing the police could do, except maybe rattle a few parents to behave better, they have to catch kids ACTUALLY DRINKING or with BAC for it to be a punishable event, a picture doesn't cut it. The administrator is WRONG, dead WRONG. He is there to EDUCATE the kids, it's a JOB they go to, not a religous/moral institution.
but in one case, the party was last school year...before the kid "promised" not to drink, no harm done at all!!! there's no dates on this stuff, so the administrator is probably going to find himself sued if a proper lawyer gets a hold of this.
As far as taking pictures of doing something illegal, who cares, like one girl in the article said, they're just PICTURES..they don't prove the kids were DRINKING and even if they did, unless you are caught COMMITTING the act, the police can do nothing (except maybe stake out your party spot for next time!) if I was an enterprising kid, I'd take a bunch of pictures of my friends with EMPTY cans...and call a lawyer!! again, the administrator is getting into trouble here.
I understand the whole "teaching kids to be ethical" thing and "representing the school", but these are PUBLIC schools, no code of ethics applies to students required by law to go there except the LAW. Perhaps the principal could address the issue with PARENTS (who's job it is to raise kids!!!), but it's completely out of line to punish students for random events that happened sometime in the past... that reeks of corporate-fascism!!!
but how Microsoft agreements work is that they basically void all your existing "boxed" licenses to be updated for subscription. That means that #2 to buy out requires purchasing your "boxes" again and #3 requires completion of the contract length... it's not ever month-to-month from what I've seen of Microsoft contracts, so it's not "renting" if you can't choose that option because YOU the customer business have NO legal recourse after you sign the contract.
As far as #1, all of the Select agreements I've seen require the contract signed up front, then M$ pass you off to a banker for the Select "yearly" payments. All this plan appears to be is M$ sanctioned monthly payments... I'd bet it's to the BANK and not Microsoft. The key being is that again the CUSTOMER business doesn't have a CHOICE to use their continued "payments" as leverage for M$ to hold up it's end of the contract terms. You owe the BANK, if you withhold payment they send you to collections, not fix your problems. You've given all the cash to microsoft up front, they don't have to do anything in return... witness how original select members got NOTHING for 3 years of paying for XP "upgrades".
I know it's basically already BEING done, but I want an Apple and Nintendo sanctioned device. The shuffle is a joke anyway and all the kids have DS units. The iPod games are a joke, and Nintendo is clearly missing the boat with Wii/DS integration. Apple TV is a poor streaming box... but Wii has massive market share. In short the two companies are both doing very well on their own, but have absolutely no intention or practice (in fact miserable failure) at doing the other's job... "playing nice together" would make both companies boat loads of money!!!
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I'd disagree. See the computer science article below! Schools have fallen into the rut of teaching technology by rote.. and not by experience. Heck if CS students brushed up on their binary, they could MAKE a computer from what he's doing!!! True, it's not useful by itself by today's standard, but the Experience of doing it all from scratch would be fantastic!!!
I think a "laptop" is a "thing" and files are "papers" There are different legal rules. Imagine a Lawyer crossing the boarder with his laptop, does that mean a prosecutor can "search" his laptop for ANY client files simply because he crossed a border? Or what about an accountant.. can we demand the CFO of GE turn over files on his computer to any minimum wage lackey? As long as the "thing" is being searched to prove it's safe and legal, the "papers" should be off limits unless there is a specific warrant.
Microsoft's terms are more like when you "lease" a car. You have to pay THEM up front and finance the amount thru somebody else, so you don't get the proper type of credit for true "rental" tax terms. It ends up being "financed" and payed back to the bank. Not as generous as a true lease or subscription because you loose whatever tax benefit of monthly payments to the "bank" as interest.
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but how many small states with 3-5 Electoral votes does a guy have to get to counter the 40 or so votes states like California and New York have? There's no match because states put ALL their electoral votes to one guy or the other so the individual "votes" they don't split 40/40/20 like the voters vote, they take all 40 votes to 1 guy, so the little voter is ignored anyway... there's not much to complain about.
the electoral college is the number of senators plus reps. It's exactly the same as what he's talking about. But again, it's set up by numbers for Senate and House, they didn't want to play numbers games all day, just sick with a reasonable number of reps already being used.
As a Representative Republic House districts should directly match local political units. They should match whole counties, cities, etc.. using the existing boarders accepted by the local govt. The whole idea of the federal govt having different district rules than the local is against the whole concept of representatives.... that there is accountability not just to the group of "people" but to the government units beneath you, other people elected to do their jobs but the citizens. The current situation strips localities of all control in federal government.. in the name of the "people".. which is exactly what the founders were trying to prevent!!!!
correct, originally it was 1 rep per 10,000 voters... by the mid 1800's the House was so big it was unmanagable to get any work done. So they fixed the number and divide it as best possible but each state gets at least 1 whole rep.
but the small states get a minimum of 1 rep per state. In a small state that accounts for many more citizens than in a big state. For instance Alaska gets 1 rep but that rep has have the voters that a rep from New York city would be representing. Of course the larger states get 20-30 reps, that so out classes the 1 vote the smaller states get that we're haggling over trivia.
in a Representative Republic, the idea is that each "political unit" elects representatives to the unit above it. House seats should be apportioned by whatever discrete political units are from their states. The largest whole unit of lower government dividable should be included with it's local boundaries in tact. If you had a state with 50 counties and 5 reps, you should have 10 whole counties in each district, with their official local boundaries. The current system allow states to snake their populations all over as long as the same "number" of people are in each "district".. that's not really the spirit of representation.
The imbalance was planned for all along, that's why there's a minimum of 2 per state. Sure, small states will always have a slightly more "power" per person than bigger ones... if you don't like it move to a smaller state! Also, the Senate represents each state equally. Of course the REAL point is that the House represents the PEOPLE and the Senate represents the State GOVERNMENTS... what your state legislature wants. The idea that the federal govt should be "fair" on a individual voter basis is silly, the federal government is based on fairness to whole STATES, not "people". We're in the mess of a powerless congress and an insubbordiante "cowboy" president because they're worried about the "people", there's not a clear chain of representation and accountability to light a fire under their asses!
they SELL servers and write OSes... and think they should pay somebody else to run it!
That's kind of crappy. If you don't "eat your dog food" as a HARDWARE and OS company, who can take you seriously? If you aren't running your own stuff, you're loosing the BEST opportunity to improve your product!!! If you run your product in production, then you can make your CUSTOMER experience better... something all these people forget. Nothing beats dealing with a company that can take a day and REPEAT your problem on their in house hardware... But if they don't ever USE the software they way you might, they'll NEVER be able to do that.
the point of IT policies and practices is to PREVENT damage as much as possible... keep the doors locked and the fences mended, prevent damage from "idle hands" as much as possible. After all, the law can only PUNISH after the fact! The police won't stop the 3 weeks of recovery of your business from such an attack and your job may be gone before the criminal ever gets to jail!
the sentence seems reasonable considering the damage was planned and not carried out. In this case the guy got LESS time than if he had physically damaged 70 servers worth of property. The sentence was of REASONABLE and comparative length to what you'd get for malicious destruction of property say busting up cars on a lot or something, but it wasn't over the top either, with extensions and circumstances to inflate the crime because it was "on a computer" and the law can't understand that.
Canada? They have "age of majority" at 19 when they get everything "adult" voting, drinking, driving, etc.
except some of the parties were over the summer or last year... yet the students are being given suspensions THIS year.. that is 100% unreasonable under any concept of the rule of law. If these parties were last week and you had proof from parents or something I could see the suspension of sports, etc. But Facebook amounts at best to hearsay under any "legal" terms and that has no business being enforced in school.
I have a kid about to be in high school and I'd be punching people in the face if this happened to my kid... even if they were 100% wrong, a random picture from 6 months ago is not cause for "legal" action that goes on a permanent record.
Exactly, I though schools were supposed to be teaching our future voters proper civics and how the Government follows the Constitution and LAW.. not arbitrarily making it up as they go.
I can't wait until this crop of kids gets to vote and run things. Boy will it be fun... Let's see, maximum driving age, maximum drinking age (it's a PRIVILEGE after all!) all the other things kids have been told "aren't their rights"...
except he claims this was last year before he joined that team!!! If the administrator is going to punish then it has to be appealed legally. Last I checked we had LAWS here, not some administrator's whim on who to punish.
More to the point, if the pictures stay on facebook, can the kid be punished NEXT year too!!! What if he goes to a different school? Can that administrator over react and punish him again? This whole "moral right" school administrators are taking is ILLEGAL, and they have no place. Period.
there wasn't even an "official" drinking age in many US states until the late 60's early 70's when the Feds unconstitutionally bullied states into it for highway money. In short the very people most vocal about under age drinking being something terrible weren't actually subject to the laws themselves!!!!!
But the school administrator is not a LEGALLY authorized authority for dealing with these "crimes". It didn't happen on school ground, or hell, even during the school year, these were pictures from last year, or over the summer!!! There's nothing the police could do, except maybe rattle a few parents to behave better, they have to catch kids ACTUALLY DRINKING or with BAC for it to be a punishable event, a picture doesn't cut it. The administrator is WRONG, dead WRONG. He is there to EDUCATE the kids, it's a JOB they go to, not a religous/moral institution.
but in one case, the party was last school year...before the kid "promised" not to drink, no harm done at all!!! there's no dates on this stuff, so the administrator is probably going to find himself sued if a proper lawyer gets a hold of this.
As far as taking pictures of doing something illegal, who cares, like one girl in the article said, they're just PICTURES..they don't prove the kids were DRINKING and even if they did, unless you are caught COMMITTING the act, the police can do nothing (except maybe stake out your party spot for next time!) if I was an enterprising kid, I'd take a bunch of pictures of my friends with EMPTY cans...and call a lawyer!! again, the administrator is getting into trouble here.
I understand the whole "teaching kids to be ethical" thing and "representing the school", but these are PUBLIC schools, no code of ethics applies to students required by law to go there except the LAW. Perhaps the principal could address the issue with PARENTS (who's job it is to raise kids!!!), but it's completely out of line to punish students for random events that happened sometime in the past... that reeks of corporate-fascism!!!
but how Microsoft agreements work is that they basically void all your existing "boxed" licenses to be updated for subscription. That means that #2 to buy out requires purchasing your "boxes" again and #3 requires completion of the contract length... it's not ever month-to-month from what I've seen of Microsoft contracts, so it's not "renting" if you can't choose that option because YOU the customer business have NO legal recourse after you sign the contract.
As far as #1, all of the Select agreements I've seen require the contract signed up front, then M$ pass you off to a banker for the Select "yearly" payments. All this plan appears to be is M$ sanctioned monthly payments... I'd bet it's to the BANK and not Microsoft. The key being is that again the CUSTOMER business doesn't have a CHOICE to use their continued "payments" as leverage for M$ to hold up it's end of the contract terms. You owe the BANK, if you withhold payment they send you to collections, not fix your problems. You've given all the cash to microsoft up front, they don't have to do anything in return... witness how original select members got NOTHING for 3 years of paying for XP "upgrades".
I know it's basically already BEING done, but I want an Apple and Nintendo sanctioned device. The shuffle is a joke anyway and all the kids have DS units. The iPod games are a joke, and Nintendo is clearly missing the boat with Wii/DS integration. Apple TV is a poor streaming box... but Wii has massive market share. In short the two companies are both doing very well on their own, but have absolutely no intention or practice (in fact miserable failure) at doing the other's job... "playing nice together" would make both companies boat loads of money!!!
you'd like Gumstix, it's closer to what you want.
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it's time for these guys to act!!!
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He demonstrated a Morse code station.
I'd disagree. See the computer science article below! Schools have fallen into the rut of teaching technology by rote.. and not by experience. Heck if CS students brushed up on their binary, they could MAKE a computer from what he's doing!!! True, it's not useful by itself by today's standard, but the Experience of doing it all from scratch would be fantastic!!!
I think a "laptop" is a "thing" and files are "papers" There are different legal rules. Imagine a Lawyer crossing the boarder with his laptop, does that mean a prosecutor can "search" his laptop for ANY client files simply because he crossed a border? Or what about an accountant.. can we demand the CFO of GE turn over files on his computer to any minimum wage lackey? As long as the "thing" is being searched to prove it's safe and legal, the "papers" should be off limits unless there is a specific warrant.
Microsoft's terms are more like when you "lease" a car. You have to pay THEM up front and finance the amount thru somebody else, so you don't get the proper type of credit for true "rental" tax terms. It ends up being "financed" and payed back to the bank. Not as generous as a true lease or subscription because you loose whatever tax benefit of monthly payments to the "bank" as interest.