The pension funds were quite healthy until the financial industry screwed everything up, extracting their fees and profits from the investments before they tanked them of course.
The reason all those things bother you when "survival camping," is that you aren't used to them. Modern society has made you soft. Clearly people in the past were different: if they weren't, why would some have been fine living as Eskimos when surely word had filtered back to them about the paradise to the south where clothing wasn't needed and food abundant and there were plenty of soft, sandy beaches to sit on. Some people must have just not been all that bothered by conditions that we would consider brutal. Hell, I can't even understand why people live in American cities where it snows when there are so many more comfortable places to live! But people do.
Sight lines are so bad in cities that often times at intersections or pulling out of driveways, we can't see if anyone is coming from the left or right until we move the front of our car into "danger" because we are seated many feet back from the front of the car. If we had cameras mounted on the front of the car facing left and right we could see before pulling out. Other cameras could completely eliminate blind spots, or aid in parking.
The prices quoted in this article seem way too high. Real costs are surely in the low hundreds for a monitor and four to six camera views.
Sorry this reply is really late, but in case you notice, I guess I just feel that anyone who needs more than a second or two to know with 100% certainty whether they will be hit or hit anyone if they go through an intersection should not be driving a car at all. Stop, look, calculate, proceed when safe. If that seems hard to some people, they ought to do the rest of us a favor and not drive.
Then don't sit there. At 3am, on a deserted road, it shouldn't take you more than a few seconds to scan the entire seen and determine that, indeed, there isn't a police officer around and that you can then proceed with impunity. Don't let a light rule your life.
If this is how oddly Americans interpret British English, and then can't let it go, imagine how poorly they must be misunderstanding the words of people from other countries. I wonder how many people have ended up on no fly lists or arrested or held based on gross misunderstandings?
The defendant in this case admitted he purposefully recreated the photo after getting caught using the original (for commercial purposes) without a licensing agreement. He didn't want to pay so he hired someone to recreate it. The fact that his image is somewhat different actually worked against him because it was further proof that he was copying the original and just tweaking it slightly because he thought this would protect him (he was wrong).
So it's pretty silly of you to say that it is not copied - it just shows you haven't read the article(s) and the judgement in question.
"If it can be proved that there existed images like this before 2006, then the plaintiff shouldn't have won, but apparently, the examples given in court were undated."
I don't think this is accurate. The defendant admitted in court that he purposefully copied the plaintiff's photo (because he didn't want to pay the licensing fee). The photographers of older images than the plaintiffs could try suing him, but they'd have to show that he knew of their photos and purposefully made their own photo based on it. Furthermore, even if this plaintiff lost suits to other photographers, it would have no effect on an appeal of this here case because it would not change the facts that this defendant purposefully copied the plaintiff's photo for commercial gain.
I agree. I work for a water utility and making any changes to our system requires us to physically report to the locked, alarmed office and access (through password login) a scada computer terminal, or to report to the facility in question and log in there. I often wish I could at least access current complete "read only" system data on my phone or computer so that when I'm paged by the system and it reports that a fault has occurred (example could be as simple as "pump #1 failed to start") I could see how crucial it is for me to respond or if it's something that could wait till morning. But we so far have avoided the slippery slope of remote access and so I have to respond physically and access the situation. (and to avoid responding to less than crucial problems, we just set the system to only call out on serious issues and just log the others for review during business hours).
As more and more of my "online" activities take place on the iphone instead of the computer, password management has become much easier. Other than bank accounts, all log in info is kept by the phone and I never have to log in to anything: counting on the password lock of the phone itself to keep my stuff private should someone pick up my phone. But someone could overcome my 4-digit pass key or observe it (I know my wife's because everytime she has trouble with her phone she asks me for help and so I witness her unlock it). What would really be better is if devices had bio-based locking features so that only their assigned users could open them. One big padlock for the house, so to speak, so that we can safely leave all the contents unlocked and easier to use.
I worked as a designer for a market research firm in the late 1990s and Kodak (a client) was then trying to come up with ways to remain relevant. They were always testing new concepts and business models. Not products per se, but entire new ways of looking at imaging and how consumers would use cameras and images in the future. I guess they never found a solution.
Yes, Japan has a high speed rail system. But they built it before the 1964 Olympics! They aren't trying to build it right now in 2011 when the whole country is filled in the way it is now (and the way California is in many spots).
We don't have new energy efficient appliances, don't really even think about saving electricity, have the usual amount of stuff and still...our May bill, for a family of four, in a 1600 sq. ft. house in the SF Bay Area was 340 KwH for $41. What am I doing wrong that I'm not burning 2500 KwH a month? Ha!
I've never understood how they made the leap that allows them to consider putting something on my computer where someone else can "take" it the same as me distributing it. I've always figured it should be the same as me playing a movie on my TV screen with my window blinds open: people can view it by committing a kind of crime, but I'm not pushing it on them. Same thing with someone having mp3 files on his computer or his rented web server: he's not sending them out to people, they are coming there and taking them. Why should he be responsible for this?
When Virgin America recently wanted to start operating out of SFO, they were initially denied because of too much foreign ownership, and had to shuffle things around before getting approved. As the foreign ownership in this case was British, our allies, I can't see how anyone could consider this a security issue. It is mainly one of protecting American businesses. (i'm not saying that's a bad thing...)
>"probably contain more content than the mp3 release"
The track listing of the later release is right there on the website, and one can pre-order a special version right now with extra artwork and whatnot. i was tempted but the price was a tad dear for a surf bum like myself. I was happy to give them 5 pounds for the download though.
Apple doesn't want to remove the parking meters so their customers can park for free. They want to remove the meters so that no one can park in front of their store at all! They want to turn the three spots into a no-parking zone and offered to reimburse the city for the revenue lost by the three spots, while simultaneously helping with the city's goal of fewer parked cars downtown.
Greg Graffin of punk rock legends Bad Religion has a Ph.D. He was teaching at UCLA when not on tour with the band (founded in 1980 and still playing...) though I believe he found it too time consuming and is now just writing books.
To quote Wikipedia:
"Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn a masters degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. in evolutionary paleontology from Cornell University. However, according to a video clip originally from the Bad Religion official website and also available from The Cornell Evolution Project homepage, the PhD thesis was officially a Zoology PhD thesis, supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell University. The thesis was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". It is described as being essentially an evolutionary biology PhD but having also relevance to history and philosophy of science."
In California, lawyers are generally not allowed in small claims court. One would need special permission from a judge to be able to be represented by a lawyer. One can of course hire one on the side for advice though, and it sounds like this might have been a good idea in this case!
In some states, one is not allowed to be represented by a lawyer in small claims court. In others, one needs special permission from a judge in order to use a lawyer. Who will Gateway send? Seems to me that whomever the plaintiff named in the complaint will have to represent their case. IANAL, of course.
If this teacher's best effort to stop a student from being disruptive was telling him to behave and then threatening, "If you do not stop disrupting the other members of the class, I'm going to have to send you to the office," then that teacher is not worthy of respect s/he feels the students should show. Teachers need to speak the kids' language, teach in ways that engage them, approach behavioral issues in educational ways not hierarchical ways. At the very least, this teacher should have pulled the student aside and asked him, "can you think of a reason why doing what you're doing might not be the right thing to do?" Put the onus on the student to tell you what s/he's doing wrong and to figure out how to correct themselves.
As long as teachers simply approach behavioral issues by giving students a choice between getting in trouble or continuing to have what they see as "fun", there will be kids who feel the "fun" is worth the risk of the trouble. Teachers need to help teach students why certain behavior shouldn't be "fun" or at least why it isn't appropriate at certain times.
Kids respond to reason and discussions and problem solving a lot better than they respond to punishment and threats of same.
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The pension funds were quite healthy until the financial industry screwed everything up, extracting their fees and profits from the investments before they tanked them of course.
Now that we can die with dignity, how about we focus on changes that will allow us to live with dignity as well?
The reason all those things bother you when "survival camping," is that you aren't used to them. Modern society has made you soft. Clearly people in the past were different: if they weren't, why would some have been fine living as Eskimos when surely word had filtered back to them about the paradise to the south where clothing wasn't needed and food abundant and there were plenty of soft, sandy beaches to sit on. Some people must have just not been all that bothered by conditions that we would consider brutal. Hell, I can't even understand why people live in American cities where it snows when there are so many more comfortable places to live! But people do.
Sight lines are so bad in cities that often times at intersections or pulling out of driveways, we can't see if anyone is coming from the left or right until we move the front of our car into "danger" because we are seated many feet back from the front of the car. If we had cameras mounted on the front of the car facing left and right we could see before pulling out. Other cameras could completely eliminate blind spots, or aid in parking. The prices quoted in this article seem way too high. Real costs are surely in the low hundreds for a monitor and four to six camera views.
Sorry this reply is really late, but in case you notice, I guess I just feel that anyone who needs more than a second or two to know with 100% certainty whether they will be hit or hit anyone if they go through an intersection should not be driving a car at all. Stop, look, calculate, proceed when safe. If that seems hard to some people, they ought to do the rest of us a favor and not drive.
Then don't sit there. At 3am, on a deserted road, it shouldn't take you more than a few seconds to scan the entire seen and determine that, indeed, there isn't a police officer around and that you can then proceed with impunity. Don't let a light rule your life.
If this is how oddly Americans interpret British English, and then can't let it go, imagine how poorly they must be misunderstanding the words of people from other countries. I wonder how many people have ended up on no fly lists or arrested or held based on gross misunderstandings?
The defendant in this case admitted he purposefully recreated the photo after getting caught using the original (for commercial purposes) without a licensing agreement. He didn't want to pay so he hired someone to recreate it. The fact that his image is somewhat different actually worked against him because it was further proof that he was copying the original and just tweaking it slightly because he thought this would protect him (he was wrong). So it's pretty silly of you to say that it is not copied - it just shows you haven't read the article(s) and the judgement in question.
"If it can be proved that there existed images like this before 2006, then the plaintiff shouldn't have won, but apparently, the examples given in court were undated." I don't think this is accurate. The defendant admitted in court that he purposefully copied the plaintiff's photo (because he didn't want to pay the licensing fee). The photographers of older images than the plaintiffs could try suing him, but they'd have to show that he knew of their photos and purposefully made their own photo based on it. Furthermore, even if this plaintiff lost suits to other photographers, it would have no effect on an appeal of this here case because it would not change the facts that this defendant purposefully copied the plaintiff's photo for commercial gain.
I agree. I work for a water utility and making any changes to our system requires us to physically report to the locked, alarmed office and access (through password login) a scada computer terminal, or to report to the facility in question and log in there. I often wish I could at least access current complete "read only" system data on my phone or computer so that when I'm paged by the system and it reports that a fault has occurred (example could be as simple as "pump #1 failed to start") I could see how crucial it is for me to respond or if it's something that could wait till morning. But we so far have avoided the slippery slope of remote access and so I have to respond physically and access the situation. (and to avoid responding to less than crucial problems, we just set the system to only call out on serious issues and just log the others for review during business hours).
As more and more of my "online" activities take place on the iphone instead of the computer, password management has become much easier. Other than bank accounts, all log in info is kept by the phone and I never have to log in to anything: counting on the password lock of the phone itself to keep my stuff private should someone pick up my phone. But someone could overcome my 4-digit pass key or observe it (I know my wife's because everytime she has trouble with her phone she asks me for help and so I witness her unlock it). What would really be better is if devices had bio-based locking features so that only their assigned users could open them. One big padlock for the house, so to speak, so that we can safely leave all the contents unlocked and easier to use.
I worked as a designer for a market research firm in the late 1990s and Kodak (a client) was then trying to come up with ways to remain relevant. They were always testing new concepts and business models. Not products per se, but entire new ways of looking at imaging and how consumers would use cameras and images in the future. I guess they never found a solution.
Pentax was bought by Ricoh, so that Ricoh would have a brand with better name recognition!
Yes, Japan has a high speed rail system. But they built it before the 1964 Olympics! They aren't trying to build it right now in 2011 when the whole country is filled in the way it is now (and the way California is in many spots).
We don't have new energy efficient appliances, don't really even think about saving electricity, have the usual amount of stuff and still...our May bill, for a family of four, in a 1600 sq. ft. house in the SF Bay Area was 340 KwH for $41. What am I doing wrong that I'm not burning 2500 KwH a month? Ha!
And then five years after that they'll finally take gmail out of beta. Four years and counting...
I've never understood how they made the leap that allows them to consider putting something on my computer where someone else can "take" it the same as me distributing it. I've always figured it should be the same as me playing a movie on my TV screen with my window blinds open: people can view it by committing a kind of crime, but I'm not pushing it on them. Same thing with someone having mp3 files on his computer or his rented web server: he's not sending them out to people, they are coming there and taking them. Why should he be responsible for this?
How did we let them turn that into distribution?
When Virgin America recently wanted to start operating out of SFO, they were initially denied because of too much foreign ownership, and had to shuffle things around before getting approved. As the foreign ownership in this case was British, our allies, I can't see how anyone could consider this a security issue. It is mainly one of protecting American businesses. (i'm not saying that's a bad thing...)
>"probably contain more content than the mp3 release"
The track listing of the later release is right there on the website, and one can pre-order a special version right now with extra artwork and whatnot. i was tempted but the price was a tad dear for a surf bum like myself. I was happy to give them 5 pounds for the download though.
Apple doesn't want to remove the parking meters so their customers can park for free. They want to remove the meters so that no one can park in front of their store at all! They want to turn the three spots into a no-parking zone and offered to reimburse the city for the revenue lost by the three spots, while simultaneously helping with the city's goal of fewer parked cars downtown.
Greg Graffin of punk rock legends Bad Religion has a Ph.D. He was teaching at UCLA when not on tour with the band (founded in 1980 and still playing...) though I believe he found it too time consuming and is now just writing books.
To quote Wikipedia:
"Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn a masters degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. in evolutionary paleontology from Cornell University. However, according to a video clip originally from the Bad Religion official website and also available from The Cornell Evolution Project homepage, the PhD thesis was officially a Zoology PhD thesis, supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell University. The thesis was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". It is described as being essentially an evolutionary biology PhD but having also relevance to history and philosophy of science."
more info in the interview here: http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=9413
In California, lawyers are generally not allowed in small claims court. One would need special permission from a judge to be able to be represented by a lawyer. One can of course hire one on the side for advice though, and it sounds like this might have been a good idea in this case!
In some states, one is not allowed to be represented by a lawyer in small claims court. In others, one needs special permission from a judge in order to use a lawyer. Who will Gateway send? Seems to me that whomever the plaintiff named in the complaint will have to represent their case. IANAL, of course.
See the comment above Susan McDougal:
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If this teacher's best effort to stop a student from being disruptive was telling him to behave and then threatening, "If you do not stop disrupting the other members of the class, I'm going to have to send you to the office," then that teacher is not worthy of respect s/he feels the students should show. Teachers need to speak the kids' language, teach in ways that engage them, approach behavioral issues in educational ways not hierarchical ways. At the very least, this teacher should have pulled the student aside and asked him, "can you think of a reason why doing what you're doing might not be the right thing to do?" Put the onus on the student to tell you what s/he's doing wrong and to figure out how to correct themselves.
As long as teachers simply approach behavioral issues by giving students a choice between getting in trouble or continuing to have what they see as "fun", there will be kids who feel the "fun" is worth the risk of the trouble. Teachers need to help teach students why certain behavior shouldn't be "fun" or at least why it isn't appropriate at certain times.
Kids respond to reason and discussions and problem solving a lot better than they respond to punishment and threats of same.