Presupposing she wants to keep her job, Comer sounds like she made at least two tactical mistakes - using the "company's ink" on "company time". The article appears to make clear that she was in a highly politicized environment. She should have used her own computer (or own wireless), preferably at home. This sounds like a poisoned work environment, where the little local powers that be were watching for any pretext to attack where she had been given some kind of warning before. It will be interesting to see if she really plans to fight dismissal and whether it is to be restored to her job or, "incidentally", just be paid off and move on. These things get pretty ugly.
I had an important business presentation with a Vista laptop that I had to buy in a hurry several months before (old one was damaged right before a business trip). The damn thing updated Vista online overnight by itself and then collapsed the next day on reboot and couldn't restart for 15 minutes in a meeting. There is no excuse for the problems that I have had with this Vista laptop, it should be more stable before it ships. IMHO any IT type recommending Vista deployment before SP1 or 2 should be terminated on sight. It is by far the most annoying I've had, far more than anything on previous 95, 98SE, XP laptops.
A number of authors with PhDs or MDs home in on digestible carbohydrates and, for a significant minority, say 15%+, gluten sensitivity, for diet problems:
Joel M Kauffman, PhD "Malignant Medical Myths" (Myth #2)
Christian Allan, PhD & Wolfgang Lutz, MD "Life Without Bread: How a low-carbohydrate diet can save your life"
Richard K Bernstein, MD "Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution"
Alice Ottoboni, PhD & Fred Ottoboni, MPH, PhD "The Modern Nutritional Diseases: heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and how to prevent them"
Michael Eades, MD & Mary Dan Eades, MD "The ProteinPower LifePlan"
James Braly, MD & R Hoggan, MA "Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains may be Hazardous to your Health"
The average schmoe on the street has not the time, money, guts, intelligence or interest to risk their pitiful existence on such a risky fight that they could prevail on perhaps 90% of their points and still financially sink on dropping even one point at the first court trial as in McLibel. Which might be closer to describing any RIAA victims that have a zombie machine or a neighbor's smart kid "helping" them or their kid, against an organized extortion by gigabuck corporate goons who seek to usurp, again and again, the legal system itself.
Assuming that there is a legitimate public purpose to the Pell program, without engaging in the Constitutional/philosophical debate on that part, one still is confronted with the potential jeopardy, of say 2 * $10/mo*9mo = $180/yr (RIAA+MPAA demands?), that might be out of some economically marginal kid's last $100. College aid nominal cost numbers are often $1000-$2000-$3000 short of full costs. One could say stress such kids more for the extra $180, never minding the other elemental injustice of all kids paying for some kids downloading. Some % kids won't. (My kids have purchased CD/DVDs, legally imported, when returning from overseas and explicitly declared to Customs and closely inspected). I would rather (a) make sure the kid has best chance of completion with the money granted, (b) I don't want to pay 110% for a new "improved" **AA extortion fees included Pell program, (c) I think a *lot* the **AA threats and propositions are of extremely dubious legal nature and the related publishers have abused the literal Constitutional provisons (don't get me started). I am absolutely sure the organizations are of the type I would not voluntarily do business with, and would order off my property (ahem) if they bothered me, or mine, without *proper* papers.
Not sure how much this really "just" demanding filter related IT campus, versus really grabbing for mass extortion of (poor) students' funds with some kind of blanket tax when filtering fails on a few, but it is pretty bad either way. The Pell students represent the lowest income where each dollar is going to be a serious item. Stealing from the poor(est) students, perhaps killing the golden goose for many, for shame... We know who the real economic terrorists are. Just wish we could arrange that holiday at Camp X-ray for them.
IMHO Osma won, allowed a more rapid trashing of the Constitution. Since 9/11, the pretext of security everywhere and Patriot Act are much greater dangers to most US citizens. I have never been threatened by an international terrorist, although there was a little misunderstanding with a Cuban soldier some years ago in southern Africa. I have seen several countries pre- and post- revolution. However, since 9/11 I have seen several things that make me question my safety around various "security" agents here at home, public or private, more than with the agitated Cuban soldier (probably longer, more continuous exposure, more deferential attitudes in some places, and fewer allowances here for strangers).
extortionate - adjective: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation. When the RIAA asks for more than triple damages (e.g. 3 x 89 cents each for *proven* infringements) or sues computer illiterate little old ladies who may be blind or may not have been alive at the time, I consider that extortionate and worse. I think that in a constitutional US, sometimes, clear civil sanctions or criminal review would be in order for some RIAA actions and cases. Also remember, one A. Hilter, on September 1, 1939, claimed to be a victim of Polish aggression.
In the early 1960's Bell labs was researching bubble memory. By the early 80's, TI or Bell commercialized it but it was too slow and bulky except for limited use, like static telephone messages. Guess shrinking the wires/tube and magnetic domains sped it up quite a bit.
Yes, make RIAA put their money where their deadbeat mouth is. Show there can be justice dealing with consortia and corporate megaliths. After all, there are the frequent public examples of oil spills where court ordered payments have been delayed decades if not generations.
Next time RIAA, the plantiff, should have to post a bond for potential legal fees (typically $xx,xxx) to able to continue to abuse the court system, to protect potential victims.
"..the name and address of each person who used his computer during the three (3) years prior to commencement of the lawsuit" - if one has a teenager that has friends or parties, sounds like possible exposure to contempt if he can't figure out who was on the machine. Also, one wonders if 15-16 yr old computer repairers count (it is not so rare). Is this contempt of court or contemptible court?
I predict another statist train wreck, driving the golden spike through the MA taxpayer's heart. Bssically until the freedom of choice drives out inferior failing medical systems (ahem), throwing more (mandatory) money (fuel) at it only increases the size of the (society threatening) conflagration. Those who are able to effectively control their heart disease, blood pressure, diabetes and chronic illnesses through intelligent, cheaper natural means also will be left out here.
I had not planned on buying any music this month but I feel that I may need to better acquaint myself with Prince's career work. Any suggestions on the best way "to make a statement" that better rewards Prince, avoids (least) rewards certain criminals and is recorded statistically ?
I had to buy a (good brand) laptop in a rush - no time for repairs on older one. CoreDuo, slow as a slug at 512MB (30 seconds+ between pages), not impressive at 1.5 GB. Crashes a lot after pulling Flash Drive (XP more stable). MS Powerpoint Viewers 2003, 2007 and OO2.2 now present some crazy looking slides with my slide show, previously flawless under XP. F--- MS, skip the next generation too.
Good thing I just got Ubuntu 7.04. Cure MS - it can be wiped out in our lifetime.
Between "It's a free country" and "it's free" (but only to paying customers - today only, 10am-4am?) and their version of "unauthorized use", this makes me doubly wary of ever visiting Michigan again (also noted for it ridiculous tax structure and related social problems). It was once a great state.
Unhackable? I am much more concerned about when a new "feature" like this is going to make my legal or paid for content unaccessible or unusable, again. Screw that, I solve these problems by going elsewhere or doing without.
Vitamin D3 (the good version) costs about 2c - 5c per 1000 IU tablet (2.5x RDA) at places like Costco, Swansons, Puritans Pride, Sams Club, Walmart etc depending on size bottle and frequent specials. Huge obscence profits, conspiracy to take over the world (sarcasm). However in northern latitudes like Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, northern Russia, these are very basic health issues worked in a number of mainstream North Am medical schools despite rampant anti-vitamin politics. Score one for the med school researchers over the drug addled (and coddled) managements. I take mine with vitamin K and mixed tocopherols, the natural isomeric mixtures of vitamin E, all cheap online as well as separately with a *good* multivitamin without iron (like many men, I already had excess).
I blame RIAA, it members, MPAA, Disney as much for the collapse of WorldCom (all that *dark* fiber) and the re-emergence of the "baby" Bells and the other roads hogs. Some baby Bells, etc made state level agreements ~10 years ago that should have put them more on track for capacity and last mile if they had not reneged on the provisions of such agreements.
Yes, like Clinton, the third George's reign has helped make the world, er, country safe for our brand of state capitalism.
No doubt either our industrial society or the rise of Western civilization is linked to Sol's solar instability. I am just waiting for Al to confirm it.
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Presupposing she wants to keep her job, Comer sounds like she made at least two tactical mistakes - using the "company's ink" on "company time". The article appears to make clear that she was in a highly politicized environment. She should have used her own computer (or own wireless), preferably at home. This sounds like a poisoned work environment, where the little local powers that be were watching for any pretext to attack where she had been given some kind of warning before. It will be interesting to see if she really plans to fight dismissal and whether it is to be restored to her job or, "incidentally", just be paid off and move on. These things get pretty ugly.
I had an important business presentation with a Vista laptop that I had to buy in a hurry several months before (old one was damaged right before a business trip). The damn thing updated Vista online overnight by itself and then collapsed the next day on reboot and couldn't restart for 15 minutes in a meeting. There is no excuse for the problems that I have had with this Vista laptop, it should be more stable before it ships. IMHO any IT type recommending Vista deployment before SP1 or 2 should be terminated on sight. It is by far the most annoying I've had, far more than anything on previous 95, 98SE, XP laptops.
They just want the Clintons and Republicrats to renew their vows of high fidelity.
Joel M Kauffman, PhD "Malignant Medical Myths" (Myth #2)
Christian Allan, PhD & Wolfgang Lutz, MD "Life Without Bread: How a low-carbohydrate diet can save your life"
Richard K Bernstein, MD "Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution"
Alice Ottoboni, PhD & Fred Ottoboni, MPH, PhD "The Modern Nutritional Diseases: heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and how to prevent them"
Michael Eades, MD & Mary Dan Eades, MD "The ProteinPower LifePlan"
James Braly, MD & R Hoggan, MA "Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains may be Hazardous to your Health"
The average schmoe on the street has not the time, money, guts, intelligence or interest to risk their pitiful existence on such a risky fight that they could prevail on perhaps 90% of their points and still financially sink on dropping even one point at the first court trial as in McLibel. Which might be closer to describing any RIAA victims that have a zombie machine or a neighbor's smart kid "helping" them or their kid, against an organized extortion by gigabuck corporate goons who seek to usurp, again and again, the legal system itself.
Assuming that there is a legitimate public purpose to the Pell program, without engaging in the Constitutional/philosophical debate on that part, one still is confronted with the potential jeopardy, of say 2 * $10/mo*9mo = $180/yr (RIAA+MPAA demands?), that might be out of some economically marginal kid's last $100. College aid nominal cost numbers are often $1000-$2000-$3000 short of full costs. One could say stress such kids more for the extra $180, never minding the other elemental injustice of all kids paying for some kids downloading. Some % kids won't. (My kids have purchased CD/DVDs, legally imported, when returning from overseas and explicitly declared to Customs and closely inspected). I would rather (a) make sure the kid has best chance of completion with the money granted, (b) I don't want to pay 110% for a new "improved" **AA extortion fees included Pell program, (c) I think a *lot* the **AA threats and propositions are of extremely dubious legal nature and the related publishers have abused the literal Constitutional provisons (don't get me started). I am absolutely sure the organizations are of the type I would not voluntarily do business with, and would order off my property (ahem) if they bothered me, or mine, without *proper* papers.
Not sure how much this really "just" demanding filter related IT campus, versus really grabbing for mass extortion of (poor) students' funds with some kind of blanket tax when filtering fails on a few, but it is pretty bad either way. The Pell students represent the lowest income where each dollar is going to be a serious item. Stealing from the poor(est) students, perhaps killing the golden goose for many, for shame... We know who the real economic terrorists are. Just wish we could arrange that holiday at Camp X-ray for them.
IMHO Osma won, allowed a more rapid trashing of the Constitution. Since 9/11, the pretext of security everywhere and Patriot Act are much greater dangers to most US citizens. I have never been threatened by an international terrorist, although there was a little misunderstanding with a Cuban soldier some years ago in southern Africa. I have seen several countries pre- and post- revolution. However, since 9/11 I have seen several things that make me question my safety around various "security" agents here at home, public or private, more than with the agitated Cuban soldier (probably longer, more continuous exposure, more deferential attitudes in some places, and fewer allowances here for strangers).
extortionate - adjective: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation. When the RIAA asks for more than triple damages (e.g. 3 x 89 cents each for *proven* infringements) or sues computer illiterate little old ladies who may be blind or may not have been alive at the time, I consider that extortionate and worse. I think that in a constitutional US, sometimes, clear civil sanctions or criminal review would be in order for some RIAA actions and cases. Also remember, one A. Hilter, on September 1, 1939, claimed to be a victim of Polish aggression.
In the early 1960's Bell labs was researching bubble memory. By the early 80's, TI or Bell commercialized it but it was too slow and bulky except for limited use, like static telephone messages. Guess shrinking the wires/tube and magnetic domains sped it up quite a bit.
One wonders whether this presages a change in government there...
Yes, make RIAA put their money where their deadbeat mouth is. Show there can be justice dealing with consortia and corporate megaliths. After all, there are the frequent public examples of oil spills where court ordered payments have been delayed decades if not generations.
Next time RIAA, the plantiff, should have to post a bond for potential legal fees (typically $xx,xxx) to able to continue to abuse the court system, to protect potential victims.
"..the name and address of each person who used his computer during the three (3) years prior to commencement of the lawsuit" - if one has a teenager that has friends or parties, sounds like possible exposure to contempt if he can't figure out who was on the machine. Also, one wonders if 15-16 yr old computer repairers count (it is not so rare). Is this contempt of court or contemptible court?
I predict another statist train wreck, driving the golden spike through the MA taxpayer's heart. Bssically until the freedom of choice drives out inferior failing medical systems (ahem), throwing more (mandatory) money (fuel) at it only increases the size of the (society threatening) conflagration. Those who are able to effectively control their heart disease, blood pressure, diabetes and chronic illnesses through intelligent, cheaper natural means also will be left out here.
I had not planned on buying any music this month but I feel that I may need to better acquaint myself with Prince's career work. Any suggestions on the best way "to make a statement" that better rewards Prince, avoids (least) rewards certain criminals and is recorded statistically ?
Good thing I just got Ubuntu 7.04. Cure MS - it can be wiped out in our lifetime.
Between "It's a free country" and "it's free" (but only to paying customers - today only, 10am-4am?) and their version of "unauthorized use", this makes me doubly wary of ever visiting Michigan again (also noted for it ridiculous tax structure and related social problems). It was once a great state.
Microsoft declares full scale war, with much territory already occupied in Europe, the Americas and Asia. It's the BuGs or your favorite Linux.
Unhackable? I am much more concerned about when a new "feature" like this is going to make my legal or paid for content unaccessible or unusable, again. Screw that, I solve these problems by going elsewhere or doing without.
Vitamin D3 (the good version) costs about 2c - 5c per 1000 IU tablet (2.5x RDA) at places like Costco, Swansons, Puritans Pride, Sams Club, Walmart etc depending on size bottle and frequent specials. Huge obscence profits, conspiracy to take over the world (sarcasm). However in northern latitudes like Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, northern Russia, these are very basic health issues worked in a number of mainstream North Am medical schools despite rampant anti-vitamin politics. Score one for the med school researchers over the drug addled (and coddled) managements. I take mine with vitamin K and mixed tocopherols, the natural isomeric mixtures of vitamin E, all cheap online as well as separately with a *good* multivitamin without iron (like many men, I already had excess).
I blame RIAA, it members, MPAA, Disney as much for the collapse of WorldCom (all that *dark* fiber) and the re-emergence of the "baby" Bells and the other roads hogs. Some baby Bells, etc made state level agreements ~10 years ago that should have put them more on track for capacity and last mile if they had not reneged on the provisions of such agreements.
Yes, like Clinton, the third George's reign has helped make the world, er, country safe for our brand of state capitalism.
No doubt either our industrial society or the rise of Western civilization is linked to Sol's solar instability. I am just waiting for Al to confirm it.
"Unlimited", 5 GB means old V lawyers have a 32 bit overflow "feature" in their vocabulary, rounded up, 2^32 = 4294967296. V is also for Verizon.
New drugs? Bah, as long they quit trying to outlaw potent supplements like in Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ.