But not to the public. Rather, he worked on his own behalf and on behalf of a group of his neighbors, and presented this to a group of regulators, apparently without compensation. Further, the appeal did not require the services of a PE, and was presented without a PE stamp or wet signature.
Therefore there is no 'offering of services to the public' involved, and he never represented himself as a PE.
Now if he had said to a group of people outside his neighborhood, "Pay me money, and I'll prepare a report for you" he probably would be in hot water.
No you didn't. I am a professional engineer, and the restriction is "offering engineering services to the public". You cannot represent yourself as an engineer if you deal with public.
There's nothing in the law that would limit what you do in your personal life. Preparing an appeal is not "offering engineering services to the public".
Mr. Lacy should have his license suspended for being a moron.
IANAL but isn't $6K worth of damage a felony in most jurisdictions?
I think that would provoke a response from the cops. While I don't discount the possibility, I think the kids know that it's bad juju to mess with this; sort of like smashing the windows on the principal's car.
With margins in the single percentage points for most on-line resellers, you think a 30% cut won't impact the users?
This will result either in a) fewer stores offering ebooks and thus less competition and thus greater prices, or b) stores raising their prices to cover the 30% cut, resulting in greater prices.
Any tool that has gone completely out of use is forgotten. Any tool we can think of pretty much by definition is one for which we can think of a use, with the possible exception of some artifact we might see in a museum.
But obsolete tools are not considered valuable, so there would probably be little effort made to preserve them for posterity; we preserve those things we consider valuable.
So we're left with trying to prove that a tool that no one can remember and that was discarded actually existed. Sort of like proving that you don't beat your kids. You can't prove a negative.
Anyone even heard of a railroad pen these days? How about french curves in the shape of naked women? I'm sure that anyone who is into medical history could find classes of tools that are no longer used or made. Ditto almost any production technology that has been completely transformed by the use of computers.
The claim that a tool has never gone out of use is ludicrous.
Security through obscurity (and now legal threats) has never, ever worked in the long run.
What you really want is a totally open gaming platform, where the gamers themselves develop the methods and means of catching cheaters. And before you say, "That will never work", think it through. The gamers know the game, they know the sort of world they want to be in, and they should be able to set the rules.
Oh, and for a real-life example (in sports of all things) look up the rules for Ultimate. A game played with no ref. The players call the fouls and the game goes on.
Anyway, it seems that such a trend is eventually self correcting; we will have a religious war in which all those extra children will exterminate each other.
rsnapshot on a regular basis to a off-site service, that's read-only to the organization. I run that kind of service for several organizations for exactly that reason.
Please study your religions. Islam is the world's most common religion; only a tiny fraction of its adherents are violent. It's just like saying "How are we going to get rid of Christianity? They wont be happy until they're raped all our children."
I think you missed that religion and science are branches of philosophy that try to answer different questions.
hehe. I think I know the difference - I have a BA in religion from a Jesuit University and a BS in Engineering from an Ivy League School.
Since they answer different questions, our students should not be misled into believing that one is as valid as the other, or that once explains the other.
+1. I find that terrifying. If we're teaching our kids that a scientific theory, which all about validating a logical chain of though based on observation, and which, by definition, must make valid predictions about the world around us, and a creation myth are the same, then we're screwed.
Don't get me wrong, I like creation myths; some are absolutely wonderful. And on that score, biblical creationism and ID come in at the lowest end of the creative scale; as creative writing I'd give them a C-.
Evolution works because it can make predictions about the gaps in our knowledge. It's called a "theory" because that's the tag scientists picked early on. We should not be teaching that a "scientific theory" and "something I made up while sitting on the crapper and reading the comics" have equal validity - even by omission.
Elites are bad. People with specific knowledge are bad.
No shit. We're having a great debate right now about the direction of our school district - no money, teachers getting laid off, school days are being cut, all that jazz. Instead of people saying "We need to fix the schools", the attack seems to be focused on teachers themselves - "cut their benefits, make them work for free" - and the involved parents, who have been called "elitist" and "segregationist" for wanting a good education for their kids. Note that the "segregationist" label is being applied to the mexican immigrants parents, the vietnamese immigrant parents, equally as much as the white native parents....
The message is clear - we want the cheapest teachers we can get, and we want parents who don't give a shit, so our kids can go to dumbed down schools as long as we don't have to pay a dime to the school system.
My kids attended half a year at a school in the Czech Republic. Every teacher there had an advanced degree; at least a Masters equivalent. A significant percentage had Doctorates. Class sizes are held to 22 kids. Kids attend school 10 months out of the year and get few holidays and vacations.
By teh same token, a G or PG rating is the kiss of death. They laced "Back to the Future" movies with profanity just so they could get a PG-13 movie.
So the ratings really serve to compress all the movies into PG-13 and R, the difference being the amount of tits and blood.
There are no really good kids movies or really good adult movies made anymore. I don't see anything like Fellini movies made these days. Or movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
In a lot of ways, the ratings have really killed truly creative movies; they have to fit the mold of PG-13 or R to get screened.
Well, the dumb*ss behavior by the major labels has taught the vast majority of young people that the best way to get music is to pirate it. You get the newest music in the most convenient way by pirating it.
Now the labels are saying, no wait, we'll give you the newest music in a somewhat convenient way and you get to pay for it.
How is this better than the free model that 500 million people under the age of 25 have grown accustomed to?
That seems to be an old tried and true way. You count on the people you have staying even if they're paid less; they have some "inertia" they need to overcome to move. You hire the young guns with big $$ and as soon as they sit down their pay freezes.
I used to work for an outfit where that was more-or-less policy; you quit, if really they needed you they hired you at consultant wages and then negotiated new compensation.
It got to be a game; you'd game the system to where only you had the critical information for that critical project and then, with deadlines looming, you'd quit. The PHBs hired you back in a panic with a nice big raise.
Of course, that meant that no one shared any information and the atmosphere was completely toxic, but that's how you got raises.
I'd really like to see the demographic of the msot active accounts. Just from my own anecdotal evidence. the vast majority of facebook users seem to be teen girls. Most adults I know use Facebook as a specific tool; to get name recognition for an election, to spread word of an art show, etc.
The teen girls seem to use it for social networking the most.
Teen girls grow up, get boyfriends, move on. Adults, with few exceptions, don't really use facebook in a way markedly different from a blog or even an email newsletter.
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But not to the public. Rather, he worked on his own behalf and on behalf of a group of his neighbors, and presented this to a group of regulators, apparently without compensation. Further, the appeal did not require the services of a PE, and was presented without a PE stamp or wet signature.
Therefore there is no 'offering of services to the public' involved, and he never represented himself as a PE.
Now if he had said to a group of people outside his neighborhood, "Pay me money, and I'll prepare a report for you" he probably would be in hot water.
No you didn't. I am a professional engineer, and the restriction is "offering engineering services to the public". You cannot represent yourself as an engineer if you deal with public.
There's nothing in the law that would limit what you do in your personal life. Preparing an appeal is not "offering engineering services to the public".
Mr. Lacy should have his license suspended for being a moron.
IANAL but isn't $6K worth of damage a felony in most jurisdictions?
I think that would provoke a response from the cops. While I don't discount the possibility, I think the kids know that it's bad juju to mess with this; sort of like smashing the windows on the principal's car.
Once again, you've beat by Arthur C Clarke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Pending_(Short_story_by_Arthur_Clarke)
With margins in the single percentage points for most on-line resellers, you think a 30% cut won't impact the users?
This will result either in a) fewer stores offering ebooks and thus less competition and thus greater prices, or b) stores raising their prices to cover the 30% cut, resulting in greater prices.
So tell me again how this won't affect the users?
On further though....
Any tool that has gone completely out of use is forgotten. Any tool we can think of pretty much by definition is one for which we can think of a use, with the possible exception of some artifact we might see in a museum.
But obsolete tools are not considered valuable, so there would probably be little effort made to preserve them for posterity; we preserve those things we consider valuable.
So we're left with trying to prove that a tool that no one can remember and that was discarded actually existed. Sort of like proving that you don't beat your kids. You can't prove a negative.
Anyone even heard of a railroad pen these days? How about french curves in the shape of naked women? I'm sure that anyone who is into medical history could find classes of tools that are no longer used or made. Ditto almost any production technology that has been completely transformed by the use of computers.
The claim that a tool has never gone out of use is ludicrous.
Security through obscurity (and now legal threats) has never, ever worked in the long run.
What you really want is a totally open gaming platform, where the gamers themselves develop the methods and means of catching cheaters. And before you say, "That will never work", think it through. The gamers know the game, they know the sort of world they want to be in, and they should be able to set the rules.
Oh, and for a real-life example (in sports of all things) look up the rules for Ultimate. A game played with no ref. The players call the fouls and the game goes on.
Oh boy... It was supposed to be funny and absurd! Not serious - come on, lighten up folks!
Might prove useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean#History
Anyway, it seems that such a trend is eventually self correcting; we will have a religious war in which all those extra children will exterminate each other.
Wanna sign up for the next Crusade, anyone?
rsnapshot on a regular basis to a off-site service, that's read-only to the organization. I run that kind of service for several organizations for exactly that reason.
I stand corrected. For some reason I had it in my head the other way around.
Islam != terrorism.
Please study your religions. Islam is the world's most common religion; only a tiny fraction of its adherents are violent. It's just like saying "How are we going to get rid of Christianity? They wont be happy until they're raped all our children."
I think you missed that religion and science are branches of philosophy that try to answer different questions.
hehe. I think I know the difference - I have a BA in religion from a Jesuit University and a BS in Engineering from an Ivy League School.
Since they answer different questions, our students should not be misled into believing that one is as valid as the other, or that once explains the other.
+1. I find that terrifying. If we're teaching our kids that a scientific theory, which all about validating a logical chain of though based on observation, and which, by definition, must make valid predictions about the world around us, and a creation myth are the same, then we're screwed.
Don't get me wrong, I like creation myths; some are absolutely wonderful. And on that score, biblical creationism and ID come in at the lowest end of the creative scale; as creative writing I'd give them a C-.
Evolution works because it can make predictions about the gaps in our knowledge. It's called a "theory" because that's the tag scientists picked early on. We should not be teaching that a "scientific theory" and "something I made up while sitting on the crapper and reading the comics" have equal validity - even by omission.
Elites are bad. People with specific knowledge are bad.
No shit. We're having a great debate right now about the direction of our school district - no money, teachers getting laid off, school days are being cut, all that jazz. Instead of people saying "We need to fix the schools", the attack seems to be focused on teachers themselves - "cut their benefits, make them work for free" - and the involved parents, who have been called "elitist" and "segregationist" for wanting a good education for their kids. Note that the "segregationist" label is being applied to the mexican immigrants parents, the vietnamese immigrant parents, equally as much as the white native parents....
The message is clear - we want the cheapest teachers we can get, and we want parents who don't give a shit, so our kids can go to dumbed down schools as long as we don't have to pay a dime to the school system.
My kids attended half a year at a school in the Czech Republic. Every teacher there had an advanced degree; at least a Masters equivalent. A significant percentage had Doctorates. Class sizes are held to 22 kids. Kids attend school 10 months out of the year and get few holidays and vacations.
It's a scary thing, being in the US right now.
By teh same token, a G or PG rating is the kiss of death. They laced "Back to the Future" movies with profanity just so they could get a PG-13 movie.
So the ratings really serve to compress all the movies into PG-13 and R, the difference being the amount of tits and blood.
There are no really good kids movies or really good adult movies made anymore. I don't see anything like Fellini movies made these days. Or movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
In a lot of ways, the ratings have really killed truly creative movies; they have to fit the mold of PG-13 or R to get screened.
Well true. But the lock down feature will appeal to the corporate types. So a few individual customers walk and instead they pick up Megacorp.
Not a bad exchange.
Well, the dumb*ss behavior by the major labels has taught the vast majority of young people that the best way to get music is to pirate it. You get the newest music in the most convenient way by pirating it.
Now the labels are saying, no wait, we'll give you the newest music in a somewhat convenient way and you get to pay for it.
How is this better than the free model that 500 million people under the age of 25 have grown accustomed to?
That seems to be an old tried and true way. You count on the people you have staying even if they're paid less; they have some "inertia" they need to overcome to move. You hire the young guns with big $$ and as soon as they sit down their pay freezes.
I used to work for an outfit where that was more-or-less policy; you quit, if really they needed you they hired you at consultant wages and then negotiated new compensation.
It got to be a game; you'd game the system to where only you had the critical information for that critical project and then, with deadlines looming, you'd quit. The PHBs hired you back in a panic with a nice big raise.
Of course, that meant that no one shared any information and the atmosphere was completely toxic, but that's how you got raises.
Or...
Since the universe is clearly *not* meant for us, our very existence *requires* divine intervention. Without it we would not be here!
So was he a good officer or bad?
Did he think it was hilarious, and relate it at Commander's Call, or did he try to find "the culprit" and make an ass of himself?
The first thing I thought of was "Embrace, extend, extinguish."
Seems Google has learned from the master. Paybacks are hell, eh, MS?
That's the RIAA estimate....
I'd really like to see the demographic of the msot active accounts. Just from my own anecdotal evidence. the vast majority of facebook users seem to be teen girls. Most adults I know use Facebook as a specific tool; to get name recognition for an election, to spread word of an art show, etc.
The teen girls seem to use it for social networking the most.
Teen girls grow up, get boyfriends, move on. Adults, with few exceptions, don't really use facebook in a way markedly different from a blog or even an email newsletter.
So a demographic would really be instructive.