Was that really necessary? 911 is for dealing with injuries, or people who are in imminent danger. Does a store employee standing outside your 2-ton automobile put you in danger? Come on. Unless the employee was on PCP, and was going to chew through your car?
He even says later in his blog entry: "Q: Should I be contacting the Brooklyn, Ohio Police Department? A: Thank you for expressing an interest in taking this matter up personally, and thank you to those of you who already contacted the Brooklyn, Ohio police department. However, I urge you to please not tie up their emergency services with complaints."
So in other words, don't tie up their services like Mr. Righi did.
I'm no authoritarian, but I would have complied with the store employee and/or the police officer. That said, I don't think Mike should be arrested for standing in a parking lot, so I hope he wins his legal struggle.
Still, he'd have us believe that the thrust of this story is how both Circuit City and the Brooklyn police needlessly escalated the situation. Well, calling 911 was needless escalation. People with genuinely threatening circumstances are trying to place calls at the same time, and dispatchers have finite time to handle it all.
When you succeed, get back to me, because I'm facing the same difficulties (no family to worry about, but I don't feel like relocating or getting yanked around the country for consulting).
"Would you like to just temporarily remove those Sony salesman's genitals from your mouth and repeat what you just said? I couldn't understand you the first time..."
Turns out his moith was clear, you just had your head up your own ass. Try listening with less ass in your ears.
"moith"? You meant "mouth", right? I'm no doctor, but that sounds like the mispronunciation of someone who's gagging on something.
That'll teach me to dawdle on getting a SNES controller-to-USB adapter. Do you know where else they are sold? (I can Google, but am wondering if there's somewhere reputable.)
Please. Unions are criminal, evil, lazy socialists. I know that because a television news show -- funded by I'm not sure who -- told me so. Those picket-loving, olive-green-wearing organizations and the words of ingrates like yourself are just thwarting the trickle-down effect. See, you have to wait for the trickle to reach you; that's why it's called a "trickle" and not a "stream". Give it time, and all will be right!
The proper way to benefit from trickle-down economics: kneel at upper management's feet. Aid them in removal of pants. After they've swung the hatchet enough on your brethren, they'll undoubtedly start to perspire, and condensation will form on their genitalia. Wait patiently for it to fall, then complement your utter superior on the salty goodness.
The wrong way to benefit from trickle-down economics: criticizing Republicans and SUVs. You may as well vandalize George Washington's grave with a back hoe, traitor. Why do you hate America, m874t232?!
Your analogy is garbage for many reasons. To address one of them: it's not a necessity that "homework" be done at home; it can be completed during a study period. Insisting work assigned one day be finished by another day is NOT an example of the school having jurisdiction over the student's home life.
In contrast, the school penalizing a student for posting from home and to a non-school website IS an example of the school trying to extend its jurisdiction.
A deadline does not imply control of every activity that occurs up until that deadline. For example, my taxes are due April 15, but the IRS can't dictate whether I cry about my taxes on a website prior to submitting them.
The difference is, schools have the right to filter what you view while in school. As long as they provide a complete education on mandated topics, they are not required to allow you to access irrelevant sites. If a school decides to block site with flash minigames, they can. If they block out pornagraphic sites, that's their (good) decision. They have that right.
Yes, and he has the right to put whatever he wants on his HOME computer.
By circumventing their authority willfully, you have disobeyed the school, interfered with their rights, and encouraged others to do so also. They therefore had the right to expel you for violating policy.
So let's say one high school student told another, "Hey, http://fictional-list-of-public-proxies/ has all sorts of anonymous proxies to let you bypass filters."
Would that conversation merit an expulsion too? Unlikely.
I don't see how the fact that the proxy machine belonged to the student matters ONE SHRED. It's not like his machine is infiltrating the school network or initiating any connection with it. Nay, students at the school are merely visiting the proxy as they would any of the countless other ones they can find on Google.
Now actually making use of the proxy while at school? I can understand how that's a violation, and I can see how they could bust him for typing "file://" after the previous warning (though ten days is harsh).
But simply alerting people to the existence of a machine, a machine whose purpose is readily duplicable? Come on.
As several other posts have pointed out, the Plainfield in question is in Illinois, not New Jersey. Your "average run-of-the-mill suburbs" comment still applies, though.:)
And why should the provider of Video A be punished just because an ISP user who views thousands of videos (including Video A) in a month puts more strain on their ISP's infrastructure than 30 combined typical users (users who may, in contrast, just be viewing a reasonably small amount of video)?
Clearly, the problem here is the massive _downloader_, and download caps are the way to deal with such an individual. (if not an absolute cap, then lowering the user's throughput to ~20 KB/s after they meet the limit, as another Slashdot user suggested in a recent story.)
After all, video's not the only way to use massive amounts of bandwidth. Constant downloading of MP3s (or any other file) would have a similar effect.
Hell, plain text can in my case. That's right; I'm a prolific reader. A really, really prolific reader.
"I think that the broadband companies are going to charge for the uses that need insane amounts of bandwidth."
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I think that the broadband companies are going to charge for the users that need insane amounts of bandwidth.
"The very fact we haven't been attacked yet does prove the measures to be superior."
The very fact that we weren't attacked for 5 3/4 years under Clinton, versus 4 2/3 years under Bush, proves Clinton's measures to be superior. By your crazy logic, that is.
"Yeah. They were perfect at preventing domestic terrorist attacks from 04/20/1995 through 9/10/01, too. With that kind of a record, you'd have to trust that their efforts are the reason no attack has happened.
What kind of asinine logic are you using?"
He said since 9/11/01, not before. I'd say his logic is valid given the fact we've had many acts of terrorism on the WTC during the Clinton administration that still ignored the greater threat.
Are you dim? rossifer's point was clearly that Bush "preventing" terrorism on American soil in the 4 2/3 years since 9/11/01 doesn't mean much, given that Clinton "prevented" it in a 5 3/4 year span: 4/20/1995 through January 2001. You and your ilk say Clinton was weak on terrorism, but given your assertion that 4 2/3 years is a good duration, and the mathematical FACT that 5 3/4 > 4 2/3, your logic also concludes Clinton was strong against terrorism.
I'm not saying Bush's efforts haven't accomplished anything, but I'm amazed how you and the AC above completely missed the point: the absence of attacks on US soil since 9/11, while clearly a good thing, does little to prove that counterterrorism measures after 9/11 are superior.
"The other party" refers to the dim end-user. The end-user's female relative would be the one ideally supplying the sex, but it's still possible the end-user -- whose gender is irrelevant -- could be offended at the request.
Your post was amusing, but there was no grammar problem there.:)
Slow and sloppy emulators? Please. Unless you haven't upgraded your computer or your copy of SNES9x/ZSNES in six years, you're completely full of it. While these emulators aren't perfect, they're pretty damn accurate, and can *easily* run SNES games at full speed.
From what I've heard, SNES9x/ZSNES on a remotely modern machine yield a smoother running FF4 than FF4Advance.
I'm really shocked you're using plumbers as an example, since showing at least 2" of butt crack is part of their dress code. Read the union handbook if you don't believe me.
Furthermore, a plumber with some grime on him can be a good sign: he's willing to dig in the pipes to rectify the problem. Would you prefer some prissy type who shies away from the task out of fear of soiling his splendid tuxedo, even if it means you might be drinking sewage for the foreseeable future?
Better it be on the plumber's shirt than in my dinnerware.
He also misspelled "occasions", "successful", and "you're". Hopefully, he won't be met with the harsh reality that some people out there form a low opinion of those who can't spell at a fifth grade level. True, there may be very little correlation between spelling ability and software development. However, employers are going to make judgments. Why would an organization containing PhDs want support people who can't even spell the brand names of the expensive suits they purchase? Your articulation goes a long way for creditability.
You can call it prejudices or whatever. But the fact remains that society uses language to communicate. And impressing others sometimes requires an ability to harness that language rather than butchering it.
Pfft.. Conan's had a drivable desk for the better part of a decade, and he doesn't stop to brag about it. Heck, it can even heal bullet wounds in those it transports. I guess this goes to prove that a Harvard American History degree pretty much supersedes every other form of education.
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* necessarily. damn typo.
No violence took place. "Assault" does not necessary require violence. You're conflating assault with battery.
Nevermind, I see zippthorne already made this point. I even searched this thread for "911" before posting, but the site's software must be deficient.
"I pulled out my phone and dialed 911"
Was that really necessary? 911 is for dealing with injuries, or people who are in imminent danger. Does a store employee standing outside your 2-ton automobile put you in danger? Come on. Unless the employee was on PCP, and was going to chew through your car?
He even says later in his blog entry: "Q: Should I be contacting the Brooklyn, Ohio Police Department? A: Thank you for expressing an interest in taking this matter up personally, and thank you to those of you who already contacted the Brooklyn, Ohio police department. However, I urge you to please not tie up their emergency services with complaints."
So in other words, don't tie up their services like Mr. Righi did.
I'm no authoritarian, but I would have complied with the store employee and/or the police officer. That said, I don't think Mike should be arrested for standing in a parking lot, so I hope he wins his legal struggle.
Still, he'd have us believe that the thrust of this story is how both Circuit City and the Brooklyn police needlessly escalated the situation. Well, calling 911 was needless escalation. People with genuinely threatening circumstances are trying to place calls at the same time, and dispatchers have finite time to handle it all.
Wrong, comrade. In Soviet Russia, only the candidates were anonymous, and they voted for YOU.
When you succeed, get back to me, because I'm facing the same difficulties (no family to worry about, but I don't feel like relocating or getting yanked around the country for consulting).
"Would you like to just temporarily remove those Sony salesman's genitals from your mouth and repeat what you just said? I couldn't understand you the first time..."
Turns out his moith was clear, you just had your head up your own ass. Try listening with less ass in your ears.
"moith"? You meant "mouth", right? I'm no doctor, but that sounds like the mispronunciation of someone who's gagging on something.
That'll teach me to dawdle on getting a SNES controller-to-USB adapter. Do you know where else they are sold? (I can Google, but am wondering if there's somewhere reputable.)
I work for an ESP, and frankly, I spend all day making sure people don't get things they don't want...
And thanks to your ESP, you know what the people don't want without having to ask them.
Please. Unions are criminal, evil, lazy socialists. I know that because a television news show -- funded by I'm not sure who -- told me so. Those picket-loving, olive-green-wearing organizations and the words of ingrates like yourself are just thwarting the trickle-down effect. See, you have to wait for the trickle to reach you; that's why it's called a "trickle" and not a "stream". Give it time, and all will be right!
The proper way to benefit from trickle-down economics: kneel at upper management's feet. Aid them in removal of pants. After they've swung the hatchet enough on your brethren, they'll undoubtedly start to perspire, and condensation will form on their genitalia. Wait patiently for it to fall, then complement your utter superior on the salty goodness.
The wrong way to benefit from trickle-down economics: criticizing Republicans and SUVs. You may as well vandalize George Washington's grave with a back hoe, traitor. Why do you hate America, m874t232?!
Your analogy is garbage for many reasons. To address one of them: it's not a necessity that "homework" be done at home; it can be completed during a study period. Insisting work assigned one day be finished by another day is NOT an example of the school having jurisdiction over the student's home life.
In contrast, the school penalizing a student for posting from home and to a non-school website IS an example of the school trying to extend its jurisdiction.
A deadline does not imply control of every activity that occurs up until that deadline. For example, my taxes are due April 15, but the IRS can't dictate whether I cry about my taxes on a website prior to submitting them.
"a crime"? So is it illegal, or is it just against school policy? You've got a curious definition of "crime".
The difference is, schools have the right to filter what you view while in school. As long as they provide a complete education on mandated topics, they are not required to allow you to access irrelevant sites. If a school decides to block site with flash minigames, they can. If they block out pornagraphic sites, that's their (good) decision. They have that right.
Yes, and he has the right to put whatever he wants on his HOME computer.
By circumventing their authority willfully, you have disobeyed the school, interfered with their rights, and encouraged others to do so also. They therefore had the right to expel you for violating policy.
So let's say one high school student told another, "Hey, http://fictional-list-of-public-proxies/ has all sorts of anonymous proxies to let you bypass filters."
Would that conversation merit an expulsion too? Unlikely.
I don't see how the fact that the proxy machine belonged to the student matters ONE SHRED. It's not like his machine is infiltrating the school network or initiating any connection with it. Nay, students at the school are merely visiting the proxy as they would any of the countless other ones they can find on Google.
Now actually making use of the proxy while at school? I can understand how that's a violation, and I can see how they could bust him for typing "file://" after the previous warning (though ten days is harsh).
But simply alerting people to the existence of a machine, a machine whose purpose is readily duplicable? Come on.
As several other posts have pointed out, the Plainfield in question is in Illinois, not New Jersey. Your "average run-of-the-mill suburbs" comment still applies, though. :)
Heck, the fact that it's an eyesore (aside from the girlie) should be grounds for removal. I can barely read the damn thing.
And note the image isn't actually on his site. It's a logo for a now-defunct Chicago radio station, and that logo is on their site.
And why should the provider of Video A be punished just because an ISP user who views thousands of videos (including Video A) in a month puts more strain on their ISP's infrastructure than 30 combined typical users (users who may, in contrast, just be viewing a reasonably small amount of video)?
:)
Clearly, the problem here is the massive _downloader_, and download caps are the way to deal with such an individual. (if not an absolute cap, then lowering the user's throughput to ~20 KB/s after they meet the limit, as another Slashdot user suggested in a recent story.)
After all, video's not the only way to use massive amounts of bandwidth. Constant downloading of MP3s (or any other file) would have a similar effect.
Hell, plain text can in my case. That's right; I'm a prolific reader. A really, really prolific reader.
"I think that the broadband companies are going to charge for the uses that need insane amounts of bandwidth."
==>
I think that the broadband companies are going to charge for the users that need insane amounts of bandwidth.
Much better.
"The very fact we haven't been attacked yet does prove the measures to be superior."
The very fact that we weren't attacked for 5 3/4 years under Clinton, versus 4 2/3 years under Bush, proves Clinton's measures to be superior. By your crazy logic, that is.
5 3/4 > 4 2/3 . You can't get around that.
"Yeah. They were perfect at preventing domestic terrorist attacks from 04/20/1995 through 9/10/01, too. With that kind of a record, you'd have to trust that their efforts are the reason no attack has happened.
What kind of asinine logic are you using?"
He said since 9/11/01, not before. I'd say his logic is valid given the fact we've had many acts of terrorism on the WTC during the Clinton administration that still ignored the greater threat.
Are you dim? rossifer's point was clearly that Bush "preventing" terrorism on American soil in the 4 2/3 years since 9/11/01 doesn't mean much, given that Clinton "prevented" it in a 5 3/4 year span: 4/20/1995 through January 2001. You and your ilk say Clinton was weak on terrorism, but given your assertion that 4 2/3 years is a good duration, and the mathematical FACT that 5 3/4 > 4 2/3, your logic also concludes Clinton was strong against terrorism.
I'm not saying Bush's efforts haven't accomplished anything, but I'm amazed how you and the AC above completely missed the point: the absence of attacks on US soil since 9/11, while clearly a good thing, does little to prove that counterterrorism measures after 9/11 are superior.
"The other party" refers to the dim end-user. The end-user's female relative would be the one ideally supplying the sex, but it's still possible the end-user -- whose gender is irrelevant -- could be offended at the request.
:)
Your post was amusing, but there was no grammar problem there.
Slow and sloppy emulators? Please. Unless you haven't upgraded your computer or your copy of SNES9x/ZSNES in six years, you're completely full of it. While these emulators aren't perfect, they're pretty damn accurate, and can *easily* run SNES games at full speed.
From what I've heard, SNES9x/ZSNES on a remotely modern machine yield a smoother running FF4 than FF4Advance.
"Creditability" works as well. From Dictionary.com:
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creditable, adj:
2. Worthy of belief: a creditable story.
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Besides, I was intentionally mirroring utlemming's post anyway.
Unlearned buffoon!
I'm really shocked you're using plumbers as an example, since showing at least 2" of butt crack is part of their dress code. Read the union handbook if you don't believe me.
Furthermore, a plumber with some grime on him can be a good sign: he's willing to dig in the pipes to rectify the problem. Would you prefer some prissy type who shies away from the task out of fear of soiling his splendid tuxedo, even if it means you might be drinking sewage for the foreseeable future?
Better it be on the plumber's shirt than in my dinnerware.
He also misspelled "occasions", "successful", and "you're". Hopefully, he won't be met with the harsh reality that some people out there form a low opinion of those who can't spell at a fifth grade level. True, there may be very little correlation between spelling ability and software development. However, employers are going to make judgments. Why would an organization containing PhDs want support people who can't even spell the brand names of the expensive suits they purchase? Your articulation goes a long way for creditability.
You can call it prejudices or whatever. But the fact remains that society uses language to communicate. And impressing others sometimes requires an ability to harness that language rather than butchering it.
Pfft.. Conan's had a drivable desk for the better part of a decade, and he doesn't stop to brag about it. Heck, it can even heal bullet wounds in those it transports. I guess this goes to prove that a Harvard American History degree pretty much supersedes every other form of education.
comparing it to a VW bug is quite silly.. everybody knows space debris is measured in relation to a chihuahua's head.