There are certain things the government has decreed are not legal, even if you put them in a contract.
A contract that says I'll work for you for less than the legal minimum wage is unenforceable. A lease that says I can't install a DBS dish under any circumstances is unenforceable. A lease that says I can't use a HAM radio on the property is unenforceable. A property deed that says I can never resell the property to someone with a different skin color than mine is unenforceable.
And in this case, A lease that says I can't install a wireless access point in unlicensed spectrum is unenforceable.
The FCC has ruled their restrictions are illegal and not enforceable.
The university can control what you connect to their network. But they can't regulate the airwaves, that's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FCC. If you're not connecting your AP to their network, they don't have the right to restrict you.
The FCC has ruled repeatedly with regards to HAM Radio antennas, DBS dishes and OTA TV antennas that landlords cannot unduly restrict tenants from installing them. They've also ruled the same regarding anything in the 2.4 GHz band.
So: a) University banning connection of WAP to their network: OK b) University banning WAP anywhere on their property if it's not connected to their network: Not OK
FAA regulations prohibit anyone who is intoxicated from flying, and there's a couple of reasons for it.
The pilot and crew do not need the distraction of a drunk person harrassing them during the flight, or possibly doing something that jeopardizes the safety of the flight, like deciding they want to step outside for a minute.
Second, high altitudes and lower oxygen levels can aggravate the effects of alcohol. Someone who is visibly intoxicated on the ground could potentially have a very serious medical problem at 8,000 feet cabin pressure.
Or the pilot didn't want to violate the Federal Aviation Regulations.
FAR 91.17:
(b) Except in an emergency, no pilot of a civil aircraft may allow a person who appears to be intoxicated or who demonstrates by manner or physical indications that the individual is under the influence of drugs (except a medical patient under proper care) to be carried in that aircraft.
Please. Broadcast television standards have been in place since the first commercial station got a license.
This administration may be conservative prudes, but so was everyone else ever at the wheel of the FCC, and blaming existing decency standards on them is unjustified.
Recreational pilot's licenses in the US require a third class medical, the same as a private certificate. The diference between the two was mainly the lack of night flight and cross country and doesn't really save you much, so everyone ignores recreational and just gets a private.
There really aren't that many differences between a third and second class medical either other than it needs to be renewed yearly instead of every 2 or 3, plus vision is a little more stringient. The first class is mostly a second class renewed twice a year, and an EKG yearly if you're over 40 to prove your heart still works.
The FCC has in previous decisions said you have a right to certian antennas at a rental property, and the renter can't stop you. Namely, OTA tv antennas, Satellite Dishes, and other wire-line replacements like internet access.
What the landlord can do is prohibit you from damaging or modifying his property to install it, and require it be in an "exclusive use" area to the tennant. Look up the FCC rules on DBS dishes, and you'll find the rest of it. Depending on the exact circumstances, your landlord may be wrong and you can tell him as much.
Private pilots need 20/40 distance vision in each eye, after correction to get a medical.
Commercial and Airline pilots must have 20/20 distance after correction for medical, and all three classes need 20/40 near after correction.
The Air Force, Navy, and Marines tend to require uncorrected vision to begin flight training, but allow some correction once they've got money invested in you, and AFAIK, none of them allow any sort of corrective eye surgery, as there's concerns the sutures could rupture in high performance maneuvers.
Try X-Plane instead. The scenery isn't great (Terrain elevation is accurate but there's no real building detail) but the flight model blows MSFS out of the sky. And it ships with a B-52 model.
My position on this issue keeps alternating on me.
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How do you get to 60,001 feet without climbing through the first sixty thousand? If we could just magically apear above restricted (and everything from 1200 feet to 60,000 is restricted to some degree) airspace, it'd be kind of a moot contest.
We're talking about a flight soley in US airspace, which extends up to the orbital threshold, even if we don't routinely send aircraft that high right now. Why would it be in international jurisdiction?
Let me multiply last year's income by whatever tables they want (which I already do) come April 15th, and write a single check at that point to cover my taxes, rather than getting to the 15th and watching stupid people think because they got a refund it's a present from the government (Hint: it's not. It's an interest-free loan on the overpayment you gave them that you shouldn't have.)
The administration has a tendency to do stupid things without the students being consulted, or if they are consulted, against the majority opinion:
1997: Changed residence halls to alcohol-free zones, stopped selling alcohol in the resident grocery. 2000: Signed a 10 year exclusivity contract with Pepsi, banning Coke and other smaller soda companies (Jolt!) from being sold by any food service on campus. 2000: Began accepting more students than they could house, putting many students in temporary housing situations Lounges in reshalls converted to quadruple occupancy rooms and off-campus hotels) and creating a housing shortage for returning upper-classmen in future years. 2003: Installed a 70 ton metalic scrap heap at the front door, calling it art.
The sick thing is, as an independent bookstore, we're the last and only line of defense against megastore encroachment. I used to work at Barnes and Noble, and you know what? I was treated better, given more hours and paid more (way more) to work for them than I make now. With practices like this, I understand why people give in to the big boys.
Your observation that abuses can happen in little businesses contravenes the accepted group-think that such problems are the sole domain of large evil soulless mega-corporations.
Please report to the nearest re-education facility immediately for your proper anti-corporation indoctrination.
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There are certain things the government has decreed are not legal, even if you put them in a contract.
A contract that says I'll work for you for less than the legal minimum wage is unenforceable.
A lease that says I can't install a DBS dish under any circumstances is unenforceable.
A lease that says I can't use a HAM radio on the property is unenforceable.
A property deed that says I can never resell the property to someone with a different skin color than mine is unenforceable.
And in this case,
A lease that says I can't install a wireless access point in unlicensed spectrum is unenforceable.
Except in this case, the Federal Government, through the FCC has ruled that your right to use unlicenced radio equipment trumps any lease restriction. There's no similar ruling that says I have a right to a couch on the front porch of my frat house, but there is a federal ruling that I have a right to run a 2.4 GHz access point, and the only person I have to answer to is the FCC.
The FCC has ruled their restrictions are illegal and not enforceable.
The university can control what you connect to their network. But they can't regulate the airwaves, that's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FCC. If you're not connecting your AP to their network, they don't have the right to restrict you.
The FCC has ruled repeatedly with regards to HAM Radio antennas, DBS dishes and OTA TV antennas that landlords cannot unduly restrict tenants from installing them. They've also ruled the same regarding anything in the 2.4 GHz band.
So:
a) University banning connection of WAP to their network: OK
b) University banning WAP anywhere on their property if it's not connected to their network: Not OK
FAA regulations prohibit anyone who is intoxicated from flying, and there's a couple of reasons for it.
The pilot and crew do not need the distraction of a drunk person harrassing them during the flight, or possibly doing something that jeopardizes the safety of the flight, like deciding they want to step outside for a minute.
Second, high altitudes and lower oxygen levels can aggravate the effects of alcohol. Someone who is visibly intoxicated on the ground could potentially have a very serious medical problem at 8,000 feet cabin pressure.
Just ask JFK Jr.
I can't, my scuba certification isn't current.
Come election day, you and Bill Gates both have the same number of votes.
Please. Broadcast television standards have been in place since the first commercial station got a license.
This administration may be conservative prudes, but so was everyone else ever at the wheel of the FCC, and blaming existing decency standards on them is unjustified.
Recreational pilot's licenses in the US require a third class medical, the same as a private certificate. The diference between the two was mainly the lack of night flight and cross country and doesn't really save you much, so everyone ignores recreational and just gets a private.
There really aren't that many differences between a third and second class medical either other than it needs to be renewed yearly instead of every 2 or 3, plus vision is a little more stringient. The first class is mostly a second class renewed twice a year, and an EKG yearly if you're over 40 to prove your heart still works.
Yes I want to -f PUT IT IN A FILE, what else would I do with it? Send it to the system's tape drive, since you just ran the "Tape ARchive" command?
The FCC has in previous decisions said you have a right to certian antennas at a rental property, and the renter can't stop you. Namely, OTA tv antennas, Satellite Dishes, and other wire-line replacements like internet access.
What the landlord can do is prohibit you from damaging or modifying his property to install it, and require it be in an "exclusive use" area to the tennant. Look up the FCC rules on DBS dishes, and you'll find the rest of it. Depending on the exact circumstances, your landlord may be wrong and you can tell him as much.
They can't prevent you from using the radio frequencies according to FCC regulations, including throwing up an access point.
What they can do is prevent you from connecting your equipment to their IP network.
Private pilots need 20/40 distance vision in each eye, after correction to get a medical.
Commercial and Airline pilots must have 20/20 distance after correction for medical, and all three classes need 20/40 near after correction.
The Air Force, Navy, and Marines tend to require uncorrected vision to begin flight training, but allow some correction once they've got money invested in you, and AFAIK, none of them allow any sort of corrective eye surgery, as there's concerns the sutures could rupture in high performance maneuvers.
any Thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to Contrary notwithstanding.
Treaties can't trump the constitution.
Try X-Plane instead. The scenery isn't great (Terrain elevation is accurate but there's no real building detail) but the flight model blows MSFS out of the sky. And it ships with a B-52 model.
My position on this issue keeps alternating on me.
Am I the only person thinking that the real Sendmail guys may be interested in these crooks? I'm pretty sure Sendmails and Sendmail are close enough for a trademark infringement.
He would have needed an experimental aircraft registration on the vehicle, or a waiver to conduct flight tests on an unregistered craft.
How do you get to 60,001 feet without climbing through the first sixty thousand? If we could just magically apear above restricted (and everything from 1200 feet to 60,000 is restricted to some degree) airspace, it'd be kind of a moot contest.
We're talking about a flight soley in US airspace, which extends up to the orbital threshold, even if we don't routinely send aircraft that high right now. Why would it be in international jurisdiction?
Yes, they do.
Here's a better idea.
Let me multiply last year's income by whatever tables they want (which I already do) come April 15th, and write a single check at that point to cover my taxes, rather than getting to the 15th and watching stupid people think because they got a refund it's a present from the government (Hint: it's not. It's an interest-free loan on the overpayment you gave them that you shouldn't have.)
The weather sucks.
The administration has a tendency to do stupid things without the students being consulted, or if they are consulted, against the majority opinion:
1997: Changed residence halls to alcohol-free zones, stopped selling alcohol in the resident grocery.
2000: Signed a 10 year exclusivity contract with Pepsi, banning Coke and other smaller soda companies (Jolt!) from being sold by any food service on campus.
2000: Began accepting more students than they could house, putting many students in temporary housing situations Lounges in reshalls converted to quadruple occupancy rooms and off-campus hotels) and creating a housing shortage for returning upper-classmen in future years.
2003: Installed a 70 ton metalic scrap heap at the front door, calling it art.
The sick thing is, as an independent bookstore, we're the last and only line of defense against megastore encroachment. I used to work at Barnes and Noble, and you know what? I was treated better, given more hours and paid more (way more) to work for them than I make now. With practices like this, I understand why people give in to the big boys.
Your observation that abuses can happen in little businesses contravenes the accepted group-think that such problems are the sole domain of large evil soulless mega-corporations.
Please report to the nearest re-education facility immediately for your proper anti-corporation indoctrination.