As with the Avian Flu virus I'm wondering if the problem is linked to poor sanitary conditions where swine, bird and more generally farming animals. If this is the case, would it not be beneficial to WHO and UN to increase the sanitary conditions in these areas. We also have to consider that some of the North American food supply is coming from China and Mexico among other countries and we should work to increase the food safety in any case.
People should realize that not everyone who is epileptic is photosensitive. Many people seem to have the incorrect impression that flashing lights and such will trigger off a seizure with anyone that has epilepsy. This is a myth.
If you tell them the real reason you're cancelling 1) The company doesn't really care. They want to get rid of you. You're wasting your breadth. 2) If you tell them you're moving, they'll try to sell you the service where you're moving to. Unless you tell them overseas!
So when it came time for me to cancel service many years ago, I lied. I told them "I have a severe case of CARPEL TUNNEL SYNDROME". I got no resistance. They can't really ask you any more question, or you'd have to be a real douche to. I was off the phone in about 1 minute, service cancelled and tech picked up my modem. I told them it was really hard for me to drive (truth, I do not have a car).
Now if you were to actually use a shark, I don't think it would be Evil let alone creepy or imposing enough on the people of my rule. So stick to your sharks. I would use the Loc Nest Monster as its much more befitting. I think a much larger laser will fit on it.
Tall buildings and skyscrapers are a boring part of the city scape. Nothing ever moves. They are only pretty with Christmas lights.
I suggest Turning the Burj Dubai building into not only the world's tallest building, but also the world's largest windmill. At that height, one swing should power the whole world for the year!
If this is the case we're even more screwed. I'm sure the same groups of companies represented by the lobbiest have already discussed their reasons to each of the WIPO members that have signed the treaty. Our only opportunity for some sanity in this is to write to our MPs and the Prime Minister to demand fair consume, Internet and technology oriented copyright laws.
I want more openness in all Canadian government affairs. I want cameras w/ sound - all real time and no editing- of any and all of the 'closed door' meetings between politicians and lobbiests. I'd REALLY be interested in hearing what they have to say and wether there is any opposition in the arguments from the politicians or if they always fully agree. I've always found it too strong a coincidence that whatever the lobbiest lobbies for is exactly what policy most any government decides is the best COA.
Heck, I have over 300 CDs. Of those, save for 8 albums from 4 different artists, the rest of my collection is American. Sorry, but Canadian music sucks. Most of the Canadian artists that make it to the top 40 copy the same style as the Americans.
The overwhelming reason for CANCON and the Levy are, if you buy the story, is to share our 'Canadian culture' with other Canadians and the rest of the world. Can anybody point to me exactly what is "Canadian" about Canadian music? I've yet to see any coherent definition of Canadian culture to date.
I've worked for an ISP, telecom in B2B sales and financial services. I've made it an occasional habit to browse the web (after work hours) and look at customer complaints. There's always two sides of the story. After looking at said complaints, I've looked at some of the accounts in the computer system(s) used. Some were quite fair. Others were total exaggerations, lies or very deceitful.
Companies take PR hits unfairly in some cases because of this. The one thing I will say: customers use a lot of energy to vent and complain. They were very rarely write to say the situation was resolved, to apologize that they were in the wrong, or that the company did everything in its power to resolve the situation reasonably and both mutually agreed it could not be.
This sounds a bit like Negative Option Billing. At the least, the Canadian Cable Company(ies) that tried this weren't very successful when it came to cable subscriptions. One company had lineups 100's of customers long at its sales outlets to return their cable modems.
Its not exactly the same since its really a TOS change. But nonetheless, telecom and cable companies are always trying this. They end up losing face and a lot of customers in the end. Doesn't have much appeal to shareholders either.
Ok, I RTFA'd and it doesn't seem that this is going Federal yet (and I'm Canadian). But lets' say it does.
Talk about the pot in the kettle! The same people that want to tax violent video games are the same ones that want to sent 18-year-old 'kids' (I'm 30.... anyways) away to war to get shot at and kill people. No matter where the conflict or the reason, its beyond me why its okay to kill people in a warzone at the age of 18, yet you have to 'pay extra' to do it in a virtual world even if you're under 18. The fact that America's Army game is being bought-paid for and developed under the instruction of the US Army is further irony.
I played 'violent' video games when I was 6 or 7. My parents never objected. The 'violent' games on the C64 were nowhere near the realism of today's games. I've never been in a fight, have always avoided them altogether. If they are so concerned about violent games, they should just screen people for mental and personality disorders before playing - like that's going to work - but the Columbine wasn't caused by normal people being bullied. Hell at least 10% of the male population at the school probably had firearms at home (access) and have played violent video games.
There is one. Its stashed on a bunch of wiki pages as well... the irony. It does, seriously, compare well to some academic paper generators. Some MIT students made one.
Sorry, I realized Showtime does have digital download options for Dex (and probably some of the others). What I'm suggesting is that the network distributes the shows itself and cuts out all the middle men. Pure $$$$$.
I'll say yes to your statement and agree wholeheartedly to it - its about the video among other things.
But from a PR and marketing perspective, how exactly do you position yourself to your customers. Lets' see - almost 10 years ago, when we first launched 'Unlimited***' Hi-Speed Internet, we let you download whatever the hell you wanted (Kazaa, Napster), we didn't give a fuck as long as we got your cash $29.95 - $39.95 a month. Now, 10 years later, remember how we told you it was unlimited and you could download everything, we 10 years later our services costs EVEN more money to run so, if you're going to have to pay us even more. That's right, the cost of your computer and our network equipment and bandwidth (throughout the industry) has decreased, but we are going to charge you more money.
If Showtime were to put Dexter in 720 P and charge $25 for the show to download electronically direct from HBO, I'm totally game. Beats retail DVD markup. Get to avoid Cable (which I don't have and don't intend to) and they probably make a lot more than a subscriber were to pay the cable company.
*** I used to work for one of the hi-speed providers as a student in tech-support in '98-'99 . There was basically, true unlimited upto about 500 GB up/down a month. The company had monitored bandwidth usage on its customers back then and whatever account I wanted to see I could usually pull up bandwidth usage. The only customer I ever saw got cut-off was running a server (I can't remember if it was mail or DNS). He wasn't anywhere near the 500 GB as I remember. Just got cut-off for the server. I do recall one person had gone over 1 TB and got cut off too.
I do agree in principle with your post. Particularly where it is might show the young recruits with no experience what they are getting themselves into. It is a problem though where there is a lot of stuff being left out. I've more than a few friends that left the service. They are true soldiers and didn't mind the combat. They do suffer from a lot of the psychological problems that people can think they can just bury and no one notices after being in combat. I haven't served but whatever they saw that's scarred them that badly has to be tremendously fucked up. In that sense I'm just grateful I haven't seen combat.
I would like to see though that if a game makes a sizeable profit, that these game companies could give back some money to Veterans groups. EA has made a killing with the COD series - on the backs of all the brave men and women who served in WWI and WWII. I have to wonder if they've ever given them even a penny - they are not obligated but it would be nice. I Googled for EA donations - all I could find is that they donated SimCity to OLPC - big whoopdie do.
WIthout knowing what the content in search or context of the search, I was going to bring up this very point. If criminal organization(s) are running servers at said data center, is this reason enough to seize an entire operation? Was one of the servers used to house a SPAMMER, drug cartel, pirate, child porn, terrorist..... how high up the food chain exactly does this go?
Even if it is at the top, there are (one would suppose) hundreds of perfectly legit businesses in the area. If your local pizza shop is run by the mafia, you don't take down all the hundreds of local businesses surrounding it because they are associated because of proximity. I'm not going to jump to conclusions but it seems that government does not interfere with government affairs, government can interfere with business (and not reap any consequences) and politicians welcome the 'influence' of business. It seems that when the government wants to investigate a business they don't care if there's any parties that are suffering unnessiarliy - the government workers still have their jobs after all.
FBI training has some amount of role-play in it I would think. To take down the terrorist you have to be one, to understand the victim you have to be one. So, they should have to run a small, successful business for a few months, depend on the income of it to feed their families and then have an FBI investigation cut it right off. Lets see if they won't be as quick next time to take down an entire data center.
I'm bilingual - grew up in Montreal and Ottawa and am now living in BC. I left the East (despite being bilingual) because careers and some friendships are formed on the basis of being bilingual. I always find it strange - and I've done this on purpose 100's of times. Go to Quebec or Ottawa. Speak to someone in English first but you now speaks predominantly French - e.g. store owners, people in certain neighborhoods, government workers. When they respond in English (ability to speak aside), you are spoken down to, as though you're an idiot - just another one of them. Speak in French and you'd swear you are long time friends. The reverse is true with tourists asking for directions. I met a French couple in my building a few months back in BC - parents visiting their children. They had to question why anybody would leave the Quebecois (even though their kids did it) they were surprised that people would willingly leave.
The Quebecois is a sense of fake cultural nationalism but really just enforces a strong sense of ego. Its intended to protect their culture but it ends up alienating those who are not part of it - or a 100% participant. A good part of my close family are Quebecois w/o any ability to speak English. So I'm not w/o observation of those whom I am close to (and observing their friends).
With the language police - they are given far too much power and influence on the cultural, political and economic landscape in Quebec. And it does have a certain level of influence across Canada. Whatever role any level of Government wants to have in creating an ideal Quebecois/Canadian, it just feels phony to me. I just feel like a person living in Canada and not a Canadian. Looking at the US, they can at least overwhelmingly say "I'm a proud American".
I'd rather make a sniper shot into Hitler's head in Wolfenstein or be accompanied by a platoon and taking on enemy positions.
If they're going to 'brand' a game about fighting the Nazis - WTF do ghosts, the paranormal and all this other BS come from. WFS II was great up until all the paranormal crap starting coming up. I just cheated through the rest of the game after. I'd lost all interest.
I would have hoped that the quality work ID does could be implemented into a -A++ version of COD, brother in Arms or similar with the WFS environment.
If they want to redefine the teaching of the Sciences for the purposes of meeting some political and ideological agendas, then the entire curriculum needs a review.
Nominations are: 1. English. Shakespeare is supposed to bring out a great appreciation for the fine arts and literature for students but the annual sales of Coles Notes show a consistent pattern of disinterest in Shakespeare.
2. Politics. The textbook sounds nice but its the reality they leave out. They should introduce essential skills like taking bribes - but don't get caught and How-To manipulate and lie to the public.
3. Business. I think the study of business in high schools is so far away from preparing students to work in the real work. Essentials are how-to "Fudge the numbers", create off-shore bank accounts, setup SPAM servers for Viagra ads (bonus! they learn some IT skills), etc.
In all, a curriculum focusing on the English literature teachings of Sir Coles, Political practices of the majority of successful politicians, and creating new grads with a more diverse business acumen, will certainly help creating the great minds in Texas for the years to come.
I'm concerned with a system having this much storage. I'll explain with my LOC/h analogy.
When 16x DVD burners were released, the number of Libraries of Congress/hour (LOC/h) that could be burned increased dramatically since the introduction of CD-R's many years back.
Lets say with 16x DVD burners one could burn 12 LOC/h. With 192 GB - or more - of memory, we are looking at copying 10,000+ LOC/h - that is copying the contents of the memory filled with the LOC to another server.
Since 1 LOC/h gives the MPAA and the RIAA a major migrane, 10,000+ will at the least have them peeing their pants.
I was diagnosed with epilepsy just after high-school. I'm lucky enough you can't tell that I have it. When I was first on my meds, I thing some of the school admin staff would have thought I was "high" on something and subjected me to a strip search - I would get really spaced out among other things. Thank god I'm not on that med anymore and no more of these side effects. Anyways, admin staff at least in my experience of having some friends that *actually* did have drugs on them in HS - its always guilty until innocent - even when the police aren't there or no proof has been provided.
Sometimes the police aren't there to confiscate the drugs right away. How is this permit-table? Did this happen in this case? It seems to me that to handle illegal drugs, prescription medications and such you would need to be either licensed by the State e.g. police or for 'scripted a Dr or pharmacist. Isn't it against the law for the school staff to take away the drugs without a chain of evidence. E.g. I'll keep this in the office until the police show up. Is this just a very cheap way for the Principal to fuel his/her own habit? It happens that I once had a VP in a HS that I very much suspected was an illegal drug addict.
Its Right for the parents to choose how to educated their children between: public schools, private schooling or home schooling. If any Court rules in favor of the school, I'd suggest parents threaten the school board and the administration of that school to withdraw their children from the school and/or that school board as a whole.
As I understand, schools and their boards are funded based on how many students are attending the school. If there's enough pressure from parents, the funding from the school will dry up. Not enough students and the admin staff and teachers responsible for this will be out of a job pretty fast. If there's no criminal charges or punitive damages awarded, getting the employees to lose their jobs (or worry/threat of) can be just as effective.
I've wondered about this. Are there any bandwidth caps on the Hong Kong and Japanese hi-speed services. These services have among the cheapest and fastest residential access anywhere.
I just wouldn't see much a point with my ISP in Canada upgrading speed if bandwidth caps still remain.
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I don't believe you. You must be time travelling.
As with the Avian Flu virus I'm wondering if the problem is linked to poor sanitary conditions where swine, bird and more generally farming animals. If this is the case, would it not be beneficial to WHO and UN to increase the sanitary conditions in these areas. We also have to consider that some of the North American food supply is coming from China and Mexico among other countries and we should work to increase the food safety in any case.
People should realize that not everyone who is epileptic is photosensitive. Many people seem to have the incorrect impression that flashing lights and such will trigger off a seizure with anyone that has epilepsy. This is a myth.
If you tell them the real reason you're cancelling 1) The company doesn't really care. They want to get rid of you. You're wasting your breadth. 2) If you tell them you're moving, they'll try to sell you the service where you're moving to. Unless you tell them overseas!
So when it came time for me to cancel service many years ago, I lied. I told them "I have a severe case of CARPEL TUNNEL SYNDROME". I got no resistance. They can't really ask you any more question, or you'd have to be a real douche to. I was off the phone in about 1 minute, service cancelled and tech picked up my modem. I told them it was really hard for me to drive (truth, I do not have a car).
Now if you were to actually use a shark, I don't think it would be Evil let alone creepy or imposing enough on the people of my rule. So stick to your sharks. I would use the Loc Nest Monster as its much more befitting. I think a much larger laser will fit on it.
Tall buildings and skyscrapers are a boring part of the city scape. Nothing ever moves. They are only pretty with Christmas lights.
I suggest Turning the Burj Dubai building into not only the world's tallest building, but also the world's largest windmill. At that height, one swing should power the whole world for the year!
If this is the case we're even more screwed. I'm sure the same groups of companies represented by the lobbiest have already discussed their reasons to each of the WIPO members that have signed the treaty. Our only opportunity for some sanity in this is to write to our MPs and the Prime Minister to demand fair consume, Internet and technology oriented copyright laws.
I want more openness in all Canadian government affairs. I want cameras w/ sound - all real time and no editing- of any and all of the 'closed door' meetings between politicians and lobbiests. I'd REALLY be interested in hearing what they have to say and wether there is any opposition in the arguments from the politicians or if they always fully agree. I've always found it too strong a coincidence that whatever the lobbiest lobbies for is exactly what policy most any government decides is the best COA.
Heck, I have over 300 CDs. Of those, save for 8 albums from 4 different artists, the rest of my collection is American. Sorry, but Canadian music sucks. Most of the Canadian artists that make it to the top 40 copy the same style as the Americans.
The overwhelming reason for CANCON and the Levy are, if you buy the story, is to share our 'Canadian culture' with other Canadians and the rest of the world. Can anybody point to me exactly what is "Canadian" about Canadian music? I've yet to see any coherent definition of Canadian culture to date.
what about as compromise uptime/stability/update/virus scanning, to do a script to shutdown at 5:00 pm and restart at 7:00 am to update and whatnot?
I've worked for an ISP, telecom in B2B sales and financial services. I've made it an occasional habit to browse the web (after work hours) and look at customer complaints. There's always two sides of the story. After looking at said complaints, I've looked at some of the accounts in the computer system(s) used. Some were quite fair. Others were total exaggerations, lies or very deceitful.
Companies take PR hits unfairly in some cases because of this. The one thing I will say: customers use a lot of energy to vent and complain. They were very rarely write to say the situation was resolved, to apologize that they were in the wrong, or that the company did everything in its power to resolve the situation reasonably and both mutually agreed it could not be.
This sounds a bit like Negative Option Billing. At the least, the Canadian Cable Company(ies) that tried this weren't very successful when it came to cable subscriptions. One company had lineups 100's of customers long at its sales outlets to return their cable modems.
Its not exactly the same since its really a TOS change. But nonetheless, telecom and cable companies are always trying this. They end up losing face and a lot of customers in the end. Doesn't have much appeal to shareholders either.
Ok, I RTFA'd and it doesn't seem that this is going Federal yet (and I'm Canadian). But lets' say it does.
Talk about the pot in the kettle! The same people that want to tax violent video games are the same ones that want to sent 18-year-old 'kids' (I'm 30 .... anyways) away to war to get shot at and kill people. No matter where the conflict or the reason, its beyond me why its okay to kill people in a warzone at the age of 18, yet you have to 'pay extra' to do it in a virtual world even if you're under 18. The fact that America's Army game is being bought-paid for and developed under the instruction of the US Army is further irony.
I played 'violent' video games when I was 6 or 7. My parents never objected. The 'violent' games on the C64 were nowhere near the realism of today's games. I've never been in a fight, have always avoided them altogether. If they are so concerned about violent games, they should just screen people for mental and personality disorders before playing - like that's going to work - but the Columbine wasn't caused by normal people being bullied. Hell at least 10% of the male population at the school probably had firearms at home (access) and have played violent video games.
There is one. Its stashed on a bunch of wiki pages as well ... the irony. It does, seriously, compare well to some academic paper generators. Some MIT students made one.
Sorry, I realized Showtime does have digital download options for Dex (and probably some of the others). What I'm suggesting is that the network distributes the shows itself and cuts out all the middle men. Pure $$$$$.
I'll say yes to your statement and agree wholeheartedly to it - its about the video among other things.
But from a PR and marketing perspective, how exactly do you position yourself to your customers. Lets' see - almost 10 years ago, when we first launched 'Unlimited***' Hi-Speed Internet, we let you download whatever the hell you wanted (Kazaa, Napster), we didn't give a fuck as long as we got your cash $29.95 - $39.95 a month. Now, 10 years later, remember how we told you it was unlimited and you could download everything, we 10 years later our services costs EVEN more money to run so, if you're going to have to pay us even more. That's right, the cost of your computer and our network equipment and bandwidth (throughout the industry) has decreased, but we are going to charge you more money.
If Showtime were to put Dexter in 720 P and charge $25 for the show to download electronically direct from HBO, I'm totally game. Beats retail DVD markup. Get to avoid Cable (which I don't have and don't intend to) and they probably make a lot more than a subscriber were to pay the cable company.
*** I used to work for one of the hi-speed providers as a student in tech-support in '98-'99 . There was basically, true unlimited upto about 500 GB up/down a month. The company had monitored bandwidth usage on its customers back then and whatever account I wanted to see I could usually pull up bandwidth usage. The only customer I ever saw got cut-off was running a server (I can't remember if it was mail or DNS). He wasn't anywhere near the 500 GB as I remember. Just got cut-off for the server. I do recall one person had gone over 1 TB and got cut off too.
I do agree in principle with your post. Particularly where it is might show the young recruits with no experience what they are getting themselves into. It is a problem though where there is a lot of stuff being left out. I've more than a few friends that left the service. They are true soldiers and didn't mind the combat. They do suffer from a lot of the psychological problems that people can think they can just bury and no one notices after being in combat. I haven't served but whatever they saw that's scarred them that badly has to be tremendously fucked up. In that sense I'm just grateful I haven't seen combat.
I would like to see though that if a game makes a sizeable profit, that these game companies could give back some money to Veterans groups. EA has made a killing with the COD series - on the backs of all the brave men and women who served in WWI and WWII. I have to wonder if they've ever given them even a penny - they are not obligated but it would be nice. I Googled for EA donations - all I could find is that they donated SimCity to OLPC - big whoopdie do.
WIthout knowing what the content in search or context of the search, I was going to bring up this very point. If criminal organization(s) are running servers at said data center, is this reason enough to seize an entire operation? Was one of the servers used to house a SPAMMER, drug cartel, pirate, child porn, terrorist ..... how high up the food chain exactly does this go?
Even if it is at the top, there are (one would suppose) hundreds of perfectly legit businesses in the area. If your local pizza shop is run by the mafia, you don't take down all the hundreds of local businesses surrounding it because they are associated because of proximity. I'm not going to jump to conclusions but it seems that government does not interfere with government affairs, government can interfere with business (and not reap any consequences) and politicians welcome the 'influence' of business. It seems that when the government wants to investigate a business they don't care if there's any parties that are suffering unnessiarliy - the government workers still have their jobs after all.
FBI training has some amount of role-play in it I would think. To take down the terrorist you have to be one, to understand the victim you have to be one. So, they should have to run a small, successful business for a few months, depend on the income of it to feed their families and then have an FBI investigation cut it right off. Lets see if they won't be as quick next time to take down an entire data center.
I'm bilingual - grew up in Montreal and Ottawa and am now living in BC. I left the East (despite being bilingual) because careers and some friendships are formed on the basis of being bilingual. I always find it strange - and I've done this on purpose 100's of times. Go to Quebec or Ottawa. Speak to someone in English first but you now speaks predominantly French - e.g. store owners, people in certain neighborhoods, government workers. When they respond in English (ability to speak aside), you are spoken down to, as though you're an idiot - just another one of them. Speak in French and you'd swear you are long time friends. The reverse is true with tourists asking for directions. I met a French couple in my building a few months back in BC - parents visiting their children. They had to question why anybody would leave the Quebecois (even though their kids did it) they were surprised that people would willingly leave.
The Quebecois is a sense of fake cultural nationalism but really just enforces a strong sense of ego. Its intended to protect their culture but it ends up alienating those who are not part of it - or a 100% participant. A good part of my close family are Quebecois w/o any ability to speak English. So I'm not w/o observation of those whom I am close to (and observing their friends).
With the language police - they are given far too much power and influence on the cultural, political and economic landscape in Quebec. And it does have a certain level of influence across Canada. Whatever role any level of Government wants to have in creating an ideal Quebecois/Canadian, it just feels phony to me. I just feel like a person living in Canada and not a Canadian. Looking at the US, they can at least overwhelmingly say "I'm a proud American".
I'd rather make a sniper shot into Hitler's head in Wolfenstein or be accompanied by a platoon and taking on enemy positions.
If they're going to 'brand' a game about fighting the Nazis - WTF do ghosts, the paranormal and all this other BS come from. WFS II was great up until all the paranormal crap starting coming up. I just cheated through the rest of the game after. I'd lost all interest.
I would have hoped that the quality work ID does could be implemented into a -A++ version of COD, brother in Arms or similar with the WFS environment.
If they want to redefine the teaching of the Sciences for the purposes of meeting some political and ideological agendas, then the entire curriculum needs a review.
Nominations are:
1. English. Shakespeare is supposed to bring out a great appreciation for the fine arts and literature for students but the annual sales of Coles Notes show a consistent pattern of disinterest in Shakespeare.
2. Politics. The textbook sounds nice but its the reality they leave out. They should introduce essential skills like taking bribes - but don't get caught and How-To manipulate and lie to the public.
3. Business. I think the study of business in high schools is so far away from preparing students to work in the real work. Essentials are how-to "Fudge the numbers", create off-shore bank accounts, setup SPAM servers for Viagra ads (bonus! they learn some IT skills), etc.
In all, a curriculum focusing on the English literature teachings of Sir Coles, Political practices of the majority of successful politicians, and creating new grads with a more diverse business acumen, will certainly help creating the great minds in Texas for the years to come.
After all these years of using Slashdot, I cannot access the site with just /. in my browser.
Here's the math:
Slashdot.org /.
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10 wasted characters.
I'm concerned with a system having this much storage. I'll explain with my LOC/h analogy.
When 16x DVD burners were released, the number of Libraries of Congress/hour (LOC/h) that could be burned increased dramatically since the introduction of CD-R's many years back.
Lets say with 16x DVD burners one could burn 12 LOC/h. With 192 GB - or more - of memory, we are looking at copying 10,000+ LOC/h - that is copying the contents of the memory filled with the LOC to another server.
Since 1 LOC/h gives the MPAA and the RIAA a major migrane, 10,000+ will at the least have them peeing their pants.
I was diagnosed with epilepsy just after high-school. I'm lucky enough you can't tell that I have it. When I was first on my meds, I thing some of the school admin staff would have thought I was "high" on something and subjected me to a strip search - I would get really spaced out among other things. Thank god I'm not on that med anymore and no more of these side effects. Anyways, admin staff at least in my experience of having some friends that *actually* did have drugs on them in HS - its always guilty until innocent - even when the police aren't there or no proof has been provided.
Sometimes the police aren't there to confiscate the drugs right away. How is this permit-table? Did this happen in this case? It seems to me that to handle illegal drugs, prescription medications and such you would need to be either licensed by the State e.g. police or for 'scripted a Dr or pharmacist. Isn't it against the law for the school staff to take away the drugs without a chain of evidence. E.g. I'll keep this in the office until the police show up. Is this just a very cheap way for the Principal to fuel his/her own habit? It happens that I once had a VP in a HS that I very much suspected was an illegal drug addict.
Its Right for the parents to choose how to educated their children between: public schools, private schooling or home schooling. If any Court rules in favor of the school, I'd suggest parents threaten the school board and the administration of that school to withdraw their children from the school and/or that school board as a whole.
As I understand, schools and their boards are funded based on how many students are attending the school. If there's enough pressure from parents, the funding from the school will dry up. Not enough students and the admin staff and teachers responsible for this will be out of a job pretty fast. If there's no criminal charges or punitive damages awarded, getting the employees to lose their jobs (or worry/threat of) can be just as effective.
I've wondered about this. Are there any bandwidth caps on the Hong Kong and Japanese hi-speed services. These services have among the cheapest and fastest residential access anywhere.
I just wouldn't see much a point with my ISP in Canada upgrading speed if bandwidth caps still remain.