Free Speech only applies to Governmental agencies/places/etc. Amazon.com is a private company who wholly owns the website (not sure about the comments disclaimer). It is up to them what does and does not reside on their private proporty. Even so, if Amazon.com did choose to remove the comments, nobody's rights would be violated.
That is what happened after the Protestant revolution. The Catholic and Protestant Bibles are different. I'm too lazy to look it up, but is a difference in the number of Books between the two. IIRC, the Protestant's removed a few books they had problems with.
Both sects are still considered Christian, they just have a different Bible.
I have the same thing going on with me. I own a S-Corp that is contracted to work for clients in Texas, Colodado, and Florida, but I live in Illinois. As far as Illinois and the Fed's are concerned, I am employed by an Illinois company so I pay Illinois taxes. It doesn't matter than the work I do is in three different states, my company is not an employee of those companies, it's just a 1099 contractor, so there are no taxes to be dealt with.
Now... paying double taxes is a major pain in the arse, but at least I'm my own boss.
Your argument, while passionate, it fundamentally flawed. The right to Free Speech does *not* extend to individuals when they are not on government land.
Strictly speaking, the 1st Amendment only give you protection from censorship by government agencies. You have NO protection from being censored by another non-government body.
I could come up with a series of scenario's for you but the basic breakdown is like this:
If you are in a public place, a place not owned or associated by any sort of government instutition, you cannot be censored in your speech. You are free to stand on your soap box and say anything you want.
However, if you are on *private* land; land that you do not own and that the government has no control over, you have no such rights. If the mall wants you to shut up, you must shut up for face being ejected/arrested. You are free to protest and have your say on the public sidewalk outside the mall, but not inside the mall itself.
The same goes for a private school. You are there because the school administrators are allowing you to be there. Just like your parents house, if their roof and their rules. If you don't follow their rules they you have to be prepared to accept the consequences of not obeying the rules.
Now, in this specific case, can the school administrators say what the students do in their offtime? it depends. At the Private High School I went to, there were very specific rules about my conduct in and out of school and what they had a say over. Other schools are more relaxed. It really all comes down to what the parents agreed to when they signed their kids up and payed their tuition.
The bigger question is, who cares!? Nobody wants to Pirate a copy of "Beauty & The Beast: Part IV" or another movie from Will Farrel (has anybody told him he's not funny yet?)
Honestly, once Disney split with Pixar, they became totally devoid of any talent in the movie/cartoon making business.
Well, you've got to give him a few points on the Palm / Outlook comparison. If more programs followed that style of interface building, the would would be an easier place to work in.
With innovation comes pain. The whole Buggy Whip - Car thing. If the employee is smart and adaptive, they will find a new position somewhere else.
That being said, I don't see the world doing a full 180' and going back to thin clients. There will always been a need for a full sized computer.... CAD Word, Work Servers, File storage, etc.
As a follow up to my question, will we be able to see more than 8 other countries at once on the diplomatic screen without having to swap them in and out?
I found great joy in being able to play Marla's Earth map against 15 CPU players in Civ III. The game took at least a month to complete... partly because of the size of the map, but a great part of it was the game took up to 10 minutes to process the CPU Player moves. What changes, if any, have been made to speed up game play without sacrificing the CPU's ability to formulate a realistic strategy?
It's a Catch-22 situation at the moment... Crappy Picture at a Low price, or Great Picture at a High Price.
If you go with a Plasma or LCD, you can "get digital" but you get an image that looks worse and worse the larger the screen size gets. To my eye, I get the screen door effect with anything above 30 inches. However, prices are relatively cheap at this end of the spectrum.
Here's the Catch, DLP, has a *far* superior picture, the screen door effect is lessened greatly, if even seen at all. However, it is quite expensive, there is occasional Rainbow effects on the single mirror models, and they have some serious maintenance issues.
Let me explain the maintenance issues. I researched the purchase of a 1080p DLP TV for a few weeks. I spoke to salesmen at "large box" and independent stores , repair guys, and read every review on the planet. DLP is the superior picture, but it has a tendency to burn through the bulbs quite quickly. That is the nature of the beast. Problem is, when somebody buys it at a "large box" store, they are rarely told about the lamp, that it burns out, and that it has to be replaced. In addition, they are never told to monitor the fans that keep the lamps cool. If those fans get clogged with dust (look in your computer, same thing) or stop working, the lamps won't last more than 120 hours before burning out. Consumers get frustrated at the constant repairs that are quite expensive since they always happen outside of the warranty.
So... Go DLP, have a spare bulb sitting by in your closet, and at least every 6 months, unplug the TV and clean out those fans.
Actually, you can settle for $15.00 now. With Yahoo! Unlimited, that's the going cost for unlimited downloads of music. She just has to pay $!5.00 a month forever... I could deal with that.
It's not the school's right to stop mail from coming to the student's residences.
Sure it is.
The address does not belong to the student. The domain is privately owned by the School, the servers are privately are owned by the school, and therefore, the email accounts are owned by the School. The student is allowed to use it, but they don't own it.
If the School went so far as to block every single email that didn't come from a.edu TLD, that is their (the schools) right and the students have no say in it.
The student is used the email address based on the good graces of the School. They have no rights to it since it is the private property of the School. If they don't like it, then there is always Google, Yahoo!, or som other "free" email service.
The Internet started out at the Apranet back in 1969 by the US Government. It later moved the US based Universities and from there into Corporate hands. (breif, condensed summary).
The rest of the world jumped on our bandwagon, not the other way around.
the U.N. is nothing more than a collection of petty thugs and murders. Do you really want China and North Korea sitting on an Internet content board?
First they tell us that Global Warming is caused by too much carbon in the air, then they tell us Global Warming is because the air is too clean and the too much solar radiation is getting through. THEN they say that they cannot predict Global Warming or even predict that it exists because the historical models are too short.
Maybe the could figure out how to predict what the Weather will be on Friday FIRST (so I can go golfing) before they try to build a friggin' space ring.
Slashdot Mirror
Even then, isn't it considered free speech?
Free Speech only applies to Governmental agencies/places/etc. Amazon.com is a private company who wholly owns the website (not sure about the comments disclaimer). It is up to them what does and does not reside on their private proporty. Even so, if Amazon.com did choose to remove the comments, nobody's rights would be violated.
Actually, according to the Wiki entry, the baseline is 36, so that means it can go higher.
Is is possible to make a Faraday Cage out of tinfoil? We'd be able to keep out hats then!!!
Yet another reason to switch over to Mac and Linux.
That is what happened after the Protestant revolution. The Catholic and Protestant Bibles are different. I'm too lazy to look it up, but is a difference in the number of Books between the two. IIRC, the Protestant's removed a few books they had problems with.
Both sects are still considered Christian, they just have a different Bible.
There were multiple Gods... ours came out on top
Ummm, Wow, ok... so, um... Zeus really did kill his Father?
Gaea *IS* the mother of the earth?
Should we call up Harry Hamlin and ask him if there are any Titans left?
(bad attempt at humor to lighten the mood)
I have the same thing going on with me. I own a S-Corp that is contracted to work for clients in Texas, Colodado, and Florida, but I live in Illinois. As far as Illinois and the Fed's are concerned, I am employed by an Illinois company so I pay Illinois taxes. It doesn't matter than the work I do is in three different states, my company is not an employee of those companies, it's just a 1099 contractor, so there are no taxes to be dealt with.
Now... paying double taxes is a major pain in the arse, but at least I'm my own boss.
Your argument, while passionate, it fundamentally flawed. The right to Free Speech does *not* extend to individuals when they are not on government land.
Strictly speaking, the 1st Amendment only give you protection from censorship by government agencies. You have NO protection from being censored by another non-government body.
I could come up with a series of scenario's for you but the basic breakdown is like this:
If you are in a public place, a place not owned or associated by any sort of government instutition, you cannot be censored in your speech. You are free to stand on your soap box and say anything you want.
However, if you are on *private* land; land that you do not own and that the government has no control over, you have no such rights. If the mall wants you to shut up, you must shut up for face being ejected/arrested. You are free to protest and have your say on the public sidewalk outside the mall, but not inside the mall itself.
The same goes for a private school. You are there because the school administrators are allowing you to be there. Just like your parents house, if their roof and their rules. If you don't follow their rules they you have to be prepared to accept the consequences of not obeying the rules.
Now, in this specific case, can the school administrators say what the students do in their offtime? it depends. At the Private High School I went to, there were very specific rules about my conduct in and out of school and what they had a say over. Other schools are more relaxed. It really all comes down to what the parents agreed to when they signed their kids up and payed their tuition.
The bigger question is, who cares!? Nobody wants to Pirate a copy of "Beauty & The Beast: Part IV" or another movie from Will Farrel (has anybody told him he's not funny yet?)
Honestly, once Disney split with Pixar, they became totally devoid of any talent in the movie/cartoon making business.
Well, you've got to give him a few points on the Palm / Outlook comparison. If more programs followed that style of interface building, the would would be an easier place to work in.
He is absolutely correct. With a track-ball and keyboard, I have better and more accurate control over any console controller out there.
Play Call of Duty on PS2 and on a PC, the difference is instantly noticable; PC controls are vastly superior.
Those damn rovers!!! The heat created from their battery operated engines screwed up the eco-system! It's all George Bush's fault!!!!
With innovation comes pain. The whole Buggy Whip - Car thing. If the employee is smart and adaptive, they will find a new position somewhere else.
That being said, I don't see the world doing a full 180' and going back to thin clients. There will always been a need for a full sized computer.... CAD Word, Work Servers, File storage, etc.
As a follow up to my question, will we be able to see more than 8 other countries at once on the diplomatic screen without having to swap them in and out?
I found great joy in being able to play Marla's Earth map against 15 CPU players in Civ III. The game took at least a month to complete... partly because of the size of the map, but a great part of it was the game took up to 10 minutes to process the CPU Player moves. What changes, if any, have been made to speed up game play without sacrificing the CPU's ability to formulate a realistic strategy?
It's a Catch-22 situation at the moment... Crappy Picture at a Low price, or Great Picture at a High Price.
If you go with a Plasma or LCD, you can "get digital" but you get an image that looks worse and worse the larger the screen size gets. To my eye, I get the screen door effect with anything above 30 inches. However, prices are relatively cheap at this end of the spectrum.
Here's the Catch, DLP, has a *far* superior picture, the screen door effect is lessened greatly, if even seen at all. However, it is quite expensive, there is occasional Rainbow effects on the single mirror models, and they have some serious maintenance issues.
Let me explain the maintenance issues. I researched the purchase of a 1080p DLP TV for a few weeks. I spoke to salesmen at "large box" and independent stores , repair guys, and read every review on the planet. DLP is the superior picture, but it has a tendency to burn through the bulbs quite quickly. That is the nature of the beast. Problem is, when somebody buys it at a "large box" store, they are rarely told about the lamp, that it burns out, and that it has to be replaced. In addition, they are never told to monitor the fans that keep the lamps cool. If those fans get clogged with dust (look in your computer, same thing) or stop working, the lamps won't last more than 120 hours before burning out. Consumers get frustrated at the constant repairs that are quite expensive since they always happen outside of the warranty.
So... Go DLP, have a spare bulb sitting by in your closet, and at least every 6 months, unplug the TV and clean out those fans.
I think he meant to say... "Hardware: Sun President Says Sun's Desktop PCs Are Relics".
We recently dumped all their SPARC desktops (bought a year ago) for Intel PC's running Linux.
*doh* There goes his pricing model!
Where are the followings versions:
- Secure Version
- Stable Version
- "Plain Vanilla OS without all the bloatware and other M$ BS" version.
As soon as we get the version that was as simple Windows 3.11, I'll consider going back to Windows as my primary OS and not before.
They expect that the public at-large are sheep and will buy whatever is put in front of them.
Dell and Gateway will package a computer "designed to run Vista" and people will simply pay for it.
Actually, you can settle for $15.00 now. With Yahoo! Unlimited, that's the going cost for unlimited downloads of music. She just has to pay $!5.00 a month forever... I could deal with that.
Then they have three options:
1) Change the product name so it does not say Linux, possibly losing their $100k in profit.
2) Keep Linux in the name, pay the license to use the name Linux (which belongs to Linus, not anybody else), and make $95k in profit.
3) Call it a scam, don't pay for a license, get sued, be hated by the Linux community, and go out of business making $0 profit.
Your list is incorrect.
1. Does it SAY Linux in the product name?
Y - Pay for a License
N - Don't need a License
2. The Linux Name has integrity and is not watered down
Everybody needs to stop jumping to conclusions and read what is actually trying to be done here.
It's not the school's right to stop mail from coming to the student's residences.
.edu TLD, that is their (the schools) right and the students have no say in it.
Sure it is.
The address does not belong to the student. The domain is privately owned by the School, the servers are privately are owned by the school, and therefore, the email accounts are owned by the School. The student is allowed to use it, but they don't own it.
If the School went so far as to block every single email that didn't come from a
The student is used the email address based on the good graces of the School. They have no rights to it since it is the private property of the School. If they don't like it, then there is always Google, Yahoo!, or som other "free" email service.
What are YOU on?
The Internet started out at the Apranet back in 1969 by the US Government. It later moved the US based Universities and from there into Corporate hands. (breif, condensed summary).
The rest of the world jumped on our bandwagon, not the other way around.
the U.N. is nothing more than a collection of petty thugs and murders. Do you really want China and North Korea sitting on an Internet content board?
First they tell us that Global Warming is caused by too much carbon in the air, then they tell us Global Warming is because the air is too clean and the too much solar radiation is getting through. THEN they say that they cannot predict Global Warming or even predict that it exists because the historical models are too short.
Maybe the could figure out how to predict what the Weather will be on Friday FIRST (so I can go golfing) before they try to build a friggin' space ring.