Clergy talk about political candidates from the pulpit all the time. My pastor stood on the pulpit and said he thought Clinton should resign. I has no problem with it, even as a Democrat and nothing was ever said or done about it.
On the other hand, there some limits. Churches have to decide if they want to keep there tax exempt status as a religious organization or not. Tax exempt status has nothing to do with separation of church or state or the Constitution but is written into law that cam be modified by congress.
My view would be, if there really is no separation between church and state, then the state should not be giving religious organizations preferable tax breaks just because they are religious.
No they probably were not perverts. They did seem to be on some sort of power trip bullying a 13 yr old girl into undressing without her parents present to prove she didn't have large doses of a common analgesic on her. I can't believe anyone thinks this is ok.
It not the culture that has the right to treat the child as they see fit. Or the schools. Its the parents. If the kid is to be striped searched the parents should have been present. They probably did not what to get the parents involved because they knew they could not bully the parents into allowing it like they could the child. I doubt the police would have done it without the parent there.
I myself am not a believer in spanking but I am also not a believer in the government telling parents they are not allowed to spank, within reason, if they think its the right thing to do.
I wonder if they are arguing they needed to take drastic actions to protect the 13 yr old with prescription medication from herself. That's not the school's role it the parent's role. The parents should have be called immediately and it been dealt with from there.
I wonder what would have happened if she would have refused to disrobe and allow the search. I also wonder what they threatened her with do get her to comply. I know if I had a child they would be taught to never to submit to any such searches willingly. Not sure about being perverts but sounds like some people in the school system are on some sort of power trip. I wonder who many kids the strip search a year. I bet a now a lot less than they used too.
it sounds reasonable if you understand that the truth Genesis is trying to communicate isn't about what or how, but why. Ironically, the Israelites of 3,000 years ago probably understood that better than most people do today.
I suspect one reason ESPN is doing this is to provide cable companies with an argument that ala-carte programming is something the internet is moving away from.
Ala-carte programming would probably be just as bad for ESPN as the cable providers.
cheap plastic toy, which is designed to be stamped on, because it broke?
The problem is that it is clearly not designed to be stamped on, just intended to be. Which on one hand may be funny but on the other hand is the point. The fact that it doesn't take an engineering degree to see that the product couldn't hold up to its intended use doesn't make it better; it makes it worse.
I am a Obama supporter and I doubt writing to http://www.change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople is going to do anything. It might be more helpful to write to the senators on the conformation committee. It won't get him blocked but at least maybe he can explain himself and let him know this is an issue people are concerned about.
I was one of those 22 yr old managers for a while. The HS kids would complain because I would have them work 5 hours without a break rather then 5.5 with a break. There will always be people who are not happy. If your not being paid you can usually leave and return in 30 minutes. I worked at one place who didn't want people to leave so there where no 30 minute breaks just 20 minute paid breaks (can't do that to a minor in the US working over 5 hours). Even at my job now, my break time is at my bosses desecration and I like my current job better then any other job I have ever had. But if you are required to be somewhere at a certain time then you should be getting paid for it. If your not being paid then they probably can't make you stay there.
Yes, you need to get it straight because you haven't.
The press is not biased if it doesn't report that x is equal to y unless x really is equal to y. In this case there seems to have been a lot of data to the contrary.
>>1 -- Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual property to begin with? That is, do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property.
I believe the granting and enforcement of limited intellectual property rights for the purpose of encouraging art and science is good and probably necessary. Equivalent to property-- NO. The US Constitution plainly puts rights to "life, liberty and property" in a different category than intellectual property. IP rights need to be based on what benefits the public not maximizing the profit of the holder. Obviously it needs to be severely limited from the way it is currently implemented. The whole "I created this idea from nothing" is a facade. All intellectual property is built from and has a debt to what came before.
Yes, I have a hard time getting my wife to understand that it makes less sense now to drive 5mi out of her way to save $.05/gal on gas when it costs $3.00/gal, when she would never consider doing that when gas was $2.00/gal.
If this user is using Adblock to screen out annoying advertisements, he is creating an unauthorized derivative work analogous to skipping television commercials. By the letter of copyright law, this practice would most likely be seen as an infringing use.
I have some books with a couple pages ripped out. I better not loan them to a friend since there derivative works. I also surf the web with my speakers turned off. Don't tell anyone.... And i change the fonts from whats specified in the html and the sizes so I can read it better. I better find start looking for a lawyer.
ps: Sometimes I turn my tv off and go to bed before the show I was watching is over. I'm a terrible person.
If an ISP tells me I have a certain speed connection then blocks bandwidth of the sites I want, how am I getting what I paid for? Will the ISP's even be required to tell the user, who is already paying to access content, what sites are being blocked? Can cable companies limit the bandwidth of certain cable stations so the picture isn't as good also?
>>>Today, in Public Universities I don't see where a Student, at least in History, can study what they want and look at a subject from all sides because many professors either won't let you or punish you for it.
I have been in more than one college course where I could see that my point of view would not be appreciated. If I had to do it again, instead of trying to do my own thing I would have given the instructor exactly what they wanted. There is nothing wrong with learning the arguments for the other side even if they're wrong, as long as you know they're wrong. I probably would have received an "A" for my in depth analysis, I realize now it works both ways for those instructors that are on a mission. Later, when it was safe, I could let my true beliefs be known.
If you have trouble with a prof just wait tell next semester or your graduated and hand copies of what you really wanted to write to the new students that are just beginning the course. Or write an anonymous blog and anonymously make sure students in that class know about it.
In fact anonymous blogging would be a great way to battle the ideas presented in classes instead of attacking the previous writings and actions of years past as this guy Jones is doing. Of course if the prof gets "annoyed" by it you could be breaking federal law. I'd bet, if your on the right side, all of AG Gonzalez's prosecutors will be to busy fighting "terrorists" to prosecute you.
>>>"Hostile Environment" standard in sexual and racial harrassment cases. According to the law, no obscene or offensive intent is required.>>Seems that a lot of people who have problems with the standard applied to porn have absolutely no problem applying the standard to other things.
I don't have any problem with the "Hostile Environment" standard being applied to sexual and racial harrassment and porn IN THE WORK PLACE. I do have a problem with the standard being applied to me IN MY OWN HOME.
Printing a more diverse set of books likely increases the per unit cost of the sale which may or may not be offset by increased overall sales. Either way, change is usually not something big companies embrace. The WWW (blogs) and cable TV (70 channels) have already made media and information hard to control by governments and corporations. This is just one more step that puts information (power) in the hands of the public. It also pushes the mass thought-consciousness farther from the concept that IP is an issue of creator rights and more towards the idea that creative works are part of the cultural heritage. A dangerous outcome (although in my opinion a correct one both legally and morally) in the minds of many who profit from IP. Could these be the real problems with Google's indexing.
>>>programs from rivals were like Lego blocks -- they had a single function and were designed to be connected onto a larger whole.
Sounds like the assumed philosophy behind the Linux kernel and most OSS projects. But Microsoft has claimed for years that a good OS couldn't be built that way so say a blue IE lego block could easily be replaced by a red FIrefox lego block. Which was probably one reason for Bill G's initial opposition.
>>>Microsoft's cowboy spaghetti code culture.
Yet isn't this the impression Microsoft tries to give to the collaborative method used for most OSS projects.
Somebody should encourage submissions illustrating just how the main premise of the competition:
A) That art and ideas sprout independently and have no reliance on any one else's previous work; B) That ideas can and should be owned by someone just like physical property;
is totally bogus.
Or maybe start a competition to see which side can make the most compelling case.
>>some clown pipes in to 'put his props in for Slackware' >>Just stop it. Please. You can't possibly be doing any >>more damage to Windows people looking for >>a clear and easy migration path.
My first attempt to use linux was with some distro that resided in one big file inside a windows partition. I don't think I ever did get X working, after a couple of weeks it quit booting all together. Then I tried Debian. Got the base system up but mostly I just got error messages complaining about not being able to find the package dependencies. I did get lilo installed, incorrectly, so I ended up trashing my windows partition. Then I tried Slackware. Got the console up and running no problem. Had some problems with X and some apps giving error messages. Did some searches on Google (I still had a win partition) and guess what, other people had the exact same problem and right below the problem someone had told them how to fix it. I have encountered a few problems since then but by using information on the web, or my own ingenuity, or a combination of both I have gotten everything I have spent a little time on to work. I have been using Slackware now for about 2 years. I realize this is one mans story but if I had listened to all those "Slackware's not for nubies" posts I would still be just a windows user.
As far as the article goes it really isn't much use to me, I prefer Window Maker. Unencumbered , clean and fast. Just like Slackware. And a fresh experience compared WinXP.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of
science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors
the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; US Constitution.
<<<<<European copyright laws are about authors' rights,
not the rights of the public, especially on the Contient itself. In fact,the
laws often do not speak of "copyright", but the "rights of the author". And
the Berne Convention [cornell.edu] was an evolution of European copyright
law;>>>>
<<<<<the United States did not join it until 1987, >>>>
Seems to me that when the US joined the Berne Convention Congress did
use its power to secure exclusive rights for authors for reasons that have
nothing to do with promoteing science and the arts. I do find that
relevent.
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Clergy talk about political candidates from the pulpit all the time. My pastor stood on the pulpit and said he thought Clinton should resign. I has no problem with it, even as a Democrat and nothing was ever said or done about it. On the other hand, there some limits. Churches have to decide if they want to keep there tax exempt status as a religious organization or not. Tax exempt status has nothing to do with separation of church or state or the Constitution but is written into law that cam be modified by congress. My view would be, if there really is no separation between church and state, then the state should not be giving religious organizations preferable tax breaks just because they are religious.
No they probably were not perverts. They did seem to be on some sort of power trip bullying a 13 yr old girl into undressing without her parents present to prove she didn't have large doses of a common analgesic on her. I can't believe anyone thinks this is ok.
It not the culture that has the right to treat the child as they see fit. Or the schools. Its the parents. If the kid is to be striped searched the parents should have been present. They probably did not what to get the parents involved because they knew they could not bully the parents into allowing it like they could the child. I doubt the police would have done it without the parent there. I myself am not a believer in spanking but I am also not a believer in the government telling parents they are not allowed to spank, within reason, if they think its the right thing to do.
I wonder if they are arguing they needed to take drastic actions to protect the 13 yr old with prescription medication from herself. That's not the school's role it the parent's role. The parents should have be called immediately and it been dealt with from there.
I wonder what would have happened if she would have refused to disrobe and allow the search. I also wonder what they threatened her with do get her to comply. I know if I had a child they would be taught to never to submit to any such searches willingly. Not sure about being perverts but sounds like some people in the school system are on some sort of power trip. I wonder who many kids the strip search a year. I bet a now a lot less than they used too.
it sounds reasonable if you understand that the truth Genesis is trying to communicate isn't about what or how, but why. Ironically, the Israelites of 3,000 years ago probably understood that better than most people do today.
I suspect one reason ESPN is doing this is to provide cable companies with an argument that ala-carte programming is something the internet is moving away from. Ala-carte programming would probably be just as bad for ESPN as the cable providers.
interval between such eruptions is 710,000 years, not 600,000 years
I might feel better if you could give me the standard deviation for that.
cheap plastic toy, which is designed to be stamped on, because it broke?
The problem is that it is clearly not designed to be stamped on, just intended to be. Which on one hand may be funny but on the other hand is the point. The fact that it doesn't take an engineering degree to see that the product couldn't hold up to its intended use doesn't make it better; it makes it worse.
I am a Obama supporter and I doubt writing to http://www.change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople is going to do anything. It might be more helpful to write to the senators on the conformation committee. It won't get him blocked but at least maybe he can explain himself and let him know this is an issue people are concerned about.
I was one of those 22 yr old managers for a while. The HS kids would complain because I would have them work 5 hours without a break rather then 5.5 with a break. There will always be people who are not happy. If your not being paid you can usually leave and return in 30 minutes. I worked at one place who didn't want people to leave so there where no 30 minute breaks just 20 minute paid breaks (can't do that to a minor in the US working over 5 hours). Even at my job now, my break time is at my bosses desecration and I like my current job better then any other job I have ever had. But if you are required to be somewhere at a certain time then you should be getting paid for it. If your not being paid then they probably can't make you stay there.
Yes, you need to get it straight because you haven't. The press is not biased if it doesn't report that x is equal to y unless x really is equal to y. In this case there seems to have been a lot of data to the contrary.
>>1 -- Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual property to begin with? That is, do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property.
I believe the granting and enforcement of limited intellectual property rights for the purpose of encouraging art and science is good and probably necessary. Equivalent to property-- NO. The US Constitution plainly puts rights to "life, liberty and property" in a different category than intellectual property.
IP rights need to be based on what benefits the public not maximizing the profit of the holder. Obviously it needs to be severely limited from the way it is currently implemented.
The whole "I created this idea from nothing" is a facade. All intellectual property is built from and has a debt to what came before.
Yes, I have a hard time getting my wife to understand that it makes less sense now to drive 5mi out of her way to save $.05/gal on gas when it costs $3.00/gal, when she would never consider doing that when gas was $2.00/gal.
I have some books with a couple pages ripped out. I better not loan them to a friend since there derivative works. I also surf the web with my speakers turned off. Don't tell anyone.... And i change the fonts from whats specified in the html and the sizes so I can read it better. I better find start looking for a lawyer.
ps: Sometimes I turn my tv off and go to bed before the show I was watching is over. I'm a terrible person.
From the 2005 Washington's Lottery Annual Report. pdf
http://www.walottery.com/docs/pdfs/05AnnualReport
FINANCIALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005
Total sales 458,131,553
If an ISP tells me I have a certain speed connection then blocks bandwidth of the sites I want, how am I getting what I paid for? Will the ISP's even be required to tell the user, who is already paying to access content, what sites are being blocked? Can cable companies limit the bandwidth of certain cable stations so the picture isn't as good also?
>>>Today, in Public Universities I don't see where a Student, at least in History, can study what they want and look at a subject from all sides because many professors either won't let you or punish you for it.
I have been in more than one college course where I could see that my point of view would not be appreciated. If I had to do it again, instead of trying to do my own thing I would have given the instructor exactly what they wanted. There is nothing wrong with learning the arguments for the other side even if they're wrong, as long as you know they're wrong. I probably would have received an "A" for my in depth analysis, I realize now it works both ways for those instructors that are on a mission. Later, when it was safe, I could let my true beliefs be known.
If you have trouble with a prof just wait tell next semester or your graduated and hand copies of what you really wanted to write to the new students that are just beginning the course. Or write an anonymous blog and anonymously make sure students in that class know about it.
In fact anonymous blogging would be a great way to battle the ideas presented in classes instead of attacking the previous writings and actions of years past as this guy Jones is doing. Of course if the prof gets "annoyed" by it you could be breaking federal law. I'd bet, if your on the right side, all of AG Gonzalez's prosecutors will be to busy fighting "terrorists" to prosecute you.
>>>"Hostile Environment" standard in sexual and racial harrassment cases. According to the law, no obscene or offensive intent is required.>>Seems that a lot of people who have problems with the standard applied to porn have absolutely no problem applying the standard to other things.
I don't have any problem with the "Hostile Environment" standard being applied to sexual and racial harrassment and porn IN THE WORK PLACE. I do have a problem with the standard being applied to me IN MY OWN HOME.
>>>might just boost sales of lesser known books
Printing a more diverse set of books likely increases the per unit cost of the sale which may or may not be offset by increased overall sales. Either way, change is usually not something big companies embrace. The WWW (blogs) and cable TV (70 channels) have already made media and information hard to control by governments and corporations. This is just one more step that puts information (power) in the hands of the public. It also pushes the mass thought-consciousness farther from the concept that IP is an issue of creator rights and more towards the idea that creative works are part of the cultural heritage. A dangerous outcome (although in my opinion a correct one both legally and morally) in the minds of many who profit from IP. Could these be the real problems with Google's indexing.
>>>programs from rivals were like Lego blocks -- they had a single function and were designed to be connected onto a larger whole.
Sounds like the assumed philosophy behind the Linux kernel and most OSS projects. But Microsoft has claimed for years that a good OS couldn't be built that way so say a blue IE lego block could easily be replaced by a red FIrefox lego block. Which was probably one reason for Bill G's initial opposition.
>>>Microsoft's cowboy spaghetti code culture.
Yet isn't this the impression Microsoft tries to give to the collaborative method used for most OSS projects.
Somebody should encourage submissions illustrating just how the main premise of the competition:
A) That art and ideas sprout independently and have no reliance on any one else's previous work;
B) That ideas can and should be owned by someone just like physical property;
is totally bogus.
Or maybe start a competition to see which side can make the most compelling case.
>> windowmaker. It's just a blank screen with some funky icons and a paperclip!
and the first thing I did after I started using it was figure out how to get that stupid paperclip thingy off my nice clean screen.
>>some clown pipes in to 'put his props in for Slackware'
>>Just stop it. Please. You can't possibly be doing any >>more damage to Windows people looking for
>>a clear and easy migration path.
My first attempt to use linux was with some distro that resided in one big file inside a windows partition. I don't think I ever did get X working, after a couple of weeks it quit booting all together. Then I tried Debian. Got the base system up but mostly I just got error messages complaining about not being able to find the package dependencies. I did get lilo installed, incorrectly, so I ended up trashing my windows partition.
Then I tried Slackware. Got the console up and running no problem. Had some problems with X and some apps giving error messages. Did some searches on Google (I still had a win partition) and guess what, other people had the exact same problem and right below the problem someone had told them how to fix it. I have encountered a few problems since then but by using information on the web, or my own ingenuity, or a combination of both I have gotten everything I have spent a little time on to work. I have been using Slackware now for about 2 years. I realize this is one mans story but if I had listened to all those "Slackware's not for nubies" posts I would still be just a windows user.
As far as the article goes it really isn't much use to me, I prefer Window Maker. Unencumbered , clean and fast. Just like Slackware. And a fresh experience compared WinXP.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power ...To promote the progress of
science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors
the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; US Constitution.
<<<<<European copyright laws are about authors' rights, not the rights of the public, especially on the Contient itself. In fact,the laws often do not speak of "copyright", but the "rights of the author". And the Berne Convention [cornell.edu] was an evolution of European copyright law;>>>>
<<<<<the United States did not join it until 1987, >>>>
Seems to me that when the US joined the Berne Convention Congress did use its power to secure exclusive rights for authors for reasons that have nothing to do with promoteing science and the arts. I do find that relevent.