I don't know about his college or yours, but I can say the college I attended (Boise State University) had a 100 page manual you received upon moving into the dorm. Sure, I was obligated to sign a form stating I would abide by all the rules of the dorms, and the rules could change, but the rules were not fully present when signing the form. Furthermore, upon receiving the manual, I did read it, but I was amongst the VERY few who read it. A 100 page manual of rules is not normally something one does for fun, and according to the rule manual, the rules could change at any time.
What I can say though, is that were I to have been in his position, I could have requested arbitration by a trial of "peers" (this was in the manual). Having been an adviser before for one of these arbitrations, I know they take at least 2 weeks to be heard. The arbitration process would have been a good way of garnering enough time to finish the semester, plus the council of peers may offer a different punishment from the dorm manager.
Maybe he has no remorse for the download. I think that misses the point. He was evicted because of the download. That seems extremely draconian. What I have issues with is the extent the.+AA will go through to ensure their "IP". It is a $15 movie or ($30 MSRP when it comes out on DVD), yet they had this person evicted, and have on many other occasions forced people into bankruptcy. Some even contemplated suicide over a lawsuit stemming from a fsking $30 movie. The.+AA has no sense of equal proportion. They will devastate lives over stupid shit.
Fear not! What was old will be new again. If we move to dumb terminals, then the future is sure to bring fat clients back. If now is not the time for thin clients, the future is sure to find a better reason for most to switch. And then after the switch, we will switch back to fat clients. This is the cycle of RISC/CISC, Serial/Parallel, Thick/Thin.
Most urbanites can't just walk to the nearest lake. So, they
1) Load up their over-sized camper with all the crap they could have just as easily left at home.
2) Stop by Wal-Mart to pickup $150 worth of groceries and another $100 in beer. Maybe buy the half dead worms for $2.
3) Drive 4 1/2 hours to the only lake that will fit their 50' camper with V8 Dodge Ram (or Chevy S3500 or Ford F450).
4) Unhook the camper and spend 2 hours cursing the damned thing.
5) Drive to the entrance (probably 500') and back to buy more worms because the first ones died.
6) Drive to the lake (probably another 500').
7) Fish*
8) Drive back to the camp site.
9) Use a gallon or two of gas to start their bonfire.
10) Sleep
11) Wake up, use another gallon of gas to start another fire to warm up.
12) Repeat steps 6-8.
13) Drive for an hour and a half to buy more beer.
14) Drive back to the site.
15) Repeat steps 5-14 until Sunday evening.
16) Drive home.
*) If the tackle was forgotten, they may drive to the nearest Wal-Mart using another 2 hours of fuel.
See, 300 gallons to the average urbanite fisherman is easy to burn.
Although I agree with you, if Faux news becomes a pay site, that is one less media outlet I will visit. I like going there to see what the Fascist arm of the Republican party is up to.
Yeah, clearly the solution to the sequential loads is to offer us threads in the browser. Threads would make things so much simpler for the Web 3.x monkeys. And like JavaScript memory allocation, we need a thread garbage collection so threads are created and destroyed "auto-magically". Imagine how much more the browser could do, and how much more content could be delivered in a mutli-threaded browser environment. Why aren't advertising folks and PHBs clamoring for this?
So? You are missing the other 97 thieving liars in your list. I believe that most Senators (particularly after the first term) are thieving liars. The question of which one to vote for, is answered by the one that lies and steals while claiming to hold your banner.
To answer the first question, because we brought one here to be tried. The second, because with actual pirates infringing on the meaning of piracy, they may have to rethink their use? It may become more difficult in the public mind-share how downloading a song equates with bands of hoodlums taking over ships, holding hostages, and murdering the crews. Rihanna got her black eye from a bad relationship choice, not someone "illegally" downloading her latest CD.
I don't know. Maybe NASA could have named the whole module: Cosmic Operating Living Bubble for Environment, Refridgeration, and Treadmill. But now, Colbert will have to create his own module and send it up there: Comedian Over-Lord Base for the Earthly Reign of Terror.
I completely agree. I think the cost of games is ridiculous. The last full price PC game I bought was Civ IV (back in 2005). The last full price console game I bought was Mario Galaxy. I tend to not buy a lot of games because of both DRM concerns on the PC, and the price on any platform.
I do not live in Tornado Alley, but I'd like to know where in the world one can live without fear of some natural disaster. In my area it is range fires, earthquakes, and blizzards. Others have hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and landslides. Just curious where the people who aren't "too dumb" live that doesn't have some malady.
Who knows if it is over. Everyone's favorite governor, the esteemed Governor Sarah Palin, requested current sitting Senator Begich to resign so that a special election can occur (Palin Calls for Begich's Resignation). Some conspiracy might befall Sen. Begich, heads will roll, and all hail the new Sen. Stevens.
Awful? You must be talking about truck stop coffee or that want-to-be-cool Starbucks. A quality bean, properly roasted, and prepared by a knowledgeable person yields the Nectar of the Gods! No one marketed to me. The internet is my only media input, and I started drinking that sweet, sweet bean juice from a very early age (approx. 3 y.o).
Oh, I miss greeting that dark mistress in my cup every morning. I never needed cream or sugar; only unwashed heathens would dare foul the delicious liquid. Now, unfortunately, I drink herbal tea, because my g.f. says coffee makes my breath bad. Many days, I contemplate the sin of sneaking a cup. My 31 year affair with coffee beckons me to return. This is no addiction, it is my joie de vivre.
How dare you sully the name of coffee? I don't go speaking ill of the things you love.
Oil rigs pose a unique problem wind-turbines do not. You might want to look up the 1969 Oil Spill in Santa Barbara. That was a far more important event than it seems at first blush.
Because the new medium doesn't cover all areas. Our paper is far less than the 500 employees. Without our local news, we would have no access to the news and events in our area. Maybe you believe 40%+ of the US not living in metropolitan areas don't deserve to know what their city planners are doing.
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I don't know about his college or yours, but I can say the college I attended (Boise State University) had a 100 page manual you received upon moving into the dorm. Sure, I was obligated to sign a form stating I would abide by all the rules of the dorms, and the rules could change, but the rules were not fully present when signing the form. Furthermore, upon receiving the manual, I did read it, but I was amongst the VERY few who read it. A 100 page manual of rules is not normally something one does for fun, and according to the rule manual, the rules could change at any time.
What I can say though, is that were I to have been in his position, I could have requested arbitration by a trial of "peers" (this was in the manual). Having been an adviser before for one of these arbitrations, I know they take at least 2 weeks to be heard. The arbitration process would have been a good way of garnering enough time to finish the semester, plus the council of peers may offer a different punishment from the dorm manager.
Maybe he has no remorse for the download. I think that misses the point. He was evicted because of the download. That seems extremely draconian. What I have issues with is the extent the .+AA will go through to ensure their "IP". It is a $15 movie or ($30 MSRP when it comes out on DVD), yet they had this person evicted, and have on many other occasions forced people into bankruptcy. Some even contemplated suicide over a lawsuit stemming from a fsking $30 movie. The .+AA has no sense of equal proportion. They will devastate lives over stupid shit.
Oh goody! Then we will return to the days of 80% compatible crap. No thank you.
Fear not! What was old will be new again. If we move to dumb terminals, then the future is sure to bring fat clients back. If now is not the time for thin clients, the future is sure to find a better reason for most to switch. And then after the switch, we will switch back to fat clients. This is the cycle of RISC/CISC, Serial/Parallel, Thick/Thin.
Most urbanites can't just walk to the nearest lake. So, they
1) Load up their over-sized camper with all the crap they could have just as easily left at home.
2) Stop by Wal-Mart to pickup $150 worth of groceries and another $100 in beer. Maybe buy the half dead worms for $2.
3) Drive 4 1/2 hours to the only lake that will fit their 50' camper with V8 Dodge Ram (or Chevy S3500 or Ford F450).
4) Unhook the camper and spend 2 hours cursing the damned thing.
5) Drive to the entrance (probably 500') and back to buy more worms because the first ones died.
6) Drive to the lake (probably another 500').
7) Fish*
8) Drive back to the camp site.
9) Use a gallon or two of gas to start their bonfire.
10) Sleep
11) Wake up, use another gallon of gas to start another fire to warm up.
12) Repeat steps 6-8.
13) Drive for an hour and a half to buy more beer.
14) Drive back to the site.
15) Repeat steps 5-14 until Sunday evening.
16) Drive home.
*) If the tackle was forgotten, they may drive to the nearest Wal-Mart using another 2 hours of fuel.
See, 300 gallons to the average urbanite fisherman is easy to burn.
You'd think that, but then the spiders will become some radioactive mutant spiders even larger and scarier than before.
Although I agree with you, if Faux news becomes a pay site, that is one less media outlet I will visit. I like going there to see what the Fascist arm of the Republican party is up to.
Yeah, clearly the solution to the sequential loads is to offer us threads in the browser. Threads would make things so much simpler for the Web 3.x monkeys. And like JavaScript memory allocation, we need a thread garbage collection so threads are created and destroyed "auto-magically". Imagine how much more the browser could do, and how much more content could be delivered in a mutli-threaded browser environment. Why aren't advertising folks and PHBs clamoring for this?
Bwah-ha-ha.
So? You are missing the other 97 thieving liars in your list. I believe that most Senators (particularly after the first term) are thieving liars. The question of which one to vote for, is answered by the one that lies and steals while claiming to hold your banner.
To answer the first question, because we brought one here to be tried. The second, because with actual pirates infringing on the meaning of piracy, they may have to rethink their use? It may become more difficult in the public mind-share how downloading a song equates with bands of hoodlums taking over ships, holding hostages, and murdering the crews. Rihanna got her black eye from a bad relationship choice, not someone "illegally" downloading her latest CD.
It I had mod points, I'd mod you insightful, because sadly, that is how the world works.
Well, at least we still have bat boy!.
I'd prefer to name it after Limbaugh.
I don't know. Maybe NASA could have named the whole module: Cosmic Operating Living Bubble for Environment, Refridgeration, and Treadmill. But now, Colbert will have to create his own module and send it up there: Comedian Over-Lord Base for the Earthly Reign of Terror.
I completely agree. I think the cost of games is ridiculous. The last full price PC game I bought was Civ IV (back in 2005). The last full price console game I bought was Mario Galaxy. I tend to not buy a lot of games because of both DRM concerns on the PC, and the price on any platform.
I don't know about the white room. Behr might sue for the unauthorized use of color 780E-1 in the background.
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
I do not live in Tornado Alley, but I'd like to know where in the world one can live without fear of some natural disaster. In my area it is range fires, earthquakes, and blizzards. Others have hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and landslides. Just curious where the people who aren't "too dumb" live that doesn't have some malady.
Who knows if it is over. Everyone's favorite governor, the esteemed Governor Sarah Palin, requested current sitting Senator Begich to resign so that a special election can occur (Palin Calls for Begich's Resignation). Some conspiracy might befall Sen. Begich, heads will roll, and all hail the new Sen. Stevens.
Awful? You must be talking about truck stop coffee or that want-to-be-cool Starbucks. A quality bean, properly roasted, and prepared by a knowledgeable person yields the Nectar of the Gods! No one marketed to me. The internet is my only media input, and I started drinking that sweet, sweet bean juice from a very early age (approx. 3 y.o).
Oh, I miss greeting that dark mistress in my cup every morning. I never needed cream or sugar; only unwashed heathens would dare foul the delicious liquid. Now, unfortunately, I drink herbal tea, because my g.f. says coffee makes my breath bad. Many days, I contemplate the sin of sneaking a cup. My 31 year affair with coffee beckons me to return. This is no addiction, it is my joie de vivre.
How dare you sully the name of coffee? I don't go speaking ill of the things you love.
Oil rigs pose a unique problem wind-turbines do not. You might want to look up the 1969 Oil Spill in Santa Barbara. That was a far more important event than it seems at first blush.
To be fair, he probably spends 38.75 hours here on /., assuming 15 minutes a day of actual work.
It's almost valid. I have meta-moderated before, its just been a long time.
A good deal of why the rural papers are going under isn't just because of lost subscriptions. Much of it is lost revenue from advertisers.
Because the new medium doesn't cover all areas. Our paper is far less than the 500 employees. Without our local news, we would have no access to the news and events in our area. Maybe you believe 40%+ of the US not living in metropolitan areas don't deserve to know what their city planners are doing.