You are EXACTLY right, and the following quote just caps it:
Ms. Redding said school officials should have taken her background into account before searching her.
`They didn`t even look at my records,` she said. `They didn`t even know I was a good kid.`
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
`Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,` the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, `only that she was never caught.`
And there we have it: presumption of guilt. These people -- the responsible administration officials and those directly involved in carrying out the search -- deserve to be pilloried! Fucking assholes! What if we extended that "logic" into our criminal court system? "Her assertion [based on a completely clean record] should not be misread to infer innocence, only that she was never caught." Brilliant! The district administrator who wrote that deserves to have his ass thoroughly kicked!
- it'll take off in less than 200m from a field or airstrip
- it can't stall or dive (no pitch control), so stall speed is effectively 0 km/h
- from the characteristics of the type of flying training they're offering (here), we can conclude that it's probably only VFR-capable
I think any proposal to farm out a social enterprise to private interests is a very bad idea because the motives which create the impetus for the social structure are then changed -- and not for the better!
The justice system, the military, emergency services (fire, police), primary education, and the demonstrably even the medical system are all examples of structures which have been established in society for the mutual benefit of all. Most of these have been maintained in the public sector (would you really like to see a privatized police force in your locality?) because we all benefit from being able to grow up, live in peace, and raise our children -- hopefully without having to stress over whether we're going to be able to pay for them if/when disaster strikes.
When such institutions are privatized and commercialized and the profit motive takes over, suddenly the benefits to society and its individual members are no longer the overriding concern and the primary motive for providing the service. I'm not talking about the motivation of the individual service provider here; I'm talking about the motives which drive the people who direct, manage, and run the institution.
And when the bottom line becomes all-important, that's when an institution becomes callous and uncaring about the individuals who are dependent on the service that it provides and that's when the door of opportunity is kicked open for corrupt practices such as the ones we're reading about here.
(Mods: I'm really just posting here to reverse a mod accident, so please don't slam me too badly.)
I did. I was a long-time Telus Mobility customer. The recent change to charge for incoming texts was the final straw for me. I both called and wrote to Telus and got absolutely nowhere, so I'm now a VERY happy FIDO customer -- and so are most of my immediate family. When the haemorrhaging gets bad enough, Telus may straighten up.
Try "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", Vol.s I - III. I've never encountered a better reasonably high-level introduction to the topic, and they're eminently readable. Here's a site devoted to them.
The private group won't estimate when the network might be completed (it's at 80%), saying it will take months to assess where the project is and what it needs.
Maybe they should have been talking to this guy, Huang Jer-sheng, and his group, instead of busting them. "High quality" and "Microsoft" are not often uttered in the same sentence.
Well said! I have very little respect left for Harper and his ilk. He left my MP -- the intelligent and thoughtful Diane Ablonczy -- out in the cold (well, they threw her a bone the second time around, but nothing real) from a cabinet which was already badly gender-imbalanced. Hey, Stevo -- whatcha gonna do when your puppetmaster is out of office at the end of the year? If your own government lasts that long, that is...
3. The injunction is a consent decree. It doesn't carry with it any implied finding of liability at all. It's merely a promise, by a 70-something lady who never heard of filesharing, that she will not in the future engage in unauthorized filesharing of plaintiffs' recordings.
I bet Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, et al. are all greatly relieved at this news...
(b) there is a better-than-average likelihood that they really do hold the rights to the technology they're claiming,
(c) their rights may genuinely have been infringed by wireless equipment manufacturers,
(d) if (b) and (c) hold, then they're simply working the current system the way it was designed -- if not intended -- to work, whether you feel that's a good thing or not.
To lump Wi-LAN in with SCOx, where the current ownership had nothing to do with the original development of the product, where the rights being claimed were never owned by the litigant, and where the tactics employed were mostly innuendo and slander, is unfair to Wi-LAN and does them a real disservice. Wi-LAN's founders have a right to an expectation of return from their own effort and creativity -- if the market agrees. That other vendors are purportedly using their protocols (which, admittedly, is yet to be established) would argue that it does.
Wi-LAN is a real company with technologies and hardware that they've been working on for the better part of 20 years. They were some of the originals in wireless networking, doing real research, and D-Link seems to genuinely have infringed on their patents.
I can confirm the PP -- I was around when Wi-LAN floated their IPO in the mid-90's. A fairly prescient friend of mine urged me and my co-workers to invest in the company because they had both patented and demonstrated their technology by that point and the IEEE was evaluating their protocol for use as a standard. I didn't invest in the IPO, although a few of my colleagues did, so I missed out on the 40-times share price increase as Wi-LAN rode the dot-com bubble to an absolutely dizzying height before collapsing back to their original value along with everyone else when the bubble burst.
The University of Calgary has a wholly-owned company called University Technologies International (UTI) which exists to assist academics in obtaining patents, licensing new technologies, and attracting the attention of investors for seed money for start-ups -- something I would imagine pretty much any university does, these days.
Re modding up -- that's sadly true; they already have.:)
GP beat me to it. But just to put things in perspective, the energy required to lift your 1000 kg car once is roughly equivalent to leaving a 100 W light bulb lit for 81 mins. Surprisingly modest, actually.
In fairness to the kid's mom (who is an "analyst", according to TFA; presumably that would mean she's an IT analyst or why else would she be at ITxpo?), she was comparing the Vista experience with the XP experience.
XP, for all its security holes, updates, and service packs, was a comparatively stable platform (NOTE: I'm not saying good; just stable), which most home and business users could learn to navigate with relatively little difficulty. Now along comes Vista, and this person -- with presumably some technical acumen -- experiences a 2-day exercise in frustration, trying to get things to work. One naturally expects that things will improve and become easier to use as successive generations of what is much the same thing are developed and released, not WAY more difficult!
To cite the revered car analogy: the first automobiles didn't come with adjustable seats, power windows (hey -- there's the Vista successor: Power Windows!), an electric starter motor, or even a steering wheel sometimes. But with time and redesign, succeeding generations sure became a lot easier to use, didn't they?
So the real question she was asking is: Howcum Vista, the latest generation, isn't easier to use than XP?
It also stays light by doing away with one of the wheels. This also helps because then, according to American safety regulations, it is technically a motorcycle, and so doesn't have to jump through any of the normal safety hoops. This keeps weight (and costs) way down, but it also makes it pretty fantastically unsafe (but, of course, no less safe than a motorcycle.)
From the L-TFA... now there's a strong selling point! I'm definitely up for a vehicle that doesn't have to jump through any of the normal safety hoops. They're just such a nuisance!
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Ms. Redding said school officials should have taken her background into account before searching her.
`They didn`t even look at my records,` she said. `They didn`t even know I was a good kid.`
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
`Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,` the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, `only that she was never caught.`
And there we have it: presumption of guilt. These people -- the responsible administration officials and those directly involved in carrying out the search -- deserve to be pilloried! Fucking assholes! What if we extended that "logic" into our criminal court system? "Her assertion [based on a completely clean record] should not be misread to infer innocence, only that she was never caught." Brilliant! The district administrator who wrote that deserves to have his ass thoroughly kicked!
That's just beautiful! Happy anniversary, Roger and Gorel -- and many, many more!
Actually, Parajet's home page indicates that:
- it'll take off in less than 200m from a field or airstrip
- it can't stall or dive (no pitch control), so stall speed is effectively 0 km/h
- from the characteristics of the type of flying training they're offering (here), we can conclude that it's probably only VFR-capable
I think any proposal to farm out a social enterprise to private interests is a very bad idea because the motives which create the impetus for the social structure are then changed -- and not for the better!
The justice system, the military, emergency services (fire, police), primary education, and the demonstrably even the medical system are all examples of structures which have been established in society for the mutual benefit of all. Most of these have been maintained in the public sector (would you really like to see a privatized police force in your locality?) because we all benefit from being able to grow up, live in peace, and raise our children -- hopefully without having to stress over whether we're going to be able to pay for them if/when disaster strikes.
When such institutions are privatized and commercialized and the profit motive takes over, suddenly the benefits to society and its individual members are no longer the overriding concern and the primary motive for providing the service. I'm not talking about the motivation of the individual service provider here; I'm talking about the motives which drive the people who direct, manage, and run the institution.
And when the bottom line becomes all-important, that's when an institution becomes callous and uncaring about the individuals who are dependent on the service that it provides and that's when the door of opportunity is kicked open for corrupt practices such as the ones we're reading about here.
(Mods: I'm really just posting here to reverse a mod accident, so please don't slam me too badly.)
Yup, these are exactly the apps I'm waiting for to migrate completely to Ubuntu and finally wean myself completely from Win-dependency.
Insightful AND funny -- mod parent up!
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They've gotten to the "fight you" stage. You're winning, Ray!
I did. I was a long-time Telus Mobility customer. The recent change to charge for incoming texts was the final straw for me. I both called and wrote to Telus and got absolutely nowhere, so I'm now a VERY happy FIDO customer -- and so are most of my immediate family. When the haemorrhaging gets bad enough, Telus may straighten up.
Try "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", Vol.s I - III. I've never encountered a better reasonably high-level introduction to the topic, and they're eminently readable. Here's a site devoted to them.
Just out of interest: has Ms. Cassin decided whether to pursue a claim for attorneys' fees as a result of the previous suit being dropped?
Boy, if this doesn't convince her to go after them, nothing will. I'd be feeling a little vindictive myself!
Maybe they should have been talking to this guy, Huang Jer-sheng, and his group, instead of busting them. "High quality" and "Microsoft" are not often uttered in the same sentence.
Well said! I have very little respect left for Harper and his ilk. He left my MP -- the intelligent and thoughtful Diane Ablonczy -- out in the cold (well, they threw her a bone the second time around, but nothing real) from a cabinet which was already badly gender-imbalanced. Hey, Stevo -- whatcha gonna do when your puppetmaster is out of office at the end of the year? If your own government lasts that long, that is ...
I think the dialog box should say, "Would it be alright to install a root-kit on your machine?".
The ones who say "Yes" to that are justifiably pwned. Everyone else is reasonably trusted and left alone. It's a good filter!
Fair enough -- except that
(a) they did once develop good technologies,
(b) there is a better-than-average likelihood that they really do hold the rights to the technology they're claiming,
(c) their rights may genuinely have been infringed by wireless equipment manufacturers,
(d) if (b) and (c) hold, then they're simply working the current system the way it was designed -- if not intended -- to work, whether you feel that's a good thing or not.
To lump Wi-LAN in with SCOx, where the current ownership had nothing to do with the original development of the product, where the rights being claimed were never owned by the litigant, and where the tactics employed were mostly innuendo and slander, is unfair to Wi-LAN and does them a real disservice. Wi-LAN's founders have a right to an expectation of return from their own effort and creativity -- if the market agrees. That other vendors are purportedly using their protocols (which, admittedly, is yet to be established) would argue that it does.
Cheers
Patent trolls work that way, yes.
Wi-LAN is a real company with technologies and hardware that they've been working on for the better part of 20 years. They were some of the originals in wireless networking, doing real research, and D-Link seems to genuinely have infringed on their patents.
I can confirm the PP -- I was around when Wi-LAN floated their IPO in the mid-90's. A fairly prescient friend of mine urged me and my co-workers to invest in the company because they had both patented and demonstrated their technology by that point and the IEEE was evaluating their protocol for use as a standard. I didn't invest in the IPO, although a few of my colleagues did, so I missed out on the 40-times share price increase as Wi-LAN rode the dot-com bubble to an absolutely dizzying height before collapsing back to their original value along with everyone else when the bubble burst.
The University of Calgary has a wholly-owned company called University Technologies International (UTI) which exists to assist academics in obtaining patents, licensing new technologies, and attracting the attention of investors for seed money for start-ups -- something I would imagine pretty much any university does, these days.
Re modding up -- that's sadly true; they already have. :)
GP beat me to it. But just to put things in perspective, the energy required to lift your 1000 kg car once is roughly equivalent to leaving a 100 W light bulb lit for 81 mins. Surprisingly modest, actually.
Cheers, Rudi
In fairness to the kid's mom (who is an "analyst", according to TFA; presumably that would mean she's an IT analyst or why else would she be at ITxpo?), she was comparing the Vista experience with the XP experience.
XP, for all its security holes, updates, and service packs, was a comparatively stable platform (NOTE: I'm not saying good; just stable), which most home and business users could learn to navigate with relatively little difficulty. Now along comes Vista, and this person -- with presumably some technical acumen -- experiences a 2-day exercise in frustration, trying to get things to work. One naturally expects that things will improve and become easier to use as successive generations of what is much the same thing are developed and released, not WAY more difficult!
To cite the revered car analogy: the first automobiles didn't come with adjustable seats, power windows (hey -- there's the Vista successor: Power Windows!), an electric starter motor, or even a steering wheel sometimes. But with time and redesign, succeeding generations sure became a lot easier to use, didn't they?
So the real question she was asking is: Howcum Vista, the latest generation, isn't easier to use than XP?