The authority of the school should end where the school grounds end.
Do something about bullying on campus first before claiming any authority off campus. Something other than Zero Tolerance which punishes the victims disproportionally because the perpetrators know how not to get caught (or is on the sports team).
And stop putting one Good Kid between two troublemakers just because you can't police your own classroom.
And where the hell does a public school get the authority to force the whole student bodychool to attend a funeral in the gym during school hours for one of those two troublemakers who died playing chicken against the other one! Where every student had to walk past the damn open casket! And then the first students through decided to hug the parents, so everyone after them felt they had to too! The school even posted teachers at the exits so no one would leave and never told anyone that attendance was voluntary!
I'd like to assume it was because StartingUp.com wasn't available, but there's a trend to use unique constructions in order to get ownership of the unique keyword for search terms. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why Nintendo's Revolution was renamed the Wii.
In any case, the reading of it as "Star Tupping" gives it some added resale value. It'll be worth even more if he can get a lot of links to it as it is now before eventually selling it off to become a celebrity-sex site.
and there are always groups of individuals in every company that DO NOT fit the one-size-fits-all software/security model.
Well, there's that, and then there's IT departments that use one-size-fits-no-one software. We develop our software using XEmacs 19.13 (September 3, 1995) because IT doesn't want to tweak a more modern version to work with our RCS.
Many video cards include an S-Video output. Coupled with an available audio output, it is a simple matter to run the pair through an external digital video encoder to get it into DV, then crop it to get an unencumbered copy. I've done it for my employer (I was assured we had permission for the purpose for which it was used).
The video was below SD quality, but if it was greater I could have done multiple captures and stitched the frames together given enough overlap. You don't even need timecodes when you have jump cuts.
Sorry, that faulty assumption breaks your whole logic chain. (And yeah, you were probably trying to be funny.)
Well, the "So say we all" reference was trying to preserve a Funny option. (I probably should have left it out; maybe then I wouldn't have been knocked from 5 back to 2 with -1 Overrated and -1 Redundant (WTF?) mods and lost the Karma Bonus.)
Maybe I'm being generous in qualifying ourselves as "spacefaring". The summary only said "extraterrestrial civilizations", but for some reason I didn't just shorten it to "civilization" so it would apply to us. But then that would also leave open the attack that we aren't civilized. See again the above hatred of Funny.
Further, driver skill is far from the only concern. What about the other drivers on the road? Road conditions? Animals and debris on road? Vehicle condition?
Those would be the "conditions" mentioned in the phrase, "the speed and driver's skill were not unsafe for the conditions".
The full cycle included pedestrian traffic going from walk to don't walk and back to walk and the traffic that would have crossed that pedestrian traffic's crosswalk not being given the signal to proceed. Whoever programmed the lights decided that traffic in the lane that is permitted to turn right on red never wants to go straight.
Maybe this part of the galaxy isn't that great of a place to be. Maybe it's a nice place to evolve but you wouldn't want to move here. Perhaps we're not in the galactic "sweet spot" where interstellar distances are more favorable for travel, yet not too close to the super black hole at the center of the galaxy.
To answer the question why extraterrestrial civilizations haven't colonized the whole galaxy you just need to answer the question why hasn't terrestrial civilization done it.
Or are we assuming too much about the form of colonization; perhaps we're destined to colonize via panspermia. And has this already happened? And if so, have we in fact colonized the whole galaxy already with the consequence of resetting our own evolution each time in order to adapt to our new environments?
I'm pretty sure that "spacefaring civilization" assumes that members of the civilization leaves its original solar system.
That depends if you consider autonomous deep space probes counting as members of a civilization, or if it is really just physical evidence of civilization that matters, or just being able to cause an effect at an interstellar distance through the application of our intelligence.
Another issue is whether the whole galaxy is even worth colonizing. It might not be feasible (or even wise) to try to colonize closer to the galactic center. Maybe intelligent spacefaring life is just star-hopping, that the resources necessary to do that require one stellar lifetime to gather, and one evolutionary setback (ELE) may be enough to doom one's ability to hop to the next habitable system.
Speed cameras remove officer discretion to determine that the speed and driver's skill were not unsafe for the conditions.
One should be allowed to run a red light on an empty street, especially when the light had gone through a complete cycle and still did not change for the waiting traffic. A traffic camera will cite you regardless.
"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute!"
Fox no longer possessed the ability to be the first to display the content to the general public.
Is that supposed to be tangible?
Meanwhile, this ECOTtotal wasn't the one who made first disclosure, so he wasn't the one "thieving" this ability from Fox.
All evidence points to someone getting the premiere-DVD ripped before it was to be made available on store shelves, or a leak in the production chain. Hell, I've received pre-ordered DVDs from Amazon.com a day before they were supposed to be made available on more than one occasion!
Here's a couple pertinent questions: was the YouTube video widescreen (16:9)? and is the DVD widescreen (or anamorphic) or full-screen?
However in this case it is truly theft, because the 24 video was never in the public to "copy". This was outright theft of what is basically confidential data.
That may depend on whether or not you consider an unencrypted satellite uplink transmission "in the public". First-run syndicated programming is often like this. Hell, I saw the first episode of Viper on my cable, without commercials, well before its premiere and well before I'd even heard of the show. I've even seen rough storyboarded commercials before they were finalized, in 10, 15, 20, and 30 second versions. (That may have been before our local CableVision become Time Warner Cable. I'd have to research the dates.)
I wouldn't expect network programming to be in the clear on satellite like that however. But then I don't have the hardware to pick up those signals.
However, reading the article (and the article linked to by the article), it appears to only be the first four episodes of 24 that were made available in advance, again pointing to someone getting ahold of the DVDs of the first four episodes prior to their street date (the day after the two-day premiere).
And this "ECOTtotal" probably wasn't even the ripper nor could identify who was. As reported, the episodes were available elsewhere before they were available on YouTube. So if they do succeed in tracking him down, he's screwed.
As others have pointed out, rental stores also got them early and some Blockbuster employees were permitted to rent them before they were made available to customers. So how public is public? A privileged group had access early, but who had the privilege was not under control of Fox. It just wasn't broadcast-televised.
(Huh, my Firefox installation's dictionary didn't include the word "ahold".)
I would really hate to have basically propoganda in a game I'm playing.
Well, one man's propaganda is another man's scripture.
Hopefully this is something in between that will be fun to play. I know I'm looking forward to playing this conflicted-conflict game.
I wonder how open-ended it will be. And I don't mean GTA-style. Will there will be multiple endings based on how you play it. It sounds like it could be, especially if after the game play is finished your character must face the consequences of his actions. Imagine saving the world and being executed as a traitor for doing so, or committing genocide and other atrocities and being hailed as a hero, or just selling out your own species to secure your own future with the aliens.
Of course, not everything being so contrasting: having to deal with the consequences of doing the expedient things or failing to do the necessary things however distasteful. Sometimes you have no choice but to shoot the eight-year-old girl carrying the live hand grenade, even if she's not a zombie, ghost, or other evil undead spirit.
OK, now I'm probably building up my own expectations of this game too much.
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The authority of the school should end where the school grounds end.
Do something about bullying on campus first before claiming any authority off campus. Something other than Zero Tolerance which punishes the victims disproportionally because the perpetrators know how not to get caught (or is on the sports team).
And stop putting one Good Kid between two troublemakers just because you can't police your own classroom.
And where the hell does a public school get the authority to force the whole student bodychool to attend a funeral in the gym during school hours for one of those two troublemakers who died playing chicken against the other one! Where every student had to walk past the damn open casket! And then the first students through decided to hug the parents, so everyone after them felt they had to too! The school even posted teachers at the exits so no one would leave and never told anyone that attendance was voluntary!
This 12-step program is missing the essential step: "Accept Shub-Internet as your personal Savior."
They should have registered it with God Addy.com.
I'd like to assume it was because StartingUp.com wasn't available, but there's a trend to use unique constructions in order to get ownership of the unique keyword for search terms. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why Nintendo's Revolution was renamed the Wii.
In any case, the reading of it as "Star Tupping" gives it some added resale value. It'll be worth even more if he can get a lot of links to it as it is now before eventually selling it off to become a celebrity-sex site.
Vista reviewers are coming to a sad realization.
Cancel or Allow.
Uhm... Retry?
Turn recording device off BEFORE committing crimes!
Such as entering a movie theater?
Record your life, so long as your life doesn't contain any copyrighted works.
and there are always groups of individuals in every company that DO NOT fit the one-size-fits-all software/security model.
Well, there's that, and then there's IT departments that use one-size-fits-no-one software. We develop our software using XEmacs 19.13 (September 3, 1995) because IT doesn't want to tweak a more modern version to work with our RCS.
Many video cards include an S-Video output. Coupled with an available audio output, it is a simple matter to run the pair through an external digital video encoder to get it into DV, then crop it to get an unencumbered copy. I've done it for my employer (I was assured we had permission for the purpose for which it was used).
The video was below SD quality, but if it was greater I could have done multiple captures and stitched the frames together given enough overlap. You don't even need timecodes when you have jump cuts.
Sorry, that faulty assumption breaks your whole logic chain. (And yeah, you were probably trying to be funny.)
Well, the "So say we all" reference was trying to preserve a Funny option. (I probably should have left it out; maybe then I wouldn't have been knocked from 5 back to 2 with -1 Overrated and -1 Redundant (WTF?) mods and lost the Karma Bonus.)
Maybe I'm being generous in qualifying ourselves as "spacefaring". The summary only said "extraterrestrial civilizations", but for some reason I didn't just shorten it to "civilization" so it would apply to us. But then that would also leave open the attack that we aren't civilized. See again the above hatred of Funny.
5. Leave the universe. Just because science doesn't know how doesn't mean it's impossible.
Um, leaving the universe is extinction.
Or at least it is for whoever you leave behind, for all causal effect.
The trick is to have a place to go to when you leave.
(The truly successful members of a species get to create their own universe in their own image.)
Those would be the "conditions" mentioned in the phrase, "the speed and driver's skill were not unsafe for the conditions".
The full cycle included pedestrian traffic going from walk to don't walk and back to walk and the traffic that would have crossed that pedestrian traffic's crosswalk not being given the signal to proceed. Whoever programmed the lights decided that traffic in the lane that is permitted to turn right on red never wants to go straight.
Maybe this part of the galaxy isn't that great of a place to be. Maybe it's a nice place to evolve but you wouldn't want to move here. Perhaps we're not in the galactic "sweet spot" where interstellar distances are more favorable for travel, yet not too close to the super black hole at the center of the galaxy.
To answer the question why extraterrestrial civilizations haven't colonized the whole galaxy you just need to answer the question why hasn't terrestrial civilization done it.
Or are we assuming too much about the form of colonization; perhaps we're destined to colonize via panspermia. And has this already happened? And if so, have we in fact colonized the whole galaxy already with the consequence of resetting our own evolution each time in order to adapt to our new environments?
I'm pretty sure that "spacefaring civilization" assumes that members of the civilization leaves its original solar system.
That depends if you consider autonomous deep space probes counting as members of a civilization, or if it is really just physical evidence of civilization that matters, or just being able to cause an effect at an interstellar distance through the application of our intelligence.
Another issue is whether the whole galaxy is even worth colonizing. It might not be feasible (or even wise) to try to colonize closer to the galactic center. Maybe intelligent spacefaring life is just star-hopping, that the resources necessary to do that require one stellar lifetime to gather, and one evolutionary setback (ELE) may be enough to doom one's ability to hop to the next habitable system.
Or better yet it's like this screen capture from CNN.
At least that means we don't need to look for Osama bin Laden in Schroedinger's Cat Box.
You forgot choice zero:
0. Blow up the Earth and become extinct right now.
If spacefaring civilizations exist, they should have colonized the galaxy by now.
Earth is a spacefaring civilization.
Earth hasn't colonized the galaxy by now.
Ergo, Earth doesn't exist.
So say we all.
Speed cameras remove officer discretion to determine that the speed and driver's skill were not unsafe for the conditions.
One should be allowed to run a red light on an empty street, especially when the light had gone through a complete cycle and still did not change for the waiting traffic. A traffic camera will cite you regardless.
"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute!"
This is why I'm not expecting any problems with my TiVos.
Well, except possibly the Series1 TiVos which may display the wrong time for three weeks. The guide data is all in UTC.
Except, do I have any timed repeated recordings scheduled on my Series1 TiVos?
Well, there are still a few bugs in the watergates.
Only if four of them is a quibble.
Fox no longer possessed the ability to be the first to display the content to the general public.
Is that supposed to be tangible?
Meanwhile, this ECOTtotal wasn't the one who made first disclosure, so he wasn't the one "thieving" this ability from Fox.
All evidence points to someone getting the premiere-DVD ripped before it was to be made available on store shelves, or a leak in the production chain. Hell, I've received pre-ordered DVDs from Amazon.com a day before they were supposed to be made available on more than one occasion!
Here's a couple pertinent questions: was the YouTube video widescreen (16:9)? and is the DVD widescreen (or anamorphic) or full-screen?
However in this case it is truly theft, because the 24 video was never in the public to "copy". This was outright theft of what is basically confidential data.
That may depend on whether or not you consider an unencrypted satellite uplink transmission "in the public". First-run syndicated programming is often like this. Hell, I saw the first episode of Viper on my cable, without commercials, well before its premiere and well before I'd even heard of the show. I've even seen rough storyboarded commercials before they were finalized, in 10, 15, 20, and 30 second versions. (That may have been before our local CableVision become Time Warner Cable. I'd have to research the dates.)
I wouldn't expect network programming to be in the clear on satellite like that however. But then I don't have the hardware to pick up those signals.
However, reading the article (and the article linked to by the article), it appears to only be the first four episodes of 24 that were made available in advance, again pointing to someone getting ahold of the DVDs of the first four episodes prior to their street date (the day after the two-day premiere).
And this "ECOTtotal" probably wasn't even the ripper nor could identify who was. As reported, the episodes were available elsewhere before they were available on YouTube. So if they do succeed in tracking him down, he's screwed.
As others have pointed out, rental stores also got them early and some Blockbuster employees were permitted to rent them before they were made available to customers. So how public is public? A privileged group had access early, but who had the privilege was not under control of Fox. It just wasn't broadcast-televised.
(Huh, my Firefox installation's dictionary didn't include the word "ahold".)
I would really hate to have basically propoganda in a game I'm playing.
Well, one man's propaganda is another man's scripture.
Hopefully this is something in between that will be fun to play. I know I'm looking forward to playing this conflicted-conflict game.
I wonder how open-ended it will be. And I don't mean GTA-style. Will there will be multiple endings based on how you play it. It sounds like it could be, especially if after the game play is finished your character must face the consequences of his actions. Imagine saving the world and being executed as a traitor for doing so, or committing genocide and other atrocities and being hailed as a hero, or just selling out your own species to secure your own future with the aliens.
Of course, not everything being so contrasting: having to deal with the consequences of doing the expedient things or failing to do the necessary things however distasteful. Sometimes you have no choice but to shoot the eight-year-old girl carrying the live hand grenade, even if she's not a zombie, ghost, or other evil undead spirit.
OK, now I'm probably building up my own expectations of this game too much.
Ah, so I must have been incorrect in initially parsing it as being pronounced with a silent- or H-like X. Am I the only one to read it that way?
It also took me a moment to parse "bistable" as "bi-stable" instead of "bis-table". (Don't tell me it should be "bist-able".)
In fact Snyder will pay up if Acunetix can get personal data out of 3 of 10 sites chosen at random from their survey list.
If any story deserved an "itsatrap" tag, this is one!