> few of the major cargo ports will let an armed ship dock. US ports certainly wouldn't.
That is bull.
As long as the US Coast Guard knows in advance that you have the the weapons aboard and secured and are a validly registered ship from a known shipping company you will have no problems.
Worst case, is the Coast Guard adds their own padlock to the gun locker for the duration of the visit.
> I understand the liability issues involved in stocking guns on a non-military ship
Do you?
Do you really?
Because if you do, I'd like to here it.
Nobody has ever published a single believable argument against having a small secure locker of arms on a merchant ship. Further, this practice was common in all merchant fleets right up to and through the 40s.
Its not a liability issue at all. There is a far greater legal liability to the shipping companies for failure to protect their crews.
Some ports have regulations against on-board guns, BUT nearly all such ports that do have ways around them, such as advance declaration, locked cabinets etc.
No, the only argument presented against arms on merchant ships has nothing to do with liability, and often boils down to "starting an arms race" with the pirates, which is a ridiculous example of reaching and scare mongering.
Returning to the standard historical punishment (walking the plank) is ok with me as well.
The Navy Seals delivered the proper message.
But the issue here may be due to arms regulations of various ports which would prevent the ship from docking if arms were aboard. This is largely mythical, but its a myth the shipping companies use to prevent law suits from their crewmen after being taken hostage.
> If Turnitin shows the prof the original work, then that's outside the bounds of fair use
Court disagrees with you.
Distribution requires a profit motive. Since neither the original author or the teacher are marketing this paper or distributing it widely, there is no profit motive and no impairment of and profit motive that should arise in the future.
A profit motive is a LARGE part of copyright law, and when submitting papers to Turnitin the student understands it can be seen by instructors who are PROTECTING his work by catching plagiarists. The original author is not harmed.
The real point here is the court disagrees with you. It is not OUTSIDE the bounds of fair use.
What accusation? There need never be an accusation. What is it with you adversarial types anyway?
There are requirements for papers, Must be in English, Must be on-subject, Must be x pages long, Must contain proper references, Must be turned in on time, and, what else?? Oh yeah, must score below X at Turnitin.
I'm sorry Mr. Smith, your paper does not meet all the requirements, and I can't accept it in its current form. See me after class.
Go ahead: Enroll in a class where you know Turnitin is a requirement. Plagiarize some paper you find somewhare Get Caught. Sue Profit!? I think not.
Turnitin CAN INDEED SUBSTANTIATE if necessary, and when a subpoena shows up, they present the original paper, and you lose. You also pay legal fees for yourself and the shcool, and get bounced out.
Really, how many students are going to go that route.
> The problem here is that the teacher has no proof, only circumstantial evidence, since Turnitin cannot legally provide a copy of the supposed original. Because of this, a teacher making an accusation would be opening themselves up, and the educational institution they work for, for big time litigation.
Why not drift on over to turnitin and read how things work instead if idle speculation and grand standing here on slash dot?
Students agree to having their papers turned in before registration for composition classes. Its part of the process. No one is being surprised by having their paper submitted.
Its not clear that turnitin provides paper content to the teacher. They only claim to provide an "originality score" based on computerized analysis.
Its not like a school is a court of law where every grade deserves a hearing before a judge and jury with rules of evidence. By enrolling you agree to be graded.
I didn't say the teacher couldn't obtain a copy. That's your own straw man.
From Turnitin website:
"Our system doesnâ(TM)t deliver guilty verdicts for students. Instead, it generates Originality Reports that provide extensive documentation of any text matches from our databases. Trained faculty then make the determination if plagiarism has occurred."
So Turnitin could say the paper matched verbatim another given paper or perhaps 75% of another paper, then the instructor could make a decision on that alone and confront the student.
There is a significant difference in what Google was doing with books, where its stated purpose was to provide excerpts (chapters usually) of the book itself.
Turnitin allows automated computerized determination of direct plagiarism, without providing the content to other people.
In the final confrontation with the alleged plagiarist the teacher would probably have to have the original work in hand, but for the analysis portion no human need see either the new or the old work.
> No matter what you do with the coal it's CO2-positive.
So what? CO2 is not the source of global warming. You are at least 8 years behind the data on this issue.
CO2 is not even the largest (by percentage of content) green house gas in the atmosphere. Water is, and its somewhere in excess of 95% of all greenhouse gas.
Man is only responsible for a small percentage of CO2, and twiddeling and fretting about our minuscule portion of a gas that is itself a vanishingly small percentage of greenhouse gas is pointless and futile.
Global temps are falling. They have been for as long as you have been aware of the so-called issue.
OSS could be free, but it could also cost money. Money for training, installation and updates.
Red Hat, Novell/Suse Ubuntu, etc all have support packages programs available which government and education departments may want to utilize to help assure smooth and continued operation.
But presuming the outlay for proprietary software would have similar requirements, you can see that for every copy of windows they could obtain an unlimited number of Linux desktop copies.
This will might allow them spend their money on custom or specialized applications which just might happened to be proprietary.
Meanwhile, the technical community that develops in that environment will have a whole different skill set than those that develop in the Microsoft mono culture.
Western governments, still dependent on Microsoft are sandbagging themselves into a smaller and smaller dry-hole against the rising tide of Linux everywhere else in the world.
The processor speed of the Macbook Air was a lot higher than the Adamo. The Adamo easily outpaced the Lenovo with the same processor speed.
Of course processor speed isn't everything.
The video card is the key here (or so the reviewers would have your believe).
In the real world that this device was meant to operate in, I suspect Joe User would never notice the difference in video performance since its adequate for YouTube.
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> few of the major cargo ports will let an armed ship dock. US ports certainly wouldn't.
That is bull.
As long as the US Coast Guard knows in advance that you have the the weapons aboard and secured and are a validly registered ship from a known shipping company you will have no problems.
Worst case, is the Coast Guard adds their own padlock to the gun locker for the duration of the visit.
News Flash:
Boastful criminal warns victims not to even think about defending themselves.
Film at Eleven.
> I understand the liability issues involved in stocking guns on a non-military ship
Do you?
Do you really?
Because if you do, I'd like to here it.
Nobody has ever published a single believable argument against having a small secure locker of arms on a merchant ship. Further, this practice was common in all merchant fleets right up to and through the 40s.
Its not a liability issue at all. There is a far greater legal liability to the shipping companies for failure to protect their crews.
Some ports have regulations against on-board guns, BUT nearly all such ports that do have ways around them, such as advance declaration, locked cabinets etc.
No, the only argument presented against arms on merchant ships has nothing to do with liability, and often boils down to "starting an arms race" with the pirates, which is a ridiculous example of reaching and scare mongering.
Returning to the standard historical punishment (walking the plank) is ok with me as well.
The Navy Seals delivered the proper message.
But the issue here may be due to arms regulations of various ports which would prevent the ship from docking if arms were aboard. This is largely mythical, but its a myth the shipping companies use to prevent law suits from their crewmen after being taken hostage.
Oh, wait, different "Mariners". In that case it might work.
MPAA/RIAA has a profit motive, and are trying to protect it.
The term paper author has no such.
> If Turnitin shows the prof the original work, then that's outside the bounds of fair use
Court disagrees with you.
Distribution requires a profit motive. Since neither the original author or the teacher are marketing this paper or distributing it widely, there is no profit motive and no impairment of and profit motive that should arise in the future.
A profit motive is a LARGE part of copyright law, and when submitting papers to Turnitin the student understands it can be seen by instructors who are PROTECTING his work by catching plagiarists. The original author is not harmed.
The real point here is the court disagrees with you. It is not OUTSIDE the bounds of fair use.
1 to 3 lines? In your dreams.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Rb1OVbehKxEC&dq=The+Crystal+World&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=8UDuSY3UF5HCM_Ln9fEP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#PPP1,M1
Accusation?
What accusation? There need never be an accusation. What is it with you adversarial types anyway?
There are requirements for papers, Must be in English, Must be on-subject, Must be x pages long, Must contain proper references, Must be turned in on time, and, what else?? Oh yeah, must score below X at Turnitin.
I'm sorry Mr. Smith, your paper does not meet all the requirements, and I can't accept it in its current form. See me after class.
Go ahead:
Enroll in a class where you know Turnitin is a requirement.
Plagiarize some paper you find somewhare
Get Caught.
Sue
Profit!? I think not.
Turnitin CAN INDEED SUBSTANTIATE if necessary, and when a subpoena shows up, they present the original paper, and you lose. You also pay legal fees for yourself and the shcool, and get bounced out.
Really, how many students are going to go that route.
> The problem here is that the teacher has no proof, only circumstantial evidence, since Turnitin cannot legally provide a copy of the supposed original. Because of this, a teacher making an accusation would be opening themselves up, and the educational institution they work for, for big time litigation.
Why not drift on over to turnitin and read how things work instead if idle speculation and grand standing here on slash dot?
Students agree to having their papers turned in before registration for composition classes. Its part of the process. No one is being surprised by having their paper submitted.
You do not have a right to sue for a grade.
Where did you see that Turnitin gave the whole work?
Its not clear that turnitin provides paper content to the teacher. They only claim to provide an "originality score" based on computerized analysis.
Its not like a school is a court of law where every grade deserves a hearing before a judge and jury with rules of evidence. By enrolling you agree to be graded.
I didn't say the teacher couldn't obtain a copy. That's your own straw man.
From Turnitin website:
"Our system doesnâ(TM)t deliver guilty verdicts for students. Instead, it generates Originality Reports that provide extensive documentation of any text matches from our databases. Trained faculty then make the determination if plagiarism has occurred."
http://www.turnitin.com/static/pdf/datasheet_cycle.pdf
So Turnitin could say the paper matched verbatim another given paper or perhaps 75% of another paper, then the instructor could make a decision on that alone and confront the student.
There is a significant difference in what Google was doing with books, where its stated purpose was to provide excerpts (chapters usually) of the book itself.
Turnitin allows automated computerized determination of direct plagiarism, without providing the content to other people.
In the final confrontation with the alleged plagiarist the teacher would probably have to have the original work in hand, but for the analysis portion no human need see either the new or the old work.
Really, how do you insure this endeavor? A private company even attempting such a thing on the smallest of storms becomes incredibly liable.
But it goes further than that. If you can heat a store how can you assure people that it is safe to start streaming power to earth?
And don't use windows at all.
Citation needed indeed. Like you would be willing to even follow the URL. Its pretty clear your mind is made up on this issue.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783
> No matter what you do with the coal it's CO2-positive.
So what? CO2 is not the source of global warming. You are at least 8 years behind the data on this issue.
CO2 is not even the largest (by percentage of content) green house gas in the atmosphere. Water is, and its somewhere in excess of 95% of all greenhouse gas.
Man is only responsible for a small percentage of CO2, and twiddeling and fretting about our minuscule portion of a gas that is itself a vanishingly small percentage of greenhouse gas is pointless and futile.
Global temps are falling. They have been for as long as you have been aware of the so-called issue.
> Users SMS in a CURP.
> That's it, there's no way to check if it matches the real user as long as the number/birthdays themselves match to the DB.
Real CURP owner gets a mail/Email/SMS: Did you register a new phone?
They reply No I didn't.
No service for you.
Really, is this so hard to figure out?
Users text in their CURP.
Most will be accurate and there will be enough info on file to match them up to their phone number and carrier.
Some won't send in their CURP. No service for you.
Some won't match. Letter comes attached to phone bill. Mail it back with correct boxes checked, or No service for you.
Claim my CURP on your phone, I check the box that says not my phone, and No Service for you.
No number no ring-e-dingie. Its pretty simple.
In the US, they get your SSN when you sign up for your plan anyway.
Since pre-paid anonymous cell phones are almost always used for no good and legal purpose this sounds like a great idea for that kind of phone.
> OSS can be much cheaper, but its cost is not going to be zero. You have to consider training and support.
On the other hand, we all know that children arrive from the womb conversant in the ways of Windows?
You can't seriously think this requirement ONLY applies to opensource, can you?
Don't confuse open source with free.
OSS could be free, but it could also cost money. Money for training, installation and updates.
Red Hat, Novell/Suse Ubuntu, etc all have support packages programs available which government and education departments may want to utilize to help assure smooth and continued operation.
But presuming the outlay for proprietary software would have similar requirements, you can see that for every copy of windows they could obtain an unlimited number of Linux desktop copies.
This will might allow them spend their money on custom or specialized applications which just might happened to be proprietary.
Meanwhile, the technical community that develops in that environment will have a whole different skill set than those that develop in the Microsoft mono culture.
Western governments, still dependent on Microsoft are sandbagging themselves into a smaller and smaller dry-hole against the rising tide of Linux everywhere else in the world.
Just sign up for an Ebay account so you can sell off all this crapware to the fanboys in the event you win.
The processor speed of the Macbook Air was a lot higher than the Adamo. The Adamo easily outpaced the Lenovo with the same processor speed.
Of course processor speed isn't everything.
The video card is the key here (or so the reviewers would have your believe).
In the real world that this device was meant to operate in, I suspect Joe User would never notice the difference in video performance since its adequate for YouTube.
Why don't these systems cool and reuse the water like every other air conditioning system in the world?
Why are they still using evap-based system, when that was pretty well disappeared from the building cooling industry 30 years ago?
How many big buildings do you see emitting steam clouds anymore?