I love when all the idiots line up to tell me how badly I'm doing my job.
I would never walk into an operating room and critique the surgeon BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I'M TALKING ABOUT.
The major problem with education today is the assumption that non-educator school board members and groups of parents think they have useful input. This is rarely the case.
More often they simply criticise, demand results, and fail to provide resources to acheive the desired outcome.
As soon as I hear someone lucidly discuss the need for REAL expertise, from REAL educators, as opposed to ridiculous assumptions based on ignorance and arrogance, then I'll listen.
We're not giving away anything, which is why it was suggested that you read. In this case they are simply asking to be able to speed up the process. Still requires a judge, so what freedoms are being given away that I should be upset about?
I said hyocritical, I never mentioned ad hominem.
However since you brought it up, from dictionary.com
"Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason"
It is they very definition of an ad himinem.
With all due respect, you've never taken on a bully in your life and it is obvious. Otherwise you'd realize you'll just keep getting kicked in the nuts until you stop them.
Save your ridiculous, unrealistic, inaccurate analogies. Arguing by analogy is the province of idiots.
'and who never once threatened or attacked any US citizen outside of their own country"
That's funny, my BROTHER IN LAW was KILLED (born in Florida, US citizen all the way) while working for a contracting company in... Kuwait. Last time I checked, that wasn't in Iraq.
So you're a liar (I went to the funeral, he was most certainly dead) and since liars disgust me, you can shut up now.
Really, do you think lying to convince people makes you seem more connected to the process? Like you have some rare insight that others don't?
Probably the idea that people who commit acts such as this don't get motivation from things like the "war on terrorism" but are just psychos.
And the idea of attempting to rationalize atrocities such as these by claiming they were caused by anything other than that mental imbalance is idiotic and naive.
Honestly people like you claiming that things like this are caused by the war on terror remind me of rapists claiming their victims were "asking for it". You do realize that's what you did right? Blame the victims of a horrible atrocity for the actions of a few wackos.
You're right though, it wasn't a troll, it was just dumb.
"then at what point did the owner of the computer network notify the person accessing the network that his activity required authorization?"
And this is where your argument eats it.
It's not the responsibility of the networks owner to explicitly grant permission, and making the exceedingly weak argument that leaving an AP open is implying permission just puts you inches from a jail cell. I doubt it would hold up in court, and your flawed analogies won't change that.
"1.) The Supreme Court just declared private property is only private until the government says they have an idea how someone else could perhaps use it better?"
No they didn't, they said it's up to the individual states to determine what s public use. Stop fear mongering.
"2.) The Senate is about to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow prohibiting burning a piece of fabric if that fabric happens to have 3 certain colors (red, white, blue) and 3 certain shapes (long rectangles, large rectancles, stars) in a certain pattern."
I think you need to examine this more closely, specifically how amendments are done.
"you understand that Anakin is a seriously damaged veteran, a poster child for post-traumatic stress disorder. But since none of that background is actually supplied by the Episode III script, Mr. Christensen has been given an impossible acting task"
I work with "seriously damaged veterrans" every day, many of them the same age as Anakin is supposed to be. I can say with certainty, the background isn't required.
If he was damaged, it would be obvious in him like it is in most of my kids. But Christensen can't ACT. That's the bigger problem.
That's not what he was talking about. He was making the (correct) point that these are NOT YOUR EFFECTS, but rather belong to someone else, and so are not protected.
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I love when all the idiots line up to tell me how badly I'm doing my job.
I would never walk into an operating room and critique the surgeon BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I'M TALKING ABOUT.
The major problem with education today is the assumption that non-educator school board members and groups of parents think they have useful input. This is rarely the case.
More often they simply criticise, demand results, and fail to provide resources to acheive the desired outcome.
As soon as I hear someone lucidly discuss the need for REAL expertise, from REAL educators, as opposed to ridiculous assumptions based on ignorance and arrogance, then I'll listen.
We're not giving away anything, which is why it was suggested that you read. In this case they are simply asking to be able to speed up the process. Still requires a judge, so what freedoms are being given away that I should be upset about?
I said hyocritical, I never mentioned ad hominem. However since you brought it up, from dictionary.com "Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason" It is they very definition of an ad himinem.
I think most people who attend a church find out pretty quickly what it stands for. That's what they do after all, preach.
Mission staements are idiotic, meaningless ego exercises by middle managers with too much time on their hands.
"And the asshole used it as an excuse to go into another name-calling rant about hobbyists!"
"Ad hominems too. The guy truly is an asshole."
I have to believe you did this on purpose, because no one could be so obviously hypocritical by accident.
With all due respect, you've never taken on a bully in your life and it is obvious. Otherwise you'd realize you'll just keep getting kicked in the nuts until you stop them.
Save your ridiculous, unrealistic, inaccurate analogies. Arguing by analogy is the province of idiots.
Aside from which, muslims aren't really keen on dogs.
As an aside, that alone is enough reason for me to disassociate with them. My dogs have always been awesome and added immensely to my life.
'and who never once threatened or attacked any US citizen outside of their own country"
That's funny, my BROTHER IN LAW was KILLED (born in Florida, US citizen all the way) while working for a contracting company in... Kuwait. Last time I checked, that wasn't in Iraq.
So you're a liar (I went to the funeral, he was most certainly dead) and since liars disgust me, you can shut up now.
Really, do you think lying to convince people makes you seem more connected to the process? Like you have some rare insight that others don't?
SORRY BUT YOU'RE A LIAR. STOP LYING.
Um, I don't think you and a few of your dorm mates constitutes "widely agreed"
More like "inacurrately suggested"
Probably the idea that people who commit acts such as this don't get motivation from things like the "war on terrorism" but are just psychos.
And the idea of attempting to rationalize atrocities such as these by claiming they were caused by anything other than that mental imbalance is idiotic and naive.
Honestly people like you claiming that things like this are caused by the war on terror remind me of rapists claiming their victims were "asking for it". You do realize that's what you did right? Blame the victims of a horrible atrocity for the actions of a few wackos.
You're right though, it wasn't a troll, it was just dumb.
I have never seen #5 anywhere in any post on this site. Are you having flashbacks to maybe, 8 years ago?
"then at what point did the owner of the computer network notify the person accessing the network that his activity required authorization?"
And this is where your argument eats it.
It's not the responsibility of the networks owner to explicitly grant permission, and making the exceedingly weak argument that leaving an AP open is implying permission just puts you inches from a jail cell. I doubt it would hold up in court, and your flawed analogies won't change that.
For the first year I lived in my current place, I used an open network, the owner of which subscribed to Bright House Orlando. So eat it BH.
Now, because of this, I plan to open my network and let other share (to some extent). So they can eat that too.
You mean lime breathing, blinking, pumping blood, and typing? I just did all of those things simultaneously.
"Thus you cannot say human brain does parallelistic operations at the same time"
Unless of course you want to be factually accurate.
nuh uh
Perhaps your analogy wouldn't be so wrong if the paramedics were being shot at while working on train wreck victims.
As it stands, there is no analogy for being in an environment where people are actively trying to kill you while you do your job.
I hope you can see where you're wrong about this.
Ok let's do this fast
"1.) The Supreme Court just declared private property is only private until the government says they have an idea how someone else could perhaps use it better?"
No they didn't, they said it's up to the individual states to determine what s public use. Stop fear mongering.
"2.) The Senate is about to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow prohibiting burning a piece of fabric if that fabric happens to have 3 certain colors (red, white, blue) and 3 certain shapes (long rectangles, large rectancles, stars) in a certain pattern."
I think you need to examine this more closely, specifically how amendments are done.
"I'm not convinced that a conservative judge would do any good in this case"
How can you say this, when the conservative members of the court dissented?
I knew, but only because I asked someone about it at the Library. I asked if they would ever get WiFi and she told me that this program existed.
I used it once at Lake Eola. As I recall it was only available in the park and parts of downtown.
"Yes, it is the plural in common usage of box as a class"
This is a lie.
"boxen is definitely used more often in my experience"
Nice try with the "in my experience" qualifier, but no, this is also a lie. I don't know for sure, but since you've lied once already in this post...
"English is a living language"
And amazingly, none of the credible sources that document it agree with you. Cope.
I would never have picked this up if you weren't so pathetically vociferous in your attempted defense of an imaginary word.
Do you realize how STUPID you look getiing on a web board and insisting something is true when it's demonstrably false?
gives a fuck?
"you understand that Anakin is a seriously damaged veteran, a poster child for post-traumatic stress disorder. But since none of that background is actually supplied by the Episode III script, Mr. Christensen has been given an impossible acting task"
I work with "seriously damaged veterrans" every day, many of them the same age as Anakin is supposed to be. I can say with certainty, the background isn't required.
If he was damaged, it would be obvious in him like it is in most of my kids. But Christensen can't ACT. That's the bigger problem.
"The problem is they are making a speed-bump to my legitimate use of loading the songs onto my portable player"
Yeah, see that's not the problem.
The problem, and you need to seriously examine this, is why you would choose to buy something that limits "loading the songs onto my portable player."
Stop buying it, and it will go away.
"The point is that it is unacceptable to give up that liberty ever, under any circumstance"
Then it's a stupid point. You give up liberty EVERY DAY, and don't think twice about it because it's necessary.
That's not what he was talking about. He was making the (correct) point that these are NOT YOUR EFFECTS, but rather belong to someone else, and so are not protected.