no it can't sorry. read a book. the problem is physical damage to your ear drums called shearing... your ear drums arent a muscle like your lungs. its a nerve.
sorta like if you break your neck and spine they dont grow back, or if you get a scar...
really really easy. Kill stupid people. People who are too stupid to be bothered to listen to warnings, to listen to parents, listen to others.
stop trying to find a technical solution to a problem of stupidity and personal responsibility.
I remember avls on walkmen and discmen, there were two levels of it which "limited overall output volume" I'm not someone who listens at even remotely loud levels, in fact I use Shure SE310's so that I can listen at the absolute quietest intensity neccessary. And even I found these two levels to be too quiet.
Here's a far better solution. Do nothing. Let nature sort this mess out. When people start facing the consequences of their decisions they will start learnign from the consequences.
Furthermore if you can't trust your kids to listen at a proper volume then don't buy them or allow them to have the devices. Meanwhile leave me and my devices alone.
it has nothing to do with buds vs cans vs in-ear canal the problem has to do with the volume level. Even as intenisty is associated with distance^2; the difference between the two positions is relatively neglible.
these are the same morons who listen to their radios so loudly I can hear them clearly from my apt on third floor with everyones windows closed.. i have zero sympathy for them losing their hearing.
i think you have Doom confused with Quake, which had industrial metal type music by trent reznor on it. not many noticed but the game could be put into your cd player, audio starts at track 2 so dont try to play track 1... go try it and thank me later.
other than that I look to square.. first game i ever downloaded the music from? secret of mana. second was chrono trigger. xenosaga started strong but faded more into jpop as the series went on (for music).
music totally can make a game tho esp if its varied. after playing several rounds of mario kart i cant stand to listen to it anymore and throw on my own music instead.
A school is not an extension of the judicial system. End of story. Its not the schools place to be the "agent of society" any more than it would be your neighbors. They shouldn't be applauded they should be slapped with a lawsuit. It's not the schools place to step in and do anything, anymore than it is my place to pull over a random driver who is speeding on the highway, or vandalize a car of someone who drives without plates/registration/state inspection.
It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with the actions the school took or didn't take. Because its irrelevant as to whether or not the school had the right to take them.
This conversation and thread was never about what they best way to educate the child is. I could care less about educating this child. That's what the public education and his parents are for, educate him on your time. What this whole thread is concerned with is the legalality and views on the legality of the schools ability to take any action.
Instead of giving me your opinion on what you think is good, why don't you actually make a point instead of repeating what you've already said? Probably because the obvious fact that people have different definitions of good never occured to you.
And by the way, schools suck at discipline just as much as courts do. If anything they are worse, because in school the rules almost never apply if you are a star athlete, or some other special interest piece. Why? because there is no oversight, next to no appeals process, etc? And if they are so great at educating behavior why did columbine happen? Why is there constant violence in inner city schools?
Which is why they led the way with and gave away eclipse. which has become the absolute DEFACTO ide for java development, and more and more for everything else.
yeah the are clearly selfish pigs.. damn you for getting behind open source software, and linux
yes they also brought the world lotus notes, but hey no one is perfect.
seeing as they make FAR more money on software than hardware... i think you are full of crap. go do some research. IBM is not a hardware company.
and your admittidly crappy guess is even crappier, they have several of the top 10.
you might want to wake up and realize its not 1980 anymore. Not too many main frames get sold anymore compared to a. everything else they sell in hardware.
and B. the amount they bring in from software & services.
my respnonse is that you sir are an asshat. They can not do these thigns which is why they are afforded special privelages. Furthermore they do pay taxes, I can show you records of the tax returns my father filed for me every year. If your child didn't make or receive any income to be taxed upon that's your problem not mine.
Your logic is that of a moron; the kind that people laugh at. What the heck does legally drinking have to do with anything? Many adults can't do those things and yet they maintain rights.
You could at least limit the stupid line to paying your bills, putting a roof over your head, etc the way it was always effectively delivered.
A minor has everyright you have, with special provisions.
Rights as a whole are not tied together, you don't lose 'all of them' because of an action done to augment one of them. Especially with the rising age of the baby boomers, this is a particularly dumb statement.
My grandmother, before passing and entering a further state of alzheimers, signed power of attourney over to my father, giving up her right to enter contractual agreements. She gave up her driver's license because she couldnt see or hear well enough to drive. Suggesting that these have any implication her other rights is absurd.
stop confusing why your son has to obey your rules with the rights the government affords to him. Especially when their is nothing he can do about any of them. As long as age alone is sole determinant to those 'rights' your arugment has no inherant value other than pointing out a few of the things a minor cant do.
and in regard to their voting habits, i can't say thats much better than the way many adults vote.. "did you see the color of that candidates skin?" "did you see the oil company he ran" "whats his dad do" "he sounds cooler" "he invented the blackberry"
the discipline was improperly executed, no matter how large or small..
the problem isnt censorship, seeing as they didnt take down the page or force her to alter it or prevent her from saying it. The problem is attempting to punish someone for slander/libel when said action didnt occur in your jurisdiction and arguably isnt even libel/slander.
Censhorship is when you prevent something from being aired, or said and restrict the ability to communicate. Censorship is when swears are bleeped out by the FCC on tv; not when you pay a fine for swearing on tv. Thats called paying a fine for violating a law/ordinance/agreement/what have you.
The most visible flaw in your reasoning is from the second sentence you utter. "People still have the right to control speech in non-public areas" problem is that this occurred in a PUBLIC area: the internet on myspace.
Wrong again moron. they are just saying its not the schools place to punish. It's the governments.
And to your first point NO, because that once that message was handed in at school it entered the school's jurisdiction.
Whether or not the parents should be disciplining the child is not what this discussion or the legal question is about. Just as you have every right to say what you think that they should do, they have every right to not listen to you, and i have every right to not give a crap what you think they should do.
The reality is that you misinterpret that because the parents don't do what you want them to do to the kid that somehow transfers the responsibility to the school, as opposed to the police (government). Sorry it doesnt.
And honestly, they are verbal insults. Do as everyone allegedly tells their kids and ignore them. They are words, act like an adult. Think about why they might be saying these things, are you doing something to cause it, and whether its relevant or not.
No this is not relevant to the pupil school relationship, because it did not take place in school where that context EXISTS.
Its not a question of do they have SOME claim, its do they have THE CLAIM. Next your going to tell me that if a student gets in a fight with his brother at home (who is also a student) that regardless of whether or not the parents do anything that the school has the right to suspend them both from school. according to you thats pupil-pupil... According to me and logic and the rest of the world that's idiotic.
Do I agree with you that the parents should consider talking the child about the line between opinion and slander and consider punishment if they indeed engaged in slander / libel. yes. But whether or not they do so doesnt give us the right to say that it becomes the schools place to step in. As a matter of principle the parents should step in EVEN if they ARE punishing the child themselves; because its not the schools place.
preface... IANAL and given the nature of intelligence demonstrated I will also say this is only MY OPINION. the fact that this needs to be said is sad.
Probably because thats how they learn to use them. Secondly because all 'citizens' are created equal. We are all citizens, we all pay taxes, we all get rights. Just because someone is not an adult does not give YOU the right to take their rights away.
The fundamental problem with your flawed logic is that you lack the understanding of the ethics involved.
The bill of rights does not assign you any rights; it is not a statement of positive rights. It is a statement of negative rights. Particularly rights which the government can not infringe upon.
There is a reason they are protected by these limited rights. Similarly there is a reason they do not have access to several other important but related things. Namely the right to enter a contract, drive, vote, drink, and choose whether or not to go to school.
If you try to curb their right to expression or speech you are trying to restrict the most fundamental negative right. Why do you think its the FIRST amendment and not the 20th?
Furthermore their actions are not without consequences as you imply. The parents are generally responsible.
It is unreasonable to restrict what they can say because you are thus enslaving them. Its bad enough that they can't vote about how you censor them; now you want to take away their right complain about how you abuse them? BS
The fact that the page wont be taken down or forced to be altered in itself to me serves as proof that it is not LIBEL. If the principal is supposed to be an adult then he/she/it should grow up and stop complaining and ignore it. Just like public figures do when people say bad things about them in the media. This student had an opinion and expressed it. You dont have to like their opinion, you dont have to agree with it. You just have to deal with it.
But frankly no matter how you look at it in terms of the good or bad.. the fact is that this absolutely does not belong in the hands of the school. What a student does outside of school, on the internet is none of the schools business and beyond their jurisdiction. If the principal wants to take file libel charges with the police, have at it, I think its still bs but thats where it belongs.
Frankly I disagree with you, just because you dont like what the person says doesnt mean they are abusing their rights. Stop thinking you have the right to silence everyone you disagree with.
seeing as pretty much all of the financial functions are derived from calculus, you probably want to understand what the heck they mean before you start using them.
ammortization? linear programming? seeing as just about nothing in the real world (especially finance) is as simple as a linear function and you are pretty much always interested in understanding Change, the amount of it, the rate at which its changing.. yeah you probably want to use calculus.
that and the fact that if they know you can do calculus you should be able to invariably crunch whatever numbers they through at you. although I'd think discrete structures could be just as important.
no to be a good architect you have to have DOMAIN knowledge, not business knowledge. You don't have to know how to turn a profit or what an ROI is. You have to have technical knowledge of the requirements and the varied means which you could possibly implement a solution with.
the masters in CS probably wouldnt be needed because these "business environments" you speak of never tend to do anything cutting edge in terms of the things that you do in getting a masters in CS; further research into Computer Science, not becoming a better programmer.
and for the love of god stop talking about writing databases like its "coding". A database developer is not a coder or a programmer. Someone who actually writes programs to interact with the database is.
It doesnt take a genious to write a hit song, or invent a brilliant product either, it takes ingenuity and creativity mixed with some experience. But your job isnt to be a "good programmer" its to be a good software engineer. It doesnt take a genious to write Hello World; but it might take more of genious to realize he doesnt need to write hello world anymore, he can write a program to do it for him.
all in all you sound increasingly full of it.
lol "creating the code is a piece of cake" sorta like typing a book is a piece of cake too, its figuring out what to right thats the challenge. And god forbid you knew anything about software development you'd be unit testing the software you wrote.
in short, if you want to be software architect knowing something about the field your software is in is just a bit more important than knowing about "business". Knowing the figures and profit margins and the financial business strategy not so important. Understand the technical domain of the software you are developing, how clients would use your software, and experience using and designing software in similar fields (especially using Go4 patterns) far more important.
thanks for demonstrating the pig headed naivety that you can always throw a couple more "business minded managers" at a problem to solve it.
why worry about infringing on the rights of innocent if it means a couple people can commit crime... only they would rationalize its far better to just screw over everybody. gotta do what they can to keep those lawyers busy. After all when the courts rule the RIAA's agents are violating the laws aggregiously in their "investigations" clearly that means you have to get a gov't funded group to do it and make it legal for them..
this is the kind of crap our FEDERAL govt has no business wasting its time on.
teddy K has had a nice run in MA and all, but does he even know what the Internet is? i suggest we get the folks from Harvard and MIT on his doorstep to tell him what a fool he is for putting his name on this.
As someone who was leaning toward Obama, I'm not happy that Biden's got his name on this. but then again the GOP is all over this too..
I never said Digital Broadcasts don't exist, and I never said DTV isn't somewhat active. What I said was that it doesn't truly exist; because as far as the FCC is concerned to a degree it doesn't have to until Feb. 2009. This is a subtle but important difference.
The logic for most of what I said stems from this, particularly the other comment you wasted time arguing with. If this assumption is indeed incorrect than that whole statement (that I made, inferred from that premise) is invalid; no need to attack both. But since you felt the need to in such particular disorder I'll counter with, "And what law would that be?"
Secondly, and back to my main point. The link you provided is broken; tvfool.org does not exist; Not being familiar with it I tried tvfool.com which might be what you meant; but in any event couldn't find any sign of the review you spoke of. Which brings me to point three:
Ironically, after looking at your "reference" I discovered that they make the same point and conclusion that I do. In case you missed it have a read, particularly the 8th paragraph.
Either way, do you really think that those channels are going to cease to exist when the analog gets turned off? Similarly do you think advertisers won't notice the problem that fewer people are able to view the adds. OTA has a pretty good service record over the past 50 years; especially compared to Cable. Give them a chance to launch the thing before you rip into them.
By all means if come April things are as messed up as say they are now, sure you win you are right. What that means isn't even clear. The number of factors involved isn't simple enough to say its all FCC's fault or its all the OTA stations fault. Irregardless you can wave around your "I told you so" flag.
But until then, and at this point in time, I feel like the only thing you can do is have a little faith in the TV stations and demonstrate some patience. Either quit complaining about being an early adopter or actually counter something I (or anyone else) have said with a valid, substantiated point.
"DTV provides fewer stations than analog" this is an extremely short sighted statement. DTV doesn't "truly" exist yet. And it wont until analog is turned off. That statement alone demonstrates a fundamental lack of knowledge of what is going on.
Why do there appear less for you right now? probably because many of them aren't bothering to transmit both. You seem to presume that they just have a magic switch to pull that will make the broadcast be analog, digital or both. The change is not trivial. As a result of both that and for economic reasons I wouldn't be surprised that many stations won't start broadcasting until the deadline or shortly before it; they dont want to waste time supporting both. At that point analog will be dead, and all of the stations will be digital. Thus it will then be 0 to ~24.
You are just an early adopter complaining that everything isn't up and running yet. DTV isn't stopping you from getting those channels you are missing; if analog provides them right now then don't use the DTV tuner and use the analog one.
Quit blaiming "DTV" and the government when they aren't the problem. An infrastructure change is taking place which has more benefits then you obviously could understand and appreciate. It's not a government fuckup, its called PROGRESS.
In any event I fail to see how you have less choices; you just switch between your digital tuner and your analog one until ~feb 19th when the analog will all stop and you won't have to switch back and forth anymore.
Another alternative of course is CABLE or SATELLITE. Which won't have any problems and technically should force the cable companies to improve some of their infrastructure.
that said I grew up in Boston and the analog broadcasts were and are much more limited than that.
PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CW, UPN (the most popular uhf/vhf networks) and Univision additionally there were a small amount of "repeats" among these that you could pick up with some fiddling that included another public station, and a couple variations of the above mentioned. for those within 30 miles of boston this was usually 44 and 68. 68 was notable because it carried quite a numerous amount of red sox games one year.
This is not age discrimination; this is age indiscrimination. You are being treated the same as everyone else. Thinking that you are entitled to a bonus of having a service provided for you at a discount merely points out the obviousness of your obliviousness.
Having families has nothing to do with it. My working mother and father have a family but guess what, myself and my brother have graduated from college. We have our own jobs and are ineligble for benefits under them ANYWAYS.
You made a choice to have a family as big as you did, when you did. No one made that choice for you, not your co-workers, not your boss, and not your CEO. The expectation that you should get special treatment in any way shape or form demonstrates that you WANT to discriminated against for your personal decisions. Age has nothing to do with it, there are 20 year olds with kids, and there are 60 year olds with kids.
No one is forcing anyone to use the in house daycase. You don't like it? Bring your kids somewhere else.
Did you ever consider for a moment that the ones being discriminated against were the ones w/o families, who were SUPPORTING your choices? They took away a fairly universal consistent amount of money from everyone, and gave everyone some back.
Why should you get more of a raise? Do you work harder or more than a single person? Are you so naive and idiotic as to suggest that you should get paid more than someone who does the same exact job as you, with equal output, but doesn't have kids? Equal work, equal pay, be you man, woman, married or single, with or with kids, gay or straight. Whether you are 4'7" or 7'4". Any thing ELSE is discrimination.
People like you who walk around thinking that they are entitled to have others support their decisions make me want to vomit...
If you can't afford to have kids, then don't. In the wise words of one of my favorite teachers ever: "If you have a problem, I expect you to solve it. Don't make your problems my problems. I have enough of my own already, just look at me."
anyone else curious? What hap'd the first time around, did he decide to run across the border with the laptop out and open while browsing his child pron collection? I'm genuinely curious.
that said it seems like he may have problem in that he turned it on once... but then again how do we know the dudes arent lying. wheres the proof of the child pron. i hate it, i hate child pronographers... but seriously get some evidence or get lost.
lastly, why not use the DMCA to help yourselves out. rig it such that by "circumventing" the encryption of the hard drive they also circumvent the encryption of copyright protected works. sure they will probably still do it, but you can take some money from them while they are at it.
but that doesn't mean I don't hope they find a legitimate legal means to catch him and stop child pron.
problem is right now you dont have that right at the border and they make damn well sure to say it. they have widely publicized, and even the company I work for reminds us monthly, that any computer (and now digital audio players) can and be confiscated and inspected for unknown unspecified periods of time for or without any reason at all because stupid people everywhere don't mind giving up their rights in the name of "a little security". So while in terms of constitutionally I think he has everyright to keep his mouth shut on the password, his lack of intelligence suggests to me that he'll be caught soon anyways and not to worry.
if you don't want to deal with that find another way to get your digital shiz across.. I hate it, its atrocious, and should be challenged in court. but until then its what it is. so do yourself a favor, find another way to get to the crap and don't carry it on you
sadly these are the same people who will talk about how people died for our freedom we have to be out fighting our wars and crap like that.. newsflash what they fought for are the rights you are GIVING UP left and right. The very things they wanted were protections from the government doing exactly this; to ensure the right to revolution, the right to privacy, pursuit of happiness, and the right to disagree and make change.
but what else is new?
all that said, props to the parent... go watch the futurama episode of the crazed red neck lawyer who defends zoidberg and then requests a satanic burial.
do you have stairs? run up and down them in intervals.
do you have a backpack? fill it with books or anything heavy and use it as a weight to lift.
increase the number of pushups and situps; google around for core body exercises; when I swam in high school we did a lot of that stuff that involved no weights. If thats not enough wear a backpack full of text books while doing the pushups... another good one is to get a chair and put your feet up on that and then do the pushups (now on an incline/decline depedning on how you look at it) Might involve jumping though. google up some plyometric exercises... or get into tai-bo or something
one of the geeks i work with just got into kick boxing oddly enough and he really likes that.
one thing i have to say as a geek who is a part time jock; is that gym's arent as bad as you might think. I've always found that the quickest way to get respect at a gym isnt by looking like a body builder, or by lifting more than everyone else.
It's by looking like you belong there; that you have a purpose. That you aren't there to relax. If you go there regularly and push yourself you'd be surprised how many people would offer pointers. Like many other things in life, you learn the most hen you have the most to gain, when everyone else is stronger than you.
its a lot of random stuff i realize but thats how i pick up a lot of it; random tid bits here and there; rearrange them to form a good circuit later:-)
i tend to doubt it; wouldnt that be some parallel to "intent to distribute"
isn't that why despite knowing that a drug dealer HAS drugs in mass quantities that the cops need to catch them in a sale in the ACT OF DISRIBUTING.
busting someone for merely having a file sitting a shared folder sounds a lot like pre-crime to me. And we all know how well that worked out:-P
then again we are exagerating a little here; private use in your own home is going to be next to impossible for them to enforce / prove even forgetting the fair use aspect.
personally I think we should have some fun testing the reasonability of some of these copyrights.. anyone familiar with Cage's 4'33" ? I would love to see the RIAA try to prosecute someone for "distributing" that. too bad its probably in public domain now
this really isnt flamebait; its the truth. if i had modpoints you would have them. cry all you like the punishment isnt for downloading its for uploading and spreading it. who knows how many people take the file you give them and share that around?
I hate the RIAA, but the same thing applies to software, and guess what I'm a software dev, and I imagine many of you might be. What would you do if everyone started giving away your product for free without your consent?
I don't care for the methods they take, I don't care for the prices they charge. But my recourse isn't to share their stuff with others, its to not buy the product. If you stop buying it and everyone else does the market takes over.
There's a reason punishments aren't nice, because they are a DETERRENT. If the fine was only 3.50 do you think that would stop anyone from doing it?
If the punishment for drunk driving was just a 500 dollar fine do think that would deter people? (not that the current punishment seems to be enough either...)
It's really simple, you don't want a speeding ticket, you don't speed. If you don't want late fees from bill collectors, just pay your bills on time. And if you don't want to get sued by the RIAA don't engage in illegal activity.
If everyone who complains that its illegal and downloads and uploads the quetionable media spent HALF of that time doing something proactive about the problem like letter writing to public officials or protests, boycotts of purchasing RIAA products etc something might actually get changed.
While I can't name the distro, I assure you that you would laugh, cry and possibly implode simultaneously if I did. But they did wise up after 3 weeks and yank it.
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no it can't sorry. read a book. the problem is physical damage to your ear drums called shearing... your ear drums arent a muscle like your lungs. its a nerve.
sorta like if you break your neck and spine they dont grow back, or if you get a scar ...
really really easy. Kill stupid people. People who are too stupid to be bothered to listen to warnings, to listen to parents, listen to others.
stop trying to find a technical solution to a problem of stupidity and personal responsibility.
I remember avls on walkmen and discmen, there were two levels of it which "limited overall output volume" I'm not someone who listens at even remotely loud levels, in fact I use Shure SE310's so that I can listen at the absolute quietest intensity neccessary. And even I found these two levels to be too quiet.
Here's a far better solution. Do nothing. Let nature sort this mess out. When people start facing the consequences of their decisions they will start learnign from the consequences.
Furthermore if you can't trust your kids to listen at a proper volume then don't buy them or allow them to have the devices. Meanwhile leave me and my devices alone.
it has nothing to do with buds vs cans vs in-ear canal the problem has to do with the volume level. Even as intenisty is associated with distance^2; the difference between the two positions is relatively neglible.
these are the same morons who listen to their radios so loudly I can hear them clearly from my apt on third floor with everyones windows closed.. i have zero sympathy for them losing their hearing.
i think you have Doom confused with Quake, which had industrial metal type music by trent reznor on it. not many noticed but the game could be put into your cd player, audio starts at track 2 so dont try to play track 1... go try it and thank me later.
other than that I look to square.. first game i ever downloaded the music from? secret of mana. second was chrono trigger. xenosaga started strong but faded more into jpop as the series went on (for music).
music totally can make a game tho esp if its varied. after playing several rounds of mario kart i cant stand to listen to it anymore and throw on my own music instead.
A school is not an extension of the judicial system. End of story. Its not the schools place to be the "agent of society" any more than it would be your neighbors. They shouldn't be applauded they should be slapped with a lawsuit.
It's not the schools place to step in and do anything, anymore than it is my place to pull over a random driver who is speeding on the highway, or vandalize a car of someone who drives without plates/registration/state inspection.
It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with the actions the school took or didn't take. Because its irrelevant as to whether or not the school had the right to take them.
This conversation and thread was never about what they best way to educate the child is. I could care less about educating this child. That's what the public education and his parents are for, educate him on your time. What this whole thread is concerned with is the legalality and views on the legality of the schools ability to take any action.
Instead of giving me your opinion on what you think is good, why don't you actually make a point instead of repeating what you've already said? Probably because the obvious fact that people have different definitions of good never occured to you.
And by the way, schools suck at discipline just as much as courts do. If anything they are worse, because in school the rules almost never apply if you are a star athlete, or some other special interest piece. Why? because there is no oversight, next to no appeals process, etc? And if they are so great at educating behavior why did columbine happen? Why is there constant violence in inner city schools?
Which is why they led the way with and gave away eclipse. which has become the absolute DEFACTO ide for java development, and more and more for everything else.
yeah the are clearly selfish pigs.. damn you for getting behind open source software, and linux
yes they also brought the world lotus notes, but hey no one is perfect.
seeing as they make FAR more money on software than hardware... i think you are full of crap.
go do some research. IBM is not a hardware company.
and your admittidly crappy guess is even crappier, they have several of the top 10.
you might want to wake up and realize its not 1980 anymore. Not too many main frames get sold anymore compared to a. everything else they sell in hardware.
and B. the amount they bring in from software & services.
my respnonse is that you sir are an asshat. They can not do these thigns which is why they are afforded special privelages.
Furthermore they do pay taxes, I can show you records of the tax returns my father filed for me every year. If your child didn't make or receive any income to be taxed upon that's your problem not mine.
Your logic is that of a moron; the kind that people laugh at. What the heck does legally drinking have to do with anything? Many adults can't do those things and yet they maintain rights.
You could at least limit the stupid line to paying your bills, putting a roof over your head, etc the way it was always effectively delivered.
A minor has everyright you have, with special provisions.
Rights as a whole are not tied together, you don't lose 'all of them' because of an action done to augment one of them. Especially with the rising age of the baby boomers, this is a particularly dumb statement.
My grandmother, before passing and entering a further state of alzheimers, signed power of attourney over to my father, giving up her right to enter contractual agreements. She gave up her driver's license because she couldnt see or hear well enough to drive. Suggesting that these have any implication her other rights is absurd.
stop confusing why your son has to obey your rules with the rights the government affords to him. Especially when their is nothing he can do about any of them. As long as age alone is sole determinant to those 'rights' your arugment has no inherant value other than pointing out a few of the things a minor cant do.
and in regard to their voting habits, i can't say thats much better than the way many adults vote.. "did you see the color of that candidates skin?" "did you see the oil company he ran" "whats his dad do" "he sounds cooler" "he invented the blackberry"
yeah we sound so much more intelligent.
the discipline was improperly executed, no matter how large or small..
the problem isnt censorship, seeing as they didnt take down the page or force her to alter it or prevent her from saying it. The problem is attempting to punish someone for slander/libel when said action didnt occur in your jurisdiction and arguably isnt even libel/slander.
Censhorship is when you prevent something from being aired, or said and restrict the ability to communicate. Censorship is when swears are bleeped out by the FCC on tv; not when you pay a fine for swearing on tv. Thats called paying a fine for violating a law/ordinance/agreement/what have you.
The most visible flaw in your reasoning is from the second sentence you utter. "People still have the right to control speech in non-public areas" problem is that this occurred in a PUBLIC area: the internet on myspace.
Wrong again moron. they are just saying its not the schools place to punish. It's the governments.
And to your first point NO, because that once that message was handed in at school it entered the school's jurisdiction.
Whether or not the parents should be disciplining the child is not what this discussion or the legal question is about. Just as you have every right to say what you think that they should do, they have every right to not listen to you, and i have every right to not give a crap what you think they should do.
The reality is that you misinterpret that because the parents don't do what you want them to do to the kid that somehow transfers the responsibility to the school, as opposed to the police (government). Sorry it doesnt.
And honestly, they are verbal insults. Do as everyone allegedly tells their kids and ignore them. They are words, act like an adult. Think about why they might be saying these things, are you doing something to cause it, and whether its relevant or not.
No this is not relevant to the pupil school relationship, because it did not take place in school where that context EXISTS.
Its not a question of do they have SOME claim, its do they have THE CLAIM. Next your going to tell me that if a student gets in a fight with his brother at home (who is also a student) that regardless of whether or not the parents do anything that the school has the right to suspend them both from school. according to you thats pupil-pupil... According to me and logic and the rest of the world that's idiotic.
Do I agree with you that the parents should consider talking the child about the line between opinion and slander and consider punishment if they indeed engaged in slander / libel. yes. But whether or not they do so doesnt give us the right to say that it becomes the schools place to step in. As a matter of principle the parents should step in EVEN if they ARE punishing the child themselves; because its not the schools place.
preface... IANAL and given the nature of intelligence demonstrated I will also say this is only MY OPINION. the fact that this needs to be said is sad.
Probably because thats how they learn to use them. Secondly because all 'citizens' are created equal. We are all citizens, we all pay taxes, we all get rights. Just because someone is not an adult does not give YOU the right to take their rights away.
The fundamental problem with your flawed logic is that you lack the understanding of the ethics involved.
The bill of rights does not assign you any rights; it is not a statement of positive rights. It is a statement of negative rights. Particularly rights which the government can not infringe upon.
There is a reason they are protected by these limited rights. Similarly there is a reason they do not have access to several other important but related things. Namely the right to enter a contract, drive, vote, drink, and choose whether or not to go to school.
If you try to curb their right to expression or speech you are trying to restrict the most fundamental negative right. Why do you think its the FIRST amendment and not the 20th?
Furthermore their actions are not without consequences as you imply. The parents are generally responsible.
It is unreasonable to restrict what they can say because you are thus enslaving them. Its bad enough that they can't vote about how you censor them; now you want to take away their right complain about how you abuse them? BS
The fact that the page wont be taken down or forced to be altered in itself to me serves as proof that it is not LIBEL. If the principal is supposed to be an adult then he/she/it should grow up and stop complaining and ignore it. Just like public figures do when people say bad things about them in the media. This student had an opinion and expressed it. You dont have to like their opinion, you dont have to agree with it. You just have to deal with it.
But frankly no matter how you look at it in terms of the good or bad.. the fact is that this absolutely does not belong in the hands of the school. What a student does outside of school, on the internet is none of the schools business and beyond their jurisdiction. If the principal wants to take file libel charges with the police, have at it, I think its still bs but thats where it belongs.
Frankly I disagree with you, just because you dont like what the person says doesnt mean they are abusing their rights. Stop thinking you have the right to silence everyone you disagree with.
no he got drunk... I mean his education, at Yale, wrong coast.
seeing as pretty much all of the financial functions are derived from calculus, you probably want to understand what the heck they mean before you start using them.
ammortization? linear programming? seeing as just about nothing in the real world (especially finance) is as simple as a linear function and you are pretty much always interested in understanding Change, the amount of it, the rate at which its changing.. yeah you probably want to use calculus.
that and the fact that if they know you can do calculus you should be able to invariably crunch whatever numbers they through at you. although I'd think discrete structures could be just as important.
no to be a good architect you have to have DOMAIN knowledge, not business knowledge. You don't have to know how to turn a profit or what an ROI is. You have to have technical knowledge of the requirements and the varied means which you could possibly implement a solution with.
the masters in CS probably wouldnt be needed because these "business environments" you speak of never tend to do anything cutting edge in terms of the things that you do in getting a masters in CS; further research into Computer Science, not becoming a better programmer.
and for the love of god stop talking about writing databases like its "coding". A database developer is not a coder or a programmer. Someone who actually writes programs to interact with the database is.
It doesnt take a genious to write a hit song, or invent a brilliant product either, it takes ingenuity and creativity mixed with some experience. But your job isnt to be a "good programmer" its to be a good software engineer.
It doesnt take a genious to write Hello World; but it might take more of genious to realize he doesnt need to write hello world anymore, he can write a program to do it for him.
all in all you sound increasingly full of it.
lol "creating the code is a piece of cake"
sorta like typing a book is a piece of cake too, its figuring out what to right thats the challenge. And god forbid you knew anything about software development you'd be unit testing the software you wrote.
in short, if you want to be software architect knowing something about the field your software is in is just a bit more important than knowing about "business". Knowing the figures and profit margins and the financial business strategy not so important. Understand the technical domain of the software you are developing, how clients would use your software, and experience using and designing software in similar fields (especially using Go4 patterns) far more important.
thanks for demonstrating the pig headed naivety that you can always throw a couple more "business minded managers" at a problem to solve it.
why worry about infringing on the rights of innocent if it means a couple people can commit crime... only they would rationalize its far better to just screw over everybody. gotta do what they can to keep those lawyers busy. After all when the courts rule the RIAA's agents are violating the laws aggregiously in their "investigations" clearly that means you have to get a gov't funded group to do it and make it legal for them..
this is the kind of crap our FEDERAL govt has no business wasting its time on.
teddy K has had a nice run in MA and all, but does he even know what the Internet is? i suggest we get the folks from Harvard and MIT on his doorstep to tell him what a fool he is for putting his name on this.
As someone who was leaning toward Obama, I'm not happy that Biden's got his name on this. but then again the GOP is all over this too..
I never said Digital Broadcasts don't exist, and I never said DTV isn't somewhat active. What I said was that it doesn't truly exist; because as far as the FCC is concerned to a degree it doesn't have to until Feb. 2009. This is a subtle but important difference.
The logic for most of what I said stems from this, particularly the other comment you wasted time arguing with. If this assumption is indeed incorrect than that whole statement (that I made, inferred from that premise) is invalid; no need to attack both. But since you felt the need to in such particular disorder I'll counter with, "And what law would that be?"
Secondly, and back to my main point. The link you provided is broken; tvfool.org does not exist; Not being familiar with it I tried tvfool.com which might be what you meant; but in any event couldn't find any sign of the review you spoke of. Which brings me to point three:
Ironically, after looking at your "reference" I discovered that they make the same point and conclusion that I do. In case you missed it have a read, particularly the 8th paragraph.
http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=99999999&limit=1&limitstart=1
Either way, do you really think that those channels are going to cease to exist when the analog gets turned off? Similarly do you think advertisers won't notice the problem that fewer people are able to view the adds. OTA has a pretty good service record over the past 50 years; especially compared to Cable. Give them a chance to launch the thing before you rip into them.
By all means if come April things are as messed up as say they are now, sure you win you are right. What that means isn't even clear. The number of factors involved isn't simple enough to say its all FCC's fault or its all the OTA stations fault. Irregardless you can wave around your "I told you so" flag.
But until then, and at this point in time, I feel like the only thing you can do is have a little faith in the TV stations and demonstrate some patience. Either quit complaining about being an early adopter or actually counter something I (or anyone else) have said with a valid, substantiated point.
"DTV provides fewer stations than analog"
this is an extremely short sighted statement. DTV doesn't "truly" exist yet. And it wont until analog is turned off. That statement alone demonstrates a fundamental lack of knowledge of what is going on.
Why do there appear less for you right now?
probably because many of them aren't bothering to transmit both. You seem to presume that they just have a magic switch to pull that will make the broadcast be analog, digital or both. The change is not trivial.
As a result of both that and for economic reasons I wouldn't be surprised that many stations won't start broadcasting until the deadline or shortly before it; they dont want to waste time supporting both. At that point analog will be dead, and all of the stations will be digital. Thus it will then be 0 to ~24.
You are just an early adopter complaining that everything isn't up and running yet. DTV isn't stopping you from getting those channels you are missing; if analog provides them right now then don't use the DTV tuner and use the analog one.
Quit blaiming "DTV" and the government when they aren't the problem. An infrastructure change is taking place which has more benefits then you obviously could understand and appreciate. It's not a government fuckup, its called PROGRESS.
In any event I fail to see how you have less choices; you just switch between your digital tuner and your analog one until ~feb 19th when the analog will all stop and you won't have to switch back and forth anymore.
Another alternative of course is CABLE or SATELLITE. Which won't have any problems and technically should force the cable companies to improve some of their infrastructure.
that said I grew up in Boston and the analog broadcasts were and are much more limited than that.
PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CW, UPN (the most popular uhf/vhf networks) and Univision
additionally there were a small amount of "repeats" among these that you could pick up with some fiddling that included another public station, and a couple variations of the above mentioned. for those within 30 miles of boston this was usually 44 and 68. 68 was notable because it carried quite a numerous amount of red sox games one year.
This is not age discrimination; this is age indiscrimination. You are being treated the same as everyone else. Thinking that you are entitled to a bonus of having a service provided for you at a discount merely points out the obviousness of your obliviousness.
Having families has nothing to do with it. My working mother and father have a family but guess what, myself and my brother have graduated from college. We have our own jobs and are ineligble for benefits under them ANYWAYS.
You made a choice to have a family as big as you did, when you did. No one made that choice for you, not your co-workers, not your boss, and not your CEO. The expectation that you should get special treatment in any way shape or form demonstrates that you WANT to discriminated against for your personal decisions. Age has nothing to do with it, there are 20 year olds with kids, and there are 60 year olds with kids.
No one is forcing anyone to use the in house daycase. You don't like it? Bring your kids somewhere else.
Did you ever consider for a moment that the ones being discriminated against were the ones w/o families, who were SUPPORTING your choices? They took away a fairly universal consistent amount of money from everyone, and gave everyone some back.
Why should you get more of a raise? Do you work harder or more than a single person? Are you so naive and idiotic as to suggest that you should get paid more than someone who does the same exact job as you, with equal output, but doesn't have kids? Equal work, equal pay, be you man, woman, married or single, with or with kids, gay or straight. Whether you are 4'7" or 7'4". Any thing ELSE is discrimination.
People like you who walk around thinking that they are entitled to have others support their decisions make me want to vomit...
If you can't afford to have kids, then don't. In the wise words of one of my favorite teachers ever:
"If you have a problem, I expect you to solve it. Don't make your problems my problems. I have enough of my own already, just look at me."
anyone else curious? What hap'd the first time around, did he decide to run across the border with the laptop out and open while browsing his child pron collection? I'm genuinely curious.
that said it seems like he may have problem in that he turned it on once... but then again how do we know the dudes arent lying. wheres the proof of the child pron. i hate it, i hate child pronographers... but seriously get some evidence or get lost.
lastly, why not use the DMCA to help yourselves out. rig it such that by "circumventing" the encryption of the hard drive they also circumvent the encryption of copyright protected works. sure they will probably still do it, but you can take some money from them while they are at it.
but that doesn't mean I don't hope they find a legitimate legal means to catch him and stop child pron.
problem is right now you dont have that right at the border and they make damn well sure to say it. they have widely publicized, and even the company I work for reminds us monthly, that any computer (and now digital audio players) can and be confiscated and inspected for unknown unspecified periods of time for or without any reason at all because stupid people everywhere don't mind giving up their rights in the name of "a little security". So while in terms of constitutionally I think he has everyright to keep his mouth shut on the password, his lack of intelligence suggests to me that he'll be caught soon anyways and not to worry.
if you don't want to deal with that find another way to get your digital shiz across.. I hate it, its atrocious, and should be challenged in court. but until then its what it is. so do yourself a favor, find another way to get to the crap and don't carry it on you
sadly these are the same people who will talk about how people died for our freedom we have to be out fighting our wars and crap like that.. newsflash what they fought for are the rights you are GIVING UP left and right. The very things they wanted were protections from the government doing exactly this; to ensure the right to revolution, the right to privacy, pursuit of happiness, and the right to disagree and make change.
but what else is new?
all that said, props to the parent... go watch the futurama episode of the crazed red neck lawyer who defends zoidberg and then requests a satanic burial.
do you have stairs? run up and down them in intervals.
do you have a backpack? fill it with books or anything heavy and use it as a weight to lift.
increase the number of pushups and situps; google around for core body exercises; when I swam in high school we did a lot of that stuff that involved no weights. If thats not enough wear a backpack full of text books while doing the pushups... another good one is to get a chair and put your feet up on that and then do the pushups (now on an incline/decline depedning on how you look at it) Might involve jumping though. google up some plyometric exercises... or get into tai-bo or something
one of the geeks i work with just got into kick boxing oddly enough and he really likes that.
one thing i have to say as a geek who is a part time jock; is that gym's arent as bad as you might think. I've always found that the quickest way to get respect at a gym isnt by looking like a body builder, or by lifting more than everyone else.
It's by looking like you belong there; that you have a purpose. That you aren't there to relax. If you go there regularly and push yourself you'd be surprised how many people would offer pointers. Like many other things in life, you learn the most hen you have the most to gain, when everyone else is stronger than you.
its a lot of random stuff i realize but thats how i pick up a lot of it; random tid bits here and there; rearrange them to form a good circuit later :-)
i tend to doubt it; wouldnt that be some parallel to "intent to distribute"
isn't that why despite knowing that a drug dealer HAS drugs in mass quantities that the cops need to catch them in a sale in the ACT OF DISRIBUTING.
busting someone for merely having a file sitting a shared folder sounds a lot like pre-crime to me. And we all know how well that worked out :-P
then again we are exagerating a little here; private use in your own home is going to be next to impossible for them to enforce / prove even forgetting the fair use aspect.
personally I think we should have some fun testing the reasonability of some of these copyrights.. anyone familiar with Cage's 4'33" ? I would love to see the RIAA try to prosecute someone for "distributing" that. too bad its probably in public domain now
dude, you've heard of Red Hat right?
this really isnt flamebait; its the truth. if i had modpoints you would have them. cry all you like the punishment isnt for downloading its for uploading and spreading it. who knows how many people take the file you give them and share that around?
I hate the RIAA, but the same thing applies to software, and guess what I'm a software dev, and I imagine many of you might be. What would you do if everyone started giving away your product for free without your consent?
I don't care for the methods they take, I don't care for the prices they charge. But my recourse isn't to share their stuff with others, its to not buy the product. If you stop buying it and everyone else does the market takes over.
There's a reason punishments aren't nice, because they are a DETERRENT. If the fine was only 3.50 do you think that would stop anyone from doing it?
If the punishment for drunk driving was just a 500 dollar fine do think that would deter people? (not that the current punishment seems to be enough either...)
It's really simple, you don't want a speeding ticket, you don't speed. If you don't want late fees from bill collectors, just pay your bills on time. And if you don't want to get sued by the RIAA don't engage in illegal activity.
If everyone who complains that its illegal and downloads and uploads the quetionable media spent HALF of that time doing something proactive about the problem like letter writing to public officials or protests, boycotts of purchasing RIAA products etc something might actually get changed.
While I can't name the distro, I assure you that you would laugh, cry and possibly implode simultaneously if I did. But they did wise up after 3 weeks and yank it.