yeah i really don't think people make that distinction. this isn't a court of law and she isn't being charged with a crime. like most institutions i am sure this university has a clause that your attendance is not a right, it's a privilege and they reserve the right to dismiss you for their own reasons.
i agree they overreacted, but like i said, never a good plan. i suspect whatever release she felt writing her thoughts wasn't worth getting banned from campus.
you can't threaten the president. see 18 USC Sec. 871,
"...Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
if people can read only her side of the story and still come to the conclusion that she's naive at best and a fool at worst, then i wouldn't question public opinion too much.
the issue is that all security personal world wide are given objective (as much as possible) guidelines on how to deal with such situations. ignoring obvious threats on the basis that no terrorist would be stupid enough to be obvious seems like a bad idea don't you think?
she is almost as smart as the group that went backpacking in the iranian mountains or the journalists that decided to go across the border of n. korea to show the world how terrible they were. words like "right", "fair", and "legal" don't mean squat in most places. she is lucky that's all that happened to you.
not to mention having a sticker that reads "f*ck <star of david>" shows a pretty astounding insensitivity to the local culture.
yes of course you don't take 100 million people and ask them to share nicely any more than you take 100 million people and ask them to trade goods and services nicely.
pure capitalism doesn't work any better than pure communism.
sigh. last time i checked, killing the imperfect was not a basic tenet of socialism.
really, if you want to look around at the evils done by
political system A vs. B
, you are going to have a hard time arguing for capitalism. let's see, in an effort to make capitalism work, the US enslaved or murdered 12 million africans. in an effort to make capitalism work, we essentially wiped out an indigenous population numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
of course i don't think any of those things were done in the name of capitalism, any more than i believe that killing of those that are different, imperfect, etc as you say are inherent to socialism.
Why would, or should, we be obligated to provide anything to another person?
because it is in the long-term best interest of society, of which you are a part of, right? don't take my word for it, it is something that every modern society has figured out to some degree or another.
e.g., you might not think you should have to subsidize public education through your taxes, but when children grow up uneducated and can't work in the economy you depend on, it becomes your problem. it is also your problem when their lack of affluence causes them to turn to a life of crime, of which you might be the victim. and so on.
the okay, so verizon eats $400+ every time they offer a discounted phone for $99? unless you can point me to contract-less plan that makes up $400 over 2 years. the only provider i know of that offers such plans are t-mobile, and the contract-less option is about $10 cheaper a month.
the price of an unlocked phone always seemed wrong to me. these are cheap, mass produced, underpowered devices using yesterday's technology for the most part. why do they cost $600?
1. most android devices are tightly coupled with google services. if you get someone using google mail, calendar, etc on the phone, of course they will use the web interface at some point and be subjected to ads.
2. many android apps already make use of admob for the "free" version.
i doubt google would make adds an inherent part of the phone experience.
whether he's in the right or not, monty is the wrong spokesperson. he has obvious conflicts of interests and possible sentimental ties to mysql. that, and the hypocritical nature of his thoughts as so many others have pointed out.
he'd be better of keeping quiet. he's probably doing more harm than good for his cause.
it seems unlikely that they would they be willing to pay device manufacturers to create special hardware versions that are beefy enough to support running guest mobile OSes. it'd probably be cheaper to just have two physical phones.
first, it's not easier on the eyes, or lighter than a $5 paperback. second, how many people need 1500 books on hand? the vast majority of people actually read (cover-cover) one single book at a time. if it's reference material you want, it's easier and more current to google for the info, and you can do that from your smartphone that you are carrying anyway and the information will be more up to date.
cell phones are always resource starved devices. manufacturers put the slowest processor and least amount of / slowest RAM that they can possibly get away with. this is for good reason i suppose, because price is a huge factor the average consumer. it's also a factor to providers, who subsidize the costs down to a level to suck in new subscribers.
would a user pay 50%, 100%, %? more to have access to the features on another mobile OS? let's face it, across android, windows mobile, and linux 95% of the apps are there already on your stock phone OS.
would a developer pay more? there's this thing called an emulator that makes me think not. is a guest OS a better representation of the phone than an emulator?
i agree overall tmo probably has some of the worst coverage. however, where i live, downtown i a million+ city, tmo provides a signal in my home where at&t doesn't. it's sort of a crapshoot when picking your provider.
if that's true, then it's another provider-specific hack. i download apps over wifi all the time. considering i don't have 3g access in my dungeon / house, i'd be pretty upset if that was the case.
if the deal does not go through, or if it never happened, it's simplistic to think that sun would just "go away". sun software as a whole is flourishing. the losing aspect is sun hardware.
a more likely scenario is that parts of sun would emerge from bankruptcy and move forward with their profitable ways. or better yet, mr. poneytail acts proactively to re-organize sun into a profitable formation.
yep and we also know that insurance companies are well-funded with lawyers that direct them what they can get away with. common sense points out that there is other evidence.
no, but it's an indication of the severity of her depression. if this person is well enough to plan a trip, drive in a car, and interact with other people, she's probably enough to go to work. no one is saying it is proof she isn't depressed at all, but it's evidence that the severity doesn't warrant the state (you and me) paying for her to do nothing.
or a "PC" that can only run Java apps compiled to a weird byte code
that's an implementation detail that you would only care (or even know) about if you wanted to. do you think users care about the programming language used to write the apps they use?
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yeah i really don't think people make that distinction. this isn't a court of law and she isn't being charged with a crime. like most institutions i am sure this university has a clause that your attendance is not a right, it's a privilege and they reserve the right to dismiss you for their own reasons.
i agree they overreacted, but like i said, never a good plan. i suspect whatever release she felt writing her thoughts wasn't worth getting banned from campus.
you can't threaten the president. see 18 USC Sec. 871,
"...Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
really. make a choice eh?
1. limit data usage for the top 5% of users
2. increase the cost of everyone's data plan so the top 5% of users can continue use 3g as their broadband connection via illegal tethering
all providers will face this problem, at least in the short term. at&t is just feeling it first because of the popularity of the iphone.
threatening to kill someone publicly is never a good idea.
new around here huh?
if people can read only her side of the story and still come to the conclusion that she's naive at best and a fool at worst, then i wouldn't question public opinion too much.
the issue is that all security personal world wide are given objective (as much as possible) guidelines on how to deal with such situations. ignoring obvious threats on the basis that no terrorist would be stupid enough to be obvious seems like a bad idea don't you think?
welcome to the world, it's a scary place.
she is almost as smart as the group that went backpacking in the iranian mountains or the journalists that decided to go across the border of n. korea to show the world how terrible they were. words like "right", "fair", and "legal" don't mean squat in most places. she is lucky that's all that happened to you.
not to mention having a sticker that reads "f*ck <star of david>" shows a pretty astounding insensitivity to the local culture.
yes of course you don't take 100 million people and ask them to share nicely any more than you take 100 million people and ask them to trade goods and services nicely.
pure capitalism doesn't work any better than pure communism.
sigh. last time i checked, killing the imperfect was not a basic tenet of socialism.
really, if you want to look around at the evils done by political system A vs. B , you are going to have a hard time arguing for capitalism. let's see, in an effort to make capitalism work, the US enslaved or murdered 12 million africans. in an effort to make capitalism work, we essentially wiped out an indigenous population numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
of course i don't think any of those things were done in the name of capitalism, any more than i believe that killing of those that are different, imperfect, etc as you say are inherent to socialism.
Why would, or should, we be obligated to provide anything to another person?
because it is in the long-term best interest of society, of which you are a part of, right? don't take my word for it, it is something that every modern society has figured out to some degree or another.
e.g., you might not think you should have to subsidize public education through your taxes, but when children grow up uneducated and can't work in the economy you depend on, it becomes your problem. it is also your problem when their lack of affluence causes them to turn to a life of crime, of which you might be the victim. and so on.
the okay, so verizon eats $400+ every time they offer a discounted phone for $99? unless you can point me to contract-less plan that makes up $400 over 2 years. the only provider i know of that offers such plans are t-mobile, and the contract-less option is about $10 cheaper a month.
the price of an unlocked phone always seemed wrong to me. these are cheap, mass produced, underpowered devices using yesterday's technology for the most part. why do they cost $600?
1. most android devices are tightly coupled with google services. if you get someone using google mail, calendar, etc on the phone, of course they will use the web interface at some point and be subjected to ads.
2. many android apps already make use of admob for the "free" version.
i doubt google would make adds an inherent part of the phone experience.
whether he's in the right or not, monty is the wrong spokesperson. he has obvious conflicts of interests and possible sentimental ties to mysql. that, and the hypocritical nature of his thoughts as so many others have pointed out.
he'd be better of keeping quiet. he's probably doing more harm than good for his cause.
it seems unlikely that they would they be willing to pay device manufacturers to create special hardware versions that are beefy enough to support running guest mobile OSes. it'd probably be cheaper to just have two physical phones.
first, it's not easier on the eyes, or lighter than a $5 paperback. second, how many people need 1500 books on hand? the vast majority of people actually read (cover-cover) one single book at a time. if it's reference material you want, it's easier and more current to google for the info, and you can do that from your smartphone that you are carrying anyway and the information will be more up to date.
cell phones are always resource starved devices. manufacturers put the slowest processor and least amount of / slowest RAM that they can possibly get away with. this is for good reason i suppose, because price is a huge factor the average consumer. it's also a factor to providers, who subsidize the costs down to a level to suck in new subscribers.
would a user pay 50%, 100%, %? more to have access to the features on another mobile OS? let's face it, across android, windows mobile, and linux 95% of the apps are there already on your stock phone OS.
would a developer pay more? there's this thing called an emulator that makes me think not. is a guest OS a better representation of the phone than an emulator?
i agree overall tmo probably has some of the worst coverage. however, where i live, downtown i a million+ city, tmo provides a signal in my home where at&t doesn't. it's sort of a crapshoot when picking your provider.
t-mobile has a no-contract option, unlimited text + data starting at $59 (for 500 mins).
if that's true, then it's another provider-specific hack. i download apps over wifi all the time. considering i don't have 3g access in my dungeon / house, i'd be pretty upset if that was the case.
if the deal does not go through, or if it never happened, it's simplistic to think that sun would just "go away". sun software as a whole is flourishing. the losing aspect is sun hardware.
a more likely scenario is that parts of sun would emerge from bankruptcy and move forward with their profitable ways. or better yet, mr. poneytail acts proactively to re-organize sun into a profitable formation.
yep and we also know that insurance companies are well-funded with lawyers that direct them what they can get away with. common sense points out that there is other evidence.
This is evidence that she is no longer depressed?
no, but it's an indication of the severity of her depression. if this person is well enough to plan a trip, drive in a car, and interact with other people, she's probably enough to go to work. no one is saying it is proof she isn't depressed at all, but it's evidence that the severity doesn't warrant the state (you and me) paying for her to do nothing.
or a "PC" that can only run Java apps compiled to a weird byte code
that's an implementation detail that you would only care (or even know) about if you wanted to. do you think users care about the programming language used to write the apps they use?
are you suggesting that google share holders are not pleased? huh.