Coprolalia is an occasional characteristic of Tourette's syndrome, occuring in less than 15% of cases, so saying Tourettes isn't actually wrong (though it is not the only cause).
And the phone taps were abused then too. Look at how wiretaps were used against Martin Luther King Jr. Simple because the FBI wanted to prevent communists from getting in the civil rights movement, they were able to take a man for years and later use the recordings as little more than blackmail. Insert terrorist instead of communist and what do you get: 21st century America.
Authoritarianism is neither left nor right. Besides, most principles/superintendents/boards of ed are fairly conservative. It probably doesn't help that most of the day all they see is the delinquents and misbehavors, so they begin to paint *every* kid as automaticly being up to no good. Teachers, though, usually get to know their kids and see that they're not all that bad, so they're more likely to be lenient.
Some, yes, others no. I've had teachers who couldn't care less so long as you aren't distracting others. But then, there are also some teachers who will write kids up for basic things. It's more of a personal preference by the teacher.
If they leave them in their locker or in a car on school grounds, then say goodbye to any chance they had of exercising anything close to 4th ammendment rights as far as the phone is concerned. The school can search both places, and that is established case law. (I don't like it, but that's another matter)
In loco parentis is not a blank check for the school. They can't do anything that they want. They can get away with quite a bit, yes, but they can't make you eat your veggies and they can't make you say anything you don't want to.
And NJ v TLO was about a school official seeing the girl smoking in a bathroom, then the principle using that to search her purse. He found some rolling papers, which indicated marijuana use. He did a more thorough search and came up with a small amount of pot, plastic baggies, a pipe, a bunch of $1 bills, and a few letters giving evidence that she was a drug dealer.
I find that case to be rather reasonable, but that's just me. If there's actually narrow searches based upon some evidence, then fine, I get it. However, if a school is just trying to do a power grab and look into things without a cause, then the hammer should (hopefully) come down pretty hard.
Not do it? It's pretty damn obvious that the individual cell phone searches don't have a reasonable expectation of finding evidence, so even under New Jersey v TLO, there's still more than enough wiggle room for any reasonable person to say that it's overreaching. Then again, IANAL.
If someone has no living will or has not granted power of attourney to a third party, then their spouse automaticly has the power to make medical decisions for them. The family has no legal right to step in.
Until family gets involved and it becomes a big issue for the courts (and probably a media circus). Then again, this is just as true for marriage (see the entire Schivo case, for example).
I'd say that it's far more likely that the threat of all out war with both South Korea and the US is a bigger deterrant. Well, that and North Korea not having enough of an infrastructure to support a fully mobilized wartime army for more than a few weeks.
It doesn't happen today because more often than not, politicians stay in office for decades. Ted Stevens is 83 years old. He's more likely to die in office than to be voted out.
The best we could hope for was a law saying that if you sponsored a piece of legislation that was later found to be obviously unconstitutional in the Supreme Court (i.e. Unanimously), you could be tried for violating your oath to uphold the Constitution. Wishful thinking, I know, but it might make some Congresscritters think twice before passing the next batshit insane law.
That opens up a huge can of worms. What if you upload 10 MB of a 20 MB file? Is that equivelent to 10 euros, even though the data you uploaded has no purpose in and of itself. What if you upload the last byte needed for the download to be complete? Are you responsible for turning what was useless data into the full CD? What if you only download one song from an entire album? Do you pay based on the length? On the size of the file? On the quality of the music? Or will you just have to pay thousands of dollars that they'll claim are damages?
Great that they're trying to move away from broke, buggy design. Now, could they do that for the rest of the system? For example, maybe let us uninstall (or never install in the first place) Internet Explorer, Outlook, Windows Messenger, and all their other buggy software that creates endless security holes?
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? How do we recognize signs of intelligence? Why isn't there a science of intelligence?
It would largely be held under psychology and neuroscience, with some exobiology and possibly even computer science thrown in for good measure (since planets much more advanced than us will almost certainly have more advanced computers, including AI).
Is this a solvable or intractable problem?
In what sense? We can barely measure our own intelligence right now, sure, but will there be a point where we can map everything and understand all the underlying features? Sure. Will we be able to do the same for other life forms? Almost certainly. Will it truly capture the beautiful thoughts acompanying a performance of Pachelbel's Cannon in D? That one I doubt.
When is it reasonable to conclude that the signal from Ceti Alpha 6 that repeats "1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 56" is not a natural signal?
Well, first the "Ceti Alpha" star system would have to exist outside of Star Trek. But if a fibinachi sequence were to come from a star system, then I would conclude that it is more than likely other life out there seeking to contact other life, a fairly rational explaination. I would not say that it is some sort of alien designer sending a signal to his 6th grade science project.
Now, now, be fair. Basicly *all* politicians ignore debt. If we really wanted to get rid of our debt within 20 years, we could. Yeah, it would be a real shame that Ted Stevens didn't get 2 more bridges to nowhere or if Dick Durban didn't have 950 hanging baskets installed in Chicago this year, but you know, that kind of stuff adds up.
Roosevelt helped out the British first with the cash and carry policy, which allowed the British and French to buy war materials from us (which they originally weren't allowed to do, due to the Neutrality Acts). Later on, we gave very sweet deals or outright gave stuff away to the Allies, both before and after Pearl Harbor. I'm sure that if the Japanese didn't bomb us, the Germans would have.
What are you talking about? A "design in nature"? What does that even mean? That some man on a cloud set up an easle and started painting?
Saying that there is a design in nature is pointless and doesn't advance us anywhere. Compare Kepler's material based on data, such as his three laws of planetary motion, with his theories attempting to find a relation between the planets and perfect polyhedra, which he himself abandoned because they didn't fit the evidence. Now, we could attempt to explain the existance of everything on the earth as the result of the flying spaghetti monster having sweet tentacle sex with the invisible pink unicorn while an invisible sky wizard caught it on videotape, or we could look at the evidence which overwhelmingly supports the development of life over billions of years. Or you could try explaining why things created by a far greater intelligence died off in droves more than a few times in the course of the earth (at least 6 mass extinctions, with many more smaller ones).
If have a large stereo and I play blasting loud music, do my neighbors not have a right to complain if they can hear it in their house? I mean, I *own* the sound waves, right? If I don't, than how can the coffie shop own the electromagnetic waves outside of their property?
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Coprolalia is an occasional characteristic of Tourette's syndrome, occuring in less than 15% of cases, so saying Tourettes isn't actually wrong (though it is not the only cause).
Because people don't regularly crack software requiring serial numbers already?
And the phone taps were abused then too. Look at how wiretaps were used against Martin Luther King Jr. Simple because the FBI wanted to prevent communists from getting in the civil rights movement, they were able to take a man for years and later use the recordings as little more than blackmail. Insert terrorist instead of communist and what do you get: 21st century America.
Authoritarianism is neither left nor right. Besides, most principles/superintendents/boards of ed are fairly conservative. It probably doesn't help that most of the day all they see is the delinquents and misbehavors, so they begin to paint *every* kid as automaticly being up to no good. Teachers, though, usually get to know their kids and see that they're not all that bad, so they're more likely to be lenient.
Some, yes, others no. I've had teachers who couldn't care less so long as you aren't distracting others. But then, there are also some teachers who will write kids up for basic things. It's more of a personal preference by the teacher.
If they leave them in their locker or in a car on school grounds, then say goodbye to any chance they had of exercising anything close to 4th ammendment rights as far as the phone is concerned. The school can search both places, and that is established case law. (I don't like it, but that's another matter)
In loco parentis is not a blank check for the school. They can't do anything that they want. They can get away with quite a bit, yes, but they can't make you eat your veggies and they can't make you say anything you don't want to.
And NJ v TLO was about a school official seeing the girl smoking in a bathroom, then the principle using that to search her purse. He found some rolling papers, which indicated marijuana use. He did a more thorough search and came up with a small amount of pot, plastic baggies, a pipe, a bunch of $1 bills, and a few letters giving evidence that she was a drug dealer.
I find that case to be rather reasonable, but that's just me. If there's actually narrow searches based upon some evidence, then fine, I get it. However, if a school is just trying to do a power grab and look into things without a cause, then the hammer should (hopefully) come down pretty hard.
Not do it? It's pretty damn obvious that the individual cell phone searches don't have a reasonable expectation of finding evidence, so even under New Jersey v TLO, there's still more than enough wiggle room for any reasonable person to say that it's overreaching. Then again, IANAL.
If someone has no living will or has not granted power of attourney to a third party, then their spouse automaticly has the power to make medical decisions for them. The family has no legal right to step in.
Until family gets involved and it becomes a big issue for the courts (and probably a media circus). Then again, this is just as true for marriage (see the entire Schivo case, for example).
Or there's artificial insemination for lesbians, or surrogate mothers for gay men.
What if someone is in the minefield while they blow them up?
I'd say that it's far more likely that the threat of all out war with both South Korea and the US is a bigger deterrant. Well, that and North Korea not having enough of an infrastructure to support a fully mobilized wartime army for more than a few weeks.
It doesn't happen today because more often than not, politicians stay in office for decades. Ted Stevens is 83 years old. He's more likely to die in office than to be voted out.
The best we could hope for was a law saying that if you sponsored a piece of legislation that was later found to be obviously unconstitutional in the Supreme Court (i.e. Unanimously), you could be tried for violating your oath to uphold the Constitution. Wishful thinking, I know, but it might make some Congresscritters think twice before passing the next batshit insane law.
That opens up a huge can of worms. What if you upload 10 MB of a 20 MB file? Is that equivelent to 10 euros, even though the data you uploaded has no purpose in and of itself. What if you upload the last byte needed for the download to be complete? Are you responsible for turning what was useless data into the full CD? What if you only download one song from an entire album? Do you pay based on the length? On the size of the file? On the quality of the music? Or will you just have to pay thousands of dollars that they'll claim are damages?
Since the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992.
Great that they're trying to move away from broke, buggy design. Now, could they do that for the rest of the system? For example, maybe let us uninstall (or never install in the first place) Internet Explorer, Outlook, Windows Messenger, and all their other buggy software that creates endless security holes?
There's a certain limit to how much you can pass freely as "gifts" to other people in a given year. Still, if you space it out, it works just fine.
In what sense? We can barely measure our own intelligence right now, sure, but will there be a point where we can map everything and understand all the underlying features? Sure. Will we be able to do the same for other life forms? Almost certainly. Will it truly capture the beautiful thoughts acompanying a performance of Pachelbel's Cannon in D? That one I doubt.
Well, first the "Ceti Alpha" star system would have to exist outside of Star Trek. But if a fibinachi sequence were to come from a star system, then I would conclude that it is more than likely other life out there seeking to contact other life, a fairly rational explaination. I would not say that it is some sort of alien designer sending a signal to his 6th grade science project.
Now, now, be fair. Basicly *all* politicians ignore debt. If we really wanted to get rid of our debt within 20 years, we could. Yeah, it would be a real shame that Ted Stevens didn't get 2 more bridges to nowhere or if Dick Durban didn't have 950 hanging baskets installed in Chicago this year, but you know, that kind of stuff adds up.
Roosevelt helped out the British first with the cash and carry policy, which allowed the British and French to buy war materials from us (which they originally weren't allowed to do, due to the Neutrality Acts). Later on, we gave very sweet deals or outright gave stuff away to the Allies, both before and after Pearl Harbor. I'm sure that if the Japanese didn't bomb us, the Germans would have.
What are you talking about? A "design in nature"? What does that even mean? That some man on a cloud set up an easle and started painting?
Saying that there is a design in nature is pointless and doesn't advance us anywhere. Compare Kepler's material based on data, such as his three laws of planetary motion, with his theories attempting to find a relation between the planets and perfect polyhedra, which he himself abandoned because they didn't fit the evidence. Now, we could attempt to explain the existance of everything on the earth as the result of the flying spaghetti monster having sweet tentacle sex with the invisible pink unicorn while an invisible sky wizard caught it on videotape, or we could look at the evidence which overwhelmingly supports the development of life over billions of years. Or you could try explaining why things created by a far greater intelligence died off in droves more than a few times in the course of the earth (at least 6 mass extinctions, with many more smaller ones).
Then lets take this in reverse: if a wireless device automaticly connects to my laptop, could I claim that they were using *my* property?
If have a large stereo and I play blasting loud music, do my neighbors not have a right to complain if they can hear it in their house? I mean, I *own* the sound waves, right? If I don't, than how can the coffie shop own the electromagnetic waves outside of their property?
I just had a thought. What if someone camped out on a public street near a drive-in movie? Would it be illegal for them to watch the movie?