In the US, it is not defamation if a reasonable person wouldn't find it believable. Therefore, saying "Dennis Rodman and Lady Gaga are aliens from outer space!" is not defamation, but saying "Dennis Rodman and Lady Gaga have committed incest!" is defamation. Anybody who accuses you of defamation is really insulting themselves by declaring that those outlandish claims you made which rightfully should be considered satire or hyberbole are actually close enough to the truth so as to be believable by the average person!
There are a few conditions a Chiropractic practitioner is good for, e.g. pinched nerves. However, their contention that manipulating the spine can fix virtually any condition is, er, properly described as "bogus".
How many Chevy Volts can it recharge at one time??? I suspect there is wide variation in the energy consumption of Starbucks... but if you could capture the waste heat from this and redirect it to the espresso machine, that would really be something!
In all serious, glass furnaces use ridiculous amount of hydrocarbons. If they could also produce electricity to power the plant in the process, that sounds like a win. At $800,000 a pop, this is targeted at businesses with high profit margins, not at individual households.
Sorry... I've been writing software for 25 years, and my fingers pretty much automatically spell it "queue"... what's really sad is that somebody on slashdot has corrected me for this same exact mistake before! But hey... without spelling Nazis, how are we going to learn?
Kids have a fingernail clippers confiscated as "weapons". My daughter had her pencil confiscated on the bus because it was "dangerous"... and yet the same bus driver had no problem with an older boy threatening her with fingernail clippers right in front of her, and did nothing about it. The problem with "zero tolerance" is it is only enforced against people you don't like in the first place.
It depends on the state, but in most states, yes, anyone can get a Criminal Trespass Restraining Order. In the case of schools in Oregon, the person in charge of the facility can issue them themselves -- no law enforcement or judicial oversight is involved.
Legally, a school is NOT public property (try entering a school playground without permission sometime). By Oregon State law, a principal CAN arbitrarily bar someone from school grounds, just on the basis of not liking them. This restraining order blatantly violates the written policies of the Portland Public School District, but this occurred in the Beaverton School District, which has no defined policy and no appeal process -- in other words, they can do anything they want.
I have at no time threatened anyone (except with legal action) or violated any stated rule of the Beaverton school district. What I have done is strongly criticized district personnel (mostly in email), and in accusing them of discrimination, I actually had the audacity to raise my voice... once. You are severely underestimating just how petty and dickish a minor bureaucrat can actually be.
Albuterol is a rescue inhaler, not a maintenance medication. Yes, she could die if she doesn't get it in time. The teacher could be replaced at any time by a substitute with no clue where anything is in the classroom, so they are clearly not suitable for holding medication. My daughter is considered competent enough to keep her glasses, lunch, and water in her backpack, but not her inhaler. In every other setting, she is responsible for her own inhaler -- her athletic coaches don't require a third party to hold her inhaler, and it is much more likely to be necessary during exercise.
No, the web cam was disabled for student use; ONLY the school IT department had the ability to activate the web cam. Either the IT department or the monitoring software took the picture. I believe the software was set up to periodically take pictures and forward them to the school's servers whenever the laptop was connected to a network other than the schools; this raises a very real probability that some of these pictures would legally qualify as "child pornography". How do you feel about those "zero tolerance" policies now, school officials?
My exact words were "Discrimination is illegal. Stop it." Unfortunately, this was uttered in front of the school's office staff, which obviously embarrassed the principal. I have never threatened anyone.
Although it is possible that was their motivation, going on record as saying "we don't want that kind of kids at our pool" is more than stupid. Also, "public servants" DO make statements advocating racism, just like this guy, who said of interracial marriage, "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way."
There are no "rules of evidence" in a school setting. My daughter was moved to a different table during lunch because another student misheard something she said and complained. Sure, kids lie all the time... but so do teachers.
Yes, apparently some students DID notice the webcam light coming on at odd times while using the laptop at home, and were told it was just a computer malfunction, nothing to worry about!
The student's lawyer is asking a judge for an emergency ruling that the school not engage in despoilation of evidence, and The FBI is now involved. You know, at the point where the FBI is called in to investigate your wrong-doing, maybe you should start thinking about admitting that you actually fucked up!
This sounds like just a hydrogen fuel cell. The breakthrough would be if they managed to build one without a platinum catalyst, thus lowering the price. Also, these are much more cost effective if you also capture all the waste heat and use it for heating as well as electrical generation, hence the emphasis on small private units instead of a centralized generation plant.
The students that actually need to take medication are required to keep a supply of medication in the school office, and travel unescorted from classroom to office every time they need to take it. My daughter has an albuterol inhaler for asthma, and is not allowed to keep it with her in the classroom; instead she must travel to the other end of the school to use it, and is then disciplined if she takes too long to get back to the classroom, or heaven forbid stops to use the restroom on the way back (yes, she was actually written up for using the restroom on the way back from the office.)
Yes, you're much better off being homeschooled (my kids sisters were, and they came out great). Unfortunately, most families have all parents working, so that option is not available to them. Consider yourself lucky that you have a parent that can afford to spend that kind of time with you.
School administrators have no checks and balances on their authority, and behave as one would expect. Amen to that... I complained that a teacher was discriminating against my daughter, and pointed out the specific statute that were violating. They responded by slapping me with a restraining order barring me from school grounds and lying about what was actually going on in the classroom (they have admitted verbally, but not in writing, that they were in fact lying). Then, a few weeks later, they ceased the unlawful behavior they had previously claimed was perfectly legal.
Not as easy as you make it sound... when videorecording a screen, you need to use a genlock to synchronize the source with the camera to prevent those black horizontal lines from running up the screen. But yes, ultimately anything that can be seen and heard by the customer has an "analog hole", the only question is what kind of loss of resolution results from using it.
Don't get me started... yes, there should be several different classifications, and the term "sex offender" should be reserved for those that have instigated non-consensual acts. The guy that thought it was okay to take pictures of an underage child in their bedroom without their consent and then tell them about it after the fact is not the sharpest tool, and fully deserves to lose his job over this.
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In the US, it is not defamation if a reasonable person wouldn't find it believable. Therefore, saying "Dennis Rodman and Lady Gaga are aliens from outer space!" is not defamation, but saying "Dennis Rodman and Lady Gaga have committed incest!" is defamation. Anybody who accuses you of defamation is really insulting themselves by declaring that those outlandish claims you made which rightfully should be considered satire or hyberbole are actually close enough to the truth so as to be believable by the average person!
There are a few conditions a Chiropractic practitioner is good for, e.g. pinched nerves. However, their contention that manipulating the spine can fix virtually any condition is, er, properly described as "bogus".
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You're doing it wrong!
And when they don't pay, you can always refer the account to a debt collection agency!
How many Chevy Volts can it recharge at one time??? I suspect there is wide variation in the energy consumption of Starbucks... but if you could capture the waste heat from this and redirect it to the espresso machine, that would really be something!
In all serious, glass furnaces use ridiculous amount of hydrocarbons. If they could also produce electricity to power the plant in the process, that sounds like a win. At $800,000 a pop, this is targeted at businesses with high profit margins, not at individual households.
Even USA Today "Experts say school could track missing laptops less intrusively" Really?!? You don't say!
Sorry... I've been writing software for 25 years, and my fingers pretty much automatically spell it "queue"... what's really sad is that somebody on slashdot has corrected me for this same exact mistake before! But hey... without spelling Nazis, how are we going to learn?
Queue "Streisand Effect" in 3... 2... 1...
Kids have a fingernail clippers confiscated as "weapons". My daughter had her pencil confiscated on the bus because it was "dangerous"... and yet the same bus driver had no problem with an older boy threatening her with fingernail clippers right in front of her, and did nothing about it. The problem with "zero tolerance" is it is only enforced against people you don't like in the first place.
It depends on the state, but in most states, yes, anyone can get a Criminal Trespass Restraining Order. In the case of schools in Oregon, the person in charge of the facility can issue them themselves -- no law enforcement or judicial oversight is involved.
Legally, a school is NOT public property (try entering a school playground without permission sometime). By Oregon State law, a principal CAN arbitrarily bar someone from school grounds, just on the basis of not liking them. This restraining order blatantly violates the written policies of the Portland Public School District, but this occurred in the Beaverton School District, which has no defined policy and no appeal process -- in other words, they can do anything they want.
I have at no time threatened anyone (except with legal action) or violated any stated rule of the Beaverton school district. What I have done is strongly criticized district personnel (mostly in email), and in accusing them of discrimination, I actually had the audacity to raise my voice... once. You are severely underestimating just how petty and dickish a minor bureaucrat can actually be.
Albuterol is a rescue inhaler, not a maintenance medication. Yes, she could die if she doesn't get it in time. The teacher could be replaced at any time by a substitute with no clue where anything is in the classroom, so they are clearly not suitable for holding medication. My daughter is considered competent enough to keep her glasses, lunch, and water in her backpack, but not her inhaler. In every other setting, she is responsible for her own inhaler -- her athletic coaches don't require a third party to hold her inhaler, and it is much more likely to be necessary during exercise.
No, the web cam was disabled for student use; ONLY the school IT department had the ability to activate the web cam. Either the IT department or the monitoring software took the picture. I believe the software was set up to periodically take pictures and forward them to the school's servers whenever the laptop was connected to a network other than the schools; this raises a very real probability that some of these pictures would legally qualify as "child pornography". How do you feel about those "zero tolerance" policies now, school officials?
My exact words were "Discrimination is illegal. Stop it." Unfortunately, this was uttered in front of the school's office staff, which obviously embarrassed the principal. I have never threatened anyone.
Although it is possible that was their motivation, going on record as saying "we don't want that kind of kids at our pool" is more than stupid. Also, "public servants" DO make statements advocating racism, just like this guy, who said of interracial marriage, "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way."
There are no "rules of evidence" in a school setting. My daughter was moved to a different table during lunch because another student misheard something she said and complained. Sure, kids lie all the time... but so do teachers.
Yes, apparently some students DID notice the webcam light coming on at odd times while using the laptop at home, and were told it was just a computer malfunction, nothing to worry about!
The student's lawyer is asking a judge for an emergency ruling that the school not engage in despoilation of evidence, and The FBI is now involved. You know, at the point where the FBI is called in to investigate your wrong-doing, maybe you should start thinking about admitting that you actually fucked up!
This sounds like just a hydrogen fuel cell. The breakthrough would be if they managed to build one without a platinum catalyst, thus lowering the price. Also, these are much more cost effective if you also capture all the waste heat and use it for heating as well as electrical generation, hence the emphasis on small private units instead of a centralized generation plant.
The students that actually need to take medication are required to keep a supply of medication in the school office, and travel unescorted from classroom to office every time they need to take it. My daughter has an albuterol inhaler for asthma, and is not allowed to keep it with her in the classroom; instead she must travel to the other end of the school to use it, and is then disciplined if she takes too long to get back to the classroom, or heaven forbid stops to use the restroom on the way back (yes, she was actually written up for using the restroom on the way back from the office.)
Yes, you're much better off being homeschooled (my kids sisters were, and they came out great). Unfortunately, most families have all parents working, so that option is not available to them. Consider yourself lucky that you have a parent that can afford to spend that kind of time with you.
School administrators have no checks and balances on their authority, and behave as one would expect. Amen to that... I complained that a teacher was discriminating against my daughter, and pointed out the specific statute that were violating. They responded by slapping me with a restraining order barring me from school grounds and lying about what was actually going on in the classroom (they have admitted verbally, but not in writing, that they were in fact lying). Then, a few weeks later, they ceased the unlawful behavior they had previously claimed was perfectly legal.
So, when will this case be made into a major motion picture, with Julia Roberts playing the part of Victoria Hall?
What... you mean yours isn't, and doesn't? Oh, I thought you said "free money shots!
Not as easy as you make it sound... when videorecording a screen, you need to use a genlock to synchronize the source with the camera to prevent those black horizontal lines from running up the screen. But yes, ultimately anything that can be seen and heard by the customer has an "analog hole", the only question is what kind of loss of resolution results from using it.
RMS is a babe magnet! At least that explains why Hurd has never shipped... he's too busy hittin' it!
Don't get me started... yes, there should be several different classifications, and the term "sex offender" should be reserved for those that have instigated non-consensual acts. The guy that thought it was okay to take pictures of an underage child in their bedroom without their consent and then tell them about it after the fact is not the sharpest tool, and fully deserves to lose his job over this.