As I understand it. Ethiopia was the developer/originator of a specific species of coffee (all coffee species?). One of the Ethiopian species is one of the best tasting, most wanted coffees. The Ethiopians were making very little for this specific coffee - around a $1 a pound; but, it's being sold from $20 to $50 a pound around the world.
What would Steve Jobs do - if he were Ethiopian and running the coffee industry? Jobs would say - want to sell my coffee anywhere in the world - then buy my license to sell my specific species of coffee that I developed (you know like creating a movie, a song, a software program and so on). If you don't buy my license then you can't sell my coffee. So under a licensing system.. now if you bought my coffee at $1 or so a pound and sell it for $20 (or more) a pound - I will make more money through the license because you are making more money - likely several hundred percent markup and profit.
Ford can play the part with his eyes shut. No.... actually he has to keep his eyes open! No one can do the wild eyed, twisted mouth, evil/good guy staring down the evil/bad guy - as good as or better that Ford can do it. He'll do it when he's 90.
Would have been interesting to have had the $100 computer designed by KIDS - of varing ages - from different countries; using the PEER INTERDEPENDENT learning methods devised by Dr. Johnston and Dr. Johnston (brothers) at the University of Minnesota; combined with the EN CHARRETTE Problem Solving Process developed by Bill Harris (at the USA Fed's Education Dept.)
Over a five day period - the 500 KIDS would have worked in groups of 10 - with one artist to record groups ideas/efforts PLUS a load of experts/GEEKS circulating amongst the 50 groups of ten (when needed by the KIDS to answer specific technology questions... or any questions on cost etc.
Likely would have ended up with a very USABLE interface plus who knows what else - like KIDS written software for the $100 computer?
"For one thing, Windows Vista will fail as both a preserver of digital rights and a maintainer of pristine end-to-end DRM'd content. Vista will fail because the job it is attempting to do is too hard, because Microsoft isn't especially good at these huge integration jobs, and because there is a smart hacker community determined to break Vista over and over again, which it will."
"We are poised at the start of a revolution in user-generated content that is actually both useful and valuable. Social networking's ability to create small but measurable markets and new content creation technologies' ability to make cost-effective -- even brilliant -- programming for those new markets will mean more media moguls but smaller and none of those moguls will have a use for DRM OR for Microsoft. So enjoy it while you still can, Bill."
HD movies will now be watchable on old TVs and old/slower computers [ maybe 8^) ]. Never have to upgrade computer again - unless a geek or doing transcoding video! In fact don't need TV - just buy big wide screen LCD monitor (Apple's widescreen 48 inch monitor - of course. I wonder if iTV are allowed in jail cells? 8^)
Just tried out Apple's $3000 laptop at Apple Store. Surprise surprise it had a short video in FinalCut. So I trancoded it to H.264. And the speed? It clocked in at 1 to 2 frames per second.WOW
I predict Apple's next $3000 laptop in 2007 will scream at 3 frames per second;)
Steve
Go Directly to JAIL
Do not pass GO
No GET OUT OF JAIL CARDS allowed
(Jobs sues himself?!)
I guess he just can't stop it. First he lifts ICON GUI DESKTOP from XEROX (ZEROX) now $$$$ from shareholder's pockets? Wha's next? ^)
Unless a blogger clearly states that they were given a laptop from Microsoft - that's unethical Pay For Say - if they are writing about Microsoft. If they state that they got a laptop from Microsoft and then reviewed a Microsoft product and spoke highly about the product or hid deficiencies then that's unethical Pay For Say. Consumers Reports magazine never accepts products free of charge - they always buy them from retailers.
Unfortunately Digital Post Production recently were given a laptop by Apple. Did the laptop receive an appropriate review? The review was a gushing, salivatory... god its wonderful type of review. They should have never taken anything from Apple considering the position that they are trying to claim on the web.
80% of profits for salesperson - 1.5 % of profits for creative person! Ha ha ha ha! That's plainly unethical - no matter how the salesperson couches the entire pitch (the charity idiom, more often than not denotes a business scam - legal but unethical. But the latter is a standard business practise for those who love to get rich off the backs of others (this is often called salvery).
Never trust a salesperson - that is a used car salesperson, a new car salesperson, a real estate broker (salesperson), stock broker (salesperson), financial planner (salesperson) and of course siding salespersons.
When one hears about something - anything being "safe" - better examine what the "risks" are for the something that has been labelled "safe".
For example, there are a variety of carcinogenic compounds that have been approved for use in foods as well as in many household and industrial products and these products have been deemed "safe". What that means is: that the impact of the particular compound on a 150 male ONLY causes X number of cancers. And that X number of cancers is ACCEPTABLE (that is, acceptable to the industrial chemical complex lobbiests! But of course, no one studies the impact of those same toxic compunds on a 30 infant whose is going through rapid cell development. OR on a 100 pound pregnant woman.
Another example, when it comes to nuclear power plants - "we" all read or hear about how "safe" nuclear plants are. But what do "they" mean when they use the word "safe". All nuclear power plants leak, in a continuous fashion all day all night everyday, every year, radioactive isotopes into the air in a downwind plume from the NUKE plant. The NUKE industry calls these leaks "emissions"; and at the same time the NUKE industry says there are no leaks. Which is all smoke and mirrors. Dr. Rosalie Bertell has published research to show that these legal emissions in these downwind plumes are causing a plethora of chronic illnesses in children! So much for "safe".
The REAL question is: who should decide on what is an acceptable level of RISK. Some idiot in a white lab coat?Some idiotic lobbiest? No thanks!
Can anyone here cite one - just ONE piece of research published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states/says the following actual phrase: "people are the probable cause of global warming"? Please don't post a list of 4000 articles in various journals. Just ONE that makes the above statement.
It's the same when one sees stuff about HIV=AIDS. There is not one piece of research published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states/says the following actual phrase: "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS".
If one wants $300,000 tax grab from the NIH to study HIV=AIDS; one has to state in the grant request : " since HIV is the probale cause of AIDS - I want $300,000 to study XY or Z". One must agree that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS". One cannot get a $300,000 research grant from the NIH to research that " Nutritional, Genocidal, Ethic Cleansing Produced Stress Is The Probable Cause Of Destruction Of The Immune System Which Leads To A Number OF Auto Immune Dis-Eases".
Back to so-called "human produced global warming" - great program on PBS had a fantastic program (and web site) on how the Earth's Magnetic Field is disappearing - which causes the Earth's Magnetic Shield to drastically weaken - which enables the Sun's Solar Energy (sunshine) and Solar Flares to cook the Earth (apparantly will toast the earth within 100 years or so).
So even Jobs has to eat humble pie! But of course he'll just pass the "tax" onto the iPod consumer. Hmm I wonder if Job will pay me for every iPod sold - let's see what's his phone number........
You missed Milesky's point - several years doesn't count when it comes to judging a guy or a guy and his computer - to see if they have skill or not. Anything less than 90% (long term) in beating the appropriate index is..... luck. Again... is a crap shoot - luck not skill whether it's a guy or a guy and his computer.
Now if a guy or a guy and his computer - over a 20 or 25 year period - beats the appropriate index 90% or more of the time - than I'll line up to invest with that guy (or that guy and computer). A so-called "good system" that only beats the appropriate index 70% - is still throwing darts at the lists of stocks in the newspaper taped on the wall. So stop pretending it is skill or means anything.
Whether or not someone makes money in the long term off a 70% record is pure chance.... pure luck.And that's not how one shopuld invest their hard earned cash. Unless one is a fool.
Why anyone on this earth would believe anything a full service broker or fund manager says now a days - a believer would have to have a few screws loose.
According to Prof. Moshe Milevsky (in his book Money Logic) - a stock picker or fund manager or broker would have to be right 9 times out of 10, year after year, in order to be classified as someone who has skill. Anyone - even a five year old - will be right 50% of the time (you know flipping coins - heads versus tails). Only one or two fund managers can beat their competitive index 7 out of 10 times - let alone 9 out of 10 times
So it is laughable when the main stream media (NY Times et al) or the investment charlatans themselves start shouting about a 20% gain in one year. And I'll bet 5 cents that not one so-called computer generated investment factoid caller - is right 90% of the time - all the time. I'll bet that throwing darts will be just as successful
Imagine if the USA's egocentric schooling system was instead based on what the individual needed. By egocentric I mean that the focus is on the teacher, the administration, the school board as well as the state/federal political-Elite who control schooling.
In the USA, we all now know that political-Elite - Rove/Bush et al use the schooling system as well religion (and religious believers) as election fodder and/or to suck up enormous amounts of money. But what better way to control people to gain political power or scam tons of money than to scare people with a "The Big BogeyMan In The Sky" and/or Creationism.
That's what "Creationism" is all about:
a] Scare them with "The Big BogeyMan In The Sky" + "Creationism" + All Children Born In Evil + Hell + Zombies
b] Hopefully everyone is well scared and behave like little puppets.
c] Then make sure they vote for the political party that "God" wants - you know the Republicans - who will do "Gods" work - like killing babies in Bagdad.
d) Then send lots of poor black, hispanic and white kids off to Iraq and other far away places to kill and get killed - so that as much middle class tax money can be funnelled to the "Right" people.
I wonder if the recent election shows the folks who scam money based on the "fact" that they know the right "God" - will produce thousands of Fairy Tale Creationism museums as a way of sucking up money and power - since it is obvious that Rove/Bush was never serious about "God's People power or tax money?
I am sure the Kent State dead are not concerned about whether the bullets in the execution came from a national guard or military - as if there is a difference (in Iraq - right now, more national guards than army!?). Your quibling is all about diverting discussion about the brutality/insanity that seems to pervade the USA. Kids shooting up kids in schools, cops running drug trade in the USA, USA army in Iraq raping and pillaging. The latter anger all about too many football games? or is it too many boys and girls being raped by their parents and church leaders (3 out of 7 boys and 6 out of 8 girls sexually abused).
Karma?????
Kid didn't have a gun. Kid just slumped on floor - because he thought being singled out because he is a Muslim - and asked for others to protect him against being seized illegally. But issue was/is cops response appropriate? My view - way over the top - this cop who likes chocking kids as well... is nuts! Another issue is - Is UCLA administration policy appropriate/legal? Cops can't demand ID from you when in a public space. UCLA is funded with gazillions of public tax dollars - must be a public space. Reminds of the same attitudes that prevailed at Kent State when dozens of kids were executed by the USA military.
Officer in Taser case identified - Terrence Duren, a 2001 UCLA officer of the year, has been the subject of two other use-of-force complaints.
The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said.
UCLA police confirmed late Monday that the officer who fired the Taser gun was Terrence Duren, who has served in the university's Police Department for 18 years.
Duren, who was named officer of the year in 2001, also has been involved in several controversial incidents on campus
But Duren -- who was back on duty at the UCLA campus Monday night -- said he can roll with these punches and wants to explain himself to students critical of his actions
Duren said Monday that he joined the UCLA police force after being fired from the Long Beach Police Department in the late 1980s.
In May 1990, he was accused of using his nightstick to choke someone who was hanging out on a Saturday in front of a UCLA fraternity. Kente S. Scott alleged that Duren confronted him while he was walking on the street outside the Theta Xi fraternity house
Scott sued the university, and according to court records, UCLA officials moved to have Duren dismissed from the police force. But after an independent administrative hearing, officials overturned the dismissal, suspending him for 90 days.
In October 2003, Duren shot and wounded a homeless man he encountered in Kerckhoff Hall. Duren chased the man into a bathroom, where they struggled and he fired two shots.
The homeless man, Willie Davis Frazier, was later convicted of assaulting an officer. Duren said Frasier had tried to grab his gun during the struggle. But Frazier's attorney, John Raphling, said his client was mentally ill and didn't do anything to provoke the shooting.
(Without Prejudice) I was staying at the official Youth Hostile in Santa Monica, California. Although there are signs everywhere- that it was illegal to smoke - and not to smoke in shared sleeping rooms (each with 8 bunk beds) - smoking was going on illegally in manyt rooms (if not all rooms). The cigarette butts were just left in the rubbish containers in each room!
After complaining to the so-called management at the desk about the same group smoking in "my room" - the management decided it would move me to another room (with others smokers??!!). The management refused to remove the smokers from the room I was in!! When I suggested that the management remove the smokers instead of me - they management called the cops to remove me from the Hostel!
Within 2 minutes, 3 cop cars arrived with 5 cops. They told me to leave or else. The cops were not interested about the smokers who were breaking the law - they were only intertested in seeing if I was going to pack and leave immediately (11:30 pm). It was obvious to me - that if I didn't leave immediately - that they were going to use physical force. So I left.
The USA National Youth Hostel Association refused to do anything about the asshole management at the Santa Monica Youth Hostel.
Considering the USA, the Brits, the Arabs and countless other contries have raped Africa (in as many ways as one can count) - for hundreds of years - it's pay back time. The USA and the others involved in screwing Africa need to each give one trillion dollars a year for the next 10 years. That's the beginning!
Then they (the Africans) won't need White Man Do Gooders - once they have the stolen resources rewturned - back in their hands - that's if the money went to ordinary people (not to the idiot politicans).
Then all "we" whites can stop sending over other whites to tell Africans not to screw - because if they do stop - then "they" won't get AIDS. What a scam! First brutalize Africans in every way possible for hundreds of years - and then when they have nothing left - no food, no resources, half the male population enslaved and shipped around the world like cattle, use the continent as a dump for USAS waste etc..... etc. - and then blame the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing for their destoyed immune systems.
By the way, the USA developed "well" for a hundred years without a single computer.
I know squat about writing programs; but being a user, I know everything about Usability. That is, fool proof ease of use. Is there no institution/organization/person that exists right now to help Open Source/Free software developers/makers produce Usable software?
I can't imagine how Open Source/Free (or Open Source/Royalty Fee) software will not dominate if...if the software is easy to install...... easy to use and does what it is supposed to do.... extremely well.
Foe example, for over 10 years I have been looking for Usable software to stream quality video over the web in a P2P fashion with no central server. Why doesn't it exist? Obviously both Apple and Microsoft has been spending millions (billions?) making sure the later doesn't happen. But so what!
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As I understand it. Ethiopia was the developer/originator of a specific species of coffee (all coffee species?). One of the Ethiopian species is one of the best tasting, most wanted coffees. The Ethiopians were making very little for this specific coffee - around a $1 a pound; but, it's being sold from $20 to $50 a pound around the world.
What would Steve Jobs do - if he were Ethiopian and running the coffee industry? Jobs would say - want to sell my coffee anywhere in the world - then buy my license to sell my specific species of coffee that I developed (you know like creating a movie, a song, a software program and so on). If you don't buy my license then you can't sell my coffee. So under a licensing system .. now if you bought my coffee at $1 or so a pound and sell it for $20 (or more) a pound - I will make more money through the license because you are making more money - likely several hundred percent markup and profit.
Ford can play the part with his eyes shut. No .... actually he has to keep his eyes open! No one can do the wild eyed, twisted mouth, evil/good guy staring down the evil/bad guy - as good as or better that Ford can do it. He'll do it when he's 90.
Would have been interesting to have had the $100 computer designed by KIDS - of varing ages - from different countries; using the PEER INTERDEPENDENT learning methods devised by Dr. Johnston and Dr. Johnston (brothers) at the University of Minnesota; combined with the EN CHARRETTE Problem Solving Process developed by Bill Harris (at the USA Fed's Education Dept.)
Over a five day period - the 500 KIDS would have worked in groups of 10 - with one artist to record groups ideas/efforts PLUS a load of experts/GEEKS circulating amongst the 50 groups of ten (when needed by the KIDS to answer specific technology questions ... or any questions on cost etc.
Likely would have ended up with a very USABLE interface plus who knows what else - like KIDS written software for the $100 computer?
"For one thing, Windows Vista will fail as both a preserver of digital rights and a maintainer of pristine end-to-end DRM'd content. Vista will fail because the job it is attempting to do is too hard, because Microsoft isn't especially good at these huge integration jobs, and because there is a smart hacker community determined to break Vista over and over again, which it will."
"We are poised at the start of a revolution in user-generated content that is actually both useful and valuable. Social networking's ability to create small but measurable markets and new content creation technologies' ability to make cost-effective -- even brilliant -- programming for those new markets will mean more media moguls but smaller and none of those moguls will have a use for DRM OR for Microsoft. So enjoy it while you still can, Bill."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_2 0061229_001403.html
Actually I am sure that iTVs will be allowed in jail cells - Jobs will still want to watch via his iTV. (SCORE 5)
HD movies will now be watchable on old TVs and old/slower computers [ maybe 8^) ]. Never have to upgrade computer again - unless a geek or doing transcoding video! In fact don't need TV - just buy big wide screen LCD monitor (Apple's widescreen 48 inch monitor - of course. I wonder if iTV are allowed in jail cells? 8^)
Just tried out Apple's $3000 laptop at Apple Store. Surprise surprise it had a short video in FinalCut. So I trancoded it to H.264. And the speed? It clocked in at 1 to 2 frames per second.WOW
I predict Apple's next $3000 laptop in 2007 will scream at 3 frames per second ;)
Steve Go Directly to JAIL Do not pass GO No GET OUT OF JAIL CARDS allowed (Jobs sues himself?!) I guess he just can't stop it. First he lifts ICON GUI DESKTOP from XEROX (ZEROX) now $$$$ from shareholder's pockets? Wha's next? ^)
Unless a blogger clearly states that they were given a laptop from Microsoft - that's unethical Pay For Say - if they are writing about Microsoft. If they state that they got a laptop from Microsoft and then reviewed a Microsoft product and spoke highly about the product or hid deficiencies then that's unethical Pay For Say. Consumers Reports magazine never accepts products free of charge - they always buy them from retailers.
Unfortunately Digital Post Production recently were given a laptop by Apple. Did the laptop receive an appropriate review? The review was a gushing, salivatory ... god its wonderful type of review. They should have never taken anything from Apple considering the position that they are trying to claim on the web.
Greed is not good.
Couyld you please explain "how to" avoid using Zudeo?
80% of profits for salesperson - 1.5 % of profits for creative person! Ha ha ha ha! That's plainly unethical - no matter how the salesperson couches the entire pitch (the charity idiom, more often than not denotes a business scam - legal but unethical. But the latter is a standard business practise for those who love to get rich off the backs of others (this is often called salvery).
Never trust a salesperson - that is a used car salesperson, a new car salesperson, a real estate broker (salesperson), stock broker (salesperson), financial planner (salesperson) and of course siding salespersons.
When one hears about something - anything being "safe" - better examine what the "risks" are for the something that has been labelled "safe".
For example, there are a variety of carcinogenic compounds that have been approved for use in foods as well as in many household and industrial products and these products have been deemed "safe". What that means is: that the impact of the particular compound on a 150 male ONLY causes X number of cancers. And that X number of cancers is ACCEPTABLE (that is, acceptable to the industrial chemical complex lobbiests! But of course, no one studies the impact of those same toxic compunds on a 30 infant whose is going through rapid cell development. OR on a 100 pound pregnant woman.
Another example, when it comes to nuclear power plants - "we" all read or hear about how "safe" nuclear plants are. But what do "they" mean when they use the word "safe". All nuclear power plants leak, in a continuous fashion all day all night everyday, every year, radioactive isotopes into the air in a downwind plume from the NUKE plant. The NUKE industry calls these leaks "emissions"; and at the same time the NUKE industry says there are no leaks. Which is all smoke and mirrors. Dr. Rosalie Bertell has published research to show that these legal emissions in these downwind plumes are causing a plethora of chronic illnesses in children! So much for "safe".
The REAL question is: who should decide on what is an acceptable level of RISK. Some idiot in a white lab coat?Some idiotic lobbiest? No thanks!
Can anyone here cite one - just ONE piece of research published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states/says the following actual phrase: "people are the probable cause of global warming"? Please don't post a list of 4000 articles in various journals. Just ONE that makes the above statement.
It's the same when one sees stuff about HIV=AIDS. There is not one piece of research published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states/says the following actual phrase: "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS".
If one wants $300,000 tax grab from the NIH to study HIV=AIDS; one has to state in the grant request : " since HIV is the probale cause of AIDS - I want $300,000 to study XY or Z". One must agree that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS". One cannot get a $300,000 research grant from the NIH to research that " Nutritional, Genocidal, Ethic Cleansing Produced Stress Is The Probable Cause Of Destruction Of The Immune System Which Leads To A Number OF Auto Immune Dis-Eases".
Back to so-called "human produced global warming" - great program on PBS had a fantastic program (and web site) on how the Earth's Magnetic Field is disappearing - which causes the Earth's Magnetic Shield to drastically weaken - which enables the Sun's Solar Energy (sunshine) and Solar Flares to cook the Earth (apparantly will toast the earth within 100 years or so).
So even Jobs has to eat humble pie! But of course he'll just pass the "tax" onto the iPod consumer. Hmm I wonder if Job will pay me for every iPod sold - let's see what's his phone number........
You missed Milesky's point - several years doesn't count when it comes to judging a guy or a guy and his computer - to see if they have skill or not. Anything less than 90% (long term) in beating the appropriate index is ..... luck. Again ... is a crap shoot - luck not skill whether it's a guy or a guy and his computer.
Now if a guy or a guy and his computer - over a 20 or 25 year period - beats the appropriate index 90% or more of the time - than I'll line up to invest with that guy (or that guy and computer). A so-called "good system" that only beats the appropriate index 70% - is still throwing darts at the lists of stocks in the newspaper taped on the wall. So stop pretending it is skill or means anything.
Whether or not someone makes money in the long term off a 70% record is pure chance .... pure luck.And that's not how one shopuld invest their hard earned cash. Unless one is a fool.
Unfortunately statistics has nothing to do with mathematics - other than the fact that both use numbers.
Why anyone on this earth would believe anything a full service broker or fund manager says now a days - a believer would have to have a few screws loose.
According to Prof. Moshe Milevsky (in his book Money Logic) - a stock picker or fund manager or broker would have to be right 9 times out of 10, year after year, in order to be classified as someone who has skill. Anyone - even a five year old - will be right 50% of the time (you know flipping coins - heads versus tails). Only one or two fund managers can beat their competitive index 7 out of 10 times - let alone 9 out of 10 times
So it is laughable when the main stream media (NY Times et al) or the investment charlatans themselves start shouting about a 20% gain in one year. And I'll bet 5 cents that not one so-called computer generated investment factoid caller - is right 90% of the time - all the time. I'll bet that throwing darts will be just as successful
Imagine if the USA's egocentric schooling system was instead based on what the individual needed. By egocentric I mean that the focus is on the teacher, the administration, the school board as well as the state/federal political-Elite who control schooling.
In the USA, we all now know that political-Elite - Rove/Bush et al use the schooling system as well religion (and religious believers) as election fodder and/or to suck up enormous amounts of money. But what better way to control people to gain political power or scam tons of money than to scare people with a "The Big BogeyMan In The Sky" and/or Creationism.
That's what "Creationism" is all about:
a] Scare them with "The Big BogeyMan In The Sky" + "Creationism" + All Children Born In Evil + Hell + Zombies
b] Hopefully everyone is well scared and behave like little puppets.
c] Then make sure they vote for the political party that "God" wants - you know the Republicans - who will do "Gods" work - like killing babies in Bagdad.
d) Then send lots of poor black, hispanic and white kids off to Iraq and other far away places to kill and get killed - so that as much middle class tax money can be funnelled to the "Right" people.
I wonder if the recent election shows the folks who scam money based on the "fact" that they know the right "God" - will produce thousands of Fairy Tale Creationism museums as a way of sucking up money and power - since it is obvious that Rove/Bush was never serious about "God's People power or tax money?
I am sure the Kent State dead are not concerned about whether the bullets in the execution came from a national guard or military - as if there is a difference (in Iraq - right now, more national guards than army!?). Your quibling is all about diverting discussion about the brutality/insanity that seems to pervade the USA. Kids shooting up kids in schools, cops running drug trade in the USA, USA army in Iraq raping and pillaging. The latter anger all about too many football games? or is it too many boys and girls being raped by their parents and church leaders (3 out of 7 boys and 6 out of 8 girls sexually abused).
Hear! Hear!
Karma????? Kid didn't have a gun. Kid just slumped on floor - because he thought being singled out because he is a Muslim - and asked for others to protect him against being seized illegally. But issue was/is cops response appropriate? My view - way over the top - this cop who likes chocking kids as well ... is nuts! Another issue is - Is UCLA administration policy appropriate/legal? Cops can't demand ID from you when in a public space. UCLA is funded with gazillions of public tax dollars - must be a public space. Reminds of the same attitudes that prevailed at Kent State when dozens of kids were executed by the USA military.
From the LA Times:
Officer in Taser case identified - Terrence Duren, a 2001 UCLA officer of the year, has been the subject of two other use-of-force complaints.
The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said.
UCLA police confirmed late Monday that the officer who fired the Taser gun was Terrence Duren, who has served in the university's Police Department for 18 years.
Duren, who was named officer of the year in 2001, also has been involved in several controversial incidents on campus
But Duren -- who was back on duty at the UCLA campus Monday night -- said he can roll with these punches and wants to explain himself to students critical of his actions
Duren said Monday that he joined the UCLA police force after being fired from the Long Beach Police Department in the late 1980s.
In May 1990, he was accused of using his nightstick to choke someone who was hanging out on a Saturday in front of a UCLA fraternity. Kente S. Scott alleged that Duren confronted him while he was walking on the street outside the Theta Xi fraternity house
Scott sued the university, and according to court records, UCLA officials moved to have Duren dismissed from the police force. But after an independent administrative hearing, officials overturned the dismissal, suspending him for 90 days.
In October 2003, Duren shot and wounded a homeless man he encountered in Kerckhoff Hall. Duren chased the man into a bathroom, where they struggled and he fired two shots.
The homeless man, Willie Davis Frazier, was later convicted of assaulting an officer. Duren said Frasier had tried to grab his gun during the struggle. But Frazier's attorney, John Raphling, said his client was mentally ill and didn't do anything to provoke the shooting.
(Without Prejudice) I was staying at the official Youth Hostile in Santa Monica, California. Although there are signs everywhere- that it was illegal to smoke - and not to smoke in shared sleeping rooms (each with 8 bunk beds) - smoking was going on illegally in manyt rooms (if not all rooms). The cigarette butts were just left in the rubbish containers in each room!
After complaining to the so-called management at the desk about the same group smoking in "my room" - the management decided it would move me to another room (with others smokers??!!). The management refused to remove the smokers from the room I was in!! When I suggested that the management remove the smokers instead of me - they management called the cops to remove me from the Hostel!
Within 2 minutes, 3 cop cars arrived with 5 cops. They told me to leave or else. The cops were not interested about the smokers who were breaking the law - they were only intertested in seeing if I was going to pack and leave immediately (11:30 pm). It was obvious to me - that if I didn't leave immediately - that they were going to use physical force. So I left.
The USA National Youth Hostel Association refused to do anything about the asshole management at the Santa Monica Youth Hostel.
Considering the USA, the Brits, the Arabs and countless other contries have raped Africa (in as many ways as one can count) - for hundreds of years - it's pay back time. The USA and the others involved in screwing Africa need to each give one trillion dollars a year for the next 10 years. That's the beginning!
Then they (the Africans) won't need White Man Do Gooders - once they have the stolen resources rewturned - back in their hands - that's if the money went to ordinary people (not to the idiot politicans).
Then all "we" whites can stop sending over other whites to tell Africans not to screw - because if they do stop - then "they" won't get AIDS. What a scam! First brutalize Africans in every way possible for hundreds of years - and then when they have nothing left - no food, no resources, half the male population enslaved and shipped around the world like cattle, use the continent as a dump for USAS waste etc. .... etc. - and then blame the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing for their destoyed immune systems.
By the way, the USA developed "well" for a hundred years without a single computer.
I know squat about writing programs; but being a user, I know everything about Usability. That is, fool proof ease of use. Is there no institution/organization/person that exists right now to help Open Source/Free software developers/makers produce Usable software? I can't imagine how Open Source/Free (or Open Source/Royalty Fee) software will not dominate if...if the software is easy to install ...... easy to use and does what it is supposed to do .... extremely well.
Foe example, for over 10 years I have been looking for Usable software to stream quality video over the web in a P2P fashion with no central server. Why doesn't it exist? Obviously both Apple and Microsoft has been spending millions (billions?) making sure the later doesn't happen. But so what!