Well, that is totally unreasonable and there might even be some legal cause of action there. That ONE kind of eBook-reader should be disallowed but not another that was previously allowed. Time to contact someone who can do things at the school, make the complaint, and such, Or pull the kid from that school and send them somewhere that doesn't have a Luddite administration.
My boy pointed out that the likely outcome from such a complaint would be a complete electronics ban, rather than a relaxation of the new rule. Smart kid.
As for your other comments, I suspect describing it as a gray area was enough to set off alarm bells for him in the first place. He's had a very strong bent towards Lawful ever since he was 2 or 3. Chaotic is beyond the pale for him. I've tried to explain civil disobedience, but he pointed out copyright law really isn't on par with the civil rights movement.
I'm aware the download was not format shifting, nor would it be considered fair use (entire text was in the PDF). My understanding is that downloading a bootleg copy may or may not be illegal, depending on interpretation. Format shift and fair use were just parts of the over-arching conversation I was having with him. Specifically, I told him the person who made the PDF available online was probably in danger of getting sued.
I guess I wasn't aware that my kids teachers were even talking about copyright with them. I have had a pretty close relationship with most of them, and it seems like I would have seen some inkling sooner. I can't think of any advertising campaigns put out by RIAA or MPAA recently, and I doubt that he would associate that with books and PDFs, either. Who knows.
He's a good kid with a good heart. I'm just going to have to let him blaze his own path and make his own decisions on these gray areas.
This has been reported in other, more reputable sources. I don't know why/. went with Vice. Basically, the official line from Trump's people is that there is no way in hell he would agree to this. Seeing as how the guy's sister in in the cabinet, I bet there will be more of this story coming out. My guess is that Trump will tweet about what a great guy Erik Prince is, and what a true patriot Ollie North is, and that the CIA cannot be trusted. I guess we can't really guess what the Angry Cheeto will tweet until Fox and Friends comes out with their version of the story, though.
This isn't reform. This is privatization. This is taking an apparatus that is already basically beyond oversight, and putting it under the direct control of an unstable dictator who cannot tell fact from fiction. Just because we think the CIA is bad doesn't mean it can't get worse.
How am I just now learning that Betsy DeVoss's brother is the Blackwater guy?! Erik Prince has a soul of pure, black, unadulterated evil. This whole thing is so fucking strange. If they think the CIA is that bad, why not fire everybody and hire new people? Is it even legal for the president to have a personal, private spying apparatus? No congressional oversight? No judicial review? Sure seems like a unconstitutional and unconscionable idea to me!
You know what else is not democratic? An FCC chairman who decides to ignore millions of complaints because they didn't fit his agenda. This isn't a matter of implementing a crystal clear law; it is fuzzy. This is a industry-captured regulatory body intentionally ignoring the intent of a law in order to hegemonize the Internet in favor of their benefactors.
One other thing, the notion that Congress is where every little detail about the implementation of a law gets hashed out is patently false. The CFR has been around for something like 80 years. The nondelegation doctrine, as interpreted by the SCOTUS in 1928 only requires that Congress provide an "intelligible principle" to guide the executive branch. It would be ridiculous for the Congress to be expected to explain what is and isn't covered by copyright as new art forms arise, or which drugs should be approved, or how to best protect workers from benzene. They're too busy fundraising and running the country into the ground to actually explain their laws in detail.
Look at the ACA. It was what, a billion pages long? And even it left a bunch of questions to be answered by others. Can you imagine if they had tried to hash out every single detail?!
NPR pulls punches all the time. They're so afraid of being labelled unfair liberals that they refuse to ask republicans anything even resembling a tough question. Then when Al Franken air gropes somebody they freak the fuck out as if he raped babies. So annoying. Our local station even has a climate denier on as a guest on a regular basis, because they want to appear balanced. Maybe if the orange shitgibbon starts calling them fake news, I'd have a little more faith in them.
You know that was a hoax right? Those idiots in Alabama are stupid enough to think that's how real journalism works. Of course they also believe the Orange Shitgibbon in Chief when he says the Gray Lady is "fake news."
In smaller towns the first 6 of ten digits are frequently the same or very close. So it's hard to know when it's a spoof instead of a real human. I take a different tack. Answer the phone, press 1. Talk to the poor scammer on the other end, and see how long it takes them to figure out that I am messing with them. My record is 6 minutes. (I know, I know. That's what she said.)
You obviously don't live in the south. The religious fundies really hate the fact that you can see boobies on your phone any time you want. It turns you into a pervert who is going to hell for having impure thoughts. Only republican senatorial candidates can get away with that, as long as they marry that high school tail they were chasing.
I'm 87% sure you're trolling, but just in case: He's looking at it from a economic standpoint. It would be much cheaper for us if all criminals simply fled the country (and never returned). Sure, they get to be "free" (if you can call it that in Not America), but they're somebody else's problem and can't do any more harm to us.
And you realize that "leftist fascist" is an oxymoron, right? Unless you're a horseshoe theorist.
You realize of course, that one of the reasons SA is such a vibrant place to live is exactly because of the ethnic diversity it has had over the centuries. Mexicans, Germans, Greeks, Russians, etc. have all settled there over its history. The influences of these cultural influxes are evident in everything from architecture to cuisine.
The notion that SA is somehow diverse enough, and that we can just shut ourselves off from the rest of the world is a recipe for disaster. If we want to continue to be the best, we need to take the best that the world has to offer and make it our own. That's a continual process, not something we can just turn off when the average skin tone gets darker than some people are comfortable with.
HR's job is to protect the company, not the employee (despite what they tell you). Normally getting rid of the complainer takes less paperwork than getting rid of the perpetrator. Either way the short-term problem gets solved.
Pronunciation differences are more obvious to me than the spelling and vocabulary differences. It amuses me though that some people don't really understand how they sound. I had one lady argue with me that boot and book have the same vowel sound. But then she said it was ridiculous that I pronounce roof with the short oo (like hook, book or hoof), when she pronounced it to rhyme with aloof (or spoof). Ironically she used "book" as the example of the vowel sound she thought she was making. So crazy.
That's not surprising. We have a lot of funny sayings that the rest of the country doesn't. Although most of us just say we need to see a man about a horse. Which, coincidentally, is also English slang. (found that out today)
We also have a lot of comparative sayings, where the word "than" is contracted to 'n. One of my favorites is "slicker'n owl shit."
Say I spend about 5 seconds locking my door when I leave, and 5 seconds unlocking it when I get home. I do this about 250 times a year for 50 years. That's a total of 35 hours over the course of my life. Let's round up and say it costs me two days of my life. Since 2001, I have spent about 50 hours in security lines at the airport. (not to mention everything from museums to theaters to high school football games. WTF, America?!) Additionally, locking my door is something I do to protect my belongings. TSA is something done to me, without my consent, where I lose my belongings, for other people to get happy feelings that I am not a terrorist. So no, it is not the same as locking my doors at home. BTW, there are still neighborhoods where locking your door is not considered necessary.
One of the many absurdities is that they won't let you throw away your water/soda/whatever if you make it through the checkpoint with it. You have to drink it ALL!!! They won't let you go to the trash can at the end of the line to just dump it out. No! Only a TERRORIST would throw away all that dangerous water. Morons. And you can't even drink like half of it. See, it's really water guys! What the fuck ever. This country is so doomed.
Here's a scary thought. Checkpoints kill people. Say there are 3 billion passengers each year who spend an extra 15 minutes in line. That's 45 billion minutes, or roughly 86 years. So every year, security lines kill one person. Traffic kills a lot more people (some of them acutely), but it's worth noting that the human cost of security theater is deadly all the same.
Great job couching your argument so that it's impossible to disprove. You'll just change what you mean by "modern-day" or "terrorist" or "majority" until the remaining facts fit you assertion. The Lord's Resistance Army, Malegaon bombings, the Troubles, the NLFT in India, the list goes on and on. No single religion has a monopoly on people doing horrible things in the name of their god.
Ugh. I mis-phrased that. I meant to say that when I read "SJW" I interpret it to mean that the person speaking has turned off his brain. not the other way around. whoops. I meant to imply that people who use the phrase "SJW" would probably get the redass from that link.
Hmm. I haven't seen anything but the pilot, but it sounds like these shrooms are a bad idea. Too similar to the worldforest in the Saga of Seven Suns. Have they already made a fatal mistake like the Temporal Cold War? Which I think we can all agree was ill-conceived.
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Thank you!! I had forgotten about that. He loves Exploding Kittens, so he'll probably enjoy this.
Well, that is totally unreasonable and there might even be some legal cause of action there. That ONE kind of eBook-reader should be disallowed but not another that was previously allowed. Time to contact someone who can do things at the school, make the complaint, and such, Or pull the kid from that school and send them somewhere that doesn't have a Luddite administration.
My boy pointed out that the likely outcome from such a complaint would be a complete electronics ban, rather than a relaxation of the new rule. Smart kid.
As for your other comments, I suspect describing it as a gray area was enough to set off alarm bells for him in the first place. He's had a very strong bent towards Lawful ever since he was 2 or 3. Chaotic is beyond the pale for him. I've tried to explain civil disobedience, but he pointed out copyright law really isn't on par with the civil rights movement.
I hate getting outsmarted by a 10 year old.
That's scary that even a copyright lawyer thinks nobody can understand this stuff.
I wish it were that simple. His Kindle is a Kindle Fire. Let's just hope they don't figure out those can play games, too. LOL
I'm aware the download was not format shifting, nor would it be considered fair use (entire text was in the PDF). My understanding is that downloading a bootleg copy may or may not be illegal, depending on interpretation. Format shift and fair use were just parts of the over-arching conversation I was having with him. Specifically, I told him the person who made the PDF available online was probably in danger of getting sued.
I guess I wasn't aware that my kids teachers were even talking about copyright with them. I have had a pretty close relationship with most of them, and it seems like I would have seen some inkling sooner. I can't think of any advertising campaigns put out by RIAA or MPAA recently, and I doubt that he would associate that with books and PDFs, either. Who knows.
He's a good kid with a good heart. I'm just going to have to let him blaze his own path and make his own decisions on these gray areas.
This has been reported in other, more reputable sources. I don't know why /. went with Vice. Basically, the official line from Trump's people is that there is no way in hell he would agree to this. Seeing as how the guy's sister in in the cabinet, I bet there will be more of this story coming out. My guess is that Trump will tweet about what a great guy Erik Prince is, and what a true patriot Ollie North is, and that the CIA cannot be trusted. I guess we can't really guess what the Angry Cheeto will tweet until Fox and Friends comes out with their version of the story, though.
This isn't reform. This is privatization. This is taking an apparatus that is already basically beyond oversight, and putting it under the direct control of an unstable dictator who cannot tell fact from fiction. Just because we think the CIA is bad doesn't mean it can't get worse.
How am I just now learning that Betsy DeVoss's brother is the Blackwater guy?! Erik Prince has a soul of pure, black, unadulterated evil. This whole thing is so fucking strange. If they think the CIA is that bad, why not fire everybody and hire new people? Is it even legal for the president to have a personal, private spying apparatus? No congressional oversight? No judicial review? Sure seems like a unconstitutional and unconscionable idea to me!
You know what else is not democratic? An FCC chairman who decides to ignore millions of complaints because they didn't fit his agenda. This isn't a matter of implementing a crystal clear law; it is fuzzy. This is a industry-captured regulatory body intentionally ignoring the intent of a law in order to hegemonize the Internet in favor of their benefactors.
One other thing, the notion that Congress is where every little detail about the implementation of a law gets hashed out is patently false. The CFR has been around for something like 80 years. The nondelegation doctrine, as interpreted by the SCOTUS in 1928 only requires that Congress provide an "intelligible principle" to guide the executive branch. It would be ridiculous for the Congress to be expected to explain what is and isn't covered by copyright as new art forms arise, or which drugs should be approved, or how to best protect workers from benzene. They're too busy fundraising and running the country into the ground to actually explain their laws in detail.
Look at the ACA. It was what, a billion pages long? And even it left a bunch of questions to be answered by others. Can you imagine if they had tried to hash out every single detail?!
NPR pulls punches all the time. They're so afraid of being labelled unfair liberals that they refuse to ask republicans anything even resembling a tough question. Then when Al Franken air gropes somebody they freak the fuck out as if he raped babies. So annoying. Our local station even has a climate denier on as a guest on a regular basis, because they want to appear balanced. Maybe if the orange shitgibbon starts calling them fake news, I'd have a little more faith in them.
You know that was a hoax right? Those idiots in Alabama are stupid enough to think that's how real journalism works. Of course they also believe the Orange Shitgibbon in Chief when he says the Gray Lady is "fake news."
In smaller towns the first 6 of ten digits are frequently the same or very close. So it's hard to know when it's a spoof instead of a real human. I take a different tack. Answer the phone, press 1. Talk to the poor scammer on the other end, and see how long it takes them to figure out that I am messing with them. My record is 6 minutes. (I know, I know. That's what she said.)
You obviously don't live in the south. The religious fundies really hate the fact that you can see boobies on your phone any time you want. It turns you into a pervert who is going to hell for having impure thoughts. Only republican senatorial candidates can get away with that, as long as they marry that high school tail they were chasing.
I'm 87% sure you're trolling, but just in case: He's looking at it from a economic standpoint. It would be much cheaper for us if all criminals simply fled the country (and never returned). Sure, they get to be "free" (if you can call it that in Not America), but they're somebody else's problem and can't do any more harm to us.
And you realize that "leftist fascist" is an oxymoron, right? Unless you're a horseshoe theorist.
You realize of course, that one of the reasons SA is such a vibrant place to live is exactly because of the ethnic diversity it has had over the centuries. Mexicans, Germans, Greeks, Russians, etc. have all settled there over its history. The influences of these cultural influxes are evident in everything from architecture to cuisine.
The notion that SA is somehow diverse enough, and that we can just shut ourselves off from the rest of the world is a recipe for disaster. If we want to continue to be the best, we need to take the best that the world has to offer and make it our own. That's a continual process, not something we can just turn off when the average skin tone gets darker than some people are comfortable with.
I see now. You were meta-trolling. Well done! Had me confused for a while, though.
HR's job is to protect the company, not the employee (despite what they tell you). Normally getting rid of the complainer takes less paperwork than getting rid of the perpetrator. Either way the short-term problem gets solved.
Pronunciation differences are more obvious to me than the spelling and vocabulary differences. It amuses me though that some people don't really understand how they sound. I had one lady argue with me that boot and book have the same vowel sound. But then she said it was ridiculous that I pronounce roof with the short oo (like hook, book or hoof), when she pronounced it to rhyme with aloof (or spoof). Ironically she used "book" as the example of the vowel sound she thought she was making. So crazy.
That's not surprising. We have a lot of funny sayings that the rest of the country doesn't. Although most of us just say we need to see a man about a horse. Which, coincidentally, is also English slang. (found that out today)
We also have a lot of comparative sayings, where the word "than" is contracted to 'n. One of my favorites is "slicker'n owl shit."
Say I spend about 5 seconds locking my door when I leave, and 5 seconds unlocking it when I get home. I do this about 250 times a year for 50 years. That's a total of 35 hours over the course of my life. Let's round up and say it costs me two days of my life. Since 2001, I have spent about 50 hours in security lines at the airport. (not to mention everything from museums to theaters to high school football games. WTF, America?!) Additionally, locking my door is something I do to protect my belongings. TSA is something done to me, without my consent, where I lose my belongings, for other people to get happy feelings that I am not a terrorist. So no, it is not the same as locking my doors at home. BTW, there are still neighborhoods where locking your door is not considered necessary.
One of the many absurdities is that they won't let you throw away your water/soda/whatever if you make it through the checkpoint with it. You have to drink it ALL!!! They won't let you go to the trash can at the end of the line to just dump it out. No! Only a TERRORIST would throw away all that dangerous water. Morons. And you can't even drink like half of it. See, it's really water guys! What the fuck ever. This country is so doomed.
Here's a scary thought. Checkpoints kill people. Say there are 3 billion passengers each year who spend an extra 15 minutes in line. That's 45 billion minutes, or roughly 86 years. So every year, security lines kill one person. Traffic kills a lot more people (some of them acutely), but it's worth noting that the human cost of security theater is deadly all the same.
Great job couching your argument so that it's impossible to disprove. You'll just change what you mean by "modern-day" or "terrorist" or "majority" until the remaining facts fit you assertion. The Lord's Resistance Army, Malegaon bombings, the Troubles, the NLFT in India, the list goes on and on. No single religion has a monopoly on people doing horrible things in the name of their god.
Ugh. I mis-phrased that. I meant to say that when I read "SJW" I interpret it to mean that the person speaking has turned off his brain. not the other way around. whoops. I meant to imply that people who use the phrase "SJW" would probably get the redass from that link.
No alcohol? Why was there a bar at 10 Forward then? Money is not silly to get rid of in a post-scarcity society.
Hmm. I haven't seen anything but the pilot, but it sounds like these shrooms are a bad idea. Too similar to the worldforest in the Saga of Seven Suns. Have they already made a fatal mistake like the Temporal Cold War? Which I think we can all agree was ill-conceived.