Anyway, there are other considerations for libel charges and this is not one of them. One of them is whether the person making the claim actually believes what they're saying, and that is very hard to prove.
Fair enough, but a test for parody is whether it's obvious to others that it's not true. Since the principal is unknown to most of the World (as is the scope of MySpace), it's probably not obvious that the writings are a joke or even what the joke is.
Generally, one cannot simply make up stuff out of context and call it a Parody. A good example of a (legally contested) parody is when Hustler Magazine ran an "ad" implying that Rev. Jerry Falwell was an incestuous drunk (Hustler won).
I wonder how you'd react if this were, say, a mother of another student using a fake profile to post these kinds of things about a girl at her daughter's school and that girl subsequently killed herself.
A parody doesn't exist in a vacuum. Its purpose to highlight or poke fun at something particular in a fashion that's obviously contrary to reality -- like calling Rev. Jerry Falwell a incestuous drunk.
You can say whatever you want about the Government, but you still can't say whatever you want about another person -- which is we we have slander/libel laws.
Better for the kid to learn now that "free speech" is (and always has been) a crock of shit in the U.S.... Just because some civics class says you have "the right to free speech" does not mean that you can actually ever speak freely in any real world environment without fear of persecution.
That's a "crock of shit". Free speech (in the U.S.) doesn't mean one can say anything they want about someone with impunity. Unless the site was *clearly* a parody, calling someone a "sex addict who 'hits on students'" is slander - or libel when written.
I haven't seen the student site but can't really imagine why it would be considered a parody. Is the principal famous or a otherwise well-known or out-spoken person with a position on the subject? Is the student obviously poking fun at the person and/or his position, or just making stuff up that another, uninformed, person may take to be truth?
And the tagline is absolutely perfect: "Life Without Walls". That's a direct hit on the most obnoxious characteristic of the Apple world -- the lock-in.
Of course, a life without walls is a life without privacy, security, stability... Wow! I guess is is like Windows!
Once in a while a genius will do something that no number of middlers could ever have accomplished.
My wife used to teach Gifted children (grades 6-12) and this actually happens more than one might think. In a general sense, Gifted kids seem to think "outside the box" naturally. Quite often they come up with something that, afterward, seems obvious, but the non-Gifted kids remark that they would never have thought of it otherwise.
You're quite correct, though, that many Gifted kids get bored easily. In fact, more than you'd imagine actually get poor grades in school. A good teacher easily turns that around though -- like my wife, who was the 2005 Outstanding Gifted Teacher of the Year for Virginia (Region 2)! [Sadly, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor a month later and died 7 weeks after that in Jan 2006.]
An SUV is basically a big car body bolted to a truck frame.
Well, some SUVs are (usually the larger ones), while the smaller "crossover" vehicles, like the CR-V, Rav4 and Forester, are Unibody constructions. As for trucks, the Honda Ridgeline is built on a Unibody platform.
Nor does Suggested Sites log and transmit cookies to Microsoft's servers, as does Google Suggest, Richardson said. 'The data we log is actually pretty innocuous.'"
Well, as long as it's "pretty" innocuous, I guess it's OK./sarcasm
As for that annoying Google Suggest, I killed that by having my proxy add the "SG=0" item to the PREF cookie. Dear Google (and Ask), Traffic for every keystroke is messed up.
However, the idea that one must balance their freedom to express themselves under their own name against the possibility of offending a prospective employer is chilling and repugnant, IMHO.
I think your personal life should NOT be an issue UNLESS the employer can illustrate a potential affect on your work. Unless you think it's OK to be an Air Traffic Controller or Substance Abuse Counselor, and get wasted every weekend...:-)
Fedora is independent from Red Hat as Saturn is (was) from GM. Ya, it's a little bit of a stretch, but stick with me, I think there's a parallel -- i.e., Saturn exists to benefit GM, not to build better cars.
Saturn wouldn't merely blossom as a division with protected status, free from the labor strife, stifling bureaucracy, and all the other dysfunctions of the mother corporation. No, it would also infect the rest of the company with its enlightened and effective management techniques....
Problem was, most Saturn buyers never traded up. While Saturn achieved its goal of attracting buyers who weren't typically interested in GM cars, it didn't change their opinions of the company. When owners sold their first Saturn, they typically bought a second one, or they shopped elsewhere....
For Saturn to survive, it needed to boost sales volume, cut engineering and manufacturing costs by borrowing more GM resources, and develop additional products in higher-profit segments by adapting existing GM designs....
Increasingly, pieces of the original Saturn were stripped away in the interest of efficiency, and the once-independent company was slowly integrated into GM.
Push come to shove, Fedora's needs will never come before Red Hats interests.
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Bender: Blackjack and hookers?
(On second thought, forget the Blackjack!)
Hey, people are stupid.
Example: Student moron who bragged about hacking Palin's email account.
Fair enough, but a test for parody is whether it's obvious to others that it's not true. Since the principal is unknown to most of the World (as is the scope of MySpace), it's probably not obvious that the writings are a joke or even what the joke is.
Generally, one cannot simply make up stuff out of context and call it a Parody. A good example of a (legally contested) parody is when Hustler Magazine ran an "ad" implying that Rev. Jerry Falwell was an incestuous drunk (Hustler won).
Not to worry. The Army bought all the researchers their own pair of bunny slippers.
A parody doesn't exist in a vacuum. Its purpose to highlight or poke fun at something particular in a fashion that's obviously contrary to reality -- like calling Rev. Jerry Falwell a incestuous drunk.
You can say whatever you want about the Government, but you still can't say whatever you want about another person -- which is we we have slander/libel laws.
Bill and Jerry go camping.
That's a "crock of shit". Free speech (in the U.S.) doesn't mean one can say anything they want about someone with impunity. Unless the site was *clearly* a parody, calling someone a "sex addict who 'hits on students'" is slander - or libel when written.
I haven't seen the student site but can't really imagine why it would be considered a parody. Is the principal famous or a otherwise well-known or out-spoken person with a position on the subject? Is the student obviously poking fun at the person and/or his position, or just making stuff up that another, uninformed, person may take to be truth?
Same goals, but one project uses English units and the other Metric. ...
Hopefully there won't any confusion there at NASA
Of course, a life without walls is a life without privacy, security, stability ... Wow! I guess is is like Windows!
I hear the pre-med Biology classes are a bitch as well.
[Note: Learning the "Ankle Bone" song helps a lot.]
My wife used to teach Gifted children (grades 6-12) and this actually happens more than one might think. In a general sense, Gifted kids seem to think "outside the box" naturally. Quite often they come up with something that, afterward, seems obvious, but the non-Gifted kids remark that they would never have thought of it otherwise.
You're quite correct, though, that many Gifted kids get bored easily. In fact, more than you'd imagine actually get poor grades in school. A good teacher easily turns that around though -- like my wife, who was the 2005 Outstanding Gifted Teacher of the Year for Virginia (Region 2)! [Sadly, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor a month later and died 7 weeks after that in Jan 2006.]
* Reading Slashdot's Disagree Mail.
* Watching anything on Fox News.
* The new Firefox "Awesome" bar.
Where's the site that has the stuff deleted from Deletionpedia? I guess it'll be Turtles All the Way Down from there...
Well, some SUVs are (usually the larger ones), while the smaller "crossover" vehicles, like the CR-V, Rav4 and Forester, are Unibody constructions. As for trucks, the Honda Ridgeline is built on a Unibody platform.
Can't wait for Best Buy to add the "Extended Warranty" option to my on-line music purchases... :-)
Well, as long as it's "pretty" innocuous, I guess it's OK. /sarcasm
As for that annoying Google Suggest, I killed that by having my proxy add the "SG=0" item to the PREF cookie. Dear Google (and Ask), Traffic for every keystroke is messed up.
I think there's a network admin in San Francisco that can handle this...
I think your personal life should NOT be an issue UNLESS the employer can illustrate a potential affect on your work. Unless you think it's OK to be an Air Traffic Controller or Substance Abuse Counselor, and get wasted every weekend... :-)
A: Choose one or more:
Sounds like the modern equivalent of "Blue Horse Shoe Loves Anacot Steel"
- Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), Wall Street
From: GM'S SATURN PROBLEM
Push come to shove, Fedora's needs will never come before Red Hats interests.
"Hold onto your butts"
- Samuel L. Jackson (Ray Arnold), Jurassic Park
Think Bill O'Reilly (Papa Bear) in a Speedo.