"My problem comes from Govt. requiring privately owned and operated businesses to adhere to these types of regulations."
Sorry charlie, it's been the law since 1990. It is a violation of a person's civil rights to not accommodate their disability. As a business owner you have no choice but to comply or no longer do business.
"Under Title III, no individual may be discriminated against on the basis of disability with regards to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation. "Public accommodations" include most places of lodging (such as inns and hotels), recreation, transportation, education, and dining, along with stores, care providers, and places of public displays, among other things."
Basically it is considered a violation of a person's civil rights to not accommodate their disability. Accommodation covers a broad area for action, however, not making the effort is a violation of the law that has been in place since 1990.
Any business that caters to the public must comply or be fined and/or sued into oblivion. Like it or not, that is the way it is.
Are we trading one narco crime inc. for another? Laws will limit production to 4 government farms and shutting down small farms and individual growers.
Limited production, high taxes, regulation, and a ready and gifted police force to enforce it all. Here come the ATF jack boots to crash through grandma's door to pull up her magic plant. It's sad really...
Why can't they just legalize personal production and use and be done with it? Oh, right, the taxes. How long will it be before the boys from down south match their price???
Most of them are running XP SP3 (at least I make sure they are upgraded to SP3) and they are using admin level accounts. I tried to explain about having two accounts, but most of them think it's to complicated... sigh.
Oh and if you look at one of those Dells you'll see they actually disable the Ubuntu repos. Their answer to "update foo broke my hardware" was to simply disable all updates. So those Dells won't be getting any security patches and will probably end up pwned anyway, it'll just take longer.
My Inspiron updates by itself quite nicely and has done so from right out of the box. Maybe Dell has improved since you last look at it?
I teach computers at the local senior center. They are all running windows and so I get to fix them too. Grandma just can't say no to an install request. Invariably I have to clean off a half dozen tool bars from IE and clean out god awful trojans pretending to be useful tools. I have to lecture about free anti-virus programs (which I install for them) only to find they have later signed up for professional/commercial level AV products they really don't need and can't afford (senior center!). . I bought a real nice Dell Inspiron N series laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. I think I'm starting to win some hearts and minds here. Everyone who uses it, loves it.
CIA official: Senator, our network just picked up something that might be useful for your re-election campaign efforts. Just remember who's your friend when our re-appropriation comes up... wink, wink.
Senator: Thanks! (to aide)Get me the lobbyist for XYZ corp!
Lobbyist: Thanks Senator, here's a check for your re-election campaign.
Senator: Thanks a million! (giggle) Oh by the way here's a little something you boys might find interesting. (hands over folder...)
That was just plain stupid of them. Instead of crashing how about a dialog that says something like, "If you like this game so far, buy the full version..." .
After looking at your web site, it looks to me what you want to do is convert a train car into livable quarters. This could be a fun and rewarding project, but it will not be cheap. Since you are living in a city the first step is checking with officials about zoning,permits, etc. This kind of construction may be allowed in some areas and not others.
You will need a foundation that passes code. eg. concrete, forms, below frost line, utility rough ins, etc. This part will likely cost 10-15K USD. figure another 5-6K for utility connections with the city(of course this varies greatly by location.) Where I live (southern Colorado) town water and sewer can cost 10-15K for the connection only!
Next buy your train car. Find one that is not rusty or crunched. Good luck with that. Trains are run until they cost to much to fix. Arrange to have it delivered and you will likely need a crane to lift it from the truck to your foundation. I can only guess what this will cost... maybe 5K?
You will have to engineer some method to secure the car to your foundation (actually this should have been figured out before you poured it!) You will probably have to bring in a structural engineer to design something. You can bet the inspector will not allow anything that has not been signed off on by a PE.
You're about $40K in the hole now, not counting the price of the car, but now you can start the fun stuff. This is where your imagination and skills will define where you go. I think at this point you are looking a project similar to building an RV or a yacht. Plans for this kind of renno are around the innertubes. I'll leave it at that, good luck!
This amends and extends the HEOA of 1965. This legislation has it's fingers and all aspects of grants and loans for Higher Ed.
"Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Student Assistance General Provisions, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Programs, the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program, the Federal Pell Grant Program, and the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program (LEAP) to implement various general and non-loan provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) and other recently enacted legislation. These regulations are effective July 1, 2010."
This is a small sample of the programs affected.
Basically if your school won't play ball, they are dead. This is what they mean by "Big Government".
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The OP was talking about physical locations. I agree with you that web sites are not.
If you don't have any basic human compassion, maybe someone should shoot you. ;-)
Thank you! It's just good coding practices anyway. We should all be doing this.
"My problem comes from Govt. requiring privately owned and operated businesses to adhere to these types of regulations."
Sorry charlie, it's been the law since 1990. It is a violation of a person's civil rights to not accommodate their disability. As a business owner you have no choice but to comply or no longer do business.
"Under Title III, no individual may be discriminated against on the basis of disability with regards to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation. "Public accommodations" include most places of lodging (such as inns and hotels), recreation, transportation, education, and dining, along with stores, care providers, and places of public displays, among other things."
Basically it is considered a violation of a person's civil rights to not accommodate their disability. Accommodation covers a broad area for action, however, not making the effort is a violation of the law that has been in place since 1990.
Any business that caters to the public must comply or be fined and/or sued into oblivion. Like it or not, that is the way it is.
My bowl is clean!
You know, that a funny thing about infinities. You have room for everything. ;-)
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What's with outer space that make everyone want to probe something? Even the aliens like to do it, I'm told.
What's that thing sticking out of the back of his neck? It looks like an antenna! Me, quickly adjusting my tin foil hat...
How about the Clean Air and Water act?
Limited production, high taxes, regulation, and a ready and gifted police force to enforce it all. Here come the ATF jack boots to crash through grandma's door to pull up her magic plant. It's sad really...
Why can't they just legalize personal production and use and be done with it? Oh, right, the taxes. How long will it be before the boys from down south match their price???
I've been using Avira lately. Seems to work well with less nagging.
Cheers!
Most of them are running XP SP3 (at least I make sure they are upgraded to SP3) and they are using admin level accounts. I tried to explain about having two accounts, but most of them think it's to complicated... sigh.
Oh and if you look at one of those Dells you'll see they actually disable the Ubuntu repos. Their answer to "update foo broke my hardware" was to simply disable all updates. So those Dells won't be getting any security patches and will probably end up pwned anyway, it'll just take longer.
My Inspiron updates by itself quite nicely and has done so from right out of the box. Maybe Dell has improved since you last look at it?
Nope, never happen. Not unless they steal them...
I teach computers at the local senior center. They are all running windows and so I get to fix them too. Grandma just can't say no to an install request. Invariably I have to clean off a half dozen tool bars from IE and clean out god awful trojans pretending to be useful tools. I have to lecture about free anti-virus programs (which I install for them) only to find they have later signed up for professional/commercial level AV products they really don't need and can't afford (senior center!).
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I bought a real nice Dell Inspiron N series laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. I think I'm starting to win some hearts and minds here. Everyone who uses it, loves it.
2.2 lbs x 200 kg = 440 lbs not 500. All is conversions are off, by a lot.
Jesus boys and girls! I had to go back reread the summary to remember what the topic was! Hint: it's not metric/english conversion.
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Your ideas intrigue me, how do I subscribe to your news letter?
Senator: Thanks! (to aide)Get me the lobbyist for XYZ corp!
Lobbyist: Thanks Senator, here's a check for your re-election campaign.
Senator: Thanks a million! (giggle) Oh by the way here's a little something you boys might find interesting. (hands over folder...)
See that wasn't so hard, now was it?
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Cripes!
You can run the algorithm on any length input.
You will need a foundation that passes code. eg. concrete, forms, below frost line, utility rough ins, etc. This part will likely cost 10-15K USD. figure another 5-6K for utility connections with the city(of course this varies greatly by location.) Where I live (southern Colorado) town water and sewer can cost 10-15K for the connection only!
Next buy your train car. Find one that is not rusty or crunched. Good luck with that. Trains are run until they cost to much to fix. Arrange to have it delivered and you will likely need a crane to lift it from the truck to your foundation. I can only guess what this will cost... maybe 5K?
You will have to engineer some method to secure the car to your foundation (actually this should have been figured out before you poured it!) You will probably have to bring in a structural engineer to design something. You can bet the inspector will not allow anything that has not been signed off on by a PE.
You're about $40K in the hole now, not counting the price of the car, but now you can start the fun stuff. This is where your imagination and skills will define where you go. I think at this point you are looking a project similar to building an RV or a yacht. Plans for this kind of renno are around the innertubes. I'll leave it at that, good luck!
Darn it! You've been slashdotted... I'll save and try later.
"Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Student Assistance General Provisions, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Programs, the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program, the Federal Pell Grant Program, and the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program (LEAP) to implement various general and non-loan provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) and other recently enacted legislation. These regulations are effective July 1, 2010."
This is a small sample of the programs affected.
Basically if your school won't play ball, they are dead. This is what they mean by "Big Government".