Restorative justice systems are becoming more and more common in American schools, especially charter schools where the ultimate goal is a fully-capable, well-educated adult. http://www.realjustice.org/articles.html?articleId=441
While this isn't necessarily representative of an entire society, I would say that some urban school districts suffer from many of the same conditions that you see in society that result in incarceration.
Just my.02.
J. Brad Harris
I'd say that trying to blame Anonymous for a "carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated" attack is at best a stretch with no evidence, and at worst a purposeful misdirection for shoddy security mechanisms.
If I was a betting man, I'd say that this spin will result in more of Anonymous' attention being directed at Sony.
Sony, if you wanna feel what its like when 3,400,000 anonymous users really want to hurt you at the same time.....just keep poking the bear.
Get a Windows Mobile smartphone on Verizon, and download the application called WMWifiRouter. The latest version comes with a one time flat fee, but the older versions where free as in beer, and can still be found on various forums by searching for WMWifiRouter. This turns your WM phone into a WiFi hotpot (sort of) and you can easily connect through that. Verizon has no idea if the data requests are originating from your phone or from some other device, they shouldn't care anyway. One caveat to mention, the Hotspot is an Ad-Hoc network, which shouldn't be an issue for a laptop or netbook, but may not work for an iPhone, I'm not sure. I've been doing this for 3+ years on Verizon and I've never had a problem. Also, just FYI, Windows Mobile phone have an application called Internet Connection Sharing that will share the 3G over USB or Bluetooth, and that is built in to the O/S. Verizon will hide the icon in the start menu on phones they sell, but the application is still there, you just need to look for it on the phone.
Most people are suggesting you run notepad as administrator, which works fine. Another alternative is to save the edited file to your desktop, then drag it back into the proper folder (%sysroot%\system32\drivers\etc\). Then explorer will invoke the UAC prompt and do the update (overwrite) for you.
not that it matters too much, but I'm 24, no kids.
I can't really understand the hard-line distinction between "adult" activities and "child" activities. I understand the examples you gave (Bar vs playground, etc..) but the theatre is more or less an in-between place. It isn't just for adults or just for kids. Does a 4 yr old need to be in the 4 hour opening night for "Dances with Wolves"? Hell no. But can a parent take their child to see Wall-E (or whatever it was) in the movies on opening night, which just happens to be the same movie that you wanted to take your girlfriend (or wife) who loves Disney movies (my wife loves them)? What about Fantastic 4, or another movie that appeals to younger and older audiences alike (Star Wars comes to mind also).
Respectfully, I think the graduation between child & adult is much smoother than you describe, and often in society these two "worlds" will overlap. I'm only asking that people not get up in arms when they see a child that is misbehaving (or what you consider misbehaving), and parents seemingly not doing anything about it.
Parents have become, in general, glorified caregivers and society has attempted to remove discipline for intolerable actions and replace it with encouragement to do better. This is the beginning of people that don't understand work-place discipline (written up, fired, etc..), and sue their employer for discrimination or other trumped up charges. Or they think the corrections system should give all criminals shrinks instead of hard-time.
My original argument still stands, however. Some parents are just trying to enjoy a movie with their young family, and instead of making a scene in the theatre by smacking the child (right or wrong it will make a scene) they'd rather just let smaller things slide, just that once. Keep in mind I said some parents. Other parents just don't care. And those are the same ones that talk to people on the cell phone during the movie. And like Shepard Book said, there is a special place in hell for those people.
I respectfully disagree. Children should be tolerated in theaters as they must learn proper social skills. They can't be kept at home all the time in the fear that they'll disturb other people...they'd never develop socially.
Please be patient with parents that are attempting to enjoy a good time with their families.
While some parents deserve to be shot for ignoring the child screaming or talking or otherwise causing an extended raucous, some parents are doing what needs to be done (i.e. completely ignoring certain behavior if the purpose of said behavior is for attention).
I certainly understand your point, but would encourage you to be patient with children and parents. If you consider your enjoyment of a movie more important than helping a given child's social development....well maybe you were kept at home too much as a child.:-)
This reminds me of the star trek episode where these genetically enhanced children had an immune system that could not only fight off infection within themselves, but also seek out and destroy any infectious agents in the vicinity. Of course these super-immune systems went haywire. It started attacking regular people causing them to age at an advanced rate.
Currently, If you dial 911 on any cellular phone in the US it will use any network it can see, regardless of the carrier or owner of the tower. An AT&T phone will use T-Mobile towers for 911 calls without hesitation, etc.
Unless the "emergency" calls you spoke of were people calling their girlfriends to make sure they were OK....in which case, yes...your point stands.
You sir, have just described every type of regulated currency in existence. It isn't that *our* system is broken or poorly conceived, it is that in order for one person to have something ( home, car, air conditioned beach), someone else must be without the materials that went into creating it. This is where currency comes in. I will trade you these paper notes for your time, materials, etc...Thus I'm in debt to you, but I'm giving you these universal IOUs that you can then use to get a commensurate level of time, materials, etc... from anyone else. I've seen the You-Tube video that describes America's currency system as 'debt-based' as well, and some points are valid. But the idea that the system is "fundamentally-flawed" is incorrect. It is the only way to continuously grow an economy indefinitely. Fixed asset (gold-standard, etc...) systems will eventually become systems in which a select few will possess all the money in the world while the rest grovel at their feet, or revolt and take it back.
What did the employee agree to as a condition of their hire?
If they agreed to start getting paid when their time-tracking software finally started, or when they logged in to the queue in the soft-phone, that is how they should get paid. If this was not clearly specified during the interview process, it should be considered the employee's responsibility to clarify.
I'm tired of hearing the nanny-state mentality of protecting people from their own inability to understand the caveats and details of an agreement they entered into of their own free-will.
If I sign a cellular contract that states "billing will start when you hit the send key, not when the call connects", well then I should expect that to happen. If it does not state when billing starts, I should clarify it with the cellular carrier before entering into the contract, and if that issue is important to me, make a determination AFTER I know the entirety of the policy.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for my anti-socialist views by some, but its got to stop. The government has NO place telling an employer when to start and stop paying you. That is a private contract, and the US Constitution clearly states "No State shall [create a] law impairing the Obligation of Contracts..." source. Employment is a mutually agreed private contract.
And yes, before anyone asks, I do believe that minimum wage laws interfere with the free negotiation and establishment of work contracts. If my employer wants to give me a home, a car, food, electricity, etc, but only pay me $3.00/hr, it SHOULD BE MY RIGHT to accept that offer. If accepting that offer is a bad decision, so be it...at least its MY decision.
Our governments (state and federal) should have no business attempting to protect people from their own stupidity.
...when one species dies out its not just it that is effected, other species in the ecosystem that rely on it for their niches are also destroyed...
While partially true, don't forget about the species that was in competition with the one that went extinct. They will have better chances of survival.
Ex: A type of frog and a type of mouse live in the same habitats and eat the same foods, and the frog dies due to climate change, the mouse is now better able to survive (more food).
Now more generally, I don't see how this is a certain bad thing. We should not force some species to survive while we let others die out naturally....and we certainly can't save every species that may ever go extinct. Who makes the judgement call on what species get saved and which are allowed to die out? You? EPA? Obama?
Who cries out when a beaver's dam causes a 15 acre pond and a certain species of grasshopper are theatened because of it?
Due process still needs to apply. Since Hippie may have been hired by Sell to PUT kiddie porn on that machine as a means to blackmail Crist for the rent. A judge would have asked this question.
I've never heard of this practice. I've worked on several downtown development/beautification projects for my hometown and from my experience the sidewalks are always paid for with the same budget that maintains the roadway. In fact, here in my state (FL) the state, city, or county actually owns a minimum of 15ft from the center of the road, which will normally include the sidewalks on most two lane roads. For more info please see this.
The tabulation comes up closer to $20k.
From the article:
Here's a tabulation of the equipment:
(1) Pioneer 50" 1080p KURO Flat Panel HDTV: $5,000
(2) Series Pro Power AVS 2000 Automatic Voltage Stabilizers: $4,400
(2) Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-E home NAS servers: $700 (without disk drives)
(1) Pioneer BDP-95FD Blu-ray Disc player: $999
(1) 24" iMac: $2,249
(1) Apple TV: $329
(1) Xbox 360 console: $349
(1) Nintendo Wii console: $250
(1) Apple iPod Touch: $399
(1) Nokia N810 Mobile Internet Tablet: $500
(1) Spectrum Digital 15" wireless photo frame: $357
(1) Pioneer Elite VSX 94TXH AV Receiver: $1,800
(2) Monster THX Tower Speakers 200: $1,600
Total price: $18,932
That is without drives in the server, and without any games or movies or anything else that makes the home theater worth something.
Personally, I'd rather have the $400 Home Theater in a Box from Circuit City and $17,600 in cash in a briefcase sitting in front of it...That will certainly impress your friends.
About fifty percent of the human race is middle men and they don't take kindly to being eliminated. --Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity
This is the where the music labels and book & video game publishers fit. Think about it when you see the RIAA fighting to survive. That is their purpose. The tubes have made them non-important. If your only purpose for existing was being made irrelevant by some new technology, wouldn't you fight that with everything you had? I'm not saying I agree with it, but it certainly gives you insight into the reasons "WHY".
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The USPTO is a self-funded entity. http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/5543
Previously the Treasury was taking some of the money from fees collected by the USPTO to pay for other things, but this year it stopped.
Restorative justice systems are becoming more and more common in American schools, especially charter schools where the ultimate goal is a fully-capable, well-educated adult. http://www.realjustice.org/articles.html?articleId=441 While this isn't necessarily representative of an entire society, I would say that some urban school districts suffer from many of the same conditions that you see in society that result in incarceration. Just my .02.
J. Brad Harris
I'd say that trying to blame Anonymous for a "carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated" attack is at best a stretch with no evidence, and at worst a purposeful misdirection for shoddy security mechanisms.
If I was a betting man, I'd say that this spin will result in more of Anonymous' attention being directed at Sony.
Sony, if you wanna feel what its like when 3,400,000 anonymous users really want to hurt you at the same time.....just keep poking the bear.
Get a Windows Mobile smartphone on Verizon, and download the application called WMWifiRouter. The latest version comes with a one time flat fee, but the older versions where free as in beer, and can still be found on various forums by searching for WMWifiRouter. This turns your WM phone into a WiFi hotpot (sort of) and you can easily connect through that. Verizon has no idea if the data requests are originating from your phone or from some other device, they shouldn't care anyway. One caveat to mention, the Hotspot is an Ad-Hoc network, which shouldn't be an issue for a laptop or netbook, but may not work for an iPhone, I'm not sure. I've been doing this for 3+ years on Verizon and I've never had a problem. Also, just FYI, Windows Mobile phone have an application called Internet Connection Sharing that will share the 3G over USB or Bluetooth, and that is built in to the O/S. Verizon will hide the icon in the start menu on phones they sell, but the application is still there, you just need to look for it on the phone.
Brad
Most people are suggesting you run notepad as administrator, which works fine. Another alternative is to save the edited file to your desktop, then drag it back into the proper folder (%sysroot%\system32\drivers\etc\). Then explorer will invoke the UAC prompt and do the update (overwrite) for you.
There is obviously a race condition in the throttle system.
da-dum-dum-tsh.
Try the veal.
Politely.
not that it matters too much, but I'm 24, no kids.
I can't really understand the hard-line distinction between "adult" activities and "child" activities. I understand the examples you gave (Bar vs playground, etc..) but the theatre is more or less an in-between place. It isn't just for adults or just for kids. Does a 4 yr old need to be in the 4 hour opening night for "Dances with Wolves"? Hell no. But can a parent take their child to see Wall-E (or whatever it was) in the movies on opening night, which just happens to be the same movie that you wanted to take your girlfriend (or wife) who loves Disney movies (my wife loves them)? What about Fantastic 4, or another movie that appeals to younger and older audiences alike (Star Wars comes to mind also).
Respectfully, I think the graduation between child & adult is much smoother than you describe, and often in society these two "worlds" will overlap. I'm only asking that people not get up in arms when they see a child that is misbehaving (or what you consider misbehaving), and parents seemingly not doing anything about it.
Brad
I completely agree.
Parents have become, in general, glorified caregivers and society has attempted to remove discipline for intolerable actions and replace it with encouragement to do better. This is the beginning of people that don't understand work-place discipline (written up, fired, etc..), and sue their employer for discrimination or other trumped up charges. Or they think the corrections system should give all criminals shrinks instead of hard-time.
My original argument still stands, however. Some parents are just trying to enjoy a movie with their young family, and instead of making a scene in the theatre by smacking the child (right or wrong it will make a scene) they'd rather just let smaller things slide, just that once. Keep in mind I said some parents. Other parents just don't care. And those are the same ones that talk to people on the cell phone during the movie. And like Shepard Book said, there is a special place in hell for those people.
I respectfully disagree. Children should be tolerated in theaters as they must learn proper social skills. They can't be kept at home all the time in the fear that they'll disturb other people...they'd never develop socially.
:-)
Please be patient with parents that are attempting to enjoy a good time with their families.
While some parents deserve to be shot for ignoring the child screaming or talking or otherwise causing an extended raucous, some parents are doing what needs to be done (i.e. completely ignoring certain behavior if the purpose of said behavior is for attention).
I certainly understand your point, but would encourage you to be patient with children and parents. If you consider your enjoyment of a movie more important than helping a given child's social development....well maybe you were kept at home too much as a child.
Brad
This reminds me of the star trek episode where these genetically enhanced children had an immune system that could not only fight off infection within themselves, but also seek out and destroy any infectious agents in the vicinity. Of course these super-immune systems went haywire. It started attacking regular people causing them to age at an advanced rate.
Sega 32X
Currently, If you dial 911 on any cellular phone in the US it will use any network it can see, regardless of the carrier or owner of the tower. An AT&T phone will use T-Mobile towers for 911 calls without hesitation, etc. Unless the "emergency" calls you spoke of were people calling their girlfriends to make sure they were OK....in which case, yes...your point stands.
You sir, have just described every type of regulated currency in existence. It isn't that *our* system is broken or poorly conceived, it is that in order for one person to have something ( home, car, air conditioned beach), someone else must be without the materials that went into creating it. This is where currency comes in. I will trade you these paper notes for your time, materials, etc...Thus I'm in debt to you, but I'm giving you these universal IOUs that you can then use to get a commensurate level of time, materials, etc... from anyone else. I've seen the You-Tube video that describes America's currency system as 'debt-based' as well, and some points are valid. But the idea that the system is "fundamentally-flawed" is incorrect. It is the only way to continuously grow an economy indefinitely. Fixed asset (gold-standard, etc...) systems will eventually become systems in which a select few will possess all the money in the world while the rest grovel at their feet, or revolt and take it back.
For all intents and purposes, "intensive purposes" is and never has been a saying, unless you are in the ICU at a hospital.
In my mind it is very clear.
What did the employee agree to as a condition of their hire?
If they agreed to start getting paid when their time-tracking software finally started, or when they logged in to the queue in the soft-phone, that is how they should get paid. If this was not clearly specified during the interview process, it should be considered the employee's responsibility to clarify.
I'm tired of hearing the nanny-state mentality of protecting people from their own inability to understand the caveats and details of an agreement they entered into of their own free-will.
If I sign a cellular contract that states "billing will start when you hit the send key, not when the call connects", well then I should expect that to happen. If it does not state when billing starts, I should clarify it with the cellular carrier before entering into the contract, and if that issue is important to me, make a determination AFTER I know the entirety of the policy.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for my anti-socialist views by some, but its got to stop. The government has NO place telling an employer when to start and stop paying you. That is a private contract, and the US Constitution clearly states "No State shall [create a] law impairing the Obligation of Contracts..." source. Employment is a mutually agreed private contract.
And yes, before anyone asks, I do believe that minimum wage laws interfere with the free negotiation and establishment of work contracts. If my employer wants to give me a home, a car, food, electricity, etc, but only pay me $3.00/hr, it SHOULD BE MY RIGHT to accept that offer. If accepting that offer is a bad decision, so be it...at least its MY decision.
Our governments (state and federal) should have no business attempting to protect people from their own stupidity.
Brad
While partially true, don't forget about the species that was in competition with the one that went extinct. They will have better chances of survival.
Ex: A type of frog and a type of mouse live in the same habitats and eat the same foods, and the frog dies due to climate change, the mouse is now better able to survive (more food).
Now more generally, I don't see how this is a certain bad thing. We should not force some species to survive while we let others die out naturally....and we certainly can't save every species that may ever go extinct. Who makes the judgement call on what species get saved and which are allowed to die out? You? EPA? Obama?
Who cries out when a beaver's dam causes a 15 acre pond and a certain species of grasshopper are theatened because of it?
Due process still needs to apply. Since Hippie may have been hired by Sell to PUT kiddie porn on that machine as a means to blackmail Crist for the rent. A judge would have asked this question.
I wish there was a "-1 UnTrue".
I've never heard of this practice. I've worked on several downtown development/beautification projects for my hometown and from my experience the sidewalks are always paid for with the same budget that maintains the roadway. In fact, here in my state (FL) the state, city, or county actually owns a minimum of 15ft from the center of the road, which will normally include the sidewalks on most two lane roads. For more info please see this.
There, fixed that for you.
Brad
This makes me wish there was a (+0 Creepy).
Brad
Yes, It is called 'Incorporation'. http://en.wikipedia.org/incorporation
Personally, I'd rather have the $400 Home Theater in a Box from Circuit City and $17,600 in cash in a briefcase sitting in front of it...That will certainly impress your friends.
Brad
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