Does he understand that Google Glasses are A CAMERA, and the movie theater prohibits the use of CAMERAS in the theater?
If you read the story, you'd know he CHOSE to keep his Google Glasses on, he says had he been asked he would have taken off the glasses and sat a few rows closer to the screen (without complaint). Apparently he thought it was OK to point a camera at the screen while he watched a movie..
On the other hand, suitable or not, AMC could simply ban the use and/or wearing of Glass-like devices. (there are more to come)
Google Glass is a camera (among other things).
When worn it invariably points at whatever the wearer is looking at.
It is very hard for the casual observer to determine if the google glasses are on or off, if the camera function is recording or not.
I strongly suspect this theater has a "No Camera" sign posted in the lobby - almost every theater I visit has one.
Essentially, this fellow went into a movie theater and pointed a camera only he knew for sure was turned off at the screen for the entire run of the movie. If he had done the same thing with a camcorder or his cellphone I would have expected the same result (invited to step outside to discuss his suspicious actions with law enforcement).
Also, note - the AMC theater was able to summon federal agents to the theater within an hour - I suspect that indicates there was some sort of investigation into movie piracy in that particular theater already going on. Do you really think several federal agents were summoned on a Saturday night to the local movie theater because the theater manager thought something was going on?
He wasn't "denied" legal representation - according to his own narrative, he never asked for it.
The FBI was involved because copying a movie in a theater, like making a copy of a copyright-protected DVD or video tape is a federal crime.
Why didn't the AMC theater usher, manager, mall cop or "federal agent" turn on his pair of Google Glasses and prove he had done no wrong? Because none of them had probably ever seen a pair of google glasses before, wasn't sure how to access them, and by attempting to do so they would most likely corrupt any evidence they might find, hence they waited for someone that knew what they were doing. As someone who paid $1,500 for his google glasses and another $600 for the prescription lenses, I would have thought he would have appreciated that they didn't risk breaking his $2,100 pair of glasses by "figuring it out" on the managers PC.
Why didn't he attempt to leave - remaining there without representation implied consent (based on my several thousand hours of watching lawyers on TV shows) - they told him he wasn't under arrest and yes, they can lie to a suspect (again, based on thousands of hours of watching lawyers on TV shows). The police are not responsible for providing a suspect with legal counsel - they are responsible for providing access to legal counsel, something this fellow didn't ask for based on his own narrative.
He really shouldn't have warn a camera into a place of business where there are signs saying the use of cameras is against the law - by bringing his (google glass) camera into the theater, he became responsible for proving that he wasn't using the camera during the movie..
Then he tried to re-define "alone" (the President is never truly "alone").
Then Monica produced the infamous "ugly blue dress" with the Presidential "seal" on the shoulder.
Then he went on national television and admitted he lied under oath in a federal court.
THEN he was impeached... For lying under oath and suborning perjury.
And to this day, his apologists (like you) still think the BJ was the reason for the impeachment. He was neither the first President, nor will he likely be the last President to have sex in the Oval office - but he was the first so stupid/arrogant to let it get out in public and lie about it in court.
You are lamenting a disparity between local law enforcement and the FBI, and apparently equating movie piracy (which can cost the film industry millions of dollars in lost revenue, and potentially millions in lost tax revenues on the lost movie revenues) and a home burglary which can cost an insurance company several thousand dollars in covered losses...
Copying a movie is a federal crime, not a 'theater policy'.
Are these prescription Google Glasses? If not, he should have put his google glasses in his shirt pocket, and if they were prescription glasses he should consider getting a pair of non-google glass prescription glasses - there are many places where cameras are not allowed (movie theaters, locker rooms, some government facilities, etc.)
You may run afoul of the exclusive deal the cable company has for your town...
Would the rest of your town be willing to abandon their current cable company so that your 22 house neighborhood can enjoy better internet connections and no unsightly poles? I suspect not, and I suspect the cable company knows this, so you have no leverage over the cable company to get what you want...
Your 22 houses represent a very, very small market to the carriers, and your neighborhood decided to be cute and require all utilities be underground... Guess what, your 22 possible customers are too few to interest any carrier in even submitting paperwork to bury cables.
Can you even guarantee that all 22 houses will buy into whatever carrier you can convince to serve your neighborhood?
You should have buried the cables when you built the neighborhood, then you'd have a fighting chance to convince a carrier to serve your neighborhood.
I just picked up a nice Dell desktop at their off-lease store http://dfsdirectsales.com/ that could easily handle your development work. It is an Optiplex 790 desktop with anIvy Bridge i5 CPU (i5-2400), mfg says it supports 16 Gigs of RAM (web reports show it can take 32 gigs), has a single HD bay and with a coupon it was just about $250 with 2 Gigs RAM and a small HD (80-160 Gig) shipped.
This is a quad-core CPU, and for an OS I'd suggest looking into the various MS offering to get you a single-use OS license for the software you need (like dreamspark, biz spark, etc.). You can run Win 8.1 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V on this type of machine, whichever you have a license for...
Don't look to the US for sympathy - we paid a tax on our phone service for over a century to pay off the Spanish American War... 108 years to be precise !
Error? More like bad coding - it relied on the processor clearing the return/exit status register originally, and once the 'error' was 'corrected' it doubled the size of the program (from one BR14 instruction to a load instruction and then the branch instruction).
If not for the arbitrary 'three line' lower limit I'd say IEFBR14 - it is probably the most common OS360 -> 'Whatever they call MVS now' utility and it's only one line long...
It is used to allow programmers to manage files on mainframes by triggering all the job set-up and tear-down processing, deleting, creating, versioning files on mainframes.
Actually, it WAS only one instruction long, a branch instruction, but in the late 70's they doubled the length of it by loading a zero in the return status register with a load instruction.
This code has been running on IBM mainframes for nearly 50 years!
It also shows you how 'full of crap' these gun free zones (like movie theaters) are... Why didn't the shooter obey the law, as noted on the sticker by the theater door that 'weapons are not allowed'?
If the test accurately covers the required curriculum, so-called 'teaching to the test' is EXACTLY what is called for.
If the test doesn't represent the curriculum accurately, fix it.
If the teacher can't/won't teach the curriculum, replace them.
Teachers that find the required curriculum 'limiting' May very we'll be using that hand-wavey argument to mask personal shortcomings. They may not, but they may be.
Charter schools typically have similar educational success for fewer dollars than 'regular' public schools.
Many critics complain that the results are 'only' comparable, not the promised 'better' - but they miss the point. Typically students that flock to charter schools are escaping below-average public schools, so their individual educational experience is greatly improved.
Charter schools typically operate on shoe-string budgets that gives them fewer dollars to spend per student, leaving more money behind for those students still in public schools.
The problem is, as children flee under-performing schools, districts are saddled with a surplus of ineffective teachers (that's why the kids flee, remember), and they typically remain employed due to tenure, pushing out younger, usually more enthusiastic/energetic teachers through seniority.
The biggest opponent if charter schools are typically the teacher's unions - and remember what the primary focus of teacher's unions are; not the improvement of the education process, not the most effective use of precious taxpayer dollars, etc. - no, they are focused on protecting the rights of ALL teachers (good and bad) and maximizing teacher pay & benefits. If costs are reduced or effectiveness is increased, teacher's unions aren't opposed that, they just won't sacrifice their member's pay and benefits to make it happen.
When was the last time a teacher's union accepted a pay freeze or cut to fund building improvements, replacement textbooks, technology or increases in the teaching staff?
Grocery stores are a bit rare in the ghetto, and those few which exist usually charge exorbitant prices while providing very little in the way of variety (and don't ask about the produce.)
Second - "Grocery stores are a bit rare"? Are you sure?
Third - "and those few which exist usually charge exorbitant prices while providing very little in the way of variety":
Within a couple of miles of almost any urban neighborhood, “you can get basically any type of food,” said Roland Sturm of the RAND Corporation, lead author of one of the studies. “Maybe we should call it a food swamp rather than a desert,” he said.
Poor neighborhoods, Dr. Lee found, had nearly twice as many fast food restaurants and convenience stores as wealthier ones, and they had more than three times as many corner stores per square mile. But they also had nearly twice as many supermarkets and large-scale grocers per square mile.
Finally, "(and don't ask about the produce.)" - why not? is it because, as I suspect, it isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be?
In one neighborhood in Camden, N.J., where 80 percent of children are eligible for a free school lunch, children bought empanadas, sodas and candy at a grocer, while adults said they had no trouble finding produce. Wedged in among fast food restaurants, convenience stores, sit-down restaurants, take-out Chinese and pizza parlors were three places with abundant produce: Pathmark and Save-A-Lot supermarkets and a produce stand.
Do you know what it means to qualify for a "free lunch"? It means that 1/3rd of the child's daily meals are provided by a school cafeteria, prepared by chefs, and designed by nutritionists. It also means they qualify for a free hot breakfast at school in the morning in many cities. That's 2/3rds of the child's meals provided for FREE, in addition to SNAP/Food Stamp programs.
Every month the federal government air lifts in millions of dollars into "ghettos" as part of a program designed to only pay for food - don't you think that would attract a few food retailers?
Republicans want heftier reductions than do Democrats in yet another partisan battle over the government's role in helping poor Americans.
Just so we're clear, Democrats also want to cut SNAP/Food Stamps, just not as much as Republicans do.
Conservatives say the program spiraled out of control as the economy struggled and the costs are not sustainable. However research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts estimated that a cut of $2 billion a year in food stamps could trigger in an increase of $15 billion in medical costs (PDF) for over the next decade.
So $2 Billion/year cuts in Food Stamps leads to a $1.5 Billion/year increase in healthcare costs - sounds like a way to save a half billion dollars/year... Put another way, we need to spend $2 Billion in food subsidies to save $1.5 Billion in healthcare costs.
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Are they his ONLY prescription glasses?
Does he understand that Google Glasses are A CAMERA, and the movie theater prohibits the use of CAMERAS in the theater?
If you read the story, you'd know he CHOSE to keep his Google Glasses on, he says had he been asked he would have taken off the glasses and sat a few rows closer to the screen (without complaint). Apparently he thought it was OK to point a camera at the screen while he watched a movie..
Google Glass is a camera (among other things).
When worn it invariably points at whatever the wearer is looking at.
It is very hard for the casual observer to determine if the google glasses are on or off, if the camera function is recording or not.
I strongly suspect this theater has a "No Camera" sign posted in the lobby - almost every theater I visit has one.
Essentially, this fellow went into a movie theater and pointed a camera only he knew for sure was turned off at the screen for the entire run of the movie. If he had done the same thing with a camcorder or his cellphone I would have expected the same result (invited to step outside to discuss his suspicious actions with law enforcement).
Also, note - the AMC theater was able to summon federal agents to the theater within an hour - I suspect that indicates there was some sort of investigation into movie piracy in that particular theater already going on. Do you really think several federal agents were summoned on a Saturday night to the local movie theater because the theater manager thought something was going on?
He wasn't "denied" legal representation - according to his own narrative, he never asked for it.
The FBI was involved because copying a movie in a theater, like making a copy of a copyright-protected DVD or video tape is a federal crime.
Why didn't the AMC theater usher, manager, mall cop or "federal agent" turn on his pair of Google Glasses and prove he had done no wrong? Because none of them had probably ever seen a pair of google glasses before, wasn't sure how to access them, and by attempting to do so they would most likely corrupt any evidence they might find, hence they waited for someone that knew what they were doing. As someone who paid $1,500 for his google glasses and another $600 for the prescription lenses, I would have thought he would have appreciated that they didn't risk breaking his $2,100 pair of glasses by "figuring it out" on the managers PC.
Why didn't he attempt to leave - remaining there without representation implied consent (based on my several thousand hours of watching lawyers on TV shows) - they told him he wasn't under arrest and yes, they can lie to a suspect (again, based on thousands of hours of watching lawyers on TV shows). The police are not responsible for providing a suspect with legal counsel - they are responsible for providing access to legal counsel, something this fellow didn't ask for based on his own narrative.
He really shouldn't have warn a camera into a place of business where there are signs saying the use of cameras is against the law - by bringing his (google glass) camera into the theater, he became responsible for proving that he wasn't using the camera during the movie..
Really?
First, under oath, President Clinton lied about having sex with an intern at the White House.
Then he tried to get others to lie under oath (suborn perjury).
Then his wife said it was all an invention of a "vast right wing conspiracy".
Then he tried to re-define sex (oral sex isn't "sex sex" - to borrow a line from Whoppi Goldberg).
Then he tried to re-define "alone" (the President is never truly "alone").
Then Monica produced the infamous "ugly blue dress" with the Presidential "seal" on the shoulder.
Then he went on national television and admitted he lied under oath in a federal court.
THEN he was impeached... For lying under oath and suborning perjury.
And to this day, his apologists (like you) still think the BJ was the reason for the impeachment. He was neither the first President, nor will he likely be the last President to have sex in the Oval office - but he was the first so stupid/arrogant to let it get out in public and lie about it in court.
You are lamenting a disparity between local law enforcement and the FBI, and apparently equating movie piracy (which can cost the film industry millions of dollars in lost revenue, and potentially millions in lost tax revenues on the lost movie revenues) and a home burglary which can cost an insurance company several thousand dollars in covered losses...
Yeah, it does say a lot about our priorities.
Copying a movie is a federal crime, not a 'theater policy'.
Are these prescription Google Glasses? If not, he should have put his google glasses in his shirt pocket, and if they were prescription glasses he should consider getting a pair of non-google glass prescription glasses - there are many places where cameras are not allowed (movie theaters, locker rooms, some government facilities, etc.)
I don't think they'd be willing to drop poles in your little neighborhood just to pick up a dozen or two new customers...
Have any companies expressed a willingness to serve your neighborhood with above ground services?
You may run afoul of the exclusive deal the cable company has for your town...
Would the rest of your town be willing to abandon their current cable company so that your 22 house neighborhood can enjoy better internet connections and no unsightly poles? I suspect not, and I suspect the cable company knows this, so you have no leverage over the cable company to get what you want...
Move.
Your 22 houses represent a very, very small market to the carriers, and your neighborhood decided to be cute and require all utilities be underground... Guess what, your 22 possible customers are too few to interest any carrier in even submitting paperwork to bury cables.
Can you even guarantee that all 22 houses will buy into whatever carrier you can convince to serve your neighborhood?
You should have buried the cables when you built the neighborhood, then you'd have a fighting chance to convince a carrier to serve your neighborhood.
CP/M with user accounts?
I just picked up a nice Dell desktop at their off-lease store http://dfsdirectsales.com/ that could easily handle your development work. It is an Optiplex 790 desktop with anIvy Bridge i5 CPU (i5-2400), mfg says it supports 16 Gigs of RAM (web reports show it can take 32 gigs), has a single HD bay and with a coupon it was just about $250 with 2 Gigs RAM and a small HD (80-160 Gig) shipped.
This is a quad-core CPU, and for an OS I'd suggest looking into the various MS offering to get you a single-use OS license for the software you need (like dreamspark, biz spark, etc.). You can run Win 8.1 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V on this type of machine, whichever you have a license for...
Or print chr(7)
AKA Control G, it triggered a bell sound...
Don't look to the US for sympathy - we paid a tax on our phone service for over a century to pay off the Spanish American War... 108 years to be precise !
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2006-05-25-phone-tax_x.htm
Error? More like bad coding - it relied on the processor clearing the return/exit status register originally, and once the 'error' was 'corrected' it doubled the size of the program (from one BR14 instruction to a load instruction and then the branch instruction).
That code is now 50 years old.
If not for the arbitrary 'three line' lower limit I'd say IEFBR14 - it is probably the most common OS360 -> 'Whatever they call MVS now' utility and it's only one line long...
It is used to allow programmers to manage files on mainframes by triggering all the job set-up and tear-down processing, deleting, creating, versioning files on mainframes.
Actually, it WAS only one instruction long, a branch instruction, but in the late 70's they doubled the length of it by loading a zero in the return status register with a load instruction.
This code has been running on IBM mainframes for nearly 50 years!
That's why you should bring a silencer with you - no one would know what happened until the lights come back up...
You have a warped sense of humor...
It also shows you how 'full of crap' these gun free zones (like movie theaters) are... Why didn't the shooter obey the law, as noted on the sticker by the theater door that 'weapons are not allowed'?
If the test accurately covers the required curriculum, so-called 'teaching to the test' is EXACTLY what is called for.
If the test doesn't represent the curriculum accurately, fix it.
If the teacher can't/won't teach the curriculum, replace them.
Teachers that find the required curriculum 'limiting' May very we'll be using that hand-wavey argument to mask personal shortcomings. They may not, but they may be.
Charter schools typically have similar educational success for fewer dollars than 'regular' public schools.
Many critics complain that the results are 'only' comparable, not the promised 'better' - but they miss the point. Typically students that flock to charter schools are escaping below-average public schools, so their individual educational experience is greatly improved.
Charter schools typically operate on shoe-string budgets that gives them fewer dollars to spend per student, leaving more money behind for those students still in public schools.
The problem is, as children flee under-performing schools, districts are saddled with a surplus of ineffective teachers (that's why the kids flee, remember), and they typically remain employed due to tenure, pushing out younger, usually more enthusiastic/energetic teachers through seniority.
The biggest opponent if charter schools are typically the teacher's unions - and remember what the primary focus of teacher's unions are; not the improvement of the education process, not the most effective use of precious taxpayer dollars, etc. - no, they are focused on protecting the rights of ALL teachers (good and bad) and maximizing teacher pay & benefits. If costs are reduced or effectiveness is increased, teacher's unions aren't opposed that, they just won't sacrifice their member's pay and benefits to make it happen.
When was the last time a teacher's union accepted a pay freeze or cut to fund building improvements, replacement textbooks, technology or increases in the teaching staff?
Interesting sentence, let's break it down:
First, let's tackle this one:
First off, where are the bulk of food stamp benefits going, to "the ghetto" or to millions and millions of struggling Americans in the suburbs?
Second - "Grocery stores are a bit rare"? Are you sure?
Third - "and those few which exist usually charge exorbitant prices while providing very little in the way of variety":
Source: Food Deserts and Obesity Role Challenged in Studies
Source: Food Deserts and Obesity Role Challenged in Studies
Finally, "(and don't ask about the produce.)" - why not? is it because, as I suspect, it isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be?
Do you know what it means to qualify for a "free lunch"? It means that 1/3rd of the child's daily meals are provided by a school cafeteria, prepared by chefs, and designed by nutritionists. It also means they qualify for a free hot breakfast at school in the morning in many cities. That's 2/3rds of the child's meals provided for FREE, in addition to SNAP/Food Stamp programs.
Every month the federal government air lifts in millions of dollars into "ghettos" as part of a program designed to only pay for food - don't you think that would attract a few food retailers?
From the synopsis:
Just so we're clear, Democrats also want to cut SNAP/Food Stamps, just not as much as Republicans do.
So $2 Billion/year cuts in Food Stamps leads to a $1.5 Billion/year increase in healthcare costs - sounds like a way to save a half billion dollars/year... Put another way, we need to spend $2 Billion in food subsidies to save $1.5 Billion in healthcare costs.
Thankfully, our current food sources are not dependent on the climate.
Seriously?!
...that they weren't crushed by the dinosaurs?