Were there an actual McDonalds restaurant covered by this ruling (I don't think there is, based on other posts here since the ruling only impacts unincorporated parts of Santa Clara County), I wonder how long it would take for them to offer the toys as a 1 cent extra item for each child meal ordered?
Why didn't the legislators go after the low-ball prices on the Happy Meals, pricing the food & toy packages under cost to attract low-income families to try and save some money by buying lower-cost meals for their children? They are, in effect, forcing lower-income families to feed their kids this unhealthy food because it is cheaper than the healthy food...
They should ban all discounted children's meals unless the restaurant serves only healthy foods in their discounted children's meals...
Then again, why not just ban the fast food resturants, since we'll al be on public healthcare soon enough, why should I subsidise your excessive healthcare costs because you are overly fond of bacon cheese burgers?
I am, of course, being sarcastic - the nanny state isn't against free-choice, they are for limiting the choices you can select from - that's entirely different...
Delgado told the supervisors that parents who come into his clinic say they often buy Happy Meals and other fast food for their children because of the toys that are included.
Uh, yeah right - otherwise, if not for the toys, these parents would have gone home and prepared a balanced, sensible meal for their child, but because a hot wheels car is offered, they feed their kids happy meals...
Delgado said that the obese children coming into his clinic include a 5-year-old with Type-2 diabetes.
One kid?! He's extrapolating a pattern across the county based on one 5 year-old?
You left out one word in your last sentence, let me help you out;^)
Also, there is the obvious issue that you can't effectivelytell the difference between US citizens (which are not required to carry nor show ID), tourists, legal aliens, and illegal immigrants without racial profiling.
Illegal aliens come in all sizes, colors, and genders, that most illegals in AZ have a certain skin color might make the job easier, but there are people here in US who have overstayed their visas, etc. that are just as illegal...
Federal immigration law requires that all non-US citizens, including H-1B workers, to carry documentation, but 'no state until Arizona has made it a crime to not have that paperwork on your person,' said immigration lawyer Sarah Hawk.
So, exisiting law, being enforced - Oh, those haters in AZ!
It means that an H-1B holder risks detention every time they make a 7-11 run if they don't have their papers, or if their paperwork is out of date because US immigration authorities are behind in processing (which condition does not make them illegal).
What is the penalty for failure to produce my driver's license on that same "7-11 run"? How about if I forget my car insurance paperwork? Registration?
Requiring paperwork is nothing extra-ordinary, and if I understand the first excerpt above, when foreign nationals choose to come to America and work/live here under H-1B, Student, and other visas, they agreed to carry their paperwork with them - it was a condition on the offer to come her, in effect.
Is the argument that existing laws can not be enforced, or is it that AZ is the wrong entity to enforce these laws? If the Federal Government won't enforce their own existing laws, and (apparently) has no interest in changing the existing laws, then who will? Remember, AZ is mirroring existing federal law, if the federal law were changed, AZ would be forced to change it's laws.
USB Floppies work, if the server BIOS supports them - the installer leans on the BIOS for device access during the early steps in the install process, so the issue is the BIOS, not the software.
I was assembling parts to build two "identical" machines for use in teaching myself about Windows Clusters under Hyper-V, and I paused when I saw $4.99 floppy drives at the retailer... I thought about it, but in the end, I choose not to because the chassis I am planning on using doesn't have an external 3 1/2" drive bay to hold the floppy drive.
Yes, the MB has a floppy controller, though that is becoming less common these days as well.
At work I keep a stash of new, unused, 3 1/2" floppies for use when there is no other option (we use a lot of older servers and desktops - older means 5-8 years old), and maybe twice a year it is just easier to use a floppy for some thing (like random BIOS update, server firmware update, etc.)... Typically there are other options, but sometimes the floppy drive option is easiest.
I started my career as a mainframe operator, then Programmer/Analyst, then supporting mainframe application development software users, then working to migrate a "Ma Bell" Telco application from MVS/IMS DB & DC environment to Sun Solaris and Oracle.
I never understood why everyone, for the last 20+ years, thought the mainframe was dying... I bet I could do another 20 years as a mainframe programmer if I wanted to...
Again, you're running 8 year-old software, it is YOU that insists on running software that requires a floppy drive, MS has moved on - your required apps have prevented you from following MS's lead...
Their current software doesn't require floppies, their old software does.
I can't wait for the mainframe to finally succomb to market realities and die - the mainframe has been on the verge of extinction for my entire career in computing, which started in the mid-80's...
Windows 2008 allows you to use USB keys, CD-ROMs, USB floppy drives and other means to get the driver into the OS.
Windows Server 2003 still wants a floppy disk, but there are ways around it - many server mfgs provide "virtual" floppy drives, USB floppy drives are supported, and slipstreaming the driver onto the install media is another option.
Let's not forget that Windows Server 2003 came out about 7 years ago, just because you are installing it today doesn't change the operating system.
A truely smart power meter would have several variables to consider at any one time:
0) Current temperature 1) Desired temperature 2) Time of day 3) Day of week 4) Season 5) Current price of electricity 6) Demand level
The first four are very standard, season may or may not be common, but the last two variables are what make a smart thermostat truely smart. It would allow the consumer to respond to price fluctuations/dynamic pricing from the utility and it would also allow the consumer to opt-in to avoid brown or black-outs.
I've heard of plans that allowed the utility to toggle off AC during peak demand with certain guarantees (only so often, only for so long each time, etc), but not where the control goes down to the temperature level.
The programs I'm familiar with give the user a cash incentive when control might be exercised (hot, high-demand summer months), and was 100% opt-in. We participated in one of those programs and never noticed the AC going off, but realized actual cash savings, both from the line item credit on the electric bill AND from using slightly less power.
There's an even easier way (and it's been done) - the gov't decided that telco's had to lease network elements to their competitors at rates set by the federal gov't. Want to offer DSL service in a Verizon service area - no problem, you just pay Verizon a few dollars a month for the ports you need - no up front investment (on your part, huge up-front investments for Verizon)...
Oddly, though the Cable Co's thought this was a great thing for the Telco's, they thought it unreasonable when the Telco's wanted to lease Cable Co network elements and had is quashed.
The "lease your competitors network elements" plan was part of the "so you want to be a Long Distance Carrier" deal.
I had a coax line snap in my yard (from the pedestal to the house dmarc point), and when I called the Cable Co. they sent a fellow out right away, he found the problem and ran a temporary above ground coax and put in a ticket for the "trencher" to run a new underground line. Fine.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
(that was not a typo, it happened three times like clockwork)
I called the Cable Co, spoke to the service manager for my area, he sympathised, but said there was only one trencher for my part of NJ. I asked him what "my part of NJ" meant - he indicated South Jersey (aka half the state).
It took two more weeks before the trencher came. My lawn cutters learned to avoid the cable the last few weeks...
Cable Co was/is Comcast.
My last question for the Service Manager was "exactly how expensive are these trenchers?" He said if it were up to him he'd have one in his "barn", but it wasn't...
Who owns the copper pairs? The right-of-ways were given to the Telcos, and I believe they funded the copper wiring plant with the proceeds of their (one time) monopoly, but the RBOCs gave up their monoplies long ago for the siren song of "Long Distance"...
I think the Telcos own the copper wiring plant, and FiOS installs ARE expensive. They don't force customers to switch to FiOS, and the copper pairs only lead back to the telco's central office - and, IIRC, telcos are required to provide 911 service on any wires that run back to the CO, so cutting the copper frees up a port on the switch back at the CO, helping to defer future investments in the switch to add ports.
But a lot of times, K-12, Internet is heavily filtered to block sites offering even non-pornographic entertainment, to the point where it interferes with legitimate course work.
I'll assume that the word "entertainment" isn't really what you meant (we can argue about the value of entertainment in an educational setting if you like;^), but I'll respond to the crux of your point - they filter because they have to - it's a federal requirement, called CIPA, filtering must be in-place before the school can receive eRate funding (federal money for their technology expenditures).
How many houses are passed by FiOS, Comcast, Time Warner, etc. residential broadband services and opt out? We need to understand why.
Do any of those "out-opt'ers" cite lack of speed as a reason? I bet not, I bet they either don't see the need OR can't/choose not to invest in a home computer and on-going monthly expenses.
Many workplaces are wired for internet access, millions of smart phones have some form of internet access, nearly every school building in America is wired to a high-speed internet connection (K-12 and college/university), as are most public libraries (the last two thanks in large part to tax subsidies paid, in no small part, by homes with more than one phone line), and let's not forget book stores, coffee shops, "grilled sandwich" shops, and, last but not least, your neighbor's "open" WiFi connection - the vast majority of Americans have a plethora of choices, and if they feel they need more choices, they need to work on their local PUC that authorizes the monopolies and duopolies in 91% of America.
I went to Amazon on the link provided above and found the specs for the system as follows:
300 Watt Case - $39 ATX MB - $44 AMD 1300 2.3 GHz CPU - $44 160 Gig HD - $39 1 Gig RAM - $13 CD/DVD-R/W - $24
His book mentions a website (http://www.webfreebees.net/howtobuildpc.html) but the website is down or otherwise having problems (slashdotted?)
The author's accomplishment seems fairly minor - he built a fairly low-spec computer for $200 (or 2,000 dimes, by my count, not one;^) and installed a free OS on it. That's a book deal-worthy project?
James Kelly shows how easy it is to build a computer and install a complete software suite for US$200 excluding monitor, keyboard, and mouse. You can't even buy the operating system and anti-malware protection for Microsoft Windows for that, let alone have any money left over for hardware and productivity software!
I can buy a retail copy of Windows 7 Home Premium for $179.99 at Newegg, with shipping for another $1.99[0], and Microsoft Security Essentials is free for download[1], and a very reasonable product for many users.[2]
Also, I can get an Acer Aspire REVO at Bestbuy for a nickle under $200, with a copy of Windows XP SP3 included.[3]
I can't wait to see the specs on the $200 computer build outlined in this "outdated before it was published" book... Also, didn't this book come out a while ago? At least 4-6 months ago - are the parts listed even still commonly available?
The goal of a terrorist is to terrorize their enemies. Were this to be implemented as described - a small sensor in millions of cell phones scattered across the country, alerting a central monitoring station - they've made the job of the terrorists much easier. Rather than trigger a device to release posion, explosions, etc., now all a terrorist need do is disperse sufficient amounts of "poisons" to trigger detection and cause panic...
And once the terrorists cause the Gov't to "cry Wolf" too many times, the public will ignore the warnings.
The guide is the service you pay for. Comcast loans you the hardware so you'll subscribe to the guide. TiVo Sells you the hardware and requires you to subscribe to the guide. Your home-brewed DVR would rely on someone else providing you a free guide....
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Why let the kids pick? Seriously, try being their parent, not their cool older friend with a car and money for McDonalds...
(Nothing personal, your post read as if you were helpless to the whims of your children...)
Were there an actual McDonalds restaurant covered by this ruling (I don't think there is, based on other posts here since the ruling only impacts unincorporated parts of Santa Clara County), I wonder how long it would take for them to offer the toys as a 1 cent extra item for each child meal ordered?
Why didn't the legislators go after the low-ball prices on the Happy Meals, pricing the food & toy packages under cost to attract low-income families to try and save some money by buying lower-cost meals for their children? They are, in effect, forcing lower-income families to feed their kids this unhealthy food because it is cheaper than the healthy food...
They should ban all discounted children's meals unless the restaurant serves only healthy foods in their discounted children's meals...
Then again, why not just ban the fast food resturants, since we'll al be on public healthcare soon enough, why should I subsidise your excessive healthcare costs because you are overly fond of bacon cheese burgers?
I am, of course, being sarcastic - the nanny state isn't against free-choice, they are for limiting the choices you can select from - that's entirely different...
Uh, yeah right - otherwise, if not for the toys, these parents would have gone home and prepared a balanced, sensible meal for their child, but because a hot wheels car is offered, they feed their kids happy meals...
One kid?! He's extrapolating a pattern across the county based on one 5 year-old?
You left out one word in your last sentence, let me help you out ;^)
Illegal aliens come in all sizes, colors, and genders, that most illegals in AZ have a certain skin color might make the job easier, but there are people here in US who have overstayed their visas, etc. that are just as illegal...
From the excerpt above:
So, exisiting law, being enforced - Oh, those haters in AZ!
What is the penalty for failure to produce my driver's license on that same "7-11 run"? How about if I forget my car insurance paperwork? Registration?
Requiring paperwork is nothing extra-ordinary, and if I understand the first excerpt above, when foreign nationals choose to come to America and work/live here under H-1B, Student, and other visas, they agreed to carry their paperwork with them - it was a condition on the offer to come her, in effect.
Is the argument that existing laws can not be enforced, or is it that AZ is the wrong entity to enforce these laws? If the Federal Government won't enforce their own existing laws, and (apparently) has no interest in changing the existing laws, then who will? Remember, AZ is mirroring existing federal law, if the federal law were changed, AZ would be forced to change it's laws.
That actually makes sense...
USB Floppies work, if the server BIOS supports them - the installer leans on the BIOS for device access during the early steps in the install process, so the issue is the BIOS, not the software.
I was assembling parts to build two "identical" machines for use in teaching myself about Windows Clusters under Hyper-V, and I paused when I saw $4.99 floppy drives at the retailer... I thought about it, but in the end, I choose not to because the chassis I am planning on using doesn't have an external 3 1/2" drive bay to hold the floppy drive.
Yes, the MB has a floppy controller, though that is becoming less common these days as well.
At work I keep a stash of new, unused, 3 1/2" floppies for use when there is no other option (we use a lot of older servers and desktops - older means 5-8 years old), and maybe twice a year it is just easier to use a floppy for some thing (like random BIOS update, server firmware update, etc.)... Typically there are other options, but sometimes the floppy drive option is easiest.
Like process great big honkin data sets quickly? But how many people need to do work like that?
The power of mainframes is not just in the silicon, but in the languages and programming styles, IMHO.
Was my sarcasm too subtle?
I started my career as a mainframe operator, then Programmer/Analyst, then supporting mainframe application development software users, then working to migrate a "Ma Bell" Telco application from MVS/IMS DB & DC environment to Sun Solaris and Oracle.
I never understood why everyone, for the last 20+ years, thought the mainframe was dying... I bet I could do another 20 years as a mainframe programmer if I wanted to...
Again, you're running 8 year-old software, it is YOU that insists on running software that requires a floppy drive, MS has moved on - your required apps have prevented you from following MS's lead...
Their current software doesn't require floppies, their old software does.
I can't wait for the mainframe to finally succomb to market realities and die - the mainframe has been on the verge of extinction for my entire career in computing, which started in the mid-80's...
To borrow a line from Monty Python, "(It's) not dead yet!"
Windows 2008 allows you to use USB keys, CD-ROMs, USB floppy drives and other means to get the driver into the OS.
Windows Server 2003 still wants a floppy disk, but there are ways around it - many server mfgs provide "virtual" floppy drives, USB floppy drives are supported, and slipstreaming the driver onto the install media is another option.
Let's not forget that Windows Server 2003 came out about 7 years ago, just because you are installing it today doesn't change the operating system.
A truely smart power meter would have several variables to consider at any one time:
0) Current temperature
1) Desired temperature
2) Time of day
3) Day of week
4) Season
5) Current price of electricity
6) Demand level
The first four are very standard, season may or may not be common, but the last two variables are what make a smart thermostat truely smart. It would allow the consumer to respond to price fluctuations/dynamic pricing from the utility and it would also allow the consumer to opt-in to avoid brown or black-outs.
I've heard of plans that allowed the utility to toggle off AC during peak demand with certain guarantees (only so often, only for so long each time, etc), but not where the control goes down to the temperature level.
The programs I'm familiar with give the user a cash incentive when control might be exercised (hot, high-demand summer months), and was 100% opt-in. We participated in one of those programs and never noticed the AC going off, but realized actual cash savings, both from the line item credit on the electric bill AND from using slightly less power.
There's an even easier way (and it's been done) - the gov't decided that telco's had to lease network elements to their competitors at rates set by the federal gov't. Want to offer DSL service in a Verizon service area - no problem, you just pay Verizon a few dollars a month for the ports you need - no up front investment (on your part, huge up-front investments for Verizon)...
Oddly, though the Cable Co's thought this was a great thing for the Telco's, they thought it unreasonable when the Telco's wanted to lease Cable Co network elements and had is quashed.
The "lease your competitors network elements" plan was part of the "so you want to be a Long Distance Carrier" deal.
I had a coax line snap in my yard (from the pedestal to the house dmarc point), and when I called the Cable Co. they sent a fellow out right away, he found the problem and ran a temporary above ground coax and put in a ticket for the "trencher" to run a new underground line. Fine.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
A week goes by, no trencher, and my lawn service cut the coax. Cable Co. responded quickly, ran new cable, back up in no time.
(that was not a typo, it happened three times like clockwork)
I called the Cable Co, spoke to the service manager for my area, he sympathised, but said there was only one trencher for my part of NJ. I asked him what "my part of NJ" meant - he indicated South Jersey (aka half the state).
It took two more weeks before the trencher came. My lawn cutters learned to avoid the cable the last few weeks...
Cable Co was/is Comcast.
My last question for the Service Manager was "exactly how expensive are these trenchers?" He said if it were up to him he'd have one in his "barn", but it wasn't...
He also misspelled "secede"
Who owns the copper pairs? The right-of-ways were given to the Telcos, and I believe they funded the copper wiring plant with the proceeds of their (one time) monopoly, but the RBOCs gave up their monoplies long ago for the siren song of "Long Distance"...
I think the Telcos own the copper wiring plant, and FiOS installs ARE expensive. They don't force customers to switch to FiOS, and the copper pairs only lead back to the telco's central office - and, IIRC, telcos are required to provide 911 service on any wires that run back to the CO, so cutting the copper frees up a port on the switch back at the CO, helping to defer future investments in the switch to add ports.
I'll assume that the word "entertainment" isn't really what you meant (we can argue about the value of entertainment in an educational setting if you like ;^), but I'll respond to the crux of your point - they filter because they have to - it's a federal requirement, called CIPA, filtering must be in-place before the school can receive eRate funding (federal money for their technology expenditures).
Links:
CIPA: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html
eRate: http://www2.ed.gov/Technology/overview.html
How many houses are passed by FiOS, Comcast, Time Warner, etc. residential broadband services and opt out? We need to understand why.
Do any of those "out-opt'ers" cite lack of speed as a reason? I bet not, I bet they either don't see the need OR can't/choose not to invest in a home computer and on-going monthly expenses.
Many workplaces are wired for internet access, millions of smart phones have some form of internet access, nearly every school building in America is wired to a high-speed internet connection (K-12 and college/university), as are most public libraries (the last two thanks in large part to tax subsidies paid, in no small part, by homes with more than one phone line), and let's not forget book stores, coffee shops, "grilled sandwich" shops, and, last but not least, your neighbor's "open" WiFi connection - the vast majority of Americans have a plethora of choices, and if they feel they need more choices, they need to work on their local PUC that authorizes the monopolies and duopolies in 91% of America.
I went to Amazon on the link provided above and found the specs for the system as follows:
300 Watt Case - $39
ATX MB - $44
AMD 1300 2.3 GHz CPU - $44
160 Gig HD - $39
1 Gig RAM - $13
CD/DVD-R/W - $24
His book mentions a website (http://www.webfreebees.net/howtobuildpc.html) but the website is down or otherwise having problems (slashdotted?)
The author's accomplishment seems fairly minor - he built a fairly low-spec computer for $200 (or 2,000 dimes, by my count, not one ;^) and installed a free OS on it. That's a book deal-worthy project?
From the original post:
I can buy a retail copy of Windows 7 Home Premium for $179.99 at Newegg, with shipping for another $1.99[0], and Microsoft Security Essentials is free for download[1], and a very reasonable product for many users.[2]
Also, I can get an Acer Aspire REVO at Bestbuy for a nickle under $200, with a copy of Windows XP SP3 included.[3]
I can't wait to see the specs on the $200 computer build outlined in this "outdated before it was published" book... Also, didn't this book come out a while ago? At least 4-6 months ago - are the parts listed even still commonly available?
[0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116716&cm_re=windows_7_home_retail-_-32-116-716-_-Product
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us
[2] http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/mse.asp
[3] http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Acer+-+AspireRevo+Nettop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Atom%26%23153%3B+Processor/9535434.p?id=1218120545008&skuId=9535434
The goal of a terrorist is to terrorize their enemies. Were this to be implemented as described - a small sensor in millions of cell phones scattered across the country, alerting a central monitoring station - they've made the job of the terrorists much easier. Rather than trigger a device to release posion, explosions, etc., now all a terrorist need do is disperse sufficient amounts of "poisons" to trigger detection and cause panic...
And once the terrorists cause the Gov't to "cry Wolf" too many times, the public will ignore the warnings.
The guide is the service you pay for. Comcast loans you the hardware so you'll subscribe to the guide. TiVo Sells you the hardware and requires you to subscribe to the guide. Your home-brewed DVR would rely on someone else providing you a free guide....