And anyone who tells you that life/should/ be completely/unfair/ is a bigger idiot. Life isn't fair, but that isn't an excuse to intentionally make it unfair.
I've never understood the opinion of people that simply say "life isn't fair, the end". Do you get angry if a murderer goes without punishment? Would you be angry if you were falsely imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit? If you answered yes to either question then you're a hypocrite.
You are completely ignoring the fact that discrimination is illegal, as it should be.
Failing to hire someone because of your personal opinion of them is biased and illegal. Your argument just as well defends bigots that have a poor opinion of all black people and thus refuse to hire them.
You're half right. It's for SOCIETY (not society minus him) to decide what the proper punishment is for his actions. This punishment takes the form of fines, jail time, etc. Once he has completed those, he has paid his debt to society and his punishment is over.
Now, he was never charged, so he has no debt to pay, so his punishment is over, the end.
"HR will be suspicious of anyone with no online identity at all." Just what in the hell are you basing this bullshit claim off of? This makes both absolutely no sense, I have never heard of any company not hiring people because of a lack of facebook/myspace activity. This shouldn't be rated up to +5 without some serious evidence to back up this claim.
He was "generally not as mature as others"? Do you have any examples, or are you perhaps just finding flaws that didn't exist until you were biased against him by this ruling? If you hear "so and so is a bad person", you're going to be more likely to find random fault with them simply because you're biased.
If your employer asks you about this then deny everything. Like you said, you have no criminal record, you never had any charges filed, and you weren't involved with the making or distribution of this magazine. Tell your employer you have no idea what the zine is talking about. You've never seen it before and it has nothing to do with you. Interviewer: "We found this online." You: "Hmmm? What is this? Wow, that's interesting, I've never seen that before. No idea what this is talking about, must be another guy with a similar name. Well, whatever, what other questions did you have for me?"
If he presses the matter then simply say that you have no idea what the paper is on about and that if he has any doubts then he should go re-run your background check. Even if your name is unusual, your clean background check should be a pretty damn good way to "prove" that you've never done anything illegal.
You are aware that iron rusts like a bitch, right?
There's also a lot more to worry about than electrical conductivity. You're passing a DC current through this which means you will have oxidation where this metal meets other metals if you aren't very careful.
This is why aluminum wiring in houses is a problem. The aluminum wiring is fine by itself, but if you try to use copper in the same house then you'll end up starting a fire in short order. In houses that DO have both Al and Cu in the walls, electricians have to install special junctions that allow the two to meet without literally corroding each other.
As for using iron in a car: this is going to be used in a wet condition, probably also with road salts (which increases conductivity), with electrical current. Your wires won't last more than a month if you're lucky.
Send your DA a letter a day. Not an email, a physical letter. And yes, contact the EFF. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that needs to see its way into the courts. Especially because this was your own book, there's no grey area where someone might have actually violated copyright, this is a clear cut case where you did absolutely no wrong whatsoever.
Except that this isn't necessarily signed by both parties. The letter isn't ever signed by the school. Even if this was the case, he couldn't be held to the first contract because he never agreed to it in any matter (verbal or otherwise).
Now, the entire point of submitting a different letter is to void the "contract". You give them some bullshit, they give you internet access. I can't see how this is fraud. He returns a signed letter. He's not being deceptive with poor wording, or trying to obfuscate something. Everything is right there in plain English. If the university doesn't bother to read the letter he sent, that's their loss.
Think about it. If the university doesn't have to read the signed letters they receive, then they could just as easily claim that their junk mail is letters admitting copyright infringement.
If you read this post, you owe me me $1000. By doing nothing you agree to pay this money, in full, within 1 (one) business week. You must opt out of this by filling out a ream of paperwork which I will not provide you if you wish to avoid paying this money. If I do not receive this money in a timely manner, further legal action will be taken.
What country are YOU in? Furthermore, what state/province? Minimum wage varies a whole fucking lot based on location and country. The cost of living varies from place to place and therefore so does the minimum wage. $8/hr sounds reasonable for an hourly entry-level shit-job worker where I'm located, which is pretty much what he's doing.
The only way I've seen of blacking out reports (non-electronically) is to lay heavy black or white paper between the copy machine/scanner and the page being copied/scanned. This way the text doesn't show through the blacking out. It also doesn't mess with the original document so no one is fooled into thinking it's safe to throw away the original with black marker on it. It's either put back in the file or shredded and destroyed properly.
A barrel roll is actually a 1 G maneuver that if performed correctly no one will notice until they look out their window. You're probably thinking of a snap roll (plane spins around the axis running down the fuselage). This would injure the terrorists... and everyone else on the plane... and break the plane and crash and burn.
You can perform a barrel roll in Boeing commercial airliners, and someone actually did so with a 707 when they introduced the model during an airshow. You can't do it in an airbus because the computers on those aircraft think they know better than you and will override you if they don't like what you're doing. This has, of course, caused a couple huge accidents. If a Boeing craft doesn't like you, it'll beep a lot, probably shout at you, but won't override you.
"3. People are made of squishy stuff, and are therefore easy to explode. 4. Planes are made of metal which is much stronger than people, so they are harder to explode. And before you mention fuel, the fuel is inside the metal."
OK, you lost me there. See, by this logic, the titanic was an inside job. Metal is harder than ice... duh, obviously the titanic (METAL) could not have been sunk by an iceburg (ICE)!!!
Sure, the plane is made of metal. You don't have to vaporize the fucking airplane, only disable certain parts of it. For example, blow a huge hole in it, it's no longer aerodynamic and it's going to go down. Take out part of the fuselage and all of a sudden it looses it's structural integrity. It doesn't matter that the plane is made of strong metal if the wings are fucking blown off. The fuel tanks are "inside the metal", but it doesn't take an amazingly large hole to get the fuel out of the metal.
If you disable the hydraulic lines to the rudder, the craft looses the ability to steer well. You sever the aileron controls to one side of the craft and it's completely fucked.
That doesn't make sense. Rotation should occur the same speed in both directions regardless of where the axis of rotation is placed. Rotating about a point outside and to the left of you is awkward, yes, but you don't rotate faster in one direction than the other.
Now, because part of your screen is covered by your character, you have to rotate FARTHER to see everything coming from your left. But speed doesn't factor into it.
Jack Thompson, you've moved to slashdot. Your so called "public safety measure" is really censorship. Normally I'd tell you to get the hell out of my country but, well, you already did. So, good job. I commend you. Most people who live in the US throw away their freedom and ruin it for the rest of us. You actually did the proper thing and moved to a country where you don't have that freedom in the first place.
"Unfortunately the publishers boycotting nations will do nothing."
It sure as hell will have an impact when the government realizes that they've lost all their tax revenue from video games because 80% of them aren't being sold there anymore.
"How do you refuse when they are backed with the full force of law?"
You do something illegal. Very simple. Armed rebellion IS a legitimate choice.
I'm surprised to hear all of this "I want to change the government because it is poor and doesn't represent my interests.... but I won't do anything illegal". FUCKING PICK ONE. Either put up with the bullshit, or do something about it, don't sit there and bitch like a whiney fuck.
I don't know how you think that you won't save money. If you bother to go actually research this then you'll find you're wrong. I'm looking into buying a new computer and all the parts on newegg are cheaper than anything remotely comparable pre-built.
"Any sound can be decomposed into a series of overlapping sine waves"
Let's examine this for a second. Yes, if you were to perform a Fourier transform on any sound, you would decompose it into a series of sine waves. A SERIES of sine waves... SERIES as in MULTIPLE.
You take the FT of the bullshit in the above video and you get ONE sine wave, not a SERIES. Something that generates a single sine wave is a tone generator. Sure, a tone generator can be used as an instrument, but if you believe that you can compose an entire orchestra with a bunch of tone generators, you're either an idiot, tone deaf, or don't understand what music is.
You find me an "electronic instrument" (fancy name for a multi-tone tone generator) that sounds like a real instrument and I'll eat my hat. You have the same problem with these "electronic drum sets". The ones that have these pads instead of drums and the synth plays tones to an amp. They cost about 5 times as much as moderate level drum kit, but sound like someone making "bump, pish" noises with their mouth.
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And anyone who tells you that life /should/ be completely /unfair/ is a bigger idiot. Life isn't fair, but that isn't an excuse to intentionally make it unfair.
I've never understood the opinion of people that simply say "life isn't fair, the end". Do you get angry if a murderer goes without punishment? Would you be angry if you were falsely imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit? If you answered yes to either question then you're a hypocrite.
You are completely ignoring the fact that discrimination is illegal, as it should be.
Failing to hire someone because of your personal opinion of them is biased and illegal. Your argument just as well defends bigots that have a poor opinion of all black people and thus refuse to hire them.
You're half right. It's for SOCIETY (not society minus him) to decide what the proper punishment is for his actions. This punishment takes the form of fines, jail time, etc. Once he has completed those, he has paid his debt to society and his punishment is over.
Now, he was never charged, so he has no debt to pay, so his punishment is over, the end.
"HR will be suspicious of anyone with no online identity at all."
Just what in the hell are you basing this bullshit claim off of? This makes both absolutely no sense, I have never heard of any company not hiring people because of a lack of facebook/myspace activity. This shouldn't be rated up to +5 without some serious evidence to back up this claim.
He was "generally not as mature as others"? Do you have any examples, or are you perhaps just finding flaws that didn't exist until you were biased against him by this ruling? If you hear "so and so is a bad person", you're going to be more likely to find random fault with them simply because you're biased.
If your employer asks you about this then deny everything.
Like you said, you have no criminal record, you never had any charges filed, and you weren't involved with the making or distribution of this magazine. Tell your employer you have no idea what the zine is talking about. You've never seen it before and it has nothing to do with you.
Interviewer: "We found this online."
You: "Hmmm? What is this? Wow, that's interesting, I've never seen that before. No idea what this is talking about, must be another guy with a similar name. Well, whatever, what other questions did you have for me?"
If he presses the matter then simply say that you have no idea what the paper is on about and that if he has any doubts then he should go re-run your background check. Even if your name is unusual, your clean background check should be a pretty damn good way to "prove" that you've never done anything illegal.
You are aware that iron rusts like a bitch, right?
There's also a lot more to worry about than electrical conductivity. You're passing a DC current through this which means you will have oxidation where this metal meets other metals if you aren't very careful.
This is why aluminum wiring in houses is a problem. The aluminum wiring is fine by itself, but if you try to use copper in the same house then you'll end up starting a fire in short order. In houses that DO have both Al and Cu in the walls, electricians have to install special junctions that allow the two to meet without literally corroding each other.
As for using iron in a car: this is going to be used in a wet condition, probably also with road salts (which increases conductivity), with electrical current. Your wires won't last more than a month if you're lucky.
Send your DA a letter a day. Not an email, a physical letter. And yes, contact the EFF. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that needs to see its way into the courts. Especially because this was your own book, there's no grey area where someone might have actually violated copyright, this is a clear cut case where you did absolutely no wrong whatsoever.
Except that this isn't necessarily signed by both parties. The letter isn't ever signed by the school. Even if this was the case, he couldn't be held to the first contract because he never agreed to it in any matter (verbal or otherwise).
Now, the entire point of submitting a different letter is to void the "contract". You give them some bullshit, they give you internet access. I can't see how this is fraud. He returns a signed letter. He's not being deceptive with poor wording, or trying to obfuscate something. Everything is right there in plain English. If the university doesn't bother to read the letter he sent, that's their loss.
Think about it. If the university doesn't have to read the signed letters they receive, then they could just as easily claim that their junk mail is letters admitting copyright infringement.
If you read this post, you owe me me $1000. By doing nothing you agree to pay this money, in full, within 1 (one) business week. You must opt out of this by filling out a ream of paperwork which I will not provide you if you wish to avoid paying this money. If I do not receive this money in a timely manner, further legal action will be taken.
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What country are YOU in? Furthermore, what state/province? Minimum wage varies a whole fucking lot based on location and country. The cost of living varies from place to place and therefore so does the minimum wage. $8/hr sounds reasonable for an hourly entry-level shit-job worker where I'm located, which is pretty much what he's doing.
The only way I've seen of blacking out reports (non-electronically) is to lay heavy black or white paper between the copy machine/scanner and the page being copied/scanned. This way the text doesn't show through the blacking out. It also doesn't mess with the original document so no one is fooled into thinking it's safe to throw away the original with black marker on it. It's either put back in the file or shredded and destroyed properly.
A barrel roll is actually a 1 G maneuver that if performed correctly no one will notice until they look out their window. You're probably thinking of a snap roll (plane spins around the axis running down the fuselage). This would injure the terrorists... and everyone else on the plane... and break the plane and crash and burn.
You can perform a barrel roll in Boeing commercial airliners, and someone actually did so with a 707 when they introduced the model during an airshow. You can't do it in an airbus because the computers on those aircraft think they know better than you and will override you if they don't like what you're doing. This has, of course, caused a couple huge accidents. If a Boeing craft doesn't like you, it'll beep a lot, probably shout at you, but won't override you.
And before you go through the FIRST checkpoint? At some point, there is a first checkpoint.
"3. People are made of squishy stuff, and are therefore easy to explode.
4. Planes are made of metal which is much stronger than people, so they are harder to explode. And before you mention fuel, the fuel is inside the metal."
OK, you lost me there. See, by this logic, the titanic was an inside job. Metal is harder than ice... duh, obviously the titanic (METAL) could not have been sunk by an iceburg (ICE)!!!
Sure, the plane is made of metal. You don't have to vaporize the fucking airplane, only disable certain parts of it. For example, blow a huge hole in it, it's no longer aerodynamic and it's going to go down. Take out part of the fuselage and all of a sudden it looses it's structural integrity. It doesn't matter that the plane is made of strong metal if the wings are fucking blown off. The fuel tanks are "inside the metal", but it doesn't take an amazingly large hole to get the fuel out of the metal.
If you disable the hydraulic lines to the rudder, the craft looses the ability to steer well. You sever the aileron controls to one side of the craft and it's completely fucked.
That doesn't make sense. Rotation should occur the same speed in both directions regardless of where the axis of rotation is placed. Rotating about a point outside and to the left of you is awkward, yes, but you don't rotate faster in one direction than the other.
Now, because part of your screen is covered by your character, you have to rotate FARTHER to see everything coming from your left. But speed doesn't factor into it.
It's a sad day when politicians don't get praise for campaigning for the rights of American citizens.
Jack Thompson, you've moved to slashdot. Your so called "public safety measure" is really censorship.
Normally I'd tell you to get the hell out of my country but, well, you already did. So, good job. I commend you. Most people who live in the US throw away their freedom and ruin it for the rest of us. You actually did the proper thing and moved to a country where you don't have that freedom in the first place.
Thank you, really, thank you.
"Unfortunately the publishers boycotting nations will do nothing."
It sure as hell will have an impact when the government realizes that they've lost all their tax revenue from video games because 80% of them aren't being sold there anymore.
"How do you refuse when they are backed with the full force of law?"
You do something illegal. Very simple. Armed rebellion IS a legitimate choice.
I'm surprised to hear all of this "I want to change the government because it is poor and doesn't represent my interests.... but I won't do anything illegal". FUCKING PICK ONE. Either put up with the bullshit, or do something about it, don't sit there and bitch like a whiney fuck.
I don't know how you think that you won't save money. If you bother to go actually research this then you'll find you're wrong. I'm looking into buying a new computer and all the parts on newegg are cheaper than anything remotely comparable pre-built.
No, it was from Pystar!
"Any sound can be decomposed into a series of overlapping sine waves"
Let's examine this for a second.
Yes, if you were to perform a Fourier transform on any sound, you would decompose it into a series of sine waves. A SERIES of sine waves... SERIES as in MULTIPLE.
You take the FT of the bullshit in the above video and you get ONE sine wave, not a SERIES. Something that generates a single sine wave is a tone generator. Sure, a tone generator can be used as an instrument, but if you believe that you can compose an entire orchestra with a bunch of tone generators, you're either an idiot, tone deaf, or don't understand what music is.
If you wish to code an apple from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
You find me an "electronic instrument" (fancy name for a multi-tone tone generator) that sounds like a real instrument and I'll eat my hat. You have the same problem with these "electronic drum sets". The ones that have these pads instead of drums and the synth plays tones to an amp. They cost about 5 times as much as moderate level drum kit, but sound like someone making "bump, pish" noises with their mouth.