Somehow, I think we're missing a part of this story. Was there a fight just before she happen to kick the door in? Was there an history between the superintendent and her?
Actually, I think you're just not reading it. She kicked at a stuck door in an attempt to get back to work. I've certainly kicked the frame of more than one jammed door - especially since you can't hipcheck a glass door.
From the parent:
My 18 year old daughter is getting charged with a FELONY for kicking a door. She was trying to get the jammed door open to get back to her work area,
This is true, this puts all IT admins who exit their job angrily, hijack the system and lock everyone else out in danger.
Except he:
didn't hijack the system. He built it from the ground up as the sole admin - he petitioned to have another qualified admin added, but it was rejected due to budget issues.
didn't have a reason to allow anyone else in the system - remember - sole admin from day 1.
As for exiting his job angrily - he was booted out & if you're honest most people who are booted for politics are angry. This is really a non issue - being gracious might get you a better recommendation, but probably not by the time you're being booted.
If he has a problem, legitimate or not, all he has to do is tinfoil the inside of his house (then drywall or plaster over it) and he'll make a nice Faraday cage so no EM will ever bother him again.
We already have this, it's called stucco - you just need to make sure you get the metal mesh support rather than the new fiberglass stuff.
Do they still delay maintenance on the mail servers to create a more favorable impression of the company? An image consultant told them that people have a more favorable impression of companies with whom they have a small easily fixed problem than companies they never have problems with - so they used to delay maintenance on the mail servers until they had problems, which created huge call spikes, but which were usually resolved before the spike was processed.
Is their install schedule still pushed out 30 days with a 'we hope to get to your cable outage within the next week or so' kind of scheduling for repairs? And does it seem that the techs still only know how to tell you to reboot and offer you a bundled package?
I worked as a cable modem tech while they were 'improving' their service just before they went bankrupt. They had no metric for solving problems, but scored your raise/bonus impressively for keeping your call time down. By the time they closed my call center, techs coming out of training were literally taught to tell people to reboot their computer and call back - which they would then do 3 or 4 times to the same customer. That was bad enough, but the only other thing they knew how to do was upsell - their 2 week training had more days of sales training than actual tech training.
Would the geek care to guess how much the Windows eco-system is worth to China? In sales of hardware, software, peripherals - and now services?
The software portion is about a nickle since the Chinese government sponsors research into how to better clone physical products, and in some places it's harder to find a legitimate copy of software than a $5 copy. As for the hardware & peripherals its pretty much irrelevant - they'll cost the same no matter what OS is running. You might have a point with services though - of course since most of the people and businesses have pirated copies of Windows, they probably won't call for much service.
Be interesting to get more detail on the phone server. Our local provider actually had a pretty good system and the price was right. Google Apps was very popular.
I run asterisk in a VPS. For $15 a month I get a private PBX that I can tap from anywhere in the world. Takes about 2-3 hours of work to get it up and running with extensions & voice-mail, if you're following the O'Rieley book. I pay $1/month for my phone number and 0.4 cents per minute incoming. Since I pay by minute, I don't have a limit on the number of calls. For about $9-15 a month you can get unlimited incoming and outgoing minutes, but it's usually limited to 2 simultaneous calls.
The practical limit is about 48 simultaneous calls or 96 active connections - above that and I would need to upgrade my server. For me, I get a business phone line, with the ability to do a conference call with more people than I care to talk to, for about $18/month including usage.
For people worried about backups etc, the VPS company has 4 locations with auto roll over and I get a backup stored on their servers and I can keep as many backups as I can be bothered with on my own. If they went out of business tomorrow, I could upload my image to any Parallels VPS provider and be back in business with an IP address change on the server and at my DID provider. Your mileage will of course vary depending on your VPS supplier.
If you want more info on the server itself, check out either Asterisk or Voip-Info.
Freedom of association and the right to espouse political views anonymously have been upheld frequently by the highest courts, so this is just a matter of paper politics.
You're mixing 2 things. Pornography is not in and of itself Obscene. Obscene requires failing all 3 points of the Miller test. A woman not wearing a burka but also not engaging in sexual conduct defined in the relevant state law would fail the 2nd test.
(2) This requires that someone know and understand all the laws of every community
Laws are easy to figure out. This requires that someone know and understand the mores of every community and how that interacts with each posting they make.
Don't get your hopes up for the Supreme court to rule sanely on this. They declared that there was 'no proof of substantially different moral standards' in Nitke v Ashcroft.
The actual root of the problem was a documentary on Hillary Clinton that was banned from being shown within 30 days of the election due to it's political content. Is there a way to ban Political Advertising without banning news/art with Political implications? Not in a formulaic way needed by law. SCOTUS therefore followed the normal doctrine of least restrictive and tossed the whole thing out.
Can you be extradited for something that isnt even a crime in the state you're in?
Absolutely. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts have an age of consent of 16. New York's is 17. Technically, ahould you take your 16 year old girlfriend from PA to MA and have sex. You can be charged in NY for transporting a minor across state lines for sex. Even though both your point of origin and point of sexual congress legally permit the act.
More directly on point, I can produce a series of fetish shots in NYC, make them available on the web, and be criminally charged and extradited to any state in the US if someone get's a bug up their ass about the content. This ruling explicitly states that it's acceptable to attempt an obscenity conviction from the most repressive place the prosecution can find.
Californians most certainly can be subject to Florida law, and it's a good thing too, else con men could get away with all sorts of mail or wire fraud schemes.
Those are covered under the mail fraud and wire fraud Federal Statutes. People don't get sued under state laws for that.
But presumably, if (e.g.) an amish community decided that the very concept of a website was obscene (rather than just objectionable or undesirable), it would be valid under this precedent for them to sue everyone who ever produced a website.
Fortunately, sort of, obscene in the US is required to meet the Miller test. Which means that only sexual material can be declared obscene since that's step 2. So the SAW movies can continue to rip people's chests open on screen without fear of prosecution. However, should we find a community of devout Victorians, we could happily prosecute people for showing Queen Ann furniture without table skirts - you do know that those delicately curved legs were just meant to be a substitute for a woman's ankles?
"Its also Unconstitutional, just like censorship."
But but if censorship is unconstitutional then how is banning childporn ok? (Seriously here) This state views obscene acts as... bad. So they not only banned them but banned the filmed material (to reduce the market apparently). Exact same as childporn. So... what's the difference?
SCOTUS has already declared that some speech is not protected speech - 'hate' speech, obscene speech, and speech to incite violence are all classes of speech that do not have constitutional protection. Really, hate & inciting speech are both essentially the same. You can say "I hate those niggers" and be constitutionally protected, however neither "Someone should run those wetbacks out of town" nor "Those fags need to be hurt" are. The problem is that the standard for both of them is the same across the country. If I espouse running people out of town based on their ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion or I attempt to incite violence against someone - it doesn't matter if I'm in the heart of the bible belt or standing in Times Square, the rules are the same.
Child Pornography was stripped of it's protection under the 'inciting harm' provision. A child is considered legally unable to consent to sexual acts, therefore all sexual acts conducted with a child are 'coerced' and harmful to the child. Since child pornography is the result of a coerced act, creating a market for the material is considered to be inciting harm. It's not the clearest path, nor is it without some problems in the actual legal arguments, however it is a cogent argument and it's standard is clear: pornography containing images of people under 18=illegal.
Contrast that with obscene materials where the definition is subject to both the jurors and the community in which the trial is being held:
The obscenity rules laid down in the Miller test are of a more "I know it when I see it" variety.
The Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Miller v. California sets out a 3 part standard for ruling content obscene:
an average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and
the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Let's work backwords:
3. the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
This is bluntly a wacked test. I'm not sure who defines 'value'. Does the book/movie Lolita have serious literary value? How about Robert Mapplethorpe's photography? I can get a conservative arts professor to come in and say that the Michelangelo's David is child pornography and lacks artistic value. For gods sake, someone please tell me "Oops, I did it again" doesn't get protection under 'serious artistic value'.
2. the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law;
Excuse me? Why are only depictions of sexual conduct eligible to loose their first amendment protections? I can happily display images of a person's chest being ripped open in a sadistic game (one of the SAW movies) but showing a bukkake session is grounds for 3 years in prison plus a RICO rap? If a work is 'patently offensive' enough to loose it's constitutional protection, what difference does the content make? Sex, violence, Tammy Faye Baker with her makeup running - whatever the content, it should be all or nothing. Singling out sexual behavior is just another example of our faux puritanism.
1. an average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient int
Banks don't create money? Let's see... They take in $1,000 in deposits and provides loan for $10,000 dollars worth of goods, based on only having to have a 10% reserve rate, seems they've created $9,000 in money to me. This is actually how our economy works, like a big pyramid scheme.
I think you need to re-read the documentation. The fractional reserve means they have to maintain that 'reserve' as cash on hand. That means for every dollar they bring in as a deposit, they can lend 90 cents. In order to lend 900% of their deposits, they would have to borrow money from other banks using the loan collateral as their collateral - they can't just pull money out of their asses.
Why should the ISPs enter into talks when they've already won in court?
<whine style=3 year old>Because I want them too! And if they don't I'm going to stamp my feet and cry! And, and, and my pet MP is going to pass a law and MAKE them.</whine>
why not just put some windows on one screen and some windows on another screen? it doesn't matter if the window manager considers it "one workspace", it'll still be 2 workspaces because they'll be on different physicals screens in real life.
I normally work with between 4 & 5 active desktops. A for dev work, B for monitoring the live servers, C for email/messaging, D for reference, and E for browsing. 50% of the time, I want B to stay up, but that other 50% of the time I may need:
C & A to answer or ask a question
D & A if I'm working on integrating 2 systems & need access to reference materials.
C & E or D & E if I'm sourcing materials for a project.
Having the desktop span 2 separate monitors doesn't allow that type of flexibility. I went with the 2 instances of X route to solve my problem. It's not ideal but I can make do. 2 years ago, this was the only solution that I found that worked. Now there are several people touting that Enlightenment allows exactly what I wanted, so I may re-examine my solution.
Good luck, haven't seen it. What you want is sufficiently unusual that there may not be anything that provides it.
I find it a bit interesting that this request is considered unusual. I have to agree with the other posters who've said it really seems like a natural evolution to the whole workspace concept. If I have the ability to create 4, 6, 8, whatever workspaces, it would seem to be common sense that I might want to place different ones on different monitors.
Along with several other people here, I have looked into this issue for exactly the same reasons as the OP:
I didn't want to have 1 desktop stretched over both monitors because changing workspaces would clear the 2nd monitor of the windows I was trying to keep visible.
I didn't want to run 2 instances of X because I can't open a window in one screen, work with it, and then shove it to the other screen to keep my eye on it.
Ultimately, I went with the 2 instances of X, but it is still not optimal.
5cm of snow would shut down most of the southern US for days. I've seen them close schools for 1/4". My mother lives in North Carolina and with 2" of snow, her neighbor couldn't get out of the driveway with her 4 Wheel drive SUV. Worse the driveway slopes to the road.
Moving a company overseas might be difficult, moving a server is a piece of piss and a few hours work with FTP and getting your DNS fixed.
And does nothing to solve the root problem. It doesn't matter where in the world the servers are located, if SF.net is a US company, US law applies. It's the same with any country. Just because dealing in heroin is legal in Dopisan, doesn't mean I can set up a US, UK, EU, RU, or SA company to import & distribute drugs there.
The only way around that fact is to dissolve the US company and re-incorporate in a country that doesn't have the export restrictions.
If the potential audience is (say) a thousand times larger today (through larger population, higher literacy, and easier communication), then surely the copyright period should be a thousandth its earlier length?
Sure, 10 days seems like a good time frame for a copyright limit. [thwap]
Copyright is supposed to be an incentive for creative people to continue to create. Locking a work up for 2-3 generations doesn't provide that incentive. Nor would shortening the length of time below that needed to create 2-3 works (not every work is going to provide a viable source of income).
The average lifespan of a book in print is about 5 years. Finding any given 10 year old book in print is a hit or miss proposition. If it was a great success, it's probably had multiple printings and you might be able to find a copy. If it was just another book to fill shelf space, it's probably only found in a specialty shop or a used book store.
The LOC is full of recording that are technically still under copyright, but they have the only copy and it's either unplayable, or nearly so. Companies don't want copyright, they want permanent ownership and control of the 0.01% of things that have a 'long tail' big enough to make money off of indefinitely. The rest is too much work to preserve, but they won't let anyone else have it because they're paranoid that someone somewhere may make a buck.
You are meant to be giving kids the tools to cope in the real world that they will be going into in the very near future, not 10 years time.
How stupid of me, here I though that the goal of giving students an education was to give kids the tools to cope in the real world for the rest of their lives. Things like balancing your checkbook, understanding basic economics, logic, problem solving - you know generally how to think for themselves so they don't have to call help desk every 5 minutes because they can't figure out that "Saving a file" should be under the "File" menu.
My wife's office just switched from an AS400 terminal for order entry/customer service to a graphical front end for the same system. After 2 weeks, flipping between customer management and order entry by clicking on the tabs marked 'Order Entry' and 'Customer Management' is still a concept to 3 out of the 5 people in the office are unable to grasp. This is an example of the results of your "teaching to cope with the real world they will be going into in the very near future".
Because schools are so focused on teaching specifics and facts, they are currently failing to teach thinking as a skill. It is not a new problem, nor is it a problem with easy solutions. Worse, the solutions that do work, are not suitable to implementation in large groups - especially if a small number of members of those groups have no desire to learn.
So, I will say I agree with:
swapping a school to free software to save few buckets and satisfy some nerds linux fetish = failing at education.
However, discarding the software flavor of the day in order to provide an opportunity to actually teach instead of prompting more rote learning is a bold move for which this school should be lauded.
Offhand, I'd target between five to twenty years or so, possibly varying in that range depending on renewals, etc.
Some economic studies done have shown that the original 14/28 year lifespan on copyright produces the most incentive to authors while still allowing the works to become the basis of new works within the lifespan of the original purchasers of that work.
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Actually, I think you're just not reading it. She kicked at a stuck door in an attempt to get back to work. I've certainly kicked the frame of more than one jammed door - especially since you can't hipcheck a glass door.
From the parent:
Except he:
As for exiting his job angrily - he was booted out & if you're honest most people who are booted for politics are angry. This is really a non issue - being gracious might get you a better recommendation, but probably not by the time you're being booted.
We already have this, it's called stucco - you just need to make sure you get the metal mesh support rather than the new fiberglass stuff.
Better yet, the only charge left on the table has a maximum penalty of 18 months.
Do they still delay maintenance on the mail servers to create a more favorable impression of the company? An image consultant told them that people have a more favorable impression of companies with whom they have a small easily fixed problem than companies they never have problems with - so they used to delay maintenance on the mail servers until they had problems, which created huge call spikes, but which were usually resolved before the spike was processed.
Is their install schedule still pushed out 30 days with a 'we hope to get to your cable outage within the next week or so' kind of scheduling for repairs? And does it seem that the techs still only know how to tell you to reboot and offer you a bundled package?
I worked as a cable modem tech while they were 'improving' their service just before they went bankrupt. They had no metric for solving problems, but scored your raise/bonus impressively for keeping your call time down. By the time they closed my call center, techs coming out of training were literally taught to tell people to reboot their computer and call back - which they would then do 3 or 4 times to the same customer. That was bad enough, but the only other thing they knew how to do was upsell - their 2 week training had more days of sales training than actual tech training.
The software portion is about a nickle since the Chinese government sponsors research into how to better clone physical products, and in some places it's harder to find a legitimate copy of software than a $5 copy. As for the hardware & peripherals its pretty much irrelevant - they'll cost the same no matter what OS is running. You might have a point with services though - of course since most of the people and businesses have pirated copies of Windows, they probably won't call for much service.
I run asterisk in a VPS. For $15 a month I get a private PBX that I can tap from anywhere in the world. Takes about 2-3 hours of work to get it up and running with extensions & voice-mail, if you're following the O'Rieley book. I pay $1/month for my phone number and 0.4 cents per minute incoming. Since I pay by minute, I don't have a limit on the number of calls. For about $9-15 a month you can get unlimited incoming and outgoing minutes, but it's usually limited to 2 simultaneous calls.
The practical limit is about 48 simultaneous calls or 96 active connections - above that and I would need to upgrade my server. For me, I get a business phone line, with the ability to do a conference call with more people than I care to talk to, for about $18/month including usage.
For people worried about backups etc, the VPS company has 4 locations with auto roll over and I get a backup stored on their servers and I can keep as many backups as I can be bothered with on my own. If they went out of business tomorrow, I could upload my image to any Parallels VPS provider and be back in business with an IP address change on the server and at my DID provider. Your mileage will of course vary depending on your VPS supplier.
If you want more info on the server itself, check out either Asterisk or Voip-Info.
Freedom of association and the right to espouse political views anonymously have been upheld frequently by the highest courts, so this is just a matter of paper politics.
You're mixing 2 things. Pornography is not in and of itself Obscene. Obscene requires failing all 3 points of the Miller test. A woman not wearing a burka but also not engaging in sexual conduct defined in the relevant state law would fail the 2nd test.
I keep hoping for "Oops I did it again", but I suppose 4chan could be considered a victory.
Laws are easy to figure out. This requires that someone know and understand the mores of every community and how that interacts with each posting they make.
Don't get your hopes up for the Supreme court to rule sanely on this. They declared that there was 'no proof of substantially different moral standards' in Nitke v Ashcroft.
The actual root of the problem was a documentary on Hillary Clinton that was banned from being shown within 30 days of the election due to it's political content. Is there a way to ban Political Advertising without banning news/art with Political implications? Not in a formulaic way needed by law. SCOTUS therefore followed the normal doctrine of least restrictive and tossed the whole thing out.
Absolutely. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts have an age of consent of 16. New York's is 17. Technically, ahould you take your 16 year old girlfriend from PA to MA and have sex. You can be charged in NY for transporting a minor across state lines for sex. Even though both your point of origin and point of sexual congress legally permit the act.
More directly on point, I can produce a series of fetish shots in NYC, make them available on the web, and be criminally charged and extradited to any state in the US if someone get's a bug up their ass about the content. This ruling explicitly states that it's acceptable to attempt an obscenity conviction from the most repressive place the prosecution can find.
Those are covered under the mail fraud and wire fraud Federal Statutes. People don't get sued under state laws for that.
Fortunately, sort of, obscene in the US is required to meet the Miller test. Which means that only sexual material can be declared obscene since that's step 2. So the SAW movies can continue to rip people's chests open on screen without fear of prosecution. However, should we find a community of devout Victorians, we could happily prosecute people for showing Queen Ann furniture without table skirts - you do know that those delicately curved legs were just meant to be a substitute for a woman's ankles?
SCOTUS has already declared that some speech is not protected speech - 'hate' speech, obscene speech, and speech to incite violence are all classes of speech that do not have constitutional protection. Really, hate & inciting speech are both essentially the same. You can say "I hate those niggers" and be constitutionally protected, however neither "Someone should run those wetbacks out of town" nor "Those fags need to be hurt" are. The problem is that the standard for both of them is the same across the country. If I espouse running people out of town based on their ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion or I attempt to incite violence against someone - it doesn't matter if I'm in the heart of the bible belt or standing in Times Square, the rules are the same.
Child Pornography was stripped of it's protection under the 'inciting harm' provision. A child is considered legally unable to consent to sexual acts, therefore all sexual acts conducted with a child are 'coerced' and harmful to the child. Since child pornography is the result of a coerced act, creating a market for the material is considered to be inciting harm. It's not the clearest path, nor is it without some problems in the actual legal arguments, however it is a cogent argument and it's standard is clear: pornography containing images of people under 18=illegal.
Contrast that with obscene materials where the definition is subject to both the jurors and the community in which the trial is being held:
The obscenity rules laid down in the Miller test are of a more "I know it when I see it" variety.
Let's work backwords:
This is bluntly a wacked test. I'm not sure who defines 'value'. Does the book/movie Lolita have serious literary value? How about Robert Mapplethorpe's photography? I can get a conservative arts professor to come in and say that the Michelangelo's David is child pornography and lacks artistic value. For gods sake, someone please tell me "Oops, I did it again" doesn't get protection under 'serious artistic value'.
Excuse me? Why are only depictions of sexual conduct eligible to loose their first amendment protections? I can happily display images of a person's chest being ripped open in a sadistic game (one of the SAW movies) but showing a bukkake session is grounds for 3 years in prison plus a RICO rap? If a work is 'patently offensive' enough to loose it's constitutional protection, what difference does the content make? Sex, violence, Tammy Faye Baker with her makeup running - whatever the content, it should be all or nothing. Singling out sexual behavior is just another example of our faux puritanism.
I think you need to re-read the documentation. The fractional reserve means they have to maintain that 'reserve' as cash on hand. That means for every dollar they bring in as a deposit, they can lend 90 cents. In order to lend 900% of their deposits, they would have to borrow money from other banks using the loan collateral as their collateral - they can't just pull money out of their asses.
<whine style=3 year old>Because I want them too! And if they don't I'm going to stamp my feet and cry! And, and, and my pet MP is going to pass a law and MAKE them.</whine>
I normally work with between 4 & 5 active desktops. A for dev work, B for monitoring the live servers, C for email/messaging, D for reference, and E for browsing. 50% of the time, I want B to stay up, but that other 50% of the time I may need:
Having the desktop span 2 separate monitors doesn't allow that type of flexibility. I went with the 2 instances of X route to solve my problem. It's not ideal but I can make do. 2 years ago, this was the only solution that I found that worked. Now there are several people touting that Enlightenment allows exactly what I wanted, so I may re-examine my solution.
I find it a bit interesting that this request is considered unusual. I have to agree with the other posters who've said it really seems like a natural evolution to the whole workspace concept. If I have the ability to create 4, 6, 8, whatever workspaces, it would seem to be common sense that I might want to place different ones on different monitors.
Along with several other people here, I have looked into this issue for exactly the same reasons as the OP:
Ultimately, I went with the 2 instances of X, but it is still not optimal.
5cm of snow would shut down most of the southern US for days. I've seen them close schools for 1/4". My mother lives in North Carolina and with 2" of snow, her neighbor couldn't get out of the driveway with her 4 Wheel drive SUV. Worse the driveway slopes to the road.
And does nothing to solve the root problem. It doesn't matter where in the world the servers are located, if SF.net is a US company, US law applies. It's the same with any country. Just because dealing in heroin is legal in Dopisan, doesn't mean I can set up a US, UK, EU, RU, or SA company to import & distribute drugs there.
The only way around that fact is to dissolve the US company and re-incorporate in a country that doesn't have the export restrictions.
Sure, 10 days seems like a good time frame for a copyright limit. [thwap]
Copyright is supposed to be an incentive for creative people to continue to create. Locking a work up for 2-3 generations doesn't provide that incentive. Nor would shortening the length of time below that needed to create 2-3 works (not every work is going to provide a viable source of income).
The average lifespan of a book in print is about 5 years. Finding any given 10 year old book in print is a hit or miss proposition. If it was a great success, it's probably had multiple printings and you might be able to find a copy. If it was just another book to fill shelf space, it's probably only found in a specialty shop or a used book store.
The LOC is full of recording that are technically still under copyright, but they have the only copy and it's either unplayable, or nearly so. Companies don't want copyright, they want permanent ownership and control of the 0.01% of things that have a 'long tail' big enough to make money off of indefinitely. The rest is too much work to preserve, but they won't let anyone else have it because they're paranoid that someone somewhere may make a buck.
How stupid of me, here I though that the goal of giving students an education was to give kids the tools to cope in the real world for the rest of their lives. Things like balancing your checkbook, understanding basic economics, logic, problem solving - you know generally how to think for themselves so they don't have to call help desk every 5 minutes because they can't figure out that "Saving a file" should be under the "File" menu.
My wife's office just switched from an AS400 terminal for order entry/customer service to a graphical front end for the same system. After 2 weeks, flipping between customer management and order entry by clicking on the tabs marked 'Order Entry' and 'Customer Management' is still a concept to 3 out of the 5 people in the office are unable to grasp. This is an example of the results of your "teaching to cope with the real world they will be going into in the very near future".
Because schools are so focused on teaching specifics and facts, they are currently failing to teach thinking as a skill. It is not a new problem, nor is it a problem with easy solutions. Worse, the solutions that do work, are not suitable to implementation in large groups - especially if a small number of members of those groups have no desire to learn.
So, I will say I agree with:
However, discarding the software flavor of the day in order to provide an opportunity to actually teach instead of prompting more rote learning is a bold move for which this school should be lauded.
Some economic studies done have shown that the original 14/28 year lifespan on copyright produces the most incentive to authors while still allowing the works to become the basis of new works within the lifespan of the original purchasers of that work.