This is great if you live in the EU, but this is not the law if you live in the US. In the US just to opposite is true, click through EULAs are binding and you just have a license you do not own the actual software. I also highly doubt the implications that you are making especially when it comes to certain types of software and do know that the international community has all agreed to stop piracy, which does support the idea of licensing not owning. (Don't believe me look at the INTERPOL warning at the beginning or end of all DVDs) While you might have more rights in the EU, especially over your individual license it is still a license not an actual piece of property. But if I am wrong I would be curious to see the actual cases that you are referring to.
Actually the reason to interpret to video for ASL makes a lot of sense if you know some ASL. ASL and English are completely different and it is often hard for a person who speaks ASL as their first language to switch to reading English (thus one of the reasons for the existence of ESL, which is evil but necessary).
I go to law school and can tell you, you are wrong about laptops. At my school they are not required but are highly recommended. They are an invaluable tool for taking notes (outlining is a breeze with the right programs, and I do not mean MS Word). They are used for all communication, and basically all research is done on a computer (you try to do legal research the book way, it is not easy!). I have one professor who uses powerpoint to display different topics, puts them on the law school website, each student downloads the presentation and uses that as the basis of the notes saves time and allows us to focus on trying to understand instead of attempting to write everything down. Lectures are also much smoother when the professor only has to repeat something twice instead of four or five times when you have to get a phrase down exactly. The internet also allows us to bring less books to class since certain materials are available in electronic format, also helping with notes. So, in my mind computers are not only useful but invaluable.
On a side note, this is great for some students with disabilities, especially if they have visual problems (but are not blind), because they can magnify presentations, notes, and other documents instead of needing assistants for everything and giving them more independence.
And by the way, one of my professors cannot wait until we take all exams on computers, no more illegible handwriting!
WRONG! But thank you for playing the game. Everything in science is just a theory, from gravity to special relativity to even theories that were involved in creating the computer I am sitting at like electricity and magneticism. No part of science is considered to be absolute truth because we are not exactly sure what is absolutely going on. This does not mean though that either ID or Creationism are on the same footing as Evolution because Evolution is a scientific theory. It is falsifiable, meaning that a negative construct of the theoroms and axioms of the theory could be and have been tested and found to be false. (Karl Popper stated this attribute about science and it is accepted as one of the main differences between science and other forms of epistomology) It is also self-correcting, look at our current understanding of the solar system with the views of Aristotle and the Greeks then look at the growth of our understanding. Both attributes are not found in religious propositions. Do not get me wrong, I am not anti-religion. But it does not rest on the same sets of authorities. Religion supposedly comes from the gods/god/divine, while science rests on our observation of the world, testing, more observation, more testing, etc.
They are not equal have never been equal and will never be equal nor should ID and Creationism ever be taught in a science classroom.
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This is great if you live in the EU, but this is not the law if you live in the US. In the US just to opposite is true, click through EULAs are binding and you just have a license you do not own the actual software. I also highly doubt the implications that you are making especially when it comes to certain types of software and do know that the international community has all agreed to stop piracy, which does support the idea of licensing not owning. (Don't believe me look at the INTERPOL warning at the beginning or end of all DVDs) While you might have more rights in the EU, especially over your individual license it is still a license not an actual piece of property. But if I am wrong I would be curious to see the actual cases that you are referring to.
Actually the reason to interpret to video for ASL makes a lot of sense if you know some ASL. ASL and English are completely different and it is often hard for a person who speaks ASL as their first language to switch to reading English (thus one of the reasons for the existence of ESL, which is evil but necessary).
I go to law school and can tell you, you are wrong about laptops. At my school they are not required but are highly recommended. They are an invaluable tool for taking notes (outlining is a breeze with the right programs, and I do not mean MS Word). They are used for all communication, and basically all research is done on a computer (you try to do legal research the book way, it is not easy!). I have one professor who uses powerpoint to display different topics, puts them on the law school website, each student downloads the presentation and uses that as the basis of the notes saves time and allows us to focus on trying to understand instead of attempting to write everything down. Lectures are also much smoother when the professor only has to repeat something twice instead of four or five times when you have to get a phrase down exactly. The internet also allows us to bring less books to class since certain materials are available in electronic format, also helping with notes. So, in my mind computers are not only useful but invaluable. On a side note, this is great for some students with disabilities, especially if they have visual problems (but are not blind), because they can magnify presentations, notes, and other documents instead of needing assistants for everything and giving them more independence. And by the way, one of my professors cannot wait until we take all exams on computers, no more illegible handwriting!
WRONG! But thank you for playing the game. Everything in science is just a theory, from gravity to special relativity to even theories that were involved in creating the computer I am sitting at like electricity and magneticism. No part of science is considered to be absolute truth because we are not exactly sure what is absolutely going on. This does not mean though that either ID or Creationism are on the same footing as Evolution because Evolution is a scientific theory. It is falsifiable, meaning that a negative construct of the theoroms and axioms of the theory could be and have been tested and found to be false. (Karl Popper stated this attribute about science and it is accepted as one of the main differences between science and other forms of epistomology) It is also self-correcting, look at our current understanding of the solar system with the views of Aristotle and the Greeks then look at the growth of our understanding. Both attributes are not found in religious propositions. Do not get me wrong, I am not anti-religion. But it does not rest on the same sets of authorities. Religion supposedly comes from the gods/god/divine, while science rests on our observation of the world, testing, more observation, more testing, etc. They are not equal have never been equal and will never be equal nor should ID and Creationism ever be taught in a science classroom.