And if a student tries to say that a warrant is needed the cops say that they don't because they can easily have one written.
And if that's the case, the student should maintain his or her right to not have the property searched and let the officer go get that warrent "easily written". Just because a warrent is easily obtainable does not make it legal to go without one unless consent is given.
That was the policy at my old high school, except they would confiscate the phone until the end of the school day and call the parent for each offence.
Fairly reasonable.
With increasing penetration of cellphones into markets, payphones are being removed at an ever increasing rate except for highly populated areas. After all, why should a telco pay to keep a payphone when no one uses it?
The payphone closest to my house is a good 10 minutes drive from my house. The closest school? 30 seconds if you drive. So why the lack of a payphone? It was no longer being used and the telco wanted it out; the move was supported by the school because they saw the payphone as a way for the "drug dealers and buyers to communicate".
So pray tell, why should a student drive for 9.5 minutes to place a phone call? Why should a student, especially considering the removal of payphones, depend on them when getting his or her own line (piggybacking on a parent's account) costs around $10-$15 a month?
Except that you're paying for the license to access the software, not for the disks themselves. If the disks get scratched, the company should replace the disk because the license - what was actually paid for - is still valid.
It's in no way like a car because in that instance, you're paying for the physical car itself and implicit in that is the right to its use. With cd's, having the disk does not imply that you can use it - see site licenses where you still only get one cd.
Now of course, if the EULA states that in accepting the license, the customer losesall right to get new copies of the cd, well...
Well, if you had a tube that contained a vacuum and accelerated the craft inside that, then used less powerful engines to maintain the escape velocity through the atmosphere, you might be able to pull it off (building a tube this size and having a means to evacuate the air, of course, is the problem).
Or, as ultranova pointed out, bring the craft slowly through the atmosphere where drag is an issue, then burn the fuel getting to escape velocity. Along the same vein (but in a very different approach) is the Pegasus rocket - it's released from an aircraft around 40,000 to 50,000 feet from which it climbs. While 50k feet isn't very much (only about 10 miles up), a significant amount of air that would otherwise be pressing against the rocket is bypassed, especially towards the top of this range.
Except that when you're traveling at those speeds, drag is HUGE.
Plus, how are you going to store the energy? You can't exactly run a line from the power station to the rocket as it goes up. Batteries weigh a lot and liquid fuel has a higher energy density...but that's exactly what we're doing now. Now here's a catch - to bring the fuel up for use on ascent, you have to burn fuel.
When you factor all these other things in (and they aren't even half of it - remember, engines are heavy too!), your costs quickly skyrocket.
Not quite. If you're trying to draw an analogy, it would go something like this: the government can not withhold pay from federal employees if they exercise their constitutional rights, just as the school can not withhold federal funds from students if they exercise their constitutional rights.
Why would other retailers change their policies based on what Costco does? If they thought that replacing month old produce was a bad thing, they'd stop allowing it. Costco figures that more people will buy things from them knowing the return policies - the cost of replacing a few broken cameras with no question asked is less than the added profit...
If other stores wanted the sort of loyalty that Costco has, they'd make it easier to return things, bananas included.
Costco lets you return anything anytime after purchase. I've returned month old bananas and a 3 year old camera that was dropped on its lens with no questions asked.:)
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And if a student tries to say that a warrant is needed the cops say that they don't because they can easily have one written. And if that's the case, the student should maintain his or her right to not have the property searched and let the officer go get that warrent "easily written". Just because a warrent is easily obtainable does not make it legal to go without one unless consent is given.
That was the policy at my old high school, except they would confiscate the phone until the end of the school day and call the parent for each offence. Fairly reasonable.
With increasing penetration of cellphones into markets, payphones are being removed at an ever increasing rate except for highly populated areas. After all, why should a telco pay to keep a payphone when no one uses it?
But since 2001, Verizon has seen its collection of pay phones throughout the country drop by 32 percent, to just 300,000.
The payphone closest to my house is a good 10 minutes drive from my house. The closest school? 30 seconds if you drive. So why the lack of a payphone? It was no longer being used and the telco wanted it out; the move was supported by the school because they saw the payphone as a way for the "drug dealers and buyers to communicate".
So pray tell, why should a student drive for 9.5 minutes to place a phone call? Why should a student, especially considering the removal of payphones, depend on them when getting his or her own line (piggybacking on a parent's account) costs around $10-$15 a month?
Except that you're paying for the license to access the software, not for the disks themselves. If the disks get scratched, the company should replace the disk because the license - what was actually paid for - is still valid. It's in no way like a car because in that instance, you're paying for the physical car itself and implicit in that is the right to its use. With cd's, having the disk does not imply that you can use it - see site licenses where you still only get one cd. Now of course, if the EULA states that in accepting the license, the customer losesall right to get new copies of the cd, well...
Well, if you had a tube that contained a vacuum and accelerated the craft inside that, then used less powerful engines to maintain the escape velocity through the atmosphere, you might be able to pull it off (building a tube this size and having a means to evacuate the air, of course, is the problem). Or, as ultranova pointed out, bring the craft slowly through the atmosphere where drag is an issue, then burn the fuel getting to escape velocity. Along the same vein (but in a very different approach) is the Pegasus rocket - it's released from an aircraft around 40,000 to 50,000 feet from which it climbs. While 50k feet isn't very much (only about 10 miles up), a significant amount of air that would otherwise be pressing against the rocket is bypassed, especially towards the top of this range.
Flack jacket? =)
"has no air friction"
Except that when you're traveling at those speeds, drag is HUGE.
Plus, how are you going to store the energy? You can't exactly run a line from the power station to the rocket as it goes up. Batteries weigh a lot and liquid fuel has a higher energy density...but that's exactly what we're doing now. Now here's a catch - to bring the fuel up for use on ascent, you have to burn fuel.
When you factor all these other things in (and they aren't even half of it - remember, engines are heavy too!), your costs quickly skyrocket.
No flaws, really. This is the precise reason why spaceflight was commonly thought to be impossible and why staging is used today.
Not quite. If you're trying to draw an analogy, it would go something like this: the government can not withhold pay from federal employees if they exercise their constitutional rights, just as the school can not withhold federal funds from students if they exercise their constitutional rights.
Just as increasing access to educational materials would be pointless.
I guess they all lepton the band wagon...
Why would other retailers change their policies based on what Costco does? If they thought that replacing month old produce was a bad thing, they'd stop allowing it. Costco figures that more people will buy things from them knowing the return policies - the cost of replacing a few broken cameras with no question asked is less than the added profit... If other stores wanted the sort of loyalty that Costco has, they'd make it easier to return things, bananas included.
Costco lets you return anything anytime after purchase. I've returned month old bananas and a 3 year old camera that was dropped on its lens with no questions asked. :)
Why not install a switch? I have an Antec p160...the one with blue lights on the front. First thing I did when I purchased the case was install one.
Sometimes, my parents just leave the firewall alert up until I visit home. I live in San Diego. They live in Washington DC.