"Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country."
My point, Do they need an Olympic-sized swimming pool with underwater viewing room? A ZOO?! For that kind of money they could have gotten professors from really good collages to work there. Teachers that know how to teach students properly. --
Kansas City was forced by a judge to spend billions on its school system, and produced educational palaces
In other news, Kansas City just spent millions on a new stadium, track, baseball field and other sporting equipment.
They also forced 40 teachers to retire and they hired 30 new young unexperienced teachers to take their place and cut costs to pay for the new parking lot. --
I somewhat agree, I think they more need to look at HOW they're spending the money.
People spend over 20k/year to go to school to become a teacher, sometimes going for masters degrees then what happens, they get put in this shithole public school making less then 30k for the first 5 years of their teaching jobs.
Once they peak at around 50k they get slowly pushed out so they can bring in the next tearch for 25k to cut costs.
The biggest problem is all these soccer mom's and football dad's that bitch and bitch and get all this money spent on stupid ass sporting equimpent so there's no money left for books or tearchers salars, hell Joe Blow the coach is probably making more the the princapal because they pushed for the good coach from upstate or whatever.
Lots of Libraries let you borrow movies too. And I know many people that still use libraries, I prefer to own my book, that way if I like it I can let somebody else borrow it, then after it's gotten it's use, I can sell it.
Now, the problem with Divix (NOT DivX) was that it was VERY controlling, once you played the movie it started some timer thing, you could only watch it X ammount of times. Divix was about control, not about ease of use. Sure, you could return it/throw it out when you wanted, but after the time was up you effectively had a coaster.
Authors got paid for their work when sombody bought it the first time. That's like saying that rental stores can't sell previously viewed tapes until they can't be bought new. And every video store I know sells off all the extras the have of lasts weeks hot movie. --
"The iCopyright.com license agreement also restricts what can be said about the content of the linked-to article. If you sign up to pay $50 to link to, say, an Albuquerque Journal article, you agree not to say anything "derogatory" about "the author, the publication from which the content came, or any person connected with the creation of the content or depicted in the content." --
From their FAQ:
Q: Does iCopyright.com try to police how people are using copyrighted content?
A: No. iCopyright.com operates on an honor system. We serve the needs and interests of publishers, content owners, and customers by providing a way for them to do business in a legal, friction-free manner.
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"HTML Link permission allows you to link to a specified Web page. Clicking on the licensed HTML link, whether embedded in a logo, in text, or in some other object, results in the immediate display of the Web page. Note: linked-to content is not guaranteed to be hosted by the Web site owner for any specific length of time; refer to the publisher's License Agreement for specific terms of use." --
If they don't want people using the site, why have it up at all? If they don't want somebody linking to it, tough titties. That's the way the web works..
If they really wanted to, they could block people by who refered them, since it's in the logs. --
Slashdot Mirror
Between this and the stupid Apple article yesterday...
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Hey, at least the link works (doesn't it?)
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DUH
Every ISP is free to do whatever the hell they want.
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They started to loose there charm when it didn't take text input anymore, but they were still very cool.
Oh well.. *sign* memories....
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Fight the power at Slashduh
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My point, Do they need an Olympic-sized swimming pool with underwater viewing room? A ZOO?! For that kind of money they could have gotten professors from really good collages to work there. Teachers that know how to teach students properly.
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In other news, Kansas City just spent millions on a new stadium, track, baseball field and other sporting equipment.
They also forced 40 teachers to retire and they hired 30 new young unexperienced teachers to take their place and cut costs to pay for the new parking lot.
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People spend over 20k/year to go to school to become a teacher, sometimes going for masters degrees then what happens, they get put in this shithole public school making less then 30k for the first 5 years of their teaching jobs.
Once they peak at around 50k they get slowly pushed out so they can bring in the next tearch for 25k to cut costs.
The biggest problem is all these soccer mom's and football dad's that bitch and bitch and get all this money spent on stupid ass sporting equimpent so there's no money left for books or tearchers salars, hell Joe Blow the coach is probably making more the the princapal because they pushed for the good coach from upstate or whatever.
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Now, the problem with Divix (NOT DivX) was that it was VERY controlling, once you played the movie it started some timer thing, you could only watch it X ammount of times. Divix was about control, not about ease of use. Sure, you could return it/throw it out when you wanted, but after the time was up you effectively had a coaster.
Authors got paid for their work when sombody bought it the first time. That's like saying that rental stores can't sell previously viewed tapes until they can't be bought new. And every video store I know sells off all the extras the have of lasts weeks hot movie.
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"The iCopyright.com license agreement also restricts what can be said about the content of the linked-to article. If you sign up to pay $50 to link to, say, an Albuquerque Journal article, you agree not to say anything "derogatory" about "the author, the publication from which the content came, or any person connected with the creation of the content or depicted in the content."
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From their FAQ:
Q: Does iCopyright.com try to police how people are using copyrighted content?
A: No. iCopyright.com operates on an honor system. We serve the needs and interests of publishers, content owners, and customers by providing a way for them to do business in a legal, friction-free manner.
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"HTML Link permission allows you to link to a specified Web page. Clicking on the licensed HTML link, whether embedded in a logo, in text, or in some other object, results in the immediate display of the Web page. Note: linked-to content is not guaranteed to be hosted by the Web site owner for any specific length of time; refer to the publisher's License Agreement for specific terms of use."
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If they really wanted to, they could block people by who refered them, since it's in the logs.
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It's linking to articles, not the main website
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https://ssl.pagecreators.net/pagecreators.net/BACK UP_AS_OF_122700/secure/output.html
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That's like saying that rollerblades can't be patented because of roller skates. Same with other very similar devices that are patented.
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Do people even look at what is patented?
Popcorn boxes, paper bags, different types of cd holders, some types of paper towels, some types of pens that are VERY similar to other types of pens.
Not even counting software patents there's much more stupid/obvious patents for tangable stuff.
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They were the first to use it.
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Sure you are.
----- Original Message -----
From: Travis Roy
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 4:40 PM
Subject: Terms of service request
Can you please send me a copy of your terms of service. I'm looking for a web provider.
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YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT PAGE CREATORS
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That's probably because RH7 has it's own update manager that looks like it's derived from the Helix Gnome updater
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Where did you pick up a region free DVD player?
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What's illegal about leading a boycott?
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Good luck finding a region 0 player.
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ewps, I'm just silly slashDUH.org
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