Any people that would beat or kill you for insulting someone are not enlightened, cultural superiors. They simple zealous lunatics.
The real test would be their reaction to some Danish cartoons.
I'm sure that they did not care about the Danish cartoons.
If you insulted General Surayud Chulanont (current prime minister, took over government via military coup, etc.), no one would care. They'd just smile. If you insulted anyone else in government, on the street, in the world, in another world, they would not care.
The King of Thailand is the only exception, and I think you'll find that in any country who has a King or Queen. Do not insult the King of Jordan and expect the Jordanians to grant you any sympathy, despite being unusually friendly people otherwise.
They put half of that outrage into their domestic problems with child prostitution and pornography creation/distribution.
Actually, Thailand does take child prostitution seriously. They turn a blind eye to adult prostitution, and Thai women look much younger than they actually are, so I could see why someone might think that they also turn a blind eye to child prostitution.
If you read the papers there, you will see that they regularly do bust child sex tourists. These folks are spending a long time in Thai jail.
You can go to Thailand and pay to have sex with as many Thai prostitutes who look like they're 12 but are really 25 as you want. However, it is a really bad idea to try to engage in actual child prostitution there. Thai jail is someplace that you really, really do not want to be.
Anyone who has been to Thailand can tell you that Thais are some of the most friendly, inviting people on the planet. The country is often dubbed the "Land of Smiles" and isn't even a reference to the sex trade, for which they are also famous. Thailand is called the Land of Smiles because people are always smiling at each other. They could be in the middle of an intense negotiation or even an argument, but they are always smiling.
However, there is an exception. In Thailand, you do not insult the King. I repeat, you do not insult the King.
If you do insult the King (yes, spraypainting a mustache on him is insulting), those always-smiling Thais will stop smiling, gouge your eyes out, rip you limb from limb, slit your throat from ear to ear, and rip out all of your internal organs. When the police arrive, they will help the mob, and everyone from the police to the ambulance driver to the attending physician to the coroner to the undertaker will all swear that you died of a sudden heart attack.
I am not kidding about this. Thais take their King very seriously.
Once you count *all* degree requirements (in-department classes for major, general-ed prerequisites to those classes, classes directly applicable to the major from outside the department, etc.), students should spend most of their time earning their degree rather than fulfilling someone's idea of well-rounded-ness.
Ahh, but here is some artificial mutual exclusivity. Inherent in an undergraduate university degree is well-roundedness. If you want trade school, go to trade school.
Also, you might enjoy following the link in my previous post. It's to a special program offered at the University of Virginia. Participants in the program are free to take whatever class the university offers. There are no degree requirements, no breadth or depth requirements, and no prerequisites. In addition, Echols Scholars register for courses first (before athletes, before fourth years... rumor has it only the Lord our God can register before Echols).
There are programs out there to meet just about anyone's needs. Even those who think that they have their lives already planned out.
You are not required to learn art history, but you are required to learn something outside of the math department.
Can you honestly tell me that Art history is morerelevant to my career than Topics in Real Analysis?
Can you honestly tell me that it is not? Are you sure about that? What happens when you want to apply for a job as an actuary at an art auction house?
At any rate, why focus on art history? Take an econ class (last I checked, math is required). Take a physics class. But, yes dear undergrad, most schools require you to be a little more well-rounded than "me take math class. all other course useless."
Try getting into Grad school from Devry.
Try learning to do research.
Perhaps if you were a little better rounded, your research for an undergraduate program might have landed you someplace like here. I'm pretty sure you would have had little difficulty being admitted to graduate school as a UVA Echols Scholar. Not sure you would have been admitted, however, since you sound a bit dim and closed-minded.
Someone like you would really benefit from taking courses outside of your major. It will teach you how to think.
Wow. That was a well thought out and truly insightful response to my earlier statement:
Your point of view, and the points of view of most people commenting, is that the plan is called "BroadbandAccess", and under "Monthly Minutes" it says "Unlimited Access" in big, bold red letters (their words, not mine), yet the fine print specifies specific limitations on your access in terms of prohibited uses as well as data transfer limitations. This is extremely confusing, and possibly illegal false advertising.
For fun, I'm going to play Devil's Advocate since you seem to be in a ranting mood.
Do you think that "Unlimited Access" and "Unlimited Data Transfer" mean the same thing? How about "Unlimited Access" and "Unlimited Bandwidth"?
Surely you didn't take "Unlimited Access" (Verizon Wireless's actual marketing text, not mine) to mean "Unlimited Bandwidth". You are likely smart enough to know that bandwidth always has limits since there is no such thing as a pipe of unlimited size. Your cable modem is probably 5Mbps, your FiOS 10Mbps, your DSL 1.5Mbps, etc. So you would never have confused "Unlimited Access" with "Unlimited Bandwidth".
Would you agree, then, that it would follow that "Unlimited Data Transfer" is just as absurd a concept? I mean, there are physical limits to how much data can be transferred over a given link in a given amount of time. There is no possible way to transfer unlimited data over a 500kbps link in one month. You know that, I know that, everybody knows that.
So why would you confuse "Unlimited Access" (again, those were Verizon Wireless's actual words) with "Unlimited Data Transfer"? Wouldn't "Unlimited Access" just mean that I always have access to the service? As opposed to "Unlimited Usage", which you were describing, but which VZW never claimed to offer?
Your point of view, and the points of view of most people commenting, is that the plan is called "BroadbandAccess", and under "Monthly Minutes" it says "Unlimited Access" in big, bold red letters (their words, not mine), yet the fine print specifies specific limitations on your access in terms of prohibited uses as well as data transfer limitations. This is extremely confusing, and possibly illegal false advertising.
On the other hand, I can see why VZW told you to go pound sand. How many customers use a wireless link to download 300MB of test data every few days? And blow away their maven repositories several times a day for no reason? How many of these folks want to pay $80 per month for a wireless link instead of $14.99 per month for DSL?
The reason for these questions is that there are a heck of a lot of broadband users who leave bittorrent or eMule clients open in the background 24/7 without thinking about it. VZW wants to get rid of these folks ASAP and clearly they are willing to ditch users like yourself in the process. I mean, how many customers with usage patterns such as your own are there out there with respect to the number of P2P users? You make an omelet, you've gotta break a few eggs.
Not that it feels good to be one of the broken eggs, as I'm sure you are well aware.;) I'm glad you found a provider that works for you.
One of the best computer scientists I know was a linguistics major in college.
At any rate, I really enjoyed my liberal arts courses when I was in school. They got me thinking about something other than 1s and 0s for a while, and they were super easy.
Take a philosophy course. Take a music course. Take a history course about the Incas. This is what college is about.
If you want vocational training, go to DeVry. Don't waste a university seat.
It sounds like you have some pent-up jealousy here. Let me give you a few thoughts to ponder:
As an ex-IBMmer, please let me assure you that working at IBM sucks.
Sales is the highest-paid profession in the world.
Your 4 cheater friend sounds like they have that "Get It Done" mentality. Even if it means breaking a few rules to get there. You may not like it, but that is something that is rewarded in the business world.
You took the moral high road and probably feel better about yourself for it. Would you not feel guilty had you cheated your way through school?
No one gives a hoot about your college grades except for your first employer out of college. The only thing holding you back now is your own workplace achievements.
Your GPA was probably higher than mine was.
You don't get far in the business world taking credit for work that was not your own. You will look like a horse's ass sooner or later when you get called on it.
I would never think of teaching my kids that it's advisable to cheat.
Well, I thought I'd chime in one this. My mother is a High School[sic] English teacher, and she isn't quiet[sic] up on the technology behind cheating. Often times if I'm visiting, I'll help her grade her English Papers[sic], like any good son should.
Jumpin' Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.
What on earth makes you feel qualified to grade English papers?
Really, that's your best option. A guy I used to work with is on a Hetch Von Bee visa and thought he was going to get his Green Card years ago. I told him at the time he should just marry his American girlfriend so he could quit being a slave to my old boss, but he wouldn't listen.
Instead, he married some Indian woman and now they're both screwed. He could have been married and divorced three times by now and have his Green Card. But nooooo. No one listens to me.
The US has become a 1st world economy/military with a 3rd world society. I've lived and worked here for a decade and it's getting worse by the day.
Would you care to elaborate on that? As someone who has grown up in the US, and has done a lot of traveling (including to actual 3rd world countries), I can only find your assertion laughable.
Or are you honestly having difficulties in the US with things like:
Finding clean drinking water
Finding food to eat
Ongoing Civil Wars
Your local warlord
Political corruption (and, no, I'm not talking about accusations about preferential treatment for government contracts, I'm talking about, "Pay me a bribe, or I will kidnap and rape your daughter")
Pervasive infections in humans of diseases considered to have been controlled long ago (TB, cholera, etc.)
etc.?
If not, let's cool off on making statements like "The US has become a... 3rd world society." You've lived and worked here, as you've said, for a decade. If these 10 years have been so awful for you, you are welcome to go find a better life for yourself somewhere else. I'm just sayin'.
P.S. Take care not to trip over the ant trail of people sneaking into the US for a better life.
Monetary damages due to pirated intellectual property are nothing but myth. And as community-shared intellectual property matures, the myth just becomes more and more absurd.
This is an absurd statement.
Let's say I go purchase the latest and lousiest pop CD I can find, and then make it available to the world on The Pirate Bay. 10,000 people download it. Are you trying to tell me that none of those 10,000 downloaders would have purchased the CD had it not been available free of charge?
Copyright holders really do suffer losses due to piracy. Most people (including myself) believe that the losses are drastically overstated by the record labels, but it's a little naive to think that piracy doesn't cut into their revenue stream at all.
If a paint manufacturer put a label on the paint can seal that was 'accepted upon opening' that stated that you couldn't use the paint except on PaintCo Brand Wood, would we call 'pirate' painters criminals or would we all just laugh in unison at PaintCo for misunderstanding freedom?
You're confusing "owning" with "licensing".
When you purchase a gallon of paint, you own the paint and the container and you can do with them whatever you please. You want to use latex paint on vinyl siding? Want to use the paint can as a crude helmet? Nobody is going to stop you because you own the paint and you own the container.
When you "buy" a copyrighted work like a CD or computer software, you are not truly purchasing it at all. You are merely licensing it. What that means is that you are purchasing the right to use the software, not the software itself. And even then, you are only purchasing the right to use the software under the terms that you and the copyright holder agree to (although you may not feel as though it was an "agreement" since many of the terms of the EULA, you probably would not agree to, but I digress).
A better analogy is this: You fall in love with a girl, who in turn has fallen in love with my backyard. As a spot for a wedding. So, like it or not, your wedding is going to be in my backyard, assuming I agree to it.
You come up to me and ask me if you can license the use of my backyard for an afternoon to hold a wedding ceremony. I might allow this, but I may also place some additional stipulations. Perhaps I'd reply, "Yes, you may use my backyard for a fee of $2,000.00; however, there may not be an open bar. I am not comfortable with the added risk that your buddies will get overly drunk and may damage my home or get injured and sue me."
If you agree to the terms of the license, you pay me the $2k, have your wedding, and have no open bar. In the same way, when you license software, you agree to the terms of the license and need to abide by them if you want to stay on the right side of the law.
I'm not trying to lecture you on why you have to obey the finer points of every EULA you "agree to". Indeed, I have never read one, myself. I'm just trying to explain the difference between purchasing and licensing. Hopefully that made sense.
So you're no safer with the girl you've just hooked up with, or got in the sack on the third or fourth date. Probably less.
I'm a little skeptical about this.
Just trying to think of the numbers here. But I'm guessing that your average prostitute's number of unique sex partners far exceeds that of your ordinary promiscuous woman. Also, I would think that the average risk factor of the average prostitute's client would be higher than the average risk factor of a typical libertine's partner. By risk factor, I mean having riskier sex and therefore more at risk to be infected with something.
Think about it. I read in the Post that they busted a brothel where the prostitutes work 10+ hour days, seven days a week, with a "session" lasting an hour. Let's assume a little slack time and guess that she is having sex with 7 different guys per day, 6 days per week. Sure, there will be some repeat clients in there, but your average promiscuous woman would generally not have 30 or 40 different sex partners per week. That is my assumption, anyhow.
So I'm guessing that a visit to your local brothel carries a higher STD infection risk than taking home some drunk chick from the bar.
Germany. The Netherlands. I'm sure there are probably others--I am not an expert in such matters.
But that "health coverage" thing might lead you to a false sense of security. Bugs like HIV can be transmitted before they would show up on a test.
Also, it's not like the sex workers are getting tested daily. Say they get tested on the first of the month, contract something nasty on the second day of the month, and then infect clients for the rest of the month (or week or whatever frequency they get tested) before getting tested again and finding out they've caught something.
I can understand why they would think that way. In their minds, somebody was filesharing at that IP address. It turns out the filesharing wasn't done on the primary computer, so their reaction was, "Well, we believe sharing took place at that IP, so who else might have access to that broadband link?" It makes sense from their point of view.
Of course, as you rightly point out, it really doesn't effing matter who else might have had access to that DSL line. They don't get to search the hard drive of everyone that defendant knows or might have known at the time the alleged infringing took place.
Of course the judge denied the motion. It was a stupid request to begin with. If somebody spraypaints my fence, I don't get to search every house on the block for cans of spraypaint "because I think a neighbor might have done it."
Student to TurnItIn: "ALL YOUR AGREEMENT ARE NULL AND VOID. I'M UNDER 18, DIPSHIT."
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Now, what I think will happen, is that Turnitin will advise its clients (schools, universities, etc.) that in order to use the service, they must obtain a release from students that includes permission to upload the files. This way, they'll just offload the responsibility for copyright infringement off on the schools, who will just force students to release their work, or refuse to give them a grade.
This won't be able to happen. Not in high school, anyhow.
First of all, if you're under 18, you can't enter into an enforceable agreement. You can sign whatever you want and nullify it after the fact, so TurnItIn wouldn't be able to rely on agreements that they made with students.
What the school really would need to do is obtain the parents' permission. This is also problematic for the following reasons:
Signing would be under duress. Child must attend school to not violate truancy laws, parent must sign document for child to attend school. That sounds like duress to me. "Sign this under threat of jail time." Yup, definitely duress.
Getting things from parents is a pain in the neck. Remember, not all families are 2 parents with the mom staying home to raise the kids, house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, 1 dog and 2.2 kids (I'd hate to be the fractional child). In real life, parents divorce, have joint custody, fight, bicker, and use the children as weapons. What if one parent signs and the other custodial parent refuses? What happens when the refusing parent sues the spouse and drags the school into the lawsuit? Really, this is something that schools will not want to get involved with.
I dunno. By the mid 1990s, Apple, Inc. was losing money hand over fist. Apple bought NeXT (and Steve Jobs) and made him CEO of Apple. Jobs turned the company around and made it into the profitable company that it is today.
Do you honestly think that 400 of Apple's finest engineers (or any 400 people you pick) could have done what Steve Jobs did and made Apple profitable again? (Ignoring, for the moment, that his salary at the time was $1):)
Really, CEOs are worth 400x the regular employees. The good ones are, anyhow.
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Do you seriously consider their monarchs to have any relevance outside of tabloid newspapers?
If you insulted General Surayud Chulanont (current prime minister, took over government via military coup, etc.), no one would care. They'd just smile. If you insulted anyone else in government, on the street, in the world, in another world, they would not care.
The King of Thailand is the only exception, and I think you'll find that in any country who has a King or Queen. Do not insult the King of Jordan and expect the Jordanians to grant you any sympathy, despite being unusually friendly people otherwise.
If you read the papers there, you will see that they regularly do bust child sex tourists. These folks are spending a long time in Thai jail.
You can go to Thailand and pay to have sex with as many Thai prostitutes who look like they're 12 but are really 25 as you want. However, it is a really bad idea to try to engage in actual child prostitution there. Thai jail is someplace that you really, really do not want to be.
Anyone who has been to Thailand can tell you that Thais are some of the most friendly, inviting people on the planet. The country is often dubbed the "Land of Smiles" and isn't even a reference to the sex trade, for which they are also famous. Thailand is called the Land of Smiles because people are always smiling at each other. They could be in the middle of an intense negotiation or even an argument, but they are always smiling.
However, there is an exception. In Thailand, you do not insult the King. I repeat, you do not insult the King.
If you do insult the King (yes, spraypainting a mustache on him is insulting), those always-smiling Thais will stop smiling, gouge your eyes out, rip you limb from limb, slit your throat from ear to ear, and rip out all of your internal organs. When the police arrive, they will help the mob, and everyone from the police to the ambulance driver to the attending physician to the coroner to the undertaker will all swear that you died of a sudden heart attack.
I am not kidding about this. Thais take their King very seriously.
Also, you might enjoy following the link in my previous post. It's to a special program offered at the University of Virginia. Participants in the program are free to take whatever class the university offers. There are no degree requirements, no breadth or depth requirements, and no prerequisites. In addition, Echols Scholars register for courses first (before athletes, before fourth years... rumor has it only the Lord our God can register before Echols).
There are programs out there to meet just about anyone's needs. Even those who think that they have their lives already planned out.
At any rate, why focus on art history? Take an econ class (last I checked, math is required). Take a physics class. But, yes dear undergrad, most schools require you to be a little more well-rounded than "me take math class. all other course useless."Try learning to do research.
Perhaps if you were a little better rounded, your research for an undergraduate program might have landed you someplace like here. I'm pretty sure you would have had little difficulty being admitted to graduate school as a UVA Echols Scholar. Not sure you would have been admitted, however, since you sound a bit dim and closed-minded.
Someone like you would really benefit from taking courses outside of your major. It will teach you how to think.
Do you think that "Unlimited Access" and "Unlimited Data Transfer" mean the same thing? How about "Unlimited Access" and "Unlimited Bandwidth"?
Surely you didn't take "Unlimited Access" (Verizon Wireless's actual marketing text, not mine) to mean "Unlimited Bandwidth". You are likely smart enough to know that bandwidth always has limits since there is no such thing as a pipe of unlimited size. Your cable modem is probably 5Mbps, your FiOS 10Mbps, your DSL 1.5Mbps, etc. So you would never have confused "Unlimited Access" with "Unlimited Bandwidth".
Would you agree, then, that it would follow that "Unlimited Data Transfer" is just as absurd a concept? I mean, there are physical limits to how much data can be transferred over a given link in a given amount of time. There is no possible way to transfer unlimited data over a 500kbps link in one month. You know that, I know that, everybody knows that.
So why would you confuse "Unlimited Access" (again, those were Verizon Wireless's actual words) with "Unlimited Data Transfer"? Wouldn't "Unlimited Access" just mean that I always have access to the service? As opposed to "Unlimited Usage", which you were describing, but which VZW never claimed to offer?
I can see this one from both points of view.
;) I'm glad you found a provider that works for you.
Your point of view, and the points of view of most people commenting, is that the plan is called "BroadbandAccess", and under "Monthly Minutes" it says "Unlimited Access" in big, bold red letters (their words, not mine), yet the fine print specifies specific limitations on your access in terms of prohibited uses as well as data transfer limitations. This is extremely confusing, and possibly illegal false advertising.
On the other hand, I can see why VZW told you to go pound sand. How many customers use a wireless link to download 300MB of test data every few days? And blow away their maven repositories several times a day for no reason? How many of these folks want to pay $80 per month for a wireless link instead of $14.99 per month for DSL?
The reason for these questions is that there are a heck of a lot of broadband users who leave bittorrent or eMule clients open in the background 24/7 without thinking about it. VZW wants to get rid of these folks ASAP and clearly they are willing to ditch users like yourself in the process. I mean, how many customers with usage patterns such as your own are there out there with respect to the number of P2P users? You make an omelet, you've gotta break a few eggs.
Not that it feels good to be one of the broken eggs, as I'm sure you are well aware.
One of the best computer scientists I know was a linguistics major in college.
At any rate, I really enjoyed my liberal arts courses when I was in school. They got me thinking about something other than 1s and 0s for a while, and they were super easy.
Take a philosophy course. Take a music course. Take a history course about the Incas. This is what college is about.
If you want vocational training, go to DeVry. Don't waste a university seat.
- As an ex-IBMmer, please let me assure you that working at IBM sucks.
- Sales is the highest-paid profession in the world.
- Your 4 cheater friend sounds like they have that "Get It Done" mentality. Even if it means breaking a few rules to get there. You may not like it, but that is something that is rewarded in the business world.
- You took the moral high road and probably feel better about yourself for it. Would you not feel guilty had you cheated your way through school?
- No one gives a hoot about your college grades except for your first employer out of college. The only thing holding you back now is your own workplace achievements.
- Your GPA was probably higher than mine was.
- You don't get far in the business world taking credit for work that was not your own. You will look like a horse's ass sooner or later when you get called on it.
- I would never think of teaching my kids that it's advisable to cheat.
Good luck with your career!What on earth makes you feel qualified to grade English papers?
Really, that's your best option. A guy I used to work with is on a Hetch Von Bee visa and thought he was going to get his Green Card years ago. I told him at the time he should just marry his American girlfriend so he could quit being a slave to my old boss, but he wouldn't listen.
Instead, he married some Indian woman and now they're both screwed. He could have been married and divorced three times by now and have his Green Card. But nooooo. No one listens to me.
That's to get you accustomed to their slow health care system before you arrive.
My sense of smell is fine, but I can taste when I'm about to get a cold.
And no, I cannot describe the taste. It is unlike anything that I would eat willingly.
Or are you honestly having difficulties in the US with things like:
- Finding clean drinking water
- Finding food to eat
- Ongoing Civil Wars
- Your local warlord
- Political corruption (and, no, I'm not talking about accusations about preferential treatment for government contracts, I'm talking about, "Pay me a bribe, or I will kidnap and rape your daughter")
- Pervasive infections in humans of diseases considered to have been controlled long ago (TB, cholera, etc.)
- etc.?
If not, let's cool off on making statements like "The US has become aP.S. Take care not to trip over the ant trail of people sneaking into the US for a better life.
Let's say I go purchase the latest and lousiest pop CD I can find, and then make it available to the world on The Pirate Bay. 10,000 people download it. Are you trying to tell me that none of those 10,000 downloaders would have purchased the CD had it not been available free of charge?
Copyright holders really do suffer losses due to piracy. Most people (including myself) believe that the losses are drastically overstated by the record labels, but it's a little naive to think that piracy doesn't cut into their revenue stream at all.
When you purchase a gallon of paint, you own the paint and the container and you can do with them whatever you please. You want to use latex paint on vinyl siding? Want to use the paint can as a crude helmet? Nobody is going to stop you because you own the paint and you own the container.
When you "buy" a copyrighted work like a CD or computer software, you are not truly purchasing it at all. You are merely licensing it. What that means is that you are purchasing the right to use the software, not the software itself. And even then, you are only purchasing the right to use the software under the terms that you and the copyright holder agree to (although you may not feel as though it was an "agreement" since many of the terms of the EULA, you probably would not agree to, but I digress).
A better analogy is this: You fall in love with a girl, who in turn has fallen in love with my backyard. As a spot for a wedding. So, like it or not, your wedding is going to be in my backyard, assuming I agree to it.
You come up to me and ask me if you can license the use of my backyard for an afternoon to hold a wedding ceremony. I might allow this, but I may also place some additional stipulations. Perhaps I'd reply, "Yes, you may use my backyard for a fee of $2,000.00; however, there may not be an open bar. I am not comfortable with the added risk that your buddies will get overly drunk and may damage my home or get injured and sue me."
If you agree to the terms of the license, you pay me the $2k, have your wedding, and have no open bar. In the same way, when you license software, you agree to the terms of the license and need to abide by them if you want to stay on the right side of the law.
I'm not trying to lecture you on why you have to obey the finer points of every EULA you "agree to". Indeed, I have never read one, myself. I'm just trying to explain the difference between purchasing and licensing. Hopefully that made sense.
I think that you'll find in America your only recourse would be to hire a lawyer and have him try to get your equipment back.
Or did you think you could sue the police for damages? Well, it turns out you can, but you will lose.
Just trying to think of the numbers here. But I'm guessing that your average prostitute's number of unique sex partners far exceeds that of your ordinary promiscuous woman. Also, I would think that the average risk factor of the average prostitute's client would be higher than the average risk factor of a typical libertine's partner. By risk factor, I mean having riskier sex and therefore more at risk to be infected with something.
Think about it. I read in the Post that they busted a brothel where the prostitutes work 10+ hour days, seven days a week, with a "session" lasting an hour. Let's assume a little slack time and guess that she is having sex with 7 different guys per day, 6 days per week. Sure, there will be some repeat clients in there, but your average promiscuous woman would generally not have 30 or 40 different sex partners per week. That is my assumption, anyhow.
So I'm guessing that a visit to your local brothel carries a higher STD infection risk than taking home some drunk chick from the bar.
Germany. The Netherlands. I'm sure there are probably others--I am not an expert in such matters.
But that "health coverage" thing might lead you to a false sense of security. Bugs like HIV can be transmitted before they would show up on a test.
Also, it's not like the sex workers are getting tested daily. Say they get tested on the first of the month, contract something nasty on the second day of the month, and then infect clients for the rest of the month (or week or whatever frequency they get tested) before getting tested again and finding out they've caught something.
It's a risky world out there.
I can understand why they would think that way. In their minds, somebody was filesharing at that IP address. It turns out the filesharing wasn't done on the primary computer, so their reaction was, "Well, we believe sharing took place at that IP, so who else might have access to that broadband link?" It makes sense from their point of view.
Of course, as you rightly point out, it really doesn't effing matter who else might have had access to that DSL line. They don't get to search the hard drive of everyone that defendant knows or might have known at the time the alleged infringing took place.
Of course the judge denied the motion. It was a stupid request to begin with. If somebody spraypaints my fence, I don't get to search every house on the block for cans of spraypaint "because I think a neighbor might have done it."
Student to TurnItIn: "ALL YOUR AGREEMENT ARE NULL AND VOID. I'M UNDER 18, DIPSHIT."
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First of all, if you're under 18, you can't enter into an enforceable agreement. You can sign whatever you want and nullify it after the fact, so TurnItIn wouldn't be able to rely on agreements that they made with students.
What the school really would need to do is obtain the parents' permission. This is also problematic for the following reasons:
- Signing would be under duress. Child must attend school to not violate truancy laws, parent must sign document for child to attend school. That sounds like duress to me. "Sign this under threat of jail time." Yup, definitely duress.
- Getting things from parents is a pain in the neck. Remember, not all families are 2 parents with the mom staying home to raise the kids, house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, 1 dog and 2.2 kids (I'd hate to be the fractional child). In real life, parents divorce, have joint custody, fight, bicker, and use the children as weapons. What if one parent signs and the other custodial parent refuses? What happens when the refusing parent sues the spouse and drags the school into the lawsuit? Really, this is something that schools will not want to get involved with.
Really, I think TurnItIn is in hot water here.I dunno. By the mid 1990s, Apple, Inc. was losing money hand over fist. Apple bought NeXT (and Steve Jobs) and made him CEO of Apple. Jobs turned the company around and made it into the profitable company that it is today.
:)
Do you honestly think that 400 of Apple's finest engineers (or any 400 people you pick) could have done what Steve Jobs did and made Apple profitable again? (Ignoring, for the moment, that his salary at the time was $1)
Really, CEOs are worth 400x the regular employees. The good ones are, anyhow.