I am going for a degree in CIS. I am taking a class on writing DOS batches (yes I know...old school and boring but its required apparently) The professor requires you to be at every class to listen to her lectures which come directly from the book. She will not do any of the activities as you need to do them on your own. then has homework that was designed by the people who published the book (and by the way have no idea how to clearly word a question as this was writted for windows XP and most of the machines students have is windows 7. The computers in the lab have mostly windows Vista/windows 7 on them there is one lab of 15 computers which has XP on them The class have 400 students. I, out of the kindness of my heart (and with a wonderful donation of bandwidth and drive space) created some virtual machines with windows XP for student to connect to and do the homework from. I then confronted the professor with this fact and told her if she marks me off for not showing up for class when I can simply save time and read the book myself, she would have some serious issues with lawyers. All her tests are online via the publisher as well. I have so far gotten a perfect A in the course (in my eyes) but 60% of my grade is attendance so we will see where that goes. I have already talked face to face with the dean and my boss who approves my reimbursement for educational expenses) about this and they have both told me to keep doing what I am doing. I am 35 years old and have been in the IT field for over 10 years. This professor has been teaching at this college for 20+ years and I wont stand by watching her rip off kids and the government like she does.
This stuff pisses me off because its the kids that suffer. They don't know any better, sure there are some who will rebel but few do because they don't want to fail. I don't care if she fails me. I also like to rebel a little, though when i first went to college in 93, I was the other side, not wanting to fail.
So lets say you break down on the side of a busy highway...
All these cars with jammers flying by you...airways getting jammed....and you can't call for help...Good old Bob, the 14 time convicted mass murderer stops by to "help" you...yeah I see bad things...
not completely true. I would love to run for office. I can't afford to get my name on a ballot or to take time off to get signatures to get my name on the ballot
that is ok, i thought Patric Leahy was a nice guy when I fixed his printer for him. Talked to him to no end about things, he seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders.
I thought of this myself and have delivered phonebooks 10+ years ago in Vermont...yeah not that heavy...Sending via the post office would cost them 8-9 times more (granted this is a crude...very crude estimation) to send via the post office than to pay someone to drop it off.
with inflation, I figure local pay for the same phonebook would be about $.50 - $.75 per book. (most times people get a "route" and get paid for how many people are on that route much like newspaper delivery people) to ship the average phone book via commercial costs (according to the scale here at work) it would cost about 5-8 bucks depending on the bulk discounts. The other issue is the fact they might end up having to pay more because the average city mailperson can't carry large books with them for say, 20 houses like they do for mail. a "special" delivery would have to be arranged or just a note telling the person they had to go pick it up at the post office and I am SURE the city of lets say, Boston, isn't gonna want to have to store all of those things for people who will most likely not come to get it.
I would have to tell the activists that, if there is something you don't want the public to see....don't do it in public? i mean seriously, that is just plain dumb
I don't care what the "norm" is but I still don't like Mr. Vick. If I were to meet him on the street I would beat him for what he did, but that is me :)
most music was modeled after something. The first "song" was most likely created aster a person heard two seagulls fighting. Rock and roll owes it's roots to blues and Jazz. Its the circle of life and personally, I am glad I was not the guy that heard 2 seagulls going at it. I don't like Jazz much though there are some songs I like that are jazz.
My point is, just because the roots of music goes somewhere, doesn't mean you like that somewhere.
I like The Doors, the big bopper, Cherry poppin daddies, infact I love music period. Do I buy country music or current R&B music also known as rap crap? no. I do however like some songs from it, and I do feel they are music.
Yes. Perhaps not today, but the technology is there and it wont take long for it to improve. to make something good it doesn't take high quality cameras and sets. personally I like Dr. Horrible's singalong blog.
I am all for giving people second chances. I feel that if she would just come out and say, "ok, I messed up. i am sorry. I will do better" I would then say, "ok, give it a go. i will support you on that". The problem is, she doesn't seem to be sorry for what she did, just that she got caught. If this causes her business to fail its because of her own damn pride. Does she need to be an expert in IP law? nope. She doesn't even need to know anything about it, however, she does need to look into it when someone claimed she was infringing and say "oops, my bad, I will take care of that.". instead she went the route of "HAHAHAHA U R DUMB".
I watch movies on my IPOD all the time. When waiting in line at the DMV, Doctor's offices. Waiting for my friend to finish getting her hair done (takes 2-3 movies atleast. thankfully she doesn't read this) I also watched movies on a plane trip. So I can see it being useful on phones as well, infact most smart phones have better screens than my IPOD.
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http://beveragetitans.com/?p=127 (Tilt)
http://www.deathwishindustries.com/home/What%20Is%20Best/Best%20Alcohol%20and%20Guns/Joose %20and%20Four%20Maxed.gif
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there are similarities but not enough to say its infringing IMHO
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This stuff pisses me off because its the kids that suffer. They don't know any better, sure there are some who will rebel but few do because they don't want to fail. I don't care if she fails me. I also like to rebel a little, though when i first went to college in 93, I was the other side, not wanting to fail.
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All these cars with jammers flying by you...airways getting jammed....and you can't call for help...Good old Bob, the 14 time convicted mass murderer stops by to "help" you...yeah I see bad things...
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with inflation, I figure local pay for the same phonebook would be about $.50 - $.75 per book. (most times people get a "route" and get paid for how many people are on that route much like newspaper delivery people) to ship the average phone book via commercial costs (according to the scale here at work) it would cost about 5-8 bucks depending on the bulk discounts. The other issue is the fact they might end up having to pay more because the average city mailperson can't carry large books with them for say, 20 houses like they do for mail. a "special" delivery would have to be arranged or just a note telling the person they had to go pick it up at the post office and I am SURE the city of lets say, Boston, isn't gonna want to have to store all of those things for people who will most likely not come to get it.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101113/00283611838/police-credit-google-street-view- for-helping-catch-drug-ring.shtml#c52
it wasn't the ONLY proof in the case but used to supports testimony.
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My point is, just because the roots of music goes somewhere, doesn't mean you like that somewhere.
I like The Doors, the big bopper, Cherry poppin daddies, infact I love music period. Do I buy country music or current R&B music also known as rap crap? no. I do however like some songs from it, and I do feel they are music.
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