CDs are digital, but the DISTRIBUTION of CDs is in analog, ie pieces of plastic being shipped out on trucks and arriving at someone's front door via snail mail -- whereas with digital distribution you would eliminate all the middlemen and just send the files as a sequence of 1's and 0's that would arrive at the recipient's computer at the speed of light.
She is not complaining that the school did not find her a job -- they are not obligated to do that and she is not entitled to that. The complaint is that the school is not doing enough to help her find a job -- and that they advertised their career placement programs heavily. If they promised her that when she started going to the school she is 100% entitled to assistance -- she PAID them tens of thousands of dollars in the expectation that after graduation they would help her find a job. If they are not providing these services, it is false advertising, plain and simple, and I hope she wins. Not sure if this is the case, she could just be a bum, but from what I have seen it is probably legit and if so, I hope she wins big time.
@Peter -- Shut up. Just because you were lucky enough to have daddy's friends give your a job doesn't mean that everyone else has the same doors open to them, some people have to *gasp!* make a life for themselves. In this case, any help you can get can make a life or death difference. I have news for you man, I am sure you worked your ass off, but you are extraordinarily lucky, most people won't be able to do what you have done even if they work harder than you and are more qualified than you. If you had daddy's friends get your foot in the door, I am sure they also were pulling strings for you to advance. You are lucky, that's all, and gloating about it makes you look like the douche that you almost certainly are.
What? Are you kidding? Haven't the few bleeding-heart responses to this article taught you anything? This university has a duty - nay, an obligation to make good on their subjective claim. This woman has been disenfranchised!
Or, she is of below-average intelligence and/or has been taught that she deserves something for which the rest of us have to work. As the great prophet said about 'potential,' "Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up."
Why shouldn't the university have to make good on their claims? If she, in good faith, gave this school tens of thousands of dollars based on a promise by the school that they will offer her significant career placement when she gets out, why should she not expect it? There are not enough details as to the promises made by the school and the treatment they gave her, but it is certainly par for the course for schools to make those sorts of false promises -- as I said before I graduated from a school that promised me up and down that they would use all their connections out there to help me find a job and in the end offered me little that I could not find on monster.com. I can't see how this can be construed as anything other than blatantly false advertising, and if this is the case then she certainly does have a lawsuit and I hope she wins and teaches these schools that they have to live up to their promises.
If the school advertised career assistance as a selling point and then offered next to nothing on graduation, she could have a case. After graduating from a college which I will not name, I was told that I would be offered extensive career development services as well, but was offered little that I could not have found on monster.com, even after chasing after the people at the school to help me. Granted, I never felt that it would have been legit to sue and I wasn't planning on needing much help from them, but they should still be held accountable for all their advertised claims. Obviously, this case would be next to impossible to fight, but her complaints at least may not (or very well may) be without merit.
"likewise, if your house was robbed and the news reported on it, there's nothing wrong with you writing about your house being robbed. the "wrong" part happens when you decide that instead of writing up your own story, you basically mass blockquote from the news article. if you want quotes from the police chief, then go ask the police chief yourself, or find his press release or the arrest form."
Sorry, but this is absurd. Knowledge is cumulative. Where do you think science would be if every new generation of scientists had to keep rediscovering the same things over and over again? We would never move forward as a species. When one person interviews the police chief, I can't see why others can't use the same quote, and then maybe spend the time interviewing, say, one of the responding officers instead. This way, we get a fresh perspective instead of rehashing the same ground, as well as being kept up to speed with previous developments. That is how knowledge and information works, it is not something that can be owned or locked down. If this were the case we would still live in caves.
@ Scott -- "Yes, the original reporter didn't actually pay for the quotes, but if you read the story, he spent hours in the interview and editing process, something for which a salary was paid to him."
Yes, and the experts he was interviewing spent years at school studying(which was an out of pocket expense for them), as well as (presumably) many years of work in the field (which they are receiving salary for) to gather the knowledge that they are sharing for free with this reporter. The REPORTER is the one who deserves the credit for this knowledge? Because he spent hours interviewing people and assembling information, and cost the newspaper maybe hundreds of dollars (as opposed to the experts, who spent YEARS and have cost millions of dollars)? I hope that you can see how badly your logic fails here.
"
Excuse me
First amendment?
Son, the first amendment protects you from the government
Not from me
You can say whatever you want to out there
You come within reach of me
I'll exercise my right to give you a good ol' country ass whoopin'
Is what I'll do for you
"
Umm... we have the right to assault people for saying things that we don't like now? Funny, I always just thought that I had the right to, you know, not listen to things I don't like. I hate this mentality, Trace Adkins should go back to the trailer park and stop spouting non-sense like this. Sure, he has the right, but that doesn't make him any less of a backwoods, hillbilly, incestuous moron.
I am a firm believer in personal responsibility -- it is convenient that you all fail to acknowledge that the DEP workers are REQUIRED to barricade a manhole before they open it, there is no such requirement for a girl to not text while walking down the sidewalk. This is a requirement because it would be extremely easy to miss an open manhole -- in you peripheral vision an open manhole would really not look very different than a closed one. This could happen to ANY of you if you were to be distracted for even a second. The DEP worker in this case were grossly negligent and could have killed someone and they most certainly deserve to be punished for this. Please try thinking before you point fingers.
I would honestly be surprised if more than 2% of the current newspaper readers would switch over to a pay model. I can't imagine many people navigating to the site they have been using for free for years, being greeted by a nice little greeting telling them they have to pay, and the reaction being anything other than a big middle finger. There is SO MUCH information on the web that another site is only a click away, and if you hold people up for even a few extra seconds they are liable to go elsewhere, never mind asking for a CC number. These companies are dinosaurs and they deserve to be extinct.
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
"Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?"
"You wouldn't believe."
"Which car company do you work for?"
"A major one."
On a scale of 1 to Certain -- how likely is it that there is going to be massive IP spoofing in France directed towards all these politicians? That would be a fun little gesture of civil disobedience...
Lori Drew is the scum of the Earth, but it is very disheartening to see the legal system make up laws to prosecute her. It is not up to the courts to decide what is and is not moral behavior, it is up to them to determine whether or not certain behavior is within the scope of the law. Unfortunately in this case (I would love to see Lori Drew pay for what she did just as much as anyone), there is no way to charge Lori Drew with anything without setting a dangerous precedent.
That's funny -- I have always thought of my manually programmable GPS as a wonderful safety device, I can think of numerous times that I have almost got into a wreck while fiddling with a map while driving. Why don't they just make it illegal to play with the thing when your car is moving? You get in an accident and the name of a town is halfway entered on the GPS it counts against you in determining fault. That would make too much sense though...
This will definitely be a different experience than playing on LAN in that it ummm... just won't work. Let's say you have a 4x4 game going on on a LAN -- the computers are communicating directly with each other at 1 Gbps. If you wanted to play that same game on Battle.net, all the computers on the network have to send all of that data out one upload pipe, which is usually about 2 Mbps, which leaves each machine with 250 kbps upload speed, which is NOT ENOUGH!! Not to mention the fact that you will always have lag, 100 ms over internet at best vs.
This definitely should result in jail time for whoever is tampering with the lights, if for no other reason that to give these clowns incentive to not do it other places, right now if all they have to do when caught is say OOPS!! and then give the money back, there is no reason for them to not try it everywhere and ride the gravy train as long as they can. They need to be held accountable so that others in the future know that this sort of behavior is not acceptable. Not only is this obnoxious, it is a huge public safety issue. If the light in the other direction is turning green at the same time as one light turning red, and people are getting a second less time at the yellow than they are expecting, this definitely opens up the possibility of MORE crashes, exactly the opposite of the intention of the law. It is amazing that these folks can sleep at night.
Ummm... the original was published in 1951 -- making it 58 years old -- isn't the term on copyrighted works 50 years? Why isn't this novel in the public domain by now?
Re: �...burning CDs, rather than distributing the same content digitally...�
CDs are digital, but the DISTRIBUTION of CDs is in analog, ie pieces of plastic being shipped out on trucks and arriving at someone's front door via snail mail -- whereas with digital distribution you would eliminate all the middlemen and just send the files as a sequence of 1's and 0's that would arrive at the recipient's computer at the speed of light.
Just to reiterate
She is not complaining that the school did not find her a job -- they are not obligated to do that and she is not entitled to that. The complaint is that the school is not doing enough to help her find a job -- and that they advertised their career placement programs heavily. If they promised her that when she started going to the school she is 100% entitled to assistance -- she PAID them tens of thousands of dollars in the expectation that after graduation they would help her find a job. If they are not providing these services, it is false advertising, plain and simple, and I hope she wins. Not sure if this is the case, she could just be a bum, but from what I have seen it is probably legit and if so, I hope she wins big time.
Re: Honey. Shut up and do what I did.
@Peter -- Shut up. Just because you were lucky enough to have daddy's friends give your a job doesn't mean that everyone else has the same doors open to them, some people have to *gasp!* make a life for themselves. In this case, any help you can get can make a life or death difference. I have news for you man, I am sure you worked your ass off, but you are extraordinarily lucky, most people won't be able to do what you have done even if they work harder than you and are more qualified than you. If you had daddy's friends get your foot in the door, I am sure they also were pulling strings for you to advance. You are lucky, that's all, and gloating about it makes you look like the douche that you almost certainly are.
@Matt --
Why shouldn't the university have to make good on their claims? If she, in good faith, gave this school tens of thousands of dollars based on a promise by the school that they will offer her significant career placement when she gets out, why should she not expect it? There are not enough details as to the promises made by the school and the treatment they gave her, but it is certainly par for the course for schools to make those sorts of false promises -- as I said before I graduated from a school that promised me up and down that they would use all their connections out there to help me find a job and in the end offered me little that I could not find on monster.com. I can't see how this can be construed as anything other than blatantly false advertising, and if this is the case then she certainly does have a lawsuit and I hope she wins and teaches these schools that they have to live up to their promises.
This may not be all that ridiculous...
If the school advertised career assistance as a selling point and then offered next to nothing on graduation, she could have a case. After graduating from a college which I will not name, I was told that I would be offered extensive career development services as well, but was offered little that I could not have found on monster.com, even after chasing after the people at the school to help me. Granted, I never felt that it would have been legit to sue and I wasn't planning on needing much help from them, but they should still be held accountable for all their advertised claims. Obviously, this case would be next to impossible to fight, but her complaints at least may not (or very well may) be without merit.
"likewise, if your house was robbed and the news reported on it, there's nothing wrong with you writing about your house being robbed. the "wrong" part happens when you decide that instead of writing up your own story, you basically mass blockquote from the news article. if you want quotes from the police chief, then go ask the police chief yourself, or find his press release or the arrest form."
Sorry, but this is absurd. Knowledge is cumulative. Where do you think science would be if every new generation of scientists had to keep rediscovering the same things over and over again? We would never move forward as a species. When one person interviews the police chief, I can't see why others can't use the same quote, and then maybe spend the time interviewing, say, one of the responding officers instead. This way, we get a fresh perspective instead of rehashing the same ground, as well as being kept up to speed with previous developments. That is how knowledge and information works, it is not something that can be owned or locked down. If this were the case we would still live in caves.
Re:
@ Scott -- "Yes, the original reporter didn't actually pay for the quotes, but if you read the story, he spent hours in the interview and editing process, something for which a salary was paid to him."
Yes, and the experts he was interviewing spent years at school studying(which was an out of pocket expense for them), as well as (presumably) many years of work in the field (which they are receiving salary for) to gather the knowledge that they are sharing for free with this reporter. The REPORTER is the one who deserves the credit for this knowledge? Because he spent hours interviewing people and assembling information, and cost the newspaper maybe hundreds of dollars (as opposed to the experts, who spent YEARS and have cost millions of dollars)? I hope that you can see how badly your logic fails here.
"
Excuse me
First amendment?
Son, the first amendment protects you from the government
Not from me
You can say whatever you want to out there
You come within reach of me
I'll exercise my right to give you a good ol' country ass whoopin'
Is what I'll do for you
"
Umm... we have the right to assault people for saying things that we don't like now? Funny, I always just thought that I had the right to, you know, not listen to things I don't like. I hate this mentality, Trace Adkins should go back to the trailer park and stop spouting non-sense like this. Sure, he has the right, but that doesn't make him any less of a backwoods, hillbilly, incestuous moron.
Oh, and the PS3 kid is a retard.
What the Hell is wrong with all of you?
I am a firm believer in personal responsibility -- it is convenient that you all fail to acknowledge that the DEP workers are REQUIRED to barricade a manhole before they open it, there is no such requirement for a girl to not text while walking down the sidewalk. This is a requirement because it would be extremely easy to miss an open manhole -- in you peripheral vision an open manhole would really not look very different than a closed one. This could happen to ANY of you if you were to be distracted for even a second. The DEP worker in this case were grossly negligent and could have killed someone and they most certainly deserve to be punished for this. Please try thinking before you point fingers.
I would honestly be surprised if more than 2% of the current newspaper readers would switch over to a pay model. I can't imagine many people navigating to the site they have been using for free for years, being greeted by a nice little greeting telling them they have to pay, and the reaction being anything other than a big middle finger. There is SO MUCH information on the web that another site is only a click away, and if you hold people up for even a few extra seconds they are liable to go elsewhere, never mind asking for a CC number. These companies are dinosaurs and they deserve to be extinct.
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
"Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?"
"You wouldn't believe."
"Which car company do you work for?"
"A major one."
IP Address Spoofing...
On a scale of 1 to Certain -- how likely is it that there is going to be massive IP spoofing in France directed towards all these politicians? That would be a fun little gesture of civil disobedience...
It's about time...
Lori Drew is the scum of the Earth, but it is very disheartening to see the legal system make up laws to prosecute her. It is not up to the courts to decide what is and is not moral behavior, it is up to them to determine whether or not certain behavior is within the scope of the law. Unfortunately in this case (I would love to see Lori Drew pay for what she did just as much as anyone), there is no way to charge Lori Drew with anything without setting a dangerous precedent.
It's about time...
Re:
@Brian -- "Starcraft 1 came out ELEVEN YEARS AGO."
Yes it did. And lots of people still play it over LAN. What does that tell you?
That's funny -- I have always thought of my manually programmable GPS as a wonderful safety device, I can think of numerous times that I have almost got into a wreck while fiddling with a map while driving. Why don't they just make it illegal to play with the thing when your car is moving? You get in an accident and the name of a town is halfway entered on the GPS it counts against you in determining fault. That would make too much sense though...
This will definitely be a different experience than playing on LAN in that it ummm... just won't work. Let's say you have a 4x4 game going on on a LAN -- the computers are communicating directly with each other at 1 Gbps. If you wanted to play that same game on Battle.net, all the computers on the network have to send all of that data out one upload pipe, which is usually about 2 Mbps, which leaves each machine with 250 kbps upload speed, which is NOT ENOUGH!! Not to mention the fact that you will always have lag, 100 ms over internet at best vs.
Unreal
This definitely should result in jail time for whoever is tampering with the lights, if for no other reason that to give these clowns incentive to not do it other places, right now if all they have to do when caught is say OOPS!! and then give the money back, there is no reason for them to not try it everywhere and ride the gravy train as long as they can. They need to be held accountable so that others in the future know that this sort of behavior is not acceptable. Not only is this obnoxious, it is a huge public safety issue. If the light in the other direction is turning green at the same time as one light turning red, and people are getting a second less time at the yellow than they are expecting, this definitely opens up the possibility of MORE crashes, exactly the opposite of the intention of the law. It is amazing that these folks can sleep at night.
Ummm... the original was published in 1951 -- making it 58 years old -- isn't the term on copyrighted works 50 years? Why isn't this novel in the public domain by now?
Sex Discrimination...