I said you could record if you put a sign up.
You can record for some purposes if you post a sign, in some states.
Even in the toilet.
No. You have an expectation of privacy there. Hotels with signs about video surveillance have still gotten busted when staff recorded people in the bathroom.
When you inform them you are or 'may' be recording, you are allowed to record audio
Again, varies by state, both on and off the phone.
I don't know if this just works for me because I'm a giant mutant, but if I make a deep sort of dog-growly noise way down in my sternum then it makes my skull vibrate in a way that lets me visually perceive flicker all the way up to around typical LED refresh rates even on normal stuff like digital clocks. The numbers all sort of jiggle in different directions, in that case. LED-illuminated Christmas trees look ridiculous. They have absurd flicker because they just run at 1/2 of the mains frequency.
They're always crying about how poorly freddie and fannie are doing but they could, say, pay off all the student loans for less than the price of a bailout, or bail out a bunch of these actual homeowners directly rather than giving people actual cash. So yeah, it's all a lot of cockery.
the two words mean different things. was doing something else.
if there's pines there it's because they wanted them there
broken window
I suggest you familiarize yourself about the Mountain Pine Beetle.
No, I suggest that you do that. In most of the BLM land, there's long since no native trees.
And my state use to collect royalties on timber harvest to fund public schools. Now we have high property taxes and get to breath burning trees each summer.
I don't know the particulars of your state's arrangement. I know that the BLM awards permits on fairly specious bases, however, and does not do a particularly ecologically-friendly job of "managing" the land.
Harvesting timber is not land raping
They're basically farming those trees on our land, at our expense since the prevailing rate would be much higher.
So you were born in Santa Clara and now live in Boonville.
Santa Cruz and Kelseyville actually, so better and worse respectively. The Santa Cruz Mission is just up the hill as you go from downtown to the East side. Now I live on in a town named after a man whose wife is reputed to have poured water in the gunpowder to help the natives rise up and kill her slaving, murdering, raping husband. Ah, American history.
To say that the government doesn't have the right to do with the land as it pleases (land the government can show deed to) is disingenuous at best
To suggest that the government is a single entity which has a right to dispense with that which belongs to all of us is disingenuous at best.
and subverting our government's rightful authority at worst.
Our government has a right to that authority which we the people grant it, no more. But that land is meant to be for public use, and is being monetized to the detriment of the public.
Are there questionable activities taking place in some areas? Probably. To write the Forest Service off as some Federal monetization group is just absurd hyperbole.
The best thing to do would be to look at the USFS budget and see where the money is spent. Sadly, their 2015 budget overview is 70 pages long, and "surprisingly" doesn't begin with a simple pie chart that shows where the money is going. And I have other shit to do this morning. Then we can decide what the priorities really are.
There are a bunch of Native Americans who might disagree with you, there.
Your point is well-taken, but I'm talking about the USA era, not pre-USA. I come from what used to be Ohlone land and I now live in what used to be Pomo land...
So, basically, the forest service is tasked with monetizing the National Forests of the United States, not "preserve the untamed character of the country's wilderness",
Yes, exactly like the Bureau of Land Management, the greatest land grab perpetrated against the people of the United States. IN WHICH rather than homesteading, the land was declared the property of the federal government, and they monetize it by selling land-raping permits (oil, coal, fracking, timber, and cattle grazing — the latter of which is not precisely land-raping, but simply -suppressing, since a portion of that land was cleared from forest specifically for the purpose of cattle ranching, back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.)
TAG still exists, some states do a crap job of offering a good TAG program, but Common Core is the minimum f'ing standard, not the maximum, it doesn't dictate how a teacher teaches, just that all kids must be able to do a minimum number of things at each milestone.
A friend (who I have met personally) of a friend (who is reliable) used to be a teacher. They quit shortly after getting the details about what their day would look like in order to comply with CC. If everything went perfectly, all students were in their seats at the bell and stuff like calling roll took 0 minutes, they would have 15 too few minutes in the day to follow the schedule they were given.
If you have a problem with your school, I'd suggest it's *your* problem and as a parent
Not my problem as a parent. I wouldn't be a good parent, and I managed to exercise fairly close control over my reproductive processes, so I am not one. It's only my problem as a person who has to live with the results of this bullshit.
it's on you to fix it by either working on it or moving your kid to a better school
What the shit gave you an idea that I had a kid, anyway? I care about education because it affects me even though I don't.
I have every right to be skeptical of CC. I find it a vast improvement over what was there, but I recognize the consternation of parents who suddenly realize their snowflakes aren't quite so precious.
To me, the failing of CC is more about the precious snowflakes who will be shoveled along with everyone else. The idea that we should all be held to the same standard is not only ridiculous, but it removes any and all time to support the exceptional students in being exceptional.
Really, the US police only investigates crimes if reported by wealthy people!?
Or if they think there's a buck in it for them, yeah. I know personally people who have reported items stolen up to and including cars where they knew the location and got a total blowoff from the cops, we'll get to it if we get to it kind of shit. But if you make an anonymous tip about some shit going on someplace where they can seize some people's shit, yeah, they'll show up.
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
