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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 0:41:42 GMT
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Post by achilles on Oct 7, 2019 13:46:03 GMT
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Post by achilles on Oct 8, 2019 9:47:58 GMT
Dry and dull though this may seem, it's a VERY important ruling by SCOTUS in that it explicitly expands the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA), which states that businesses must "reasonably accommodate people with disabilities. Typically in stores and other buildings this means things like some sort of ramp for wheelchair or walker access, allowing service dogs into establishments, counters in supermarkets which can accommodate people in wheelchairs, and the like. Now SCOTUS has expanded that into cyberspace, in a case where a blind man claimed that the website of Domino's Pizza was not compliant with the act and thus wouldn't allow him to order. All of which means that all of the millions of e-commerce websites in the country must now comply with the ADA, using all the tricks that most pros probably do anyway. www.foxnews.com/tech/dominos-pizza-blind-man-website-supreme-court
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 15:05:56 GMT
Dry and dull though this may seem, it's a VERY important ruling by SCOTUS in that it explicitly expands the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA), which states that businesses must "reasonably accommodate people with disabilities. Typically in stores and other buildings this means things like some sort of ramp for wheelchair or walker access, allowing service dogs into establishments, counters in supermarkets which can accommodate people in wheelchairs, and the like. Now SCOTUS has expanded that into cyberspace, in a case where a blind man claimed that the website of Domino's Pizza was not compliant with the act and thus wouldn't allow him to order. All of which means that all of the millions of e-commerce websites in the country must now comply with the ADA, using all the tricks that most pros probably do anyway. www.foxnews.com/tech/dominos-pizza-blind-man-website-supreme-courtOrganizations have not been 508 compliant for more than a decade. It will be interesting to see if this ruling actually changes anything.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 17:15:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 17:23:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 17:27:14 GMT
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Post by achilles on Oct 11, 2019 18:03:02 GMT
Dry and dull though this may seem, it's a VERY important ruling by SCOTUS in that it explicitly expands the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA), which states that businesses must "reasonably accommodate people with disabilities. Typically in stores and other buildings this means things like some sort of ramp for wheelchair or walker access, allowing service dogs into establishments, counters in supermarkets which can accommodate people in wheelchairs, and the like. Now SCOTUS has expanded that into cyberspace, in a case where a blind man claimed that the website of Domino's Pizza was not compliant with the act and thus wouldn't allow him to order. All of which means that all of the millions of e-commerce websites in the country must now comply with the ADA, using all the tricks that most pros probably do anyway. www.foxnews.com/tech/dominos-pizza-blind-man-website-supreme-courtOrganizations have not been 508 compliant for more than a decade. It will be interesting to see if this ruling actually changes anything. Having had some experience with disabled people, that's kind of a sore spot for me. They've done a lot to improve the physical plant of buildings and public spaces, and there are standards for homes for disabled people, (you just don't know how poorly designed for people in wheelchairs or who use walkers or who can't stand until you try it yourself in your own home), but there's a long way to go. And extending that the the internet seems to me to be logical and needed. Plus...as a bonus, it means more work for the web design folks.
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Post by achilles on Oct 11, 2019 18:33:01 GMT
This one is revolting, and nearly the plot-line of a BBC drama, Shetland, (or one arc of it at least). Though the Shetland one was PC, with African women being trafficked by Brit gangsters, rather than Slovakian women being trafficked by Romani from Slovakia to Pakistani men who wanted to buy an EU visa through marrying an EU citizen as the real one went. These...people evidently are quite fine with slavery and buying a bride. That apparently was their first thought on getting that EU visa, and their last. www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-49813942It's still repulsive and evil, and leads me to wonder how many more of these rings are out there. There very likely is one just like the Shetland version I'm thinking.
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Post by achilles on Oct 11, 2019 21:18:39 GMT
news.yahoo.com/felony-charge-girl-13-pointed-191616726.htmlThank God we've made finger guns illegal, those kids need to know that their fingers are lethal weapons that you should never point at someone. Seriously, IF this reporting is accurate, this is both a stupid overreaction from some adults who ought to know better, and a kid who might benefit from talking with a shrink, not being arrested for something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 3:11:56 GMT
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Post by achilles on Oct 12, 2019 11:30:31 GMT
Yeah, not at all surprising, but very dispiriting. I don't expect policy wonks, but damn. I've seen surveys of college students who think Trump should be impeached, but have no idea why. And...they think impeachment means removal from office; they don't understand there's a second part to that. Puts me in mind of my college's paper. They posted an article that gave me quite a few laughs at the time, whilst also generating intense embarrassment that MY college would produce such...idiots. It was all about...the first ten amendments to....the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! I am a bit surprised most students don't think Oprah is the SCOTUS Chief Justice...
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Post by achilles on Oct 12, 2019 11:45:58 GMT
We're having a bunch of wildfires now, as is usual for...well, any time of year. PG and E, the utility who gave us several deadly wildfires last year, including our most deadly fire ever. Now, to avoid more lawsuits, they've gone to blacking out millions of customers before winds are forecast. The thing is our power lines are all on poles, rather than buried, because that was too hard and too expensive. Less so than the fires, but then forward thinking isn't their strong suit. But this story frosts me, again from personal experience. My mom, before she passed, was on oxygen at home, and this happened to her, leaving us scrambling to find bottles of the stuff, instead of the electrically powered concentrator that she used, and that all people at home who need that use. That was panic inducing, but that was an unplanned outing, caused again by those Santa Ana winds, (which also later blew down the line into my house, so I had a live power line in my back yard...nice. PG and E's efforts to stop people from dying...failed. They killed a man who died 12 minutes after they cut power to his house. He was found with a nasal cannula hooked up, and he just couldn't reach his battery powered back up. Good going, PG and E! Obviously another lawsuit in waiting. Put the damn lines underground! www.foxnews.com/us/oxygen-dependent-man-dies-12-minutes-after-pge-cuts-power-to-his-home
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Post by achilles on Oct 13, 2019 11:16:00 GMT
This video is both terrifying and appalling. Really every time I see something like that, for example that recent bridge collapse in Taiwan IIRC, I think back to seeing the towers fall. But this is New Orlean, a city I really want to like, but a city with huge problems, so I'm not surprised it happened here.
The toll is currently two dead and at least one more missing. They have to bring in another crane capable of lifting the rubble to continue searching. Stuff keeps falling in the area, so residents have been told to stay away. Looks like the CBD to me. Ah, seeing the caption, Canal Street separates the CBD from the French Quarter.
Note the people running away on Canal Street. I hope they got away okay, but I can't tell.
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