It's not entrapment if the opportunity exists; it's entrapment if the person commits a crime they would not have committed without interference from the cops.
I said this on another thread the other day: a cop telling you to get into a car and drive off with it would be entrapment. A cop leaving a car unlocked in case any opportunist decides he wants an easy-to-steal car is that "honeypot". The person wasn't influenced by the cops to commit a crime.
Up until (I think) 2005, in Florida you couldn't use deadly force until you made a sincere effort to escape...So you had to try running away before you could shoot.
Professors like that are the best. My professor said the same thing; I had him both for a C programming class and for an engineering lecture. We could collaborate or even copy one another's homework, as the tests would actually judge our knowledge. For programming, we could bring a one-page "cheat sheet" with anything we wanted, including full programs.
His point was that obviously we could have all the helpful tips we wanted, or even full programs...but if we didn't understand the appropriate concepts, sure we'd get the grades, but as posted above, we'd have a degree that we paid over $100k for and had no useful skills gleaned from it.
On the other hand, I had a professor that said we could collaborate on DB design work as long as we noted that we worked on it with another group. We then were accused of cheating, and it took a few weeks to sort everything out.
I don't really think that would qualify as entrapment as much as identity fraud. You have to "trap" someone by enticing them to commit a crime they wouldn't have committed had you not invited them to. Example of entrapment = undercover walking up to some random person and asking if they want to buy drugs...whereas a person walking up to a cop who looks like they might be a drug dealer and asking them if they are selling drugs isn't entrapment.
They essentially can't provide basic service everywhere because they won't build towers everywhere. In my area, VZW actually added transceivers in the subway system so people could still get reception down there. For as long as I can remember, they've had awesome service *except* in my neighborhood. You'll hear people complaining about no ATT service in San Francisco, but out here they're great...they just nickel & dime you on plans. Tmo has great service, but spotty 3G...so it's kind of a compromise.
Internationally, companies are referred to in the plural because one consists of many people, rather than the fact that it is a singular group. Saying Are and Is are both correct.
While I second much of what you stated, the one point I will nitpick from you is that the xxAA are engaged in entrapment. They are a private entity, and specifically because they AREN'T police, they can't entrap. As irresponsible some of their tactics are, they aren't entrapment.
It also comes up from time to time that police are entrapping filesharers and other people. It's only entrapment (in the US anyway) if they get you to commit a crime you would not have committed already...like asking you if you want a program so you can get a new album illegally, and then arresting you for it.
ASAIF, Harley simply trademarked the design of the engine that produces that sound.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/harley3.htm
Basically, the pistons don't fire evenly. I'm sure other slashdotters know much more about the design than I do, though.
And that's why it's called statutory; it's an arbitrary limit coded into law.
Statutory rape should not be called rape, end of story. Any adult having sex with either a young teen or a child is already going to be charged with a litany other crimes like soliciting a minor.
It's not sexist, it just ignores the two possibilities of you penetrating someone against your will: A woman forcing you to have sex with her, or a man forcing you to penetrate him. More than likely, a male raping another male will involve the rapist penetrating the victim in some way, not wanting to be penetrated by the victim. Or perhaps the woman wants to stick something inside a male victim. While rape by women is extremely underreported, it would take an EXTREME stretch of the imagination to assume close to 50% of rapes are committed by women on men.
Bottom line, being penetrated against your will is how the vast majority of rapes happen, regardless if it's a man or if it's a woman with a strap on on another man or woman.
Sad and true. My friend lives near Berklee and it's like 2 grand a month for this crappy little thing that's so tilted the doors had to be shaved to compensate for the doorway's now parallelogram-ness.
Move to Roxbury; it's dirt cheap and awesome if you walk around wearing a bullet-proof vest.
To expand on H4rmony's comment, and paraphrase your link, only those 3 will be available to consumers. Enterprise is just Ultimate for VLKs, and Starter/Basic are for emerging markets only.
I think h4rmony's point was simply that consumers only need to think about three versions, and businesses just get Enterprise and everyone holds hands feels terrific.
One could look at the date the files were created. It's unlikely that some Geek Squad kid would maliciously change those to make it look like the file was created weeks or months before the computer was brought in. As well as under what username they were created (I'd imagine there's a way to check this?). As far as it being someone else ( on their username, anyway)...I'm not positive if precedent has been set but similar to what happened with WLAN, one is responsible for their computer, as well as who uses it unless it's a public computer.
$60 was also nearly $100 in today's money. Sega games cost a similar amount throughout the '90s.
They don't HAVE to be profitable near-term, but if that becomes a typical policy, it becomes a much harder gamble as to whether or not they'll make their money back.
The price we pay has plummeted compared to the budget of recent movies. It would encourage studios to make a few "good" movies, but again...if a movie flops, it screws them. This could mean a studio with a such a large operating budget could....downsize or split, and you have many smaller studios...better but then they don't have the resources to produce a blockbuster film.
I'm not trying to argue for the studios, just rationalizing what they're doing in the business sense. I think $35 for a BD is absolutely ridiculous. If they went down to $15-$20, it would replace DVD within a few months.
Could be useful, but I think too many people hate the idea of recurring charges unless it's an MMO where it's expected. Also, you'd have to differentiate between playing and simply having it installed. If it's installed and you get charged while it's installed, you get screwed if you stop playing it but are like eh, I'll leave it installed just in case I feel like playing it soon (which does happen with me from time to time).
In the end, you end up paying substantially more. Within 10 months, you've already matched what you'd pay for the game to begin with ($10+($5*10)...It could be cheaper for people anal about hdd space and make sure to always stay on top of things; but most people who aren't necessarily even Luddites would get screwed royally (one could argue that it's their responsibility to pay attention).
But, like I said...if they could find an effective way to charge based on when played (phone home when loaded?), it could work.
T2 and Total recall also have been making nothing but profit since a few weeks after they were released in theaters, even taking the manufacturing costs of VHS and DVDs into account. A lot of games now cost multiple tens of millions to make, that $60 goes directly towards making that game profitable in the near-term. Lower cost would also mean longer time before a game turns a profit, and in turn could make big-budget games much riskier (even beyond making fancy-pants graphics, but in designers or AI-development).
I hope you can find any new movie at Wal-Mart for $5. Most DVDs for 5 year-old movies are $20. New movies are typically $25, $35 if BD. They also provide you with ~2 hours of entertainment. N64 games were also $60 new; $60 now is arguably cheaper than $60 in 1998. While I still hate the idea of $60; many people are willing to pay that so it's not terrible. I'd like to see $50 starting, but if dropping the price of a game $10 doesn't increase the volume enough to make up for $10*original people buying the game, it's a stupid move on the part of game companies.
It doesn't. Cars would already be sold at a profit; this is just an added markup that takes into account resale value. A BMW costs marginally more than a Toyota to build, but a car in the same class costs twice as much as a similarly-equipped Toyota (Lexuses here are basically Toyotas with all options Standard, and a higher markup than said Toyota...). Of course, you're also paying for the fact that the car has a higher R&D built into it, etc. but you get get my point.
The Toyota/Lexus comparison could make more sense...They're exactly the same, you're paying for a fully-loaded Toyota with different body-paneling and an L instead of an oval thing. The added markup is for brand "prestige" and is pure profit.
I see no problems with that. All senators are very upright citizens whose judgment should be unconditionally trusted. One could say they're un-corruptible.
Aye. I tend to think only of the US as having proper states, and most other countries having provinces, mostly because I only hear of counties and provinces in news, and rarely, if ever, the word "state" (except Germany).
Sorry if I sounded snarky and ignorant.:)
And yah, cops do dumb stuff here like blow through intersections with their lights on, and then turn them off as soon as they pass through the intersection. Or they'll pull you over for "disrespecting them" by passing on the highway, even if they're going slow or even close to normal speed.
It used to be worse; light bars that are purely blue literally are mesmerizing. For whatever reason, the blue light is almost hypnotic. That's why on modern cars you see the little red and amber segments in a blue light bar, because it breaks it up and makes it less hypnotic.
Every cop is different, but from my experience in residential areas that aren't a major city (I live near Boston), they don't light up the full christmas tree on the rear. A lot of the newer cruisers actually have LESS lights. Up front, you need all the lights on because between the wig-wag headlights and the spotlight, it makes it tough to see the rest of the car.
Also, they look more intimidating. In NY, the state police have red light bars. To me, they don't look the least bit intimidating or anything. They look like another emergency vehicle. If you see a flashing blue disco flying up behind you, it gets your heart beating a little faster. I honestly wonder if they research to try to make the lights as scary as possible. All those lights probably use a few KW per minute, even if they're LED now.
Also, I think the "distractiveness" of cop lights is more the fact that everyone sees flashing lights so they slow down and look to see what happened and look at whoever got pulled over. It's similar to what happens with accidents. A few weeks ago I saw someone looking at an accident, and hit a car head-on (and applied it directly to forehead).
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It's not entrapment if the opportunity exists; it's entrapment if the person commits a crime they would not have committed without interference from the cops. I said this on another thread the other day: a cop telling you to get into a car and drive off with it would be entrapment. A cop leaving a car unlocked in case any opportunist decides he wants an easy-to-steal car is that "honeypot". The person wasn't influenced by the cops to commit a crime.
Up until (I think) 2005, in Florida you couldn't use deadly force until you made a sincere effort to escape...So you had to try running away before you could shoot.
There is also in O in lazor.
Professors like that are the best. My professor said the same thing; I had him both for a C programming class and for an engineering lecture. We could collaborate or even copy one another's homework, as the tests would actually judge our knowledge. For programming, we could bring a one-page "cheat sheet" with anything we wanted, including full programs.
His point was that obviously we could have all the helpful tips we wanted, or even full programs...but if we didn't understand the appropriate concepts, sure we'd get the grades, but as posted above, we'd have a degree that we paid over $100k for and had no useful skills gleaned from it. On the other hand, I had a professor that said we could collaborate on DB design work as long as we noted that we worked on it with another group. We then were accused of cheating, and it took a few weeks to sort everything out.
I don't really think that would qualify as entrapment as much as identity fraud. You have to "trap" someone by enticing them to commit a crime they wouldn't have committed had you not invited them to. Example of entrapment = undercover walking up to some random person and asking if they want to buy drugs...whereas a person walking up to a cop who looks like they might be a drug dealer and asking them if they are selling drugs isn't entrapment.
They essentially can't provide basic service everywhere because they won't build towers everywhere. In my area, VZW actually added transceivers in the subway system so people could still get reception down there. For as long as I can remember, they've had awesome service *except* in my neighborhood. You'll hear people complaining about no ATT service in San Francisco, but out here they're great...they just nickel & dime you on plans. Tmo has great service, but spotty 3G...so it's kind of a compromise.
Internationally, companies are referred to in the plural because one consists of many people, rather than the fact that it is a singular group. Saying Are and Is are both correct.
While I second much of what you stated, the one point I will nitpick from you is that the xxAA are engaged in entrapment. They are a private entity, and specifically because they AREN'T police, they can't entrap. As irresponsible some of their tactics are, they aren't entrapment. It also comes up from time to time that police are entrapping filesharers and other people. It's only entrapment (in the US anyway) if they get you to commit a crime you would not have committed already...like asking you if you want a program so you can get a new album illegally, and then arresting you for it.
Well, it could be unique in that it's crap. I'm not sure how that abnormally stresses the engine, if at all.
ASAIF, Harley simply trademarked the design of the engine that produces that sound. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/harley3.htm Basically, the pistons don't fire evenly. I'm sure other slashdotters know much more about the design than I do, though.
And that's why it's called statutory; it's an arbitrary limit coded into law. Statutory rape should not be called rape, end of story. Any adult having sex with either a young teen or a child is already going to be charged with a litany other crimes like soliciting a minor.
It's not sexist, it just ignores the two possibilities of you penetrating someone against your will: A woman forcing you to have sex with her, or a man forcing you to penetrate him. More than likely, a male raping another male will involve the rapist penetrating the victim in some way, not wanting to be penetrated by the victim. Or perhaps the woman wants to stick something inside a male victim. While rape by women is extremely underreported, it would take an EXTREME stretch of the imagination to assume close to 50% of rapes are committed by women on men. Bottom line, being penetrated against your will is how the vast majority of rapes happen, regardless if it's a man or if it's a woman with a strap on on another man or woman.
Sad and true. My friend lives near Berklee and it's like 2 grand a month for this crappy little thing that's so tilted the doors had to be shaved to compensate for the doorway's now parallelogram-ness. Move to Roxbury; it's dirt cheap and awesome if you walk around wearing a bullet-proof vest.
Or the movie Teeth....worst. movie. ever. IT'S VAGINA DENTATA!!!!!!!! ::while every guy tries to rape her and promptly has their unit chomped off::
Go with the Trans-Am...or better yet get the Firehawk. I used to have a Trans-Am. If I can afford ones again...I'd cry if I could get a 2nd-gen TA and a 2002 FH. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/DJRedBarron/Barrons%20Vehicles/2002%20Firehawk%20Trans%20Am/GraphicsKit2-10.jpg Beastly.
To expand on H4rmony's comment, and paraphrase your link, only those 3 will be available to consumers. Enterprise is just Ultimate for VLKs, and Starter/Basic are for emerging markets only. I think h4rmony's point was simply that consumers only need to think about three versions, and businesses just get Enterprise and everyone holds hands feels terrific.
On 2nd thought, I just read a comment further down and found out you can change the time of the computer to make it look like that.
One could look at the date the files were created. It's unlikely that some Geek Squad kid would maliciously change those to make it look like the file was created weeks or months before the computer was brought in. As well as under what username they were created (I'd imagine there's a way to check this?). As far as it being someone else ( on their username, anyway)...I'm not positive if precedent has been set but similar to what happened with WLAN, one is responsible for their computer, as well as who uses it unless it's a public computer.
$60 was also nearly $100 in today's money. Sega games cost a similar amount throughout the '90s. They don't HAVE to be profitable near-term, but if that becomes a typical policy, it becomes a much harder gamble as to whether or not they'll make their money back. The price we pay has plummeted compared to the budget of recent movies. It would encourage studios to make a few "good" movies, but again...if a movie flops, it screws them. This could mean a studio with a such a large operating budget could....downsize or split, and you have many smaller studios...better but then they don't have the resources to produce a blockbuster film. I'm not trying to argue for the studios, just rationalizing what they're doing in the business sense. I think $35 for a BD is absolutely ridiculous. If they went down to $15-$20, it would replace DVD within a few months.
Could be useful, but I think too many people hate the idea of recurring charges unless it's an MMO where it's expected. Also, you'd have to differentiate between playing and simply having it installed. If it's installed and you get charged while it's installed, you get screwed if you stop playing it but are like eh, I'll leave it installed just in case I feel like playing it soon (which does happen with me from time to time). In the end, you end up paying substantially more. Within 10 months, you've already matched what you'd pay for the game to begin with ($10+($5*10)...It could be cheaper for people anal about hdd space and make sure to always stay on top of things; but most people who aren't necessarily even Luddites would get screwed royally (one could argue that it's their responsibility to pay attention). But, like I said...if they could find an effective way to charge based on when played (phone home when loaded?), it could work.
T2 and Total recall also have been making nothing but profit since a few weeks after they were released in theaters, even taking the manufacturing costs of VHS and DVDs into account. A lot of games now cost multiple tens of millions to make, that $60 goes directly towards making that game profitable in the near-term. Lower cost would also mean longer time before a game turns a profit, and in turn could make big-budget games much riskier (even beyond making fancy-pants graphics, but in designers or AI-development). I hope you can find any new movie at Wal-Mart for $5. Most DVDs for 5 year-old movies are $20. New movies are typically $25, $35 if BD. They also provide you with ~2 hours of entertainment. N64 games were also $60 new; $60 now is arguably cheaper than $60 in 1998. While I still hate the idea of $60; many people are willing to pay that so it's not terrible. I'd like to see $50 starting, but if dropping the price of a game $10 doesn't increase the volume enough to make up for $10*original people buying the game, it's a stupid move on the part of game companies.
It doesn't. Cars would already be sold at a profit; this is just an added markup that takes into account resale value. A BMW costs marginally more than a Toyota to build, but a car in the same class costs twice as much as a similarly-equipped Toyota (Lexuses here are basically Toyotas with all options Standard, and a higher markup than said Toyota...). Of course, you're also paying for the fact that the car has a higher R&D built into it, etc. but you get get my point. The Toyota/Lexus comparison could make more sense...They're exactly the same, you're paying for a fully-loaded Toyota with different body-paneling and an L instead of an oval thing. The added markup is for brand "prestige" and is pure profit.
I see no problems with that. All senators are very upright citizens whose judgment should be unconditionally trusted. One could say they're un-corruptible.
Aye. I tend to think only of the US as having proper states, and most other countries having provinces, mostly because I only hear of counties and provinces in news, and rarely, if ever, the word "state" (except Germany). Sorry if I sounded snarky and ignorant. :)
And yah, cops do dumb stuff here like blow through intersections with their lights on, and then turn them off as soon as they pass through the intersection. Or they'll pull you over for "disrespecting them" by passing on the highway, even if they're going slow or even close to normal speed.
It used to be worse; light bars that are purely blue literally are mesmerizing. For whatever reason, the blue light is almost hypnotic. That's why on modern cars you see the little red and amber segments in a blue light bar, because it breaks it up and makes it less hypnotic. Every cop is different, but from my experience in residential areas that aren't a major city (I live near Boston), they don't light up the full christmas tree on the rear. A lot of the newer cruisers actually have LESS lights. Up front, you need all the lights on because between the wig-wag headlights and the spotlight, it makes it tough to see the rest of the car. Also, they look more intimidating. In NY, the state police have red light bars. To me, they don't look the least bit intimidating or anything. They look like another emergency vehicle. If you see a flashing blue disco flying up behind you, it gets your heart beating a little faster. I honestly wonder if they research to try to make the lights as scary as possible. All those lights probably use a few KW per minute, even if they're LED now. Also, I think the "distractiveness" of cop lights is more the fact that everyone sees flashing lights so they slow down and look to see what happened and look at whoever got pulled over. It's similar to what happens with accidents. A few weeks ago I saw someone looking at an accident, and hit a car head-on (and applied it directly to forehead).