Even that doesn't quite fall into entrapment as I've had it described from legal sources.. If it were a uniformed cop, then it would be entrapment - part of it has to be that you know it's someone in a position of authority (IE: the police) - especially if they tell you it's allowed because, hey, it's the police telling you to smuggle these drugs but then they arrest you for possession as soon as they give you the dope.
Google's little text-only ads are the only ones I (and many others) find acceptable. They tend to be relevant, are easily ignored, and don't detract from the aesthetics of the page. For those reasons, I generally don't block Google's ads and have once or twice clicked on them because they really were relevant.
The ones I really hate are the ones that come up over the content and you have to search for a way to close it... especially the ads that do this behavior when you accidentally move the mouse over the ad.
Used to be able to stream under it, but now we can't even log into it because of the redirect loop - tried it on multiple computers in every major browser except Safari.
Just because there's sequels doesn't mean there was interest... or at least not enough to justify making two GOOD sequels. Look at all of the movies that got two sequels greenlighted at the same time... the Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean , Busty Trannies 4 and 5, etc
Netflix allows you to set up sub-accounts for this reason. My girlfriend has a sub-account for when she wants to watch movies on her PC. For the Wii, we just use my account because it stays logged in. The only downside is logging into a sub-account often throws Netflix in a redirect loop that returns an error on Fx/Chrome/Opera and crashes IE (IE doesn't do well detecting loops)
We have the Enterprise version where I work - one of my more recent responsibilities is monitoring it. Overall, it's pretty good at detecting most infections but doesn't always remove the infection. Personally, I'll keep using MS Security Essentials on all of my PCs
Seeing the Milky Way (and the host of other visible-to-the-naked-eye stellar phenomena ) is one of those things I always took for granted growing up. Never thought about people never seeing it. I suppose it's sort of like snow... you never think about the fact that some people may never see snow with their own eyes when I'm used to seeing it by the yard.
National Geographic mentioned this in an article on this a few years ago on light pollution (I'm too lazy to go find it). A lot of cities are slowing making the transition to lights that only shine downward and waste little into the sky. It's serves the dual purpose of 1) saving energy and 2) cutting down on light pollution.
It's also why I enjoyed going to a small state school in a small town (~2,000 full time residents, plus ~1,500 students in dorms or apartments in town). The college's observatory was less than a mile away and had a decent telescope (especially compared to the $100 telescope I had when I was younger). It's freaking amazing what you can see on a clear night even with a relatively small observatory... made having classes until midnight well worth it.
This is why I like going back to my hometown, especially during the winter when the sky is cold and clear. Drive to the top of the nearest hill and you can see about ten billion more stars than possible within 20 miles of the city where I live now. My girlfriend grew up in the suburbs and is amazed by the sheer number of stars visible where I grew up. This is exactly the reason why we stick everybody in one big city in New York - so the rest of us in the state can still enjoy the great outdoors.
Remembering gives you the ability to spew back exact facts. Learning gives you the ability to take what you already know and use it to figure out a new problem.
Let's use a car analogy, but the same goes for any subject. You're given the Haynes Repair Guide for a 2004 Honda Civic and you memorize it. Through memory, you can now take apart the car and put it back together. However, if you learn how each piece works (IE: how does the transmission shift gears?) rather than just seeing which pieces go together then you can take that knowledge and go work on a 2010 Dodge Avenger even if it has a transmission put together differently.
With Latin, you can memorize Veni, Vedi, Vici but it takes learning Latin to be able to change the meaning without having to memorize every single word in every form in Latin. As I recall, each verb has thirty variations (five tenses, singular or plural, first, second or third person) so it helps to learn the syntax of the language and use that figure out what you want to say rather than learning all thirty variations of each and every verb.
That's the beauty of BOCES. For my junior and senior years of high school, I spent half the day every day doing computer networking and electrical theory. It really cemented my decision to go to college for network administration and I haven't regretted it since. It also got me out of taking a third year of French, which was a huge bonus.
I have to agree with you... Calculus and Latin were my favorite subjects when I was in highschool because there was no standard curriculum and the teachers taught it so you'd understand it, not so you'd remember it. My Calculus teacher in particular would spend a day or two on a tangent if 1) she thought we would find it interesting and 2) it would help us understand how to figure out the formula rather than just memorizing the formulas. We started trigonometry in 8th grade but it wasn't until I had her as a teacher in 10th grade that I finally understand what the hell Sine, Cosine and Tangent actually meant.
The health teacher was quite good too with his far-larger-than-life plastic models that he used to, err, get the point across about sex ed.
My high school was dedicated to passing standardized tests. Learning was just an undesirable side effect that happened to anyone who happened to have a passing interest in the subject at hand.
There's already no Linux driver for it... so does that mean you're going to switch? And if someone makes a Linux driver will you switch back to not using it?
50 years ago, they were predicting flying cars, space travel, holographic TVs, etc by y2k but few of the things they predicted came true, and even of those that did most of them are not accessible to Joe Average. However, look at the one big thing most of them missed: The Internet and the consumer microcomputer revolution.
Predicting the somewhat distant future is great and all, but I'm sure there will be something huge that we never see coming and once it's there, we'll wonder how we ever lived without it.
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Even that doesn't quite fall into entrapment as I've had it described from legal sources.. If it were a uniformed cop, then it would be entrapment - part of it has to be that you know it's someone in a position of authority (IE: the police) - especially if they tell you it's allowed because, hey, it's the police telling you to smuggle these drugs but then they arrest you for possession as soon as they give you the dope.
Google's little text-only ads are the only ones I (and many others) find acceptable. They tend to be relevant, are easily ignored, and don't detract from the aesthetics of the page. For those reasons, I generally don't block Google's ads and have once or twice clicked on them because they really were relevant.
The ones I really hate are the ones that come up over the content and you have to search for a way to close it... especially the ads that do this behavior when you accidentally move the mouse over the ad.
The summary just makes me thing of The Blob so I have trouble taking it seriously.
"no one wants to be seen as supporting child pornography"
Well, there's always 4chan...
Are they researchers for the mutant flu or are they flu researchers that are mutants? Or did the mutant flu make them mutants?
Why do you think Facebook only has a Like button? It's government mandated.
Speaking as a fat American, 1) you're a douche and 2) I still get cold when public places overdo the a/c
"but losing 100,000 tons of matter every second it'll only be around another few hundred million years."
Is that 100,000 tons at Earth-normal gravity or at this much smaller planet's (although possibly denser?) gravity?
Used to be able to stream under it, but now we can't even log into it because of the redirect loop - tried it on multiple computers in every major browser except Safari.
It'd make more sense for Pandora to allow you to copy another user's musical preferences... what if your tastes change, you split up, etc?
Teens that read Forbes probably have neither the time nor the ability to forge an intimate enough relationship in the first place
Just because there's sequels doesn't mean there was interest... or at least not enough to justify making two GOOD sequels. Look at all of the movies that got two sequels greenlighted at the same time... the Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean , Busty Trannies 4 and 5, etc
Netflix allows you to set up sub-accounts for this reason. My girlfriend has a sub-account for when she wants to watch movies on her PC. For the Wii, we just use my account because it stays logged in. The only downside is logging into a sub-account often throws Netflix in a redirect loop that returns an error on Fx/Chrome/Opera and crashes IE (IE doesn't do well detecting loops)
We have the Enterprise version where I work - one of my more recent responsibilities is monitoring it. Overall, it's pretty good at detecting most infections but doesn't always remove the infection. Personally, I'll keep using MS Security Essentials on all of my PCs
Seeing the Milky Way (and the host of other visible-to-the-naked-eye stellar phenomena ) is one of those things I always took for granted growing up. Never thought about people never seeing it. I suppose it's sort of like snow... you never think about the fact that some people may never see snow with their own eyes when I'm used to seeing it by the yard.
National Geographic mentioned this in an article on this a few years ago on light pollution (I'm too lazy to go find it). A lot of cities are slowing making the transition to lights that only shine downward and waste little into the sky. It's serves the dual purpose of 1) saving energy and 2) cutting down on light pollution.
It's also why I enjoyed going to a small state school in a small town (~2,000 full time residents, plus ~1,500 students in dorms or apartments in town). The college's observatory was less than a mile away and had a decent telescope (especially compared to the $100 telescope I had when I was younger). It's freaking amazing what you can see on a clear night even with a relatively small observatory... made having classes until midnight well worth it.
This is why I like going back to my hometown, especially during the winter when the sky is cold and clear. Drive to the top of the nearest hill and you can see about ten billion more stars than possible within 20 miles of the city where I live now. My girlfriend grew up in the suburbs and is amazed by the sheer number of stars visible where I grew up. This is exactly the reason why we stick everybody in one big city in New York - so the rest of us in the state can still enjoy the great outdoors.
Remembering gives you the ability to spew back exact facts. Learning gives you the ability to take what you already know and use it to figure out a new problem.
Let's use a car analogy, but the same goes for any subject. You're given the Haynes Repair Guide for a 2004 Honda Civic and you memorize it. Through memory, you can now take apart the car and put it back together. However, if you learn how each piece works (IE: how does the transmission shift gears?) rather than just seeing which pieces go together then you can take that knowledge and go work on a 2010 Dodge Avenger even if it has a transmission put together differently.
With Latin, you can memorize Veni, Vedi, Vici but it takes learning Latin to be able to change the meaning without having to memorize every single word in every form in Latin. As I recall, each verb has thirty variations (five tenses, singular or plural, first, second or third person) so it helps to learn the syntax of the language and use that figure out what you want to say rather than learning all thirty variations of each and every verb.
That's the beauty of BOCES. For my junior and senior years of high school, I spent half the day every day doing computer networking and electrical theory. It really cemented my decision to go to college for network administration and I haven't regretted it since. It also got me out of taking a third year of French, which was a huge bonus.
I have to agree with you... Calculus and Latin were my favorite subjects when I was in highschool because there was no standard curriculum and the teachers taught it so you'd understand it, not so you'd remember it. My Calculus teacher in particular would spend a day or two on a tangent if 1) she thought we would find it interesting and 2) it would help us understand how to figure out the formula rather than just memorizing the formulas. We started trigonometry in 8th grade but it wasn't until I had her as a teacher in 10th grade that I finally understand what the hell Sine, Cosine and Tangent actually meant.
The health teacher was quite good too with his far-larger-than-life plastic models that he used to, err, get the point across about sex ed.
My high school was dedicated to passing standardized tests. Learning was just an undesirable side effect that happened to anyone who happened to have a passing interest in the subject at hand.
There's already no Linux driver for it... so does that mean you're going to switch? And if someone makes a Linux driver will you switch back to not using it?
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation, the RIAA has assumed control.
50 years ago, they were predicting flying cars, space travel, holographic TVs, etc by y2k but few of the things they predicted came true, and even of those that did most of them are not accessible to Joe Average. However, look at the one big thing most of them missed: The Internet and the consumer microcomputer revolution.
Predicting the somewhat distant future is great and all, but I'm sure there will be something huge that we never see coming and once it's there, we'll wonder how we ever lived without it.