No, that's not called entrapment. Entrapment requires someone getting you to do something you wouldn't have otherwise done in the normal course of things. If an undercover cop sells you cocaine, that's not entrapment. If they coerce you into buying cocaine by threatening to bomb your family, that's a little closer to entrapment.
Very few scientific advances have been made without a few Unforeseen Consequences, but that's no reason for Apprehension or Questionable Ethics so we may just need to Forget About Freeman.
Like I said, the implementations I've seen are poor because they don't do things like limited-stop express service more. And the advertised top speeds are usually 45, 50 or 60mph. I don't think I've seen any with an advertised top speed above 70mph.
Global warming involves temperature changes on the scale of a couple of degrees over decades... it's not something you'll really notice on a personal scale even over 25 years. It's more likely your beach water is part of a fairly localized change that may or may not be the result of the overall GW picture.
One of the issues with the high speed rail I've seen them try to implement is too many stops, so the train is only traveling at its top speed for a relatively short time before it slows down for the next stop.
Then there's also the fact that a lot of "high speed" trains in the US are in the 40-60mph range... not very fast compared to what other countries have.
It's the government. Who cares about tracking employee meals when you can just tax potential meals? They'll come up with some formula like dividing the number of hours worked per week by four, multiplying that by the average cost of the most expensive dish on the menu at the local five star hotel and then adding 10% to account for rounding errors.
Taxes are typically a percentage, what are you taking a percentage of? The cost the of the food? Cost of labor? Cost of maintaining the cafeteria? Average market price of a certain dish?
Are you saying that I should have to pay tax on using the employee gym where I work too? What about the computer they have set up for employees' personal use?
There was a big to-do with a local bagel chain a couple years ago when it came to taxes. If they hand you a bagel and cream cheese, no tax because it's a food item. However, if they take the 20 seconds to slice the bagel and smear the cream cheese on it, then there's an 8% tax because now it's a "prepared food item". The bagel chain hadn't been charging that 8% extra for those 20 seconds of work.
What the hell are you going on about? Odds are the DDoS is taking down the target network before a single packet reaches anything running Microsoft software. Actually, the reason it's a DDoS is because packets aren't reaching anything running Microsoft software (clients and servers). You'd be making a tiny bit of sense if you said Cisco, but that would be like suing the New York City because the roads can't accommodate every single person in the country visiting NYC at once.
A lot of other devices run Linux kernels without mentioning it, likely for the reasons you mention. Home routers and Android phones come to mind as two very common consumer-oriented examples.
Ok, show me a tiny, low power multi-core processor like many smartphones have that was around in the late 90's. Show me a touchscreen that had anywhere near the sensitivity of even cheap smartphones today. Or a GPS receiver that could be shoehorned into a tiny phone without sacrificing any of the other gadgets in it. Sure, the precursors of many of today's smartphone components existed but almost nothing in a 2012 or 2013 smartphone. It's like saying cars existed in ancient Egypt because they had horses and carts.
A lot of it is new technologies that have been engineered from the ground up. The end result might look the same to the simepleminded oberserver, but under the hood many processes are happening in different ways.
Know that tiny device in your pocket that responds to touch and lets you browse the entirety of human knowledge, play games or work from a beach in Tahiti while still letting you call Mom once a week to let her know you're alive? Yeah, that's what technology we invented in the last 15 years. If that doesn't impress you, I'm not sure what will.
As a former student with a non-dischargeable 6.8% loan (due to finally be paid off in two weeks, yay), I agree. Sure, the Tesla might be aimed at Rich Guys right now, but that's the way most new technology goes - especially in cars. How many standard features in this year's Focus or Camry used to be exclusive to high-end cars a few decades ago or less? Quite a few. If you get Rich Guys to make it profitable in the beginning, those technological advancements will become affordable and even standard within most of our lifetimes.
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Very good point... With a car loan, the car is collateral. If you default, they can take back the car. With a student loan, what are they going to do? Cut out sections of your brain?
And yet those are the least interesting, most annoying calls I get. Actually, those are the only robocalls I get. I can't think of a single person that I know that has a neutral or non-negative stance towards political robocalls.
Why are we shooting for 40 mpg vehicles when we know we need 100+ mpg? Hell, why doesn't Ford just go ahead and create a vehicle that can get 100,000 miles off a single tank of gas?
They're hoping it will go a little quicker because they outsourced the design to China; If you open up a 400GB switch you'll find it's actually just a few thousand 10mb hubs soldered together.
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No, that's not called entrapment. Entrapment requires someone getting you to do something you wouldn't have otherwise done in the normal course of things. If an undercover cop sells you cocaine, that's not entrapment. If they coerce you into buying cocaine by threatening to bomb your family, that's a little closer to entrapment.
Very few scientific advances have been made without a few Unforeseen Consequences, but that's no reason for Apprehension or Questionable Ethics so we may just need to Forget About Freeman.
Like I said, the implementations I've seen are poor because they don't do things like limited-stop express service more. And the advertised top speeds are usually 45, 50 or 60mph. I don't think I've seen any with an advertised top speed above 70mph.
Global warming involves temperature changes on the scale of a couple of degrees over decades... it's not something you'll really notice on a personal scale even over 25 years. It's more likely your beach water is part of a fairly localized change that may or may not be the result of the overall GW picture.
One of the issues with the high speed rail I've seen them try to implement is too many stops, so the train is only traveling at its top speed for a relatively short time before it slows down for the next stop.
Then there's also the fact that a lot of "high speed" trains in the US are in the 40-60mph range... not very fast compared to what other countries have.
That depends on how hot the coffee on your lap is.
It's the government. Who cares about tracking employee meals when you can just tax potential meals? They'll come up with some formula like dividing the number of hours worked per week by four, multiplying that by the average cost of the most expensive dish on the menu at the local five star hotel and then adding 10% to account for rounding errors.
Taxes are typically a percentage, what are you taking a percentage of? The cost the of the food? Cost of labor? Cost of maintaining the cafeteria? Average market price of a certain dish?
Are you saying that I should have to pay tax on using the employee gym where I work too? What about the computer they have set up for employees' personal use?
There was a big to-do with a local bagel chain a couple years ago when it came to taxes. If they hand you a bagel and cream cheese, no tax because it's a food item. However, if they take the 20 seconds to slice the bagel and smear the cream cheese on it, then there's an 8% tax because now it's a "prepared food item". The bagel chain hadn't been charging that 8% extra for those 20 seconds of work.
Work breaks are already subsidized in the form of giving government workers a paycheck. You don't think those guys actually do anything, do you?
It's the RIAA model applied to taxes. If someone is getting something for free, it must be coming out of my pocket.
I use Ubuntu server if I need a server up ASAP with a well supported distro. It's not a one-size-fits-all distro any more than... any other distro.
What the hell are you going on about? Odds are the DDoS is taking down the target network before a single packet reaches anything running Microsoft software. Actually, the reason it's a DDoS is because packets aren't reaching anything running Microsoft software (clients and servers). You'd be making a tiny bit of sense if you said Cisco, but that would be like suing the New York City because the roads can't accommodate every single person in the country visiting NYC at once.
A lot of other devices run Linux kernels without mentioning it, likely for the reasons you mention. Home routers and Android phones come to mind as two very common consumer-oriented examples.
That's what you say, but we know what you really think.
Ok, show me a tiny, low power multi-core processor like many smartphones have that was around in the late 90's. Show me a touchscreen that had anywhere near the sensitivity of even cheap smartphones today. Or a GPS receiver that could be shoehorned into a tiny phone without sacrificing any of the other gadgets in it. Sure, the precursors of many of today's smartphone components existed but almost nothing in a 2012 or 2013 smartphone. It's like saying cars existed in ancient Egypt because they had horses and carts.
A lot of it is new technologies that have been engineered from the ground up. The end result might look the same to the simepleminded oberserver, but under the hood many processes are happening in different ways.
Dull and covered in hair and dead skin?
Know that tiny device in your pocket that responds to touch and lets you browse the entirety of human knowledge, play games or work from a beach in Tahiti while still letting you call Mom once a week to let her know you're alive? Yeah, that's what technology we invented in the last 15 years. If that doesn't impress you, I'm not sure what will.
Damnit, stop anthropomorphizing Slashdot. It hates that.
As a former student with a non-dischargeable 6.8% loan (due to finally be paid off in two weeks, yay), I agree. Sure, the Tesla might be aimed at Rich Guys right now, but that's the way most new technology goes - especially in cars. How many standard features in this year's Focus or Camry used to be exclusive to high-end cars a few decades ago or less? Quite a few. If you get Rich Guys to make it profitable in the beginning, those technological advancements will become affordable and even standard within most of our lifetimes.
Very good point...
With a car loan, the car is collateral. If you default, they can take back the car.
With a student loan, what are they going to do? Cut out sections of your brain?
And yet those are the least interesting, most annoying calls I get. Actually, those are the only robocalls I get. I can't think of a single person that I know that has a neutral or non-negative stance towards political robocalls.
Why are we shooting for 40 mpg vehicles when we know we need 100+ mpg? Hell, why doesn't Ford just go ahead and create a vehicle that can get 100,000 miles off a single tank of gas?
They're hoping it will go a little quicker because they outsourced the design to China; If you open up a 400GB switch you'll find it's actually just a few thousand 10mb hubs soldered together.