Sure, then all they need to do is find a friendly judge that will rubber-stamp these types of requests. I'm sure there are plenty of federal judges who have bought the **AA's propaganda enough to agree to shut down any website they're asked to in the name of protecting copyright.
A court order should not be enough to shut down someone's free speech rights. If they want to shut down a website they should have to actually bring charges against the website owner, and have the site shut down only following an actual conviction.
Amateur. I do all of my presentations by having everyone crowd around my iPad. It gives the whole thing a more intimate feel, especially when I have 50 people jostling each other trying to see the screen.
You want me to use an archaic device like a projector? Copping a feel on the hot intern in Accounting is damn near impossible if you're not crammed around a tiny device straining to see what's going on. Think, man!
Depending on how much time has passed between the first test and the second, you'll still have to do a fairly significant amount of extra studying. Unless these students were actually using the material they learned for the first test in their everyday lives (highly unlikely), it tends to get forgotten fairly quickly. Sure, they'll remember the concepts, but probably not to the specificity required to do well on a test. They'll still need to study to refresh their memories. Sure, they won't need to cram all night or anything, but if I earned a legitimate A on the first test I'd be kind of pissed off if I had to go back and do it again. Hell, even if I study really hard there's still a fairly good chance I'll make enough mistakes to get a B this time, and then I've lost a whole letter grade just because some other assholes decided to cheat.
This is all rationalizing BS. It really depends on what you're really in college for. If you're in college to learn and better yourself, then cheating is idiotic because you're only screwing yourself over. If your lecturers are boring, then study the material on your own. Sure it's extra work, but it's worth it if you really care about your own education. I work a full time job and carry a full class load and I still find plenty of time to study enough on my own to do well in my classes, even the ones with boring lecturers. The secret is not to go out and get loaded every night like most college students do.
If, on the other hand, you're like these other morons who are apparently in college to drink, then studying is just a waste of your time. Cheat your ass off and get the degree your parents paid for without learning anything and devalue it for the rest of us who actually care about getting an education.
Not all of us had money to keep upgrading our equipment. I was running on a 2400 baud modem until 1995. Of course, I installed Linux on my home box in those days by downloading Slackware to a ton of 3.5" floppy disks at the computer lab at the local university and bringing them all home. If one of the floppies was corrupted, I had to wait until the next day to go back and re-download and copy it.
I also had to walk 10 miles, in the snow. Uphill both ways.
I sure hope so. In aggregate, I think kids are getting better, or at least not getting any worse. I don't buy into the nonsense that the kids these days are terrible and they're all a bunch of drug-addicted losers. Kids these days are by and large doing pretty well. I was simply saying that the subset of kids dealt with in this article (hopefully a very small portion of the overall population) probably have absent or overly permissive parents.
FTA: "The study concludes that a significant number of teens are very susceptible to peer pressure and also have permissive or absent parents, said Dr. Scott Frank, the study's lead author."
That's the key there. The same kids who are allowed to text that much and spend that much time on Facebook (3 hours a day? seriously?) probably aren't getting a whole lot of direction from their parents in any other aspect of their lives either. I'm guessing you could correlate high school dropout rates, teen pregnancies, and basically every other negative statistic involving teenagers with this same behavior. The unifying factor in all of it is permissive or absent parents. It seems that once their kids hit puberty, a lot of parents just sort of figure the kids have got their shit together and it's time to move from parent mode to friend mode. Yes, as kids age they need to be let off the leash a little more to live their own lives, but a lot of parents take that way too far and just sort of release the kids into the wild and let them sink or swim entirely on their own once they hit high school (or even middle school!). The result is the kids get the guidance they're missing from their parents from their friends instead, and that's never a good thing.
Chrome is made by Google, which is essentially a data mining company. Why would you expect them to have any desire to help their users eliminate these sorts of tracking cookies?
No, the system is still like that. It's all a self-perpetuating cycle.
How much money your parents make determines, in large part, what high school you go to,
What high school you go to determines what sorts of opportunities you have readily available, especially regarding college prep.
The quality of your college prep work in high school determines how likely you are to be accepted at a top tier university.
The perceived quality of the university you attend determines the job opportunities you will get after graduation. Compare the job fairs at Harvard or MIT versus the job fairs at your average state school.
The quality of the job opportunities you get goes a long way toward determining how much money you'll make in your lifetime.
How much money you make will determine what high school your kids go to.
And on and on and on. Yes, there is the occasional student that breaks this cycle, but it takes a whole lot more effort and quite a bit of luck to do that. Your parents' income is still by far the best indicator of your future earning potential.
Sure, but in this case it makes perfect sense. Obviously anyone using Firefox is a filthy open source hippy who demands everything for free. If you tried to loan money to a Firefox user he'd probably just spend it all on weed and then claim your demands to pay back the money violate his privacy in some way.
Opera users aren't good people to lend to either, since none of them have any income. They spend all of their time scanning the Internet for stories about browsers (any browser) so they can jump in and extol the virtues of Opera. This leaves no time to hold down a real job.
Safari users are good people to lend to because, since they're using an Apple product, you already know they're accustomed to paying huge premiums for slightly shinier versions of various consumer goods. All you have to do is send the bill in an elegantly designed box and they'll pay it without question every month.
Chrome users are the best because their close relationship with Google shows they've already given up on the whole concept of privacy and will gladly supply you with any information you ask for. Plus, all you have to do is tell them you're not evil and not only will they allow you to do whatever you want no matter how evil it is, they'll actually defend your actions to others!
Clearly browser choice is and should be a significant factor in the lending business.
To be fair, if the Buran design is superior it's likely because they started with the shuttle design and improved on it, whereas the shuttle was designed from the ground up. The Russians were (and are) clearly very good at designing space vehicles, but it's a lot easier to come up with a better design if you start with the design your opponent already came up with.
Yeah, nice attempt at rationalizing your anti-American stance, commie. Now that you aren't tracking UFOs, Denver is destined to become a sanctuary city for aliens. We'll see who's laughing when anal-probe-related crime skyrockets.
Because Zynga is more powerful than Facebook itself. If Facebook tries to fuck with Farmville its entire over-30 female population will riot in the streets.
Those of us who have been on the Internet since puberty have already mastered the art of one-handed input with a standard keyboard and mouse. With the proper motivation we can easily adapt this skill to a regular on-screen keyboard.
I have one of those, but I bought it several years ago so now ever since George W. Bush decided to fiddle with Daylight Savings it keeps setting itself backward and forward on the wrong days. Luckily daylight savings happens on a Sunday morning when I never have to be awake for anything anyway.
It's insensitive, but it's essentially how the Chinese economy works. Chinese companies can afford to pay substandard wages and ignore safety concerns because they have a basically limitless supply of labor as a continuous stream of Chinese peasants make their way from the farmland into the cities in search of a better life. If one worker drops or quits, there are fifty more waiting to take his or her place. It's analogous to the US during the Industrial Revolution, except on a much much larger scale.
Not true. This will probably get settled out of court and all members of the class will be entitled to something very valuable, such as a free packet of seeds or the down payment on a tractor in Farmville.
I always find it funny when I get those notices of class action settlements in the mail: "You might have been screwed over by Company X. Fortunately for you we filed a lawsuit on your behalf and after a confidential settlement you're entitled to $5 off whatever it is Company X sells! Lucky you!"
Make way for the terror-industrial complex. I remember after the cold war there was actually serious talk about reducing the military budget from utterly ludicrous to just slightly ludicrous. That is until we found a new boogieman and started the "war on terror". Now that we're fighting an abstract concept instead of an actual definable (and beatable) enemy, our military-industrial complex can continue to grow without limit forever. As an extra added bonus, since this abstract concept requires constant surveillance of small targets (ie, people in small huts scattered all over the world), the vast majority of the money can simply be tossed into a giant hole called "classified operations" and we don't even have to bother with all that tedious itemized budgeting we had to do with the traditional military.
On the other hand, at least with the old military-industrial complex we got some cool hardware that we got to see at air shows and parades. Nowadays all we get is the occasional FBI surveillance device on our cars and constant news stories about entire airports being shut down because someone forgot to put their shampoo in the checked bag instead of the carry-on.
I agree that they sort of lost their way toward the middle of BSG's run and were clearly making things up as they went along toward the end, but that happens with most long-running series that attempt to have a single series-spanning story arc. The final resolution was kind of lame, but I've come to expect that those sorts of things always end up being disappointing. Overall, I was much more satisfied with how BSG handled its entire run than I was with, say, Lost.
Having said that, Caprica didn't work not because BSG alienated its fans but because it was a fundamentally different type of show that seemed to be geared toward a different type of audience. BSG was filled with action, battles, and political intrigue. Caprica was much slower and more ponderous. It also seemed to spend most of its time trying to figure out if it wanted to be about religious extremism or the pitfalls of virtual worlds or runaway technology or "playing God", and it never really managed to develop a coherent story out of any of them.
If you want your fans to follow you from one show to another, you need to at least maintain the basic feel of the old show. Having said that, however, I think Caprica had major flaws even for a standalone series. I tried to get into it because I liked BSG so much, but after a while the slow pacing, unlikable characters, and incoherent storyline were too much for me to put up with and I stopped watching.
If enough of us express our distaste for it then it may fall out of use and thus cease to be common usage.
No, it won't. Let me explain to you how this works:
Step 1: Someone coins a new word.
Step 2: A few others start to use the word because they thing it sounds cool.
Step 3: Pedantic nerds complain that the new word isn't a real word.
Step 4: People start using the word 10 times more often specifically to annoy the pedantic nerds.
Step 5: Pedantic nerds angrily seek out the word wherever it's being used and attempt to fight back with angry, red-faced, spittle-launching tirades.
Step 6: Attracted by the spectacle of the pedantic nerds, more people learn of the word and start using it in order to further troll the nerds.
Step 7: Steps 5 and 6 repeat until the word becomes a firmly established part of the common lexicon.
We need to expend more effort to recruit bees into computer science. Too many bees are wasting their lives solving these problems on the fly for a little nectar when they could be solving these problems in exchange for tenure at our nation's finest universities.
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Sure, then all they need to do is find a friendly judge that will rubber-stamp these types of requests. I'm sure there are plenty of federal judges who have bought the **AA's propaganda enough to agree to shut down any website they're asked to in the name of protecting copyright.
A court order should not be enough to shut down someone's free speech rights. If they want to shut down a website they should have to actually bring charges against the website owner, and have the site shut down only following an actual conviction.
Amateur. I do all of my presentations by having everyone crowd around my iPad. It gives the whole thing a more intimate feel, especially when I have 50 people jostling each other trying to see the screen.
You want me to use an archaic device like a projector? Copping a feel on the hot intern in Accounting is damn near impossible if you're not crammed around a tiny device straining to see what's going on. Think, man!
Depending on how much time has passed between the first test and the second, you'll still have to do a fairly significant amount of extra studying. Unless these students were actually using the material they learned for the first test in their everyday lives (highly unlikely), it tends to get forgotten fairly quickly. Sure, they'll remember the concepts, but probably not to the specificity required to do well on a test. They'll still need to study to refresh their memories. Sure, they won't need to cram all night or anything, but if I earned a legitimate A on the first test I'd be kind of pissed off if I had to go back and do it again. Hell, even if I study really hard there's still a fairly good chance I'll make enough mistakes to get a B this time, and then I've lost a whole letter grade just because some other assholes decided to cheat.
This is all rationalizing BS. It really depends on what you're really in college for. If you're in college to learn and better yourself, then cheating is idiotic because you're only screwing yourself over. If your lecturers are boring, then study the material on your own. Sure it's extra work, but it's worth it if you really care about your own education. I work a full time job and carry a full class load and I still find plenty of time to study enough on my own to do well in my classes, even the ones with boring lecturers. The secret is not to go out and get loaded every night like most college students do.
If, on the other hand, you're like these other morons who are apparently in college to drink, then studying is just a waste of your time. Cheat your ass off and get the degree your parents paid for without learning anything and devalue it for the rest of us who actually care about getting an education.
Not all of us had money to keep upgrading our equipment. I was running on a 2400 baud modem until 1995. Of course, I installed Linux on my home box in those days by downloading Slackware to a ton of 3.5" floppy disks at the computer lab at the local university and bringing them all home. If one of the floppies was corrupted, I had to wait until the next day to go back and re-download and copy it.
I also had to walk 10 miles, in the snow. Uphill both ways.
The two people that use Twitter and Facebook regularly and also use WINE will be devastated by this news.
I sure hope so. In aggregate, I think kids are getting better, or at least not getting any worse. I don't buy into the nonsense that the kids these days are terrible and they're all a bunch of drug-addicted losers. Kids these days are by and large doing pretty well. I was simply saying that the subset of kids dealt with in this article (hopefully a very small portion of the overall population) probably have absent or overly permissive parents.
FTA: "The study concludes that a significant number of teens are very susceptible to peer pressure and also have permissive or absent parents, said Dr. Scott Frank, the study's lead author."
That's the key there. The same kids who are allowed to text that much and spend that much time on Facebook (3 hours a day? seriously?) probably aren't getting a whole lot of direction from their parents in any other aspect of their lives either. I'm guessing you could correlate high school dropout rates, teen pregnancies, and basically every other negative statistic involving teenagers with this same behavior. The unifying factor in all of it is permissive or absent parents. It seems that once their kids hit puberty, a lot of parents just sort of figure the kids have got their shit together and it's time to move from parent mode to friend mode. Yes, as kids age they need to be let off the leash a little more to live their own lives, but a lot of parents take that way too far and just sort of release the kids into the wild and let them sink or swim entirely on their own once they hit high school (or even middle school!). The result is the kids get the guidance they're missing from their parents from their friends instead, and that's never a good thing.
Chrome is made by Google, which is essentially a data mining company. Why would you expect them to have any desire to help their users eliminate these sorts of tracking cookies?
No, the system is still like that. It's all a self-perpetuating cycle.
How much money your parents make determines, in large part, what high school you go to,
What high school you go to determines what sorts of opportunities you have readily available, especially regarding college prep.
The quality of your college prep work in high school determines how likely you are to be accepted at a top tier university.
The perceived quality of the university you attend determines the job opportunities you will get after graduation. Compare the job fairs at Harvard or MIT versus the job fairs at your average state school.
The quality of the job opportunities you get goes a long way toward determining how much money you'll make in your lifetime.
How much money you make will determine what high school your kids go to.
And on and on and on. Yes, there is the occasional student that breaks this cycle, but it takes a whole lot more effort and quite a bit of luck to do that. Your parents' income is still by far the best indicator of your future earning potential.
right after I take my girlfriend back to my place and she sees my extensive collection of hand-painted D&D figurines.
Sure, but in this case it makes perfect sense. Obviously anyone using Firefox is a filthy open source hippy who demands everything for free. If you tried to loan money to a Firefox user he'd probably just spend it all on weed and then claim your demands to pay back the money violate his privacy in some way.
Opera users aren't good people to lend to either, since none of them have any income. They spend all of their time scanning the Internet for stories about browsers (any browser) so they can jump in and extol the virtues of Opera. This leaves no time to hold down a real job.
Safari users are good people to lend to because, since they're using an Apple product, you already know they're accustomed to paying huge premiums for slightly shinier versions of various consumer goods. All you have to do is send the bill in an elegantly designed box and they'll pay it without question every month.
Chrome users are the best because their close relationship with Google shows they've already given up on the whole concept of privacy and will gladly supply you with any information you ask for. Plus, all you have to do is tell them you're not evil and not only will they allow you to do whatever you want no matter how evil it is, they'll actually defend your actions to others!
Clearly browser choice is and should be a significant factor in the lending business.
To be fair, if the Buran design is superior it's likely because they started with the shuttle design and improved on it, whereas the shuttle was designed from the ground up. The Russians were (and are) clearly very good at designing space vehicles, but it's a lot easier to come up with a better design if you start with the design your opponent already came up with.
Yeah, nice attempt at rationalizing your anti-American stance, commie. Now that you aren't tracking UFOs, Denver is destined to become a sanctuary city for aliens. We'll see who's laughing when anal-probe-related crime skyrockets.
Because Zynga is more powerful than Facebook itself. If Facebook tries to fuck with Farmville its entire over-30 female population will riot in the streets.
Those of us who have been on the Internet since puberty have already mastered the art of one-handed input with a standard keyboard and mouse. With the proper motivation we can easily adapt this skill to a regular on-screen keyboard.
I have one of those, but I bought it several years ago so now ever since George W. Bush decided to fiddle with Daylight Savings it keeps setting itself backward and forward on the wrong days. Luckily daylight savings happens on a Sunday morning when I never have to be awake for anything anyway.
It's insensitive, but it's essentially how the Chinese economy works. Chinese companies can afford to pay substandard wages and ignore safety concerns because they have a basically limitless supply of labor as a continuous stream of Chinese peasants make their way from the farmland into the cities in search of a better life. If one worker drops or quits, there are fifty more waiting to take his or her place. It's analogous to the US during the Industrial Revolution, except on a much much larger scale.
Not true. This will probably get settled out of court and all members of the class will be entitled to something very valuable, such as a free packet of seeds or the down payment on a tractor in Farmville.
I always find it funny when I get those notices of class action settlements in the mail: "You might have been screwed over by Company X. Fortunately for you we filed a lawsuit on your behalf and after a confidential settlement you're entitled to $5 off whatever it is Company X sells! Lucky you!"
Make way for the terror-industrial complex. I remember after the cold war there was actually serious talk about reducing the military budget from utterly ludicrous to just slightly ludicrous. That is until we found a new boogieman and started the "war on terror". Now that we're fighting an abstract concept instead of an actual definable (and beatable) enemy, our military-industrial complex can continue to grow without limit forever. As an extra added bonus, since this abstract concept requires constant surveillance of small targets (ie, people in small huts scattered all over the world), the vast majority of the money can simply be tossed into a giant hole called "classified operations" and we don't even have to bother with all that tedious itemized budgeting we had to do with the traditional military.
On the other hand, at least with the old military-industrial complex we got some cool hardware that we got to see at air shows and parades. Nowadays all we get is the occasional FBI surveillance device on our cars and constant news stories about entire airports being shut down because someone forgot to put their shampoo in the checked bag instead of the carry-on.
But hey, at least we're all safer now, right?
I agree that they sort of lost their way toward the middle of BSG's run and were clearly making things up as they went along toward the end, but that happens with most long-running series that attempt to have a single series-spanning story arc. The final resolution was kind of lame, but I've come to expect that those sorts of things always end up being disappointing. Overall, I was much more satisfied with how BSG handled its entire run than I was with, say, Lost.
Having said that, Caprica didn't work not because BSG alienated its fans but because it was a fundamentally different type of show that seemed to be geared toward a different type of audience. BSG was filled with action, battles, and political intrigue. Caprica was much slower and more ponderous. It also seemed to spend most of its time trying to figure out if it wanted to be about religious extremism or the pitfalls of virtual worlds or runaway technology or "playing God", and it never really managed to develop a coherent story out of any of them.
If you want your fans to follow you from one show to another, you need to at least maintain the basic feel of the old show. Having said that, however, I think Caprica had major flaws even for a standalone series. I tried to get into it because I liked BSG so much, but after a while the slow pacing, unlikable characters, and incoherent storyline were too much for me to put up with and I stopped watching.
If enough of us express our distaste for it then it may fall out of use and thus cease to be common usage.
No, it won't. Let me explain to you how this works:
Step 1: Someone coins a new word.
Step 2: A few others start to use the word because they thing it sounds cool.
Step 3: Pedantic nerds complain that the new word isn't a real word.
Step 4: People start using the word 10 times more often specifically to annoy the pedantic nerds.
Step 5: Pedantic nerds angrily seek out the word wherever it's being used and attempt to fight back with angry, red-faced, spittle-launching tirades.
Step 6: Attracted by the spectacle of the pedantic nerds, more people learn of the word and start using it in order to further troll the nerds.
Step 7: Steps 5 and 6 repeat until the word becomes a firmly established part of the common lexicon.
Stop slandering my website.
We need to expend more effort to recruit bees into computer science. Too many bees are wasting their lives solving these problems on the fly for a little nectar when they could be solving these problems in exchange for tenure at our nation's finest universities.
my wife is often compared to a minor hollywood actress.
Kathy Bates? Phyllis Diller? I know, Anne Ramsey!