It does, but in an annoying way. If I maximise the browser window, even on a 4:3 display, the comments stretch too far - it's far easier to read a long paragraph if it's relatively narrow and tall than if it's stretched across the whole width of the screen.
Although not open as such, BT in the UK have a system whereby their broadband customers run a second access point that's separate to their internal network. Any other broadband customer who opts in to the sharing scheme can use those access points, as well as BT openzone. The idea is that when you're out and about you get free wi-fi from other BT customers in return for sharing your own. Other people's use of your broadband does not come off of your allowance, but you have limits on how much you can use of theirs (to stop you using the public side of your own connection to get unlimited usage!)
Great in theory. Sucks in practice. You either have to keep searching for access points and go through a browser based logon to access them, or download an app that does it automatically. The app is useless, and fails to prioritise your own internal wi-fi when you're at home, connecting instead to the public facing one.
I've tried it, and wandering around my town I found plenty of access points, but only successfully connected to a small handful - or at least, I connected but failed to get internet access.
Not much hope of IP address tracking if you're using 3G mobile internet in the UK. You're lucky if your IP address stays the same for more than an hour or so - even in a single location (so it's not related to the tower you're connected to).
I also own several editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses", a book which was banned in many countries when it was written. I will tell you right now that we would be missing major cultural artifacts if those in power had succeeded at eradicating "Ulysses" and its author.
Apparently it was banned for obscenity. I applaud the vivid imagination of those who realised it was obscene - I read it, then read about the obscenity, and just thought "He was doing *what* on the beach??? Did not get that". Obviously I'm uncultured.
If, on the other hand, it had been banned for being pseudo intellectual literary codswallop, I'd have understood completely.
Replied above to the same point, but giving money for sex is not illegal in the UK unless the receiver is being coerced or controlled - i.e. has a pimp, is trafficked or being forced into it. It's strict liability, though, so taking her word for it that she is fully consenting and doing it of her own free will is not a defence.
No. Buying is only illegal in the UK if the seller is coerced into it or is controlled by someone else - in other words, to make it illegal if the seller is trafficked or has an abusive pimp. Buying is legal if it is completely consensual on both sides.
Trouble is, it's strict liability - it's no defence to say you asked her and she said she was fully consenting and not being controlled. I don't think the limits of "control" and "forced into it" have been established by the courts - I would hope that it's more than just being "forced" into it by the economy. I think the purpose of the legislation was to have a chilling effect on buying.
Other things around advertising and soliciting are illegal, but having said all that, websites such as Adultwork and small ads in the free papers seem to suggest it's not rigidly enforced.
I have another concern with gmail, which is that it might be leaking ad information between gmail users.
By that I mean that if I'm corresponding with another gmail user, I get ads that are unrelated to anything we've discussed but which may be related to things that they are likely to have emailed or received emails about.
Just to give a trivial example, a friend has a pet. She has emailed me but never once mentioned the pet in email to me. I do not have any pets, nor have I mentioned them in my emails, but I now get ads for pet food. There are other examples that suggest my ads are based on my correspondents emails that weren't sent to me - that they are pulling in the ads based on both of our email histories.
No, the Neanderthals liked technology, but invented patents so that Ug got exclusive rights to fire and refused to license it to Og. There was also some nastiness over whether the stone tools could have rounded edges.
Humans freely ripped off Neanderthal technology. The Neanderthals tried to take them to court, but the humans had not yet evolved enough to understand the concept of intellectual property rights so just ignored them.
Eventually the Neanderthals consumed all of their resources in a massive lawsuit that left the earth scorched and the humans scratching their heads and telling themselves that whatever happened in the future, they wouldn't ever be so stupid as to repeat those mistakes.
... will screw up their pictures anyway in the end. Hipsters will make the purple flare a new trend and a future Instagram update for Android will enable this. Anyone want to bet on that?
And then Apple will sue on the grounds that they the purple flare is their copyright/patent/trademark/whatever.
Mind you, I expect Cadbury to have something to say about this - they apparently "own" a shade of purple.
OK, bad choice of word. It exists therefore it must be natural, I get that, but our basic genetic programming is to pass on our own genes to another generation.
Words like pointless and unnatural may sound perjorative but I mean them only in that technical sense. How we, as a society, deal with those who have those sexual preferences is another matter. As it stands, we determine a fairly arbitrary age after which we deem individuals capable of giving informed consent. It's far from perfect - in both directions. There are plenty of over 18s being exploited because they lack emotional maturity or just plain common sense, but the law does not protect them in the same way as under 18s. There are also under 18s fully capable of deciding what they want. Unfortunately a line has to be drawn somewhere - taking every case on it's merits would be too complicated and open to other kinds of abuse.
And another thing... it is a critical distinction in some ways.
Pedophilia is biologically unnatural - sexual attraction to pre-pubescents is pointless from a reproductive perspective and is therefore an unsuccessful mutation, if you like. From a purely biological standpoint, the same is true of homosexuality.
When it comes to post pubescents - i.e. those capable of bearing children - the line on age is drawn entirely by society.
The whole thing is probably a bit of a hot topic in the UK at the moment, as there's a current case in the news of a 30 year old teacher who appears to have eloped to France with a 15 year old girl.
The guy sent the same message to his family members:
Playing devil's advocate, but that would make for a good excuse - "ah, see, I sent it to my mum as well, must have been as mistake"
I would like to think there was enough doubt about his story to get the conviction in the first place. On the other hand I would like to think a lot of things, so, meh.
I don't think I particularly take the numbers into account - once you're used to a car it's much more about where the needle is pointing - you kind of get a feel for it visually on that basis. Thinking of it as a clockface, 6 would be 0mph - if it's in the 9ish range I'm within the limit for town, 12 is about right for out of town, maybe 1, even 2 on the motorway.
There's a surprising amount of wastage there - my speedo goes up to speeds way beyond legal, which wastes space - and therefore precision at lower speeds.
My previous car had a digital speedo, which made it impossible to get that rough glance "am I in the right ballpark" view of speed. On the other hand, the (illusion of) precision probably kept me under the speed limits due to the difference between being able to tell myself I was doing "about 30" and the car telling me I was doing exactly 34...
If you have SAP installed, on Windows at least, it's worth giving "Arial Monospaced for SAP" a whirl - I found it simple and clean but more modern than Courier. I've switched to Consolas now I'm on Windows 7, but it was my monospaced font of choice for years on XP.
Why not just throw in a free copy of this and refer to the page numbers!!?
Seriously, I can walk into any local bookshop and browse through any number of books with reproductions of famous artworks, most of which are pretty cheap. They could do worse than picking up a copy of "The Story of Art" by Gombrich.
Failing that, could they not take the position that Wikipedia do: 'The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain'?
Thank you for saving me the read. Seriously? A single kiss?
I've seen plenty of casual hookups in the office, many of which led to no complications afterwards - it was just a thing at the Christmas party or whatever. The younger people (I'm over 40, so we're talking 20 - 25) do seem to have a more casual attitude to it than most of my generation. In my experience at least - maybe I just had a sheltered 20s, but it was quite a politically correct era when everything seemed to be taken very seriously.
I've been driving for over 20 years (not continuously - I take breaks every now and then!). In the UK the speed limit on motorways is 70, and when I was first driving you couldn't get into the outside lane at that speed for the solid wall of 90mph+ drivers. I'd regularly drive at 80, and be overtaken constantly.
These days, it seems that fewer drivers are going over the limit and it's far more common to find drivers sitting at 60 - 65. I'm sure this is a cost thing - enforcement hasn't really increased, at least on motorways, and there's next to no chance of getting fined for doing 80. There are still a few "ton up" (100mph+) drivers, but they tend to be in the £40,000+ cars so I guess they can afford the fuel bills.
Which sounds like a physical manifestation of the learned behaviour - i.e. learning increases the neural connections in the same way that lifting weights builds muscle.
The genetic difference would be if some people had more connections to start with.
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1. Get a couple of children in line of sight of his camera.
2. Scream that there's a pedo videoing kids.
It does, but in an annoying way. If I maximise the browser window, even on a 4:3 display, the comments stretch too far - it's far easier to read a long paragraph if it's relatively narrow and tall than if it's stretched across the whole width of the screen.
The meme should be the "never before reported in neuroscience" bit - added to anything.
Although not open as such, BT in the UK have a system whereby their broadband customers run a second access point that's separate to their internal network. Any other broadband customer who opts in to the sharing scheme can use those access points, as well as BT openzone. The idea is that when you're out and about you get free wi-fi from other BT customers in return for sharing your own. Other people's use of your broadband does not come off of your allowance, but you have limits on how much you can use of theirs (to stop you using the public side of your own connection to get unlimited usage!)
Great in theory. Sucks in practice. You either have to keep searching for access points and go through a browser based logon to access them, or download an app that does it automatically. The app is useless, and fails to prioritise your own internal wi-fi when you're at home, connecting instead to the public facing one.
I've tried it, and wandering around my town I found plenty of access points, but only successfully connected to a small handful - or at least, I connected but failed to get internet access.
Not much hope of IP address tracking if you're using 3G mobile internet in the UK. You're lucky if your IP address stays the same for more than an hour or so - even in a single location (so it's not related to the tower you're connected to).
I also own several editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses", a book which was banned in many countries when it was written. I will tell you right now that we would be missing major cultural artifacts if those in power had succeeded at eradicating "Ulysses" and its author.
Apparently it was banned for obscenity. I applaud the vivid imagination of those who realised it was obscene - I read it, then read about the obscenity, and just thought "He was doing *what* on the beach??? Did not get that". Obviously I'm uncultured.
If, on the other hand, it had been banned for being pseudo intellectual literary codswallop, I'd have understood completely.
Replied above to the same point, but giving money for sex is not illegal in the UK unless the receiver is being coerced or controlled - i.e. has a pimp, is trafficked or being forced into it. It's strict liability, though, so taking her word for it that she is fully consenting and doing it of her own free will is not a defence.
No. Buying is only illegal in the UK if the seller is coerced into it or is controlled by someone else - in other words, to make it illegal if the seller is trafficked or has an abusive pimp. Buying is legal if it is completely consensual on both sides.
Trouble is, it's strict liability - it's no defence to say you asked her and she said she was fully consenting and not being controlled. I don't think the limits of "control" and "forced into it" have been established by the courts - I would hope that it's more than just being "forced" into it by the economy. I think the purpose of the legislation was to have a chilling effect on buying.
Other things around advertising and soliciting are illegal, but having said all that, websites such as Adultwork and small ads in the free papers seem to suggest it's not rigidly enforced.
I have another concern with gmail, which is that it might be leaking ad information between gmail users.
By that I mean that if I'm corresponding with another gmail user, I get ads that are unrelated to anything we've discussed but which may be related to things that they are likely to have emailed or received emails about.
Just to give a trivial example, a friend has a pet. She has emailed me but never once mentioned the pet in email to me. I do not have any pets, nor have I mentioned them in my emails, but I now get ads for pet food. There are other examples that suggest my ads are based on my correspondents emails that weren't sent to me - that they are pulling in the ads based on both of our email histories.
No, the Neanderthals liked technology, but invented patents so that Ug got exclusive rights to fire and refused to license it to Og. There was also some nastiness over whether the stone tools could have rounded edges.
Humans freely ripped off Neanderthal technology. The Neanderthals tried to take them to court, but the humans had not yet evolved enough to understand the concept of intellectual property rights so just ignored them.
Eventually the Neanderthals consumed all of their resources in a massive lawsuit that left the earth scorched and the humans scratching their heads and telling themselves that whatever happened in the future, they wouldn't ever be so stupid as to repeat those mistakes.
... will screw up their pictures anyway in the end. Hipsters will make the purple flare a new trend and a future Instagram update for Android will enable this. Anyone want to bet on that?
And then Apple will sue on the grounds that they the purple flare is their copyright/patent/trademark/whatever.
Mind you, I expect Cadbury to have something to say about this - they apparently "own" a shade of purple.
OK, bad choice of word. It exists therefore it must be natural, I get that, but our basic genetic programming is to pass on our own genes to another generation.
Words like pointless and unnatural may sound perjorative but I mean them only in that technical sense. How we, as a society, deal with those who have those sexual preferences is another matter. As it stands, we determine a fairly arbitrary age after which we deem individuals capable of giving informed consent. It's far from perfect - in both directions. There are plenty of over 18s being exploited because they lack emotional maturity or just plain common sense, but the law does not protect them in the same way as under 18s. There are also under 18s fully capable of deciding what they want. Unfortunately a line has to be drawn somewhere - taking every case on it's merits would be too complicated and open to other kinds of abuse.
And another thing... it is a critical distinction in some ways.
Pedophilia is biologically unnatural - sexual attraction to pre-pubescents is pointless from a reproductive perspective and is therefore an unsuccessful mutation, if you like. From a purely biological standpoint, the same is true of homosexuality.
When it comes to post pubescents - i.e. those capable of bearing children - the line on age is drawn entirely by society.
The whole thing is probably a bit of a hot topic in the UK at the moment, as there's a current case in the news of a 30 year old teacher who appears to have eloped to France with a 15 year old girl.
Further to that reply, googling the terms, as I did to confirm my recollection, is probably not wise. Especially at work.
I hear sirens, why is that?
Try hebephile for pubescent, ephebophile for the slightly older.
The guy sent the same message to his family members:
Playing devil's advocate, but that would make for a good excuse - "ah, see, I sent it to my mum as well, must have been as mistake"
I would like to think there was enough doubt about his story to get the conviction in the first place. On the other hand I would like to think a lot of things, so, meh.
I don't think I particularly take the numbers into account - once you're used to a car it's much more about where the needle is pointing - you kind of get a feel for it visually on that basis. Thinking of it as a clockface, 6 would be 0mph - if it's in the 9ish range I'm within the limit for town, 12 is about right for out of town, maybe 1, even 2 on the motorway.
There's a surprising amount of wastage there - my speedo goes up to speeds way beyond legal, which wastes space - and therefore precision at lower speeds.
My previous car had a digital speedo, which made it impossible to get that rough glance "am I in the right ballpark" view of speed. On the other hand, the (illusion of) precision probably kept me under the speed limits due to the difference between being able to tell myself I was doing "about 30" and the car telling me I was doing exactly 34...
If you have SAP installed, on Windows at least, it's worth giving "Arial Monospaced for SAP" a whirl - I found it simple and clean but more modern than Courier. I've switched to Consolas now I'm on Windows 7, but it was my monospaced font of choice for years on XP.
Agreed, I installed it to see what it looks like and much prefer the narrower look of Consolas
Why not just throw in a free copy of this and refer to the page numbers!!?
Seriously, I can walk into any local bookshop and browse through any number of books with reproductions of famous artworks, most of which are pretty cheap. They could do worse than picking up a copy of "The Story of Art" by Gombrich.
Failing that, could they not take the position that Wikipedia do: 'The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain'?
Keep the telephone sanitisers.
Thank you for saving me the read. Seriously? A single kiss?
I've seen plenty of casual hookups in the office, many of which led to no complications afterwards - it was just a thing at the Christmas party or whatever. The younger people (I'm over 40, so we're talking 20 - 25) do seem to have a more casual attitude to it than most of my generation. In my experience at least - maybe I just had a sheltered 20s, but it was quite a politically correct era when everything seemed to be taken very seriously.
Bring back the red flag laws!!
Price of fuel is a factor.
I've been driving for over 20 years (not continuously - I take breaks every now and then!). In the UK the speed limit on motorways is 70, and when I was first driving you couldn't get into the outside lane at that speed for the solid wall of 90mph+ drivers. I'd regularly drive at 80, and be overtaken constantly.
These days, it seems that fewer drivers are going over the limit and it's far more common to find drivers sitting at 60 - 65. I'm sure this is a cost thing - enforcement hasn't really increased, at least on motorways, and there's next to no chance of getting fined for doing 80. There are still a few "ton up" (100mph+) drivers, but they tend to be in the £40,000+ cars so I guess they can afford the fuel bills.
Which sounds like a physical manifestation of the learned behaviour - i.e. learning increases the neural connections in the same way that lifting weights builds muscle.
The genetic difference would be if some people had more connections to start with.