Christ, you guys have it lucky there. Even if you have a BROKEN tv here, you still have to pay. "No signal and I only use it for consoles anyway" wouldn't and doesn't fly.
Of course, our national tv channel funded by the licence payer is full of ads and they pay far too high salaries for complete rubbish.

Ain't that the truth. Anyone suggesting the funny icon idea has never seen the responses to the "count how many people are throwing the basketball" video. What do you mean big gorilla running around the screen, what gorilla?!

It's the magic ebul p2p software that prevent you installing p2p software...
Maybe they're trying to counteract any possible "but I didn't know it was on my computer" defenses
Don't know though :D

That's a bit mad isn't it?
Ireland spends on average EURO2,463 against the US EURO5,240; ireland has 3 docs/1000, 15.5 nurses/1000
I think on the wiki tables our life exp was only marginally higher than USA though
I like our system best, combo of public and private http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Every time I hear USA prices, I'm in disbelief. Mine's 600euro for the year for me alone, and it's definitely not the bare minimum of coverage...

Oh, it's a theory and a law. You've a theory of gravity e.g. newton or general rel.
[on a related note, have a laugh =) http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm
The main point was scientific theory != "this idea I had when I was in the pub". Anyone loudly proclaiming "evolution is ONLY a theory" really needs to go read up on what being a theory really means.

So is gravity.
Seriously, if you don't know what the word "theory" means in a scientific sense, go read up on it instead of running your mouth off. A theory is as solid as it gets, it's not magically going to grow up one day into a law. It's a theory and a fact, simple as that.

This was basically how our assignments were corrected. The lab assistants would go around each person and ask to be taken through the program the student had written. They'd ask a couple random questions about what a few random lines did.
Would be pretty obvious if you were cheating. It worked very well, but then we weren't in one of those universities where you're not likely to ever meet half your class - it was small enough and got progressively smaller. I imagine for huge classes it might be impractical.
I got away with it once by mostly just renaming variables (and got marked down for bad variable naming practice ;) ) but since I mostly knew and understood the code it passed. Never did it again though, not to that degree
I remember the other obvious way the lab assistants noted cheaters - on one occasion in particular our assignment was something easily googled and copied. People who could barely manage "hello world" the week before suddenly turned in fairly complex and good code ;)

To all those mentioning group work and not reinventing the wheel, that's fine beyond a certain level, but if you're in an intro course you'd want to understand exactly what does what, before you can build on it in any meaningful way. It's almost like skipping all lessons in basic maths, adding and subtracting, just because a calculator does all those functions. Sure it does, but if you don't know any basic operations at all or understand how they work, you're going to be crippled later on in more advanced maths.

If you put your search term in quotation marks, it'll search the exact term
no need for constant +

I have to agree with the above.
What REALLY gets my goat is girls posting on fora going on and on about all the things they're going to get for v-day. What about getting HIM something, you spoilt little princesses?!
They'd be talking about "he's taking me away for the wkend to -exotic location- and getting me -overpriced gift- isnt that great" No, it isn't. STFU. Unless you celebrate march 15th, get him something as well. V-day isn't your birthday.
Should really do away with the whole thing tbh.
(yes I have a bf, no I have nothing to be bitter about ;) )

It's only been a few years for me, but this was my experience also. They brought their paper notes for reference, but derived everything nearly from memory. And since they were taking the time to work it out on the blackboard, the class had enough time to follow along, point out any possible errors, and take the notes on pen + paper as well.
Honestly I think it depends on the type of subject. I'm sure if it's an arts course, block notes might be useful, and you can type away. But for theoretical physics/maths, it was a lot better to work through the equations and derivations with the lecturer by taking notes, IMO. That way if you have any questions on any steps you could ask there and then.
All that said, by the final years our class sizes were about 20 people. Made that kind of thing a lot easier ;)

How can a manor be offensive? Cannon sticking out the windows? Its colour scheme?
I suppose if it was painted in an ugly colour, that could be fairly offensive.

Ah, subtlety 3

Given the inclusion of "this begs the question" in his sig, used incorrectly, I'd guess it was meant ironically.

Might be slightly off from your discussion, but academic standards (in Ireland at least) are certainly dropping. That may not mean they're less "intellectual" these days, but probably not so well educated.
College degrees mean less than they used to, and the leaving cert has certainly become a lot easier over time.