I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm. Did I read the wrong FA?
I heard about that on the radio today. One of the scenarios was something like: A wants to poison B, but uses a harmless substance by mistake. Was A's behavior immoral? Apparently the test persons with he "disabled" brain part judged only the outcome (no harm done), not the intention.
[snark] Persoanlly I think it depends on whether you consider incompetence to be immoral or not [/snark]
tetrachromat requires 4 color receptor coding genes...2 on each X-chromosome...the y-chromosome can only hold 1.
The genes wouldn't have to be on the X-chromosome, would they? In a similar vein, AFAIK this gene injection by virus is not terribly precise, i. e. it ends up somewhere in your DNA. With a bit of luck, it won't break an important gene.
If we are talking about XP machines, consider to take away admin permissions from ordinary users. Maybe set up a local admin, that the users know the password for, but let them do their daily work as restricted users.
While some services spotted the risk, ordering operatives to override the computer's orders manually, five of England's 12 ambulance trusts did not allow call handlers to upgrade such calls.
This sounds like a decision made by one or several persons. These persons should be identified and defenestrated, preferably from exactly 6 feet above ground.
Do you remember the performance improvements that Vista SP1 brought? That shows that Vista pre-SP1 was pretty slow, doesn't it? Specifically copying of files was buggy as hell. Granted, this was fixed with SP1, but it was a real problem when Vista was new.
I suppose one account would be "Dr Jekyll", i.e. real name and real but minimal and bland information. The other account would be "Mr Hyde", i. e. under a pseudonym with the stuff parents, teachers and bosses don't need to know.
A child whose parents are not organ donors, and can't choose because the child is not old enough, is dying of a disease that has destroyed her lungs. Should the smoking lung cancer patient that selected "organ donor" get the lungs before the child?
IMHO children should always be prioritized like organ donors, regardless of their parent's choices. But maybe that's just me.
Unless, of course, being a potential donor makes you more likely to die. The dark side of this sort of policy is that someone decides whether you live or die. If you have a lot of good organs, they might well decide to let you die in favor of a sicker patient.
AFAIK preparations for donations (determination of tissue types etc) only start after a patient has been declared brain-dead. And look at the bright side: Organ donors don't get buried alive.
The pool of needy organ recipients isn't particularly large compared to the total population and such people aren't likely when they die to be healthy enough to provide organs.
A lot of healthy people die suddenly in accidents.
I'd be wary of that. There are a lot of people who can't donate blood for many reasons and I wouldn't like to put them at a disadvantage.
If you have to take heavy medication that makes your organs unsuitable for example, it shouldn't affect your priority to receive organs. It would turn your consent to donate into an empty formality of course.
I would like to see a law of this type combined with a decision: When you renew your driver's license, national ID card or whatever, you have to decide if you would like to participate in organ transplantation (on the donating end only once you are dead of course). This decision is marked in your driver license, so easy to find if you should be a victim of a traffic accident or something like that.
Yep. Microcode and entertainment are both considered IP. American Pizza baked by Tajik immigrants and delivered by your local Mafia chapter remains a bit of a mystery.
One of my earlier tech support support for fiends stuff was recovering a thesis paper. Just as the guy finished writing and hit the print button, word crashed and corrupted the file. Since then, I recommend everyone who writes an important paper to set up a free email account and mail daily updates to themselves. And save before printing.
There might be times when a business owner wants to tell a lawyer "Nope, don't have this information/email/file anymore. No backup either." It would be a real laugh if you pipe in with "Actually,..."
That looks 'shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels... Seriously, unless someone can give a source for this image, I will assume that it is just a negative of a conventional photo. I don't think body scanners do this light/shadows stuff at all. And it would be more convincing, if the model was in the same pose for the clothed and nude pictures.
Usually I tell him that I want to go the whole mile then. Rank insignia, DOS (6.2-ME) and Windows NT campaign (NT4.0-Vista) ribbon, MVP and MCSE medals... Anyone got a good idea for a cap badge design?
In my limited experience, casual pirates practice very little "software hygiene", i. e. they tend to install all kinds of dodgy programs, including pirated software from p2p networks. That might be an important infection vector. Can someone make a fitting analogy to STDs?
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I heard about that on the radio today. One of the scenarios was something like: A wants to poison B, but uses a harmless substance by mistake. Was A's behavior immoral?
Apparently the test persons with he "disabled" brain part judged only the outcome (no harm done), not the intention.
[snark] Persoanlly I think it depends on whether you consider incompetence to be immoral or not [/snark]
The genes wouldn't have to be on the X-chromosome, would they?
In a similar vein, AFAIK this gene injection by virus is not terribly precise, i. e. it ends up somewhere in your DNA. With a bit of luck, it won't break an important gene.
If we are talking about XP machines, consider to take away admin permissions from ordinary users. Maybe set up a local admin, that the users know the password for, but let them do their daily work as restricted users.
This sounds like a decision made by one or several persons. These persons should be identified and defenestrated, preferably from exactly 6 feet above ground.
Do you remember the performance improvements that Vista SP1 brought? That shows that Vista pre-SP1 was pretty slow, doesn't it? Specifically copying of files was buggy as hell. Granted, this was fixed with SP1, but it was a real problem when Vista was new.
I suppose one account would be "Dr Jekyll", i.e. real name and real but minimal and bland information. The other account would be "Mr Hyde", i. e. under a pseudonym with the stuff parents, teachers and bosses don't need to know.
You don't have to go all the way. Traveling from Western Europe to Turkey for example could be a nice trip on the Orient Express.
IMHO children should always be prioritized like organ donors, regardless of their parent's choices. But maybe that's just me.
AFAIK preparations for donations (determination of tissue types etc) only start after a patient has been declared brain-dead.
And look at the bright side: Organ donors don't get buried alive.
A lot of healthy people die suddenly in accidents.
I'd be wary of that. There are a lot of people who can't donate blood for many reasons and I wouldn't like to put them at a disadvantage.
If you have to take heavy medication that makes your organs unsuitable for example, it shouldn't affect your priority to receive organs. It would turn your consent to donate into an empty formality of course.
I would like to see a law of this type combined with a decision: When you renew your driver's license, national ID card or whatever, you have to decide if you would like to participate in organ transplantation (on the donating end only once you are dead of course). This decision is marked in your driver license, so easy to find if you should be a victim of a traffic accident or something like that.
Yep. Microcode and entertainment are both considered IP. American Pizza baked by Tajik immigrants and delivered by your local Mafia chapter remains a bit of a mystery.
Another small detail : Parliament has zero power.
That was before the Treaty of Lisbon.
Well, he could use the PC he posted with.
One of my earlier tech support support for fiends stuff was recovering a thesis paper. Just as the guy finished writing and hit the print button, word crashed and corrupted the file.
Since then, I recommend everyone who writes an important paper to set up a free email account and mail daily updates to themselves. And save before printing.
Han took great care to polish his "Bad Boy" image from time to time.
This kind of story is a bit boring without a link to the video in question...
There might be times when a business owner wants to tell a lawyer "Nope, don't have this information/email/file anymore. No backup either." ..."
It would be a real laugh if you pipe in with "Actually,
+1 Insightful.
Nobody seems to make 3D goggles for people who already wear wear glasses. Or does anyone know a source for them?
That looks 'shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels...
Seriously, unless someone can give a source for this image, I will assume that it is just a negative of a conventional photo. I don't think body scanners do this light/shadows stuff at all. And it would be more convincing, if the model was in the same pose for the clothed and nude pictures.
Those statistics could come handy in "community standards" related lawsuits.
Usually I tell him that I want to go the whole mile then. Rank insignia, DOS (6.2-ME) and Windows NT campaign (NT4.0-Vista) ribbon, MVP and MCSE medals...
Anyone got a good idea for a cap badge design?
Indeed. As someone else put it: You are not their customer, you are their product.
These practices all need to die. Do you want to understand me? Get to know me
You are an Aquarius too, right? We don't believe in Astrology.
4) Vista SP 1 fixed a lot of performance-related bugs. In other words, pre-SP1, Vista was slow and buggy: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/30c9c7f3-2cc4-426a-9db9-885086ff183e/ That bug for example was fixed, but the crucial point is, it was there when Vista was rolled out and everyone and their dog wrote reviews. Recovering a ruined reputation is hard.
In my limited experience, casual pirates practice very little "software hygiene", i. e. they tend to install all kinds of dodgy programs, including pirated software from p2p networks. That might be an important infection vector.
Can someone make a fitting analogy to STDs?