Actually, you can sue someone else for not just breaking a law, but for the possibility of having once broken the law. Even if a criminal court has found you not guilty of the charges that the filer accuses you of. The rediculous O.J. Simpson fiasco is an example. BTW, IANAL. The justice involved in a lawsuit is tenuous at best, and needs serious reform, IMHO.
Velocity at any point in time can be calculated by simply integrating the acceleration. Of course, thats not really simple in most real-world cases, but thats how it would be done. The true velocity would require an initial velocity to be added to the local velocity calculated in this way, but in a comparitive (relativistic) situation the intial velocities cancel.
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Yes, under capitalism you have the "right" to make a profit in the sense that you are "allowed" to do so. But, you're not protected from losing that profit due to competition of any kind. If a consumer is informed of the poor list of blocked sites, for instance -no matter who tells them what that list is- they have a right to verify that that information is correct and to use that information to make an informed decision on what they're buying. This is the very reason they put the "Nutrition Facts" and ingredients labels on food products. To inform the consumer of the contents of that product, and allow the consumer to purchase or not purchase that product due to dietary needs and desires. The original argument would be akin to saying that a company could choose not to place the ingredient "strychnine" in their ingredient list because they would probably "loose money". Furthermore, it would prevent chemists from chemically analyzing --breaking the chemical code, in a manner of speaking-- the food to find out what it contains.
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Actually, you can sue someone else for not just breaking a law, but for the possibility of having once broken the law. Even if a criminal court has found you not guilty of the charges that the filer accuses you of. The rediculous O.J. Simpson fiasco is an example. BTW, IANAL. The justice involved in a lawsuit is tenuous at best, and needs serious reform, IMHO.
Velocity at any point in time can be calculated by simply integrating the acceleration. Of course, thats not really simple in most real-world cases, but thats how it would be done. The true velocity would require an initial velocity to be added to the local velocity calculated in this way, but in a comparitive (relativistic) situation the intial velocities cancel.
Yes, under capitalism you have the "right" to make a profit in the sense that you are "allowed" to do so. But, you're not protected from losing that profit due to competition of any kind. If a consumer is informed of the poor list of blocked sites, for instance -no matter who tells them what that list is- they have a right to verify that that information is correct and to use that information to make an informed decision on what they're buying. This is the very reason they put the "Nutrition Facts" and ingredients labels on food products. To inform the consumer of the contents of that product, and allow the consumer to purchase or not purchase that product due to dietary needs and desires. The original argument would be akin to saying that a company could choose not to place the ingredient "strychnine" in their ingredient list because they would probably "loose money". Furthermore, it would prevent chemists from chemically analyzing --breaking the chemical code, in a manner of speaking-- the food to find out what it contains.