Stockholders, however, are like the owner of a vicious dog who refuses to take responsibility for the dog's behavior.
The current approach of "Well, I talked to the dog and I think he understands and I've paid the fine. Besides, the toddler was trespassing." just doesn't cut it.
And yet with the proper processing, either drum can be turned into clean, safe drinking water.
It occurs to me that a somewhat different analogy is in order.
You have ten bottles of wine from a foreign country standing in front of you. You have absolute knowledge from an informant that your enemies have put undetectable poison in two of those bottles, and they've even told you which two have the poison. They have not provided any information about the other eight bottles. Remember, the poison is undetectable.
So here's the big question: Do you drink from ANY of the other eight bottles?
The analogy with security products provided by US companies should be obvious.
Right. Put a space heater in a closet stuffed full of flammable cloth. The light bulb serves two purposes in one easily-maintained unit. 1. Lighting. 2. Heat.
My wife's theater group has a closet/shed just outside the house they use for their activities. In order to keep it reasonably warm and hence reasonably mildew-free, she collected a huge bunch of 100-watt incandescents and keeps one of them on 24/7 (which also increases bulb life because the bulb temperature stays pretty constant.) The electricity costs a bit, but having to replace mildewed period costumes would cost hella lot more.
"Trust but verify." The ability to verify, usually referred to as transparency, is necessary for the establishment of trust. Anything you cannot understand or verify is not trustworthy. You may be forced by circumstances to "trust" it, but if it says "no user serviceable parts inside," the trust is hollow
That's too bad, because I suspect only a minority of products have been compromised this way.
When you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage with a teaspoon of pure water in it, you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage. When you have a 55-gallon drum of pure water with a teaspoon of sewage in it, you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage.
It's more like an attempt to bury the book completely in the annotations so nobody wants to read it, including scholars. Which is probably the point of the exercise.
If he wants to put it in a reader he'll need to use a book format such as epub or mobi. PDF would work as well but I think there are better choices nowadays.
PDF would NOT work as well. PDFs do not scale well. You end up either having to scroll through the "pages," which distracts from the reading, or you end up trying to read stuff sized for "bigger than your tablet" in text shrunk to fit the page.
"Oh you need little teeny eyes For reading little teeny print Like you need little teeny hands For milking mice!"
No. China is not a moral compass. But the approach has virtues even corporatists will appreciate.
If corporations are truly people, with human rights, they are also subject to demands that they meet human responsibilities, including taking reasonable care for the safety and lives of others (not just corporations, btw).
"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
The parking lots around big box stores, at least where I live, are all on-the-ground structures. The support for solar panels doesn't eat that much area, and there are frequently shopping-cart storage areas which are even trickier to maneuver around than simple columns at each end of a row.. In fact, the local Bayer plant has solar all over its parking lot.
The real issue might be security, since there are thieves in this world who are neither corporations nor politicians.
Costco and other Big Box stores such as Home Despot and Lowe's carry solar and some of them even offer installation. So why don't they cover their parking lots with panels? Among other things, it means that, no matter where you park, you're parked in the shade. In the summer, that's a godsend.
Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by English author Eric Frank Russell. Terry Pratchett (author of the Discworld series of fantasy books) stated that he "can't imagine a funnier terrorists' handbook." Wasp is generally considered Russell's best novel.
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Customers, no. They're innocent victims.
Stockholders, however, are like the owner of a vicious dog who refuses
to take responsibility for the dog's behavior.
The current approach of "Well, I talked to the dog and I think he understands and I've paid the fine.
Besides, the toddler was trespassing." just doesn't cut it.
Under the "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." rule. The government does it, so....
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"La la la la la la la I can't hear you!"?
It occurs to me that a somewhat different analogy is in order.
You have ten bottles of wine from a foreign country standing in front of you. You have absolute knowledge from an informant that your enemies have put undetectable poison in two of those bottles, and they've even told you which two have the poison. They have not provided any information about the other eight bottles. Remember, the poison is undetectable.
So here's the big question: Do you drink from ANY of the other eight bottles?
The analogy with security products provided by US companies should be obvious.
Right. Put a space heater in a closet stuffed full of flammable cloth. The light bulb serves two purposes in one easily-maintained unit. 1. Lighting. 2. Heat.
And the bulb is never near a costume.
Have a look at this
My wife's theater group has a closet/shed just outside the house they use for their activities. In order to keep it reasonably warm and hence reasonably mildew-free, she collected a huge bunch of 100-watt incandescents and keeps one of them on 24/7 (which also increases bulb life because the bulb temperature stays pretty constant.) The electricity costs a bit, but having to replace mildewed period costumes would cost hella lot more.
Thank you. "Chance favors the prepared mind."
What characteristics in a molecular system are required for it to be capable of reproduction?
What characteristics does this system have in common with DNA/RNA/Proteins(DRP)?
What's different from DRP?
Is there any possibility of a general theory which would allow prediction of possible alternate molecular systems capable of reproduction?
That ought to keep the lab busy for a while. :)
"A man can run out of breath before he runs out of questions." -- Lois McMaster Bujold
"Trust but verify." The ability to verify, usually referred to as transparency, is necessary for the establishment of trust. Anything you cannot understand or verify is not trustworthy. You may be forced by circumstances to "trust" it, but if it says "no user serviceable parts inside," the trust is hollow
When you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage with a teaspoon of pure water in it, you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage.
When you have a 55-gallon drum of pure water with a teaspoon of sewage in it, you have a 55-gallon drum of sewage.
It's more like an attempt to bury the book completely in the annotations so nobody wants to read it, including scholars. Which is probably the point of the exercise.
If he wants to put it in a reader he'll need to use a book format such as epub or mobi. PDF would work as well but I think there are better choices nowadays.
PDF would NOT work as well. PDFs do not scale well. You end up either having to scroll through the "pages," which distracts from the reading, or you end up trying to read stuff sized for "bigger than your tablet" in text shrunk to fit the page.
"Oh you need little teeny eyes
For reading little teeny print
Like you need little teeny hands
For milking mice!"
No. China is not a moral compass. But the approach has virtues even corporatists will appreciate.
If corporations are truly people, with human rights, they are also subject to demands that they meet human responsibilities, including taking reasonable care for the safety and lives of others (not just corporations, btw).
"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
The parking lots around big box stores, at least where I live, are all on-the-ground structures. The support for solar panels doesn't eat that much area, and there are frequently shopping-cart storage areas which are even trickier to maneuver around than simple columns at each end of a row.. In fact, the local Bayer plant has solar all over its parking lot.
The real issue might be security, since there are thieves in this world who are neither corporations nor politicians.
Costco and other Big Box stores such as Home Despot and Lowe's carry solar and some of them even offer installation. So why don't they cover their parking lots with panels? Among other things, it means that, no matter where you park, you're parked in the shade. In the summer, that's a godsend.
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I'm impressed by the idea, but it won't be fully realized until the language set includes Klingon and Elvish.
Its simple: "If the police don't obey the law, why the hell should anybody else?"
Short form: instant castration and spaying
Long form: Just have a mass-injection program to implement a dictator's "final solution."
The poor widdle tywanny can't cwack a widdle cipher. My heart bleeds.
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And the word IS being used as a verb.
So. You upgraded my joke. I thought I'd set my privacy settings properly at install.
You never have to go looking for Microsoft. Microsoft always knows where to find you.