Except that radioisotopes are located at just about every clinic, hospital, and a good number of industrial locations around the world vs two high security labs.
"And decide which species live or die? I know we have done it before, e.g. wiping out the tasmanian tiger, but is morally and ethically defensible?" Yes. Humans have one of two states. 1. A higher value than other forms of life which means that we are responsible to manage them. If so then deciding that smallpox is to dangerous is within our prerogative. 2. Equal value to other forms of life. If so then we have the same "rights" as all life which is to do everything in our right to survive and owe nothing to any other form of life. Would you punish a wolf for eating and endangered animal? Other forms of life have gone extinct and more than once it would have been because of a predator.
I do not think it is a good idea to destroy the two stocks since they are contained and should not pose a risk to the general public. They might have some scientific value in the future so keep them just in case.
1. Russia has a supply and it is well documented that they have weaponized it in the past. 2. The US is not all that comfortable with the security of the Russian supply of smallpox. 3. The US is not comfortable that Russia would really destroy the small pox that have so we would still want a supply to make vaccines with. 4. Russia would not trust the US to not weaponize smallpox if we asked them to destroy their supply but we keep ours.
So the US keeps our supply and does not ask Russia to destroy their supply because it would never happen and would just cause a fight. Oh and the US and Russia could never agree on a third party to keep a single supply safe and secure.
That is the law not morality. So if you can refuse to conduct a sale that is completely legal for moral reasons they why should you not be allowed to refuse sales based on any moral reason?
"As long as all you need is that stuff you are OK but the moment you want to do some real work" That is also the problems with cars. Once you need to haul a lot of stuff you really need a pickup. And if you really need to haul a lot of stuff you need a Semi!
Of course that is also the problem with PCs. One you need to get real work done you need something like a workstation class machine with dual Xeons and several Tesla cards.
Oh wait... A car can do many tasks just fine and will often cost less than a truck... And PC can do many tasks just fine and cost a lot less than a workstation class machine... So just maybe.....
And I get voted down for asking how refusing to sell based on a political or ethical view is different in this case vs gay marriage. Frankly I am anti death penalty but I am pro law.
Funny but my wife is a big fan of Justice Leauge and Star Trek, STNG, and DS9. Of the other shows that men are supposed to like I am not a big fan of cop shows so most of the other shows on the mans list are ones I do not watch. My wife also likes West Wing and CSI. Of the shows that I like that my wife does not it is usually war movies like Midway and documentaries.
When it comes to reviews the simple truth is you get two kinds of people that make the effort to review a show. 1. Those that love the show. 2. Those that hate the show.
It could just be that the shows that most men watch happen to be shows that women don't hate while the shows that a lot of women love are shows that men do hate. It could also be the age groups involved. Most of the guys sound like younger men while a lot of the women seem to be a good bit older.
" There is no requirement for Pfizer or any other corporation to sell something to you if they don't want to. " So you fully support places that do not want to sell services to gay couples getting married?
" If you need a head's up display, you need transparent displays." Not really since no current HUD uses a transparent display. They all use a reflected image.
You do not need a transparent display for a HUD. Now for wearables where you put the display into glasses it could be handy. You could have a good display in a profile pair of glasses.
Actually I feel the same way. He needs to "get a life". And I mean that in a good way. Make some friends face to face. Play cards with them or go to the movies. Find someone to care about and that cares about you. Life is too short to worry about idiot online that need to be bullies to makeup for their feelings if impotence in the real world.
I do like that idea. It would be nice if the noaa stations included some digital sub carriers with extra data in them as well like road condition warnings.
I like to listen to NPR morning edition I also think that a lot of spanish speakers may want to listen to spanish language stations and not use up data. The thing is if the chip is in the phone and can turned on easily then why not have the option?
So it is the fault of the people that buy Teslas. They bought a car from a company that hired a contractor that hired a subcontractor that was breaking labor laws. The only way they have any guilt is if they knew that it was going on. I doubt that anyone at Tesla knows any more about the construction workers adding on to the factory than you know about the subcontractor that worked on the roof of your home.
I read the story and you are correct. It looks like it is a sub-contractor of a contractor that is working Tesla's factory. To be honest I am not a fan of the rabid Tesla fan boys but this really has nothing to do with Tesla. It would be like busting the mayor of a city because the company that they hired to do landscaping subcontracted out mowing the grass at parks to a company that hired illegals. The subcontractor that is breaking the law should be punished. The answer to why is Tesla's name all over this is simple. They are going for the "deep pockets".
Yes and no. There are federal labor laws https://www.usa.gov/labor-laws and these are minimums. A state can have laws on top of the federal laws for example California. For example at on company I work at we offered people the option of 4 10 hour days a week.
"and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week." I have seen people do seven days in a row but then they got off several days in a row if you do a two week pay period. So you work 7 days at 10 hours and then have 7 days off. Some people like that. So are they breaking labor laws or just doing 7 10s and 7 off?
Might I suggest Minix 3 as a good place to contribute. It is an interesting project but with a small community. It is really hard to make a big difference working on Linux but Minix 3 is place where you can make a big difference. www.minix3.org
And your TV could have a mic and a cell connection in it and could be reporting everything you watch on TV and say in your home... And your computer could be doing the same thing for all you know. How do you know that the nic does not have a mic and is sending audio right now to the NSA? Do you packet sniff everything that goes out? It actually looks for Alexa or Amazon. or Echo.
"Since it listens to everything said in the room" Kind of but not really. Echo uses a simple local voice recognition system that listens for the key word Alexa. It does not digitize everything you say and send it to Amazon. The bandwidth would be too high as would the cost of processing all the speech for the key word. BTW here is the source for the echo https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
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Except that radioisotopes are located at just about every clinic, hospital, and a good number of industrial locations around the world vs two high security labs.
"And decide which species live or die? I know we have done it before, e.g. wiping out the tasmanian tiger, but is morally and ethically defensible?"
Yes.
Humans have one of two states.
1. A higher value than other forms of life which means that we are responsible to manage them. If so then deciding that smallpox is to dangerous is within our prerogative.
2. Equal value to other forms of life. If so then we have the same "rights" as all life which is to do everything in our right to survive and owe nothing to any other form of life. Would you punish a wolf for eating and endangered animal? Other forms of life have gone extinct and more than once it would have been because of a predator.
I do not think it is a good idea to destroy the two stocks since they are contained and should not pose a risk to the general public. They might have some scientific value in the future so keep them just in case.
Smallpox reproduces a lot faster and has killed a lot more people.
1. Russia has a supply and it is well documented that they have weaponized it in the past.
2. The US is not all that comfortable with the security of the Russian supply of smallpox.
3. The US is not comfortable that Russia would really destroy the small pox that have so we would still want a supply to make vaccines with.
4. Russia would not trust the US to not weaponize smallpox if we asked them to destroy their supply but we keep ours.
So the US keeps our supply and does not ask Russia to destroy their supply because it would never happen and would just cause a fight.
Oh and the US and Russia could never agree on a third party to keep a single supply safe and secure.
Funny thing is that I do not watch any of those shows. I used to watch the Simpsons a decade or more ago.
That is the law not morality. So if you can refuse to conduct a sale that is completely legal for moral reasons they why should you not be allowed to refuse sales based on any moral reason?
"As long as all you need is that stuff you are OK but the moment you want to do some real work"
That is also the problems with cars. Once you need to haul a lot of stuff you really need a pickup. And if you really need to haul a lot of stuff you need a Semi!
Of course that is also the problem with PCs. One you need to get real work done you need something like a workstation class machine with dual Xeons and several Tesla cards.
Oh wait... A car can do many tasks just fine and will often cost less than a truck...
And PC can do many tasks just fine and cost a lot less than a workstation class machine...
So just maybe.....
Pretty much. I can turn on the incognito mode if I need to.
And I get voted down for asking how refusing to sell based on a political or ethical view is different in this case vs gay marriage.
Frankly I am anti death penalty but I am pro law.
Funny but my wife is a big fan of Justice Leauge and Star Trek, STNG, and DS9.
Of the other shows that men are supposed to like I am not a big fan of cop shows so most of the other shows on the mans list are ones I do not watch. My wife also likes West Wing and CSI. Of the shows that I like that my wife does not it is usually war movies like Midway and documentaries.
When it comes to reviews the simple truth is you get two kinds of people that make the effort to review a show.
1. Those that love the show.
2. Those that hate the show.
It could just be that the shows that most men watch happen to be shows that women don't hate while the shows that a lot of women love are shows that men do hate.
It could also be the age groups involved. Most of the guys sound like younger men while a lot of the women seem to be a good bit older.
" There is no requirement for Pfizer or any other corporation to sell something to you if they don't want to. "
So you fully support places that do not want to sell services to gay couples getting married?
Yes and aircraft since the 1960 or even farther back to around 1900 if you count reflector gunsights.
" If you need a head's up display, you need transparent displays."
Not really since no current HUD uses a transparent display. They all use a reflected image.
You do not need a transparent display for a HUD.
Now for wearables where you put the display into glasses it could be handy. You could have a good display in a profile pair of glasses.
Actually I feel the same way.
He needs to "get a life". And I mean that in a good way. Make some friends face to face. Play cards with them or go to the movies. Find someone to care about and that cares about you.
Life is too short to worry about idiot online that need to be bullies to makeup for their feelings if impotence in the real world.
I do like that idea. It would be nice if the noaa stations included some digital sub carriers with extra data in them as well like road condition warnings.
I like to listen to NPR morning edition I also think that a lot of spanish speakers may want to listen to spanish language stations and not use up data.
The thing is if the chip is in the phone and can turned on easily then why not have the option?
So it is the fault of the people that buy Teslas.
They bought a car from a company that hired a contractor that hired a subcontractor that was breaking labor laws.
The only way they have any guilt is if they knew that it was going on. I doubt that anyone at Tesla knows any more about the construction workers adding on to the factory than you know about the subcontractor that worked on the roof of your home.
I read the story and you are correct. It looks like it is a sub-contractor of a contractor that is working Tesla's factory. To be honest I am not a fan of the rabid Tesla fan boys but this really has nothing to do with Tesla. It would be like busting the mayor of a city because the company that they hired to do landscaping subcontracted out mowing the grass at parks to a company that hired illegals.
The subcontractor that is breaking the law should be punished. The answer to why is Tesla's name all over this is simple. They are going for the "deep pockets".
Yes and no.
There are federal labor laws https://www.usa.gov/labor-laws and these are minimums.
A state can have laws on top of the federal laws for example California. For example at on company I work at we offered people the option of 4 10 hour days a week.
"and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week."
I have seen people do seven days in a row but then they got off several days in a row if you do a two week pay period. So you work 7 days at 10 hours and then have 7 days off. Some people like that.
So are they breaking labor laws or just doing 7 10s and 7 off?
As I said that is how also how I feel. I am just shocked to see someone on Slashdot feel the same way.
Might I suggest Minix 3 as a good place to contribute. It is an interesting project but with a small community. It is really hard to make a big difference working on Linux but Minix 3 is place where you can make a big difference. www.minix3.org
And your TV could have a mic and a cell connection in it and could be reporting everything you watch on TV and say in your home...
And your computer could be doing the same thing for all you know. How do you know that the nic does not have a mic and is sending audio right now to the NSA? Do you packet sniff everything that goes out?
It actually looks for Alexa or Amazon. or Echo.
"Since it listens to everything said in the room"
Kind of but not really.
Echo uses a simple local voice recognition system that listens for the key word Alexa. It does not digitize everything you say and send it to Amazon. The bandwidth would be too high as would the cost of processing all the speech for the key word.
BTW here is the source for the echo https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...