Not exactly. The loan is an investment which has an expectation of being paid out over a long time period. Until that period has expired, it does not make sense for society to give up on collecting that debt.
This is actually the *same* rule that applies to ordinary bankruptcy - if you borrow money to invest in, say, a self-employment business, and file for bankruptcy the next day, that debt won't be discharged because you never had a good faith intent of repaying it. There's simply a different time scale involved when the money was invested in education.
That doesn't mean the existing law is perfect - it's quite abusive in other ways - but it's not inherently evil simply because the same principle is applied differently for a different kind of debt.
...with all those Scots running around for hundreds of years achieving great scientific and economic advances leading to the greatness of the British Empire?
The idea of prison was originally that a criminal forfeited their right to live.
In the case of capital punishment, the person's life was ended outright, but the idea of imprisonment was that the lesser punishments were achieved by depriving a person of part of the rest of their life. If you spent X number of years in prison, then X fewer years of your life were available to you. In principle, a prisoner should have no opportunity of spending any of their time in prison constructively, and all confinement should be solitary.
That is why there is a certain intuitive appeal to solitary confinement as a punishment.
Unfortunately, it turns out that solitary confinement is actual torture, is counter-productive, and diminishes those implementing the prison system.
No-one has found a perfect way to punish and rehabilitate (both legitimate goals).
Not to mention that the "redesign" was achieved by drilling holes through the security that NT had, resulting in security weakness that to this day have not been fixed.
Worse than whether IE could be removed or not, was that the dependence on it was a deliberate design flaw retrofitted into the OS exclusively for the purpose of pretending to follow the law.
It still astonishes me that people can so readily embrace the fact that humans are like other animals and yet fail to understand that humans are social animals and are most like other social animals.
I suspect this means that the US will soon wield a nuclear or biological weapon of mass destruction, and there will be five or six decades of research and 'debate' before it's even acknowledged, must less any responsibility is assigned or measures taken to undo the damage.
If simulation is so broadly defined as to be indistinguishable from actual reality (whatever that is), then this is merely yet another way to conclude that God created humans are created in his/her own image, rather than the other way around.
And in fact Snowden could not be convicted for anything in relation to a document that he didn't read himself but that he might only have given to journalists to "back up".
There no conclusive proof he looked at anything besides metadata.
It sounds like they are doing a rather minor variation of exactly that.
Still, I applaud any effort to leverage new technology to constructively engage the disabled. Most "accommodation" I've seen is stuff which goes out of its way to humiliate the disabled, inconvenience the able-bodied, and provide no value to its target demographic.
For example, my city has pedestrian walk signals that put out an extremely obnoxious continual beeping. The noise is perfectly constant and provides no information to the visually impaired or anyone else, it's just offensive noise pollution that lets politicians pretend they are doing something.
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It really wasn't about inclinations - before the discovery of the red shift, a static universe was what the available evidence indicated.
Not exactly. The loan is an investment which has an expectation of being paid out over a long time period. Until that period has expired, it does not make sense for society to give up on collecting that debt.
This is actually the *same* rule that applies to ordinary bankruptcy - if you borrow money to invest in, say, a self-employment business, and file for bankruptcy the next day, that debt won't be discharged because you never had a good faith intent of repaying it. There's simply a different time scale involved when the money was invested in education.
That doesn't mean the existing law is perfect - it's quite abusive in other ways - but it's not inherently evil simply because the same principle is applied differently for a different kind of debt.
You're missing the point.
Empty it where?
...with all those Scots running around for hundreds of years achieving great scientific and economic advances leading to the greatness of the British Empire?
The idea of prison was originally that a criminal forfeited their right to live.
In the case of capital punishment, the person's life was ended outright, but the idea of imprisonment was that the lesser punishments were achieved by depriving a person of part of the rest of their life. If you spent X number of years in prison, then X fewer years of your life were available to you. In principle, a prisoner should have no opportunity of spending any of their time in prison constructively, and all confinement should be solitary.
That is why there is a certain intuitive appeal to solitary confinement as a punishment.
Unfortunately, it turns out that solitary confinement is actual torture, is counter-productive, and diminishes those implementing the prison system.
No-one has found a perfect way to punish and rehabilitate (both legitimate goals).
Aren't the "known forms of life" the, um, forms of life we already, you know, know about, i.e. not the same ones we're going to find on alien worlds?
Not to mention that the "redesign" was achieved by drilling holes through the security that NT had, resulting in security weakness that to this day have not been fixed.
Worse than whether IE could be removed or not, was that the dependence on it was a deliberate design flaw retrofitted into the OS exclusively for the purpose of pretending to follow the law.
Microsoft did so many things that have set back the state of computing.
This is my complaint. I estimate human civilization as a whole has lost a whole decade of progress because of Microsoft's greed.
If the US had a military that was only defensive, then, yes, the rest of the world would gladly leave them alone.
Who would benefit most from disruption of Internet service in Venezuela?
(Hint: Not the Venezuelan government.)
The fantasy concepts were metaphors, and were always intended to be understood as such.
So "false" really doesn't apply to them, any more than "true" does.
address not just typical problems, but complex ones as well
If they find that complex problems are not typical, that tells us a lot about the scope of their experience.
Better than borrow and spend.
Maybe exploitation isn't a strictly either-or concept.
It still astonishes me that people can so readily embrace the fact that humans are like other animals and yet fail to understand that humans are social animals and are most like other social animals.
I suspect this means that the US will soon wield a nuclear or biological weapon of mass destruction, and there will be five or six decades of research and 'debate' before it's even acknowledged, must less any responsibility is assigned or measures taken to undo the damage.
If simulation is so broadly defined as to be indistinguishable from actual reality (whatever that is), then this is merely yet another way to conclude that God created humans are created in his/her own image, rather than the other way around.
And in fact Snowden could not be convicted for anything in relation to a document that he didn't read himself but that he might only have given to journalists to "back up".
There no conclusive proof he looked at anything besides metadata.
It sounds like they are doing a rather minor variation of exactly that.
Still, I applaud any effort to leverage new technology to constructively engage the disabled. Most "accommodation" I've seen is stuff which goes out of its way to humiliate the disabled, inconvenience the able-bodied, and provide no value to its target demographic.
For example, my city has pedestrian walk signals that put out an extremely obnoxious continual beeping. The noise is perfectly constant and provides no information to the visually impaired or anyone else, it's just offensive noise pollution that lets politicians pretend they are doing something.
Why do you think His Noodiliness is the Flying Spaghetti Monster and not the Stationary Spaghetti Monster?
Newton's laws are *not* wrong within the precision available in his lifetime.
Right, because none of the pro-spying folks are extremists or mentally ill...
At a minimum throw in a few public monuments.
There are *fewer* than two parties.