A society cannot function properly unless all the acts you mention are criminalized. However, there is a HUGE difference between outlawing something for such a practical reason and outlawing it to satisfy someone's moral qualms. Many people find eating meet deeply disturbing. Should we outlaw pig farms then? I don't think so, as their existance, while disturbing, does not hinder the proper functioning of society.
Part of subscribing to a moral code is realizing that its requirements are overriding.
Here is the thing about moral codes: individuals subscribe to them according to their own beliefs. The government has no business legislating them. If christians of various flavors have a problem with stem cell research, they are free to refuse treatments based on it.
Vincent was not unreasonable at all. You should not have to say "please cancel my account" a second time. The fact that he picked up the phone, looked up the AOL customer service number, dialed that number, waited for 15 minutes on hold to speak to "John", shows enough deliberation to remove all doubt that he might not know what he wants from the mind of any reasonable person.
You think the title is funny? Check out this sentence from TFA:
The suggestion of interbreeding was met with skepticism by paleontologists, who said they had trouble imagining a successful breeding between early human ancestors, which walked upright, and the chimpanzee ancestors, which walked on all fours.
The government already mandates certain safety standards for front and side impacts. Any car sold in the US must meet these standards. Do you suggest that these requirements be dropped too and left up to the market? After all, when enough people have died, the remaining ones will get the idea and stop buying the unsafe cars, right?
Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted.
This coming from a guy who made a fortune selling an operating system which is advertised as being idiot-proof.
They are free to experiment as much as they like, as long as they don't pass the cost of these experiments on to the students' parents, by raising the tuition fees. I am not too pleased with the idea of coughing up extra dough so that my son's roommate can download some crap he calls music.
From my experience, 95% of business folks do not understand even basic concepts of text formating in Word. Most documents have paragraphs indented with spaces and nonconsistent fonts for headers, titles etc. I think it's safe to say that scripting is waaaay over their heads. Probably the only use the scripting capabilities of Word are used for is the writing of viruses.
I could not agree more. Unix is to operating systems what the wheel is to transportation: it will change over time but it will not go away. It is too versatile to go extinct.
By the same token, all animals in existance today are survivors from the Jurassic age. However, I'm sure you would agree that finding a dinosaur alive and well somewhere on Earth would be slightly more significant than identifying a new species of monkeys.
The importance of this discovery resides in the fact that scientists can actually confirm or infirm things they could only hypothesize based on fossils. Going back to the dinosaur analogy, you can guess from fossils how they hunted, but if you found one alive, you would now for sure.
You are looking at the issue from the wrong perspective. Unlike a software engineer, scientists does not consider the software they write a final product. Their product is the result of the computation performed using the software. That's what brings them grant money. Thus, they would like to spend as little time as possible writing software and dedicate most of their time to interpreting those results. Since most of the numerical libraries out there are written in FORTRAN and that they are already familiar with the language, I think FORTRAN will remain their darling for a long time. It's a fact of life, not a matter of policy.
By the way, most of them use commercial compilers rather than g77, because they need the optimizing features which g77 does not provide (think parallel computing).
Pretty much everything that has to do with solving evolution equations for complex systems. Even wether forcasts require way more computing power than NASA's 96 node cluster can provide. Rocket science is not at all "rocket science".
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A society cannot function properly unless all the acts you mention are criminalized. However, there is a HUGE difference between outlawing something for such a practical reason and outlawing it to satisfy someone's moral qualms. Many people find eating meet deeply disturbing. Should we outlaw pig farms then? I don't think so, as their existance, while disturbing, does not hinder the proper functioning of society.
Part of subscribing to a moral code is realizing that its requirements are overriding.
Here is the thing about moral codes: individuals subscribe to them according to their own beliefs. The government has no business legislating them. If christians of various flavors have a problem with stem cell research, they are free to refuse treatments based on it.
Vincent was not unreasonable at all. You should not have to say "please cancel my account" a second time. The fact that he picked up the phone, looked up the AOL customer service number, dialed that number, waited for 15 minutes on hold to speak to "John", shows enough deliberation to remove all doubt that he might not know what he wants from the mind of any reasonable person.
You think the title is funny? Check out this sentence from TFA:
The suggestion of interbreeding was met with skepticism by paleontologists, who said they had trouble imagining a successful breeding between early human ancestors, which walked upright, and the chimpanzee ancestors, which walked on all fours.
I guess they need to watch more pr0n.
Most humans are not able to make informed decisions. That's why the republicrats are in power now.
The government already mandates certain safety standards for front and side impacts. Any car sold in the US must meet these standards. Do you suggest that these requirements be dropped too and left up to the market? After all, when enough people have died, the remaining ones will get the idea and stop buying the unsafe cars, right?
Informed people with enough money to back something of this magnitude are as hard to find as any other type of mythical creature.
Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. This coming from a guy who made a fortune selling an operating system which is advertised as being idiot-proof.
Unfortunately that is true for US and most countries, not just Bali.
Not if you have a valid state inspection sticker
Was that Hotel Liublianka in Moscow? I have visited many places in Europe and no hotel ever asked me to leave my pasport with them.
That' because german cars, beer, etc. are the best. I would buy them too and I am not a German. There is no need for any "buy german" ethics.
They are free to experiment as much as they like, as long as they don't pass the cost of these experiments on to the students' parents, by raising the tuition fees. I am not too pleased with the idea of coughing up extra dough so that my son's roommate can download some crap he calls music.
What I don't understand is why do they need to keep it secret. I thought patents existed to protect one's right to turn one's inventions into profit.
From my experience, 95% of business folks do not understand even basic concepts of text formating in Word. Most documents have paragraphs indented with spaces and nonconsistent fonts for headers, titles etc. I think it's safe to say that scripting is waaaay over their heads. Probably the only use the scripting capabilities of Word are used for is the writing of viruses.
You have to aknowledge their candor though:
" Because the files contain no content, they could be distributed in any way without concerns about piracy."
I guess it is perfect for sharing the kind of music they've been pushing on us lately
I could not agree more. Unix is to operating systems what the wheel is to transportation: it will change over time but it will not go away. It is too versatile to go extinct.
QNX does not have a monolithic kernel either but it is UNIX
Chemistry was based on Brute Force investigations
Maybe that's why chemistry is still a protoscience...
By the same token, all animals in existance today are survivors from the Jurassic age. However, I'm sure you would agree that finding a dinosaur alive and well somewhere on Earth would be slightly more significant than identifying a new species of monkeys.
The importance of this discovery resides in the fact that scientists can actually confirm or infirm things they could only hypothesize based on fossils. Going back to the dinosaur analogy, you can guess from fossils how they hunted, but if you found one alive, you would now for sure.
Forget Java and Python. Try LISP.
While I understand your frustration, I think you should come to terms with the fact that privacy died the day the credit card was born.
I don't mean to be obnoxious, but what does this have to do with science?
You are looking at the issue from the wrong perspective. Unlike a software engineer, scientists does not consider the software they write a final product. Their product is the result of the computation performed using the software. That's what brings them grant money. Thus, they would like to spend as little time as possible writing software and dedicate most of their time to interpreting those results. Since most of the numerical libraries out there are written in FORTRAN and that they are already familiar with the language, I think FORTRAN will remain their darling for a long time. It's a fact of life, not a matter of policy.
By the way, most of them use commercial compilers rather than g77, because they need the optimizing features which g77 does not provide (think parallel computing).
Pretty much everything that has to do with solving evolution equations for complex systems. Even wether forcasts require way more computing power than NASA's 96 node cluster can provide. Rocket science is not at all "rocket science".