Consequently, it is not sufficient to only keep track fo the company - which would be a nigh-impossible task in itself, since companies have entire PR departments to spin tall tales, often masked as grassroot opinions - you'd need to track every individual who worked for the company since the earliest states of the development of that particular drug. If in the fall Bayer aspirin kills a bunch of schoolkids and in the spring their vaseline causes an outbreak of excema, will you ever buy the products from that company again in your lifetime? What if they were also decertified by a consumer organization that has a good track record of rating product safety?
Shooting someone in the stomach doesn't result in death with "overwhelming" propability. So, if the victim dies from that, should the shooter be let free ? Shooting dear in the forest without taking proper precautions to make sure the area is deserted carries some probability that you will hit someone in the stomach or worse. The shooter should be punished, and much harsher if someone actually dies. He should not however be executed since he didn't deliberately try to take a life.
Why on Earth should a treaseonous asshole who endangered thousands, if not millions, of people for his personal profit get away with it ? He shouldn't get away with it, he just shouldn't have been executed. Right now, it's only to the advantage of the next corrupt official to kill any witnesses and investigators or, say, kidnap their children to keep them quite. After all, they can only kill you once. Knowledge that if you don't take a life, yours will not be taken and you even likely to see sunshine again after a fair term in prison, keeps crooks from becoming murderers.
There are many steps between what he did and someone's life or health actually being harmed, the biggest being consumers blindly buying medicines from a company that has not yearned their trust. Especially american consumers buying drugs or children toys made in China, when they know full well the prevailing business ethics in that part of the world.
I have trouble with executing someone who did not know that his action would result in overwhelming probability of deaths. The company chiefs probably told him that the medicines are extensively tested internally and they are simply trying to cut through. beurocracy.
When you think of "powerful physics software", you probably mean one that gives results quickly or even in real time. Python may not be what you want for MRI image processing.
No go. Urine spray will mix with air inside the bottle as little bubbles and escape together with excess air as the bottles feels up. You are better off peeing in a balloon or at least crunching the bottle before use. The later scenario can lead to other body fluids being deposited for male crew members and female ones may need medical help to get the bottle out due to suction.
You can get a year old regular desktop for the same price and run an operating system of your choice, including Vista with Aero or hacked MacOSX. EeePC laptop has certain features unique over current or slightly older regular notebooks - weight, battery life, flash drive. I don't see how any of this matters in a desktop.
How can you believe in restricting what people can do with ideas IN THEIR HEADS then? How can you justify government interfering in a private business transaction between two individuals because a 3rd one have been artificially protected from competition. You are not much of an anarchist or a capitalist. You favor a government planned economy where certain corporations (patent holders) are favored over others in the same of supposedly social good ("promote progress of art and science"). Sadly, the current system had effects contrary to its stated purpose.
We are not arguing here weather you are obliged to take care of other people. The only question is weather you will deny them the right to take care of themselves by natural means.
Expect to pay for the land though. Stockton is cheap, as is Modexico. Say I am unemployed and homeless. Where and how long do I need to work to purchase a parcel of land sufficient for my personal survival? If not South Bay, where do you suggest I buy affordable land?
My zip code is 94404. Please let me know how long I have to walk on my legs to get to a piece of land where I can plant some potatoes in case I am laid off from my current job.
That's great if you want everybody to go back to being self sufficient farmers - unfortunately most people prefer to have a better standard of living through specialization and trade. Sure, only a minority will choose to become farmers. But by giving people the right to support themselves rather than working for the man, we are at least making sure that nobody is worth off than humans were 100000 years ago. No able bodied man will die of starvation when he has a chance to grow his own vegetables and build his own shack to keep out the elements.
Free speech... Self defense... To own property... Due process of law... Note one thing they have in common. They impose no particular burden on others. You got to be kidding. If you own all the land around me, let it lie idle and do not let me use it to save myself from starvation, you do not burden me? Am I able to exercise the right to free speech on your private property, when any place I go it is your private property?
If I have a right to have a home do I have the right to have sex? I certainly hope so. You have a right to live off the land by your own labor, hire someone to work on your field during the harvest season or have a friend help you out for free. In the same manner, you can have sex by yourself, hire a hooker or find a willing participant who joins you free of cost.
If I'm not having sex, does someone higher up owe me a hooker? Nope, she has the same rights as you. If she decided to take a piece of land and grow chickens rather than having sex for money, higher ups can not force her to change her preferred lifestyle.
Phew! Thanks god agricultural work is so profitable back here in capitalist USA. White american citizens are up in arms to keep mexicans away from lucrative farm jobs. People are moving in droves away from cities and into villages. Middle class suburbians are buying land from farmers who are using it inefficiently and improve it by growing lawns instead of potatoes. American agriculture is a pinnacle of carbon efficiency and humane animal treatment compared to the stinking Chinese!
As a human born on planet Earth, I have a right to a plot of land for sustenance and shelter, in reasonable proximity to where I was born. This should supersede property rights of the mega-rich, even if my parents bargained away the rights. At most, the land can be loaned from humanity for an exclusive use of one person for a limited time. Lets not start the same heartless trend on Moon or even try to live there until we can behave decently on Earth.
...is as irresponsible as causing living ones to go extinct, and not because of Hollywood-style disasters. We have enough problems with foreign species overwhelming the native environment. Imagine some giant squid being resurrected and proceeding to eat all the modern fish in the ocean. Or a tasmanian tiger accidentally interbreeding with a normal one and the aggressive, man-eating hybrid becoming the dominant species. Besides, who is to say that the piece of DNA integrated into a mouse is not a dangerous retrovirus.
Until we show our ability to preserve healthy ecosystems populated with naturally surviving species, we shouldn't take on any more ecological responsibility than what we are already unable to handle.
Most people have rather different expectations of equipment lifecycles than consumer desktop/laptop users in US. The expectation would be that failed OLPCs are repaired or replaced with a new OLPC rather than a radically different laptop that barely runs Windows 7 Lite and breaks half of educational software which has only been tested on XP. If people need a computer for a specific purpose, it's silly to expect them to re-learn basic OS interface every 2-3 years.
I wonder if it means Microsoft is prepared to support XP for at least another 10 years. Developing countries may be able to pay $200/laptop, but not $200/laptop/year. If a school goes with XP solution and some critical patch, such as a revision of IPV6 support, is needed, will they have to buy new laptops to run Windows 2015 or whatever?
C) schools recommends use of modified P2P software that requires others to enter a capcha before downloading from a student, to make automatic witch hunts prohibitively expensive.
So, just because I will have my day in court with RIAA and have my life's savings taken away "in reasonable time", I should consider myself living in the free society?
The original freedom to watch a movie or listen to a song is not important. However, once I grew up with an artist, it is important for for me to be able to show his/her works to my children to let them see my cultural perspective.
So, you are saying that if one can not study something through physics and chemistry, it is not worth exploring at all?
Since I can not scientifically understand the nature of my self-awareness in the first place, I have to accept its continuation after death as one possibility. Just what happens to me then seems to be such an important question that it is worth investigating through any means at my disposal - studying writings of inspired people like Jesus and Buddha, collective/genetic knowledge of humanity, dreams of dead relatives and so on. For most of human history, people relied on such unscientific sources to answer questions about harvest or illness. While they have made some spectacular mistakes, most would be worth off if they didn't look at constellations in the sky to determine when to plant crops.
If and when science uses gravitational waves extending to other dimensions to communicate with my deceased ancestors, I will certainly ask them directly about their afterlife experiences and abandon any preconceptions that I have on this subject.
Once we developed the germ theory of disease it was quite clear that the religious interpretation was wrong. When you have a bacterial infection you don't get better by not sinning or by praying or by donating money to the church - you take antibiotics. On the other hand, before we developed the germ theory of disease, one was better off not eating pork, being selective in choice of sexual partners and consuming herbs blessed by God to reduce fever. In fact, even today these lifestyle choices are likely to help you to be healthier, since antibiotics do not cure viruses, resistant bacteria are on the rise and medicine only steps in once you are already sick.
Folk 'wisdom' and folk science - or as you put it the "collective intuition of A developed by hundreds of generations of many million people" - tends to be completely wrong. In some specific cases, folk intuition has been proven wrong. However, many more ancient observations are accepted by current science without any controversy, or are expanded upon rather than refuted. In many cases, science has come a full circle to support tradition. For decades, scientists claimed that baby formula is as good as breast feeding, while it was obvious to anyone with any degree of intuition that this would not be true. Now there is scientific proof that formula fed babies are less intelligent and fall sick more. Insurance companies now accept acupuncture as mainstream treatment for pain. We really shouldn't discard persistent wisdom that survived for thousands of years without evidence. It will not be very scientific:-)
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There are many steps between what he did and someone's life or health actually being harmed, the biggest being consumers blindly buying medicines from a company that has not yearned their trust. Especially american consumers buying drugs or children toys made in China, when they know full well the prevailing business ethics in that part of the world.
I have trouble with executing someone who did not know that his action would result in overwhelming probability of deaths. The company chiefs probably told him that the medicines are extensively tested internally and they are simply trying to cut through. beurocracy.
I find this OUCH funny from someone running Vista.
Nobody can design and create a new CPU, operating system and a set of graphical dev tools in their spare time.
Maybe you underestimate the human spirit?
When you think of "powerful physics software", you probably mean one that gives results quickly or even in real time. Python may not be what you want for MRI image processing.
No go. Urine spray will mix with air inside the bottle as little bubbles and escape together with excess air as the bottles feels up. You are better off peeing in a balloon or at least crunching the bottle before use. The later scenario can lead to other body fluids being deposited for male crew members and female ones may need medical help to get the bottle out due to suction.
You can get a year old regular desktop for the same price and run an operating system of your choice, including Vista with Aero or hacked MacOSX. EeePC laptop has certain features unique over current or slightly older regular notebooks - weight, battery life, flash drive. I don't see how any of this matters in a desktop.
How can you believe in restricting what people can do with ideas IN THEIR HEADS then? How can you justify government interfering in a private business transaction between two individuals because a 3rd one have been artificially protected from competition. You are not much of an anarchist or a capitalist. You favor a government planned economy where certain corporations (patent holders) are favored over others in the same of supposedly social good ("promote progress of art and science"). Sadly, the current system had effects contrary to its stated purpose.
We are not arguing here weather you are obliged to take care of other people. The only question is weather you will deny them the right to take care of themselves by natural means.
My zip code is 94404. Please let me know how long I have to walk on my legs to get to a piece of land where I can plant some potatoes in case I am laid off from my current job.
Self defense...
To own property...
Due process of law...
Note one thing they have in common. They impose no particular burden on others. You got to be kidding. If you own all the land around me, let it lie idle and do not let me use it to save myself from starvation, you do not burden me? Am I able to exercise the right to free speech on your private property, when any place I go it is your private property?
If I'm not having sex, does someone higher up owe me a hooker? Nope, she has the same rights as you. If she decided to take a piece of land and grow chickens rather than having sex for money, higher ups can not force her to change her preferred lifestyle.
Phew! Thanks god agricultural work is so profitable back here in capitalist USA. White american citizens are up in arms to keep mexicans away from lucrative farm jobs. People are moving in droves away from cities and into villages. Middle class suburbians are buying land from farmers who are using it inefficiently and improve it by growing lawns instead of potatoes. American agriculture is a pinnacle of carbon efficiency and humane animal treatment compared to the stinking Chinese!
As a human born on planet Earth, I have a right to a plot of land for sustenance and shelter, in reasonable proximity to where I was born. This should supersede property rights of the mega-rich, even if my parents bargained away the rights. At most, the land can be loaned from humanity for an exclusive use of one person for a limited time. Lets not start the same heartless trend on Moon or even try to live there until we can behave decently on Earth.
...is as irresponsible as causing living ones to go extinct, and not because of Hollywood-style disasters. We have enough problems with foreign species overwhelming the native environment. Imagine some giant squid being resurrected and proceeding to eat all the modern fish in the ocean. Or a tasmanian tiger accidentally interbreeding with a normal one and the aggressive, man-eating hybrid becoming the dominant species. Besides, who is to say that the piece of DNA integrated into a mouse is not a dangerous retrovirus.
Until we show our ability to preserve healthy ecosystems populated with naturally surviving species, we shouldn't take on any more ecological responsibility than what we are already unable to handle.
Most people have rather different expectations of equipment lifecycles than consumer desktop/laptop users in US. The expectation would be that failed OLPCs are repaired or replaced with a new OLPC rather than a radically different laptop that barely runs Windows 7 Lite and breaks half of educational software which has only been tested on XP. If people need a computer for a specific purpose, it's silly to expect them to re-learn basic OS interface every 2-3 years.
I wonder if it means Microsoft is prepared to support XP for at least another 10 years. Developing countries may be able to pay $200/laptop, but not $200/laptop/year. If a school goes with XP solution and some critical patch, such as a revision of IPV6 support, is needed, will they have to buy new laptops to run Windows 2015 or whatever?
C) schools recommends use of modified P2P software that requires others to enter a capcha before downloading from a student, to make automatic witch hunts prohibitively expensive.
Just require a capcha to download a file. Will stop P2P police on its tracks while not posing much of an inconvenience to users.
So, just because I will have my day in court with RIAA and have my life's savings taken away "in reasonable time", I should consider myself living in the free society?
The original freedom to watch a movie or listen to a song is not important. However, once I grew up with an artist, it is important for for me to be able to show his/her works to my children to let them see my cultural perspective.
So, you are saying that if one can not study something through physics and chemistry, it is not worth exploring at all?
Since I can not scientifically understand the nature of my self-awareness in the first place, I have to accept its continuation after death as one possibility. Just what happens to me then seems to be such an important question that it is worth investigating through any means at my disposal - studying writings of inspired people like Jesus and Buddha, collective/genetic knowledge of humanity, dreams of dead relatives and so on. For most of human history, people relied on such unscientific sources to answer questions about harvest or illness. While they have made some spectacular mistakes, most would be worth off if they didn't look at constellations in the sky to determine when to plant crops.
If and when science uses gravitational waves extending to other dimensions to communicate with my deceased ancestors, I will certainly ask them directly about their afterlife experiences and abandon any preconceptions that I have on this subject.