I was once told, probably by a teacher, that 1 life is worth more than $1,000,000. But now I can't see how a single life could be worth that much, at least not in the eyes of the public. Maybe they were talking about an American life?
A sum such as $1,000,000 used for the value of a life is generally used to calculate the cost/benefit ratio of public works; for example, if a road upgrade will cost $3,000,000, 3 saved lives due to the upgrade will make the cost of the upgrade 'worth' the saved lives. In NZ, you need a cost/benefit ratio of something like 20:1 before such things go ahead; i.e. a $3,000,000 upgrade would need to save 60 lives (per year? - I'm not sure) before it would be done.
Perhaps something like this is what your teacher was talking about.
that said, i was really surprised that no significnat WMD parts have been found. I mean, 10+ years of evidence points to existance of such.. evidence presented by both parties, multiple administrations, even non-US interests. Everyone thought he had them.
No-one I know (I live outside the US) believed that there were WMD in Iraq. Some of us thought that the war was still necessary. We mostly thought that Bush (or at least some of his advisors) knew it was an excuse, and lots of Americans also knew it was an excuse, but agreed with the war anyway.
If Americans did generally believe in the WMD, when did they stop believing?
note: the only real way you're going to stop AIDS is by not having sex before marriage
Or after it, for that matter. Marriage doesn't make you immune.
Society's attitude to promiscuity has done more damage than the promiscuity itself. I'm not saying promiscuity is a good thing, I'm just saying that judging others for being human isn't your job. If anyone, that function belongs to God.
I think this track record compares pretty favourably with NASAs. I'm not saying it's better, but it's not really worse either. They learned from each of their mistakes and are continuing with the programme, and the majority of their problems have been survived - which means they have a better chance of diagnosing and fixing the problem, if the cosmonauts were able to observe it or if the craft comes back mostly intact. Obviously it's preferable that there are never any problems, but given that we're talking about fallable human beings here, mistakes will be made. This seems to be accepted by the Russian programme, which I think is a healthier attitude than the American one.
I've often wondered what NASA's workplace accident rate is compared with, say, the average construction company. I doubt that working for NASA (even as an astronaut) has the perceived risk that the popular press seems to attribute to it.
If it's chargeable to the compromised machine's user, then it must be detectable as belonging to that user. Provided the charges are being deducted in near real-time, the situation is detectable.
The hurdle of making email chargeable is the difficult one to get over (and I for one don't believe it's worth doing.)
Religion as a motivator has the one 'advantage' that the individual will sacrifice his / her life in a selfish action, in anticipation of reward in an afterlife. A nationalist or patriot may sacrifice his / her life in a slightly less selfish cause; i.e. one which will benefit his / her family / tribe / nation rather than him/herself. But I contend that there are more selfish people than unselfish people, particularly amongst those who prefer to believe that some aspect of society is 'wrong' and requires destruction.
I personally don't like the scheme of paying for emails, but that last objection can be addressed: if the user is charged for sending emails, after he or she has sent out 100 or so, his/her email credit runs out; the emails are returned, and he/she notices there's a problem - BEFORE much of the spamming run is completed.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? In other words, "some people consider spamming so heinous a crime that not even innocence constitutes an exuse."
How do you prove a negative?
Is steroid use illegal in the US? They're in pretty common use as mild painkillers in NZ.
Of course, you can't even use a cough syrup if you're in professional sports, but that's an entirely separate matter.
My first assumption would be that 'he' dropped to the ground deliberately, not through a failure of balance. The image immediately brought to mind is of trying to hide.
This illustrates the point of the ambiguity of the phrase.
Don't forget that Japanese is tonal, so English speakers don't often pickup on the subtle differences in pronunciation. But they're still there, and quite different sounding words as far as a native speaker is concerned.
The cost of sending is so low, they don't care about the undeliverable's and don't care to clean up the list. They just point the bounces and Joe Job some unlucky Joe.
Ob-knitpick: What you describe is not a Joe-Job. A false sender / reply-to address in spam is standard practice. A Joe-Job is an effort to implicate an innocent party as the sender, by making the spam advertise something belonging to that innocent party, or by appearing to advantage that innocent party in some way.
Your car analogy is flawed--the average driver has to go through a minimum of a driver's ed. course in high school, pass a written test, practice with an experienced driver for a length of time (varies by state), take a test from a state employee, and be licensed.
You forgot taking it to a mechanic every 6-12 months to have an overhaul. And simply changing the oil from time to time.
And I would argue that a car is a more simple device than a computer, if only because it has a specific task and is not general-purpose.
1. Darwin predicted, based on homologies with African apes, that human ancestors arose in Africa. That prediction has been supported by fossil evidence and genetic evidence [Ingman et al. 2000].
That is not a prediction. That is an observation made after the fact.
If Darwin knew about the fossil evidence and genetic evidence before he created his theory, then your statement would be correct. If the theory predicted them, and then he went to look for them, then it is a valid prediction. Even though the events happened before the theory was created, provided the initial observation occurred after the theory was created, it is still a prediction.
No missile or unauthorized plane would get within a mile of the place! (literally)
And this would help with external attack. It wouldn't stop a determined individual terrorist from outside, with a passable excuse for entry. It also wouldn't stop internal terrorism - is there a shortage of idiots willing to die for a cause?
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A sum such as $1,000,000 used for the value of a life is generally used to calculate the cost/benefit ratio of public works; for example, if a road upgrade will cost $3,000,000, 3 saved lives due to the upgrade will make the cost of the upgrade 'worth' the saved lives. In NZ, you need a cost/benefit ratio of something like 20:1 before such things go ahead; i.e. a $3,000,000 upgrade would need to save 60 lives (per year? - I'm not sure) before it would be done.
Perhaps something like this is what your teacher was talking about.
Why's that mod'ed funny? It's exactly what I thought when I read it, and more scary than funny.
If Americans did generally believe in the WMD, when did they stop believing?
Or have you been too subtle for me?
Maybe culturally...
Provided, of course, that they are smart enough to realise that the rights of less intelligent people are also important.
Quite true, and I agree that's a better solution. I don't know how possible it is under present SMTP.
Or after it, for that matter. Marriage doesn't make you immune.
Society's attitude to promiscuity has done more damage than the promiscuity itself. I'm not saying promiscuity is a good thing, I'm just saying that judging others for being human isn't your job. If anyone, that function belongs to God.
I think this track record compares pretty favourably with NASAs. I'm not saying it's better, but it's not really worse either. They learned from each of their mistakes and are continuing with the programme, and the majority of their problems have been survived - which means they have a better chance of diagnosing and fixing the problem, if the cosmonauts were able to observe it or if the craft comes back mostly intact.
Obviously it's preferable that there are never any problems, but given that we're talking about fallable human beings here, mistakes will be made. This seems to be accepted by the Russian programme, which I think is a healthier attitude than the American one.
I've often wondered what NASA's workplace accident rate is compared with, say, the average construction company. I doubt that working for NASA (even as an astronaut) has the perceived risk that the popular press seems to attribute to it.
If it's chargeable to the compromised machine's user, then it must be detectable as belonging to that user. Provided the charges are being deducted in near real-time, the situation is detectable.
The hurdle of making email chargeable is the difficult one to get over (and I for one don't believe it's worth doing.)
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Religion as a motivator has the one 'advantage' that the individual will sacrifice his / her life in a selfish action, in anticipation of reward in an afterlife. A nationalist or patriot may sacrifice his / her life in a slightly less selfish cause; i.e. one which will benefit his / her family / tribe / nation rather than him/herself. But I contend that there are more selfish people than unselfish people, particularly amongst those who prefer to believe that some aspect of society is 'wrong' and requires destruction.
I personally don't like the scheme of paying for emails, but that last objection can be addressed: if the user is charged for sending emails, after he or she has sent out 100 or so, his/her email credit runs out; the emails are returned, and he/she notices there's a problem - BEFORE much of the spamming run is completed.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? In other words, "some people consider spamming so heinous a crime that not even innocence constitutes an exuse."
How do you prove a negative?
Couldn't you tell the service you were temporarily in a different timezone, so you needed the call to be earlier...?
Is steroid use illegal in the US? They're in pretty common use as mild painkillers in NZ.
Of course, you can't even use a cough syrup if you're in professional sports, but that's an entirely separate matter.
...and on ./, where nobody will ever understand the reference in any case.
How successful are Tolkien's languages? And how much are they based in existing lanugages?
My first assumption would be that 'he' dropped to the ground deliberately, not through a failure of balance. The image immediately brought to mind is of trying to hide.
This illustrates the point of the ambiguity of the phrase.
Don't forget that Japanese is tonal, so English speakers don't often pickup on the subtle differences in pronunciation. But they're still there, and quite different sounding words as far as a native speaker is concerned.
Ob-knitpick: What you describe is not a Joe-Job. A false sender / reply-to address in spam is standard practice. A Joe-Job is an effort to implicate an innocent party as the sender, by making the spam advertise something belonging to that innocent party, or by appearing to advantage that innocent party in some way.
And I would argue that a car is a more simple device than a computer, if only because it has a specific task and is not general-purpose.