I also expect, however, that they will not open the company to a future lawsuit in the process.
You, sir, just put your finger where it hurts most. The difference between acting ethically and acting legally is key. Everyone should know enough about the law-making process to suspect that there is quite a gap between those two, indeed a chasm. That chasm separates business from ethics in an essentially irredeemable way. And if the need arises, provided enough disposable corporate cash, legality itself can be altered to suit the shareholders' long-term interests. Or even not-so-long-term.
As a result, the phrase "business ethics" always sounds like a bad joke to my ears. That's why citizens need to get involved in law-making as much as the institutions permit, and, if needed, beyond that.
Some important information is missing from the summary. The viruses don't do the splitting. They profide a scaffold for the synthetic catalyst (iridium oxyde here) which catalyzes dissociation of water by sunlight. So this is a form of solar energy using a clever catalytic nanomaterial, not some mysterious virus-based energy as the summary makes it sound.
The real key, in my mind, is to disassociate the legal agreement of marriage with the religious ceremony of marriage. I don't see any special reason why religious marriage should be recognized as a special institution by the government. Civil marriage contracts should be required for legal purposes, and should only be potentially coincidental to religious marriage.
Well said. It happen that this is exactly how things work in France (and probably a bunch of other countries). Only civil marriage has legal value. Then, the catholic church choses to grant religious marriage only to couples who are already in a civil marriage, so catholics usually marry in two steps, civil wedding, then religious.
Please, forgive my ignorance (physics is not my field): What orbit model is going to be refined? I've always thought that planetary movements were resolved centuries ago
Sure, the physics behind planetary movements is well-known, but the zillion parameters that are at play (including the mass distribution of the objects involved) are only measured to finite precision. They are talking about refining the model by refining its parameters.
You can make that the whole Mediterranean side of Europe. Statistically, you won't find better English speakers in Italy, Spain or Greece.
Obviously, the young, educated city-dwellers are a better bet than old farmers from remote areas. My experience is that I have trouble communicating with old farmers from remote areas, regardless of the country and the language they speak.
This is correct - a nuclear missile submarine's whole purpose is to hide.
Then why do we build them? I bet it's a lot easier to hide a nonexistent submarine.
Very interesting point: that's how nuclear deterrence works. If one nation could make others believe that it had submarines hiding all over the oceans without actually building any, it would certainly be the way to go.
It's not about being or not being a nazi. The answer is none, because you can't. Once the students take the laptops home, the amount of control you have over the machine is zilch, period.
Well, go to India and see how little truth there is to this. Real Indians speak English. Of course, they also speak Marathi or Kannada or Tamil or Bengali and so on, but the lingua franca is English, not Hindi.
Speaking of Gentoo, it has the ability to parallel execution of initscripts.
Dear AC, I can't do much but urge you to have a look at TFA... it does mention parallel init, although the optimizations it describes came after parallel init was implemented.
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How is a mock cyberwar different from a DDoS simulation from the outside and other points, combined with a thorough penetration test?
Don't tell me. It's been a while since I was treated to one of those...
I also expect, however, that they will not open the company to a future lawsuit in the process.
You, sir, just put your finger where it hurts most. The difference between acting ethically and acting legally is key. Everyone should know enough about the law-making process to suspect that there is quite a gap between those two, indeed a chasm. That chasm separates business from ethics in an essentially irredeemable way. And if the need arises, provided enough disposable corporate cash, legality itself can be altered to suit the shareholders' long-term interests. Or even not-so-long-term.
As a result, the phrase "business ethics" always sounds like a bad joke to my ears. That's why citizens need to get involved in law-making as much as the institutions permit, and, if needed, beyond that.
My favorite has always been "There's 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary, those who don't and those who use zero-based indices."
That is incorrect. In binary, even using zero-based indices, that would still be 11 kinds of people, respectively numbered 0, 1 and 10.
I've never heard something like this, is it half alive?
They mean a virus that typically infects bacteria.
Apparently, the viruses will have to clean up the mess as well. Title of the TFA: MIT researchers harness viruses to spilt water.
Some important information is missing from the summary. The viruses don't do the splitting. They profide a scaffold for the synthetic catalyst (iridium oxyde here) which catalyzes dissociation of water by sunlight. So this is a form of solar energy using a clever catalytic nanomaterial, not some mysterious virus-based energy as the summary makes it sound.
Parent has it exactly right. The title is the answer to a non-question - instead, a possible title would have been "Ubuntu is not a democracy".
So let's say again for everyone out there who has not yet noticed: Open Source != Ubuntu
The real key, in my mind, is to disassociate the legal agreement of marriage with the religious ceremony of marriage. I don't see any special reason why religious marriage should be recognized as a special institution by the government. Civil marriage contracts should be required for legal purposes, and should only be potentially coincidental to religious marriage.
Well said. It happen that this is exactly how things work in France (and probably a bunch of other countries). Only civil marriage has legal value. Then, the catholic church choses to grant religious marriage only to couples who are already in a civil marriage, so catholics usually marry in two steps, civil wedding, then religious.
I thought pure water doesn't go solid, not until an impurity starts crystal formation that turns the water into a solid?
In many cases, the surface of the container has defects which can play that role.
Now excuse me, for I must send this package via gyrocopter to the Prussian Embassy in Siam.
If you can reach the Prussian embassy by gyrocopter, then you're probably in Siam already. Oh, wait...
Please, forgive my ignorance (physics is not my field): What orbit model is going to be refined? I've always thought that planetary movements were resolved centuries ago
Sure, the physics behind planetary movements is well-known, but the zillion parameters that are at play (including the mass distribution of the objects involved) are only measured to finite precision. They are talking about refining the model by refining its parameters.
If people only developed these cracks for their own use then Microsoft would bother trying to stop them.
If they did bother, I suppose they could stop them. Although of course I could care less.
[hint: in English, "not" doing something is the opposite of doing it, it's a useful word]
It's pronounced 'Mandreeva', you insensitive clod!
I used it before ubuntu, (2005/6) and found it a bit chunky. Is it still chunky?
No, I always get the smooth one.
Anyway, what other gasses do we have to do the same job(s)?
We can always replace gaseous anesthetics with injectable ones, like propofol. Heard of that one?
Also here in America French is not a language that is regularly spoken.
I second this. The French I hear spoken here is highly irregular.
You can make that the whole Mediterranean side of Europe. Statistically, you won't find better English speakers in Italy, Spain or Greece.
Obviously, the young, educated city-dwellers are a better bet than old farmers from remote areas. My experience is that I have trouble communicating with old farmers from remote areas, regardless of the country and the language they speak.
I live in the US and have looked at migrating to another country. Of course one that speaks english.
Why "of course"? Are you incapable of learning another language?
What part of "I live in the US" do you not understand?
This is correct - a nuclear missile submarine's whole purpose is to hide.
Then why do we build them? I bet it's a lot easier to hide a nonexistent submarine.
Very interesting point: that's how nuclear deterrence works. If one nation could make others believe that it had submarines hiding all over the oceans without actually building any, it would certainly be the way to go.
The New World took centuries to populate to a degree that had any meaning
And just before that, it only took about one century to depopulate.
It's not about being or not being a nazi. The answer is none, because you can't. Once the students take the laptops home, the amount of control you have over the machine is zilch, period.
Well, go to India and see how little truth there is to this. Real Indians speak English. Of course, they also speak Marathi or Kannada or Tamil or Bengali and so on, but the lingua franca is English, not Hindi.
If anything, parent is plain insightful. Can someone please get the moderation right on this?
In other words, forty million Frenchmen CAN be wrong.
Fortunately, this doesn't apply anymore, since there's more of them. Sixty-five million Frenchmen really can't be wrong!
Speaking of Gentoo, it has the ability to parallel execution of initscripts.
Dear AC, I can't do much but urge you to have a look at TFA... it does mention parallel init, although the optimizations it describes came after parallel init was implemented.