If Kirtsaeng wins, then companies like John Wiley & Sons will raise its prices abroad or close their overseas subsidiaries altogether. This means the only access that people in poorer countries will have to American books, drugs, movies will be cheaper counterfeits. I don't really have a problem with that.
You know, PETA has both crazy marketing and sane marketing. I'd say there's more sane stuff than crazy stuff. It's just that only the crazy stuff will get picked up by the news. That being the case, it's the news that drives PETA to use such marketing.
If you steal money, you can be ordered to pay restitution. (Granted, I doubt Baxter will be able to pay that kind of fine.) If you kill someone, you can't unkill them.
The applicants were artificial, so they could have been chosen to be typically male or female names. Usually, the long form of a person's name is not very ambiguous -- Alex could be male or female, but Alexander is usually male.
You can specify a limited number of pledge rewards available. Granted, not everyone does this... clearly it's a problem if some guy gets more orders than he's capable of filling.
Us humans are really good at arguing any side of a debate. Call it being the devil's advocate. I don't think many people actually reversed their opinion on something, they just defended what they thought was their mistake because they didn't want to give the impression that they were an idiot who read the survey wrong.
Why is duplicating effort the right thing to do? You still aren't helping JSTOR pay its bills if you scan the damn thing yourself. It's just a waste of effort.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637 From what I can tell in the first graph, the results are pretty sketchy. There are just 10 male rats and 10 female rats per group. There are 10 groups with different levels of exposure, but the margin of error seems pretty large. I'm no expert in statistics, but the male control group has 3 deaths before 600 days (out of 10 rats), so +- 2 deaths is statistically insignificant. The 33% GMO male group has less mortality than the control, while the 11% GMO group has much more. That sounds like a fluke to me.
It's too damned hard to succeed as a scientist. These men and women are already the best of the best, and they've chosen a field where you need to be the best of the best of the best to succeed. They've already gone through trials to get where they are, but it's still not enough to guarantee a permanent position or a decent wage. There's so much pressure and the competition for tenure is so tough. How is one supposed to distinguish oneself when everyone is a genius and a workaholic? It's true that competition can sometimes bring out the best in people, but at some point, people are just going to say, "I'm fed up with this game and I'm not playing anymore," and switch to a more lucrative job in the finance industry or a simpler cozy job which gives them time to spend with their family.
So, you are supposed to support whatever country you are born in out of loyalty to your nation? I don't deny the concept of treason has usefulness in maintaining order, but it has nothing to do with right and wrong.
One of the difficulties of implantable cyberware is supplying power to the devices. There are ways of harnessing energy from glucose within the body, but these are limited to something like microwatts. If "Almost Zero" means less than a few microwatts, then maybe we can start seeing some implanted computers for medical purposes.
Although I'm working on fusion, I hope that my work will be obsolete before it even gets going, because we'll have plenty of wind or solar power to go around. I think of fusion as a backup plan.
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If Kirtsaeng wins, then companies like John Wiley & Sons will raise its prices abroad or close their overseas subsidiaries altogether. This means the only access that people in poorer countries will have to American books, drugs, movies will be cheaper counterfeits. I don't really have a problem with that.
You know, PETA has both crazy marketing and sane marketing. I'd say there's more sane stuff than crazy stuff. It's just that only the crazy stuff will get picked up by the news. That being the case, it's the news that drives PETA to use such marketing.
It sounds stupid because you don't hear about the guy who got away with it.
If you steal money, you can be ordered to pay restitution. (Granted, I doubt Baxter will be able to pay that kind of fine.) If you kill someone, you can't unkill them.
Or at least try to cover the sun with your hand as a makeshift lens hood, unless you do want that purple flare.
The opinion method seems to be much more robust against statistical attack. What's the opinion method? It's clearly demonstrated in the US Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v96Y8r2UPic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_ylYNbAlY
P.S. Detecting fraud is easy enough. Making a difference is much more difficult.
The study in question doesn't involve demanding salaries, I think.
The applicants were artificial, so they could have been chosen to be typically male or female names. Usually, the long form of a person's name is not very ambiguous -- Alex could be male or female, but Alexander is usually male.
This study should not be affected by that.
How can it cost 100K to tweak the oxygen flow to a mask?
just as tasty
{{citation needed}}
You can specify a limited number of pledge rewards available. Granted, not everyone does this... clearly it's a problem if some guy gets more orders than he's capable of filling.
Why use USB when you have microSD?
You might save one person that way, but one of the goals of jury nullification is to incite a change in the laws.
Us humans are really good at arguing any side of a debate. Call it being the devil's advocate. I don't think many people actually reversed their opinion on something, they just defended what they thought was their mistake because they didn't want to give the impression that they were an idiot who read the survey wrong.
Why is duplicating effort the right thing to do? You still aren't helping JSTOR pay its bills if you scan the damn thing yourself. It's just a waste of effort.
It has been established (in USA at least), that creativity, not "Sweat of the Brow", is the determining factor for whether a work is copyrightable.
http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
As for taking other people's hard work, I give you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service
Scans of public domain articles are NOT creative work and are NOT protected by copyright.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637
From what I can tell in the first graph, the results are pretty sketchy. There are just 10 male rats and 10 female rats per group. There are 10 groups with different levels of exposure, but the margin of error seems pretty large. I'm no expert in statistics, but the male control group has 3 deaths before 600 days (out of 10 rats), so +- 2 deaths is statistically insignificant. The 33% GMO male group has less mortality than the control, while the 11% GMO group has much more. That sounds like a fluke to me.
Price is artificial.
It's not the blood loss that kills, it's the loss of oxygen and nutrients to your body tissues.
It's too damned hard to succeed as a scientist. These men and women are already the best of the best, and they've chosen a field where you need to be the best of the best of the best to succeed. They've already gone through trials to get where they are, but it's still not enough to guarantee a permanent position or a decent wage. There's so much pressure and the competition for tenure is so tough. How is one supposed to distinguish oneself when everyone is a genius and a workaholic? It's true that competition can sometimes bring out the best in people, but at some point, people are just going to say, "I'm fed up with this game and I'm not playing anymore," and switch to a more lucrative job in the finance industry or a simpler cozy job which gives them time to spend with their family.
So, you are supposed to support whatever country you are born in out of loyalty to your nation? I don't deny the concept of treason has usefulness in maintaining order, but it has nothing to do with right and wrong.
If the story is good, who cares who submitted it? I don't perceive much partisan fluff in the summary.
One of the difficulties of implantable cyberware is supplying power to the devices. There are ways of harnessing energy from glucose within the body, but these are limited to something like microwatts. If "Almost Zero" means less than a few microwatts, then maybe we can start seeing some implanted computers for medical purposes.
Although I'm working on fusion, I hope that my work will be obsolete before it even gets going, because we'll have plenty of wind or solar power to go around. I think of fusion as a backup plan.