Is it rational to put yourself and your own needs above the needs of others? You are opting for a yes answer to this question (and given the OP's wording, this is reasonable - weasel-wording arguments is never ideal).
On the whole, though, society works better and is more stable when individuals put others first (and no, I am not just suggesting this be done for the obvious Christian connections). Putting the group ahead of the individual achieves long term species survival. Can it be said that the individual is not to blame fully for his current economic condition? Absolutely! But this does not mean that he should rationally choose to act against what is best for the society as a whole. This is particularly true when the society has legal means in place to provide for those in economic distress. In my own city, we have recently spent over $14 million on a homeless shelter and work re-training center. This is certainly not an end-all be-all answer, but it is available to all who come to it.
And if we glassed in the whole of the sahara, we'd have enough power to blast any errant asteroids from space with giant lasers... on sharks... of course
If you are having trouble killing them, they have a fairly large root (kind of like a potato mixed with a water chestnut... and poisonous... so don't eat it) and often regrow from that.
This is where Edible Wild Plants comes in handy. It has a great amount of information on what's safe and what's not... and right from the beginning it suggests against even bothering with mushrooms (great advice, in my opinion... trained mushroom hunters still end up toast occasionally because of similar variants that are poisonous).
If I could mod you insightful, I would. From a different parent that was never responded to - the perfect business model destroys all other competition by being better than all other competition and staying that way indefinitely. If it fails to be the best, someone else will get fed up and start competing. If it becomes too strong for someone to successfully compete, that is the only time the government ever steps in - and even then, it is arguable whether "too strong" ever really occurs in this century (I am aware of previous issues and I expect it could head there eventually, but MS has a virtual monopoly and yet is still concerned about being competitive to keep Apple from having more than 8% market share --... and other OS makers from having more than 2%).
Didn't realize you could eat the leaves - I knew the shoots were ok when green... have to look up how to go about preparation (I'd hate to pick too late!)
On a more serious note, the green younger shoots are not poisonous if properly prepared. Once any part of the plant turns purple, don't try to eat them. The roots are always poisonous as are the leaves and the fruit (green at first and then purple). We had one recently in our backyard in north central Texas (not the right location where I am for a pokeweed but up it came all on its own and was over ten feet high at one point). When we finally chopped it down this past winter, the grass and alley behind our yard were stained a deep purple/red until it rained (the color, as you might expect, does not set unless you boil something in it). It looked quite a bit like we had cleaned a deer / cow / other animal in the backyard.
What about those of us who don't actually need a full computer to do our jobs. The simplicity of iWork for the ipad is sufficient for most of my needs. I haven't gotten an ipad because of the pdf annotation limitations on all currently available apps. Once someone puts that out I can ditch my computer completely (don't need to type much, mostly just read and respond with brief comments).
...which they won't because it will have to be thrown out of state court (Amazon doesn't actually have offices in NC). It will have to be taken to federal court:
Amazon is incorporated (which I assume means that it should be treated as a person under the Constitution). This means that it should simply be able to say "no" to any request from a state outside its own (office locations in other states) per Article 1, section 10 and article 3, section 2. There is probably some legal precedent involved that makes it so these don't apply here but it certainly seems to me that the above mentioned MA, NH case should also have been easily demolished.
My problem is when I turn them in, they are left in the bin... someone else comes along and grabs them... and then I have to pay the fine (It has happened before and would happen again but for turning them into the over-worked clerks directly and waiting for the beep of each book being logged in).
If you've read any of his writings, he was a slave owner because of a period understanding of necessity - he also freed his slaves at his wife's death (something Jefferson was unable to do because of a million dollar - modern conversion - debt).
Privately, however, Washington could -- and did -- lead by example. In his will, he arranged for all of the slaves he owned to be freed after the death of his wife, Martha. He also left instructions for the continued care and education of some of his former slaves, support and training for all of the children until they came of age, and continuing support for the elderly.
It is sometimes helpful not to bash people who were stuck in a system that they sought to improve with as little violence as possible (This didn't end up happening in the US, but in Britain and other European countries slavery was outlawed over time without violence).
Mount Vernon isn't the Washington estate - it is owned by a private company (they manage several historic properties - similar to the Patrimonio Nacional company in Spain and various others that own most of the royal palaces in Europe). Finding heirs to pay the "lost book fee" (I'm sure there is a maximum late fee clause somewhere) will be next to impossible and this was done only for publicity (if it came to it because of some weird public concern, the library would 'forgive' the fine... gaining more publicity).
Do I need to file a stolen property report before or after I activate my [insert device] camera remotely to see if I left it at work... or in my car...? it is MY [insert device].
Did they have the right to activate the missing device program? You bet. Should they have done so without contacting the last known party to have it first? Possibly not. This is an ethical issue rather than a legal one.
1) since the cow is going to be eating the material anyway, why not do this (there are many times of the year where having the cows remain in peak condition requires they have extra food beyond grass anyway).
2) Since the manure is actually going to be UV'ed and then bagged as fertilizer (which can be used on the grain), an entire two sections of your complaint are unnecessary.
3) Exercised cows have leaner meat and more muscle mass... this sounds like it might be worthwhile (although they are doing it for milking cows, not those used for meat).
The problem is, they were apparently 1) tracking stolen school equipment and 2) used on board hardware to help with tracking. This strikes me as genius rather than stupidity. From the actual article (not the blog),
The district has said it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because his family had not paid the $55 insurance fee and he was not authorized to take the laptop home.
The student stole the laptop. There should be no expectation for privacy from the stolen device. If someone steals my phone, I want the phone company, the police, whoever, to record the calls, to take pictures of the location, to track internet activity and check the gps of the phone. This is reasonable. As a school teacher, this is reasonable. What would be unreasonable is if this were a situation where the software were activated without this setting.
umm... maybe... But the iPad is much more similar to the itouch than the iPhone given the lack of voice capability - yes, yes, the 3G modems in the ones coming out shortly will be closer to a phone but still no voice. It would be quite reasonable to do the $10 fee thing they've done with the itouch for releases past OS 4 (charging for an update within six months would seem rather tacky, but who knows).
Perhaps 6.8ish - at least at the time of this posting.
World population clock FTW And since we could fit them all in the United States alone with roughly the same population density of Connecticut, I think we are covered in terms of living space and crops. In fact, if we went to factory farms in Asia and Africa and cleaned out the populations to live Connecticut-style, we'd be covered (~750 people / sq. mile). Since that won't ever happen, we can still comfortably fit everyone with the same population density as Tennessee (which doesn't strike me as a very urban state) using everything but Australia and Antarctica - with lots of room for farms and such on each continent (especially Australia, which I emptied with my calculator).
Could it eventually become a problem? Anything is possible. Is it a problem now? No. Should more be done to educate rapid-growth societies of potential harm? Many think so. I am in favor of reasonable education towards all ends but I don't appreciate some of the tactics taken towards some individuals. Planned Parenthood started out as a racist organization (I have no current input and do not speculate about present policies) that sought to diminish minorities and lower income groups as a form of social eugenics. Any education needs to focus on good stewardship of the resources available rather than seeking to keep one group in control over another (since Rhodesia, Rwanda and others have shown how well that works).
and then you have to wonder what everyone currently doing end runs around their ISPs filters and such via proxies is going to do... I can just see a bunch of ISPs in Europe that aren't part of the tort group offering free proxy service to Google in response to any real suit.
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Is it rational to put yourself and your own needs above the needs of others? You are opting for a yes answer to this question (and given the OP's wording, this is reasonable - weasel-wording arguments is never ideal).
On the whole, though, society works better and is more stable when individuals put others first (and no, I am not just suggesting this be done for the obvious Christian connections). Putting the group ahead of the individual achieves long term species survival. Can it be said that the individual is not to blame fully for his current economic condition? Absolutely! But this does not mean that he should rationally choose to act against what is best for the society as a whole. This is particularly true when the society has legal means in place to provide for those in economic distress. In my own city, we have recently spent over $14 million on a homeless shelter and work re-training center. This is certainly not an end-all be-all answer, but it is available to all who come to it.
And if we glassed in the whole of the sahara, we'd have enough power to blast any errant asteroids from space with giant lasers... on sharks... of course
If you are having trouble killing them, they have a fairly large root (kind of like a potato mixed with a water chestnut... and poisonous... so don't eat it) and often regrow from that.
You may have it come back the next year... Its root is pretty big and occasionally is big enough to support regrowth
This is where Edible Wild Plants comes in handy. It has a great amount of information on what's safe and what's not... and right from the beginning it suggests against even bothering with mushrooms (great advice, in my opinion... trained mushroom hunters still end up toast occasionally because of similar variants that are poisonous).
If I could mod you insightful, I would. From a different parent that was never responded to - the perfect business model destroys all other competition by being better than all other competition and staying that way indefinitely. If it fails to be the best, someone else will get fed up and start competing. If it becomes too strong for someone to successfully compete, that is the only time the government ever steps in - and even then, it is arguable whether "too strong" ever really occurs in this century (I am aware of previous issues and I expect it could head there eventually, but MS has a virtual monopoly and yet is still concerned about being competitive to keep Apple from having more than 8% market share -- ... and other OS makers from having more than 2%).
Didn't realize you could eat the leaves - I knew the shoots were ok when green ... have to look up how to go about preparation (I'd hate to pick too late!)
On a more serious note, the green younger shoots are not poisonous if properly prepared. Once any part of the plant turns purple, don't try to eat them. The roots are always poisonous as are the leaves and the fruit (green at first and then purple). We had one recently in our backyard in north central Texas (not the right location where I am for a pokeweed but up it came all on its own and was over ten feet high at one point). When we finally chopped it down this past winter, the grass and alley behind our yard were stained a deep purple/red until it rained (the color, as you might expect, does not set unless you boil something in it). It looked quite a bit like we had cleaned a deer / cow / other animal in the backyard.
fabric hemp is used in the US too... it's a different plant that doesn't have dangerous levels of THC in it.
What about those of us who don't actually need a full computer to do our jobs. The simplicity of iWork for the ipad is sufficient for most of my needs. I haven't gotten an ipad because of the pdf annotation limitations on all currently available apps. Once someone puts that out I can ditch my computer completely (don't need to type much, mostly just read and respond with brief comments).
(especially if NC wins this in court).
...which they won't because it will have to be thrown out of state court (Amazon doesn't actually have offices in NC). It will have to be taken to federal court:
Amazon is incorporated (which I assume means that it should be treated as a person under the Constitution). This means that it should simply be able to say "no" to any request from a state outside its own (office locations in other states) per Article 1, section 10 and article 3, section 2. There is probably some legal precedent involved that makes it so these don't apply here but it certainly seems to me that the above mentioned MA, NH case should also have been easily demolished.
What am I missing here?
My problem is when I turn them in, they are left in the bin... someone else comes along and grabs them... and then I have to pay the fine (It has happened before and would happen again but for turning them into the over-worked clerks directly and waiting for the beep of each book being logged in).
...umm, no White House for GW - just the second president onwards. see this for more.
It makes sense - they did invade and take over DC and parts of Virginia in the War of 1812. ;)
Privately, however, Washington could -- and did -- lead by example. In his will, he arranged for all of the slaves he owned to be freed after the death of his wife, Martha. He also left instructions for the continued care and education of some of his former slaves, support and training for all of the children until they came of age, and continuing support for the elderly.
Washington on slavery
It is sometimes helpful not to bash people who were stuck in a system that they sought to improve with as little violence as possible (This didn't end up happening in the US, but in Britain and other European countries slavery was outlawed over time without violence).
Mount Vernon isn't the Washington estate - it is owned by a private company (they manage several historic properties - similar to the Patrimonio Nacional company in Spain and various others that own most of the royal palaces in Europe). Finding heirs to pay the "lost book fee" (I'm sure there is a maximum late fee clause somewhere) will be next to impossible and this was done only for publicity (if it came to it because of some weird public concern, the library would 'forgive' the fine... gaining more publicity).
Do I need to file a stolen property report before or after I activate my [insert device] camera remotely to see if I left it at work ... or in my car...? it is MY [insert device].
Did they have the right to activate the missing device program? You bet. Should they have done so without contacting the last known party to have it first? Possibly not. This is an ethical issue rather than a legal one.
1) since the cow is going to be eating the material anyway, why not do this (there are many times of the year where having the cows remain in peak condition requires they have extra food beyond grass anyway).
2) Since the manure is actually going to be UV'ed and then bagged as fertilizer (which can be used on the grain), an entire two sections of your complaint are unnecessary.
3) Exercised cows have leaner meat and more muscle mass... this sounds like it might be worthwhile (although they are doing it for milking cows, not those used for meat).
there is an app for that - it is part of my login screen now (IfFoundPlus - originally it was even free... and might be from time to time now).
The district has said it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because his family had not paid the $55 insurance fee and he was not authorized to take the laptop home.
The student stole the laptop. There should be no expectation for privacy from the stolen device. If someone steals my phone, I want the phone company, the police, whoever, to record the calls, to take pictures of the location, to track internet activity and check the gps of the phone. This is reasonable. As a school teacher, this is reasonable. What would be unreasonable is if this were a situation where the software were activated without this setting.
I assume this is to be of aid to time travelers who are bothered by slow electronics? A quick jailbreak and you have full access to tech from 2057?
umm... maybe... But the iPad is much more similar to the itouch than the iPhone given the lack of voice capability - yes, yes, the 3G modems in the ones coming out shortly will be closer to a phone but still no voice. It would be quite reasonable to do the $10 fee thing they've done with the itouch for releases past OS 4 (charging for an update within six months would seem rather tacky, but who knows).
Perhaps 6.8ish - at least at the time of this posting. World population clock FTW And since we could fit them all in the United States alone with roughly the same population density of Connecticut, I think we are covered in terms of living space and crops. In fact, if we went to factory farms in Asia and Africa and cleaned out the populations to live Connecticut-style, we'd be covered (~750 people / sq. mile). Since that won't ever happen, we can still comfortably fit everyone with the same population density as Tennessee (which doesn't strike me as a very urban state) using everything but Australia and Antarctica - with lots of room for farms and such on each continent (especially Australia, which I emptied with my calculator).
Could it eventually become a problem? Anything is possible. Is it a problem now? No. Should more be done to educate rapid-growth societies of potential harm? Many think so. I am in favor of reasonable education towards all ends but I don't appreciate some of the tactics taken towards some individuals. Planned Parenthood started out as a racist organization (I have no current input and do not speculate about present policies) that sought to diminish minorities and lower income groups as a form of social eugenics. Any education needs to focus on good stewardship of the resources available rather than seeking to keep one group in control over another (since Rhodesia, Rwanda and others have shown how well that works).
and then you have to wonder what everyone currently doing end runs around their ISPs filters and such via proxies is going to do ... I can just see a bunch of ISPs in Europe that aren't part of the tort group offering free proxy service to Google in response to any real suit.
all current phase solar systems are... at least, if we get asteroids and other higher number elemental conglomerations from previous supernovas we do