I think we're getting there. It is a mistake to view someone's salary as reflecting on their intrinsic value as a person, or as proportional to the gross revenue they generate for the company, or according to how hard they work. Appeals to fairness generally deal with one of these issues.
Fairness is not the issue here. It is a job market. There is a limited supply of workers with the required skills and demonstrated capability for a job, and a company will pay as little as possible to get the right employees. It has nothing to do with what human beings are worth, or any of that. How much would it cost to replace you with someone who could do the same job?
Of course, the job market works both ways. You can take the highest paying job you are qualified for. You are free to develop more skills that are in higher demand (or lower supply).
In terms of fairness, we just need to make sure that the job market is operating as a free market. The same kind of things that can be done to manipulate prices of goods in a free market can be done to manipulate salaries in a job market. Of course, this kind of manipulation can be done by employers or employees (e.g. labor unions).
Well, Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC) was certainly not a Christian, and he was opposed to abortion.
From the Hippocratic Oath:
To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.
Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
All of these examples could be blamed on sacralism (a lack of separation between church and state), rather than on religion in general. Temporal power corrupts everything, even religious institutions. Thus you have the Reformation. Also, some of the most vocal supporters of the separation of church and state were religious leaders (read the letters from the Presbyterians in Virginia concerning establishment of religion).
Even the King James Version was based on the Masoretic Text (Hebrew) for the Old Testament, and the Textus Receptus (Greek) for the New Testament. This bypassed the Latin completely (except for a portion of Revelation in the Textus Receptus that was back-translated from Latin). Granted these were not as good as the manuscripts that are available today. Modern translations are based on a huge number of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.
Even atheists and agnostics can have dogma. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here and assuming you took this misinformation on authority, and not that you know better and are intentionally being dishonest.
From the article:
The two groups affected are those who get their mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail addresses like my friend's Blackberry.
So it probably doesn't affect the majority of their users who are not doing anything fancy.
It is quite possible several people came up with similar ideas independently. Particularly if they were exposed to similar IEEE-754 hacking tricks, such as the fast log/exp.
Indeed, the North Pole was originally on the list at number 38. However, before publication, each of the report's authors mysteriously received a lump of coal in the mail. The North Pole was quickly removed from the list altogether.
Sure, but then he has to do that for every country. So he has to understand the laws in every country, keep track of any changes, and then have the logic programmed into his system.
That's part of the cost of selling a product internationally. Electronics companies spend a lot of money for compliance testing and certification for telephony, electromagnetic emessions, safety, etc. In some cases it can cost thousands of dollars and take several months to get a product cleared to sell in just one country. I'd say this guy has it easy.
Umm, The Bible was written by Christians, and Deuteronomy would have been written down by the Jews circa 70 C.E. after the destruction of the second temple. The Mosaic law was a pre-biblical oral tradition.
Huh? It was written way before that. For example, the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, or the entire Old Testament) was written between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC.
How about this one:
"To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.
Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion."
- the Hippocratic Oath
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But verify.
You prosecute the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But leave the larger felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
Fairness is not the issue here. It is a job market. There is a limited supply of workers with the required skills and demonstrated capability for a job, and a company will pay as little as possible to get the right employees. It has nothing to do with what human beings are worth, or any of that. How much would it cost to replace you with someone who could do the same job?
Of course, the job market works both ways. You can take the highest paying job you are qualified for. You are free to develop more skills that are in higher demand (or lower supply).
In terms of fairness, we just need to make sure that the job market is operating as a free market. The same kind of things that can be done to manipulate prices of goods in a free market can be done to manipulate salaries in a job market. Of course, this kind of manipulation can be done by employers or employees (e.g. labor unions).
Anyone who has ever watched a Roadrunner vs. Wyle E. Coyote cartoon knows this.
From the Hippocratic Oath: To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
The central feature of my religion is that I hopefully will get what I don't deserve when I die. I certainly don't want to get what I deserve, do you?
What, is that his maiden name?
Here, I found her for you.
I have no evidence that there is anyone who believes only what they have evidence for, or who believes everything they know nothing about.
If you'll apply the same standard to non-belief, I'm right there with you.
All of these examples could be blamed on sacralism (a lack of separation between church and state), rather than on religion in general. Temporal power corrupts everything, even religious institutions. Thus you have the Reformation. Also, some of the most vocal supporters of the separation of church and state were religious leaders (read the letters from the Presbyterians in Virginia concerning establishment of religion).
Even the King James Version was based on the Masoretic Text (Hebrew) for the Old Testament, and the Textus Receptus (Greek) for the New Testament. This bypassed the Latin completely (except for a portion of Revelation in the Textus Receptus that was back-translated from Latin). Granted these were not as good as the manuscripts that are available today. Modern translations are based on a huge number of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.
Even atheists and agnostics can have dogma. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here and assuming you took this misinformation on authority, and not that you know better and are intentionally being dishonest.
So it probably doesn't affect the majority of their users who are not doing anything fancy.
I'd be happy if they shared the data, even if they provided different interfaces.
It is quite possible several people came up with similar ideas independently. Particularly if they were exposed to similar IEEE-754 hacking tricks, such as the fast log/exp.
Indeed, the North Pole was originally on the list at number 38. However, before publication, each of the report's authors mysteriously received a lump of coal in the mail. The North Pole was quickly removed from the list altogether.
That's part of the cost of selling a product internationally. Electronics companies spend a lot of money for compliance testing and certification for telephony, electromagnetic emessions, safety, etc. In some cases it can cost thousands of dollars and take several months to get a product cleared to sell in just one country. I'd say this guy has it easy.
Oh my Ford! Of course not.
If it does, we'll just come out with some virus-eating bacteria. It's the ciiiiiiircle of liiiife!
Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, but Holst wrote The Planets in 1914-1916.
Huh? It was written way before that. For example, the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, or the entire Old Testament) was written between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC.
Beware the Ides of Pentium!
Feedom of speech also means freedom from speech.
How about this one: "To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion." - the Hippocratic Oath