I think it goes without saying that an animal is unable to give consent, therefore any sex with animals is going to be unethical.
So, if you let your farm or domestic animals reproduce, without the written consent of both age of majority* participants, that's animal abuse?
You did say, any.
*) I don't know if dog years is appropriate to mention here.
It's rare for anyone, never mind a big-time CEO, to make such frank assessment of their career in public."
That's not true, but it does reflect the media's obsession and perception of CEOs are rock stars, even using the reference to conjure the image of larger than life these people who head companies.
Frankly the truth is that business media, which is rarely actually news oriented (as in novel events and objective reporting; versus press release regurgitation), doesn't actually investigate the non-celebrity business leaders. In the present day United States they are mostly limited to privately held corporations, often of family owned businesses. In other countries the same trend is happening, though at a slower pace.
The media loves a "star" that they can gossip about, and call it news, it's cheaper and less effort than actually reading through SEC filings and quarterly statements and creating a spreadsheet. Not that many "business news" people can actually do and understand such a process.
Disclosure: I'm basing much of this on private conversations with Masters graduates of an internationally recognized university in England, and a book written by a financial / business news reporter. Sorry, I don't have the title handy.
Get training on procurement process through whatever level of government you are with (e.g. US Federal, Ontario provincial, etc.). Then you will know what purchasing options are available. The problem is that many departments and agencies have cut their procurement & supply staff, and those remaining tend to be at best amateurs in their knowledge about IT purchases, and most IT departments staff avoid dull training like procurement, and thus their purchases are done in a very ad-hoc manner, and often reflect personal bias (like only buying from Dell).
In the USA, at the federal level the government U.S. General Services Administration runs a program GSA Advantage.
In Canada the federal government Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) runs a Standing Offer Index including a specific one for microcomputers. For generic office PCs, these are starting points that are "pre-approved" purchases so you don't need to create and advertise and evaluate and have contested a RFQ (Request For Quotes), and as well the purchasers can also do LPO (local purchase offers) or RVD (Request Volume Discount) and likely other techniques I don't know of in particular if the Index is out of date, or a large volume purchase may warrant a discount.
Also learn and understand TCO - Total Cost of Ownership, that is the overall cost of the purchase (i.e. a PC in this case) including repairs / replacement components, down time due to failure - including the cost of have the employee unable to fully function at their job, plus cost in time & labour of IT staff for deployment (roll-out) including disk imaging (by vendor or IT), as well as overall satisfaction of the agency with the IT department's perceived value. This is standard IT management (CIO and below) knowledge, so talk to an intelligent IT manager for any help you need in this regard.
Unless you have scores of idle IT staff, assembling 1000 PCs is a lot of labour and time. And that's assuming you pick a hardware configuration that works, is stable, and is reliable. Most IT departments are staffed with strictly software oriented system administrators as their rank and file, with reasonably few if any computer hardware technicians and tools. And "at-home builders" experience don't cut it in a professional setting; it's a starting point for new hires, not a substitute for fully trained technicians. I'm sure that will cause flames, but I don't care, and to wit, I'm not a computer hardware technician, but I have respect for the few I have worked with, they were excellent at their job, and knew which end of the soldering iron to hold when making custom serial cables.
Anytime a record follows a person there needs to be some form of error checking involved and the ability to fix it.
And on the electronic patient medical record system I worked on a decade ago (which was roughly 20 years old then) had not only the ability to change/correct, but also keep an audit trail of any revisions, so malicious or competing edits (think Wikipedia editing wars) could at least be logged.
Why I don't doubt that some good critical thinking, and legitimate questioning come from these meta-research studies, I fear that the process is ripe for abuse, as basically being so awash in data (information overload) that given enough data you can pick and choose to fit your a priori or posteriori hypothesis.
I applaud the increased scrutiny of statistical analysis, which is truly difficult to administer on even the best designed and controlled biological and medical studies, where you have very little "total control" of the experimental subjects - damn ethics committees on testing human subjects, and using double blind testing is the best you can do to eliminate bias, yet may mask discovery of experimental flaws during the testing phase. Things go "wonky" in strange ways, for example testing a heart medication, and a freak snowstorm skews all the results because of the rise of heart attacks from the increase in shovelling. We can't legally put 1000s of humans in vats for 10-20 years to test everything, and computational models are primitive and only address what the model is designed to look for, while most medical testing focuses on the unexpected results and effects that may only appear in a small fraction of society, yet if the consequences are dire, it can kill an entire potentially life-saving product.
I fear that the "undergrad social science" approach of meta-study research will make the approach stained with a reputation of people who want to "do science", but without the messy get-your-hands-dirty that costs money (an increasingly mythical subatomic particle in most fields of science and labs around the world) and just do a PR-style re-spin (think: re-branding) of the results of multiple similar but different experiments to reach a conclusion that was not considered by the original experimenters, so whom may not include appropriate experimental controls to minimize draw incorrect conclusions from this re-interpretation of the experimental data. Of if they are really lazy (like social science elective takers), draw conclusions from a compilation of results, and not even bother looking at the original (raw or filtered) data at all. I guess I'm trying to say that there is limited latitude for re-interpreting data for anything beyond what the experiment was designed to test. It can be very useful for detecting and thwarting bad or biased experiments, but as far as I know, it cannot produce trustworthy results from bad experiments.
idiot roommate engineering a virus
To be serious for a moment (I know this can be frown upon in non-CS topics), engineering a virus is more work than modifying a bacteria. Because if you remember anything junior high biology, bacterias are man times larger than viruses, making them much easier to work with.
To wit, there is so far no known virus (size) DIYbio projects known within the communities, and the government (namely FBI) have been monitoring groups to watch for idiots asking for advice on malicious uses of host/target species (i.e. known pathogens).
You're more likely to get a STD, even if you're a uber-geek, than be harmed by a DIYbio project - of either the successfully-malicious, or the accidentally-harmful kind.
Remember that their definition of "data center" is more than a little self-serving, it can include any re-purposed office closet or "server room" in any of the tens of thousands of government offices in the thousands of government buildings.
This is more about printers, mostly colour printers I believe, but it is a related technology as far as I know.
About EURion constellation and bank notes:
if your into technical progamming / numerical stuff maybe work on the Open Source FORTRAN's as they are poor performers compared to the paid for counterparts.
If numeric computing is of interest...
Actually there are thousands of Fortran modules that scientists, engineers, and mathematicians still rely on because they are well known, organized, and trusted.
Look for local users who may have some "kludge"-works that they doing like MATLAB, an old Fortran module from NetLib, maybe a couple C or Fortran module from Numeric Recipes, all bound together with some very brittle Korn Shell scripts. That would be perfect to help refine the process into an Octave (or other Free Software alternative) script, and re-write (or quite likely simply replace) the Fortran and C modules with Octave toolboxes (or in Octave or C/C++).
And did you really read it in -62? That would make you
Being old enough to have actually read a paper based book, not just seen them cited in Wikipedia, makes you old Slashdot standards.
Nowadays you are expected to have downloaded the ebook, reading it would take too long; preferably without having paid for it.
Why would someone, who is supposed to be a data visualisation researcher, not have seen this celebrated work of his own field before he saw a knock-off cartoon?
You're either a) new to IT / Computer Science, or b) too young to have experienced a revolutionary new paradigm that matches either anything discovered at Xerox PARC Labs or in general 20-30 years ago by professionals who are now "grey beards," but commonly referred to as old fogies when they point our that even IT / Computing and Computer Science has a history.
Examples include Alohanet (vs. Wi-Fi / "wireless Internet"), time-sharing systems (vs. thin computing or virtualization), IM (vs talk / irc), CU-SeeMe (vs video IM, ChatRoulette), Jennifer Ringley (vs cam-girls), Xanadu (vs. iBooks, Google Books), and Nikola Tesla (vs. "wireless power" and numerous other things he invented, prototyped, or predicted).
You missed a requirement: easy for the students to remove by hand
I took that to mean that the kids needs a steady hand and very tiny magnetic needles to physically edit the disk sectors by hand.
I just figured it was a gym teacher stuck teaching home-ec (economics, "domestic science") class that was bored with knitting stupid hats.
It's basically a telnet GUI, right?
But with the advanced security of Javascript.
A publicly funded fire brigade? What's next? Public healthcare? You dirty socialist!
Gawd, won't somebody think of the children?
Next thing you know the government will be taking care of orphans and offering free public education.
The court dismissed that Lanham Act-based case, because Beverly Stayart had no "commercial interest" where Yahoo (and Overtune?) i.e. search engines were competitors to herself.
It did not mean that she has no commercial interest in her own name. She cannnot sue "big company X" who display unrelated (read: adult content, ED pharmaceuticals) ads paid for by third-parties.
The judge's decision was that Beverly Stayart cannot use the particular section, 43(a), of the federal Lanham Act (in regard to trademarks) to have Yahoo search engine's Safe Harbor protection drops.
See TechDirt article for a better write up.
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