Results for “The Control Factor”

Liz he was the most famous visitor in Hong Kong, his passage through passport control may have reflected the acquiescence of the Hong Kong authorities to the reported request of China to be rid of Snowden by June 23rd. All we know for certain is that Hong Kong airport police did...

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connected, and by the speed and thickness of that connection. The topology of Wall Street in the 1920s, for instance, was largely defined by who happened to come to the trading floor on a given day; today it is a global landscape, influenced by news, rumors and real-time profit t...

216 12 The Engineering and Development of Ethics Once one goes beyond simplistic, childlike notions of fairness (“an eye for an eye” and so forth), applying rational justice in a purely intellectual sense is just as difficult as any other real-world logical inference problem. Et...

But Wiener failed to foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty much all technologists of the 1950s, he failed to predict the computer revolution. Computers, he thought, would eventually fall in price from hundreds of thousands of (1950s) dollars to tens of thousands...

But Wiener failed to foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty much all technologists of the 1950s, he failed to predict the computer revolution. Computers, he thought, would eventually fall in price from hundreds of thousands of (1950s) dollars to tens of thousands...

…ashington is an exception, however, and makes personal cultivation a felony unless it is done by a person registered in the state’s medical marijuana database.) Unlike state medical cannabis laws, which may restrict the form of can- nabis products available, recreational laws per...

/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....

86 starting in 1990, the State Council’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office gave $800,000 a year to SinoVision, ultimately increasing its subsidy to between $2 million and $3 million a year. Wang made this charge in a 2011 letter to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office alleging wid...

He was handcuffed to a chair, then transferred to a cell with 30 people before being released 19 hours later, at 1 am. And then, the police kept his passport for six months before he could finally leave the country. On the stand, he cried when he spoke about the ordeal. Isaacso...

…alized Terms 337 MOSES (Meta-Optimizing Semantic Evolutionary Search): An algorithm for proce- dure learning, which in the current implementation learns programs in the Combo language. MOSES is an evolutionary learning system, which differs from typical genetic programming syste...

96 control of a foreign government, not simply a foreign individual or firm. Second, the diminishing space within America’s Chinese-language media for independent voices runs counter to the goals of a liberal society seeking a diversity of perspectives. Furthermore, the PRC’s c...

/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....

…ngles than a tower easily could? — Example: Building an elongated block structure resembling a table was successful in the past, as was building a structure resembling a very flat version of a chair. Generalizing, maybe building distorted versions of furniture is good. Or maybe...

…rds and Cassell v. Dershowitz February 25, 2015 Page 4 WL 1328259, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. 2006) (“Courts have long construed the term ‘control’ as meaning more than simple ‘possession.’ 'Control has been construed broadly by the courts as the legal right, authority, or practical abili...