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This is not homework question. What is the major ethical problem that Plato attempted to solve and what is his solution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.119.130 ( talk) 00:16, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Please, after reading the article I don't understand some points. If the security was presidential-style, why did it happen?. And another question, why does Pakistan fight terrorists with the ordinary police and not with the Army? Police officers only have an AK-47 (I guess). With respect I say that Musharraf was totally right, if it was the Elite Force of Pakistani Police... then, poor people those who are protected by them. -- 190.49.110.4 ( talk) 01:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Exactly... for example Mexico fights drug dealers with the Army in the North. -- 190.49.110.4 ( talk) 01:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The obvious answers are that some significant part of the Pakistani military is out of the control of the government, and is supportive of certain groups called terrorists. DOR (HK) ( talk) 03:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Could anyone please explain John Donne's 8th Holy Sonnet? Reproduced here (public domain):
If faithful souls be alike glorified
As angels, then my father's soul doth see,
And adds this even to full felicity,
That valiantly I hell's wide mouth o'erstride.
But if our minds to these souls be descried
By circumstances, and by signs that be
Apparent in us not immediately,
How shall my mind's white truth by them be tried?
They see idolatrous lovers weep and mourn,
And stile blasphemous conjurers to call
On Jesu's name, and pharisaical
Dissemblers feign devotion. Then turn,
O pensive soul, to God, for He knows best
Thy grief, for He put it into my breast.
Thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkleg ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
What is considered superior education, private instrument lessons with an instructor or a university performance course? Voyaging (talk) 02:47, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I am trying to find a particular book I don't know the title or author. The subject of the book is about a man who had a grocery cart in the streets of London and built it up to the largest Department Store in England. It goes from around 1900 to 1990. It tells his and his families story. It is a work of fiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandra2009 ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
What are the top ten classical music pieces (is pieces the right noun? I know I can't call them songs) that every educated person should know? With my extremely limited knowledge of this, my favorite is Beethoven's 9th symphony and some pieces that I can't identify from Mozart. Your answers will help me jumpstart my new collection of classical music. -- Emyn ned ( talk) 14:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you all! -- Emyn ned ( talk) 12:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Apparently some doctors have started asking patients to sign gag order-like agreements that prevent them from writing negative reviews about them on websites.
Leaving aside the morality of this and whether or not a doctor can actually make you sign one, if you did sign one, wouldn't you be signing away your first amendment rights? Would the contract be legal?
I know gag orders made by a court probably have different standards, but this isn't from a court, this is just a contract between two individuals.
Thanks! — Sam 63.138.152.238 ( talk) 14:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The First Amendment does not apply to private actors, only the government. Free speech only exists in the public sphere. Private individuals and/or actors can contract not to have what we regard as free speech. An example is nondisclosure agreements in lawsuit settlments. Nevertheless, I can't fathom how any court in the U.S. would enforce such a contract because it is unconsciousable. A patient seek medical treatment are not in equal bargaining positions. So I see a brake on the practice from general contract law and ethical rules governing physicians. Such agreements are adhesion contracts, typically. Take it or leave it without any negotiation. Courts may enforce such contracts but the contract is scrutizined much more closely. Personally, it infuriates me b/c patients may refrain from reviews believing in the validity of the contract. There may be circumstances where such a waiver is valid but they will be few and far between. How many consumers, though, are expertise in contract law. It has a chilling effect. 75Janice ( talk) 15:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC) 75Janice
I do not know the answer because I am not the judge, appellate judges, jury, legislalture or executive. One additional concern became clear to me reading these posts. The doctor-patient relationship is pretty sancrosanct at law. Privilege exists. Courts state that privacy rights, particularly bodily autonomy, are constitutional concerns. This tradition makes this scenario difference from trademarks and commercial contracts. The Uniform Commercial Code uses the word "unconscionable" as the cases used the same term. They are not standard form contracts when they oveturned. Something more is present. Terms that shock the human conscience and unequal baragaining positions are present. Standard form contracts are enforced everyday. Commercial and trademark cases may present unconscionability and money may be involved. When doctors ask patients to sign such forms, patients are being asked to give up autonomy regarding their bodies. The legal and political battles will be interesting. Until there is a resolution, the legal factors can be discussed but no one can know the answer in a particular case. 75Janice ( talk) 00:06, 7 March 2009 (UTC) 75Janice
During the 1970s and 1980s, one could watch quite a lot of Open University course material broadcasts on BBC1 and BBC2 (generally stuffed into early morning or late night slots). I enjoyed watching a wide range of material; even though much of it went above my head, or depended on prior or ancillary materials that I didn't have, I still got a lot of interesting value from it. It was proper undergrad material presented with full academic rigour - culture and belief in the 16th century, introduction to oceanography, non-Euclidean geometry with kipper ties and cardboard diagrams. But that stuff is all gone now, with much of the late/early slots being filled with material for high schools. What's left of OU broadcasts on BBC-TV (and listed on http://open2.net) is regular factual programming co-produced with the BBC: popular, lightweight, non-academic stuff that (I guess) has some relationship to OU courses but that is accessible and unchallenging to pretty much any BBC2/BBC4 viewer. So my question is twofold: firstly, where do OU students get proper academic OU programs now (on DVD? over the internet?); secondly, can a non-student such as myself access this programming without enrolling for, or auditing, an OU course? Thanks. 87.115.143.223 ( talk) 17:06, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Incidentally, yes, I'm aware that a lot of universities put their lectures on Youtube and the like; the OU material I'm talking about wasn't just videos of a lecturer talking in front of a whiteboard, but rather proper (well, if rather cheaply, made) documentaries about academic subjects. 87.115.143.223 ( talk) 17:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
As a student of the OU I can confirm that I get my course material in book/dvd/audio-cd form, but there is also a lot of content avaialble through the online 'studenthome' site (you need a login to get to the course materials). I'm not sure about archived stuff, but certainly current ou course material is heavily delivered through dvd based on the literally boxes full of dvds i've received over my OU studies. ny156uk ( talk) 20:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I wish someone would create a tv channel for all the OU stuff, then I'd get a channel that I'd want to watch. Currently I seldom watch tv as its all so slow and unintelligent. The top 25% of the country's ability range is a large audience. 89.241.34.62 ( talk) 20:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
They're shockingly similar. Other than that, Tenerife is a reasonably good holiday destination... god damn I'd like to go there again... I mean seriously that sort of climate is just perfect.
Which leads me on to ask... why did people ever decide to inhabit Northern Europe in the first place, anyway? The weather sucks really, really hard and the days are too short most of the year, except in summer when they're too long.-- Night of Islands ( talk) 21:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps when Northern Europe was first settled the weather was better, or perhaps it was simply a case of other places already being occupied. DOR (HK) ( talk) 09:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed in several photographs that he does appear to have this trait... not seen in Africans unless of mixed European ancestry.
Also, why does he have a moustache like Hitler?
Thanks,
-- Get 'Em Out By Friday ( talk) 23:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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This is not homework question. What is the major ethical problem that Plato attempted to solve and what is his solution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.119.130 ( talk) 00:16, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Please, after reading the article I don't understand some points. If the security was presidential-style, why did it happen?. And another question, why does Pakistan fight terrorists with the ordinary police and not with the Army? Police officers only have an AK-47 (I guess). With respect I say that Musharraf was totally right, if it was the Elite Force of Pakistani Police... then, poor people those who are protected by them. -- 190.49.110.4 ( talk) 01:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Exactly... for example Mexico fights drug dealers with the Army in the North. -- 190.49.110.4 ( talk) 01:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The obvious answers are that some significant part of the Pakistani military is out of the control of the government, and is supportive of certain groups called terrorists. DOR (HK) ( talk) 03:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Could anyone please explain John Donne's 8th Holy Sonnet? Reproduced here (public domain):
If faithful souls be alike glorified
As angels, then my father's soul doth see,
And adds this even to full felicity,
That valiantly I hell's wide mouth o'erstride.
But if our minds to these souls be descried
By circumstances, and by signs that be
Apparent in us not immediately,
How shall my mind's white truth by them be tried?
They see idolatrous lovers weep and mourn,
And stile blasphemous conjurers to call
On Jesu's name, and pharisaical
Dissemblers feign devotion. Then turn,
O pensive soul, to God, for He knows best
Thy grief, for He put it into my breast.
Thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkleg ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
What is considered superior education, private instrument lessons with an instructor or a university performance course? Voyaging (talk) 02:47, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I am trying to find a particular book I don't know the title or author. The subject of the book is about a man who had a grocery cart in the streets of London and built it up to the largest Department Store in England. It goes from around 1900 to 1990. It tells his and his families story. It is a work of fiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandra2009 ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
What are the top ten classical music pieces (is pieces the right noun? I know I can't call them songs) that every educated person should know? With my extremely limited knowledge of this, my favorite is Beethoven's 9th symphony and some pieces that I can't identify from Mozart. Your answers will help me jumpstart my new collection of classical music. -- Emyn ned ( talk) 14:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you all! -- Emyn ned ( talk) 12:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Apparently some doctors have started asking patients to sign gag order-like agreements that prevent them from writing negative reviews about them on websites.
Leaving aside the morality of this and whether or not a doctor can actually make you sign one, if you did sign one, wouldn't you be signing away your first amendment rights? Would the contract be legal?
I know gag orders made by a court probably have different standards, but this isn't from a court, this is just a contract between two individuals.
Thanks! — Sam 63.138.152.238 ( talk) 14:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The First Amendment does not apply to private actors, only the government. Free speech only exists in the public sphere. Private individuals and/or actors can contract not to have what we regard as free speech. An example is nondisclosure agreements in lawsuit settlments. Nevertheless, I can't fathom how any court in the U.S. would enforce such a contract because it is unconsciousable. A patient seek medical treatment are not in equal bargaining positions. So I see a brake on the practice from general contract law and ethical rules governing physicians. Such agreements are adhesion contracts, typically. Take it or leave it without any negotiation. Courts may enforce such contracts but the contract is scrutizined much more closely. Personally, it infuriates me b/c patients may refrain from reviews believing in the validity of the contract. There may be circumstances where such a waiver is valid but they will be few and far between. How many consumers, though, are expertise in contract law. It has a chilling effect. 75Janice ( talk) 15:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC) 75Janice
I do not know the answer because I am not the judge, appellate judges, jury, legislalture or executive. One additional concern became clear to me reading these posts. The doctor-patient relationship is pretty sancrosanct at law. Privilege exists. Courts state that privacy rights, particularly bodily autonomy, are constitutional concerns. This tradition makes this scenario difference from trademarks and commercial contracts. The Uniform Commercial Code uses the word "unconscionable" as the cases used the same term. They are not standard form contracts when they oveturned. Something more is present. Terms that shock the human conscience and unequal baragaining positions are present. Standard form contracts are enforced everyday. Commercial and trademark cases may present unconscionability and money may be involved. When doctors ask patients to sign such forms, patients are being asked to give up autonomy regarding their bodies. The legal and political battles will be interesting. Until there is a resolution, the legal factors can be discussed but no one can know the answer in a particular case. 75Janice ( talk) 00:06, 7 March 2009 (UTC) 75Janice
During the 1970s and 1980s, one could watch quite a lot of Open University course material broadcasts on BBC1 and BBC2 (generally stuffed into early morning or late night slots). I enjoyed watching a wide range of material; even though much of it went above my head, or depended on prior or ancillary materials that I didn't have, I still got a lot of interesting value from it. It was proper undergrad material presented with full academic rigour - culture and belief in the 16th century, introduction to oceanography, non-Euclidean geometry with kipper ties and cardboard diagrams. But that stuff is all gone now, with much of the late/early slots being filled with material for high schools. What's left of OU broadcasts on BBC-TV (and listed on http://open2.net) is regular factual programming co-produced with the BBC: popular, lightweight, non-academic stuff that (I guess) has some relationship to OU courses but that is accessible and unchallenging to pretty much any BBC2/BBC4 viewer. So my question is twofold: firstly, where do OU students get proper academic OU programs now (on DVD? over the internet?); secondly, can a non-student such as myself access this programming without enrolling for, or auditing, an OU course? Thanks. 87.115.143.223 ( talk) 17:06, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Incidentally, yes, I'm aware that a lot of universities put their lectures on Youtube and the like; the OU material I'm talking about wasn't just videos of a lecturer talking in front of a whiteboard, but rather proper (well, if rather cheaply, made) documentaries about academic subjects. 87.115.143.223 ( talk) 17:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
As a student of the OU I can confirm that I get my course material in book/dvd/audio-cd form, but there is also a lot of content avaialble through the online 'studenthome' site (you need a login to get to the course materials). I'm not sure about archived stuff, but certainly current ou course material is heavily delivered through dvd based on the literally boxes full of dvds i've received over my OU studies. ny156uk ( talk) 20:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I wish someone would create a tv channel for all the OU stuff, then I'd get a channel that I'd want to watch. Currently I seldom watch tv as its all so slow and unintelligent. The top 25% of the country's ability range is a large audience. 89.241.34.62 ( talk) 20:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
They're shockingly similar. Other than that, Tenerife is a reasonably good holiday destination... god damn I'd like to go there again... I mean seriously that sort of climate is just perfect.
Which leads me on to ask... why did people ever decide to inhabit Northern Europe in the first place, anyway? The weather sucks really, really hard and the days are too short most of the year, except in summer when they're too long.-- Night of Islands ( talk) 21:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps when Northern Europe was first settled the weather was better, or perhaps it was simply a case of other places already being occupied. DOR (HK) ( talk) 09:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed in several photographs that he does appear to have this trait... not seen in Africans unless of mixed European ancestry.
Also, why does he have a moustache like Hitler?
Thanks,
-- Get 'Em Out By Friday ( talk) 23:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)