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- 311: Fallacy of Personal Attack
- ... evidence that his argument is false. For example, if a convicted felon out of jail has an argument, most people will not believe him because of his prior involvement with illegal matters. By rejecting his argument only because he was in jail, a personal attack has occurred. Circumstantial personal attack is another form of the fallacy. If a person thinks that ... personal attack is tu quoque. Tu quoque is like hypocrisy. For example, who If a person who is in jail because of drug charges tell a teenager not to do drugs and the teen says "Don't tell me not to do drugs...you did!" then the fallacy of tu quoque has occurred.
- 312: Economic Espionage
- ... transactions or business relationships stealthy collection opportunities. Some of the methods of information collection listed below are most often used for legitimate purposes. Including them here is not to imply illegal activity, they are used to show as potential elements of a broader, coordinated intelligence effort(Security Online:1996:5). Classic agent recruitment is an intelligence collectors best source. This method ... that have the easiest access to companies information is the companies own employees. Employees who steal information from their companies exhibit the same motivations as the typical spie or thief, illegal or excessive use of drugs or alcohol, money problems, personal stress, and just plain greed. industrial spies will use ordinary surveillance and simple break and enter to gain access to sensitive information. Companies have ...
- 313: Computer Crime 2
- ... the rewards for robbers and muggers, while computer-controlled smart houses and cars will thwart burglars and auto thieves. Implanted bodily function monitors and chemical drips (such as "sober-up" drugs and synthesized hormones) will keep most of the sexually and physically violent offenders under control. But computer criminals--ranging in age from preteen to senior citizen--will have ample opportunities ... admired as innovators or computer whizzes. But increasingly, the "hacker" is being replaced by the menacing "cracker"--an individual or member of a group intent on using the Internet for illegal profit or terrorism. Access to the Internet has begun to expand geometrically, and technology is making the Internet even more friendly and affordable for millions of users. But foolproof protective ... dollars in unauthorized calls. In 1994, an MCI engineer was charged with selling 60,000 calling card numbers for $3 to $5 each, resulting in more than $50 million in illegal long-distance charges. In another case, when a phone company tried to institute a call-forwarding program, crackers quickly defrauded the system of more money than the company stood ...
- 314: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... as it exists must be introduced. The problem that concerns most people is offensive material such as pornography. As pointed out by Allison and Baxter, "Possible (offensive) topics are behavior (drugs, ... ), nudity, political/economic/social opinion, violence, racial/ethnic, religious, coarse language, sexual/gender orientation, [and] sexuality" (Allison and Baxter 3). Since the Internet is open to everyone, children are very ... numbers. Companies do business on the Net, and credit card numbers are stored on their servers; everyone with the necessary computer knowledge could hack in and obtain such databases for illegal purposes. To cite an instance, the most infamous computer terrorist, Kevin Mitnick, "waived extradition and is now in jail in California, charged with computer fraud and illegal use of a telephone access device. The list of allegations against him include theft of many files and documents, including twenty-thousand credit card numbers from Netcom On-Line ...
- 315: Homosexuals: A Suspect Class?
- ... of orthodox Christian beliefs. For hundreds of years homosexuality has been uniformly condemned by traditional Christian societies as immoral. On that ground, it was never contested that sodomy should remain illegal and unprotected by any legislation-- homosexuals were considered unnatural sexual deviants, and were treated as such. In recent years, however, startling new research has indicated that homosexuality is possibly inherited ... concerning the inherent character" of homosexuality. Among these "cures" have been such surgical measures as castration, hysterectomy, and vasectomy; others have included electric and chemical shock treatment, aversion therapy, and drugs. As recent as 1967, hypnosis was still being used to treat "deviant behavior." Now, in the shadow of the aforementioned studies, psychiatrists and psychologists alike are taught that they should ... do, Romer v. Evans will be overturned because Bowers v. Hardwick will stand. In other words, if homosexuals are not considered a suspect class, then their activity can be made illegal in Colorado by legislation: Therefore, it would be ridiculous to have special rights that protect criminals, and Amendment 2 will be constitutional. I am not a bigot, or a ...
- 316: Domestic Violence
- ... when the American women's movement brought up the issue while fighting for the right to vote. No state in the U.S actually passed a law making wife beating illegal until 1883. Although laws were passed to make it illegal, none were strictly enforced. Even up until the 1970's, wife beating was still fairly acceptable. The police most often would attend calls of domestic violence but would leave things ... violence case's before. More than likely during child hood. There is usually many different stressors and factors that cause these inherent or learned abusers to begin the abuse; unemployment, drugs and alcohol, different religious back rounds, low income levels, and lower education levels and simply different points of view.. None of these factors are not meant to be excuses, ...
- 317: Great Gatsby Failure Of The Am
- ... were spotted gathered around his place in what were thought to be mob meetings. He was a notorious figure linked to scandals as the 1913 World Series and the numerous drugs stores/ bootlegging shop, which afforded him the mansion of West Egg. The main character of this story, Jay Gatsby whose rags to riches history brings with him much scrutiny that ... Gatsby to show his falseness. He tried to hide his poor past to try to be accepted by the East Egg society but didn t work and his stint at illegal work costed him his credibility to ever prove his legitimacy as a businessman. The noble intentions of his heart are not buffered by his actions, which are immoral. Gatsby truly ...
- 318: Death Penalty and The Eighth Amendment
- ... alone. In one case it took 24 minutes to kill a criminal because the tube leaked and sprayed the chemicals towards the witnesses. In 1989, too weak a dosage of drugs caused Stephen McCoy to choke and heave for several minutes before he died. Hanging used to be the most common way to execute a person, but now it is only ... it makes them think about what they did and forces them to live with the consequences of their actions. The death penalty violates our constitutional rights and should be made illegal. It directly contradicts the Eighth Amendment, which forbids “cruel and unusual punishment.” If the death penalty is not “cruel and unusual punishment” then what is? Is there possibly anything more ...
- 319: Euthanasia and the Law
- ... appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, Rodriguez was not granted the right to die. Finally, on February 12, 1994, Rodriguez exercised her right to die, even though it was illegal. Rodriguez assisted by an unknown doctor and witnessed by New Democrat MP, Svend Robinson was assisted in her suicide in her home in Victoria. All people should be granted the ... recognized right to take their own lives? Most people shudder at the stories about incurably ill people leading a dragged-out vegetative existence in hospital beds, kept alive only by drugs, intravenous tubes, and respirators. It is felt by some that they do not want to become "vegetables", they would like to die with dignity. Dying with dignity means that the ...
- 320: Drinking Age
- ... a beach or a house with no adults around to say what's wrong. The people are a bunch of teens of both sexes. The environment is any kind of drugs and or alcohol. These consists of hard liquor like Vodka and Jack Daniel's. Then there is beer with the lighter stuff like wine, wine coolers, and fuzzy navel. Teens ... s the risk of diseases. All together I think it's pretty stupid to even think about changing the drinking age to 18. We already have to worry about the illegal drinkers. There will be more drinking by teens if they change the age. What's next? Changing the age to 16? Yes it makes sense that at 18 you can ...
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