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- 541: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... and building new towns on the frontier. Typically, these new towns were far away from the centers of civilization, and the only law they had was dispensed by townsfolk through the barrel of a gun. Crime existed, but could be minimized when the townspeople fought back against the criminals. Eventually, these organized townspeople developed police forces as their towns grew in size. Fewer people carried their firearms on the street, but ... criminals, they work to pass legislation that would take the guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens instead. For this reason the efforts at gun control do not address the real problem of crime. The simple definition of a criminal is someone who does not obey the law. The simple definition of a law-abiding citizen is someone who does obey the law. Therefore, if we pass laws restricting ... gun control laws affect law-abiding citizens only. By their very nature, the criminals will continue to violate these new laws, they will continue to carry their firearms, and they will find their efforts at crime much easier when they know that their victims will be unarmed. The situation is similar to that of the disarmed blacks a century ago. Innocent people are turned into victims when new laws make ...
- 542: Capital Punishment Is Ineffect
- ... Murder The United States is one of the few countries left in the world to practice the savage and immoral punishment of death. Retentionists argue that the consequence of death prevents people from committing the crime of murder. It is proven that the death penalty does not deter persons from committing murder, nor does it serve as an example of the consequences of capital crimes to society. Furthermore, it is impossible ... capital crimes are committed during times of great emotional trauma or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, when logical thinking is in no doubt absent (NCADP). In such cases, a person will commit a crime of violence regardless of the consequences. The majority of the evidence shows that the death penalty is in no way more effective in deterring murder than life imprisonment. Evidence of past use of the death penalty establishes reasonable doubt that it does not deter murder, and there is no evidence to prove otherwise. In a thorough report on the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that it is misleading to justify the use of capital punishment on such fragile and uncertain results (NCADP). Moreover, there are clinically documented cases that reveal the ...
- 543: Linux Against Microsoft Window
- ... OS/2 on the same machine.It is an advantage of linux that a user can easily compare Linux with other operating systems. Unlike Windows, Linux is a capable of runnig on large variety of computer systems.One of them is Intel Based PCs.Most of the home users prefer Intel Based PCs.So they can run Linux on their computers(Windows can only run on Intel Based PCs).Digital Alpha systems are used by the huge companies.Linux has the capability of running on the Digital Alpha systems so it can reach the advanced users.Other computer system is Macintosh Power PC that is used by graphical designers,press companies and advertising companies, can be run with Linux. The others are Sun Sparc&Sun Ultra, Amiga, 3Com Palm Pilot which are rarely ... how Linux is secure.Linux is a stable operating system that never fails like Windows.When Bill Gates presented the Windows 98, an error message appeared on the screen that says you must shutdown your computer. In Linux, there are not error messages like that. You can kill a process that is not replying with kill command.Linux has true multitasking property.It is true because it is not like ...
- 544: Economic Espionage
- ... limited to a high ranking personal in a company or organization. It is true that researchers, key business managers, and corporate executives are a good target for industrial spies, but support personal such as secretaries, computer operators, technicians, and maintenance personal are also targeted. The latter may behave the best access to competitive information, and their low pay may provide good ground for manipulation by intelligence agencies.(Security On-line: issue ... is searched for sensitive information and any useful documents are copied or simply stolen.(Security On-line: issue 1) Specialized technical operations constitutes the largest part portion of economic espionage. This type of collection includes computer intrusion, telecommunications targeting and intercept, and private-sector encryption weaknesses. Corporate telecommunications especially international telecommunications provide a highly vulnerable and lucrative source for anyone interested in obtaining trade secrets or competitive measures because they are so easily accessed and intercepted. Due to the increased use these links for computer transmission and electronic amil, intelligence collectors find telecommunications interception cost-effective. For example, foreign intelligence collectors intercept facsimile transmissions through government- owned telephone companies, and the stakes are large, approximately half of all overseas ...
- 545: Gun Control
- ... been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11,832 Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right to own guns, stating that guns are not the root of the crime problem in the United States. Gun control activists like the members of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that guns are responsible for the majority of violent crimes that take place. They wish ... for many years for the passage of the Brady Bill, which called for a mandatory waiting period for all national firearm sales. Ironically, the passage of this bill in 1993 has done nothing to reduce crime; in fact violence has risen still since the passage of the bill. This bill, which was made out to be more than it really is by its supporters, has become the prime distinction in most ... is beneficial to a civilian in the event of a robbery or intrusion, because the victim would be able to use the gun for defense. The gun control activists are right- there is too much crime in the United States. Instead of attempting to reduce the amount of firearms in circulation, this energy and money should be diverted into anti-crime applications. Many law-abiding citizens own handguns and other ...
- 546: Computer History
- ... for his father, who was a tax collector. This "digital calculating machine" worked with addittions entered by dial. Then in 1694, Gottfried Von Lebniz invented a calculating machine that could add and multiply. In 1812, computer developments had risen in Cambridge, England. Charles Babbage wanted to develop a machine that would operate the long computations to be able to operate automatically. He then devised an automatic calculating machine, which he named ... difference engine" for 10 years, but in 1833, he began to loose intrest because he had a better idea; the construction of what today would be described as a fully program controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer. He called this machine a "analytical engine". This "analytical engine"
- 547: Computers In Business
- Computers In Business In the business world today, computers and the software applications that run on them basically control a well organized business. Every major company is equipped with a computer, or network that connects through different branches throughout the firm. Computer Hardware: To keep up with the fastest technology that dominates the market is to be a sensible buyer. A system can be outdated in a matter of two years time. Software applications based on today ... has a network, their memory would range on the applications required to run the system productively. A one to three gigabyte hard drive would be most common for businesses. To keep these applications on the computer, you need a fair amount of RAM memory as well as hard disk space. An application developed in 1993, probably will be to powerful and run quite slow on a previous system that was ' ...
- 548: Crime And Punishment Psycho-An
- Psycho-Analytical Approach to Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment The essential factors of psycho-analysis that are important in a interpretation of Raskolnikov's behavior in the novel Crime and Punishment, and whose conflict results in Raskolnikov's becoming a criminal are the id, the superego, and the ego. We see that these three parts of Raskolnikovs psyche attribute to his strange behavior ... so miserable. Getting back to criminality, we see that the criminal could most likely be said to be lacking superego, and be a person ruled by the id. But this is not really the case. Crime is a symbolic expression of tensions and conflicts in the psyche of the criminal (Introduction to Criminology, 2) There is nothing but a conflict, that for the most part has resulted in a stalemate. ...
- 549: The Internet
- ... withstand partial outages (like bomb attacks) and still be able to function. From that point on, Internet developers were responding to the market pressures, and began building or developing software for every conceivable type of computer. Internet uses started out with big companies, then to the government, to the universities and so on. The World Wide Web or WWW, is an information service that is on the Internet. The WWW is ... is only getting bigger and if people don't start utilizing it's resources they could be road kill on this Information Superhighway. Hey, I'll bet in the middle of that last sentence another computer just got on-line to the Net. There are three major features of the Internet, On-line discussion groups, Universal Electronic Mail, files and software. There's about 11,000 on-line discussion groups called ... else who is on-line, anywhere in the world and in seconds. The third feature I mentioned was files and software. This in my opinion is the most impressive one. All the thousands of individual computer facilities connected to the Internet are also vast storage repositories for hundreds of thousands of software programs, information text files, video and sound clips, and other computer based resources. And their all accessible in ...
- 550: Crime And Punishment 7
- "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave..." In Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky guides his readers through the mind of an axe murderer. Believing himself to be above common law and common man, Raskolnikov proclaims himself "extraordinary." To prove to the world that he ... wants] to end it all" (526). After careful deliberation, however, Raskolnikov finally decides against suicide. He would only be escaping punishment, and his pride cannot allow that. Raskolnikov's pride is a major theme in Crime and Punishment. It if had not been for pride, he would not have felt the need to kill in the first place. The story reaches a turning point in Part VI, Chapter Five. Raskolnikov finally ... he gets past his pride and confesses. Raskolnikov is sentences to eight years in Siberia. He begins to find redemption, overcome his pride, and realizes he is not extraordinary after all. Work Cited Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Constance Garnett, New York: P F Collier and Son Company, 1917.
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