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This is something else than a joke, because?
Speculation and assertion is not an argument.
If a statement is a joke is not defined whether someone finds it is funny or not, but by its intention. We don't all laught at the same jokes do we? In this case, we don't know the intention behind it, or at least our two comments didn't reveal it.
(It is so sad to see preconditioned impulsive disagreement, just because certain words are discussed from a neutral perspective)
How would you implement defined behavior without a significant (which is what an if check is at that level) overhead in this case?
The MIT license must be included in the provided software, but it isn't a part of the new license.
I don't see where do you see the support for the idea that their goal is quality articles.
FOIA is not used to obtain information contained in the seized material, but information that arose during the investigation. If for some reason, the information created in the investigation contained the actual recording from the album, then you could at least theoretically ask for that information. If not, then there was no information to ask for in the first place.
What can I ask for under the FOIA?
A FOIA request can be made for any agency record. You can also specify the format in which you wish to receive the records (for example, printed or electronic form). The FOIA does not require agencies to create new records or to conduct research, analyze data, or answer questions when responding to requests.
This must be a case of damage control [2] going haywire.
[0]:https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/677168810432946176
[1]:https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/
[2]:http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/466231/Martin-Sh...
The bias is very strong and real.
Anyway, judging from the website, I would say there are only males.
The state of the image (jpeg artifacts), was a dead giveaway that the comparison is worthless.
(I'm not pretending that this fully answers the question.)
A product should be legal, if it really does what is it advertised to do. How is this validated? That is up to the lawmakers, as long as someone handles it, unlike now.
There are cases over the world where advertising was banned with success.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5338
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1125...
This is just the first step.
And they all forget to count ghosts from microorganisms and insects.
Most scientist do not do harmful things to their subjects. Modern science requires consent. So your fallacious argument, even if it weren't, fails to argue correctly in the first place, because scientists aren't advertisers.
Facebook study was done without consent. It was harmful to their users (subjects) because it interfered with their emotions. It is immoral.
The outrage might seem ridiculous, from the perspective of an advertiser, because, as you said, they do worst things all the time, so this study is hardly appalling for them. But from the perspective of other people, it is.
I hope this gave you an insight into (our) reaction to the study.
Yes, in that case it is. Facebook is forcing us to stare in a mirror of our own mistakes and failings. We should fix them and not avoid them. Unfortunately the mirror is crooked. It only shows the apparent best features of a person, and it doesn't tell who are we supposed to compare to. There are always people who are (or appear) more successful; Facebook makes them visible to anyone as if they were the average case and not the rarity, what they really are.