Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...type the novel describes. "Not only is it thoroughly possible," says Charles Lecht, chairman of Lecht Sciences Inc., a New York City software company, "but I know of several instances where it has been done." Some U.S. software houses routinely encode secret time-delay functions in the logic of their largest commercial programs before sending them to prospective clients for preview. For example, such a program might be set to self-destruct if it is run more than ten times in a row. An unscrupulous client who tries to make repeated use of the program without paying for it will...
...foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted a veteran China hand in the British Foreign Office, "the rational argument of the need for hard currency would go out the window. Zealots don't care about logic...
...introduced; every afternoon, presidential assistants feed these creatures raw meat and a live chicken. Why? Naipaul wonders over and over again. His informants cannot enlighten him. But he seems to learn something from them all the same. Black Africa does not operate according to rules that will submit to logic. Naipaul is appalled by the dirt and degradation he observes, as any foreign tourist might be, but he also senses, well beneath the chaotic surface, "a beautifully organized society." Coming from someone else, this perception might seem dopey or romantic. Naipaul's authority, which this book reinforces, makes...
...this is perfect nonsense. By Kennedy's logic, the church may legitimately try to influence the state on off-shore drilling, national park policy and collective school prayer (all "inherently public in nature") and not on help for the poor, racial discrimination or even murder (where "the church can persuade the individual"). To argue that the more collective the issue is, the more right the church has to try to influence public policy, is absurd. If anything, the reverse is true. Such attempts to justify a double standard give sophistry a bad name. Why not admit the obvious? That...
...hold your breath. Examining the logic behind the two decisions shows that the final clubs are far from sue-ability...