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V. Other Threats to Civilian Protection
In addition to being unable to meet international humanitarian law standards, fully autonomous weapons would threaten other safeguards against civilian deaths and injuries. Two characteristics touted by proponents as making these robots superior to human soldiers—their lack of emotion and their ability to reduce military casualties—can in fact undermine civilian protection. First, delegating to machines the decision of when to fire on a target would eliminate the influence of human empathy, an important check on killing. Second, assigning combat functions to robots minimizes military casualties but risks making it easier to engage in armed conflict and shifts the burden of war onto the civilian population. Humans should therefore retain control over the choice to use deadly force. Eliminating human intervention in the choice to use deadly force could increase civilian casualties in armed conflict.
The Lack of Human Emotion
Proponents of fully autonomous weapons suggest that the absence of human emotions is a key advantage, yet they fail adequately to consider the downsides. Proponents emphasize, for example, that robots are immune from emotional factors, such as fear and rage, that can cloud judgment, distract humans from their military missions, or lead to attacks on civilians. They also note that robots can be programmed to act without concern for their own survival and thus can sacrifice themselves for a mission without reservations.[151] Such observations have some merit, and these characteristics accrue to both a robot's military utility and its humanitarian benefits.
Human emotions, however, also provide one of the best safeguards against killing civilians, and a lack of emotion can make killing easier. In training their troops to kill enemy forces, armed forces often attempt "to produce something close to a 'robot psychology,' in which what would otherwise seem horrifying acts can be carried out coldly."[152] This desensitizing process may be necessary to help soldiers carry out combat operations and cope with the horrors of war, yet it illustrates that robots are held up as the ultimate killing machines.
Whatever their military training, human soldiers retain the possibility of emotionally identifying with civilians, "an important part of the empathy that is central to compassion."[153] Robots cannot identify with humans, which means that they are unable to show compassion, a powerful check on the willingness to kill. For example, a robot in a combat zone might shoot a child pointing a gun at it, which might be a lawful response but not necessarily the most ethical one. By contrast, even if not required under the law to do so, a human soldier might remember his or her children, hold fire, and seek a more merciful solution to the situation, such as trying to capture the child or advance in a different direction. Thus militaries that generally seek to minimize civilian casualties would find it more difficult to achieve that goal if they relied on emotionless robotic warriors.
Fully autonomous weapons would conversely be perfect tools of repression for autocrats seeking to strengthen or retain power. Even the most hardened troops can eventually turn on their leader if ordered to fire on their own people. A leader who resorted to fully autonomous weapons would be free of the fear that armed forces would rebel. Robots would not identify with their victims and would have to follow orders no matter how inhumane they were.
Several commentators have expressed concern about fully autonomous weapons' lack of emotion. Calling for preservation of the role of humans in decisions to use lethal force, a US colonel who worked on the US Future Combat Systems program recognized the value of human feelings.[154] He said, "We would be morally bereft if we abrogate our responsibility to make the life-and-death decisions required on a battlefield as leaders and soldiers with human compassion and understanding."[155] Krishnan writes:
One of the greatest restraints for the cruelty in war has always been the natural inhibition of humans not to kill or hurt fellow human beings. The natural inhibition is, in fact, so strong that most people would rather die than kill somebody…. Taking away the inhibition to kill by using robots for the job could weaken the most powerful psychological and ethical restraint in war. War would be inhumanely efficient and would no longer be constrained by the natural urge of soldiers not to kill.[156]
Rather than being understood as irrational influences and obstacles to reason, emotions should instead be viewed as central to restraint in war.
Making War Easier and Shifting the Burden to Civilians
Advances in technology have enabled militaries to reduce significantly direct human involvement in fighting wars. The invention of the drone in particular has allowed the United States to conduct military operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere without fear of casualties to its own personnel. As Singer notes, "[M]ost of the focus on military robotics is to use robots as a replacement for human losses."[157] Despite this advantage, the development brings complications. The UK Ministry of Defence highlighted the urgency of more vigorous debate on the policy implications of the use of unmanned weapons to "ensure that we do not risk losing our controlling humanity and make war more likely."[158] Indeed, the gradual replacement of humans with fully autonomous weapons could make decisions to go to war easier and shift the burden of armed conflict from soldiers to civilians in battle zones.
While technological advances promising to reduce military casualties are laudable, removing humans from combat entirely could be a step too far. Warfare will inevitably result in human casualties, whether combatant or civilian. Evaluating the human cost of warfare should therefore be a calculation political leaders always make before resorting to the use of military force. Leaders might be less reluctant to go to war, however, if the threat to their own troops were decreased or eliminated. In that case, "states with roboticized forces might behave more aggressively…. [R]obotic weapons alter the political calculation for war."[159] The potential threat to the lives of enemy civilians might be devalued or even ignored in decisions about the use of force.[160]
The effect of drone warfare offers a hint of what weapons with even greater autonomy could lead to. Singer and other military experts contend that drones have already lowered the threshold for war, making it easier for political leaders to choose to use force.[161] Furthermore, the proliferation of unmanned systems, which according to Singer has a "profound effect on 'the impersonalization of battle,'"[162] may remove some of the instinctual objections to killing. Unmanned systems create both physical and emotional distance from the battlefield, which a number of scholars argue makes killing easier.[163] Indeed, some drone operators compare drone strikes to a video game because they feel emotionally detached from the act of killing.[164] As D. Keith Shurtleff, Army chaplain and ethics instructor for the Soldier Support Institute at Fort Jackson, pointed out, "[A]s war becomes safer and easier, as soldiers are removed from the horrors of war and see the enemy not as humans but as blips on a screen, there is a very real danger of losing the deterrent that such horrors provide."[165] Fully autonomous weapons raise the same concerns.
The prospect of fighting wars without military fatalities would remove one of the greatest deterrents to combat.[166] It would also shift the burden of armed conflict onto civilians in conflict zones because their lives could become more at risk than those of soldiers. Such a shift would be counter to the international community's growing concern for the protection of civilians.[167] While some advances in military technology can be credited with preventing war or saving lives, the development of fully autonomous weapons could make war more likely and lead to disproportionate civilian suffering. As a result, they should never be made available for use in the arsenals of armed forces.
[151] Ronald C. Arkin, "Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture," Technical Report GIT-GVU-07-11, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pJfQCaFIcvcJ:www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/online-publications/formalizationv35.ps.gz+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a (accessed October 4, 2012), pp. 6-7.
[152] Jonathan Glover, Humanity; A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 48.
[153] Hugo Slim, Killing Civilians: Methods, Madness and Morality in War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 34.
[154] The Future Combat Systems project was a program, budgeted for $200 billion, to modernize the U.S. Army. It "involve[d] creating a family of 14 weapons, drones, robots, sensors and hybrid-electric combat vehicles connected by a wireless network." The Washington Post described the vision behind this project as war that is "increasingly combat by mouse clicks. It's as networked as the Internet, as mobile as a cellphone, as intuitive as a video game." Alec Klein, "The Army's $200 Billion Makeover," Washington Post, December 7, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120602836.html (accessed October 4, 2012). The project, which began in 2003, was cancelled in 2009. Marjorie Censer, "The High Cost of Savings," Washington Post, May 25, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/termination-fees-could-add-up-for-government/2012/05/25/gJQASyfFqU_print.html (accessed October 4, 2012).
[155] Sharkey, "Killing Made Easy," in Lin, Abney, and Bekey, eds., Robot Ethics, p. 116.
[156] Krishnan, Killer Robots, p. 130. See also Sharkey, "Killing Made Easy," in Lin, Abney, and Bekey, eds., Robot Ethics , p. 121 ("To be humane is, by definition, to be characterized by kindness, mercy, and sympathy, or to be marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concern.").
[157] Singer, Wired for War, p. 418.
[158] UK Ministry of Defence, The UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, p. 5-9.
[159] Krishnan, Killer Robots, p. 150.
[160] Singer, "Robots at War: The New Battlefield," Wilson Quarterly, p. 48.
[161] Singer, Wired for War, p. 319. Singer notes that "people with widely divergent worldviews come together on this point."
[162] Ibid., p. 396 (quoting military historian John Keegan).
[163] See Slim, Killing Civilians, p. 218; Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, p. 160; Singer, Wired for War, p. 395.
[164] Noel Sharkey, "Saying 'No!' to Lethal Autonomous Targeting," Journal of Military Ethics, vol. 9, issue 4 (2010), p. 372.
[165] Singer, Wired for War, p. 396.
[166] Jason Borenstein, "The Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots," Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology, vol. 2, issue 1 (2008), p. 8.
[167] For examples of the growing concern for protection of civilians, see Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic, "Legal Foundations for 'Making Amends' to Civilians Harmed by Armed Conflict," February 2012, http://harvardhumanrights.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/making-amends-foundations-paper-feb-2012-final.pdf (accessed October 30, 2012), p. 2.


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Massive fire broke out in ship, while it was being dismantled at Alang ship breaking yard's plot no.82, on Saturday. Five migrant workers were burnt alive, while two critically wounded were referred to a hospital at Bhavnagar.
Crude oil tanker 'MT Union Brave' touched Alang ship breaking yard on September 1, 2012, and after getting necessary permissions from authorities concerned, it was undergoing cutting operations.
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Description: The nine sections in this atlas provide concise summaries of various basic science and clinical topics related to human biochemistry. The double-page format, with explanatory text on the left-hand page and accompanying illustrations on the right-hand page, efficiently conveys the information. The previous edition was published in 2005.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a visual overview of the entire spectrum of human biochemistry. The book is designed as a study aid and quick-access reference, and it serves exactly those purposes in a very effective manner.
Audience: Although written primarily for medical students, the book also may be useful to biological sciences undergraduates, as well as physicians looking for concise explanations of various biochemistry concepts. The two authors are well-respected biochemists with vast teaching experience with medical students, and this is reflected in their presentation of the information.
Features: This atlas provides a fairly complete overview of topics falling under the biochemistry spectrum, ranging from basic metabolism to genetics and nutrition. Basic concepts are included at the beginning of the book so novice biochemists will be equipped with the knowledge required to understand more advanced topics. This book is concise, integrated, and remains readable despite the complexity of certain subject areas. Its summary-style format makes this an ideal study aid. It is very easy to navigate: each section is color-coded and symbols (described on the front and back covers) are used consistently throughout. A sufficient amount of information is provided in the table of contents to quickly find topics of interest, and a detailed index allows for more precise identification of content. However, the best feature of this book is certainly the quality of the illustrations, which are rich in information and complement perfectly the text they support.
Assessment: Books of this format are rare. Even more so are concise books of this caliber that cover such a wide array of biochemistry-related topics. This is the perfect book for students on the go, or physicians in need of a brief refresher. Although it does not replace more detailed biochemistry textbooks, it provides sufficient information in its summaries and rich illustrations to gain a basic understanding of any topic it covers. The updated edition is certainly worthwhile as additional areas such as blood clotting and the biochemistry of fatty tissues are now covered. Overall, this book covers most topics and subject areas related to biochemistry, but it could expand upon concepts related to epigenetics (which is only briefly mentioned in the book), and include reproductive organs in the section of tissues and organs as well as meiosis in the section on growth and development.


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Diamictite (/ˈdaɪ.əmɪktaɪt/; from Greek δια (dia-): through and µεικτός (meiktós): mixed) is a type of sedimentary rock that consists of a wide range of lithified, nonsorted to poorly sorted, terrigenous sediment, i.e. sand or larger size particles that are suspended in a mud matrix. Although the term diamictite is often used for poorly sorted, lithified glacial deposits, this term is applied to this type of sedimentary rock of any origin.[1][2] This term was coined in 1960 by Flint and others as a purely descriptive term for poorly sorted sedimentary rocks that contain a wide range of particle sizes and avoids any reference to a particular origin.[3] Some Earth scientists restrict the usage of this term to poorly or non-sorted conglomerate or breccia, which consists of sparse, terrigenous gravel suspended in either a mud or sand matrix.[4] The unlithified equivalent of a diamictite is known either as a diamicton or diamict.[2][4]
Diamictites are often interpreted mistakenly as having an essentially glacial origin (see Snowball Earth), but the most common origin of diamictites is deposition by submarine mass flows like turbidites and olistostromes in tectonically active areas, and they can be produced in a wide range of other geological formation conditions. Possible origins include:[5][6]
- glacial origin
- meltwater flow deposition
- unsorted moraine glacial till
- basal melt-out
- ice rafted sediments deposited by melting icebergs or disintegrating ice sheets (dropstones)
- volcanic origin
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- lahar mass flows entering the ocean
- marine origin
- debris flow
- turbiditic olistostromes
- mixing of sediments by submarine landslides
- tectonic origin
- erosional origin
- regolith, in the form of a debris flow
- other mass wasting events
- extraterrestrial origin
- ^ Jackson, J.A., J. Mehl, and K. Neuendorf (2005) Glossary of Geology American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 800 pp. ISBN 0-922152-76-4
- ^ a b Bennett, M.R., and N.F. Glasser (2009) Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms, 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, New York. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-470-51691-1
- ^ Flint, R.F., J.E. Sanders, and J. Rodgers (1960) Diamictite, a substitute term for symmictite Geological Society of America Bulletin. 71(12):1809–1810.
- ^ a b Tucker, M.E. (2003) Sedimentary Rocks in the Field John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, New York. 244 pp. ISBN 978-0-470-85123-4
- ^ Eyles, N.; Januszczak, N. (2004). "'Zipper-rift': A tectonic model for Neoproterozoic glaciations during the breakup of Rodinia after 750 Ma". Earth-Science Reviews 65 (1-2): 1-73. (pdf 4 Mb)
- ^ Huber, H., Koeberl, C., McDonald, I., Reimold, W.U.: Geochemistry and petrology of Witwatersrand and Dwyka diamictites from South Africa: Search for an extraterrestrial component. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 65, No. 12, pp. 2007–2016, 2001. (pdf 470 Kb)
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- Deynoux, M., et al. (Editors) (2004) Earth's Glacial Record, Cambridge University Press, pp. 34–39 ISBN 0-521-54803-9


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�This is a good time of year to host this contest because it�s right after the fall colors have been at their peak, so we get a lot of great shots. Also, we�ve noticed over the years that the quality of these photos has really improved as cameras have gotten better,� said Mark Mohr, naturalist for the Johnny Appleseed Park District, which presents the annual show.
This year, participants could submit six photographs, two per category as either landscape, specific nature subject, or parks potpourri. Judging is separate for youth and adults.
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A rash of instant defaults in recently issued Federal Housing Administration mortgages is due to foul play among unscrupulous lenders, officials say. An analysis of available data by The Washington Post Sunday indicated in the past year, the number of borrowers who were unable to make more than a single payment before defaulting on their FHA-backed mortgages has nearly tripled, a rate that far outpaces the agency's overall growth in new loans. Industry experts are chalking the instant defaults up to the weak economy, poor scrutiny of prospective borrowers and mostly to the suspect actions of unscrupulous lenders looking to make a quick buck, the newspaper said.
High-profile Florida philanthropist Michael Bienes says he never suspected arrested investment guru Bernard Madoff of running an alleged scam. In an interview published Sunday in South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Bienes said he lost more than $10 million and is near bankruptcy because of money given to Madoff, who is accused by federal securities investigators of operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Asked if he ever doubted Madoff, Bienes, 72, responded, "Doubt Bernie Madoff? Doubt Bernie? No.
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Grigori Melnik joined our team recently. He's new to Microsoft so I shared some tips for effectiveness. Potentially, the most important advice I gave him was to timebox his day. If you keep time a constant (by ending your day at a certain time), it helps with a lot of things:
To start, I think it helps to carve up your day into big buckets (e.g. administration, work time, think time, connect time), and then figure out how much time you're willing to give them. If you're not getting the throughput you want, you can ask yourself:
To make the point hit home, I pointed out that without a timebox, you can easily spend all day reading mails, blogs, aliases, doing self-training, ... etc. and then wonder where your day went. Microsoft is a technical playground with lots of potential distractions for curious minds that want to grow. Using timeboxes helps strike balance. Timeboxes also help with pacing. If I only have so many hours to produce results, I'm very careful to spend my high energy hours on the right things.
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Ahem! We work to live, not live to work.
To be productive you need consistent amounts of sleep, down time, time to tend to life, etc. It's in the company's best interest that you maintain your personal life.
In my past I've had numerous times where I've stayed late for several hours only to give up to stress and fatigue and after a good night's sleep solved the problem in minutes with a refreshed mind the next day.
I agree! There has never been someone on the their death bed that wishes they had worked more.
I keep coming back to this, but I think the Scrum model definitely applies for personal time management. With Scrum, you have a fixed-time iteration for work. The key to keeping people (including yourself) happy is spending time on a prioritized list of tasks. The time always stays the same, and if a high priority task ends up taking longer, then the lowest priority tasks are cut. You could easily apply this to a given 8 hour day, where if you plan monthly, weekly, and daily, you know what you need to do and you'll get to it in order. A key is to minimize unplanned interruptions, however.
Another way to think of this model is that you buffer by scope, NOT by time. Again, the KEY is the prioritized list.
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Patterns and Practices for New Hires from J.D. Meier's Blog has really good advise on this: Whether you're
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