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Software Licensing And Piracy
3739 Words - 14 Pages.... or business to purchase a single set of original
software and then load that software onto more than one computer, or lend,
copy or distribute software for any reason without the prior written
consent of the software manufacturer. Many software managers are concerned
with the legal compliance, along with asset management and costs at their
organizations. Many firms involve their legal departments and human
resources in regards to software distribution and licensing.
Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law
and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, pursuant to
Constitutional grant of legislative authority. In order for the gover ....
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Freedom Of Speech: Censorship On The Internet
2186 Words - 8 Pages.... pictures. Towson State has also included a warning on their home page that there may be pornographic material on the Internet. Pornographic material is not the only material to be found on the net which can raise questions of censorship and control: discussion of racial, political, religious and sexual topics all run the risk of offending someone, somewhere, leading to demands for control of the Internet. The question of censorship may also be raised in some unexpected places: one newsgroup is the rec.humor list, which is a collection of jokes submitted to subscribers. There are straightforwardly rude jokes but others are politically incorrect, focusing on sexual stere ....
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Put The Death Penalty To Death
982 Words - 4 Pages.... ultimate goal of society, but the death of an innocent man, the cost of appeals, and the ineffectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent are clearly more significant than the possible benefits of the death penalty.
The first and most heart-rending factor against the death penalty is the possibility of an innocent death. Cantu, an online source, says it best; " the death penalty is irrevocable. In case of a mistake, the executed prisoner cannot be given another chance. A prisoner discovered to be blameless can be freed: but neither release nor compensation is possible for a corpse" (1). How can anyone be so inhumane that they, the jury, take someone else's life into ....
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The Drug War In America
1926 Words - 8 Pages.... year for the last five years. The projected budget for 2000 is $17.88 billion, a 4.3% increase over the 1999 budget. (www. White house).
To better understand the present day drug war in America one should look at the history of the drug war. The first anti narcotic law ever passed in the United States was the San Francisco opium ordinance of 1875 (Gray, 46). Now that the railroads were finish the Chinamen, who had come to America to build the railroads, were a glut on the labor market so in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal ....
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Marijuana
579 Words - 3 Pages.... includes good ol' George Washington. Archeologists believe
that cannabis was possibly the first plant farmed by humans.
Many people think that marijuana is addictive, but this is false.
Marijuana is less habit forming than either sugar or chocolate. When users take
marijuana, it doesn't lead to violence-related crimes. Most users commit crime
because they want to get marijuana, but this problem can be easily solved if the
government would legalize marijuana again. When you take marijuana, it doesn't
make you violent, in fact it leads to non-violence.
There has never been a case that a person died from smoking marijuana.
THC is one of the few chemicals that has no kno ....
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Capital Punishment: Does The End Justify The Means?
1487 Words - 6 Pages.... decade. Indeed, recent public
opinion polls show a wide margin of support for the death penalty. But human
rights advocates continue to decry the immorality of state-sanctioned killing in
the U.S., the only western industrialized country that continues to use the
death penalty. Is capital punishment moral?
Capital punishment is often defended on the grounds by the government,
that society has a moral obligation to protect the safety and the welfare of its
citizens. Murderers threaten this safety and welfare. Only by putting murderers
to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again.
Second, those favoring capital punishment contend that society shoul ....
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What Is Our World Coming To: Rising Crime In US
295 Words - 2 Pages.... one Arizona day. All of this happens in a period of twenty-four
hours.
According to the DPS (Department of Public Safety) reports crime is
down 3.8% in 1991. That sounds great but then you hear that rapes have
increased 6.5% , in 1991, you don't think that we are improving so much.
This report was compiled from ninety-three different Arizona police
agencies. Of all the crime rape showed the largest increase. Last year in
Arizona, there were 1,568 reported rapes compared to 1,472 in 1990. There
was 289 slayings last year, in Maricopa county, while there were only 277
the year before that. An increase of 3.6%. Phoenix alone had 151 of those
slayings la ....
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Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
1036 Words - 4 Pages.... like to talk about the
effects that early age drinking can have on a person. I grew up in a town that
has the most bars per capata in the state of Montana and is in the top ten in
the United States. This has a huge effect on under age drinkers. The bars card
at the door and as long as your 18 your in. And since the bouncers will stamp
nearly anyone they know or like the number of kids is always high. It dosn't
help that Dillon is a college town and ther are many under age college kids
there. Now lets imagine another party where kids are drinking.
The bonfire is roaring, Bubba just decided that singeing everyone's
eyebrows off by throwing some gasoline on the fi ....
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