...28 April 2013 How to dispose of disposable income Is it possible to end world hunger by sending your disposable income to a charitable organization? Is it immoral to spend your disposable income on services and items that are not necessities? Do we really need to “shop till we drop” or is there another way? A way for the informed consumer to make responsible spending decisions instead of unrealistic forced “giving” or the equally unrealistic short sighted over spending common in today’s society. Peter Singer thinks the whole process of spending your disposable income on anything other than the necessities is an immoral act. In his article The Singer Solution to World Poverty, Mr. Singer tells us a story about Bob and his failure to save a child stuck on the railroad tracks by diverting an oncoming train. If he diverts the train it will spare the child but destroy his prized possession, a very old and valuable car. Bob does not throw the switch. Mr. Singer states “Bob’s conduct, most of us will immediately respond, was gravely wrong” (Singer 61). He goes on to say “If you still think that it was very wrong of Bob not to throw the switch that would have diverted the train and saved the child’s life, then it is hard to see how you could deny that it is also very wrong not to send money to UNICEF or Oxfam America.” (Singer 61). In making these statements Mr. Singer is telling us that our failure to freely support these charitable organizations is equivalent to not throwing the...
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...Between 1999 to 2002, WorldCom overstated its pretax income by at least $7 billion. The largest deliberate miscalculation in the history. Write down 82 billion of its reports assets. Stock value from $180 to nearly worthless Employees lost job, and worthless retirement account The bankruptcy influence 20 million retail customer. On government contracts, affect 80 million social security beneficiaries. Background Line-cost expenses are a significant cost for all long-distance carriers The LDDS started with 650 thousands, accumulated 1.5 million in debt, the company lacked the technical expertise to handle the accounts of large companies that had complex switching systems. Ebber lacked technology experience Ebber focused young firm on internal growth, acquiring small long-distance company to gain larger shares. LDDS grew rapidly through acquisitions across the American South and West and expanded internationally through acquisitions in Europe and Latin America. In 1989, LDDS became a public company through a merger with Advantage Companies, a company that was already trading on Nasdaq. By the end of 1993, LDDS was the fourth-largest long-distance carrier in the United States. After a shareholder vote in May 1995, the company officially became known as WorldCom. In 1996, WorldCom entered the local service market by purchasing MFS Communications Company, Inc., gave WorldCom a substantial international presence and a large ownership stake...
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...One thing is for certain: I love Tasti D-Lite’s tiramisu “frozen dessert. Nothing beats the feeling you get when you walk into a “Tasti D,” impulsively looking to the back to discover the two flavors of the day, and one of them just perfectly fits your mood. Every day, Tasti D offers four frozen dessert flavors. There is always Dutch Chocolate and French Vanilla, either of which is suitable as a last resort. The real points, however, are won by the other two flavors, which are chosen each day from a list of over 100 innovative flavors plastered on the wall. This lottery feature makes eating frozen dessert not only delicious, but surprising and nerve-racking! Tasti D frozen dessert is essentially frozen yogurt, but, for legal reasons presumably, cannot be referred to as such. The special formula reduces the caloric and fat content of the frozen dessert to a fraction of your everyday frozen yogurt, making eating at Tasti D not only delicious, surprising, and nerve-racking, but also healthy! And best of all, as its website proudly proclaims, it’s kosher, as well! Tasti D was started in New York about a decade ago and received instant notoriety (it’s “New York’s favorite dessert!”), and some of the original, more popular stores publish the all-important flavor schedule on a website. To me, though, that’s akin to telling sending a five year old an e-mail on Christmas Eve listing the presents he’s going to receive the next morning. I like to imagine that until the moment I step...
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...2. The Entity-Relationship Model 2. The Entity-Relationship Model This section’s goal: After completing this chapter, you should be able to explain the three phases of database design, Why are multiple phases useful? evaluate the significance of the Entity-Relationship Model (ER model) for DB design, enumerate the basic constructs of the ER model, develop ER diagrams (schemas in the ER model) for a given application, translate ER models into equivalent (as far as possible) relational models. Marc H. Scholl (DBIS, Uni KN) Information Management Winter 2007/08 48 2. The Entity-Relationship Model Introduction Database design (1) Overall goal of DBMS usage: Efficiently develop programs to support given real-world tasks. These programs need to store data persistently. To develop these programs, apply proven methods of software engineering—specialized to support data-intensive programs. Definition (Database Design) Database Design is the process of developing a database schema for a given application. DB design is a subtask of the overall software engineering effort. Marc H. Scholl (DBIS, Uni KN) Information Management Winter 2007/08 49 2. The Entity-Relationship Model Introduction Database design (2) The specification of programs and data is intertwined: The schema should contain the data needed by the programs. Programs are often easy to develop once the structure of the data to be manipulated has been specified. Data, however, is an independent...
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