Checkpoint Week 8 John McManamon IRN: 9048277815 IT/205 4/16/2014 John Gosney 1. How important is the reservation system at airlines such as WestJet and JetBlue? How does it impact operational activities and decision making? As an employee of an oil company‚ I am keenly aware that the price of gulf coast kerosene (jet fuel) is almost $3.00 per gallon. With an estimated 30‚000 flights per day in the US alone‚ there is a tremendous amount of money spent by planes idling at the gate‚ or on
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1) The Sony (sic) Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 granted individuals copyright protection for their life plus 70 years. Do you believe that a period this long is necessary to encourage the production of creative work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a longer copyright validity period? Before we can address copyright extension law we must first understand what a copyright is. A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work‚
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Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights‚ such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work‚ or to make derivative works that build upon it. For electronic and audio-visual media‚ unauthorized reproduction and distribution is often referred to as piracy (however there is no legal basis for this and indeed in one US copyright lawsuit the judge ordered the plaintiff’s legal team to stop
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Miguel Flores Checkpoint: Business Organization A sole proprietorship is a business that is owned by one person only. That one person is the sole owner and makes all decisions on their own. Most sole proprietorships are small business likes restaurants‚ markets‚ and liquor stores. The owner must have knowledgeable business experience or else his business will not be profitable. Most of this shops end up closing up after a couple of years because the sole owner must take in all the losses
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Checkpoint: Relationship characteristics Choose one close relationship in your life; it does not have to be a romantic love relationship. Post a 200- to 300-word response describing the defining characteristics of this close relationship. Use the information presented in Ch. 11 to formulate your response. I have chose to discuss my relationship with my husband of 2 years; we have been together a total of 6 years. We have experienced a wide variety of emotions and situations together
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Checkpoint: Effects of Religion Muslim family rise in Malaysia‚ perform their purifying ablutions‚ spread their prayer rugs facing Mecca‚ and begin their prostrations and prayers to Allah. French cathedral‚ worshippers line up for their turn to have a priest place a wafer on their tongue‚ murmuring‚ “this is the body of Christ.” South Indian village‚ a group of women reverently anoint a cylindrical stone with milk and frangrant sandalwood paste and place around it offerings of
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computer ethics are questions of copyright and privacy‚ all of which are discussion in detail in the following sections. Other problem exists as well‚ such as censorship‚ computer crime. Within the following content will include: 1¡ Intellectual property has become more commonplace in the context of computer ethics during the past few years. Giving you what exactly does it refer to? And it encompasses creations of the human intellect and their protection‚usually by copyright. 2¡ Introduce the intersection
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of the attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading as presented in texts 1 and 3. Texts 1 and 3 represent two opposing attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading in today’s technologic world. In text 1‚ “It’s Evolution‚ Stupid”‚ by co-founder of The Pirate Bay‚ Peter Sunde‚ Sunde displays his growing dissatisfaction with the current copyright law. As the co-founder of one of the world’s most popular torrent downloading sites‚ he claims that copyright protection is extremely
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Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood by both sender and receiver. It is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged. There are auditory means‚ such as speaking‚ singing and sometimes tone of voice‚ and nonverbal‚ physical means‚ such as body language‚ sign language
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CheckPoint: Causation of Crime Life Course Theories – criminologist believe that lying‚ stealing bullying and other conduct problems that occur in childhood are the strongest predictors of future criminal behavior and have been seriously undervalued in the examination of why crime occurs. Criminologist Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirshchi believe that criminal behavior is linked to low self-control‚ they have also indicated that once negative behavior patterns have been established‚ they cannot
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