For Profits: The Unethical Side of Micro-Lending The original principle of micro lending is to provide start-up or expansion business loans to people living in less advantaged or impoverished countries who are unable to apply for traditional loans due to lack of credit history and/or collateral. Micro-financing is a great tool to create venture capital for those who would have no other means to secure it. The primary goal of micro lending‚ as established by Muhammad Yunus‚ the godfather of microcredit
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Machine Guarding—An Overview Overview Of Topic Machine operators who understand a machine’s hazards and how to control them will have a reduced risk of injury. Proper operation of the machine‚ including the machine guards‚ can improve productivity as well as safety. There are five general techniques for safeguarding machine operation‚ but all guards must be able to prevent contact‚ must be secured in place or be otherwise tamper-proof‚ must create no new hazards‚ should allow for lubrication
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affected their production and living standards. Up until the Industrial Revolution‚ wood was used for both as a fuel and a building material. American and English adoption of coal and iron as energy resources was a critical driving factor during the Industrial Revolution since the adoption improved transportation resources and promoted mass manufacturing. From the Colonial area up until the National period‚ wood served as a dual purpose resource that provided both as a building material and a source
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Can Machines Think? Draft due: 2/25/13 Final draft due: 3/1/13 Introduction to Philosophy Section 05G Spring 2013 CO In the articles of Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Turing and Minds‚ Brains‚ and Programming by Searle‚ many different arguments are made for and against the claim‚ can machines think? Now just as they did in their articles‚ I will explain what I mean by machine and think. A machine is a mechanical object designed by human beings to assist us in our lives. And when I
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The Machine and Modernism “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Foster explores the collapse of modernistic ideas and the detrimental effects of human progression as a result of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. One of the characters‚ Kuno‚ realizes that flaws exist within the Machine they live in because it has failed him. Whereas‚ his mother‚ Vashti‚ worships the machine and all it has done for her‚ as it allows for her to live a comfortable life with all she feels that she needs. Modernism
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Extra Credit Paper April 23‚ 2013 Moral Machines – Ethics The future of computing and machinery is changing at such an extremely fast pace that we need to invest in the application of ethics to the world of machines. But there are many problems with programming a machine to act ethically. Ethics are simply emotional expressions and machines can’t have emotion. Computers don’t have the practical wisdom that Aristotle thought we use when applying our virtues. What about the ethics of the lesser
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to the point to where we could not live without it. The book “The Machine Stops” could be accurately compared to the way people around the world live their lives. For example‚ In “The Machine Stops” their society became so dependent on technology‚ that when technology died‚ the people died
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During June of 1918‚ the Marines participated in the Battle of Belleau Wood in an attempt to secure the allied lines protecting Amiens and Paris. The battle lasted more than three weeks and the Marines‚ embedded with Army and allied forces‚ engaged four divisions of German Soldiers in an attempt to halt the enemy offensive and secure allied controlled territory. The battle began on 6 June and resulted in the greatest loss of life by a Marine unit at that time with more than 1‚000 men killed‚ on
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COMPANY BACKGROUND Burger Machine is the market leader of the burger-on-wheels segment of Philippine’s Food Industry of 90”s‚ because it is the first burger stand in the Philippines it earned it’s “the National Burger Stand of the Philippines”. Burger Machine is not the resto type‚ it has been consistent in identifying itself as ’the-burger-next-door’; you can see it everywhere‚ in every block‚ and in every corner possible. It is open 24 hours‚ and it called itself as "the burger that never sleeps"
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and machines. These machines due to their advanced artificial intelligence would probably want to control the whole world and to surpass their creators. Is this scenario plausible or is it just a “human fantasy” with a view to selling books and films? On the one hand‚ if we think of all the movies based on the revolution of the machines‚ it seems possible that‚ in the future‚ man will have to wage wars on machines (as in «I‚ Robot»‚ for instance). Indeed‚ we can see how rapidly the machine evolves
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