Is saying NO to 'accident proneness' throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Throwing out the baby with the bathwater: reform in the system for compensating obstetric accidents.

Not Throwing Baby Out with the Bathwater.

Sui Generis Religion , Experience , Ascription , and Art

DESPITE HIS FAULTS AND HIS ANTIQUITY, Mircea Eliade (19071986) had insights to which we would do well to attend. Our epistemological ancestors bequeath our situation to us and we need to respect them — which does not mean adopting or ignoring their vices but cultivating their virtues. The danger is not so much of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but — in a perhaps even more grotesque im...

Legacy Applications - A Case for Restoration?

Although legacy applications often need attention, it is also the case that "legacy" anything has acquired a bad reputation that (in some cases at least) needs restoration. In this talk I will look at various strategies for large organisations with massive investments in legacy software, processes and systems (in the large), to move forward without necessarily throwing out the baby with the bat...

Keeping the Baby, Throwing out the Bathwater

A Distributed Generation Tariff (DGT) program to replace Ontario’s existing Feed-in Tariff (FIT) would have several benefits. For example, a DGT would play a useful role in facilitating the development of a wide range of innovative, small-scale electricity generating projects to help meet the province’s growing electricity demand. As such, it would have a positive environmental impact, reducing...