THE COVID pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by answers that their own government given to these questions, resorting instead a libertarian rhetoric argue for more permissive approach public health regulation. As several commentators pointed out, there is marked asymmetry in this Conservative hostility legal restricti...

Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which deals with protection life and personal liberty, has been interpreted in several landmark cases by courts law. Every one those formulations enlarged scope to encompass aspects that give meaning, purpose, dignity existence. The terms "life" "liberty" are deeply linked. Liberty gives a person freedom make decisions freely, without liberty would be mean...

The two purposes of this essay. general philosophical problem with most versions social libertarianism and how essay will proceed. specific liberty explained by a thought-experiment. positive abstract theory interpersonal liberty-in-itself as ‘the absence initiated constraints on want-satisfaction’, for short ‘no imposed costs’. individualistic liberty-maximisation solves the problems clashes, ...

Core-to-core communication bandwidth is critical for high-performance pipeline-parallel programs. Hardware communication queues are unlikely to be implemented and are perhaps unnecessary. This paper presents Liberty Queues, a high-performance lock-free software-only ring buffer, and describes the porting effort from the original x86-64 implementation to IA-64. Liberty Queues achieve a bandwidth...

IN ESCAPE FROM LEVIATHAN, J.C. Lester argues for what he calls “the compatibility thesis.” This thesis states that, in practice, and in the long term, there are no systematic clashes between interpersonal liberty, general welfare, and market anarchy (Lester, 2012, 2). Lester offers an explanation of the conception of liberty expressed in this compatibility thesis as absence of imposed cost. He ...

Boston was a laudable location for the 141st Annual APHA conference in November 2013. The city after all was the ‘birthplace’ of the United States of America with the American Revolutionary War (War of Independence) being ignited there in 1775. Throughout history Boston has contributed admirably to the American public health movement. Pre Revolutionary War, Bostonians became masters of politica...