Last September, judge Carl Barbier, who has overseen the tortuous legal case resulting from the disaster, ruled BP had been "grossly negligent" in its handling of the well.
The oil firm faced the maximum possible penalties after Judge Carl Barbier, who has overseen the tortuous legal case resulting from the disaster, ruled last September that BP had been "grossly negligent" in its handling of the well.
Think about what counts as a disaster when the "prevent disaster" rule is in competition with a rule against lying.
Rather, the "prevent disaster" rule comes into play only when there is a very much larger difference in the amounts of expected value at stake.
Now think about what counts as a disaster when the "prevent disaster" rule is in competition with a rule against stealing, or even more when in competition with a rule against physically harming the innocent.
The Popplewell inquiry, held three weeks after the disaster, ruled the fire was started by a spectator dropping a cigarette which ignited into rubbish that had accumulated under an old timber stand.
An important confusion to avoid is to think that rule-consequentialism's including a "prevent disaster" rule means that rule-consequentialism collapses into practical equivalence with maximising act-consequentialism. Maximising act-consequentialism holds that we should lie, or steal, or harm the innocent whenever doing so would produce even a little higher expected good than not doing so would.
Three strengthened with GFRP specimens, one flexural reference specimen designed in accordance to Regulation on Buildings Constructed in Disaster Areas rules, and one shear reinforcement insufficient reference specimen was tested.
Kevin Spacey plays Hoffman's sarky colleague, and we know immediately he's going to die because he's the sort of person who listens to his Walkman too loud while eating cereal bars, and those are the disaster film rules.
Los Angeles school board member Alan Gershman, whose district includes the school, described the project as a "disaster where rules and regulations have been stretched to the limit by the contractor.
