But to do something for negative purposes that also has negative consequences – that is immoral," says Teather.
When I asked Cohen whether sites like Wikileaks made the kind of diplomacy he advocates harder, he allowed that they posed a challenge: "All of these tools can be utilized by individuals for everything from Wikileaks to other negative purposes" — at least as the State Department sees it — "but that technology isn't going anywhere.
"People in Germany who understand what happens when you have unfettered mass surveillance, where information is then out there being used for negative purposes, understand where that can lead.
Not 'can this product be abused and utilized for negative purposes' but rather 'what is its primary use case, primary reason for being and can the team sustain that true north over time?'" before choosing whether to invest.
Social-networking sites can be used for both positive and negative purposes, but in some incredible cases, social media has even been used to save lives.
If punishment of them is to be extended to include those committed out side of the strict territorial jurisdiction, it is natural for Congress to say so in the statute, and failure to do so will negative the purpose of Congress in this regard.
But did you know that people who are negative on purpose in order to avoid feeling bad when things do go wrong, feel no more buffered and safe when things actually go wrong than those who kept a positive outlook?
For negative control purposes the primary antibody was replaced by non-immune rabbit IgG (Dako).
These were treated as negative for purposes of computing validation statistics.
Because KAIS did not do HIV-testing on persons ≥65 years old, we assumed that all persons ≥65 years were HIV-negative for purposes of the projection.
In all immunohistochemical procedures, for negative-control purposes, the same techniques were used on tissue sections in which 1% BSA in PBS substituted the primary antibody in each case.
