While on the subject, Brookings analyst Charles Lister, cautions that Isis does not have the capacity to maintain gains in Iraqi cities. Writing for CNN he says: It is still totally reliant on an interdependent relationship with what remains a tacitly sympathetic and facilitating Sunni population.
The idea that obesity would be solved if people ate balanced meals and were less sedentary remains a tacitly shared one – largely reinforced by the tenor of health promotion messages.
The nature of the comments is juvenile and misogynistic, the likes of which the BBC has recently become associated following the Brand-Rossgate fiasco, yet as long as the Beeb remains silent it tacitly condones anti-lesbian hatred.
Though Muslim leadership largely remains silent and tacitly endorses the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims while promoting the aforementioned misinformation, the Muslim youth and young Muslim leaders are rising up for pluralism.
In contrast, if scientists acknowledge that tacit knowledge remains important and that the science is thus less accessible to nonscientists, the perceived risk of dual-use applications is lower.
This became very apparent during discussions at our workshop, where we identified a quandary that we characterised as the "synthetic biology/engineering conundrum": 9 On the one hand, if tacit knowledge remains important in synthetic biology, then this implies that it will not be easily accessible to outsiders and this reduces concerns about the dual use threat.
(Jefferson et al, 2014b, p. 46) (Emphasis in original) On the one hand, if tacit knowledge remains important in synthetic biology, then this implies that it will not be easily accessible to outsiders and this reduces concerns about the dual use threat.
But the British number one tennis player, who famously joked that he would support "anyone but England" at the 2006 football World Cup, remains an influential figure and his tacit support is likely to delight Alex Salmond.
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However, representing and manipulating such tacit knowledge in computational environments remains an open area of research.
If bureaucrats start playing the game responding to ephemeral events with centralized fine tuning then even if they play as cleverly as bureaucrats could possibly play, the fact remains that in consequence, the dispersed and tacit knowledge of ordinary buyers and sellers ends up on the sidelines watching.
