If there's one overriding argument to maintaining a situation that causes so much trouble — apart from the tax breaks — it must be that enclaves relish their peculiar status.
223912 Bill Gates Microsoft One of Microsoft's overriding arguments in the long-running legal battle was that the technology industry is so dynamic and fast-changing that any given state where one company–say, Microsoft is on top is inherently changeable by market forces.
The existence monist and nihilist can of course just "bite the bullet" by accepting 3 but claiming overriding arguments otherwise.
One of Microsoft's overriding arguments has always been that the computer industry is so dynamic and fast-changing that the idea of maintaining a monopoly over a product as ephemeral as software was itself nonsense.
Clitomachus had taken this as just an ad hominem argument, designed to challenge the Stoic defense of the view that the overriding principle of rationality is avoidance of any possibility of error (see Cicero Ac. 2.67 8).
In naming Mr. Parsons, the board overrode the arguments of some institutional investors that the duties of chairman and chief executive should be separated, given the current climate of corporate scandals and federal investigations into the accounting at the AOL division of AOL Time Warner.
But – since the arguments for overriding democracy and the rule of the law are in both cases so very similar – isn't it extraordinary that you'll hardly find anyone willing to defend them both?
For some cases in the clash between privacy and advancing technologies, it is possible to make a compelling argument for overriding the privacy intrusions.
