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Summary This note is an attempt to avoid doing the same search for the third time. It happened twice in my life that I wished to prove that the median is located between mean and mode for certain B‐distributions: first in 1953, next in 1976. For arbitrary distributions the result is sometimes referred to as Fechner's theorem. Of course it does not hold in general. In order to prove the result for particular distributions one can often use an elegant theorem of Timerding. There is a nice relationship with the standardized third central moment.

Argues that war is a means that capitalist societies use to transfer inner revolutionary tension to foreign conflicts with the possibility of gaining advantages. In Malthusian thinking, war offers the advantages of huge new profits, mass destruction of commodities that creates markets for more mass production, & development of new war technologies. It also reduces competing or unnecessary population, especially the poor. The author proposes that the corporate-military complex encourages war & operates without concern for lives. During the Cold War, the US-USSR competition justified a booming war economy. It is asserted that the symbiotic relationship between capitalism & war makes capitalism "a cancer in the body politic" that should be destroyed. L. A. Hoffman

"A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of a vast ecosystem of data collection. Our public spaces are blanketed by cameras put up in the name of security. And pretty much everything that emits a wireless signal of any kind-routers, televisions, Bluetooth devices, chip-enabled credit cards, even the tires of every car manufactured since the mid-2000s-can be and often is covertly monitored. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of data about every citizen-and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. Reporter Byron Tau has been digging deep inside the growing alliance between business, tech, and government for years, piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world have become a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Tau traces the unlikely tale of how the government came to view commercial data as a principal asset of national security in the years after 9/11, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, to build a foreign and domestic surveillance capacity of such breathtaking scope that it could peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. The result is a cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats with one directive-"get everything you can"-and, as Tau observes, a darkly humorous world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries, and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is our era's defining story of the dangerous grand bargain we've made: ubiquitous, often cheap technology, but at what price to our privacy?"--

Introduction -- Ends -- The ends of policing -- Means -- Means in policing -- The question of justification -- The doctrine of double effect -- Persons as ends -- Impermissible means -- Other problematic means -- Dirty hands and noble cause corruption.