The prosecution said the fire service had many systemic failings, including the distribution of information about buildings and water supplies and also the training of firefighters.
The elites in any system not only have more political and economic power, they also have more access to information and control the distribution of information in any given system.
Reforms to the broadcasting and telecommunications laws, which have now been extended to cover the internet and mobile telephones, seek to restrict the distribution of information critical of the government by making the carrier of the message liable for the content.
The Vatileaks episode offered a glimpse into some of the disfunctionality, normally due to petty squabbles among internal factions within middle management, but also drew attention to the traditional feudal structure of governance within and among the offices, and how the current structures and attitudes impede the distribution of information to facilitate efficient governance, thereby hampering the Church's mission to evangelise.
He alleges their participation in a vast conspiracy to drive down the shares of his company through the distribution of false information that allowed traders to profit from their short positions in Overstock.com.
They provide an alternative, virtual supply chain, one where the costs of creation, marketing, distribution and use of information goods have plummeted to something close to zero.
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The fantastically named 1aaa American Green Coffee Beans site is run by a coffee distribution company and has loads of information for anyone interested in coffee.
"In international debates about climate change, for example, we will know how much forest we have and what state it is in (...), we'll discover species, and gain knowledge about species becoming extinct, as well as information about the distribution of the forest and its potential economic use", Ms Teixeira said.
But the Internet--which guarantees the free flow of information, speech, money, talent and ideas, and speeds up the distribution of these good things ... and therefore makes markets more perfect ... and therefore wrings out inflation and waste--offers the possibility, once slim but now becoming more probable by the day, that the good times can run a long while.
No information is provided on the geographic distribution of respondents or employment size (in their last minimum wage study, it appears that over 20% had no employees).
Lodish, who served on the board of Quidsi before its acquisition by Amazon, says the firm developed highly efficient distribution networks revolving around state-of-the art information technology.
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The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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Quantum key distribution does this by encoding the information in the polarisation states of individual photons, the particles of light, which are sent from Alice to Bob over an optical fibre.
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We will also be revealing a lot of other information regarding our products and the DRM-free distribution platform GOG.com.
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Finally, both of these changes are being enabled through the integration of smart grid technology in the power transmission and distribution grid, which moves not only electrons but also information effectively through our energy networks.
For example, workforce analytics enabled a large distribution company to analyze historical information and use it to optimize its labor force by scheduling the right mix of full-time, part-time and temporary labor on a variety of schedules.
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The Internet, for example, offers a new information system, a new marketplace, a new form of communication and a new means of distribution.
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