The second alarming point is that when the complexity of a system reaches its corresponding critical threshold (critical complexity) the system in question becomes very fragile and therefore vulnerable.
Modern weapons are often so complex that there are only two or three competent suppliers for any given system, and once a major award is won, the company that prevails becomes a monopoly supplier of the system in question.
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Then when it comes to - if the pricing solutions are found that are acceptable to those concerned in the system then the question is who provides the water?
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Having made the argument for a progressive tax system, the next question is whether it should be more progressive than at present.
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Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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He also could have alerted the ISP in question that its system was vulnerable to the weakness, which he also didn't do.
But we need to step back out of the trees, look at the forest and question the financing system we have created.
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Described as "an electronic question and answer system", it sends a radar signal to any unidentified target to which a friendly will respond automatically with a coded reply.
When the next-generation communications system comes online, the question is whether the cruise lines will reduce their communications costs to passengers because of the changes in technology or whether they will leave costs as they are but offer a greatly enhanced experience for system users.
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The old British Rail system was good value for money, there's no question about it, but it was not a great rail system.
Oh, and there is one other question: Which current system do you get to choose from?
Correspondents say some people have called into question Pakistan's system of regulating air safety.
Some may also question whether the payment system is still, in today's world, a major block to new entry in banking.
Mr. JAMAL: Now the big question is how the system will work.
The real question is whether that system is being run particularly well.
As we noted yesterday, Bloomberg View responded to its failure with an editorial calling into question the basic American system of government.
In its filing, also made public in redacted form on Monday, Motorola said it was due payment of 2.25 percent of the selling price of Microsoft products such as the Xbox and Windows 7 operating system that use the patents in question.
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The question is whether the shadow system will influence traditional banking in the future.
"There are a lot of question marks about the banking system and the budget, " Mr. Fransolet said.
So much for the destitute, the next question is how such a system would work for the affluent, O.
"The DOJ is arguing with Microsoft over whether the browser is part of the operating system, this is inherently the wrong question, " Reiser said.
But soon Mr Lansley needs to address the central question: how does the system he's going to re-propose to parliament achieve this combined goal of increased productivity and moderating demand through health promotion?
In addition, Mr. Abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a round-trip ticket didn't trigger any secondary screening, calling into question the efficacy of the system that is supposed to spot passengers who are acting suspiciously and may be threats.
And it is to ask the question whether the global financial system, and the economies of developed countries like Britain, would be in such dire straights if banks had been subject to a simple leverage ceiling, limiting how much banks could lend in total, irrespective of the nature of their loans, as a multiple of their capital.
However, the important question is does the French tax system offer zero such opportunities for tax avoidance?
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The question becomes, should the healthcare system as a whole do the same?
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What went wrong: Those seemingly pure intentions have been called into question recently, as the voting system appeared uneven.
The second question is how does the nervous system translate so many different chemical structures into different perceptions and behaviors.
The introduction of private currency competition would allow the markets to settle the question without causing harm throughout the system.
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