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BAD

/B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "working as designed", from IBM. Failing because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugs.
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The instrument is the same, but about the excellence or badness of it the maker will only attain to a correct belief; and this he will gain from him who knows, by talking to him and being compelled to hear what he has to say, whereas the user will have knowledge?
Then he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness of his imitations?
"My dear lady," said Voyt, "their romance is their badness. There isn't any other.
"You see," he continued, "I am not only bad, but I admire badness. My wish is to remain bad--in fact, I should like to be worse if I knew how.
Pickwick, Sir:- I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trouble in his club by laughing and sometimes won't write his piece in this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and let him send a French fable because he can't write out of his head as he has so many lessons to do and no brains in future I will try to take time by the fetlock and prepare some work which will be all commy la fo that means all right I am in haste as it is nearly school time
"Layin' tha' badness on a robin--not but what he's impidint enow for anythin'.
In those emergencies of a nation, in which the goodness or badness, the weakness or strength of its government, is of the greatest importance, there is commonly a necessity for action.
Perhaps Plato may have been desirous of showing that the accusation of Socrates was not to be attributed to badness or malevolence, but rather to a tendency in men's minds.
Alongside all this badness Allison is trying to drag herself out of though, there's dancing, buttered toast, and a sliver or two of hope.
The author explores philosophical aspects of spoilers, discussing the history of spoilers, their definition and nature, and the role of vagueness; the ethics of spoilers, including whether spoiling can be bad, sources of the badness, when it is wrong and okay to spoil, timing issues, and spoiler alerts; and the pragmatics of spoilers, including paradoxes, spoiling remakes, whether reactions to spoilers are justified, cultural aspects and relativism, and what to do when encountering someone who spoils.
The people of the city have again appealed to the government to punish the vendors of toy guns and impose heavy fines on the parents of the children playing with such toys so that that this badness could be stopped before it spreads.
Most obviously, if punya is goodness, why is papa not badness? Goodman rightly notes that punya and papa are the sorts of things one can accumulate.
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