I don't see much of any "reason" behind what this invading army has been doing for the past 3.5 weeks, actually. Or if it's even right to call them an army.
Anyway I don't think the concern is that they would target or otherwise intentionally sabotage the reactors -- but that nonetheless they would allow something bad (potentially seriously bad) to happen by pure neglect. Kind of like the way they managed to blow up Reactor 4 in the first place back in 1986.
And exclusive of people who dropped out of (or barely made it through) high school -- which as a category includes some of the most responsible and accomplished people I know.
It isn't of course. It's patently illegal. As well as just plain slimy and awful.
Which is what makes this episode so juicy. First the language was not in the least ambiguous -- the post means exactly what it says. And from the fact someone (if not multiple people) not just at PhD level, but reasonably high up the totem pole in that department must have signed up on post.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA seeks applications for an Assistant Adjunct Professor on a without salary basis. Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position.
An astonishing ethical (and intellectual) lapse on the part of someone at UCLA, in other words. It's easy to see why it got removed so quickly.
War is, by definition, a "massive violation of due process".
I get your point (that ethics and law matter -- including basic principles of law where international law is not codified), and on a certain level this is valid.
But historically speaking, once things ratchet up to a certain level and scope of barbarity (as we are seeing unfold in real time) -- it's just not realistic to sit and wait for a "fair" solution to emerge (in the near term or ever). People are going to be hurt (and treated unfairly) one way or another. It's just a question of who is going to take the hit, and in what form. So if it's at least arguably plausible that measures that inconvenience a few individuals in the top .1 percent net-worth-wise might bring this insane situation to a close sooner rather than later -- I can go with that.
And there's no reason we can't "rub" a bit of due process into the situation -- by saying "OK sure, you can file an appeal, and have a shot at getting your toys and baubles back -- after Russia returns to its borders, and Putin has been decisively removed from power."
Overall it should be entirely doable to complete this in 30 to 60 minutes,
This is ludicrous of course. There no way you can sanely expect someone to answer 37 open-ended / largely interpretive questions of this sort in 30 minutes. Or even 90.
Anyway I don't think the concern is that they would target or otherwise intentionally sabotage the reactors -- but that nonetheless they would allow something bad (potentially seriously bad) to happen by pure neglect. Kind of like the way they managed to blow up Reactor 4 in the first place back in 1986.