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One can use ˜rules of thumb™ to guide action, but these rules are overridable when abiding by them would conflict with the promotion of the good.

The History of Utilitarianism Driver, Julia 2009

Has Bush been using signing statements as a sort of non-overridable veto, or are the nullifying statements significantly more frequent than vetoes have previously been? norbizness Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Signing Statements 2007

Warning labels given to readers or consumers -- such as those on CDs -- do have a censorious effect, but overridable warning labels given to writers do not.

Introducing "Think Twice" Word Detection System To OpEdNews 2007

Warning labels given to readers or consumers -- such as those on CDs -- do have a censorious effect, but overridable warning labels given to writers do not.

Introducing "Think Twice" Word Detection System To OpEdNews 2007

I have sharp disagreements with Singer as to what makes death bad or bad for an entity (and generally things like consequentalism vs. deontology & the deontic (but overridable) importance of respect for autonomy where agents are concerned).

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

This too is overridable, but I'd guess that 99.9% of SL users wouldn't be able to or wouldn't bother since they have nothing to gain from doing so.

Countdown to SL backlash 2006

To put it in rationalist and empirical terms, it is the innate selfishness of the biological organism: overridable, but ineradicable.

Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005

Shell:: Base, Shell:: Base does almost everything you describe here, plus a bunch more things like overridable hooks for each stage, basic configfile support, integration with an external pager, and configurable completions.

Planet Perl 2010

None of the functions defined in this manner strike me as being overridable by mods.

phpBB.com michaelo 2010

Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that the window. location object was made a normal overridable JavaScript object in the Firefox 3.6 browser engine (Gecko 1.9.2) because new mechanisms were developed to enforce the same-origin policy between windows and frames.

LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories 2010