One variant ( known as O ' Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law ) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics ( also known as entropy ):

The term " Finagle's Law " was first used by John W. Campbell, Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction ( later Analog ).

In the Star Trek episode " The Ultimate Computer ", Dr. McCoy refers to an alcoholic drink known as the " Finagle's Folly ," apparently a reference to " Finagle's Law.

" Finagle's Law " can also be the related belief, " Inanimate objects are out to get us ," also known as Resistentialism.

Similar to Finagle's Law is the verbless phrase of the German novelist Friedrich Theodor Vischer: " die Tücke des Objekts " ( the perfidy of inanimate objects ).

Also known as Finagle's variable constant, it is sometimes defined as the right answer divided by your answer.

Ramón y Cajal also postulated the Law of Dynamic Polarization, which states that a neuron receives signals at its dendrites and cell body and transmits them, as action potentials, along the axon in one direction: away from the cell body.

The Law of Dynamic Polarization has important exceptions ; dendrites can serve as synaptic output sites of neurons and axons can receive synaptic inputs.

* Dynamic Thought or the Law of Vibrant Energy.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

** See also Salmond on " Citizenship and Allegiance ," in the Law Quarterly Review ( July 1901, January 1902 ).

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

See also Old Testament Law directed at non-Jews and Leviticus 18.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

vii. 18 ; compare Targum ), " It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this study of the Law ; yea, also from that branches of knowledge withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all " ( Ecc.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Law professor John Chipman Gray's The Nature and Sources of the Law, an examination and survey of the common law, is also still commonly read in U. S. law schools.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

He also superseded a Mosaic Law allowing divorce with his teaching that "… anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

He was also a special lecturer for New York University Law School, 1893-1900.

A parallel report into the criminal justice system by Lord Justice Auld, a past Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, had also commenced in 1999 and was published as the Auld Report six months after the Law Commission report.

As a reference, AD is ( Which also corresponds with the Law of 5, 3 + 1 = 4, 7-4 = 3, and 8-3 = 5 ) YOLD ( Year of Our Lady of Discord ).

The university's Faculty of Law was also ranked third in Canada in the category of law.

Schulich School of Law also operates the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, which carries out research and conducts consultancy activities for governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The first woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson was also a graduate from Dalhousie Law School.

This is also true with all ontological oppositions and their many declensions, not only in philosophy as in human sciences in general, cultural studies, theory of Law, etc.

It also permeates the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings.

" James's reading of The True Law of Free Monarchies allowed that "... a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good will ..." James also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.

Some economists also contend that now, according to Gresham's Law, a reversion to the colón would be disastrous to the economy.

Neither G nor M < sub >☉</ sub > can be measured to high accuracy in SI units, but the value of their product is known very precisely from observing the relative positions of planets ( Kepler's Third Law expressed in terms of Newtonian gravitation ).

It requires standards with known analyte content to establish the relation between the measured absorbance and the analyte concentration and relies therefore on the Beer-Lambert Law.

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

There are a number of venerable legal sources that distill the common law on various subjects known as Restatement of the Law.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

In chemistry this began with Robert Boyle ( 1627 – 1691 ) who came up with an equation known as Boyle's Law about the characteristics of gaseous state.

Of the three, the Third Law is the best known and most widely cited.

A simple electric circuit, where current is represented by the letter i. The relationship between the voltage ( V ), resistance ( R ), and current ( I ) is V = IR ; this is known as Ohm's Law.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

Jews hold that other nations and peoples are not required ( nor expected ) to obey the Law of Moses, with the notable exception that the only laws Judaism believes are automatically binding ( in order to be assured of a place in the world to come ) on other nations are known as the Seven Laws of Noah.

Although the early embryos of different species exhibit similarities, Haeckel apparently exaggerated these similarities in support of his Recapitulation theory, sometimes known as the Biogenetic Law or " Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

The foundational axioms of fluid dynamics are the conservation laws, specifically, conservation of mass, conservation of linear momentum ( also known as Newton's Second Law of Motion ), and conservation of energy ( also known as First Law of Thermodynamics ).

In the 19th century Henry Darcy developed what is now known as Darcy's Law describing the flow of fluids in porous media.

Godwin's law ( also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies ) is an argument made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage.