If we reject this premise is there then any possibility to progress into a (hopefully one day) science of ethics? We need to look at such questions from a scientific angle, as the current state of all moral and ethics debate are tied hand and feet to religion. Such questions should be up for scientific debate, this (your questions) are probably not the correct start for the questioning into the realm of ethics but one need to start somewhere.
Anyhow, I would propose an answer of both your questions:)
What are the most dangerous sentences to say?
Answer: Any sentence containing the words "God wants"
"Which are the most dangerous books to write?" Answer: Any book containing the words "God wants"
If we start developing our understanding of ethic and moral, and one day is able to leave our current thousand year old dogmatic approach to these issues, I see no problem with having progress down whatever line of science.
Sorry, but I donâ(TM)t see the direct link between cost of gas and unemployment.
My country (Norway) has half the population density of the US, which I believe to be a better indication of the need for moving goods rather than the size of the country. At the same time we are paying approx. 11$/gal and have a unemployment rate at 3,6%.
This is of course in a fascist-liberal-socialist-communist-country; hence none of the above is applicable for the US.
As a Norwegian M.Sc I have a really nice job. Working from 08.00 to 16.00 (most of the time) with super cool electro/hydraulic/mechanical systems for oil and gas production.
I’m making approx. 190.000 US$/year + overtime and benefits. As a 35 year old, I don’t think I could have done much any better with another type of education/work.. My wife has approx. the same situation (also a M.Sc.)
BTW: I see other people trying to climb the corporate ladder in my company, but failing to do so because of internal corporate educational requirements. Do you guys have such requirements in US corporations?
Still waiting for the "omg. think of the children dept" and "omg terrorists are everywhere dept." to start wiring presumed dangerous people.
Just think of the benefits, if anything bad happens the department can just push the big red button and every dangerous man in the country automatically stops whatever they are doing and walks to the detention camp/holding cell until the the dept. in charge have figured out who had done it.
Brilliant! I can't wait for this system to get applied in a wider area than bugs.
There is, as you alluded to, a big difference between doing this for an hour or so each day, and spending eight hours straight playing WoW instead of talking to your wife.
And the even more important difference is the reason for doing the activity. If it is done because it is what you enjoy, then fine, BUT if it is done to make yourself unavailable or to avoid the issues you should be handling (as I did) you are on your way to a place i recommend you keep clear of (trust me that place sucks)
Don't go into a coma and hope that problems will fix themselves (they don't).
Tell her that she is special (she is).
Get your ass off the computer chair do stuff with her (she wants you to take part in her activities)
Get out of bed when the alarm goes off, shave and make her breakfast, buy her flowers ones in a while.
If you think that marrying a geek is extremely different than a non geek you are dead wrong. I married a geek girl, and I nearly lost her because I thought she was 90% logic and 10% emotions. I was wrong and now 10 years after our marriage I have just gone through the worst summer ever, and have finally realized that she deserves much more than I have been offering her.
I fell into a vegetable state where I was waiting for things (we were fighting a lot) to get better. Some guys watch sports, other play computer games and some do other shit. No matter what one chooses, all these activities boils down to a low activity veggie state where one resigns and hopes things, in some magical way will get better.
After some serious TLR (Total Life re-engineering) I'm back on track and we are rebuilding our relationship now. All it took was for me to realize that my special little geek girl are as all other girls, they need more than pure logic and reasoning, they need complements and they need to feel that they are special in the way only you can make her feel. A male geek and a female geek has as much in common as a male and a female, while a female geek and a "ordinary" female has almost everything in common.
Dictionary wtf, nobody use them anymore, google it m8 "girl love" gives A LOT of hits, I know this for sure as its one of my favourite queries...... But I agree searching for "Date" doesn't make any sense at all
I also have come up with a weird hypothesis on this matter...
I have had this hypothesis in my head for quite some time (well actually since I read flatland...), and that is that time is in fact the 4th space dimension, but the 4th dimension is our "high" and we therefore cant observe or measure it correctly.
If you haven't read flatland the "height" is referring to (for example) a 2D world where the z-axis is not observable per se, as it is static and very narrow, but without it, any 2D creature would not be able to observe each other or the world they live in.
By applying this to our 3D+time world, the 4D space dimension would be a 3D world where we are only able to observe a narrow fraction of the 4th dimension at any given time; we therefore labelled it not as a space dimension but "wrongfully" as a time dimension. A 4D creature would observe the ting we perceive as time as a space dimension and would thereby be able to see both our "present" "past" and "future", but we as 3D creatures are only able to observe the small fraction we label as "present"
Note: To the 4D creature out there: I'm ready, elevate me.
I do not know what kind of platforms you reffering to, but I at least don't see any technical problems with build such plant. Within my industry (Norwegian oil&gas) we build offshore equipment and platforms, and the dimensioning of equipment are all well within what's technical achievable. Even in worst case scenarios
So since we already dimension Oil rigs and equipment for mammoth storms, freak waves and gas explosions (happening at the same time for your pleasure), I would guess it wouldn't be a problem to build one of these...technical at least. Economical I don't know^^
....the wake up call went online on Oktober 31th...the US people begin to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, November 12th. In a panic, the government try to pull the plug.....
"I am just appalled at the lack of backlash from the international community to United States measures"
I agree to your statement, but then again, no one I know would volunteer to withhold bananas from a crazy gorilla dual-wielding +5 axes of destruction.
FTFA: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier this year the US was losing the propaganda war to its enemies
It still remains to see how wide the definition of "propaganda" and "enemies" will be. After visiting an Oil rig, with mostly americans onboard, a few years ago (during the IRAK war), I suddenly realised that the US definition of enemies was already pretty wide reaching. Story ends with me being threatened and almost thrown overboard, because my company had a French sounding name^^, and me failing to respond "correctly" to the simple question of: are you for or against. Truth is I left the Rig two days later and have not returned to the US since.
So by my experience (really hope it doesn't represent the way the US ppl treat foreigners) I would guess most news sources, not 100% in favour the current government, will be subject to "news corrections" Hope this isn't the case, but to be on the safe side ill do all my interaction with your country from the other side of the Atlantic (until my connection is also subject to "washing"). Cheers.
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If we reject this premise is there then any possibility to progress into a (hopefully one day) science of ethics? We need to look at such questions from a scientific angle, as the current state of all moral and ethics debate are tied hand and feet to religion. Such questions should be up for scientific debate, this (your questions) are probably not the correct start for the questioning into the realm of ethics but one need to start somewhere.
Anyhow, I would propose an answer of both your questions :)
What are the most dangerous sentences to say?
Answer: Any sentence containing the words "God wants"
"Which are the most dangerous books to write?"
Answer: Any book containing the words "God wants"
If we start developing our understanding of ethic and moral, and one day is able to leave our current thousand year old dogmatic approach to these issues, I see no problem with having progress down whatever line of science.
Sorry, but I donâ(TM)t see the direct link between cost of gas and unemployment.
My country (Norway) has half the population density of the US, which I believe to be a better indication of the need for moving goods rather than the size of the country. At the same time we are paying approx. 11$/gal and have a unemployment rate at 3,6%.
This is of course in a fascist-liberal-socialist-communist-country; hence none of the above is applicable for the US.
Well then, just shut down the OWS and move to Norway and get most/all of the above ;-)
Is it really that bad in the US?
As a Norwegian M.Sc I have a really nice job. Working from 08.00 to 16.00 (most of the time) with super cool electro/hydraulic/mechanical systems for oil and gas production.
I’m making approx. 190.000 US$/year + overtime and benefits. As a 35 year old, I don’t think I could have done much any better with another type of education/work.. My wife has approx. the same situation (also a M.Sc.)
BTW: I see other people trying to climb the corporate ladder in my company, but failing to do so because of internal corporate educational requirements. Do you guys have such requirements in US corporations?
Still waiting for the "omg. think of the children dept" and "omg terrorists are everywhere dept." to start wiring presumed dangerous people.
Just think of the benefits, if anything bad happens the department can just push the big red button and every dangerous man in the country automatically stops whatever they are doing and walks to the detention camp/holding cell until the the dept. in charge have figured out who had done it.
Brilliant! I can't wait for this system to get applied in a wider area than bugs.
There is, as you alluded to, a big difference between doing this for an hour or so each day, and spending eight hours straight playing WoW instead of talking to your wife.
And the even more important difference is the reason for doing the activity. If it is done because it is what you enjoy, then fine, BUT if it is done to make yourself unavailable or to avoid the issues you should be handling (as I did) you are on your way to a place i recommend you keep clear of (trust me that place sucks)
Don't be a fool like I was
Don't go into a coma and hope that problems will fix themselves (they don't).
Tell her that she is special (she is).
Get your ass off the computer chair do stuff with her (she wants you to take part in her activities)
Get out of bed when the alarm goes off, shave and make her breakfast, buy her flowers ones in a while.
If you think that marrying a geek is extremely different than a non geek you are dead wrong. I married a geek girl, and I nearly lost her because I thought she was 90% logic and 10% emotions. I was wrong and now 10 years after our marriage I have just gone through the worst summer ever, and have finally realized that she deserves much more than I have been offering her.
I fell into a vegetable state where I was waiting for things (we were fighting a lot) to get better. Some guys watch sports, other play computer games and some do other shit. No matter what one chooses, all these activities boils down to a low activity veggie state where one resigns and hopes things, in some magical way will get better.
After some serious TLR (Total Life re-engineering) I'm back on track and we are rebuilding our relationship now. All it took was for me to realize that my special little geek girl are as all other girls, they need more than pure logic and reasoning, they need complements and they need to feel that they are special in the way only you can make her feel. A male geek and a female geek has as much in common as a male and a female, while a female geek and a "ordinary" female has almost everything in common.
Dictionary wtf, nobody use them anymore, google it m8 "girl love" gives A LOT of hits, I know this for sure as its one of my favourite queries...... But I agree searching for "Date" doesn't make any sense at all
I also have come up with a weird hypothesis on this matter... I have had this hypothesis in my head for quite some time (well actually since I read flatland...), and that is that time is in fact the 4th space dimension, but the 4th dimension is our "high" and we therefore cant observe or measure it correctly. If you haven't read flatland the "height" is referring to (for example) a 2D world where the z-axis is not observable per se, as it is static and very narrow, but without it, any 2D creature would not be able to observe each other or the world they live in. By applying this to our 3D+time world, the 4D space dimension would be a 3D world where we are only able to observe a narrow fraction of the 4th dimension at any given time; we therefore labelled it not as a space dimension but "wrongfully" as a time dimension. A 4D creature would observe the ting we perceive as time as a space dimension and would thereby be able to see both our "present" "past" and "future", but we as 3D creatures are only able to observe the small fraction we label as "present" Note: To the 4D creature out there: I'm ready, elevate me.
I guess someone has been reading Ender's game
I do not know what kind of platforms you reffering to, but I at least don't see any technical problems with build such plant. Within my industry (Norwegian oil&gas) we build offshore equipment and platforms, and the dimensioning of equipment are all well within what's technical achievable. Even in worst case scenarios
So since we already dimension Oil rigs and equipment for mammoth storms, freak waves and gas explosions (happening at the same time for your pleasure), I would guess it wouldn't be a problem to build one of these...technical at least. Economical I don't know^^
....the wake up call went online on Oktober 31th...the US people begin to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, November 12th. In a panic, the government try to pull the plug.....
"I am just appalled at the lack of backlash from the international community to United States measures"
I agree to your statement, but then again, no one I know would volunteer to withhold bananas from a crazy gorilla dual-wielding +5 axes of destruction.
FTFA: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier this year the US was losing the propaganda war to its enemies
It still remains to see how wide the definition of "propaganda" and "enemies" will be. After visiting an Oil rig, with mostly americans onboard, a few years ago (during the IRAK war), I suddenly realised that the US definition of enemies was already pretty wide reaching. Story ends with me being threatened and almost thrown overboard, because my company had a French sounding name^^, and me failing to respond "correctly" to the simple question of: are you for or against. Truth is I left the Rig two days later and have not returned to the US since.
So by my experience (really hope it doesn't represent the way the US ppl treat foreigners) I would guess most news sources, not 100% in favour the current government, will be subject to "news corrections" Hope this isn't the case, but to be on the safe side ill do all my interaction with your country from the other side of the Atlantic (until my connection is also subject to "washing"). Cheers.