Posts by mawibse

  • big bang

    A theory may always be revised or discarded, something that is harder to do with religion.

    Dont think this new image changes anything much though, the big issues like dark matter and dark energy needs solved... like now... damn lazy scientists!

  • big bang

    WMAP is still defining the boundaries of cosmology and the new CMB map confirmed inflation theory, nice.

    Wonder when they will launch a replacement for WMAP that will be able to confirm if the universe is cyclic or not?

    Will probably take a while if Bush stays where he is.

  • Whats ur opinion about teh iran shit ?

    Quote from RD

    That was a response to someone saying they wouldnt use nukes because it would be suicide. Irans president is a fan of the palestinian suicideattacks on Israel and wants to wipe it off the map. Suicide attacks come with extreme Islam, and Irans president and the mullahs are extreme or what? They have never condemned martyrs but only the opposite.

    Ok so you're saying that Iran is ruled by people who believe in "extreme" Islam and that's the reason they wouldn't hesitate to use nukes even if it meant their deaths?

    And I say that you might be right about them using nukes even if it means their death but that any focus on their religious beliefs or how they dress or what facial hair they prefer or what their skin color is like, is missing the real reason for being hostile against Israel or whatever you don't like about "them".

    Its not like Christians, Shintoists, Buddhists, Atheists or whatever haven't sacrificed themselves to kill enemies during history.

  • Globalization Trotters! An Essay.

    Quote from The Postman

    I gave my sources at the end of the essay.

    You didn't write those silly numbers in your essay now did you?

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    They were books given to me by my International Politics professor who used to work at the Brookings Institute. You can't really get more credible.

    Let us be clear, and I don't give a flying fish who handed you the books, ONLY in developing countries are salaries from MC's usually higher then local wages, but no where near as much as above 40%.

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    No, they specifically mentioned improved infrastructure in the traditional sense. The companies need roads and they need electricity, sewage, and water. By getting these themselves they also provide for the area around them.

    I thought you said they "helped build infrastructure around them for their workers' benefit", not that the possible benefit was a side effect for something built for the cooperation?

    Is someone setting out to be a lobbyist because that smelled like intention warping BS 101 to me?

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    Both of these factoids were from the book by Amy Chua who is a widely accredited proponent of globalization reform.

    Interestingly the author does not agree with your conclusion that global companies are the road to world peace and global prosperity, and especially that there is "little argue against a multinational corporation entering a developing nation", in fact plenty are mentioned and one of the most important is the increasing gap between poor and rich due to Global Corporations investing in developing countries. [Chua]

    Something you have mentioned as a major reason for the existence of riots and terrorism if I'm not mistaken?

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    I suggest giving it a look over.

    Indeed. You seem to have missed the Yale law professors point and just took what suited the well established American theory that capitalism and democracy goes hand in hand and that globalization is the magical elixir for the developing countries.

    Too me it seemed biased, has your professor commented on it yet?

  • Globalization Trotters! An Essay.

    Quote from The Postman

    40% to 100% higher than local wages

    BS, you give me a credible source of that because I've seen nothing of the sort, ever. Well except for top management....

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    Hewlett Packard and another tech company I can't remember the name of both helped build infrastructure around them for their workers' benefit.

    You meant GlobalSight? ..Tech companies... ahhh, I thought you ment infrastructures as in roads and such but you meant data related infrastructures.

    Wee wipdy dooo! You put access to google in an African village and, zwoosh, you improved their infrastructure... that sickens me..

    Where do you get you're information, the company websites?

  • Globalization Trotters! An Essay.

    All in all ok but a bit short, I had some thoughts about some parts of it:

    "and minimizing the gap between rich and poor before it can be truly successful"

    And how do we do that?

    I thought the "simply laughable" bit felt unprofessional and should be rephrased.

    "Smarter and healthier workers are, in essence, better workers on the whole"

    Most assembly line kind of jobs does not need their workers to be smart nor healthy, cheap is a good thing though.

    "There is little reason to argue against a multinational corporation entering a developing nation when that corporation is building roads and health facilities and improving the lives of the people around it."

    Your trust in the multinational corporations will to help the people around it is a bit too high, do better research and I think you will find it "illogical".

  • 9/11 - some scientific stuff to think about it

    Oh god, the tinfoilehat conspiracy theorists has invaded mapcore.

    Let me get this straight, your telling me that first you drive a plane into the building and then you get out of the plane to put up some demolitions that you blow?

    Naaah, you put the demolitions up first and then you aim for that floor with a gigantish plane but blow the demolitions later?

    WTF?!?!? are you completly *BEEEEP*?

    Let me repeat with a little more detail.

    The explosions of big planes and the subseqvent fuel fire damaged and distorted the supports enough, NO IT DIDNT NEED TO MELT ANY METAL, so it finaly gave up and the floors above, which wheighs a damn lot, so much in fact that even cosmos really incompetent engineering buddies should understand what happens when you drop, not SUPPORT, something that heavy on ANY building, it crumbles, breaks, falls down, go fucking bust, it will be demolished!

    IF A SHITLOAD OF TONS FALLS ON SOMETHING FROM HUNDREDS OF METERS UP ONLY KOSMOS STUPIDITY,and my hardon, WOULD HAVE A FEW FLOORS STILL STANDING!

    Dont friggin compare this to your lego scraper experiments at home, this is fuckin huge buildings... ghaa!!!

    Oh, sorry Kosmo, I just couldnt help myself...

  • Whats ur opinion about teh iran shit ?

    Quote from RD

    Congratulations, you are the 1000th customer of pointmissed

    The mullahs arent rational, it would be blasphemy. I think they would probably commit suicide believing its self defense.

    Remember the cold war? None of those countries wanted to commit suicide, but it happened anyway.

    Hehe not only did I miss it, it was so far off I didnt even think there was one.

    ... what was the point?

  • The root of all evil: the human being itself?

    Quote from RD

    In order to have some control over the thoughts, there must be something that has this control.

    Yes, consciousness does issue different degrees of control over some thoughts.

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    If there is conscious control over your thoughts, it needs logical reasoning, which in itself is a string of thoughts.

    No, conscious control do not need logical reasoning the same goes for thoughts.

  • The root of all evil: the human being itself?

    Quote from RD

    If you cant say with 100% certainty of what controls you

    What controls me? You mean like what influences my decisions?

    Well no, you can not be certain what influences your decisions.

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    If you cant say with 100% certainty of what controls you, you are not conscious of it

    Yes, you can not be conscious of what you do not know.

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    when you are not conscious of it you cannot consciously control it.

    Yes, you can not consciously control something you don't know exists.

    However, what I can consciously decide between are those things that I am consciously aware of, like the different thoughts on why or why not I should eat a cake for example.

    That you don't know what a Camshaft is or what it does does not mean you can't drive a car.

    See it like this; there are unconscious reasons for you to have some uncontrolled thoughts popping into your consciousness, however once they entered consciousness you have some control over the thoughts and might use them as basis for a conscious decision or as a veto for some physical activity.

    Think of it as a golf player that makes several swings before getting a go from your consciousness before hitting the ball.