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Basically threads that some annoying irrationalities about GOd. What I mean by irrationalities, I mean clearly jumping to conclusions and not sorting out the other possibilities: Chance and Complexity. http://www.filipinofreethinkers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1329 http://www.filipinofreethinkers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1342 http://www.filipinofreethinkers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1328 http://www.filipinofreethinkers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1332 The Telelogical Argumen t is very strong argument of WANTING there to be god. Concepts like Order, design etc. are very relative and are human measures and descriptions. The arguments lists these things and say - There must have been a designer... As a history buff, shit that happened in history just happened because a couple of factors got together and BOOM. Same thing can be said with chemistry and the artificial of RNA Also it LEAPS into assuming we are or we have been the only life. As scientists fi...

I guess I really do have to grow a pair and a spine when organization is thrown out the window for whims and cover ups. Its not a matter of what is right, it is a matter of what is fair. No matter how right you may feel you are, if it appears unfair then it doesn't matter. Righteousness is the banner of zealots and fanatics. Fairness is something else, its something to be discussed and scrutinized. Procedural Justice and Social Norms are what keeps an organization oiled and running. It smoothen out rough edges and gets people to invest far greater than its market value. The problem of these "perks" or "aspects"is that implementation's a bitch. Implementations of fairness means dealing with the Inherent subjectivity and relatively of many autonomous and independent minds. How can we really be objective when we have subjective filters we cannot be aware of. This requires diplomacy, and I've come to realize every day that diplomacy is a matter of mastering ...

My history lessons work very well with my management lessons. The project implementation process, the methods we use to undertake what may be appear simple instructions under complex circumstances are always a point of highlight when looking at history. I'm pretty busy right now but here are some ideas I want to write about given my experience in the projects and failures I've had in the years. Why micromanaging is only in the beginnings of things, if we still are micromanaging something is wrong. Why mistakes are the foundation of workers with initiative and motivation to do what is best for the company. How irrationalities make it difficult to get things what we need or stop ourselves from getting what we don't need. Meticulousness is for the Empathic Leader. How working with the nitty gritty details (down in the trenches with everyone else) are neccessary in working within Operational Reality. Reminders, Checklists, and Templates. The amazing habits that can unravel com...

The skills that has come down from arguing over the internet and learning to research facts, sources, and credibility are the ones used to fixing one of the most complex problems at work: Organization-Accountability-Resource management. I've spent the last hour asking questions and trying to understand a very complicated problem. I guess this is the real work I'm supposed to do that my parents can't anymore is spend the time unravellings very complex problems that come up when an error is not corrected soon. It is a matter of "hearsay" as well as not spending enough time to present facts and information as clearly and easily as possible. Like a forced march, many gets left behind, so it is the same when information is not presented clearly or as simply as possible. Many people who can contribute or who may have important insight as to the aspects of the problem in their experience are not able to tell everyone else what may be relevant because the information is s...

I'm at Singapore. Its a very anti-gun country so I had to choose other stuff to get. I was only able to get a new battery for my Lenovo Y430. It was notable that I did see two people using it in the Lenovo service center which was all the way to Bukit Timah. Singapore has a cammo that is, of course, cannot be sold for commercial reasons. I stumbled on the ONLY tactical store here in Singapore and its very new and very low profile. They can only shoot nerf guns. Another Country that has it better than the Philippines. Nothing much to talk about other than the economic and policy differences between the two. In the 1980s (30 years ago) there was a BIG difference between Singapore and the Philippines now, they have very much handily surpassed it. Again, my lessons in economics are pretty much reaffirmed from the policy and the evidence circumstance as how successful is Singapore. Funny that To Randians and Libertarians, and their ilk Singapore is actually very "socialistic" ...

The wife and I got to discussing about her previous work. We were particularly looking at the circumstance of her former boss. When he first got into the Job, it was purely market norms (i.e. Pay and benefits) then the company began asking for favors from him (social norms) where he should show his commitment by investing in the same stocks as the company to show confidence. Now that that things are not doing well, they got him for his contacts and not his character or work ethics. Short-comings have cropped up and because they got him with market norms, they owe him no favors to help him improve or fix him up... yet he did commit to the company a ton of money which traps him there. This problem, when looked at this way is an example of how Blurring or Messing up the Lines of Market and Social Norms can be very problematic. This also illustrates how keeping the two separate, or at least clear, makes easier roadways out of such circumstances. My take on the lesson is that, I get what I ...

GMing . Its Big News when a GM announces he has to stop running games. I can't blame him, sometimes its more stress than its worth. Worse about RPGs, I do admit, is that it is more of chasing the high we had when we were younger and more impressionable. Sentimentality is very much a Placebo. Gaming has such a strong sentimental aspect, Its hard to see if it is really a net good. Its not that its bad, its just very expensive non-monetarily. CDR-King has a sale on CD-RWs . They are in mixed brand 10pc clumps. They are Php3 each so it costs Php30. Bought 60pcs and I'm using it to burn Xubuntu and Lubuntu installers. I guess its a the kind of charity I'm inclined to. Give your old computers new life with a new OS designed with the old hardware specs in mind. That would be a nice project to do. Fix Old computers so that it can be used for students or public libraries of poor neighborhoods or provinces. Build a library project is a worthwhile charity and something . Our Company...

Ok, Big surprise Ubuntu 9.10 (one version before current release) is not made for computer which are below the minimum requirements for Vista. I should have known. Anyway now I learned if you have a computer with less than 256MB ram then you need L-ubuntu and X-ubuntu. It is basically New Code for Old (very Old) computers. I think computers older than 8 years should be retired, marked off as fully depreciated in the accounting books and sold for recycling. The cost of holding on to it, is FAR greater than buying a new hardware system. Misers might think it cheaper but if you calculate the personal and skill cost, in the economics of it all you have a much higher returns if your opportunity cost is not spent beating this very very dead horse. Sigh. The family business is moving to open source. We saved millions and we plan to save millions more when the New IT plan incorporates selling the services to make the BPOs we turn key solve have the option to go Open Source. The company stops p...

Armory - I like how that sounds. "My OWN armory" has a nice imagery to it. Did my hobby just get more expensive? Probably. Building up an armory means buying cheap guns. This means mostly dirty, scratched and aesthetically damage guns with working internals. each gun is a problem it is up to my skills to fix it. I'm buying them at a diminished value, and what the value I'm putting back into it when I get it working and pimped out (cheaply) is my own problem solving ability. What am I going to do with an Armory? I don't know. I won't sell it for a profit, because my personal attachment as well as the cost of acquiring these are beyond the market value someone in their right mind would pay for them. They are better off buying brand new from a shop. I just texted 2 sellers. An JG AK for 2500 and an JG MP5 w/stock 3000. I'm not the first to text, and i'm not in a hurry to buy. Still, I may get lucky there is a low probability. Most the cheap deals are outs...

Being Skeptical and Understanding how important it is for one to bring along the burden of proof when making claims or arguments makes being an atheist a simple matter. I've discussed before what burden of proof means, and highlighted that Inferring a Deity from "what you see around you" is still an inference and not a direct observable action. Annoying Arguments: The arguments below are the more annoying arguments because it quickly becomes a game of semantics. Turtles all the way Down - First Cause argument. Everything has a Cause. So by definition god is the first cause, but who caused God. Strangely to theists there can be a God w/o the first cause but not a Universe w/o a first cause. But recently Stephen Hawking and Laurence Krause support that the Universe can have No cause. Funny how this is actually cherry picking God can have no cause but the universe can't. Outside the Universe - Self defeating Argument, since it makes for a self contradictory creature,...

Unreasonable . I find it unfair and grossly annoying that taxi's have begun to refuse passengers who are asking for rides going out of makati as early as 4! I can understand margins being thin in traffic, but refusing passengers. FUck that. I mean, I tip 40-50%. I'm a more generous tipper way over the average and most makati commuters are tippers (I got this out of a taxi driver). Good News . I got to the MRT around 4:10-4:15. It was not crowded, so going out of makati you have to leave before 4pm or wait after 8pm. A 4 hour window of extreme traffic. There are many more things that would give you more utility/happiness than the toll the traffic Leaving at 11-12 . Traffic on Edsa begins at 7am. So the trip should cover the distance of edsa before the 7am. Like clock-work the traffic cycle ends in 4 hours, at 11am. Although, I've noticed that Taxi's are becoming unreasonable even at this time. Fuck the Taxis. At this rate, taxis are only for 4km or less trips. A distance...