On the Ever Evolving Conspiracy to Commit and Command Responsibility

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.  – Abraham Lincoln Here is something that most americans know: those who plan crime, as as responsible as those who carry out the crime.  What most don’t realize is that law […]

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On Computers, Short Cuts and the Silent Training Battles I’ve won

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.  – Abraham Lincoln In my job, I believe strongly in the “teach a man to fish” principle, and this is how i generally deal with computers and computers users.  People, because of the connivence of technology have worked out all manner of things that […]

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On Leading Change Management

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. – Abraham Lincoln Leading thru Change management is one of the hardest part of any business.  People like to talk a about deliverables and content, hard times and stresses, […]

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On the True Promise of Technology – Teaching.

On the True Promise of Technology – Teaching. Remember when video games were just games? It turns out that they can help us with various things if actually applied correctly.   A simple hour of playing a First person shooter improves the ability to track moving objects and discern targets last for days … far better […]

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On Unintended Consequence of a Faulty Memory

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” – Abraham Lincoln Humans have short memories but long remembrances….  by that we are able to “move on” from tragic circumstances (almost always) but because of that lack of […]

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On the Problem of Being Immortal

Commentary, Truthiness Comments (3)

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

We humans are near the cusp of a break thru on human evolution and longevity and we shouldn’t do it. 

 Let’s work with some numbers (thou false, they illustrate the point).  Take for instance a normal cell. every time it divides it loses a piece of itself, so in effect, it has lost a limited life, say 300. Then it would be replaced, but even that has a limited number of replacements.  But a cancer cell does not have that limiter, meaning, cell life is a matter of chemistry and biology and so a long life of many cells is really possible. More on page 119

OceansOfThought @ July 10, 2008

On The Matter Of Conscience

Commentary, Guest Post Comments (1)

“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” – Polybius

Conscience is an intangible.  It is our moral compass, that voice inside each of us that guides us in determing Right vs Wrong.  It is a dynamic, ever-changing thing molded by upbringing, faith, society, and countless other factors.  It is, for each of us, a unique internal manifestation of our beliefs about how the world should function.
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Pieces And Parts @ July 9, 2008

On Crime, Laziness and Means, Motive, and Opportunity and Rationality

Life Lessons, Truthiness Comments Off on On Crime, Laziness and Means, Motive, and Opportunity and Rationality

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” -Abraham Lincoln

One may say humans are inherently lazy and when faced with obstylces we tend to take the lesser path. This reasoning comes from the fact that we evaluate things according to their benefit to us. When reason fails, passion takes over, a lower brain function. Passion drives us more than anything else, and yet, it requires this passion to push us past the the “bleh” stage.., the Heart we so often claim someone needs. It turns out with a lot of things we do, means, motive, and opportunity can account for much of it, including destructive tendencies.

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OceansOfThought @ July 7, 2008