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rajesh soni on Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success - 19:11:08
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Jerry Xu on 'For nothing goes the sun up' =) - 11:11:08
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Kobe Oser on CREA: the right to self-determination - 31:10:08
Please consider the break-away of West Papua/ Melanesia from Indonesia through Self determination as simple mathematics by executing the following formula:
1. The original 1945 Proklamasi Sukarno-Hatta was from "A till A" (Atjeh till Ambon), NOT including West Papua....
Dave on Western Chess vs. Chinese Go - 28:10:08
"Chess is a game that relies entirely on the left hemisphere of our brain, the analytical function"
This comment couldn't be more false. This is a generalistic view of how Chess is actually played and also generalizes the functionality of the hemispheres of the brai...
Joachim on The end of paper: A future historical perspective on PDF - 19:10:08
That is a true thing and made me wonder why we are today so occupied with the cultural inheritance we will leave for future generations as I was reading ...
Jurg on Responsibility is not as moral as you think! - 17:10:08
what i tried to show in this model of responsibility is that 'holding responsible' is much more important for results than 'taking responsibility'. we (humans) are much more inclined to act when held responsible. don't you agree?...
Björn on The end of paper: A future historical perspective on PDF - 17:10:08
If you asked me, the beauty of it is that whoever lives now does not 'decide' what will be saved and what will be lost by whoever lives in the future ;-)
Björn on Responsibility is not as moral as you think! - 17:10:08
Or produce what they 'really' need (and thus can afford)? In case of mortgages business produced what consumers wanted (high mortgages, big houses -> cultural status), but there is where responsibility plays a part, what was responsible?
In Holland for example co...
Björn on Aids epidemic in Africa is a deceit - 06:10:08
And after surfing the web some more I don't know anymore what to believe in relation to HIV/Aids:
http://www.harpers.org/OutOfControl.html
http://rethinkingaids.com/GalloRebuttal/GalloScreed-20060322.pdf
http://rethinkingaids.com/GalloRebuttal/consolidated.html
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Björn on Aids epidemic in Africa is a deceit - 06:10:08
Interesting to mention that Luc Montagnier et al have just won the Nobel prize, also for discovering AIDS. So, a lot of people believe aids to still exist, that's for sure ;-)
Björn on Aids epidemic in Africa is a deceit - 06:10:08
But, now I have surfed some more on the interesting web I don't know anymore what is 'true' in this aids-war. Like you, getting transparency is important, but so damn 'impossible'!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/03/0080961
http://rethinkingaids.com/GalloRebut...
Björn on Aids epidemic in Africa is a deceit - 06:10:08
A very interesting article indeed, although the author and people mentioned talk about assumptions from a relatively (aids-wise) long time ago. A lot assumptions won't hold forever, so after some years much of what was once believed is 'wrong'. Once people believed the ...
Jeroen on 'For nothing goes the sun up' =) - 04:10:08
The truth about solar in the Netherlands,
From day one solar energy is cheaper than buying energy from energy firms.
Fact one:
The mortgage coast for a solar installation is the same as the energy costs that it produces. So if you’re paying 100 euro a month at...
Björn on An Ipod in your car or is your car the new Ipod? - 03:10:08
Or other examples: www.theaircar.com or www.mdi.lu with 'air' as the fuel. And than, of course in co-operation with Apple ;-)
Arjan on Many selves inside yourself: hyper-individualism - 03:10:08
It clarifies, but I don't agree =) Madonna her image has changes and her 'self' probably evolved... so multiple selves I still find diffucult to grasp... multiple idenitites, I understand what you mean but I still would most likely prefer to call it something 'show diff...
Björn on Network as a Paradigm - 03:10:08
Yeah, but Wittgenstein also said "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." ;-)
Jörgen on Many selves inside yourself: hyper-individualism - 02:10:08
I think, especially if you take a wider perspective and look on identities and selves in a longer timeframe, you'd have to conclude that we have many selves today.
I'm borrowing from McCracken's thoughts here, but in traditional societies (in Western sense, quite a w...
Arjan on Network as a Paradigm - 02:10:08
I agree that paradigm is used in multiple ways but let's not mix popular definition with more scientific models. One research project deals with the fact of understanding which innovation curve we are on (think Neo-Schumpeter, Kondratieff and especially Freeman). We thi...
Arjan on Many selves inside yourself: hyper-individualism - 02:10:08
The question is also in the definition. I would consider that there is one self (if not schizfrenic). You might manage multiple identities but that isn't new... an identity is for a large part constructed by its context, so in fact it might be still one identity with se...
Jörgen on Many selves inside yourself: hyper-individualism - 02:10:08
You disagree with the premise that we have many selves? Why?
With optimization I mean the way, that especially young people, seem to be able to have many selves, made explicit online. They always know (from each other) who they are in a given situation. So, whereas a...
Björn on Many selves inside yourself: hyper-individualism - 02:10:08
I'm curious what you mean with 'optimization'? What does it look like? It seems so easy the way you formulate it, but I think with 'all the selves we have inside' (if that is 'true'?) as you describe it optimization isn't that easy and I'm wondering if technology is the...
Jurg on Network as a Paradigm - 02:10:08
there are several things said in this post and the discussion that followed. we don't know yet how to deal with 'the system' that might be understood from a different perspective namely 'the network'. but, as arjan said, we see all sorts of phenomena we try to explain f...
Arjan on Network as a Paradigm - 02:10:08
System thinking evolved end of 19th century and lead to a wide spread of turns in science from molecural biology and chemistry, Gestalt-theory in psychology to the linguistic turn in philosophy. Scientific management, Operations research and cybernatics stimulated this ...
Arjan on Network as a Paradigm - 02:10:08
There is no right or wrong paradigm. I don't even know if we are talking paradigm here! Machine-thinking and later syste-thinking are more like 'turns' in science. These turn are not about either or but moreover about and and. The different turns and perspectives add up...
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The New Gulf - How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good
by Edmund O'Sullivan
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A new Gulf is rising one that will be radically different to the one we know. This book is about the economic, social and political transformation sweeping the 6 Gulf states of the GCC... Now the fastest growing part of the world economy. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses on the economic,...
