The Eclectic

Reading this article got me thinking about an ongoing debate in ethical decision making. This debate is more common applies to the decision making process, as well as evaluating a decision in hindsight.

The dilemma is this: when making a decision, which is more important, the reasons for choosing what a given alternative, or the results yielded by choosing a given alternative? (more…)

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While sipping my Firefox morning coffee, I came across quite a few articles discussing the future of digital markets. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of capitalism, though I accept it for what it is and what it does. Meanwhile, the issues of net neutrality and free markets are a giant capitalist mess, but I think these topics are both interesting and important. My quarrels with capitalist philosophy lie, for the most part, in the harm to individuals that stems from facilitating greed and corporations. While the issues of net neutrality and VRM are problems that need to be attacked from a capitalist perspective, both ideas strive to better serve the needs of people as individuals. That’s what makes these ideas so exciting. (more…)

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So, my marker for PDEng 225, Module 4 reenforced my absolute adoration of PDEng.

Unfortunately, I’m inclined not to share a direct quote from the submission in question here because it discusses people from my previous workterm, and, it being a small team, assumptions could be made without names being named. Instead, below is the instructions for the section on which my marker commented, followed by a summary of the type of content that was in my submission. The module was on “people situations”. (more…)

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Bugzilla quips are really coming through for me today as quotes on my favourite topics. First computers, now religion.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
– George Carlin

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