Business-Ethics Challenge: Second, the Bottom Line

StefanL, 24.08.09, 16:22

In part one of this series we have identified opportunity as the first base on the grounds of which organizations and their members act against ethic standards (i.e. commonly agreed norms of action). We have not determined yet if they do this knowingly or talked too much about what the corresponding thoughts and ethical rules or justifying morales are. A...

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Hi Mom, This Is An Intermezzo

StefanL, 23.08.09, 22:49

And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. 'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justive is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom! Because it is a sunday today and despite the fact that every person who is seriously...

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Business-Ethics Challenge: First, Opportunity

StefanL, 21.08.09, 08:12

Certain businesses and political organizations will commit themselves to a philosophy in a formal pronouncement of a code of ethics or for example the issue of a document de- and prescribing standards of conduct. Having done so, the recorded idealism is distributed or shelved, and all too often that is that.

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2009 JVN medal goes to Susan L. Graham

StefanL, 19.08.09, 23:11

In a continuation of our policy on hinting to pre 2.0 computing professionals, today we have got Susan L. Graham. Mrs. Graham has received the 2009 IEEE John Von Neumann Medal. Past recipients of the Von Neumann medal include computing legends Donald Knuth, Doug Engelbart, and C. Gordon Bell. The medal was presented on 25 June 2009 at the...

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Hmmh

StefanL, 18.08.09, 11:45

Hey hey, my my, solidarity will never die! U will fare better if u will believe this. In other words, u better believe it will be so, for, if u don't it will be "else". And we are fair enough to give a warning: We have ways of making u believe!

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This Is Not A Joke

StefanL, 17.08.09, 20:37

There's a danger zone, not a stranger zone than the little plot I walk on that I call my home.

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Ways Of Making You Dance

StefanL, 16.08.09, 22:40

In seiner Schrift "Der Humor" machte der bekannte Wiener Arzt, Therapeut und Kulturtheoretiker Sigismund Schlomo Freud eine Anmerkung zur Tätigkeit des von ihm erfundenen bzw. so bezeichneten Über-Ich im Feld des Humors.

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Watching the Folly of Rocket Science Evolve

StefanL, 14.08.09, 07:30

While at Rice University, Texas, in 1962 where he had just been made an honorary visiting professor, former US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy held a famous lecture, in which he lay out the rationale for all the money the US government had planned to waste for reaching the goal of carrying American living beings to the moon and back. That...

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