You're right, it wasn't. However, people who propose a single, absolute moral principle generally believe, I think, that one will use it to freely overrule anything determinate that might be opposed.
I know, but I read something like that and thought it might amuse. Cause going on the number of down votes I attract there is a distinct lack of same on here. Anyways, it is getting tedious round here so I'm off. Someone please do delete this account.
There's been centuries of philosophizing and what's that contributed to humanity - nothing. Science has provided clean water and protection against most pathogens. I'm with the science guy anyday.
> There's been centuries of philosophizing and what's that contributed to humanity
Socrates and Plato introduced the idea that morality isn't just about doing what your society expects of you.
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and others developed the notion that governments ought to be accountable to their citizens.
Frege and Russell formalized logic (as mathematicians) and argued that its structures were not merely syntactic constructs (contrary to Boole) but somehow reflected the nature of reality and/or rational thought (a strictly philosophical discussion).
Popper conclusively killed the hypothetico-deductive model of scientific reasoning and replaced it with falsifiability, the now dominant foundation of all scientific endeavour.
Newton was a philosopher whose philosophising caused physics to became its own discipline. Similar trajectories apply to psychology, linguistics, and sociology, just over the past ~200 years.
Einstein credited his ruminations on Kant's metaphysics with giving him the conceptual insights to develop general relativity [1].
Historically, once a philosophical line of enquiry becomes sufficiently developed, we just stop calling it philosophy and give it a new name. This tends to happen once the methodological and conceptual questions are more or less settled, so that empiricism can finally be brought to bear on these problems.[2]
> I'm with the science guy anyday.
It's absurd to think of science and philosophy as mutually exclusive or somehow opposed to each other. Modern scientists are doing philosophy any time they do anything other than gather or analyse data. Field foundational and methodological questions are, by and large, precisely the kinds of questions philosophy has addressed for centuries.
It's funny how Scientists like to quote Popper but rail against their idea of what "Philosophy" is, never quite putting 2 and 2 together and realising that Popper was a Philosopher.
Science also produced nuclear bombs. Science is pro-nukes. If one disagrees with nukes, that would be philosophical. To say science mutually excludes philosophy is to say that one only believes in the forward motion of humanity. Philosophy would be the lateral motion. It wasn't Hitler's gun I disagree with.
I don't know that I'd say philosophy has contributed nothing.
iirc the philosophy of science or epistemology or something has had some influence on how science is done, and I think that might have had some practical contribution.
"The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system."
imho: The longer the same people stay with an organization, the more personality issues come to the surface. As you end up with a self appointed dictator and his/her sidekick, assorted followers, the opposing team and the rest regulated to the sidelines. Meanwhile it's sad watching a sinking ship.
So, what happens if you disconnect the electrical power input and connect the output back into the input. The device should continue to run for a measurably period until the 'cold-fusion' fuel is expended.
"The measurements of electrical power input were performed with a large bandwidth three-phase power analyzer. Data were collected during 32 days of running in March 2014. The reactor operating point was set to about 1260 oC in the first half of the run, and at about 1400 °C in the second half. The measured energy balance between input and output heat yielded a COP factor of about 3.2 and 3.6 for the 1260 oC and 1400 oC runs, respectively."
Probably the worst thing about the new EMET is the speed hit. The new functions (EAF+) in EMET 5.5 can slow application loading from ~2 seconds to around 30.
I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft actually tests anything before releasing it these days.
"One thing is certain: what happened in those difficult times was intercepted and transcribed by .. the National Security Agency (NSA), as this interception and other top-secret documents published today by WikiLeaks and our newspaper reveal. "
Well it ain't no secret anymore and I wonder at the timing, who at the NSA leaked the documents and what their motivation is.
