T_Clark

Yes, and get rid of Social Security and Medicare while you're at it.

I believe Gnarly Croak was a character in one of the Harry Potter books.

As I noted, it isn't my job to make the case, and you haven't done it. You've made claims about the way things happened without any references or back...

Perhaps you're right, but I don't see eastern philosophies, at least not Taoism as formulated by Lao Tzu, as esoteric at all. As I always say, to me, ...

I don't know if I've ever seen a raven, but I do love crows. Both biological and mechanical. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Crow_...

Civil engineers are not so different. Not so much free spirited, maybe, as lazy. If you want to be an artist, sometimes you have to clean the paint br...

Agreed. I'm not familiar with the works of those philosophers in more than a casual way, so I can't comment specifically. Are there any philosophers o...

The design docs you are talking about seem like what we call basis of design memoranda (BDM). BDM are usually prepared when data collection is complet...

Crows, although I don't know if I could tell the difference if I saw them both together.

Perhaps humanity.

I'll let what I've already written stand as a response to this. I've tried to be clear about my understanding of these things and I think I've succeed...

Did you ever see the film by Robert Altman with Elliot Gould? I guess a lot of people don't like it because of it's unconventional Phillip Marlow, but...

I think you have it backwards. You're the one who made the claims. It's up to you to provide evidence that they are correct. Everything you presented ...

Forgot to mention this. There's a neat program on Netflix called "The Midnight Gospel." It's animated, but the discussion is taken from interviews wit...

I know you didn't, but sometimes I just want to say to people - "Stop with the hell in a handbasket/why, when I was a boy! The world is a wonderful pl...

I must admit to skepticism about esoteric philosophical approaches. It seems like most phenomena can be explained based on human psychology. It's also...

Did Swift indicate how the Houyhnhnms pushed the buttons on their ATMs?

In my work, all of the activities described are typically performed by a project team of from three to 10 people. The process is specifically planned ...

I like this definition of "pragmatism," which is from Wikipedia: Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and...

Or perhaps it is the horse's account. He brings the rider because he can't push the buttons on the ATM.

And yet the world is full of wonderful, beautiful music, visual art, poetry, literature, architecture....

My degree is in civil engineering. I worked for environmental engineering companies investigating and cleaning up contaminated properties.

At a contaminated site, we generally know stuff before we really start a formal investigation. We observe the site, look at historic maps and aerial p...

I'm not sure if I understand. A site conceptual model is just a description, image of the site which lays out all the information gathered during the ...

Here's a link to where you can see a copy of U.S.EPA's "Guidance for Conducting Remedial Investigations and Feasibility Studies Under CERCLA." CERCLA ...

I didn't mean to imply the processes you and I described were the same. I was using it to show that the way I was presenting things was not limited to...

Engineering is nothing special. It's mostly just figuring stuff out and then deciding what to do. I'm using it here as a stand-in for all the regular ...

I think it's clear from what I've written that I don't agree.

A lot of the above discussion came from another discussion I participated in about four years ago. In that discussion, fdrake responded with a post I ...

Here's a link to a circular from the U.S. Copyright Office describing the rules for copyright protection. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf ...

I think your; and I guess Robert Noonan's; understanding of history, society, and politics; is very naive and very inaccurate. It's a myth made up to ...

I don't doubt that the way the brain works has similarities to neural networks constructed by humans. I was questioning the specificity of your commen...

@"Hanover" A rebuttal to your constant disrespect for the good people of Georgia: Judge: Georgia county can move ahead on land for spaceport. WOODBINE...

Even your two takes on the subject are just long, convoluted ways of saying tl;dr.

I'm not sure if this is the same thing you are talking about. We've been talking in recent weeks about art in different threads. One thing that struck...

Evidence?

Your post is a little unclear. Are you talking about members of the forum or the general public? If you're talking about the general public, I've almo...

Good post.

Yes...well...why didn't I think of that?

I haven't provided any idea of how to give people the power they need to ensure a decent life. That's because....well, I don't know how it should be d...

I've never put much effort into art, even fiction, which is where I've spent my time. Now, I find myself working to deepen my experience in a way that...

I assumed that was a photo of you. That's pretty much how I've always pictured you.

Men provide genetic material. Women provide that, plus nine months use of their bodies as a place to grow. One man is all that's needed, but you need ...

The problem is that without power, people won't get what they need or, if they do, it can be taken away.

I thought they called them "dangly bits" in the UK and Ireland.

As I noted, it was a good post.

I think you're wrong about the kind of attitudes we're talking about being a result of political action and public relations. The attitudes have alway...

So, calling it as you see it excuses you from having to justify opinions that are ignorant and disrespectful.

If I were a woman, I think your dismissive statement about women's role in religion would bother me. Hey, wait a minute... I'm not a woman and it both...

Well, Mary was meant to be... I guess ironic, but the other two were serious.