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Genius: NZ election

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Tuesday, September 02, 2014. A New Election is coming up. So first things first - predictions. National to win with NZfirst supporting them. Same prediction I have had for the last year or two. It will be very interesting to see what Dotcom comes up with in his presentation - but in the end (unless it is incredible) - there are some basic principles underlying what is going on here.

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Genius: Real answers hypothetical questions

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Monday, August 15, 2005. Real answers hypothetical questions. Is there such a thing as a real answer to a hypothetical question? At first this seems like a ridiculous "of course there is" you may think. But is that the case? For example let’s say I made a simple proposal "If I was god the universe would be different" or if I wish to avoid religion "if I was you I would act differently". As soon...

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Genius: Dirty Politics

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Friday, September 05, 2014. First - is new Zealand Politics dirty? I know all these systems exist to an extent in NZ, but if we still don't trust our politicians (and we don't) that means we can go further. What we would want to see would be. 1) Additional rules governing how politicians should act. For example that a member of parliament should not be able to engage in certain activities, or s...

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Genius: Epsom voters

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Saturday, September 06, 2014. Interesting how people run around telling people what should or needs to happen as if they share the same objectives as the person they are talking to. National and its supporters are telling Epsom to vote for ACT. From the PM : "For the electorate vote, we will encourage National party supporters to give their electorate vote to the ACT candidate in Epsom". An Eps...

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Genius: The problem of evil

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Friday, August 19, 2005. The problem of evil. If God can prevent evil, but doesn't, then He isn't all-loving. If God intends to prevent evil, but cannot, then He isn't omnipotent. If God both intends to prevent evil and is capable of doing so, then how can evil exist? This is pretty bullet proof given a few unstated assumptions. Some religious groups then may argue. A) Give us heaven in the end...

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Genius: Principles

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Friday, July 01, 2005. These are my fundamental principles in order. 1) I am a Utilitarian - I believe policies should be made in the interests of all people. 2) I am a pragmatist. 3) I am not a wishful thinker. 4) I believe in logic. Posted by Genius at 3:17 AM. I have something to say about this "I think very few people in the world are honest to themselves.". Knowing or not knowing. Gawain -...

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Genius: The solution for Global warming

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Thursday, December 30, 2004. The solution for Global warming. Well UN bonds of some sort UN taxes or Kyoto money. Or there can be the rabid pessimist scenario or somewhere in-between. Anyway - assuming global warming IS very bad. What should we do. well let’s look at some similar situations. One can do that in any way that is feasible but in the above cases we. 1) Secure the means of production,.

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Genius: July 2005

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Sunday, July 31, 2005. The following parties generally support freedom of choice - Greens and labour and act. The parties such as national, united future NZ first tend to be more traditional and will be more likely to pass laws that protect some sort of traditional values. I probably on balance support Labour on this topic. Posted by Genius at 12:37 PM. Posted by Genius at 3:56 AM. I suggest th...

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Genius: Maths with infinity

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Saturday, August 13, 2005. When you take a maths class you will be taught by the teacher that infinity divided by infinity is not 1, they may say there is no answer or that that it is indeterminate. It is basically the same as me asking you what is the answer to "a number I just thought of divided by another number I just thought of" (by the way the answer was 2). Posted by Genius at 3:20 PM.

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Genius: utilitarianism

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A blog concerning politics philosophy and science. Common sense and a touch of genius. Now with 23% more typos! Monday, January 03, 2011. Richard looks at defending utilitarianism. He starts off below. This is a good and useful seperation (not entirely new of course but nothing is). Interestingly in the comments on the thread I see from X. Trapnel. I don't see any reason to think that "being a consequentialist just means rejecting" the 'fitting' mode of evaluation. (That would certainly be a surprise...