08.02.10
Tweets
All my tweets since I joined last year, in case you don't use Twitter
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04.12.09
Sexism against men group
Following the interest in this post about sexism against men, and discussion of forming an action group, I've created a Google discussion group where we could discuss possible actions. Here are the essentials. Feel free to join up and discuss things related to this topic.
I emphasise, that personally I'm not interested in starting something rabid. I'd like to do something to create true equality of opportunity, not yet another "we'd like to be more equal than you" movement. I'm also not interested in equality per se, only equal opportunity - non discrimination on the basis of gender. It's quite obvious that the genders are statistically speaking different in a number of features.
* Group name: hominism
* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/hominism
* Group email address hominism@googlegroups.com
Posted by Giles at 13:41 | Comments (0)
12.09.09
Screw Carbon Taxes (unless they're at source)
Trying to figure out carbon footprints for manufactured products is absurd. Let's take an extremely simple example. It must be easy to work out how much carbon it would take to produce and sell something as simple as a woodscrew, right?
Take a look at my attempt below and tell me if I've put anything in which is wrong (not if I've missed anything - I know I have). My aim here is to show how impossibly complex a full analysis would be, not even to try attempt a full analysis. I also want to show that an incomplete analysis doesn't even give you a rough lower bound - it could even be too high if you don't take everything into account (although it's not likely to be).
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Posted by Giles at 16:59 | Comments (2)
09.09.09
Rigihof hotel directions page needs work.shuttle costs 25 CHF, which is not mentioned on the web page and they only tell you after you've sat on it waiting for it to leave for 20 mins. Tram stop Winkelriedstrasse is not on the list on the ticket machine. There are 3 exits to HBHF and it took me 1/2 an hour to find where the tram No 10 goes from.... http://bit.ly/4tbU53
Otherwise, a nice hotel...
Posted by Giles at 21:28 | Comments (0)
24.08.09
Dawkins and probability
I really like Dawkins' book "The God Delusion". Although I agree with his conclusions especially regarding the pernicious effect of religion on society, the part I don't agree with are Dawkins' arguments from probability.
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17.08.09
Funny co-ordinates
Thanks to @roessler for these co-ordinates:
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