Comments for Three Sigma Systems http://www.3sigma.com Facilitating Knowledge Creation Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:18:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Keeping Up Appearances by john dowd http://www.3sigma.com/keeping-up-appearances/comment-page-1/#comment-633 john dowd Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:18:57 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4700#comment-633 I think I'm a stowaway.... I think I’m a stowaway….

]]> Comment on Keeping Up Appearances by marc http://www.3sigma.com/keeping-up-appearances/comment-page-1/#comment-632 marc Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:39:51 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4700#comment-632 Thanks Paul! I did read what is available online, and that makes me want to read more. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/last-log-of-the-titanic.html Thanks Paul! I did read what is available online, and that makes me want to read more.

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/last-log-of-the-titanic.html

]]> Comment on Keeping Up Appearances by Paul Bayer http://www.3sigma.com/keeping-up-appearances/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Paul Bayer Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:11:25 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4700#comment-631 Hi Marc, it's yet worse if we consider what happened on the ships bridge. I can recommend much "The Last Log of the Titanic" by David G. Brown All the best, Paul Hi Marc,

it’s yet worse if we consider what happened on the ships bridge. I can recommend much “The Last Log of the Titanic” by David G. Brown

All the best,
Paul

]]> Comment on Whatever it Takes by marc http://www.3sigma.com/whatever-it-takes-g-m-%e2%80%99s-sales-rose-11-5-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-630 marc Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:47:22 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4629#comment-630 Time for another congressional hearing! <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/01/business/AP-US-GM-Recall.html" rel="nofollow">GM to Recall 1.3M Compacts for Steering Problem</a> Time for another congressional hearing!

GM to Recall 1.3M Compacts for Steering Problem

]]> Comment on The Gadget Revolution – What’s In Store For U by marc http://www.3sigma.com/the-gadget-revolution-whats-in-store-for-u/comment-page-1/#comment-629 marc Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:50:12 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4541#comment-629 M. G. I'm not sure I get you meaning. Wish I did, though. M. G. I’m not sure I get you meaning. Wish I did, though.

]]> Comment on The Gadget Revolution – What’s In Store For U by M.G. in Progress http://www.3sigma.com/the-gadget-revolution-whats-in-store-for-u/comment-page-1/#comment-628 M.G. in Progress Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:12 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4541#comment-628 Joe (the plumber?) to turn-on, plug-in, and tune out? What for? I am not sure that's less stressful. Joe (the plumber?) to turn-on, plug-in, and tune out? What for? I am not sure that’s less stressful.

]]> Comment on The Gadget Revolution – What’s In Store For U by marc http://www.3sigma.com/the-gadget-revolution-whats-in-store-for-u/comment-page-1/#comment-627 marc Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:31:10 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4541#comment-627 Shadow warrior James Kwak, who shares top billing with Simon Johnson on their Baseline Scenario blog, steps into the same stream with his short post, "<a href="http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/28/every-moment-count/" rel="nofollow">Every Moment Counts</a>". The real question is, WHY are mobile phones, BlackBerrys, and iPhones, like chocolate ice cream? I commented on Kwak's blog entry: <em>The key statement in Kwak’s the blog entry is that our mobile communications devices ARE “like chocolate ice cream”. The important question is, why is this so? Human communication is centered around wrestling with problems that matter. It is a messy and stressful process. Given the chance, people will avoid the discomfort by substituting the less challenging attenuated signaling provided by digital “communication”. While conversation involves sensation., Tweets are sweets.</em> Shadow warrior James Kwak, who shares top billing with Simon Johnson on their Baseline Scenario blog, steps into the same stream with his short post, “Every Moment Counts“. The real question is, WHY are mobile phones, BlackBerrys, and iPhones, like chocolate ice cream?

I commented on Kwak’s blog entry:

The key statement in Kwak’s the blog entry is that our mobile communications devices ARE “like chocolate ice cream”. The important question is, why is this so?

Human communication is centered around wrestling with problems that matter. It is a messy and stressful process. Given the chance, people will avoid the discomfort by substituting the less challenging attenuated signaling provided by digital “communication”.

While conversation involves sensation., Tweets are sweets.

]]> Comment on Why the big freak-out about Toyota? by mikejgrant http://www.3sigma.com/why-the-big-freak-out-about-toyota/comment-page-1/#comment-625 mikejgrant Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:14:38 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4193#comment-625 ABSOLUTELY perfect article. Iv'e been thinking about this since it first started to get hyped. "Are the US big 3 behind this publicity?" I don't doubt for a second that a smear campaign is on Toyota and the purpose is to try to bump up US auto sales and hurt the Toyota. ABSOLUTELY perfect article. Iv’e been thinking about this since it first started to get hyped. “Are the US big 3 behind this publicity?” I don’t doubt for a second that a smear campaign is on Toyota and the purpose is to try to bump up US auto sales and hurt the Toyota.

]]> Comment on The Poorest Nation on Earth by marc http://www.3sigma.com/the-poorest-nation-on-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-616 marc Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:18:30 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4161#comment-616 In one of the bleakest world views I have ever encountered you (Gertifity) surmise, "Rule out God, and I don't see why I would care or why you world care". Why does caring about others and for others require a belief in God? Isn't it enough to know that I experience in life, feelings of joy, pain, love, fear, etc, and that I believe that others experience those feelings as I do? The joy and love experienced by others increases my joy and love. The pain and fear of others increases my pain and fear. My belief or disbelief in God has nothing to do with my belief that others experience life as I do, and that my experience is connected to their experience. <blockquote>From this comes the "Golden Rule": <em>"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". </em> Though I prefer the rule as stated by Rabbi Hillel: <em>"Do not unto others as you would not have them do unto you."</em></blockquote> The gist is the same. If God does exist, then our empathy with others must be part of his or her design, so we should stop worrying about God, who doesn't need our help, and start worrying about each other. In one of the bleakest world views I have ever encountered you (Gertifity) surmise, “Rule out God, and I don’t see why I would care or why you world care”.

Why does caring about others and for others require a belief in God? Isn’t it enough to know that I experience in life, feelings of joy, pain, love, fear, etc, and that I believe that others experience those feelings as I do? The joy and love experienced by others increases my joy and love. The pain and fear of others increases my pain and fear.

My belief or disbelief in God has nothing to do with my belief that others experience life as I do, and that my experience is connected to their experience.

From this comes the “Golden Rule”:

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.

Though I prefer the rule as stated by Rabbi Hillel:

“Do not unto others as you would not have them do unto you.”

The gist is the same.

If God does exist, then our empathy with others must be part of his or her design, so we should stop worrying about God, who doesn’t need our help, and start worrying about each other.

]]> Comment on The Poorest Nation on Earth by Gertifity http://www.3sigma.com/the-poorest-nation-on-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Gertifity Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:47 +0000 http://www.3sigma.com/?p=4161#comment-615 Being human beings brings no particular gravity to our illness or injury from that of other living creatures. Cows, birds, dogs, fish and insects get injured and sick. Human life is of equal relevance to other life. Who cares about your kid except you? I certainly shouldn't. And why do you care about him? He has no purpose and neither do you Marc. Is this not clear? You think intelligent design of the universe is a bad idea, so fine, get comfortable with your meaninglessness. Really, the above blog is heaped with implications that we ought in some way be concerned about something (something related to your plight or your kid's plight): concerned about what? The "way?" "we?" "choose?" to "live?" I like your blog Marc and I like you and I care about mankind and our plight, all because I believe in intelligent design, and specifically God and Jesus Christ of the Old and New Testaments. I care about your kid's back Marc because of my belief in God and human beings being created in His image. I care about you because I love you and I love you because He loves you and He asked me to love others. Rule out God, and I don't see why I would care or why you would care. Chaos believers tend to adopt arbitrary quantities of human values and hold them important and even propose that others ought espouse that quantity of value, which does not follow from the premise of chaos. Do you believe chaos is the origin of all things Marc? Being human beings brings no particular gravity to our illness or injury from that of other living creatures. Cows, birds, dogs, fish and insects get injured and sick. Human life is of equal relevance to other life. Who cares about your kid except you? I certainly shouldn’t. And why do you care about him? He has no purpose and neither do you Marc. Is this not clear?
You think intelligent design of the universe is a bad idea, so fine, get comfortable with your meaninglessness.
Really, the above blog is heaped with implications that we ought in some way be concerned about something (something related to your plight or your kid’s plight): concerned about what? The “way?” “we?” “choose?” to “live?”

I like your blog Marc and I like you and I care about mankind and our plight, all because I believe in intelligent design, and specifically God and Jesus Christ of the Old and New Testaments.
I care about your kid’s back Marc because of my belief in God and human beings being created in His image. I care about you because I love you and I love you because He loves you and He asked me to love others.
Rule out God, and I don’t see why I would care or why you would care.
Chaos believers tend to adopt arbitrary quantities of human values and hold them important and even propose that others ought espouse that quantity of value, which does not follow from the premise of chaos.
Do you believe chaos is the origin of all things Marc?

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