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Old 01-12-2008, 07:12 AM
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1. Stealing content or whole pages. Nothing to do with ethics at all. It is criminal. If you are a gipsy, it is only criminal if you steal from a family member.
2. Stealing titles and/or descriptions. Nothing to do with ethics at all. It is regarded as SEO and art if it is unreckognizable. Unless it is bad copying. How many of this forum's members cite source? There is one advantage with digital media and books. You can link to the source. That is transclusion. Look the concept up on Wikipedia and Google it.
3. Hot linking to other sites without approval. Depends.
4. Submitting other peoples web site to search engines or anywhere for that matter. Vasting your time. It is not important today.
5. People of power on forums or any other type of site with their personal URL in there sig SOLELY for advertising and back links to there own site. Where do you come from?
6. Having other people dictate to me how I can or can not make money from my own site. "as long as it is legal" How old are you?
7. pop ups or adverts of pron on any site without a adult content warning first. Have you heard of Google safe search and filters. How old are you?
8. Trap pages "any page that once your on, you can not hit the back button to leave. it just reloads that page" Never visit that page again or block the IP. It can be criminal if it infects your Pc. You get a problem if you try to prove it.
9. Using other pages like forums, blogs, Usenet etc to spam your url. "if that is the ONLY reason your there, joined, or post" One single post can be of value to me as a link collector. Most often it is not.
10. knowingly promoting anything illegal. Links to illegal site is not considered illegal.




Kgun I don't know why you feel the need to personally attack me or to belittle me, but I find your comments unprofessional and no I am not going to stoop to your level of intelligence or personality and give you any sort of satisfaction in any sort of come back. I am not going to try to clarify what I was saying, because I am wasting my time in trying to do so. But I do believe you have a serious flaw in your character and maybe before you make any more posts, you consider the wording of it. Have a nice day.
Can you be more specific? I commented directly to your posts. What is a personal attack in my answers. I also prefer direct language.
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Old 01-12-2008, 07:41 AM
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Thehappysmoker is it ethical to continue a polemic in another thread that may be hidden to the person that started that other thread? Not a big point since what you wrote was mostly what some Danish people call air gas. I had thought of not reading this infinite loop thread.
Correction. It should be ear gas. And it continues.

This is better. Now you are getting philosophical. My too short answers in blue.
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A couple of points which I have been pondering as a result of this thread.
(1) Is it possible for something which is unethical in one country to be ethical in a different one ? Of course. I personally don't see how, but I'd be willing to accept it as a theoretical possibility, if someone could provide some kind of evidence.
(2) Does the fact that some people die of poverty in other cultures make it ethical to contribute to their deaths in the name of huge profits ? This is a discussion that can cover books and go on for ever, an infinite loop. Karl Marx tried to answer the question. In his foreword to "Das Kapital" he writes that 1 % of the population will start reading "Das Kapital" and of those that start the reading, only 1 % will finish. He formulated an enormous economic / sociological theory, that some countries tried to implement. I can not see that any have succeeded. Some of them have changed system, S in Haavelomo's Memorandum (see next section).

You read Norwegian. My former teacher in economics, Nobel price winner Trygve Haavelmo wrote a memorandum at the economic institute at the University of Oslo called "Samfunn styring og velferd" "Society, political system and welfare". That is the best I have read on this topic. In a nutshell his conclusion is that: "A secure ideology with means and gooals, may lead to quite another society than formulated in the goals". Trygve Haavelmo was a very shy person and he was direct like me. Once he was asked about an American Economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. The question at the seminar was: "What do you think of Galbraith?" His short answer was. "Galbraith is OK, but I am unsure of the signs of his calculations". As a mathematical economist I agree with Haavelmo.

Haavelmo also wrote a doctoral thesis "The probability approach in Econometrics." One of the best thesi's I have ever read. That thesis got rude comments from foreigners, that did not understand it at the time it was written. In short the comment was. It seems that he writes for a lesser mathematical inner circle. I can understand, but not accept that critigue. Some econometricians have concluded that Haavelmo was 50 years ahead of his time. Today the econometric concept of "Haavelmo Distribution" (Google it) is a very central concept in econometrics. In short econometrics is the empirical part of economoic theory. Econometrics is a science (branch of economic theory) aimed at giving empirical content to economic theory. By the way, John Kenneth Galbraith has written some very readable and thought provoking books on the subject. Youy find them in that Wikipedia article. I think that was mine contribution so far to an infinite loop subject.
(3) Are loss-leaders ethical ? Is it unethical to go to a store with the express intention of only buying the loss-leader and nothing else ? loss-leaders New concept to me.

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Water off a duck's back. Several people have referred to his awful behavior, some have stopped posting, a thread he started was deleted because it was about Danes being pigs (he objected to that, saying that it was a misunderstood joke) and still he keeps going. Perhaps my suspicion that he is a drunk was too charitable. He may really be like it all the time.

Here's a post from a different thread. Remember it ?

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Well one supposes it's alright to have a loose opinion in this thread, and while it does not shed a good light upon oneself to be over critical of others, I have to agree with Clicken, with regard to K___:
An awful lot of wind that picks up nothing but dust and dead leaves, then deposits it in a thin film over everything in its path.

It seems the Azores were formed in this manner: Sand picked up from as far away as Iran and deposited in the Atlantic. Keep it up K___, you may one day have your own archipelago.

But for my money, I haven't found more than a trickle of RepRank worthy posts under your banner. Is that contrary enough?
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Old 01-12-2008, 07:57 AM
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More ear gas. Clicken has written so many different comments to my posts. Was it a random draw?
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Old 01-12-2008, 08:02 AM
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"loss-leaders New concept to me".

Together with politeness, and thinking.
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Old 01-12-2008, 08:03 AM
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Water off a duck's back. Several people have referred to his awful behavior, some have stopped posting, a thread he started was deleted because it was about Danes being pigs (he objected to that, saying that it was a misunderstood joke) and still he keeps going. Perhaps my suspicion that he is a drunk was too charitable. He may really be like it all the time.

Here's a post from a different thread. Remember it ?
Here that is called a black lie.

That post deleted by moderator ctabuk went like this.

Heading:
Why UK loves Denmark?

Message:
Hint UK breakfeast and Danish Bacon.

It was a joke. Another infinite loop from you.

What about your serious comments on Britain in this thread. That is not jokes or am I wrong?

Your lobbying is not successfull to me.

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Old 01-12-2008, 08:14 AM
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What about your serious comments on Britain in this thread. That is not jokes or am I wrong?
Of course you're wrong, as usual. My only reference to the UK in this thread was about unethical British laws.

Have you started hallucinating ? Pink elephants perhaps ?
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Old 01-12-2008, 08:19 AM
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Of course you're wrong, as usual. My only reference to the UK in this thread was about unethical British laws.

Have you started hallucinating ? Pink elephants perhaps ?
CaseIf

Thahappysmoker makes a comment

Case 1: Is it meaningful?

Case 2: Is it on topic?

Case 3: Is it ear gas?

CaseElse

Is it the start of an infinite loop?

Then

Break. My action.

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Old 01-12-2008, 08:40 AM
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Your lobbying is not successfull to me.
You seem quite paranoid about this. You've previously made similar comments to other people who have objected to your rudeness.

The only person who's out to get you seems to be yourself. Try some self control.
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Old 01-12-2008, 10:21 AM
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Is it possible for you to produce anything but ear gas?

http://www.webproworld.com/breakroom...tml#post350478

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Two words. Four letters and three letters. Go Away. (use your maths on that)
It is even a break on this forum's rules.

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You've previously made similar comments to other people who have objected to your rudeness.
Can you give some proofs? If that of Clicken is the worst you can come up with, I am not very impressed.

Advice: Take a Danish bayer, relax and have a nice weekend.

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Old 01-12-2008, 11:57 AM
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What a clever chap you must (erroneously) think you are. "Ear gas", which you so frequently refer to, is sound (hence the word "ear"). Since this forum is a written medium, there quite clearly isn't any, although a lot of your posts tend to stink, which doesn't appear to be a written possibility.

To have YOU of all people, quoting a rule about being offensive must be the silliest joke I've heard this year. However, I respect you as much as you show yourself to deserve. More than that would be unreasonable.

No, I'm not a moderator here, but that doesn't mean that you have the right to be offensive to me. If I WAS a moderator here, you wouldn't be here at all. To my mind, people (like yourself)who make a sport out of being offensive have no place in a public forum.

You want proof ? Scroll back to Sparky's post. Quote: "Kgun I don't know why you feel the need to personally attack me or to belittle me............"

Why would I want to impress someone like you ?

Why do you use a word like "bayer" here. This is an English language forum, and I don't even know what language that word is supposed to be. It's certainly not English or Danish. Still, why should you respect such an idea as writing anything which is understandable ? As long as it amuses you, that's all that matters, isn't it ?

Don't wish me a nice weekend. It's insincere and sarcastic.
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Old 01-12-2008, 12:28 PM
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Default Re: What is unethical to you?

Proposal:
  1. Read back to where I used the word lobbying. Reread the thread where you was offensive to Indiana.
  2. My comment to the original post in blue and the comment about personal attacks and my question about being more precise has nothiing to do with lobby activity.
  3. I asked if you could quote a post where I have been accused of lobby activity.
  4. Can you please explain the word lobby activity?
  5. If I can prove or make it probable, that you are lobbying, will you admit that that is unethical?

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Old 01-12-2008, 12:42 PM
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1. No. (Do you have any idea why Indiana was there at all ? Clearly not).
2. Good for you. So what ?
3. No you didn't
4. No. Can you ?
5. No. It isn't.
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Old 01-12-2008, 12:53 PM
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Summarizing I will explain it by example:
  1. This thread where you continue a discussion from another thread that may be hidden to that thread's starter.
  2. One moderator in this thread once pointed out someting like this: "And you are only contributing in the break room". You know which thread. Then you was "saved" by another modertor.
  3. You changed your tone towards Indiana, once the same moderator said that he knew Indiana from another forum.

My personal opinion: That is proof of lobby activity.

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What example ?

(1) Hidden how ?
(2) Untrue
(3) Untrue

Your opinion on this - worth about the same as all the others - i.e. nothing.

If true (it isn't) what difference would it make ? What is wrong with lobbying ? Are you now inventing a new crime ?

I think it's about time for you to stop this nonsense.
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Your opinion on this - worth about the same as all the others - i.e. nothing.
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No, I'm not a moderator here, but that doesn't mean that you have the right to be offensive to me. If I WAS a moderator here, you wouldn't be here at all.
Yes, if you were a moderator, as a man with totalitarian tendencies, you would most probably be here alone talking to yourself (producing ear gas) in two mobile phones.

To be more precise on the term: "as a man with totalitarian tendencies". That is my personal impression after reading your opinions regarding market economy and economic political systems. That is an infinite loop topic, I will not take with you.

By the way: If I WAS is incorrect English. If I were, is correct English. That is a huge semantical error.

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I think it's about time for you to stop this nonsense.
The best advice from you aside from one word.

You are a funny Danish man and deserve the title "WPW's producer of ear gas."

Don't export it to Norway please.

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To take one point:

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7. pop ups or adverts of pron on any site without a adult content warning first.
Seemingly you have left, but back to topic, let us take one point.

ODP - Open Directory Project

Search that site for adult related material.
  1. Look at the number of Categories.
  2. Look at the number of Sites.
I asked where you came from and how old you are. That is direct questions. How long have you surfed the web? How many internet pages have you made? What do you know about safe search filters? Do you participate on other web forums? What do you know about filters and options in different web browsers? What do you know about blocking IP's and IP regions in .htaccess?

Ethical investment:
The Central Bank of Norway decided for ethical reasons to eliminate their investments in Wal Mart. I don't agree, and you will find the Wal Mart banner on my sites. A new canditate for an infinite loop discussion.

The ethical road is a very hard road to walk.

Ethical investment, if you are consitent and dig deep enough, you can soon end up placing your money in the bank (and under certain market regimes that is safest). But that imaginary bank has that leader that is a specialist in lobbying people to death or desperation. Oh my God, I have to place the money under my bed.

But under my bed? Is that an ethical place to place the money?

Moderator: Don't allow thehappysmoker to participate in this discussion. He will say that it is unethical to have money

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Kgun, you are an extremely rude person who delights in trying to ruin the pleasure of others who use WPW´s forum. I don't know why they allow you to continue with your offensive rubbish. You clearly have neither self-respect nor respect for others. You are just a rude nuisance. My grammar may occasionally be incorrect. Yours is seldom anything else. Don't correct my use of a language which you have only a very slight grasp of. STOP being offensive ! STOP ruining this forum ! STOP !
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Yes, I know that may be a good advice. I can not turn off my brain and my style of writing. I shall stop in the break room as a first option.

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I look forward to it, and I'm probably not alone (if there's anyone left).

However, I won't believe it until at least a week has passed without your rude disruption.
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Default Ethical Frameworks

After reading the various posts, I would suggest that most actions, we, on a very intuitive basis, can readily understand if the action is ethical or unethical. The 'easy' questions aren't particularly worthy of analysis. Naturally, there are more interesting scenarios which can present themselves from time to time and in those scenarios it may not be completely obvious if the action is ethical or unethical.

I would suggest taking into consideration many factors for you to judge actions by including, but not limited to:

a. the legality of the action - while not completely dispositive, this is usually an excellent place to begin your analysis. While illegal actions can be ethical and legal actions unethical; GENERALLY speaking most illegal actions are unethical. Remember that the common law doctrine of necessity is still generally recognized to preclude criminal liability in those instances where an illegal action is undertaken to prevent a greater harm (excellent example is speeding in your car while trying to get a person to the hospital who just suffered a heart attack)

b. the consequences of the action - most of us have heard the expression, 'the end justifies the means' which is rather Machiavellian, but nevertheless as intelligent people we must always be considering the consequences of our actions. In many circumstances, it may be difficult to forsee the full consequences of your actions.

c. the consequences of inaction - when considering the consequences of an action, it may also be necessary to consider the consequences of inaction. Sometimes we are put in a position where we are faced with two troubling choices; usually the question posed is framed in the sense that a certain action will cause great harm, but failing to act will result in even greater harm. Most of us would not envy being in this position, ie. its akin to 'Sophie's Choice' or the decision of a water dam operator to release water building up behind a dam knowing full well the damage that can be caused downriver, but knowing that waiting until the dam completely bursts will cause EVEN more damage.

d. justifications - unfortunately in business you will be invariably forced to make decisions which you know will affirmatively harm others. An excellent example is an employee termination. Nevertheless, when such decisions need to be made, you need to consider the reasons/justifications for your actions, ie. Is your action justified under the circumstances?
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where an illegal action is undertaken to prevent a greater harm (excellent example is speeding in your car while trying to get a person to the hospital who just suffered a heart attack)
You make some good, interesting points.

I remember a few years ago, here in Denmark, a fire-engine, on its way to a fire, was pulled over by the police, and the driver charged with speeding and jumping a red light. It was a crazy comedy situation, and, to my mind, a very bad action which could easily have caused someone's death, but what were the ethics ? The police were enforcing the law (which is their job), and the firemen were speeding to extinguish a blaze (which is their job). Is there a right and wrong involved here ? Is common sense more important than law ? If so, who should decide when ? I have sometimes wondered whether there was an ulterior motive, but if so, it never came to light.

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To kgun and the Happy Smoker: please play nicely! Many of those posts between the two of you above should be deleted for hijacking the thread and flaming, but I am too lazy to do it and besides this is the breakroom so we will allow some latitude on hijacking, but, please, no flames ... it's hot enough in here as it is ...
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