-
Auto response phone
I am trying to change a flight. Apart from the refusal to waive the additional $150 charge (my change is completely due to a medical emergency), I have been frustrated by the wide application of AUTO-RESPONSE PHONE by all airline companies and agencies.
When you cannot get a simple thing done for several hours, you get irritable. I found those ( Read more... ) -
Will the cost of law be too high?
(This is a response posted in Buxis' blog. Her blog is a nice place with original Chinese essays on movies, books, places, etc. Please follow this link if interested: http://wordsneverdie.ycool.com/)
Hi. Your blog seems really unattended, just like mine.
I completely agree with your saying that the job of a lawyer is not to defend justice but ( Read more... ) -
Simple Thermodynamics
Is hell exothermic or endothermic?
A true story. A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students.
It had one question:
Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof.
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however wrote the ( Read more... ) -
In defense of Hypothetical social contract theories
It is often alleged that hypothetical social contract theories are waste of paper because they are hypothetical. That remark seems logical. After all, what’s the practical value of those vague theories relying heavily on suspicious assumptions, analogies and metaphors?
But if they are useless, why would they be banned by contemporary crown-heads ( Read more... ) -
Freedom. First encounter.
(This is an essay written like a letter to Helene, instructor of POLS 0820. )
I didn’t notice the importance of the concept of freedom until two years ago. It came to me through Bush’s second inaugural speech, “There Is No Justice without Freedom” Before he spoke, I assumed that he would elaborate on combating terrorism, but he turned the ( Read more... )
