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Meistens begnügt sich der Sekretär damit, einfach schöne, gerne auch spezielle, lustige, nachdenkliche und ironische Bilder mit seinen Flickr-Freunden zu teilen. Aber manchmal gibt es, wie hier, Ausnahmen.
Der Ethikkodex des IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) geht auf einen Kodex des früheren AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) zurück, der 1912, also vor 110 Jahren, verabschiedet wurde.
Wie wir wissen, hat ein solcher Kodex Personen - und zwar sehr viele - kaum jemals davon abgehalten, sich unethisch bis hin zu kriminell zu verhalten. Und so wird es auch in Zukunft sein. Es wäre auch eine törichte Illusion zu erwarten, dass ein solches Dokument klare Anleitungen für das Verhalten in bestimmten Situationen gibt, auch in diesen schwierigen und herausfordernden Tagen.
Aber angesichts dessen, was Ingenieure zum Guten, aber auch zum Schlechten dieser Welt und ihrer Bewohner beigetragen haben und beitragen, ist es gut, einem Verband anzugehören, dem diese Fragen nicht gleichgültig sind und der über die Grenzen des eigenen Berufsstandes hinausblickt.
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Usually, Secretary is content to simply share some nice, preferably special, funny, thoughtful and ironic pictures with his Flickr friends. But sometimes, like here, there are exceptions.
The Code of Ethics of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) goes back a code of the former AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers), adopted in 1912, i.e. 110 years ago.
As we know, such a code has hardly ever prevented individuals - actually a great many of them - from behaving unethically to the point of criminality. And so it will be in the future. It would also be a foolish illusion to expect such a document to give clear guidance on how to act in specific situations, including these present difficult and challenging days.
But in view of what engineers have contributed and are contributing to the good, but also to the bad, of this world and its residents, it is good to be part of an association that is not indifferent to these issues and that looks beyond the borders of its own profession.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
~ Potter Stewart
"As a fish / even with two eyes one-sided / I strongly oppose to being sold and eaten"
(Paris Market)
Which is over top of a small rock inside the Sea near Kanyakumari Beach.. I tried capturing it without sea in the Picture.
Thiruvalluvar Statue
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The Thiruvalluvar Statue in Kanyakumari
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, or the Valluvar Statue, is a 133-feet (40.6 m) tall stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Tiruvalluvar, author of the Tirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on secular ethics and morality. It is located atop a small island near the town of Kanyakumari on the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula on the Coromandel Coast, where two seas (the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea) and an ocean (the Indian Ocean) meet. The statue was sculpted by the Indian sculptor Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati, who also created the Iraivan Temple, and was unveiled on the millennium day of 1 January 2000 by the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
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Here's a photo that took me forever to edit, because making fake fake-fur coats is quite a time-taker. I shall post some epic before and afterness on Facebook. So go look at that.
Are you done? Cool.
Oh wait, I haven't posted it yet. Sorrow.. I HAVE NOW!
It's just going to be a photo of the NOTHING, and then a photo of the EVERYTHING next to each other for shock value, so you might not be missing out... (psst, you're missing out)
I DID record my screen the whole time I was editing, so I could make a 12 hour YouTube video if you wanted to see that? Anyone? No? Damn. :P
I squashed it into 5 minutes instead: YOUTUBE SPEEDY EDIT
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This is the first photo of a 12 month themed series on animal welfare.
Each month will have a different Sin or Virtue as the theme.This month the theme is Pride.
I've made a group called Sins&Virtues for a cause where I'll be adding my photo every month.
I'd love it if you Flickr fellows joined in and added your own photos in line with the monthly theme on whatever cause is close to your heart. Check out the group for more info on the themes etc.
The idea is to get a large group of photographers making art for their causes; Spreading awareness and making positive changes.
My model, and the brains behind this whole idea, is Sarah.
You can read more about this month's issue of Fur, on her BLOG.
The Golden Egyptian Queen Anotheys - AI Generated Art And The New Art Dilema by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)
Experimented the New Text Prompt Art in Deep Dream Generator / Text 2 Dream :
deepdreamgenerator.com/u/395672/account
The New Current Art Dilemma with the AI Generated Art -
What Future for Digital Art with the Development of Artificial Intelligence ?
Digital Art and even Art in general will no longer be the same, the new technologies used in the new generation of images in AI Generated Art, pose new challenges for digital artists but on the other hand can open up new perspectives of new worlds and artistic visions for the infinite possibility of new combinations of styles.
If, on the one hand, the artists' styles can be recreated, the fact is that as each artist has their favorite themes and techniques, the use of these images generated by artificial intelligence can be another way of working for their creations alongside Photography. , digital painting or the use of computer editing programs !
One thing is certain, the art world will never be the same and I fear that those who will profit the most will be the big companies of image generation by artificial intelligence and the big multinationals of production of visual and audiovisual arts content.
But as has been proven over time, the human imagination is infinitely rich and creative, which is why it is not the end of artistic creation and much less the end of artists, so Artificial Intelligence will be more a means than an end in itself !
Or at least let's hope so... :)
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O Novo Dilema Actual Da Arte Com A Arte Gerada Por Inteligência Artificial (IA) - Que futuro para a arte digital com o desenvolvimento da inteligência artificial?
A Arte Digital e mesmo a Arte em geral não vão ser mais as mesmas, as novas tecnologias empregues na nova geração de imagens em AI vem colocar novos desafios para os artistas digitais mas por outro lado pode vir a abrir novas perspetivas de novos mundos e visões artísticas pela possibilidade infinita de novas conjugações de estilos.
Se por um lado os estilos dos artistas poderão ser recreados, o certo é que como cada artista tem os seus temas e técnicas preferidas, a utilização destas imagens geradas por inteligência artificial pode ser mais um meio de trabalho para as suas criações a par da Fotografia, da Pintura Digital ou o uso de Programas de Edição de Imagem por computador !
Uma coisa é certa, o mundo da Arte não vai ser mais o mesmo e receio que quem vem lucrar mais serão as grandes empresas de geração de imagens por inteligência artificial e as grandes multinacionais de produção de conteúdos de artes visuais e audiovisuais.
Mas como se tem provado ao longo dos tempos, a imaginação humana é infinitamente rica e criativa, pelo que não é o fim da criação artística e muito menos o fim dos artistas, pelo que a Inteligência Artificial vai ser mais um meio que um fim em si mesmo !
Ou pelo menos esperemos que assim seja ... : )
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.
Inside "Dr. Moreau Seaworld" by Nexuno Thespian on LEA6
GRAND OPENING:
1.30PM SLT, Friday 8th February 2013
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From the description:
IN THE WORDS OF NEXUNO THESPIAN:
I am a fan of science fiction and fantasy novels. The Island of Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau) is a science fiction novel by HG Wells I've read a long time ago and which I have repeatedly seen the film editions. This is a story that I have always been passionate about because beyond the fantastic value it contains food for thought, very modern genetic modification and on moral ethics of science.
I wanted to create a job in marine version of the island of dr moreau with cute monsters mixed sea creatures and human. I am passionate about real aquariums and I also recreated some real elements such as coral (Zoanthus) which covers the rocks that hide a building of mythological characters.
Some features such as the siren which is located to the side is the SL version of my real paintings. I hope you have fun to explore and be a part of this strange seaworld for a while.
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(More information about the LEA project on the LEA-Website - follow this link)
The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.
As promised, I have created an "Owl Card" to spread the word about good birding ethics, especially related to owls. It is meant to be printed front and back; however, it may also be printed one-sided.
If you would like to print this card, please send me your email address. I don't expect the response to be overwhelming, but if it is I will have to rethink how to efficiently distribute.
If you would like to take the text and create your own cards, by ALL MEANS FEEL FREE. Only my images are copyrighted.
Special thanks to the Massbird community for providing suggestions for the text.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
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Kodak Ektar 100
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Scan from negative film
A MOST BEAUTIFUL SUNNY SUMMERWEEK:)
(87 STOLEN FAVES)
Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.
Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was one of the first Greek philosophers to encourage both scholars and the common citizen to turn their attention from the outside world to the condition of humankind.
"Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution." Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976). Kampf um Mao's Erbe (1977.)
Some of the famous atheists in the atheist Hall of Shame.
Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Kim Jong IL, Mao, Kim Jong Un, Pol Pot, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Honecker, Ceaușescu
Atheism proved itself, in the 20th century, to be the most horrendous, barbaric, murderous and criminal ideology the world has ever experienced. Countless millions suffered and died at the hands of this hideous ideology, they must never be forgotten.
The promised atheist/socialist utopia ... the idea of an atheist Heaven on Earth resulted in a diabolical Hell on Earth.
Who, but a complete idiot would want to resurrect such a monstrous, no-hope philosophy?
Present day, so-called 'new' (improved?) atheists (and communists) try to disassociate themselves from the disastrous record of the world's, first ever, official, atheist states, established in the great, atheist experiment of the 20th century.
But all the examples we have of official, atheist rule are horrendous. And, the tyranny still continues, wherever atheism is the dominant, ruling ideology, as in North Korea.
The ‘new’ atheists try to blame the 20th century’s persecution and brutality completely on communism. They claim it had nothing to do with atheism.
But, although communism is a disastrous economic system, there is no intrinsic reason why it should be brutal, or why it should hate religion, or why it should destroy churches and persecute and murder millions of Christians and people of other faiths.
That is the hallmark of atheist ideology, not of an economic system.
Communism is fatally flawed as an economic system. And, as it thrives on envy, class hatred and division, it is a an anathema to Christianity, and any other religion which preaches love for everyone. Consequently, it is the ideal bedfellow for atheism, but that is different from requiring an intrinsic hatred of God and religion as a matter of state, endorsed policy. That is essentially an atheist ideal.
If communists weren't atheists, why would they outlaw and attack all religion? Karl Marx, the founder of communism, hated religion, because he was also an atheist. He understood that communist, dialectic materialism, class war etc. is incompatible with most religions, so, it could be argued, that to be a bona fide communist, he also had be an atheist.
Lenin was a self-declared atheist who, together with his Soviet Bloc, atheist successors, tried to eliminate religion with brutal repression and wholesale murder.
Thus, history tells us that the atheist experiment has been tried and, from beginning to end, was a brutal and diabolical failure. The new atheists may say: “it's nothing to do with us gov.”
But who wants to risk such devastation again, by giving the atheist ideology another chance? Only a complete idiot would want to take that gamble.
However, it was only to be expected and it could easily have been predicted beforehand, that the inevitable result of atheism's lack of an absolute ethical or moral yardstick would be to wreak havoc on the world - and that is exactly what it did. .
Atheism hasn't changed at all in that respect, because it can't.
Atheism and secular humanism categorically reject the concept of intrinsic right and wrong. Therefore, the ephemeral values, moral relativism and situational ethics of atheism are the ideal recipe for abuse.
We can see from the belligerent, intolerant, rabble rousing rhetoric and anti-religious ranting of today's militant, new atheist zealots, that the leopard hasn't really changed its spots. Let no one doubt it - atheism has an horrendous and hideously, barbaric record... we must never let it happen again.
Moreover, it is a singularly perverse ideology that motivates its adherents to waste so much time of the only life they believe they have, trying to convince everyone else that they are doomed to eternal oblivion. The ultimate reward for atheists is to never know if they got it right, only if they got it wrong.
There is certainly no moral or rational defence for the atheist cult, past or present.
But what do atheists themselves say about their ethical and moral values?
They claim that they DO have an ethical and moral yardstick, and cite the Humanist Manifesto as representing the ethics and moral code of atheism.
So is it really true?
The Humanist Manifesto looks good at first glance, but like most proposals atheists have come up with, when examined closely, it is full of holes.
Problems, problems ....
1. You don’t have to sign up to the Humanist Manifesto to be an atheist.
2. Even if you do sign up to it, there is no incentive to follow it. No reward for following it, and no penalty for not following it. You are not going to be barred from being an atheist because you reject or break the rules of the Humanist Manifesto. It is not enforced in any way.
3. It borrows any desirable ethics, it may have, from Judeo-Christian values, there is no atheist, moral code per se.
Atheism is the ideology of naturalism. Genuine, naturalist, ethical values are basically the Darwinian, ‘law of the jungle’. Progressive evolution and improvement through the survival of the fittest/strongest, and the elimination of any who are weaker or unable to adapt - nature red in tooth and claw, In societal terms - the most powerful, wealthiest, most influential, most cunning, dominate and rule for their own benefit. Anything else in the Humanist Manifesto is actually a contradiction of social Darwinism and naturalism. Any socially desirable or compassionate ethics, which may be included in the H.M, are wholly inconsistent with atheist, materialist, naturalist, and evolutionist ideology.
4. By far the biggest flaw in the Humanist Manifesto is the fact that it is entirely ephemeral. It advocates 'situational ethics' and 'moral relativism'. And that major flaw makes it a worthless scrap of paper.
Why?
Because .....
Situational ethics is based on what people want or find desirable, not on any adherence to what is intrinsically right or wrong.
A good, example of humanist style, situational ethics in practice, is the gender selection abortions now being blatantly carried out in abortion clinics in Britain. It primarily discriminates against female babies, who are especially targeted for killing, because most of the parents who want it, prefer to have boys for cultural reasons.
The abortion clinics openly admit to it happening, and claim it is legal.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-choice-aborti...
The abortion act of 1967 certainly did not intend that, and the Government admits it was not intended.
So we have a Government that knows it is going on, it also knows it is not what the abortion law intended, yet it is still reluctant to do anything about it.
Why?
Because it is wedded to the secularist concept of situational ethics, i.e. whatever people want, people get. Any concept of intrinsic right and wrong has to take a back seat, to whatever is the spirit of the times. And that is an example happening right now, in a so-called democracy.
The Nazi persecution of the Jews and other races they considered ‘inferior’ became popular through brainwashing of the public, and was eventually supported by a good proportion of the public.
Hitler cleverly used situational ethics to do what he had persuaded people was right and good.
So, all in all, the Humanist Manifesto and its purported ethical values, is a very dangerous document.
It gives carte blanche to any so-called ethical values, as long they become the fashionable or consensus opinion. Whatever people want, people get, or what a government can claim people want, they are justified in giving to them.
And for that reason it would not stop; a Lenin, a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao, or a Pol Pot, even if they had signed up 100% to abide by the Humanist Manifesto.
In fact, the 20th century, atheist tyrants even called their regimes ... Democratic People's Republics. They claimed they were representing people's wishes, and thus carried out their 'situational ethics' on behalf of the people.
What about the common, atheist tactic of highlighting alleged crimes and wrongdoing committed by Christians?
The point is ....
Christians who do wrong, go against the teachings of Christianity. It is recognised as ‘sin’. If they blatantly and deliberately go against the intrinsic moral values and teaching of Christianity, they forfeit the right to continue to call themselves Christian. And they can even be excommunicated by the Church, if they fail to admit their actions are wrong.
And, without sincere sorrow and repentance, they don't get to go to the Christian Heaven.
End of story!
Atheists who do wrong, go against nothing, unless it is against the law of the land.
You cannot be chucked out of atheism for doing wrong, you cannot even be censored by atheism for doing wrong, it is a complete free for all, you can simply act with impunity according to your own desires and opinion. Atheists don’t recognise sin, right and wrong is not intrinsic or absolute. Atheism has no, unchanging, moral code. Right and wrong is, ultimately, just a matter of opinion
The atheist 'heaven' is right here on earth, and far from being a 'heaven' it is an horrendous nightmare. Anyone with any sense would call it a hell.
And even the law of the land need not stop atheists .....
Whenever, atheists get into a position of power they change the law to suit their situational ethics. Then they can do whatever they want.
That is what Stalin and all the other atheist tyrants did in their people's DEMOCRATIC republics.
And the atheist thirst for blood does not cease when they live in the so-called 'real' democracies, it is simply sanitised by atheist inspired, situational ethics.
They use their 'humanist' ethics to change the law, accompanied by 'newspeak' and propaganda.
So that what was once considered evil, is not only made legal, it is actually turned around so it is considered a virtue.
The wholesale and brutal slaughter, of the most vulnerable in society ... millions of unborn babies, is callously shrugged off as necessary, for 'free choice'.
Of course murder is always a free choice for the killer, only the dangerous, warped, atheist style, situational ethics could value a killer's free choice to kill, above the victim's right not to be killed, and make murder legal.
The callous slaughter of the unborn, which in most cases, was not even put to the people democratically (it was imposed on them by a handful of secularist politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats), is accompanied by the usual atheist lies and devious propaganda.
Doctors acting illegally over abortions get off scot-free ....
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609950/Scandal-doctors-...
So the secularists simply laugh off democracy, it doesn't stop them, if it gets in the way of their ideology, they just ignore it, like they do with science.
"Democratic societies" how do they impact on situational ethics?
We see, in practice, that democracy is treated with utter contempt .....
Why ask the people? They are apparently not qualified to consider such difficult matters of right and wrong, like whether babies should live or die? You can't give those ignorant peasants, plebs and rednecks a vote on it, ... leave it to the secularist EXPERTS and their wonderful, situational ethics based on 'reason' and 'science'.
We are told by atheist moralists that the unborn baby is not fully human, it is only a blob of jelly, which has, and deserves, NO rights. As usual, they deliberately ignore, or twist, the scientific facts.
And we are also told, anyone who supports the rights of the unborn babies not to be brutally ripped limb from limb is evil and a ‘far right’ fanatic, because they are interfering with free CHOICE.
So the atheist leopard certainly hasn't changed its deceitful, devious, brutal and murderous spots, even in so-called 'real' democratic societies. It simply legalises and sanitises evil and murder and makes it appear good.
Then it can claim atheism is extremely ethical and virtuous, with its own, beautiful, humanist code of morals and conduct .... Yeah Right!
Remind you of anyone?
Always remember ....
Atheist/humanist so-called ethics and morals depend entirely on OPINION, and that is why they are so extremely dangerous.
Atheism has no moral or ethical yardstick, no concept of God-given, human rights ... only OPINION.
But WHOSE opinion?
My opinion?
Your opinion?
Or maybe Richard Dawkins opinion?
Or Sam Harris's opinion?
Or how about Barrack Obama's opinion?
Or why not STALIN'S or POL POT'S opinion?
So don't be fooled by the relentless chorus from the 'new' atheists and humanists, that atheism has its own code of ethics and morals, their code of ethics is based on the OPINION of one or more of the following ... whoever is: the most vociferous, the most charismatic, the most cunning, the most influential, the most powerful, the wealthiest, the most successful propagandist, the most persuasive, the most repressive, or the most brutal.
www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/14797003191
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Unjust laws/evil laws (such as legalised abortion) are effectively null and void. They should not be accepted by any right-thinking person. In any just society, the legalisation of abortion has to be regarded as a crime against humanity, and those guilty will surely be held to account by a more enlightened society.
“civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on conscience. Every humanly-created law is legitimate insofar as it is consistent with the natural moral law, recognized by right reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person”. —St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 95, a. 2.w
Why satanism is now on the center stage in the culture war.
www.crisismagazine.com/2019/why-satanism-is-now-on-the-ce...
EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
peuplesobservateursblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/togo-all...
There shall come a time when people will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears they will, in accordance with their own desires, accumulate teachers for themselves, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and stray after fictions.
(2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error. (2 Timothy 3: 12-13)
It is important that you know this: that in the last days, scoffers will come with mockery, men living in accordance with their own lusts. (2 Peter 3: 3)
The spirit expressly says that in the last times some will depart the faith, giving assent to seducing spirits and to doctrines of demons through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, whose consciences are seared, who forbid [devalue] marriage and command abstinence from foods which God created to be partaken of with thanksgiving. (1 Timothy 4: 1-4)
For they have not loved the truth that they might be saved. Therefore, God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: that all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity. (2 Thes 2: 7-12)
Now these of Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints, to execute judgement on all, and to prove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done the ungodly, and all the hard things that the ungodly have spoken against God. These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons for gain’s sake. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words that have been spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who told you, that in the last times there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodliness. These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the spirit. (Jude 14-19)
In the last days there shall come terrible times. For men shall be lovers of self, fond of money, pretentious, arrogant, railers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers; profligates, untamed, hostile to good, traitors, headstrong, befogged with conceit; lovers of pleasure instead of lovers of God, holding a semblance of religion after having denied its power. (2 Timothy 5: 1-3)
Sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words (Enoch 104: 10)
The weaker the world grows through age, so much the more shall the evils increase upon the dwellers of the Earth. Truth shall withdraw further and falsehood be near at hand. (4 Ezra 4: 16-17)
EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
peuplesobservateursblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/togo-all...
if moral will prevails on ethics
aesthetics taste will prevail ..easily
on the reason
(anonymous next door)
If the Captains Endowment Association placard displayed in the windshield is any indication, this car belongs to a high-ranking member of the NYPD.
On June 17-18, 2015, the Ethisphere Institute hosted the 3rd Annual Latin America Ethics Summit in Rio de Janeiro which offered delegates a local perspective on global issues including: anti-corruption, relationships with third parties, structuring of compliance department, culture, business in high risk markets, and more.