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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (4.00 / 2)

Because at the end of the day, engineering trumphs philosophy when it comes to being convincing.

Well thats going to need some justifying, or at the very least some further explaination.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 07:59:10 AM EST
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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (none / 1)

If philosophy says that building a bridge across the Thames is impossible, and an engineer says it's possible, the engineer has the distinct advantage of being able to build the bridge and walk across the Thames without getting his shoes wet. That tends to be persuasive...

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 08:03:44 AM EST
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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (4.00 / 3)

So engineering is more persuasive for a very limited class of problems, There is more to life than building bridges.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 08:09:41 AM EST
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