Imperatives

So here, out of the goodness of our blackened and desiccated heart, we present Imperatives of Fiction-Writing as Demonstrated by "McG."

Terminator Offers Some Lessons for the Salvation of Your Novel 2009

So here, out of the goodness of our blackened and desiccated heart, we present Imperatives of Fiction-Writing as Demonstrated by "McG."

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

Yet her comparison, in a well-known paper (Morality As a System of Hypothetical Imperatives, 1972) between Immanuel Kant's view of moral law as "inescapable" in some special way, and the demands of etiquette, was intended to argue that people who follow either morality or etiquette without questioning them "are relying on an illusion, as if trying to give the moral 'ought' a magic force".

Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010

The Four Imperatives provide a simplified way to analyze the physics and math that rule our energy and its delivery, the latter better known as power.

The Real Problem With Renewables 2010

While conspiracy theorists may want to believe that Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Nuclear are stifling the growth of renewables, the simple truth is that coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear can satisfy the Four Imperatives: power density, energy density, cost and scale.

The Real Problem With Renewables 2010

The first of the Four Imperatives, power density, is the most telling of the rates.

The Real Problem With Renewables 2010

Corn ethanol's low power density is inherent in all biomass, which leads us to the second of the Four Imperatives.

The Real Problem With Renewables 2010

Washington's geopolitical bible is "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives," in which former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski stresses the necessity and the means for the US to establish complete domination over Eurasia.

Base Instincts: Kyrgyzstan Drops Out of the Great Game 2009

Imperatives for environmental sustainability: Decrease overconsumption and stabilize population (87-99) in: Nicholas Polunin and Mohammad Nazim (eds.)

Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it 2009

That is why Bush's entire DOD was kept by Obama, they are in the middle of implimenting that blueprint in Zbigs book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and It's Geostratic Imperatives" ...... that is "policy wonk" talk for empire building.

Generals' Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency 2009