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    Rand Sighting: Citing Rand on Criminal Minds

    in Objectivist Living Room

    Posted

    I was flipping through the channels tonight and caught the last few minutes of an episode of Criminal Minds called "Minimal Loss." At the very end of the episode, the character Emily Prentiss says, "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Ayn Rand."

    J

    My current signature quote was from the immediately prior episode.

    "Objectivist" Party??

    in Rants

    Posted

    Why use Ubuntu

    Ubuntu home page

    Ubuntu (pronounced /ʊˈbʊntuː/)[5][6] is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu ("humanity towards others").[7]

    With an estimated global usage of more than 12 million users,[8] Ubuntu is designed primarily for desktop use, although netbook and server editions exist as well.[9] Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about 50%,[10][11] and indicate upward-trending usage as a web server.[12]

    Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK-based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical generates revenue by selling technical support and services tied to Ubuntu, while the operating system itself is entirely free of charge.

    Ubuntu Wiki

    I have bookmarked this page but make no promises until I buy my fourth laptop.

    Against Anarchism

    in 4 - Politics

    Posted

    Shayne:

    For most acts, yes, I believe their is a common sense understanding of what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine.

    Disputes arise when we both lay claims to the same:

    1) space;

    2) land;

    3) toy;

    4) person;

    5) patent;

    6) idea; etc.

    that disputes arise and both parties believe that their rights have been violated.

    How does a civil society resolve those without a coercive government?

    That is the question that tries men's souls.

    Adam

    Duels, as shown in this most commendable, funny, beautiful movie.

    Lol

    I suggested to a panel of Judges at a seminar that we should bring back dueling for divorces since it would do less damage to the marital financial estate and even less damage to the children.

    I engaged in a duel once. It didn't secure for me the object of my love. But it did scare off my rival.

    If you are willing to do the time, commit the crime.

    A Year's Worth of the Most Celebrated Novels

    in Objectivist Living Room

    Posted

    The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement.

    The Grapes of Wrath

    Chapter 23

    Yeah, and he sucked her tit too at some point. But you have not explained your complaint nor provided some alternative value, puppy. Or is that pee pee?

    Against Anarchism

    in 4 - Politics

    Posted · Edited by Ted Keer

    Shayne:

    For most acts, yes, I believe their is a common sense understanding of what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine.

    Disputes arise when we both lay claims to the same:

    1) space;

    2) land;

    3) toy;

    4) person;

    5) patent;

    6) idea; etc.

    that disputes arise and both parties believe that their rights have been violated.

    How does a civil society resolve those without a coercive government?

    That is the question that tries men's souls.

    Adam

    Duels, as shown in this most commendable, funny, beautiful movie.

    "Objectivist" Party??

    in Rants

    Posted

    Post Script: This post is being typed with my brand new Ubuntu Open Source Unix Operating System and it is phenomenal.

    "Ubuntu" yigama wesiZulu!

    Gatling guns and the British square!

    trans: "Unbuntu" (i.e., "humanity") is a word of the Zulu language.

    Ted:

    This movement did start in Africa and I have been straining at the leash to use it as my operating system. I installed it today and it is amazing. Just like a Mac. No Windows hang ups and tracking to slow down your machine.

    Tons of apps, support, software. It is like Christmas!

    Adam

    It runs windows compatible software? I hate windows. I have a Mac which stays at home, and a PC which travels and which I use for Netflix, etc. I would consider trying a third operating system if it would support the programs I use. I am quite happy with Mac excpt for a very few things, and my windows 7 PC hasn't crashed since I bought it - although it tends to decide for me when I wish to do odd things like open a new web page when I accidentaly touch the mousepad in some way I have yet to figure out or be able to disable.

    A Year's Worth of the Most Celebrated Novels

    in Objectivist Living Room

    Posted · Edited by Ted Keer

    King Lear is in my top three with Shakespeare, who is by far the best writer of English as English who ever lived. Rand was wrong to malign him. I suspect she did not appreciate the beauty of his language in the original Klingon.

    Gulliver's Travels was obvious. This may because it was so successful, and so copied in subsequent fiction. Easy to read, something everyone should do once, like LSD.

    Grapes of Wrath I had to read for school as well. Also obvious as all socialist works are obvious. But well written. Certainly better than some of Steinbeck's other novels, which I have read and forgotten.

    I haven't read The Inferno for itself, but did read a rather interesting art book adaptation that cost $200 when it was published in the late 80's. It's another story that everyone knows like Homer, through adaptations even if they haven't read the original. Your mentioning it prompts me to add it to my library list.

    By Hemingway I have only read one short story in high school. I don't remember trhe title or what it was about. I remember not being lead to want to explore him further.

    Do you recommend any of the works, Phil?

    Were I in such a club, I would recommend:

    The White Plague, Frank Herbert

    Watership Down, Richard Adams

    Richard II

    Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

    I, Claudius & Claudius the God, Robert Graves

    Oh, and I read that work by Kafka, then dropped the class for which I had read it at Rutgers. Tiresome crap.

    "Objectivist" Party??

    in Rants

    Posted

    Post Script: This post is being typed with my brand new Ubuntu Open Source Unix Operating System and it is phenomenal.

    "Ubuntu" yigama wesiZulu!

    Gatling guns and the British square!

    trans: "Unbuntu" (i.e., "humanity") is a word of the Zulu language.

    Against Anarchism

    in 4 - Politics

    Posted

    My approach is to have an integrated idea of my own in my own head, and if I find nothing that represents the whole case as I see it, then qua whole, it is potentially valuable, as far as I can objectively tell. So yes, I have read here and there from this person or that, but nowhere have I seen the case put as I wanted it to be put. That all by itself warrants my approach, whether you like it or not.

    Shayne

    Shayne,

    I have read this paragraph three times and I don't understand it. I don't mean in context, I know the context, but are you saying, "I have an original idea/theory, and as far as I know nobody else ever had it in the way I have it?"

    Just asking,

    Carol

    Without particularly meaning to be mean to Shayne, and not having read any of this thread except the last few posts, and not understanding the context at all, I have two comments:

    (1) Ellen Moore?

    and

    (2)

    Teacherin'

    in Articles

    Posted · Edited by Ted Keer

    If the subject is "teacherin'" among Objectivists, then it would seem a good place for those who actually teach or have taught to explain how they apply/applied the principles of Objectivist epistemology to their work.

    I just tutored someone last night in linguistics. He had been studying the subject in Spanish, and the teacher gave phonetic examples only in Spanish. He could not understand the concept of a phoneme or differentiate sounds from letters. I began with the premise that unless he were provided with examples from another language that he would not be able to form the necessary concepts. I gave him examples from English, asking him how he would spell various English words using Spanish spelling, then asking him what the underlying sounds were regardless of the chosen spelling system. For example, "why" could, based on its sound, be spelled "juai" in Spanish, and would be transcribed phonetically as "hway". The session began with him telling me that he had only 45 minutes available. He kept saying over and over with the different topics we covered, "OH, that finally makes sense!" We arranged the various letters of the IPA in a chart somewhat like a periodic table, and he became quite adept at deciding where in the chart a letter would go once he grasped the underlying principles, even realizing the trick questions I posed to him. The session ended up running over a very productive 2 1/2 hours. He finished up by asking me if I would tutor him in his major, marketing.

    (Phonemes are meaningfully distinct sounds in a language. The letters th stand for two distinct sounds, those of thin and thick versus them and those. The "minimal pair" thy and thigh shows that this distinction is "phonemic". The IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet, with unique signs assigned to uniquely defined sounds.)