Miles White

You should try using modal improvisation. I like experimenting with all sorts of strange notes for melodies by incorporating chromatic and whole tone scales, but modes are really fun especially mixolydian and lydian. They sound as good over the tonic as an ionian mode though, i'm a we bit more of a jazzy guy.

Sound familiar? "THHHHIIIIISSSS ISSSSSS SPAAAAAAARRRRTAAAAAAAA." The entire time I was watching that movie I kept waiting for Shrek to come on screen, you just can't take animated movies seriously. If your going to make a thrilling/action packed movie then it should ALWAYS be done in live action, the movie would of gone up a huge step in my book if it was live action but even then it still wouldn't be very good. It was very disappointing.

You might as well give up now because we don't take kindly to skeptics either. The entire philosophy of Buddhism is altruist centered, so if altruism's existence was disprove then the entire philosophy of Buddhism would be swept away Based on what evidence? So I don't know wether I'm making a post right now or wether your really alive or wether I have a bed to sleep on or a dog to walk. So, what if I want you to look like a big fat purple and yellow spotted dinosaur, according to you it would make sense if you somehow really did look like one, only of corse it still makes no sense because if nothing exists then I wouldn't even be making this post in the first place let alone laugh with the fact that I made you look like that. Just because things change in their composition over time makes no sense to disprove as unnamable, men and women change allot in physical structure and looks throughout the course of their lives, does that mean they are not human? What you need to understand is that humans have the ability to perceive things because we are suppose to learn from our environment and change our environment when we deem it necessary to do so. It is our tool or survival such as lions have their claus and teeth, humans have reason. To deny that is to deny humanity... PERIOD. So you can go about propagating your lack of philosophy some not-where else to try and not-convince some other not-people to join your not-religion of nothingness because this is a forum for reason not stupidity and insanity. p.s. (For someone who doesn't believe in taking up space, you sure did take up allot of space with your post.)

So poor people who live in a condominiums do not own beds to sleep on? or food to eat? or close to wear to work? those are all forms of private property as well. If one opposes private property then the man who wrote that needs to understand that in order for them to be consistent with their principal, they must abandon everything they own and go live life like an ascetic in the middle of a cave with mountain lions and then see how much more desirable or "revolutionary" their demented little excuse of a world they support.

But I thought "congress shall lay no law abridging the freedom of trade and production" like what judge Narragansett said in the end. I suppose nationalization technically wouldn't count as an initiation of force because law after all is the governments job and any one else who wants to get a job in law must answer to the government.

What I meant was that if private police firms rise in the free market and start advertising against the government, the populist could be motivated to use the private police instead of the government thus bumping off the government entirely and implement the subjective law of anarchy.

I always thought that it is pointless to fear things that are going to happen anyway and that you can't change. It's not like worrying is going to help get rid of it, just deal with it.

I was wondering about what Ayn Rands position on nationalization for certain circumstances were. I always thought that it would be ok to nationalize the police,courts, and military in order to prevent private firms from competing with the government but wasn't quite sure how Ayn Rand confronted this problem. thanks, Mwyn

I think an even better question to ask would be why does everyone else make so many children.

To me though the way I see it, It makes no sense to give an 18 year old the right to purchase and smoke cigars in public/ die in a war/ star in a porno and still refuse to let them drink. It's just another example of beautiful bureaucracy at work, it makes no sense to raise the drinking age any higher than 18 that is not only pointless but harmful to our rights as mature citizens.

I know Dr. Stadler wasn't a real guy but none the less I have no doubt wether there are real people like him. My question is how can a man that is purely good become evil or deteriorate like Dr. Stadler in Atlas Shrugged. I can see how an evil man can maybe become good but I don't understand why if someone is already good, would choose to be evil. You'd expect that they'd know better (By the way, by good I mean rational by evil I mean irrational.)

As a costume, I would paint my body gold and walk around naked and every time some one asked what I was I would get on my knees and shrugg.

As much contempt as I hold for Micheal Bakunin I must agree with him for one quote that he said, and it was "Even if God did exsit, it would be nessecary to destroy him." I'm sorry but any "God" that kills innocent lives in terrorist attacks while giving Grammies to rap "artists" (which doesn't even require any skill what ever) is clearly not the actions of a benevolent being but rather that of an insane lunatic.

I do remember hearing in an interview whether she was a believer in absolutes and she said yes, but perhaps it was referring to somthing else. A better term to use would probably be rights theorist, I ment to say that Ayn Rand was a rights theorist as opposed to a consequentialist and only a consequentialist type of person could support somthing as unrealistic as anarchism so long as the ends justified the means and they really wanted it to work.

One extremely dire reason is that anarchism is against objectivist ethics. Anarchism is a trend that would only appeal to moral relativists, people who think that law is arbitrary and all it takes is a majority to declare rape a perfectly legal function. Ayn Rand was a moral absolutist and like any moral absolutist would say: we need government to be monopolised and law to be objective, otherwise your left at the mercy of the majority of incompetent fools. You should probably click the link for more specifics. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pag...us_libertarians As far as Galt's Gulch goes, that was a very small population of brilliant inovative individuals and, by the way, they wern't in anarchy because they had objective law. Remember, everybody had to swear an oath before entrance. They didn't have a free market of competing courts, they had one court and judge Narragansett was the only judge to enforce the only law of the land. People in Galts Gulch were not allowed to buy law like they would in anarchy.

Steve Kubby sounds promising, he feels REALLY strongly about abolishing the war on drugs wich is pretty cool compared to other libertarian candidates who just want to arbitrarily privitize as many things as possible including the three things that should never be privitized: The police, the courts, and the military. http://www.kubby2008.com/node/8

All forms of Autocratic government are inherently evil. The only good king, would be the one who abolishes the monarchy to establish a constitutional republic. There is no point in establishing a government unless it is guaranteed to protect the natural rights of the individual. Sure he might have acheived great things during his rule, but the ends don't justify the means and non of it excuses him from taxation or militarism.

I've always thought that Sean Bean would make a great Henry Rearden, and William H. Macy as Wesley Mouch.

1. No, unless they want to. 2. No, unless they want to. 3. Yes, unless the coporation wants to help. 4. No, unless they want to.

It disgusts me that we even still have a 16th amendment. I would absolutely repeal that amendment, for almost 100 years our government was funded entirely off of excise taxes or tarrifs alone, there is absolutely no reason why any government needs to levy any kind of an income tax unless we were to become a communist state. Another minor law I find annoying in California is the law that says you can't stuff animals, that is so ridiculous to me, if you want to take an animal to a taxidermist you have to have a government approved license and you have to only stuff animals so you can give them to museums. What the hell is the purpose behind that law what is it trying to solve? I also believe hearing somewhere- I don't really know if it's true- that theres a law in New York that says that you can't blow bubbles and eat ice cream at the same time.

I don't know, I don't mean to sound like a nerd here but the movie was extremely different from the book. That vail thing Sirius Black fell into was totally not how I imagined it to look and during the fight scene with dumbledore and voldemort the statues were sapose to be alive and they were sapose to be holding harry down during that entire battle to protect him. They totally left out Quiddage, Umbridge was not sapose to be a neat freak, it was sapose to be Chos friend that ratted out the room of requirement not her, they left out the mudd puddle that fred and george left through out the great hall when they got their broomsticks and left Hogwarts, They left out the room with the giant jar of brains near the department of mysteries, only harry was sapose to hear the prophecy not his friends, They left out the Centaur Firenze and how he took over the job of teaching Divination. I thought that it was good but it could have been allot better.

I beleive that one of the United States Supreme Court Associate Justices Clarence Earl Thomas is a huge Ayn Rand fan. He even tried to make all the other justices read the Fountainhead.

Time- Pink Floyd Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired Its good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells. Do it again- Steely Dan In the mornin you go gunnin For the man who stole your water And you fire till he is done in But they catch you at the border And the mourners are all singin As they drag you by your feet But the hangman isnt hangin And they put you on the street Chorus: You go back jack do it again Wheel turnin round and round You go back jack do it again When you know shes no high climber Then you find your only friend In a room with your two timer And youre sure youre near the end Then you love a little wild one And she brings you only sorrow All the time you know shes smilin Youll be on your knees tomorrow Chorus Now you swear and kick and beg us That youre not a gamblin man Then you find youre back in vegas With a handle in your hand Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when youre able In the land of milk and honey You must put them on the table

This may be weird, but I always pictured Clark Gable to be Ellis Wyatt.

What I'm saying is that if monopolies can't occur in a free market, and if government is a monopoly, then wouldn't that make government unworkable?