Cherring109

In the context of grade school where students have no choice to go to school or face the consequences of being tracked down by the police isn't the Ayn Rand books program a initiation of force? 1. The students have to go to that school because their parents tell them to 2. This is enforced by law. 3. The ARI gives the school the books 4. the teachers get the books and use it as a assignment 5. the students didn't choose to read that book 6. Therefore that is a initiation of force. What is wrong here?

I don't remember if I replied to this and I choose not to put the effort to give a look see. So here goes... Star Trek OS, Next Gen, and some Enterprise Robotech Macross Dragonball Z (haven't seen any Dragonball or GT yet) Seinfeild Fraser House Mythbusters How it's Made/Factory Made sometimes Top Gear Family Guy (sometimes though it's hard to catch on I haven't seen) Survivor Man Those are the ones that I have seen the most of. Here are some that I plan to watch from episode one to episode last when I get my hands either on the DVD or can watch online. The Walking Dead ( I watched the Ep. 1 Premier and I remember being freaked the f*** out by this show. I liked it so much that I missed episode two and refuse to watch it until I can see it in order.) Cake Boss- Meh. I think it does a great job of showing this guy(s) who is super damn good at what they do and the trails that they has to go through to do what they do. Good show. Rome- I remember seeing the preview adverts but I have not seen one episode so I don't know if it's any good. That's mostly of what I can think of now. I would probably have a much longer list of the shows I DON'T like that this. Bleh!

i just thought is was interesting.

Is it really any surprise?

Sick

Is that Eric the phantom of the opera?

http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/tissot/index.html Awesome.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/8166041/Christopher-Columbus-was-son-of-Polish-king.html What do you make of this?

Thank you. Your right.

Go Israel!

Watch- The Soviet Story http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/28771192 WARNING- I don't know if this site has permission to use this film so watch at your own risk. But in this case i think the subject is too important to at least let people know about this work. http://www.sovietstory.com/ This is the link to the official website.

I saw that earlier when you posted the link in the chat room. Bad-ass!

Douche

Maybe you have something there. If you could do some research---maybe the guy has a interesting life just waiting to be told. I like most of this guys art---(who doesn't like nude female models ) maybe there is something there to be capitalized on?

Their productions seem to be a big mixed bag. The Incredible's was the best philosophically in my opinion. If you have never seen it- never ever see "up" it is one of the most disgusting films I have ever seen. The Toy Story films where hella cool though, i think!

This is older news. Hitchens may be a leftist but he seems to be a decent guy and he has done a lot qua atheism. I hope he beats this thing and come out stronger and healthier than he ever has been.

Scary... Though there has to be a legitimate way to try and convict software piracy. What ought to be happening instead?

I have been trying to read Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and the classical Satyricon as well as Ovid's Metamorphosis but as you all know that is a lot of reading. [Cyrano is really great but I have on read the opening scenes and it is hard for me to read in the format of a play. Great stuff as far as I can tell! Oh, and Goethe's Faust is great! I would also like to get my hands on a good copy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera! That's all that is on the top of my list for now!

I forgot beans and cornbread, yeeeha!

The proper role of a government is to protect the citizens against force and fraud (which we know is a type of force). In this context (I mean in that hypothetical nation) you could not have "community service" because their is no "community" (in the traditional collectivist sense) to serve except the private property of others. What would you do- allow private citizens throw a raffle or bid at a auction for criminal labor. That stinks of slippery slope. I just do not trust human institutions that much. What crimes are we talking about though- it seems to me that in the context of "objectivist utopia" (I know the problem there; just humor for it this instance) that any crime serious enough to warrant separation from polite society ;instead of just monetary re imbersment; wouldn't happen that much. Whats left---murder, rape? If there is absolutely no doubt that the defendant is guilty then take them out the next week, secure them to a wall or pole and put a bullet through their head. ONLY when it is so obvious that they are real culprit (like cases for Kyle Ferguson who shot all those people; or the unibomber guy.) That leaves us with another class of the accused- those who have been convicted of minor felonies or violent crimes...then prisons may be a proper method to deal with them ( I am using the terms "jail" and "prison" synonymously here. Same thing on a different scale) OK, somebody is going to have to pay for them. Fact is that governments treasury department will just have to figure that in the budgets for the police. I think that most people on this post are thinking of huge modern prisons. Well---why do we have to have huge modern prisons? Why not a whole bunch of small jails with small populations that are based on the same models of the old west? We cant assume jail breaks or break ins. That would be assumption of crime on everyone. No running water, no electricity, camper trailer style toilet facilities, cheap toilet paper..etc To value living in a civilization means that one ought all that is necessary for the it's keeping and NOTHING more. I think that if the proper role of government is the protect us from force and fraud that automatically gives the moral right to ALL means to these ends. The moral is the practical by the way!

1. Les Miserable- Victor Hugo 2. 10000 Leagues Under the Sea-Verne 3. To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee That's all for now.

I don't know...ask the ARI? Sounds like a good foreign policy to me!

I played it I think that with the social policy features and the fact that you can make get around bad ideas (like "build a public school +2 culture or whatever) and if you play by being a diplomat and defensive war only strategy then you can win it sans tyranny. But the real question is---it's a video game for crying out loud! It's nice to build a pretty civilization and try to make friends through diplomacy but sometimes you would like to just go around and shoot people and beat a hooker with a purple womans second best friend! (a la Grand Theft Auto) Why would you think that you ought to bring real ethical values into fantasy game land? Ever play "Destroy All Humans"? Go Grey, man!

What about the character from the show Castle? I thought the Castle character could be very objectivist?

I saw a you-tube video which was a slide show of Hitlers art work. Some of them where very good,actually. If only the man had staid on the path to become a architect or painter then the world would have been a better place, but fact is he didn't and we all know how that turned out.