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  1. Re:ALL infrastructure by Cplus · · Score: 0 · on America's Not So Up to Speed

    I would reccomend that you read Atlas Shrugged.

    Not only is it a great read, but it gives you an idea of the ideal that capitalism is when taken to extremes. It is, of course, a work of fiction, and shouldn't be taken as anything other than an idea of how things could be.

    I agree with you and would have Canada be a more socialist Canada if that were possible currently. Sadly we're about to have a national election called and I don't see it happening.

  2. Re:McVoy: Ultimate Open Source Advocate? by FranciscoDAnconia · · Score: 1 · on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge

    Kind of like how I sacrificed my copper company to save the world in Atlas Shrugged?

  3. Agreed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1
    They'd do well to read Atlas Shrugged, or at least Francisco's Money Speech, but I suppose both require a slightly longer attention span than evidenced here.

    "If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted of obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

    "Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.

    "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other--and your time is running out."

    The murder is not over yet, but will there ever be a rebirth?

    Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club. One of the most acclaimed and influential works of the 20th century, Atlas Shrugged portrays the murder and rebirth of the human spirit.

  4. Agreed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1
    They'd do well to read Atlas Shrugged, or at least Francisco's Money Speech, but I suppose both require a slightly longer attention span than evidenced here.

    "If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted of obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

    "Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.

    "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other--and your time is running out."

    The murder is not over yet, but will there ever be a rebirth?

    Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club. One of the most acclaimed and influential works of the 20th century, Atlas Shrugged portrays the murder and rebirth of the human spirit.

  5. Check your premises... read Atlas Shrugged by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1

    Y'all need to wake up and consider what you're saying. To clarify your muddled thoughts you might want to grab a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which'll teach y'all the value of money and make clear the right of the people who earned it to keep it in any way they please.

    "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?" ...

    "Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money--and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

    Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it."

  6. Y'know what unemployed geeks need? by ulatekh · · Score: 1 · on Job Market for Developers Evaluated

    Apparently, the scam is that companies post these job listings, with a mind-numbingly long list of requirements that matches the H1-B person they want to bring on board, then when no one else in humanity matches, the H1-B person gets approved by the government. Nice, huh?

    What us unemployed geeks need is a pied piper! Someone to start the atheistic-rationalistic equivalent of a cult, so we can combine our geek skills together and make the world sorry they gave us so much free time. Someone like John Galt, but real. And a project like Linux, but even more disruptive.

  7. Re:Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged - Read by CodeHog · · Score: 1 · on Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media

    Thanks for the great book suggestion. I was just wondering what to read on vacation and I think I found it. This is one book I've never read but always wanted to. Perfect timing to pick up for vacation... http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/

  8. More than a bully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Darl & SCO Overview

    "How can we prevent this from ever getting this far, if history repeats itself?"

    In a lot of respects, SCO's behavior is a lot like that of James Taggert in Atlas Shrugged - especially when James got involved behind the scenes in attempting to profit from Francisco d'Anconia's Mexican mine venture.

    (For those who aren't familiar with the work, the book was author Ayn Rand's "comprehensive" embodiement of her objectivism philosophy into a novel form. While objectivism has its issues and is certainly incomplete in many areas, it provides a contract philosophy basis that is probably best represented by the emergence of the open source world. In a nutshell, the only legitimate way for two people to interact is on the basis of trade, where each is receiving what they perceive as a legitimate and appropriate value for the trade. Coercion, extortation, theft (taking without a consensual trade), intimidation, etc. are all inappropriate forms).

    This behavior is trivialized by calling it "bullying" (though the previous poster's intent was dead on). Recognized for what it is, Darl's behavior is profound parasitism, and all parasitism (which steals life from its host) is nothing more than a polite form of murder.

    So what if Darl steals Linux, taking the livelihood away from thousands of rightful creators? So what if they go unemployed, unable to work on their creation without Darl's consent? So what if they lose that health insurance policy and cannot afford the prescription their children need? So what if they die?

    Out of the tens of thousands of Linux-involved persons, the probability of death being caused by the success of Darl's quest is certain. Even the fear he has induced into the Linux world has had an effect - halting a Linux project here or there and causing honest people to remain unemployed.

    No, the best clue to understanding Darl is this quote from the article:

    "And SCO executives have even taken to traveling with bodyguards, a necessary measure, they say, given numerous death threats."

    Most certainly "perceived numerous death threats." The funniest thing about the James Taggerts of the world is that as righteous as they may sound at times (as they pursue their nihlistic path), deep down they know they're nothing more than a worthless being that preys upon others. They recognize that eventually they will encounter a host that refuses to be consumed, and this paranoia manifests visibly in the hiring of bodyguards, personal security, defamation lawsuits, etc.

    The solution? A GPL with teeth, backed by an open source community that aggressively funds their own legal defense foundation in order to firmly deal with predators and parasites like Darl.

  9. Re:NY suing escaping companies? by jxs2151 · · Score: 1 · on Sili-Hudson Valley?
    No, but they are being forced (not a gunpoint but lawsuit-point by the state which means at gunpoint) to stay and be a tax slave.

    There are a lot of very old companies in the 'Empire State' that were setup when then tax burden wasn't so heavy. Now that things have changed they wish to exercise their American right of choosing to relocate in a state that doesn't steal from the achievers to give to the losers, all to buy their votes.

    While you may disagree with my philosophy about achievement and rights (see Atlas Shrugged you cannot fail to see the problems when a state uses force to keep a company from exercising their right to move their company elsewhere.