Galt's Gulch
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Rand: The Trader Principle

Posted by khalling 9 years, 3 months ago to Education
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poster designed by my friend Klaus Norby, a Norwegian student of Objectivism. I think this is a PERFECT poster to send to your local HS economics teacher. I'd say college-but we have to get to kids earlier. cool graphic!
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  • Posted by Solver 9 years, 3 months ago
    This will never work so long as a majority can vote to steal what it wants.
    This will never work so long as people who do not earn can create huge unsustainable debts against people who will earn.
    This will never work so as long as the equalness indoctrinated mob minded collective pushes their social philosophy of forcing everything to be fair and politically correct by whatever means necessary for their so called greater good.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
    A trader is either a goofball in trouble with tribbles or a sleazy space alien in the various Star Trek spins as Hollywood tends to look down on such blatant capitalists.
    But I'm now thinking a trader could be quite the TV hero, who must deal with competitors and crisis situations in all sorts of genre environments.
    I'm thinking this could work in all kinds of TV shows. It could be a Western, a south seas adventure, gritty realism, outer space or a fantasy world for a trucking company.
    A stock trader in his underwear at home with a PC may get on the wrong side of a trader from a different dimension.
    The possibilities are endless.
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years, 3 months ago
      Anything but a sappy romance novel.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
        I do not recall the name of it, but I once read what started out to be a good science fiction novel about
        microbes engineered to eat up oil spills.
        Along came an oil spill and the microbes ate it all up but in the process multiplied.
        The microbes moved on to eat all the oil and oil-based products on earth such as car tires and all things made of plastic.
        While all this was going on, the only thing important to the writer was getting two lovers back together again.
        Horses were pulling cars with wooden wheels,but who cares? The lovers got back together and it was smoochy smoochy time.
        I recall grumbling while I took aim at a trash can.with that paperback. At least I scored two points with the first try.
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        • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years, 3 months ago
          The experience with your book gave me a chuckle. I had a favorite author, Mary Stewart, who wrote mysteries. There was always a pretty girl and a handsome guy. The plots took place in Greece or some other beautiful part of the world, and the mysteries were pretty good. Toward the end of each book, you could always count on the hero taking the girl in his arms and giving her a long lingering kiss and then whispering, "My Darling." That was the extent of the sex. Well, a couple of years ago, I noticed an ad for a mystery that stated that it was written in the style of Mary Stewart. I couldn't download it fast enough. I started reading, and by the time 5% showed up on my Kindle, the couple, who hardly knew each other, were in bed. I was so angry that I deleted this trash immediately. If I had been reading a paperback instead of an e-book, I think that I could have made a three pointer....no intent to show you up.
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
            When in a mood for a horror novel I've learned to avoid female writers I've never read before during the last decade or so.
            The first one was written by a middle-aged lady. The heroine falls for a socially awkward handsome restaurant waiter who tries to turn people off with his dreadlocks.
            The reason for it? Sometimes he turns into a tiger.
            The way the novel ran, though, when he was not a tiger he kept having sex with the heroine.
            They lived happily ever after is all I recall of the ending after I decided to skip forward.
            Three or so years later, I picked up a book of four novelettes written by four female "horror" writers.
            The first novelette was more about sex than horror. I tossed the book during a shift when I was relieved by a young security guard who reads a lot.
            (When he asked me if I knew who Repairman Jack was we hit it off). (Repairman Jack fixes ofttimes supernatural situations by doing bad things to bad people or "things," starting with his mother's murderer--that revealed in one of several novel sequels before I got tired of Jack)
            He advised that there are a lot of female writers who obviously fantasize about "escapades" with vampires, werewolves and just about anything else that is not a zombie.
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            • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years, 3 months ago
              Well, I have to agree with you to some degree, but there is Jane Austen. Have you ever read the Sue Grafton books? She writes the alphabet mysteries...like A is for....She is really quite good. I don't think that I could bring myself to read a vampire book. I do like Nelson DeMille and Kyle Mills.
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              • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
                I found Dracula by Bram Stoker to be fascinating when I was a teenager.
                Stoker through his Dr. Van Helsing character laid down vampire rules (Stoker's own research)
                that Hollywood no longer gives a flip about.
                Now vampires put on shades and run around outside on sunny days without even giving off smoke.
                I heard of Jane Austin a long time ago. I'll write those names down and look them up.
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