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I'll be across the street from these folks.
Any...
"Antiwar"? Anti-what-war?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 3:38 PM on March 19, 2004
I'll be across the street from these folks.
Any sensible person would be.
I met real Freepers.
What are "freepers"? I don't think it warrants an AskMeta post, but I've heard it in reference to Right-Wing* sites such as Free Republic, but is there something more?
*Excellent
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 8:02 PM on April 2, 2004
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Socialists say: feed him (with somebody else's...
The phrasing of your question, if it can be called one, leaves a little to be desired, frankly.
How's this: "I know casarkos is nutty as a fruitcake, but what's wrong with her, really??"
Rand was brilliant, and in her many lectures and writings which are not works of fiction, she goes to great lenght to explain her philosophy herself, in all its moral, laissez-faire capitalist glory. In fact,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 7:14 AM on March 13, 2004
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
— Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged
Which really goes against how humans evolved, as tribal animals.
Which is not what they are today, at least in Western society, where the rights of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 10:53 AM on March 13, 2004
A philosophy in it's theoretical essence cannot be moral or immoral. It can only be judged by how people put it into practice.
"The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice." — Ayn Rand
Capitalism.org
I can believe that theoretical... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 12:35 PM on March 13, 2004
I'm more comfortable giving up some of my individual rights in order to have a society that values taking care of those who can't [or even won't] take care of themselves.
I'm not. I'm no objectivist, but taking care of people who physically cannot take care of themselves is not ruled out in terms of the objectivist philosophy.
Classic liberalism: Taking from somebody else is not "greedy", but wanting to keep what you have earned is.
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 3:16 PM on March 13, 2004
The point being that yes, we can go on tearing these ideas into smaller and smaller bits until they don't appear to signify anything any more, and the reason for that is not Nasty Lefty Deconstructionists but that the world does not actually contain any meaning that we don't put there.
Except for the fact that you've just demonstrated why simulacra 101 is just so much more Nasty Lefty Deconstructionism and postmodern relativism, irrationalism, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 11:51 AM on March 14, 2004
Socialists say: feed him (with somebody else's money).
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 2:48 PM on March 15, 2004
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but after you change it a few times, they will be...
Could you play it from a computer DVD drive, which usually does not recognize regional settings?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 10:18 AM on February 8, 2004
but after you change it a few times, they will be permanently stuck at the last region you selected.
That's disappointing. But what if you don't change it? What I mean is, I've been able to play Korean DVDs on an American-bought DVD drive, with no problems yet. Will there come a time that I'll have to choose one or the other, or will one be chosen by default?
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at 7:48 PM on February 8, 2004
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In Korean, it's actually "Eum" and...
In Korean, it's actually "Eum" and "Yang", and, like the Korean flag (more here), derives from many sources, including and eventually Chinese Taoist furtune telling diagrams. I was looking around for an article I read entitled "What is Korean about the Korean Flag?" that I read about two years ago or more. It was written by a Korean scholar of some kind who was trying to change the Korean flag to reflect more of Korea and less of Toaist ideas from China. I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hama7
at 5:53 AM on February 5, 2004
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When the above Italian passage is translated from...
When the above Italian passage is translated from Italian into Portugese and French and back to English, it looks a little something like this:
At the side of the new person it has her mother of Azucena, will zingara marked to have always assassinated the brother of the moon of the accounts in the bands. Azucena indicates the dead terrible son of its mother... It reveals that in the caused insanity of the vendetta it had played, for the error, only wire in the Garci'... [more]
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at 8:46 AM on January 16, 2004
