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Have you seen this BS? http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/27/the-value-of-nothing/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P03nNeYiJo&feature=player_embedded This guy was just on the Colbert Report " our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced" " we don’t want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn
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[quote user="kiba"] Even so, I perserve resources for the express purpose of making games for money.[/quote] The most logical and economical thinking yet presented on this thread!
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[quote user="Smiling Dave"]Compassion and Self Hate, by Dr T. I. Rubin.[/quote] From the back cover: "Many of us know that self distructive patterns are rooted in self-dislike, but few of us understand how to break them...release your innate and powerful capacity for compassion" I've read books like it, and talked to people like
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Has there been any notable "academic" responses to Molyneux's "How (not) to Achieve Freedom", or has be been significantly ostracized from academia as to not warrant such an analysis or response? http://www.fdrurl.com/HNTAFPDF It directly seems to "prove" that the Mises Institute, Ron Paul, etc are going about our common
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The correct economic answers seem to be A with hard work or E. For the time being, I'm going with D until I can know enough philosophy to discredit my own moral hypocrisy once again and reimburse my mother. I have no motivation to program. I am done producing until I know what to morally produce.
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Definitely... It is a great speech! I admire Gary North's articles and speeches a lot. Initially, it seemed to me that it was more targeted at academia, not at a software engineer who may want to shift to some hybrid of academia during his pre-mid-life-crisis. I'll listen to it again tonight to make sure all of the good points sink in. Thanks
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[quote user="Laughing Man"]I recommend you listen to this lecture by Gary North[/quote] Thank you, that is one that I have definitely listened to already. It has already been a big influence in even considering these other alternatives. Each would be such a full-time job though... That very well may be the answer...career and calling... but
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I have a dilemma. I know this isn’t a self-help group or a board frequented by psychologists, but I am not seeking that kind of advice at all. I am seeking logical and philosophical advice from what I consider to be a peer group of like-minded individuals. If you will oblige me for a few autobiographical paragraphs or so, it will become clear
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[quote user="Adam Knott"]Generally, all areas of "Geistwissenschaft" (sp?) All areas related to the science of mind and/or man from a logical/rational point of view as opposed to a natural science point of view...[/quote] It all depends on what end the university is there for. If its there for you and people like you, then you have
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[quote user="Fred Furash"]Surely relying on linux and entirely open-source technology would be both cheaper, safer, and closer to the spirit of liberty?[/quote] Instead of debate the merits of the LAMP Stack vs Silverlight, I'll just concede for the moment and say, I don't care what we program it in as long as we get the best product