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Brandweek - lifestyle special issue Jimmy Wales, Founder, WikipediaAug 29, 2010 - Mike Chapman QUOTE What quality do you most value in your friends? Loyalty. Those who stick by you through thick and thin. QUOTE What are you reading at the moment? Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four. QUOTE What's your favorite restaurant?The little pizza joint across the street from me in Florida. My daughter and I go there, eat pizza and read about warrior cats. Location of possible pizza joints nearby Golden Acres, in Dunedin, Florida QUOTE What's your guilty pleasure? Eating the Pringles from the hotel mini-bar. QUOTE All-time favorite book: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand QUOTE This post has been edited by thekohser:
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 30th August 2010, 4:24pm) QUOTE What are you reading at the moment? Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four. That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.
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QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Mon 30th August 2010, 6:23pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 30th August 2010, 4:24pm) QUOTE What are you reading at the moment? Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four. That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that. Because his daughter is? (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/mellow.gif) (BTW - the thread title caught me for a moment. Thank goodness it wasn't literal! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) )
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QUOTE(Alison @ Tue 31st August 2010, 2:49am) QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Mon 30th August 2010, 6:23pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 30th August 2010, 4:24pm) QUOTE What are you reading at the moment? Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four. That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that. Because his daughter is? (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/mellow.gif) (BTW - the thread title caught me for a moment. Thank goodness it wasn't literal! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) ) I'd rather see his ginger balls than read him randomize about his daily life.
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QUOTE(Moulton @ Tue 31st August 2010, 3:09am) QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Mon 30th August 2010, 10:05pm) QUOTE(Alison @ Tue 31st August 2010, 2:49am) (BTW - the thread title caught me for a moment. Thank goodness it wasn't literal! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) ) I'd rather see his ginger balls than read him randomize about his daily life. Wales is Welsh. He's not a red-headed kilt-wearing Scot. Good valley's name, "Jimbo". The wacky thing is - he's Irish (of the polystyrene variety). What was that about moratoriums, favouritism etc etc? Can the world ever be peaceful with Wikipedia around? This post has been edited by powercorrupts:
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QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Mon 30th August 2010, 8:23pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 30th August 2010, 4:24pm) QUOTE What are you reading at the moment? Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four. That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that. I'd say he's going a little out of his way to point out that he's reading these books, with his daughter, in a local pizza parlor no less - IOW, "look at me, I'm spending quality time with my kid, teaching her the joys of reading, so surely I can't be guilty of promoting a website that threatens the survival of the publishing industry As We Know It, and coincidentally has been carrying numerous pornographic images of children, in some cases over my own objections." It's not like he's getting her to read Cult of the Amateur either, is it?
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QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:07am) QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:24am) Neither Jimbo nor Objectivism have a problem with charity.
You'll have to explain it to me more thoroughly, then. Where is the distinction between altruism and charity? Isn't charity just an expression of altruism? As I understand it, charity is helping others, while altruism is hurting yourself in order to help others. For Rand's view of charity, see here. QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:07am) QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:24am) She probably would have said that was impossible.
Again, I don't follow. How can it impossible to falsely use the idea for selfish gain? This message board is probably not a good venue for me to explain that. Fortunately, my comment was not that it is impossible, but that Rand probably would have said it was. She held honesty to be a virtue, and the practice of virtues to be in ones self-interest.
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