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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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QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 31st August 2010, 1:25am) 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? Kira is either 9 or 10 years old. She knows how to read. In fact, she's read many more of the Warriors series than has Jimbo. So, exactly how do two people who know how to read "spend quality time" reading books that the younger person has already read? Are they reading aloud to each other? My hunch is that maybe -- MAYBE -- Kira is reading aloud to her father. However, it's equally possible that they are just sitting there with their pizza, each with their nose in a different book in the Warriors series, quietly reading to themselves.
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QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 30th August 2010, 10:27pm) QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Mon 30th August 2010, 10:14pm) Can the world ever be peaceful with Wikipedia around? If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, work for peace. Justice is impossible under conditions of war. Obviously, an unjust peace is unstable. But that condition is necessary to begin to establish justice. And here I'm tempted to go into an examination of this issue from the point of view of classical Islamic shari'a, settled religious law. The modern problem with "terrorism" represents a gross violation of shari'a, involving sectarian affliliation and disruptive action without the consensus of the community, and without authorization by the "khalifa" (two alternate sources of possible community decision-making). It is no coincidence that the problems have been strongest among the wahabiyya, a modern imitation of an earlier Kharijite community that rejected classical law and substituted their own "fundamentalist" imaginings, that considers everyone else (the majority!) heretical and to be killed when possible. Sure, work for justice. But be sure to do so consistently with the need for all people for peace.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 31st August 2010, 11:54am) Kira is either 9 or 10 years old. She knows how to read. In fact, she's read many more of the Warriors series than has Jimbo. So, exactly how do two people who know how to read "spend quality time" reading books that the younger person has already read? Are they reading aloud to each other? My hunch is that maybe -- MAYBE -- Kira is reading aloud to her father. However, it's equally possible that they are just sitting there with their pizza, each with their nose in a different book in the Warriors series, quietly reading to themselves.
(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/mad.gif) Come on. This is not fair. Greetings, from one who loved to sit on her fathers lap and being read to, for several years after she had learned to read. QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:45am) Jimbo does certainly value loyalty: he expects people to be unthinkingly and unswervingly loyal to him, while at the same time offering no loyalty to anyone else whatsoever.
Spot on, I suspect.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 31st August 2010, 12:04pm) ...Poor Kira when she discovers those. Actually, has anyone ever published anything regarding the effects of widespread, easily-accessible public criticism (or for that matter, sex-chat transcripts) on the children of people being criticized? Not to mention widespread, easily-accessible public praise, facile and poorly-researched though it may be. I suspect Kira is in a rather unusual situation, or will be when she's old enough to start making her own decisions. As a Randian objectivist, Jimbo is unlikely to provide much financial support for her at that point - right now, he can probably just say things like "those people don't like what Daddy does for a living," and get away with it. Later on she might start asking, "why don't they?" ...followed by "what's a 'troll'?" ...followed by "isn't that what you do?"
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 21st February 2012, 2:49pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 21st February 2012, 1:54pm) Barring that, at the very least, I can remove my own comments after some short amount of time, and also ask if others who quoted my comments might remove them from their own posts.
As it turns out, the threads are far too old, so we don't have the ability to Edit our own posts. You know, I went through and tagged the ones that would be removed (and actually the first one was Somey's, not yours), and then realized that rewriting history is just a stupid thing to try to do. Maybe the wikipediots will see things differently, but honestly I'd rather see a mistake and an apology than a coverup without an apology. And for the record, my daughter is also enthralled by the "Warriors" books... I also answer to "Bramblestar", if you get tired of calling me "Johnny" (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif).
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