What quality do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty. Those who stick by you through thick and thin.

What are you reading at the moment?
Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four.

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

What's your guilty pleasure?
Eating the Pringles from the hotel mini-bar.

All-time favorite book:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

All-time favorite movie:
Touch of Evil (1958)

That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.

Because his daughter is?

(BTW - the thread title caught me for a moment. Thank goodness it wasn't literal! )

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.

Can the world ever be peaceful with Wikipedia around?

We all know that, according to Jimbo's Objectivist views, things like altruism and charity are morally wrong.

But another question occurs to me. How would Rand have felt about someone falsely using the ideas of altruism and charity to exploit people and pursue one's own self-interest?

Neither Jimbo nor Objectivism have a problem with charity.

She probably would have said that was impossible.

That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.

Neither Jimbo nor Objectivism have a problem with charity.

She probably would have said that was impossible.

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?

Again, I don't follow. How can it impossible to falsely use the idea for selfish gain?

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.

"Reliable accomplices" is the phrase that springs to mind.

Of course, people who will stand with him no matter what horrible stuff he does. "Reliable accomplices" is the phrase that springs to mind.

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?

I think the word is "fealty".

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.

If you want peace, work for justice.

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.

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.

Come on. This is not fair.

If you want justice, work for peace. Justice is impossible under conditions of war.

Life isn't fair. Look, I'm happy that Jimbo's at least reading. If it's children's books, so be it. It's more palatable than chat transcripts with Rachel Marsden. Poor Kira when she discovers those.

Greg Kohs once again manages to give the Jimbo Juicers a perfectly good reason for dismissing any sensible criticism he makes (and anyone else who sees the sense in the criticism). Special blog at 1:45AM!

...Poor Kira when she discovers those.

I'd like to apologize to Jimmy Wales and to Kira Wales for the commentary I published on this thread. If the moderators would please remove my comments (and copies of those comments) from the thread, I think that would go a long way toward showing that I really harbor no personal animosity or threatening posture toward Miss Wales.

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.

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.

Awwwwwhhhhh... I was thinking earier when I saw that thing about Jimbo how anyone can truly hate anyone that reads books about kittens with swords to their children

And for the record, my daughter is also enthralled by the "Warriors" books...

Does she like pizza? How about reading them together at a pizza parlor? Do you frequently fly to London?

OTOH If you are looking for an excuse not to do the right thing ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=429217857

Birth
Infanta Leonor was born at 1:46 am in the Ruber International Clinic in Madrid by means of a caesarean section necessitated by non-progression of labour. Infanta Leonor weighed 3.5 kg (7 lbs. 11 oz.) and was 47 cm (18.5 inches) long. Her birth was announced by the Royal Family to the press via SMS. Leonor left the Ruber Clinic with her parents on 7 November 2005.

Baptism
The Infanta was baptised in the Zarzuela Palace by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio Rouco Varela, on 14 January 2006. Like her father in 1968, Leonor was baptised with water from the river Jordan, following the Spanish Royal Family tradition. She was also given the additional names of de Todos los Santos (of All the Saints), a Bourbon tradition. Her godparents were her paternal grandparents, Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain.

The Spanish Royal House confirmed on 25 February 2006 that stem cells from Princess Leonor's umbilical cord have been frozen and stored at a blood bank in Tucson, Arizona. A spokesman said this is "habitual practice" at the clinic where Leonor was born. The stem cells will be frozen for at least 15 years, along with cells from 18,000 other babies around the world. Leonor is not the first royal baby to have her stem cells frozen; Prince Christian of Denmark has had his stem cells frozen as well.

Schooling
Infanta Leonor began her education at the daycare for the children of the Spanish Royal Guard.

She began her first year of real schooling on 15 September 2008 at the Santa María de los Rosales School in Aravaca, just outside Madrid. Her father is an alumnus of the school.

... Maybe Tarc will break Jimbo's neck like a chicken bone? ...

Tarc, you will never live this down, even if you live to be a hundred.

I gave Kohs a very simple logical condition; if A is true, then B will result.

What exactly do I have to "live down" ?