The IP is public domain, as I understand it. Anybody could take it and produce a book for sale, or create derivative works, or whatever. Same as “Pride And Prejudice And Zombies”, or any other public domain property.

The “no liquids” rule stems from the foiled plan to bring several liquid explosive ingredients onto a flight from Heathrow to LA (side note: The perps were arrested the day they were going to do a dry run of the plan with fake ingredients on the same flight a week prior to their scheduled attack. I was returning from…

I interrupt everybody because I’m the smartest guy in the room.

The name Gunnar pre-dates guns. Of course, if you were an actual journalist, five seconds of Google would have informed you of the name’s history:

“so many gilded phallic structures”

At that time, they were not very many years removed from their own civil war, which means they still had a lot of experienced war fighters in their ranks. Not at all the same situation now.

So in other words, Buzz=Jobs and Neil=Woz?

Just bought my first neon sign for the pool room. Came in last week.

MSG is best known as the setting for the opening scene of Highlander.

The ends do not justify the means.

“altruism is only the opposite of acting in your self interest”

That’s what I said. Hedonism is self-interest only, without rationality. Altruism is the complete lack of self-interest (the application of which could be either rational or irrational). Neither are compatible with objectivism. BTW, Ayn Rand also wrote…

I had a great-uncle that died at the Battle of the Bulge. My understanding is that his body was found naked, without any obvious wounds, and that he likely froze to death (after which somebody else took his clothes). War is hell.

Altruism is the exact opposite of acting in your rational self interest, and several of the essays in The Virtue of Selfishness explain exactly why altruism is not compatible with objectivism. You have to use the complete “rational self interest” phrase because, with either half of it missing, you end up with…

“The world is full of concrete examples where self interest is illogical”

Objectivism is based on the concept of acting in your *rational* self-interest, which you conveniently choose to ignore with your comment. You are talking about hedonism (acting in your self interest, sans the “rational” part), which Ayn Rand…

Maybe read this for a more current take:

Seriously, make sure you’ve got the pertussis vaccine. Both my kids are fully vaccinated, but one of them still brought whooping cough home from school (probably from somebody who didn’t show the worst symptoms) and the three of us all got the full blown effects. On top of that, we had the flu at the same time (we got…

Any list of the 10 sic-fi books that you should read/should have read is completely incorrect unless all 10 books are by Heinlein. Actually, I wouldn’t put any other authors on a list like that until you got closer to 20, then I might make allowances for Asimov/Bradbury/Clarke, etc. Even then, I’d probably put some…

I highly recommend this hobby:

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He’s also a darn good singer/songwriter/guitar player, if w00tstock 7.0 was any indication. Seems like a fun guy.