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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Saturday, May 24, 2003
On-line poker player wins WSOP... 
Chris Moneymaker, playing in his first ever live-in-the-flesh poker tournament, has won the ultimate championship of the World Series of Poker, the no-limit hold-'em tournament. This is from PokerStars, where he plays: In an incredible final of the 2003 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event, Chris Moneymaker (money800 on PokerStars) took first place, $2.5 million in prize money and the coveted World Championship bracelet.Like many young poker players, Chris was inspired by the film Rounders, to which you can refer to decipher all the poker notation in the quoted paragraphs. His total cash investement to get to the $10,000 seat that led to the $2.5 million payday: Eighty bucks. The rest he got by winning. This is a kind of 'gambling' Bill Bennett knows nothing about. But: Rest assured the state is trying to shut on-line poker down. Gotta protect guys like Chris Moneymaker (what a great name!) from themselves... (If you want to play before they take the game away--if they can--PokerStars is a good place to go. The founders are Libertarian/Objectivist influenced, as are some of the employees. You can play with 'play money' at first, or at extremely low real-money limits. PokerStars has astounding multi-table tournaments, hundreds of players at a time. If you want to take the time to learn to play, see my Amazon list of poker books for beginners. And if you don't want to take the time to learn to play, you are always welcome at my table...) Tuesday, May 20, 2003
"Only the most extreme elements have ever suggested that the military or police departments be privatized"... The most extreme elements are on the ropes in Scottsdale, AZ, America's Most Liveable City. Today voters in that city will decide whether to retain Rural Metro, the private emergency services company that has been Scottsdale's fire department for more than 50 years, or to create a municipal fire department. The debate is interesting. Every lie ever told about the efficiency of Socialism has been trotted out. But the tale serves as a caution for libertarians: The people of Scottsdale are older, richer and far more capitalist than ordinary Americans. This is the actual Goldwater country. If we can't make our case there--not to privatize but to stay privatized--where can we make it? Update: Capitalism won Sunday, May 18, 2003
Us, too... Sez Drudge: American households that connect to Internet via high-speed broadband grew 50% in last year to nearly one-third of all home users...A big time-sink in my life right now, very busy otherwise, is building a network of our disparate machines to take advantage of a new broadband connection. I have thoughts on this--some of the printable--but the DrudgeStat is revealing of the Marketing Mindset: "The features are here, so why won't they sign up?" It's because people don't buy features, they buy benefits. Broadband doesn't sell broadband. Infuriating dial-up sells broadband. And infuriating Wintel networking hassles, which people are certainly wise enough to anticipate, make dial-up tolerable and broadband deferrable. As with everything else in the digital world, Steve Jobs has almost all of the answers and Bill Gates has almost none of them. When I am done with this network, I will have eight nodes with very high-speed, always-on internet for $50 a month, an incredible bargain. The cost of the added hardware and software will be less than $500, including a rockin' print server. But the cost of my time will run to a very fat four figures. This is because absolutely nothing produced by MicroSoft works! Why don't more people get broadband? It could be because they made the regrettable mistake of buying Wintel and not Apple machines. |
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I am a a Realtor working in sunny Phoenix, Arizona, and the Designated Broker for Bloodhound Reatly. I am an Accredited Buyer's Representative, a Certified Buyer's Representative, a Certified Residential Specialist, an E-Pro Internet Certified Realtor and a Graduate of the Realtor Institute. I speak frequently on real estate issues and write a weekly column for West Valley sections of the Arizona Republic. If you need--or you know someone who needs--to buy or sell a home in the Metropolitan Phoenix area, I would be grateful for the opportunity to compete for the business. I think I represent the best of all worlds: Objectivist intelligence, Libertarian integrity and Catholic conscientiousness. For a liberty-loving take on real estate news, visit the Bloodhound Home Marketing Group weblog. And if what I'm doing suits the readership of your web site or weblog, please do link to it. Or go me one better by putting the customizable button above on your web page. Either way, for every person you refer who buys or sells a home with us, we will donate 10% of our net commission to the charity or advocacy group of your choice (within limits; we won't give money to people who kill people). Find out more from our referral page.
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If you don't know how to play poker, but want to learn, a place to begin is my Amazon list of poker books for beginners. Just remember: If you don't have a Positive Expected Value--you're gambling... | ||
