The techno-geek crowd is rather diverse. Slashdot was da bomb in the mid to late 90s, after that most reasonably minded techno-geeks gave up on this site as it plunged into worthlessness with the popularization of the internet. Many of the techno-geeks I know (quite a large number), read Ayn Rand, and loved it, when we were 15. Then we grew up and stopped being such arrogant and selfish little shitheads. I can't speak to who these Ayn Rand lovin' crazies on slashdot are, but they are not the only ones who might fit the techno-geek label.

Aah, most of us techno-geeks are decent people. Well, except for the trekkies; they're just plain weird.

As for Ayn Rand...read Atlas Shrugged a while ago. Some parts were really infuriating. But mostly it was God damn repetative. Over and over and over and over, not to mention and over, again Rand kept making the same point ("If you're stupid you deserve to starve. I pwnz you!"). Now, if she'd cut about 500 pages of the book, it might have made for a decent read.
I don't know if it's second only to the Bible in terms of influence, but I think it's second only to the Bible in terms of length!

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

There's loads of them around here, so I wouldn't worry. It's a certain dist

Well, he was working with the American male assumption that sex stops where marriage begins, so he got a few centuries in prior to the vows.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.