Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' | 48 comments (48 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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My comments are the same as Jerome--enjoyed the book while not accepting the extreme political/economic view. I'd love to see the movie, because I don't think I want to go back and reread the book.

I would have a real difficult time seeing this book as having the impact that others have described--second to the Bible? I don't think this book would be in the top 100 on that criterion.

by wchurchill on Thu Apr 27th, 2006 at 04:37:38 PM EST
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You should spend more time around the techno-libertarians. It's sort of scary.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 27th, 2006 at 04:43:14 PM EST
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Yes, mention Ayn Rand on Slashdot and behold the collective techno-geek erection...

Oh yes, programmers and technologists are a breed above and don't need no stinkin' unions etc... One would have thought the dot.bomb crash and outsourcing would have taught them differently by now. So much for superior cognitive abilities...

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by Alexander G Rubio (alexander.rubio@gmail.com) on Thu Apr 27th, 2006 at 04:47:28 PM EST
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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.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 09:31:12 AM EST
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hmmm, not sure I know any techno-geeks. and based on your comments, should I want to?

by wchurchill on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 01:57:36 AM EST
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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

by NordicStorm (m<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 07:32:37 AM EST
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