RoR: Forum

Andrew,

Don't try throwing the stuff back at Linz, he likes it too much :-)! If I ever get really angry with Linz (as opposed to just being pissed off), I'll put a bunch of articles in the queue about quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and self-regulating systems and such. Oh, no! That's right. You're the editor now!

Jim

Post 61

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 8:00am

Well, I think the air is beginning to clear. Most of us know how important this time is in the life of SOLO. I think Barbara and Linz will work things out eventually if they give each other a little space. In the meantime here is how I call people names: Linz you are a *&*^*^(*&&$#$# and furthermore your (**&%%%*(*& is *(U*(&*&&%!!!

There, I feel better already! And how can anybody argue with this? Linz: "I am not a *&*^*^--or what did you say?"

--Brant

Post 62

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 1:55pm

Linz said in his post #26

Brant - as it happens, it fell to me to pass the above through the moderator's queue.

Is it true that after Brant posted his "last post", he was put under moderation already?? I see his last several posts were all under moderation. Is this what happened with all others as well? This certainly is a solo policy that I am not aware of.

Hong

(Edited by Hong Zhang on 7/06, 2:07pm)

Post 63

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 2:27pm

Everything I've written has been posted as I have written it. I suppose that after I do ten posts since my "last" post the moderation will disappear. I don't think the powers that be are afraid I will say something nasty. They probably just wanted to know when I started posting again if I ever did. Say I came back three years from now. But I don't know and don't care. Like I said, everything is going through as far as I can tell.

--Brant

Post 64

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 2:43pm

Yes Hong, I place people under moderation after they say they're leaving. I'm not a big fan of grandstanding, and we get a lot of that. If someone says they're leaving, I take them at their word, and won't let them have it both ways.

And no, I don't do that to everyone. Sometimes I invalidate their accounts entirely.

Post 65

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 4:24pm

Okay, Rowlands, I'm putting you on notice.

I shall leave -- leave, I tell you!!! -- unless you immediately explain the meaning of this symbol beneath your photo:

x 35

You have been warned!

Post 66

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 4:48pm

Robert, you have to pay more attention. I did an Executive Update explaining everything!

http://solohq.com/Spirit/Announcements/29.shtml

We'll have a lot of opportunities for you to get some of your own.

--Joe

Post 67

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 4:55pm

Hey Joe...tanks for the explanation.

Post 68

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 9:19pm

Do I get any tanks for SOLO Architecture?
Edited by Peter Cresswell
on 7/06, 9:20pm to add:

No, looks like I don't. Bugger. :-(

(Edited by Peter Cresswell
on 7/06, 9:22pm)

Post 69

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 9:28pm

Peter, you must first blow up a public housing project.

--Brant

Post 70

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 9:58pm

Yes Joe, I was grandstanding, albeit only in part. I did not say I was leaving SOLO, however. I continued to read and sanction posts and send SOLO mails. And, yes, there is a lot of grandstanding on SOLO, but it is hard to objectify this aspect of self-assertion or to generalize it as a negative. The problem is grandstanding and self-assertion are intertwined and SOLO is zip without self-assertion.

--Brant

Post 71

Friday, July 8, 2005 - 4:58pm

"And, yes, there is a lot of grandstanding on SOLO, but it is hard to objectify this aspect of self-assertion or to generalize it as a negative.'

You just need to wear a black cape and wave around a cigarette holder to make it really work. ;)

Post 72

Friday, July 8, 2005 - 5:03pm

Having blond waving hair helps, too...

Post 73

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 1:02am

Atlas shrugged is a total grandstand, which is one reason it is the greatest novel ever written or that will ever be written, though not the primary reason.

--Brant

Post 74

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 2:29am

Greatest novel that will ever be written? You don't know that.

Post 75

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 8:50am

Brant,

I agree with you. But look what John Galt made a grandstand against - altruism, mysticism, collectivism, irrationality and theft of the wealth created by producers, and that's just for starters. Conditions also were stipulated for returning - one of the basic ones being respecting the ownership rights of producers to what they produce.

I have a real hard time relating that to posters leaving Solo in a huff.

Michael

Post 76

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 12:42pm

It's saddening to read yet another thread like this on SOLO.

Having met Jennifer in person a few months ago, and found her to be the very model of what SOLO seemed to me to be about, my only comment is that I have a very hard time making sense of some of the statements being made about her on this thread.

Barbara - thank you for once again speaking your mind so eloquently.

Post 77

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 1:14pm

MH,

See Jennifer's view of what has happened here.

Post 78

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 10:32am

Daniel, that's right, I can't know that Atlas is the greatest novel that will ever be written, but I can think that for various reasons. And it is important to acknowledge that to describe a novel that way is ultimately a subjective evaluation. Just like calling someone a genius.

Michael, the trick is to think in principles here. We can apply lessons from Atlas that way to even small matters of day to day existence. Otherwise it'd be a pretty worthless book. I merely used the best example I could lay on to to illustrate my point.

--Brant

Post 79

Saturday, July 9, 2005 - 5:07pm