Atlas Shrugged: The Movie

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

"You know what? Andrew Ryan and Quark just get it, man!"

And when you get right down to it, wasn't Buffy really just a good for nothing delinquent who was always causing trouble?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I have another one I think fits better, she is blonde with blue eyes, powerful thanks to her pure lineage and she is the one calledSailor Moon

Not really. She's just one of the many Japanese characters with a funny hair color, and a look at the source material indicates she wasn't supposed to be blond so much as silver-haired.

Japan tends to do that a lot, but when everyone in the country has the same hair color, it's hard to fault them for trying to spice it up.

EDIT: Like, seriously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ebQ5n7mzQ4

[Fifthfiend]

I just want to take a moment to thank Shy for posting this thread, so that we all of us could spend a little more of our lives hating Ayn Rand, as all good people should.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

And when you get right down to it, wasn't Buffy really just a good for nothing delinquent who was always causing trouble?

Well, Ayn Rand teaches us that supernatural boogeymen like vampires or demons or Jesus or whatever don't actually exist, and so it was obvious that Buffy and her no good public high school friends were just rejecting hard, objective reality for no other reason than to skip class and cause trouble.

And there was no way Principal Snyder was going to be fooled into believing otherwise, no matter how many obviously fake monster spiders the mayor was keeping in a box.

[The Wandering God]

I already saw the Atlas Shrugged movie.

Tony Stark really sells how awesome being an objectivist is.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Eh there's no raping. You can't really do objectivism justice without heapings of the rape sauce.

[Osterbaum]

Maybe the rape happened off-screen.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

What's the point then?

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Also if you murder people you open jobs for gravediggers.

Pretty sure I watched a western once where the coffin maker was the second wealthiest guy in town next to the Big Evil Bandit Leader. Good times.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by The Wandering God

I already saw the Atlas Shrugged movie.

Tony Stark really sells how awesome being an objectivist is.

assuming that article is accurate about the books plot I find a giant glaring flaw with its premise. Namely, not only can the goverment not force you to reveal your secretes, but goverment enforces the mechanism that keeps people from outright stealing your ideas, they are called patents.

If if you invent a new metal alloy you file it with patent office and for 20 years no one is allowed to use that design. US goverment has entire agencies that exist solely to guarantee what you create is yours.

Granted there is a time limit, but frankly if after 20 years you haven't either entrenched yourself in the industry or invented something better, well you clearly aren't making good use of your idea anyways.