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• you couldn't make this up if you tried : JINKY
• Shill for BioShock 2 maybe? : carrioN luggagE
• Bioshock 2 Viral Marketing : Magus
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  ^^^ What's the connection to Bioshock? : action roommate
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    Just in case you're asking this seriously: BioShock's main characters and basic premise are based on / in : Bean
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      yes, I'm asking very seriously. Haven't played Bioshock (or Systemshock 2 for that matter) and never eve... : action roommate
      • In that case, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshock#Influences and http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Ma... : Bean
  • Rapture, the Bioshock world, apparently was heavily influenced by Ayn Rand's philosophy. : crummynz
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    living a life based on principles and conviction? I don't know. : thief
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      I might have to follow up on Bean's post and read the book, I was just going on the intro video that was ... : thief
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        Really, do yourself a favor and just skip it if you're older than 20 or so. : Bean
        • As my friend said, "It's basically an elaborate justification for extreme levels of selfishness." : ChibiJosh
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          I would expect most people 20 or older would be able to relate to the philosophy expressed in The Fountai... : dopeman
          • Now I must at least peruse it throughout one week or two or three as a measure of self :\ : thief
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    "Is the shopper at Circuit City not entitled to the sweat of his brow?!" : HojuSimpson
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      No, says the evil security guard, it belongs to the manager. No, says the internet commenters, just sit ... : crummynz
      • fucking lol, I am cracking up here : thewriter
    • NO, says the receipt checker at the door. : pwnage1232
    • No says the shack. : thief
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    Read some Ayn Rand books.. specifically the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. You won't regret it. : dopeman
    • we the living is intense as hell. : dahanese
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      Atlas Shrugged was amazing for the first 2/3ds of the book. The last 3rd was like o_O wut? Crime myster... : sludge vohaul
      • that's kinda how the fountainhead was too... the first 2/3, maybe 3/4 of the book was a pretty awesome st... : mikecyb
    • Yes, you will.. Read the cliffnotes version. The stories are interesting, but Ayn Rand's style leaves... : walker270
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      I prefer the Abridged Atlas Shrugged to the real thing. http://www.spudworks.com/article/66/2/ : Kaerof
      • I prefer the sequel: http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif : VinnieTheSquid
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      I can't believe I read most of Atlas Shrugged. What a terrible book. Once I got the the never ending John... : datoo
      • To be honest I actually skipped through a few of the monologues in the fountainhead because 1) i got the ... : dopeman
      • yeah that wasn't a monologue, that was a superlogue : Clay
    • You will absolutely regret it if you've got two brain cells to rub together. : c0bra
    • Anthem is also quite good for a pre-Orwell post-apocalyptic novella. : WaterSign
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  as much as i love ayn rand's books and would totally bang a real life howard roark, that man is a nut. : dahanese
  • NOOOOO! Dahanese is an objectivist! : TShandy
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  I'm still kinda baffled by the backlash the guy got. Aside from the kids being there, the guy stood up f... : stonedonkey
  • Well, the way I see it - there's "Making a Stand" and "Making a Stand While Being a Huge Dick About It". : Bean
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    The reason he got the backlash is because some people are very dense. "I don't get it *drool*, if he : abrasion
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      FWIW, based on everything I've read (and a little casual research of my own), I think the guy will end up... : Bean
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        Geez. I wrote like 4 lines and used "almost certainly" twice! My rambling just keeps getting worse and wo... : Bean
        • hence why you charge by the hour in : shavenewok
        • durrrrrr : ieGod
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        Yep I hope he makes some serious coin out of this, and makes a big 'fuck you' plaque to all the dipshits ... : abrasion
        • Well, due to the nature of the situation, he won't see "serious coin" out of this. I hope his lawyer has ... : Bean
      • I completely agree. I'm conflicted about him personally since he caused a bunch of grief for people inclu... : kingdok
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      To be honest I have a hard time believing this guy picked the fight because of his rights. Mostly becaus... : walker270
      • Yeah (see my post above). However, I'll admit that assholes have valid points sometimes, and while I've e... : Bean
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        Well even even if he did it just to pick a fight, the problem is................ he's still right. ... : abrasion
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          To be fair, what you don't seem to get is that he opted to take a stand against some corporation that has... : walker270
          • I never once disputed those facts and I agree with them completely. : abrasion
        • Stupid lawful neutrals, who think the law is always right no matter what it is! Ok, sorry for bringing... : locater16
      • Regardless of what his rights are, and what he claims his motivations were, the fact that he references A... : Rotten Deadite
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      No. Bean's post above yours is what most people think about it, actually. I'm not stupid. There's a : SiW73
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        both you and walker270 seem to be forgetting the key thing here, he showed the cop the receipt. At thi... : abrasion
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          Thank you for assuming I had forgotten something I didn't. I have, after all, just recently learned to b... : walker270
          • He's actually not all that well-versed in the law from what I've read on his blog. That's the most amusin... : Bean
        • it was too late at that point. he was hotheaded and being a jerk. It could have (but didn't) escalate a t... : Slowtreme
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      lol...oh abrasion, never change. : ColoradoCNC
      • ColoradoCNC reply to abrasion post. : abrasion
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  I agree with his principles, but honestly, he ruined a holiday weekend for himself and his family. Serio... : David Craddock
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    but your way of thinking is _exactly_ why he's making his stand. The obedient, get-on-with-your-life kind... : TPSReport
    • They look at me like some person being paid minimum wage to enforce a company policy they don't exactly g... : walker270
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      The whole thing is just retarded. He acts like the government came and demanded his receipt when it was ... : JINKY
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        see the thing is, it's easy for us to sit here and say oh what an idiot... he didn't do shit... But at the moment this took place, he just acted... without analyzing the results(obviously).
        
        I don't want to make a grand comparison here, but in a way I have to... I don't think Rosa Parks thought about fighting for people's rights and all that big stuff before she refused to gave up her seat... She just acted at the moment.
        
        Yes, yes, you can ridicule me for even hinting a similarity between this idiot and Rosa Parks... but when is something just a fluke, and when's something historical? I don't think we should dismiss these things so easily as "that idiot who acted like a retard"

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        see the thing is, it's easy for us to sit here and say oh what an idiot... he didn't do shit... But at th... : TPSReport
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          If you can't tell an idiot acting like a retard from someone actually standing up for something then you ... : JINKY
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            whether he is acting like a retard or actually standing up for something is still to be determined(in a c... : TPSReport
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              Allow me to clarify a few things for everybody involved in this conversation -- If you're going to co : Bean
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                The guy is wrong because he did not show his receipt. This is not a right he is entitled to while on that : Bold
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                  How is this ANY DIFFERENT than going to a movie? you buy a ticket, and then 7 feet later you have to show... : Slowtreme
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                    You have to show proof that you paid in order to gain access to the thing you paid for. Your example wou... : bipolar
                    • the movie analogy doesn't work at all anyway because the period after you have seen the movie doesn't mat... : mikecyb
                    • we used to have on of those stores, do any of them exist any more? : RobFlinn
      • But the government DID do that. HE called the cops and they turned on him and took the store's side, and... : DinK
    • I will say that I've refused to have my receipt checked at Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, and even Sam's : Bean
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      it's got nothing to do with having balls. you can just walk past them without saying anything most of th... : mikecyb
      • by "this place" I mean "shacknews" in case that wasn't clear :( : mikecyb
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        Ok, I guess I'll be the guy's advocate for tonight.... "i show the receipt usually because I don't rea... : TPSReport
        • right and wrong is right and wrong, and we can spend all day arguing it. my personal opinion is that che : mikecyb
      • But, at that point it is your personal property. What right do they have to go through it? Would you ob... : bipolar
    • lol what! I have never gotten that look by anybody walking out of a store. All you have to do is stop and... : Magus
• I wish him the best of luck and hope he wins, but I'm going to reserve the right to lol. : capt tripps
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  hahaha oh jesus that reminds me of a story. so i was in bed with this girl a while back. smoking body, no... : mallrice
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    She sounds awesome but you need to be in the mood for that shit. : abrasion
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      this was a one night stand : mallrice
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        mmmmmmm hard to tell, crazy yes but good in bed - can't tell : abrasion
        • we had a three way later. she was fine in bed, but the problem is in the span of one evening there isn't ... : mallrice
  • I had similar shit where a chick bit me and drew blood, and I was like WTF, and she was all, "Now punish ... : steelsamurai
  • After the first question, you should have put on your robe and wizard hat. Would have ended that right th... : BlackCat9
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  Whatever happened to that millionaire dude that refused to fly because he didn't want to show his ID? : capt tripps
  • He lost all his suits, but the TSA said that there was no law requiring people to ask for IDs, they're re... : Hiro
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  Congratulations, you're so cool Michael Righi. Seriously, somebody should write about his awesome expl... : Danny5225
  • Fuck that dude, he got arrested for not showing his ID. Regardless how much of a douche he is, it's st... : nubitup
• He's like the Cindy Sheehan of the internet : VegasX
• What a dumbass. Someone should tell him that Circuit City probably has enough money to string this leg : dopeman
• Oh shit, he's going to blow up Circuit City. : Orange Pylon
• Does this guy think he's really gonna win this thing? : jonin
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  Can somebody TLDR what the big deal about Ayn Rand is? I've heard her name thrown around quite a bit... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    She wrote political philosophy novels that centre around objectivism, which is basically an extreme form ... : peanut-
    • But the parasite came and sucked the marrow from the bone that was Rapture. Would you kindly...show me y... : RyDogg1
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      Wow. But yeah, I can see how that might appeal to a certain cross-section of people and professionals. : Ride-My-Rocket
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        That's one way to look at it. Not the way I would recommend, but yeah, that's one way. I'd suggest re : asylumn
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          Yeah if you like long boring books about dumb women characters read her books. Or just read the wikipedia... : baronzemo78
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            If you are the type of person that enjoys having other people tell you what to think, by all means, take ... : asylumn
            • Isn't that what her books are? Telling you what to think about how society should be? Objectivism is like... : baronzemo78
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        The fundamental flaw that most Internet Randian Men (IRM) overlook is that they are not captains of indus : ChibiJosh
        • *ahem* stfu commie! I keed, I'm a staunch libertarian but the Randian crew take things a smidge OTT : Toraz Chryx
• That explains a lot. I thought the main characters in The Fountainhead were bughouse nuts too.... : Arcanum
• wow.. this guy has a lot of unresolved anger-issues.. : bamb
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  Everybody wants to blame this dude for ruining the holiday weekend for his family and upsetting the kids,... : wasylm
  • you're wrong : boring gegtik
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    The cop is definitely a giant dick, but that doesn't make the dude any less of a dick. It's not like the... : Arcanum
    • well if you guy who's an idiot and a cop who's an idiot who arrested somebody unjustly, i'd have to side ... : Clay
  • It seems they both are. But then, he should have expected that when he called the cops to begin with. Thi... : CapnChaos
  • Yes, but the real question here is, is it right, or a good thing, to demonstrate your rights in a situati... : lookitzpancakes
• lolololololololol What an idiot. Good job putting up your house to prove a stupid point. : FormerHPB
• that's funny, umm but why didn't his father just start to drive away even with the door open so he could ... : Ziz
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  Is his name Andrew Ryan? : Fred Garvin
  • Hank Rearden : c0bra
• This guy, god damnit. What a fucking chud. : royalally
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  While it may seem like some great "injustice" was done here, it's Circuit City's property and they are to... : kaijuseijin
  • thanks for showing up a week late to beat this dead horse : boring gegtik
  • Just like they can search your wallet/purse/backpack because it's on their property right? Put another... : Sniper21
• Will someone please tazer this guy and post vids of it on the web? Bonus points if you can get him to yel... : baronzemo78
• i hope he wastes all of his money and ends up broke and humiliated : maulla