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StraightLineLogic's new book--Prime Deceit--A must read for Objectivists

Posted by Zenphamy 7 years, 5 months ago to Books
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An author that can generate the phrase “Blow it out your ass, Mr. President. Send in Vice President Winslow.” and make it believable gains my immediate applause and appreciation. To do so within a novel that so explicitly describes the pure evil wielded by the power brokers and administrators of our world and the degradations heaped on the rest of mankind with no thought of their own moral depravity, is genius.

The read is fast paced and the plot very well established and extremely believable. The possibilities should serve to frighten all of us.

I highly recommend this book for all Gulchers.

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  • Posted by khalling 7 years, 5 months ago
    Dale and I have started it. compelling read so far. unfortunately life got in the way. Review coming soon.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    for the airlines, you do a week of computer lessons with proficiency advancement...then you have a 4 hour oral with an FAA designee checkpilot...it is in a small room with a mockup of the entire cockpit...you have to answer questions about all switches, circuit beakers, and must be able to reach each switch and circuit breaker from memory and move or pull it in conjunction with verbal commands...you are allowed 4 minor mistakes or you retake the problem area lessons and re-test on those areas...

    once you pass everything, you move onto the simulators...the first time you actually fly the airplane is with passengers...
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ALL circuit breakers are in the cockpit...overhead panel...sides panels...back wall...etc...
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  • Posted by Ed75 7 years, 5 months ago
    I read this book in it's prepublication stage. It is truly high up on the must read listing for thinking people.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I need to be more specific....even if an airplane computer was hacked, I would only fly airplane that you could punch off the autopilot and take manual control...same for a car...i.e., I would be able to pull the circuit breaker right there in the cockpit...
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Cars have already been hacked, and although I said literary license, I don't see why a plane couldn't be hacked. They are, as I said in the book, just a flying computer.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I know...just a comment...I am not comfortable with the move to driverless cars that could be controlled by govt...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Crap! I walk with a limp myself.
    I couldn't do that either.
    No miracle worker me.
    Just a silly old dino.
    Sorry.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, I think you'll find a lot of enjoyment--but you'll also find some desire for girding. It's not all that often that we encounter enjoyment in gaining knowledge of man's evil.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd love to. I'm disabled and lucky if I can walk from the back row of the movie to the men's room without a walker. If you can get me to do that you can open up shop as a miracle worker.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yay, me smart dino gonna get advanced dino smarts whether that makes me smarter or not due to a participation certificate that says I yam kinda smarter I guess maybe. Uh~
    Yeah! Yay! Yippee! Yeehaw! Wahoo!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Me thinks" has a "methinks" English language origination and spell checker agrees.
    So me dino be smart but still wants advanced dino smarts and a participation certificate to prove me got to that level.
    Yeah.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Really? Me have solution: Walk in place like a robot before a full length mirror and say "Me Herbo" 11,000 times.
    Darn, me being elderly too, me just can't recall the many benefits me wants to bestow upon you.
    So just go ahead and do it and report back wit' ya findings.
    Oh, by the way, me dino has some foot salve on sale.
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