NEW: Galt's Gulch Members Directory PUBLIC BETA
With nearly 20,000 members, Galt’s Gulch is becoming a big place! To make it even easier to connect with like-minded individuals, we’re publicly unveiling the new Galt's Gulch Members Directory.
Using the Members Directory you can find Gulch members near you, start local group discussions, or schedule times to get together and hang out in person.
Check it out now: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/members
This is a PUBLIC BETA. Test it out and let us know what you think in the comments below.
Using the Members Directory you can find Gulch members near you, start local group discussions, or schedule times to get together and hang out in person.
Check it out now: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/members
This is a PUBLIC BETA. Test it out and let us know what you think in the comments below.
I’m in agreement with most of the Objectivist positions, ‘tho I’ve never completely understood her Esthetics and, after 40+ years of study, I FINALLY graduated from her minarchist limited-Constitutionally-limited government to the more consistent and rational anarcho-capitalist position, which we’re presently calling the Win-Win Free-Market Stateless Society.
Are any of y’all familiar with the work of Andrew Galambos & Jay Snelson?
‘ealth & ‘appiness on ya!
Super-ironic that the "Galt's Gulch Member Directory" only lists those who are still on the sinking ship (and therefore, still contributing to the problem) and not those who've actually gone Galt in real life.
Anyone who's paying taxes to the US federal government (even if under compulsion) is definitely feeding the beast and so a part of the problem.
Sure, we all shrug in different ways, but the most fundamental has to be to shrug off slavery and withdraw the sanction of the victim. That means, stop paying taxes to Leviathan. Anyone who hasn't done that is a slave, and in fact the actual cause of the problem. Evil is powerless without the cooperation of good men. This is why Hank and Dagny were the people Galt and the Gulchers were fighting in Atlas, not Thompson and Mouch.
Being a "fan" of the art and philosophy while continuing to let oneself be enslaved and used as a tool for the enslavement of others is not Going Galt in any way, shape or form, nor is it consistent with the principles of Objectivism.
Hash, you know, you don't hang out in here enough. You going to be in the Dallas area anytime soon?
Doesn't have to do proximity calculations internationally, just enable text search on the city / country profile fields.
If not for those who've truly shrugged and fled the USSA, do it for the producers still trapped inside - it'll be handy for them to have friends on the outside when the lights do finally go out! :)
Cheers!
Have you found a habitable place on this planet where you can pay zero taxes of any kind to some State without fairly high risk of fines, imprisonment or execution?
At the moment, one of the most promising is Panama, which has a very easy residence visa for nationals of over 40 countries, and doesn't tax the worldwide income of residents.
In 40+ years of research, correspondence, observation, we’ve yet to find such a place & if such exists, I’d suspect that the lives of the folks there are still controlled by some version of the State thru regulations, etc. &, unless there are no “legal tender laws”, the folks’ wealth is likely confiscated thru the cruel tax called monetary inflation.
Even if there's no getting away from taxes entirely, paying a minimal amount to a government that doesn't engage in mass illegal surveillance, aggressive wars for no reason, massive imprisonment of innocent people for victimless crimes, torture, etc. etc. that the USSA does, is way better, and doesn't really contribute to the problem.
Probably way better, ‘tho it DOES contribute to the problem of the myth that we need the State … and principle of the less onerous tax is the same as the more onerous one … they’re all theft.
And yes, not only is the “progressive Income Tax a penalty on productivity that penalizes the more productive more stiffly”, it’s also a massive invasion of privacy in which the State thugs demand information from us subjects that we wouldn’t share with our closest friends.
What he insisted on was not letting the enemy (system) have the fruits of his mind. In other words, no creative job unless it's within the Gulch.
The Galt's Gulch Member Directory excludes people who have opted for the most practical and effective means of Going Galt.
And let's face it, MOST people living full-time in the USSA (especially, but the same applies to people living full-time in many other countries) are feeding the beast, and continue to accept partial slavery as a way of life.
As I said, super-ironic.
Perhaps an option to search for only non-US members?
A nice feature for locals would be a message option for a radius (100 miles might be ok here) to allow them to come to a hosted event. I would be happy to buy beers for Gulchers that want to engage in how to educate and fix things, not just whining.
RE: "There needs to be other search criteria."
What other criteria specifically?
RE: "I can "imagine" meeting a Gulch member somewhere beyond where I can ride a bicycle to. "
You can type any zip you like in the zip code field.
RE: "a message option"
A "Start a local discussion" button appears after you execute a search. Are you not seeing it?
2. Yes, one could figure out what zip codes to put in to expand the search beyond 100 miles, and make a few messages. However, one would rather have the computer the yeoman's work.
3. Didn't try to send a message yet.
I agree with the need for members not in the ZIP code system to have a way of being in the database.
I would like to see other things in the results, if approved by each member: (1) whether the person considers himself an objectivist or not, (2) age, (3) sex, (4) marital status, (5) availability (looking for ...), (6) email address, just to name a few that come to mind.
Next, "Next" at the bottom of the page should probably have another copy near the top of the page for navigation, AND the proverbial "this is page x of N pages" with the option of going directly to page Z would probably help, too.
"Next" isn't fun if you don't know whether there are three or three hundred pages behind the one you're viewing...
:)
There's a bit of a pause, but now the 'cards' become visible without having to mouse-over.
cheers and Congrats! Good job!
I 'started with computers' around 1967 on an IBM 360/45 at RPI and had to drill down to pseudo-assembly language to debug some otherwise-trivial programming problems. One of my close friends found a bug in IBM's compiler. :)
After that, 'out in the world,' I went from teletype-driven time sharing, where I was doing distribution graphs and intersections of them using the little X's to plot them out.
Then came a Calcomp plotter hooked to a 16-bit mini from HP and then HP x-y plotters driven by cpus with core memory (the little metal donut kind!)
Some years later, after BASIC on an HP 'calculator,' I learned DOS from the machine language up so I've cut my teeth on MS products since then and familiarity can breed contempt as well as... familiarity.
But I was also a Chevy Man until GM drove me away into the arms of Toyota.
MS has been a thorn in my side for years, but I'm also familiar with a lot of its shortcomings and have some MS-expert friends to bail me out when the software gets deeper than I'm tall.
Most recently I've discovered that Wells-Fargo and MS IE8 do not get along well, and between W/F and MS, the workaround has been Chrome.
But again, it's another learning curve that I'm just not eager to climb right now. We'll see what happens in the future, but late this year I turn 70, and there's the old story about old dogs and tricks... I've learned a lot of new tricks in my life, but at some point a nice nap is more rewarding.
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Good catch. Looking into it now. Thanks plusaf.
Jan
It still does not work for me. I have updated my profile a couple of times, entering the same information. The search does not find me. It does return people I know from the area.
I tried it on a Mac with Safari; then went to Chrome on the Mac.
But profile image update doesn't work, darnit
We'll look into it. But... in the meantime, you may want to try and operating system and browser combo used here on Earth.
Just kidding. But not really. ;)
Free Linux distros come with very good software and accomplish most everything well in similar ways -- the only exceptions I've run into is poorer CAD and more difficult graphics apps, so Linux has Wine to run those M$-type apps.
And then Firefox is drastically better than IE. So that's my happy choice.
But this is WAY off-subject!
Everyone discriminates on something, and usually on many things.