Galt's Gulch
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Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
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How do you shrug if you are a producer with nowhere to produce? They had the Gulch.

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    Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 5 months ago
    Hello net5000,
    Good to hear from you. :)
    If I could find a way to do it, I would like to barter in fair exchange and drop out of this system of legalized coercion and robbery. My problem is my product. It is not a commodity suited for wide demand.
    Regards,
    O.A.
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      Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
      What is the product?
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        Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 5 months ago
        I manufacture injection molds primarily. I can make just about anything machined from metal, but job shops are more numerous and better suited to serve the general public. However, you must remain rather small in order to survive on walk ins. Now if I were to get around to building a mold or two for myself, an injection machine and produce some of the products I have ideas...
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          Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
          O.A., would you be interested in working together on making an inexpensive 3D printer of metals? I have a 3D printing group, and have lined up a couple of companies here in Florida who are prepared to help me merge a 40 Watt laser (from a $500 laser engraver) and a 3D printer to make an inexpensive 3D metal printer.
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            Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 5 months ago
            Please send me a PM and I will reply with further inquiries tomorrow, or ASAP. I have to go now. Even if I may not be able to be directly involved I may have some useful resources for you.
            Good evening.
            O.A.
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            Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 5 months ago
            Interesting. Does the laser have sufficient power to fuse the metal? And what type of process is used? Past problems with stereo-lithography related to the variation in the medium (I'm familiar with paper) and the fusing substance. It's been awhile since I was directly involved with such activities, and I know that the capabilities have expanded considerably.

            I wonder if these machines can handle a Klein Bottle?
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              Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
              40 Watts is not enough for high throughput laser melting, but for what I'm looking to do, I think it will work without breaking the bank. The key is minimizing the heat conduction. This may where O.A. might be able to help a little.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
    Net5000, see if you can get a job at Florida Tech, a private, non-tenure-granting university that is as close as you are likely to find to the fictional Patrick Henry University. We just made it into the top 200 in the world, and frankly we need to market ourselves a whole lot better than we are, particularly to students over the web. Contact me at jbrenner@fit.edu, and I'll see if I can help find a way we can get someone with your marketing skills hired. I co-founded a couple of companies, but shrugged back to only being a professor. I have the ideal shrug job. Come join me.
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      Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
      Nice campus. My parents were university professors. I would be a poor bet at teaching, no patience, I would rather do than teach. I could do Florida Tech some good promoting their programs.to traditional or online students. Will look into that. Thanks
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        Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
        I did some research into your other posts, and noticed that you had once posted something about web site marketing. That was the direction I was thinking about. At FIT you wouldn't have to worry about the problem associated with being persecuted for your views. We have people with a wide variety of political opinions here, but most lean either libertarian or conservative. There are certainly a few libs, but not many.
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          Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
          Got it. That is a real comfort. My battles started in Jr High. At 57 I discovered Atlas Shrugged and I finally found a home. Galts Gulch Online is a nice place to find some peace of mind. Now at 58 I realize that I always thought free markets should rule everything. Politics was for the thieves that didn't know how to work, make and earn and would rather steal from those who did. They never learned to love what they produced.
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          Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
          The online program is pretty solid, but we need to attract more on campus students.
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            Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
            With a beautiful campus like that and being ranked in the top 200 in the world you should be flooded with applications by top students. It just requires more targeted exposure everywhere students search.
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              Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
              We do get a lot of top students, but it is difficult to grow when the competition, particularly the in-state competition, is heavily subsidized (by our taxes). We do extremely well at attracting undergrads from the Caribbean, South America, and the Middle East. We could certainly do better on the graduate level at attracting students. Part of the problem with that is that we need to bring in more research dollars. We are to some extent handicapped by the number of us (including myself) who don't want to go to the government trough like moochers.

              The research we do is of a very high quality (ranked 10th in the world by the London Times) for number of citations per paper, but our dollar amounts per faculty are low. I guess we publish no paper before its time, kind of like fine wine.

              All exchange value for value. It is a very pleasant place to work.
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                Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
                You need to target corporate sponsors, corporate research, corporate scholarships and chairs. Look to oil, gas and coal. Look to Aviation leaders..You need to find Patrons that are Producers. That believe in what you teach. Do you have a list of the top 100 Libertarians? Why not crowdfunding? How much did Atlas Shurgged generate for this third part? Those are your micro-patrons. Imagine funding Florida Tech research, chairs and scholarships or augmenting tuition with Kickstarter. Crowdfund directly on the Florida Tech web site, imagine the news coverage. "Alumni and the pubic put their money where they know it will do the most good." "Capitalists take over Florida Tech. "Florida Tech revolutionizes private college funding." "Florida Tech opens research to crowdfunding, no longer Government Grant dependent." "Finally, freedom to teach the truth without the risk of losing funding."
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                • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
                  Indeed you are correct. I am not likely to get tons in the oil, gas, and coal areas. Even though those were once my area of expertise, I am quite literally the only one in that area at FIT. We might be able to get some money in that area from some of the Middle Eastern countries, however.

                  Regarding aviation, we get a lot of money from aerospace and some from aviation but not as much as we ought to get.

                  With regard to the libertarians, I haven't looked into that. After all, marketing really isn't my area of expertise (although we are all salesmen to some extent).

                  I have considered crowdfunding for some areas that I control. This is something we can explore. In particular, I would like to focus on getting some support for my nanotechnology program. We can do materials analytical work in exchange for contributions.
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                  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
                    We are in the middle of a capital campaign and just went public, so we're over halfway there. Put together a one- or two-page proposal, and I'll make sure that you get my university president's e-mail. We'll go from there.
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              Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 5 months ago
              Consequently we need to specifically target our High Tech with a Human Touch to teenage audiences with Gulch values. That is a pretty small demographic, but one we ought to get a very high percentage of.
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 5 months ago
    What specific rules or intrusions are affecting you? You could list them and then try to go to places that are best on those particular issues. It's not a paradise where all rights are respected, but it's a start.
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      Posted by net5000 10 years, 5 months ago
      If they don't tax it they regulate it, or license it. Then they slow it down to discourage it. They slap a $5 fee on a $3 item or levy a manufacturing surtax of $4 on an item that at best offers a $2 profit. They hollow out every dollar by taxing 2% on the 5% tax of a 12% tax at the city, county state and federal levels to make sure that we are paying and they are getting our "Fair Share". Because it was never yours in the first place. You were only allowed to modify their resources that you paid for with what is really their money.
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