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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: INTP
Date: Tue, 21 Ago 07 23:05:21 GMT

I am not one to put much value in personality tests. They
have their uses and their worth, but I dont think everyone
can be boiled down to 16 generic personality types (as is
proposed by the Myers-Briggs test).

On such tests I usually come out as an INTP; sometimes as
an INTJ; and other times as an ENTP.

Nonetheless I found two descriptions of the INTP type
that do resonate with me and describe quite acurately on
what has been described as my “bad temper” (“mau feitio”).

http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intp.htm
http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html

I particularly found interesting the characteristics
of “INTPs do not like to lead or control people” and
“can become intellectual dilettantes as a result of their
need to amass ideas”…

Still on the same subject I found a couple of other
pages that are particularly interesting if you do the
“Favored Careers” intersection:

http://www.similarminds.com/jung/intp.html
http://www.similarminds.com/jung/entp.html
http://www.similarminds.com/jung/intj.html

archeologist
assassin
astronomer
comic book artist
computer scientist
electrical engineer
figher pilot
forensic anthropologist
freelance writer
game designer
philosopher
philosophy professor
research scientist
researcher
scholar
systems analyst

There are some that I already did or do; the “game
designer” option has been on my mind many times; but
the “assassin” option had never crossed my mind! :-)
I wonder what the monthly pay is… LOL

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Top 20 Cyberpunk Themed Videoclips
Date: Sun, 19 Ago 07 16:28:21 GMT

Cyberpunk Videoclips
Description: Top 20 Cyberpunk Themed Videoclips

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E825DF7CE117810

My personal taste and choices. Loosely based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberpunk_works#List_of_bands

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Old Mags
Date: Sun, 19 Ago 07 23:20:21 GMT

While doing aditional cleaning up of stuff around
the house (and managing to finally setup home WiFi
using my old Bronze and Silver Lucent PCMCIA cards),
I found 2 “historical” (for me) magazines: the first
issue of Wired (premiere issue, 1.1, 1993), with me
later becoming subscriber #352, and the Nov/Dec 1993
issue of Internet World.

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(009).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007.jpg

There’s some hilarious stuff inside:

The ad that made me start up Esoterica (local ISP)
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(001).jpg

An article on what is the Internet (note the absence
of HTTP/Web; there wasnt any of that stuff)
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(002).jpg

An article on what is available on the Internet. Once
again note the userfriendly (not!) character based UI
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(003).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(004).jpg

An article on government information avalaible on the
Internet. Once again note the “advanced” gopher interface
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(005).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(007).jpg

Ad for the first online bookstore (no, not Amazon). Note
the absence of http:// address (there was no web yet) and
the Internet access info (telnet books.com). Ah the good
old days of interfaces for real men…
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(008).jpg

Hilarious Apple ad for the first Powerbook
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(010).jpg

Stallman was yet to be saved by Linux and the opensource
revolution
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(011).jpg

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Commanding Heights
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 07 21:17:21 GMT

A great TV series, backed by a great book and a great
site:

Commanding Heights Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB6NW6ynfsw

Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

“Commanding Heights” should be compulsive reading
for any entrepreneur or entrepreneurship course.

“Commanding Heights” is indispensible for understanding
the virtue of selfishness and the morality of capitalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_philosophy

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html

“The entrepreneur is therefore above all else a man of the mind.
The entrepreneur is the man who is constantly thinking of new
ways to improve the material or spiritual lives of the greatest
number of people.

And what are the social and political conditions which encourage
or inhibit the entrepreneurial mind? The free-enterprise system
is not possible without the sanctity of private property, the
freedom of contract, free trade and the rule of law.

But the one thing that the entrepreneur values over all others
is freedom–the freedom to experiment, invent and produce.”

A Filosofia da Liberdade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DVlC3kXrM

— MV