mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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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

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Kraftwerk Are Brilliant
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 07 16:17:21 GMT

Brilliant!, brilliant! site…

http://www.kraftwerk.com/

Brilliant videos…

Kraftwerk – Der Telefon Anruf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQpbH8iMQDo

Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlgbAc3bbM

Kraftwerk – Neon Lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCZVeIJ8xk

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaScyfSHc-Y

Kraftwerk – The Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Kraftwerk – The Robots (THE MIX Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXTZOSWIUU

Kraftwerk – Das Modell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjWGQvke8i4

Kraftwerk – Tour De France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQz-CZvkY8k

Kraftwerk – Antenna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgvvzVvNSI

Kraftwerk – Musique Non Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUznkZuXa0

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Retro Electro
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 07 01:17:21 GMT

And now for something completely mental…

Tangerine Dream – Ricochet 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QXc5duq-4

Tangerine Dream – Ricochet 2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoSNbCNYsA4

Kraftwerk – Die Mensch-Maschine / Tv Docu / Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c90DIwngylg

Kraftwerk – Die Mensch-Maschine / Tv Docu / Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3yhVjiP3UU

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: PT perde mercado na AP
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 07 23:50:21 GMT

Ah pois eh…

PT perde mercado na Administracao Publica para concorrentes
http://www.apritel.org/noticias/detalhes.php?id=339

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: OpenBarTakeFooCoffeeCampParty
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 07 23:08:21 GMT

A sure sign that you have a bubble going on is
the proliferation of gatherings and meetings for
would-be entrepreneurs and wannabe capitalist to
meet and greet.

Last time I saw this trend, the bubble burst a
few months later…

http://www.janelanaweb.com/digitais/firsttuesday.html
http://www.terranatal.com/notic/report/first.htm

I actually was there, did that and got the t-shirt…

The reason why these meetings arent usually successful
in Portugal is because even though we’re basically a
country with a colectivist/socialist discourse, there’s
a lot of egoism going on (not individualism, mind you).

That and the fact that people insist on gathering
people for consensual decision making and then try
to do the meetings; instead of just doing the goddamn
meetings and then try and get more people.

Meanwhile the Founders Dinner keeps going along quite
nicely, with an informal dinner every month and always
at a different restaurant (no journalists allowed). We
will hit the 5 year anniversary next December.

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/

Those 5 years dont include the year that me and Patrick
had lunch every month to discuss entrepreneurship until we
got tired of getting drunk and hearing each other’s stupid
ideas and decided to bring along a few more unfortunate
souls :-)

http://pereiravandervalk.com/patrick/
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:k84e5fsKgREJ:webreprints.djreprints.com/907660072246.html+patrick+van+der+valk

— MV