mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally tmsr rsa, such as for eulora etc, uses a fp and armored base90 as above. so there!
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mircea_popescu: actually, why the fuck are we even using "base 56", which is braindamaged (no 1 AND no l ? really ?) when we should really be using base-120 or somesuch, ascii-high-byte half.
asciilifeform: ( we dun even know whether hashes work !! )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with a hash that long, you may as well simply display the modulus.
mircea_popescu: yeah this entire "id of rsa key" thing needs a fix. i imagine sha512 of tmsr standard is the only way to go.
asciilifeform: (even now, observe the pains to which the supposed 'luminaries', e.g., the kernel folk, go, to avoid mentioning phuctor)
asciilifeform: (one of the first phuctor finds)
asciilifeform: phf: recall the faux peter anvin key ?
asciilifeform: which is where we get the mirrored keys on phuctor.
asciilifeform: sks, lulzily, continues to insist on displaying the short fp.
asciilifeform: this idiocy, of course, is smoke, being spread to distract from the fact that generating LONG fp collision is now reasonably inexpensive.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 13:14 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1521780 << these take at worst a ~week of (a very modest) cpu, to generate.
jurov: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/15/445 "Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs."
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of perhaps the best cartoon episode ever made.
phf: "bing, what are you still doing here, i thought i told you to go fuck your mother?"
asciilifeform: ( i suppose, in the olden days, when a power dildo was a glass tube with bee swarm sealed in, it could be 'spend' when most of the bees are dead .... but this dun look like a beetronic dildo.)
mircea_popescu: do you mean joe pesci in the "get your shoeshine kit" scene in casino ?
mircea_popescu: in another life, /me got a lot of mileage out of an old painter's table for this purpose, checking civil engineering designs.
phf goes full tommy devito, "you motherfucker"
PeterL: think of this: if you have two pieces of paper, writing on one and checking data from the other, do you put them side by side or put on on top of the other and have to keep lifting it to read the other?
asciilifeform: phf: i personally like the resting eye level to be approx. 2/3 of the way to the top of the tallest lcd.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i dunno man, when i did the closest equiv to that, ie, swapping between building project and calculations, i kept the sheets one under the other, not one next to the other.
asciilifeform: phf: when the thing is tall enough, it becomes necessary to intelligently adjust the chair/table.
phf: i actually have hard time reading documents when they start all the way at the tall top, but i think that might be from now harmful habit of laptoping
PeterL: I like to have several things open and easily be able to switch between then by turning head
mircea_popescu: check out the crazy quotes. damn.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people want is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor
mircea_popescu: PeterL what do you do with them ?
asciilifeform: it is actually the ~correct~ way of making computer screen.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing intrinsically unswappable in a laptop. just, manufacturers elect to be idiots.
mircea_popescu: if someone came up with the sane idea of making a 1m x 30cm laptop, whence the screen unfolds and turns 90 degrees, i'd probably consider that item au par with a desktop.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, my principal objection to laptops is that they aren't... WIDE enough.
PeterL: you can have a computer without a keyboard (gets instructions from network or other devices), a keyboard without the computer connected does not do much thinking
mircea_popescu: what the computer does without a keyboard is digestion, not thinking.
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu riding with desktop comp in palanquin, six slaves at the handrails
mircea_popescu: has no other.
mircea_popescu: it's the fucking keyboard. that little wire running from kbd to ps/2 port, that's its spine.
asciilifeform: well - the head
asciilifeform: i.e. something which COULD easily be made small and - when detached from the 10kg keyboard - reasonably portable , being instead gigantic and stationary.
asciilifeform: in some respects it is the beloved desktop that is 'cardildo'
mircea_popescu: well... big enough to fit the car dildo.
asciilifeform: i'ma guess PeterL wants a gadget you can read l0gz on in the train, etc.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "smartphone". just dumbuyer.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the official tmsr mobile phone seems to currently be samsung e1200.
asciilifeform: 'sitting on this razor-studded road cone sucks, is there better alternative ?'
PeterL: android sucks. is there a better alternative?
mircea_popescu: they actually run a java machine on an android-os phone ?
asciilifeform: and they've standardized enough that it is worth taking the time to write 1 infector.
asciilifeform: the whole android shebang.
asciilifeform: complete with 'mother, why is yer phone so slooooow'
asciilifeform: the one where they exactly re-created the winblowz ecosystem without ever involving microshit
mircea_popescu: the sort of social relations implicit in that text are so fucking NUTS already...
mircea_popescu: seems like a parallel world, of middle eastern aziz's dwelling in immitation cubicals, running java machines on their "engineering" desktops...
mircea_popescu: " Good morning sir, Can you please see attached, was at the machine shop this morning and he said this has not been paid as of yet. This is really overdue, the machine shop jumps on anything I bring over, does quality work and gets me back the work quickly. Please, anything you can do to expedite this would be greatly appreciated." << speaking of spam. if anyone wants the enclosed JAR lemme know.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-16 16:49 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't, unfortunately, as if the 'hollywood nonsense' were harmlessly decorative. there are countless cases of, e.g., police AND arrestee both, acting out 'hollywood script' from their heads...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll wait a couple hours and prolly give it the Roundup Xtend treatment. Lotta little lulz around this.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, völkischer beobachter: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-github-removed-links-to-alleged-nsa-data : '“Per our Terms of Service (section A8), we do not allow the auction or sale of stolen property on GitHub. As such, we have removed the repository in question,” Kate Guarente, from Github's communications team, told Motherboard in a statement.'
asciilifeform: (wish they'd quit using kaspersky's idiot euphemism for usg)
asciilifeform: https://xorcatt.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/equationgroup-tool-leak-extrabacon-demo << some fella tested one of the cisco payloads. appears to work.
trinque: beavis in butthead sounds like fanfic to me.
thestringpuller: like the episode were beavis runs head first as fast as possible into a brick wall thinking he'll bust through
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: in beaivs in butthead there are several situations when they act out hollywood. they don't die tho cause cartoons.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: can't say i've ever seen it..
trinque: thestringpuller: boy, stop hhhwhackin in my trailer!
thestringpuller: i think it was asciilifeform who showed me the chinese app rating farms
BingoBoingo: More the "make money online" farms where they gather saps to collect fiat penny shavings for interacting with ads.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you've been watching too much Beavis and Butthead!
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Not exactly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't, unfortunately, as if the 'hollywood nonsense' were harmlessly decorative. there are countless cases of, e.g., police AND arrestee both, acting out 'hollywood script' from their heads...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> like... 100% of all vc "businesses". << Not quite. There's this entire sector of especially spammy companies headed by Preets and based on various forms of click fraud to drive revenue.
mircea_popescu: people generally like to think faust is a story about someone else. just like they pretend italian cinema is about, you know, that place in europe, and they're ruled by hollywood nonsense. as if that's how things fucking work now.
mircea_popescu: pride is, in this manner, for this reason, by this avenue, the spark of lucifer, ie, the genius. he who would make.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this is your choice to make. but be aware that there's a perfectly valid interpretation of that joke where the dying man is actually proud of the competent ho on his side.
mircea_popescu: moral being that at some point you will have to decide what you want the woman to do. she'll execute your priorities, if she's any good, but they must be clear in your head first of all. so : do you want strong boys to work your farm, or don't you ?
mircea_popescu: "ida, tell me the truth. that last one - is he mine ?"
mircea_popescu: so he waves them out, to be with his wife of lo these many years, and, taken by a stray thought, he asks her
mircea_popescu: and he has seven sons. six of which - big, strong, beautiful men. the seventh - well, a repugnant hunchback, like that "marketing director" version of mircea popescu.
mircea_popescu: patriarch lies dying - something like big daddy in the tennessee williams play. he started with nothing, just the rickety box of his bum father, and now has ten thousand acres of the most fertile land this side of the river nile.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yes. if she's not married, and wants to have kids, some sort of arrangement will have to be made. this has a cost. if she is ALREADY made the fix is already in. this is a value.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-16 16:12 mircea_popescu: the principal avenue for avoidable bodies is precisely this - guy scores chick above his station, she imagines it's obvious he'll share he imagines it's obvious he won't, then she scores guy above her station because being married to someone else is a significant bonus to high level guys ; then the husband gets uppity, gets warned too late, slaps her arround and then next week gets killed.
mircea_popescu: hitler ? need i name hitler ? the fucking point of fuhrerprinzip was "every woman in germany is a whore."
mircea_popescu: alexander's empire existed in no small part because of the various whores, including his mother. caesar very much idem - and marc anthony failed to inherit it.
asciilifeform: 'there are good spies, famous spies, but no good, famous...'
mircea_popescu: it becomes obvious when inept derps practice it (see the clintons), but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: myeah. especially problematic - the part where the successful arrangement doesn't actually get exposed.
asciilifeform: unfortunately i do not presently own a working chronoscope, so i'm stuck with the written record.
mircea_popescu: you'll have to be careful to distinguish the butthurt of the losers from historical reality.
asciilifeform: sooo, roxelana running the empire by pulling on her muppet's strings, this is 'winnerdom' ?
mircea_popescu: think about it for a moment. you'll know a few hundred people. if you're the emperor most of them will be whores for the simple reason that whores know more people than i dunno, soldiers.
asciilifeform: not, as i gather, in orcland, there the friend is the friend, and the woman - the livestock
asciilifeform: dunno, folks who'd like to not butcher their friends ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is going to priviledge the lower gainst the higher, and the male against the female ? two strikes against him already.
asciilifeform: (i have nfi whether, or how, it helps.)
asciilifeform: on black planet they have maxim, 'bros before hos', against this rot.
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-oY2P0Bgc << moldavian version of the same predicament.
mircea_popescu: the principal avenue for avoidable bodies is precisely this - guy scores chick above his station, she imagines it's obvious he'll share he imagines it's obvious he won't, then she scores guy above her station because being married to someone else is a significant bonus to high level guys ; then the husband gets uppity, gets warned too late, slaps her arround and then next week gets killed.
mircea_popescu: it's a natural trap that ; men don't take what women blather five minutes before being smacked too seriously ; women don't tend to land the bomb earlier than it's obvious they're getting smacked.
asciilifeform: there may not even be a particular reason. other than the fact that ~some~ ant had to pop.
asciilifeform: i have nfi why this particular ant ended up sizzling under the magnifying glass.
asciilifeform: the business model is... spam.
mircea_popescu: "we take your words and apply our logic to them.|
asciilifeform: well i have nfi who formally owned the thing. if it was a public co, as i understand the board can throw out ceo if they decide that they don't like the shape of his nose.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but i don't care. everything the usg says will be used against it in all the ways it can be used against it ; and will not be used for it in any way.
asciilifeform: when the latter was kicked.
asciilifeform: the phrase is often abused, perhaps it was 'his' as apple was steve jobs's.
mircea_popescu: words have meanings, even if the lizzards are blissfully fentanyl'd.
mircea_popescu: basically, they stole his shit, transnistria style.
mircea_popescu: at least they're not "promoting the duke family history of individualism". all good.
asciilifeform: hey - they unzipped! why not also piss!
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-judge-to-decide-fate-of-Gurbaksh-Chahal-in-9139376.php
asciilifeform: but how much sense does 'For six months we were lucky. The autopsy report hadn't been finalised. Cause of death: unknown.' make ?
asciilifeform: so now the octopus tendrils proclaim, that he died of dope, http://publicaddress.net/speaker/the-uncomfortable-silence
a111: Logged on 2013-07-27 16:08 ThickAsThieves: "Jack had been due to speak at the 2013 Black Hat cyber security conference in Las Vegas next Thursday, August 1st. He was allegedly going to present a method of wirelessly hacking a pacemaker"
a111: Logged on 2013-07-27 16:08 ozbot: Barnaby Jack, respected hacker of ATMs and medical devices, found dead in San Francisco | The Verge
a111: Logged on 2013-07-27 16:08 ThickAsThieves: http://www.theverge.com/culture/2013/7/26/4561176/barnaby-jack-hacker-atm-pacemaker-dies
asciilifeform: they feel, in their bones, that the 'individual keyholder' thing is a mega-problem, and it itches, itches.
mircea_popescu: oh since i'm thinking about it : there's two specific items tmsr wants to bring to the field of probate reform : a) no juridical person beneficiary. no government, ngo, corporation, trust etc may obtain as much as a farthing from any succession. physical persons only. b) no tax or fee of any kind may be levied against succession.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521574 << the statement is exactly equivalent to observing that "keeping your mouth shut will prevent your saying of anything stupid". if that's your worldview, you're invited to follow your own advice.
BingoBoingo: Ants vs termites is the oldest ongoing way. Termites soley buff on defensive stats while ants buff on offensive stats.
phf: holy mother of logs is the only holy thing for a citizen of tmsr (unless they are, of course, danielpbarron)
mircea_popescu: yeah, mother is a distant third
a111: Logged on 2016-03-12 17:03 phf: also, holy mother of logs
asciilifeform: motherfucking phone.
mircea_popescu: that's the pivotal part :D
mircea_popescu: phf cat-toonist better. sadly, all the chicks are being silly.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 23:03 mod6: ;;later tell danielpbarron You wanna help the Foundation test the latest V99994 incantation?
mod6: <+danielpbarron> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521703 << sure << did ya see just above where trinque posted the script & the hash? test the same way you would with V99995. shouldn't need to do anything different.
mod6: <+pete_dushenski> mod6: pleased to report that 99994k spins up on deb7 without fuss. only comment would be on 'trb-howto' to suggest '-lows' command when booting bitcoind for the first time. << hey! Thanks for testing that!
phf: thestringpuller: personally i'm partial to venusian conspiracy
thestringpuller: phf: ironically, humans lost control of their own planet. it wasn't humans making those checkpoints.
mircea_popescu: but hey, the clue store doesn't take filthy fiat.
mircea_popescu: i guess. ironically - the govt really should luv a "riot" in this sense. those are its people, should just go with them.
phf: thestringpuller: i lost count
mircea_popescu: anyway. the generals are figthing last war ; the notion that anyone wants or needs physical body agglomeration for any purpose is ridoinculous.
asciilifeform: 'BOZENA RIOT is a remotely operated, armored vehicle designed to handle riots and mobs in the streets and urbanized areas. The system offers a solution for both protecting the law-enforcement units in action and controlling the situation whenever peace maintenance is required. The machine's design follows the concept of the BOZENA 4 demining system, which has been in use in various countries across Europe, Africa...'
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: chew shares likely to grow for the foreseable future off permanently elevated plateau.
thestringpuller: for them.
mircea_popescu: yeah ; but they meanwhile figured out that bees produce honey, and noticed their drones produce nothing.
asciilifeform: usedtobe they were fixated on bees
mircea_popescu: (likbez #3 : that the socialist shithead can not think of anything because too obsessed with anthill fetish should be informative as to his braindamage)
mircea_popescu: (likbez #2 : ant colony, nature's finest example of star topology, is for this reason uniquely bad example for the (correctly defined) "complex system". the boom-bust cycle of rabbits and other small rodents much better examples. complex systems are made of like parts, not worker-queen sorta nonsense.)
mircea_popescu: (likbez : ant worker is not genetically distinct from ant queen. epigenetics (mostly, env factors - as in feed) make the fenotypical distinction. consequently yes, whole anthill, as far as its underlying mechanics go, is found in each worker ant, all you have to do is sequence the dna and explore the possibilities. that such is currently a computationally prohibitive task is not relevant to the discussion.)
mircea_popescu: "Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants." aaaand we lose interest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a really ? well cool then
pete_dushenski to dine on the town.
pete_dushenski: https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.7oipsx4yk << featuring profile pic of nnt in what appears to be a santa hat.
pete_dushenski: https://jimholroyd365d.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/made-in-the-ussr/ << and some toyz.
mircea_popescu: in other buttprobing news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/a627461503eba0e91ba810b4d19ed847/tumblr_mqieovS7pn1s8za73o1_500.gif
pete_dushenski just waited 3 hrs for tx conf with 0.00022 fee. "bitcoin is the worst form of e-payments, except for all the rest." (tm) (r)
BingoBoingo: Anyway pete ty for adding coverage of another life science today.
pete_dushenski: i see what you did there!
pete_dushenski: missing period at the end tho.
pete_dushenski: the neat thing about places (like edm) that are increasingly insane is that the definition of 'what's central' continues to expand as the peripheries explode across the prairie landscape.
pete_dushenski: this 10-20 jump ahead of the 'cool' kids i've seen work here as well. currently 50-60s neighbourhoods are the attractive ones for $profit here.
mircea_popescu: but the idea is that you want to be 10-20 years early to the party. much like you know, if you're gonna rent out fuckspace at burning man, best go there a day early park the van right.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated, esp in the states. in romania much more trivial a point, growth pattern of cities quite obvious.
mircea_popescu: only ustard will go into "high value", watch that erode from under their feet.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522188 << the way this works is you go in "new" place, build for century, wait for civilisation to catch up, $profit.
asciilifeform: 'Imposing losses on customers who were not hacked appears to go against the company's terms of service, said Ryan Straus, a Fenwick & West lawyer who advises financial technology companies ...'
asciilifeform: 'scripts' is misnomer, these are docs, mainly concerning the patching of fw in proprietary shitware (e.g., cisco, fortinet)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:38 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522070 << the 'sample' goodies box, strangely enough, appears to be genuine (if quite uninteresting, imho.) and previously unpublished. fwiw.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: like round trotskyite eyeglasses, these things come and go.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2013-05-08#19757 << record-setter from the logs. 38 mins to go to match it.
pete_dushenski: the list just keeps growing.
pete_dushenski: 'having accidents' is the new heroine od.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: and in usa, you can typically build ~whatever in rural pissholes, or in 'industrial' zone. but ~nobody wants to live there.
trinque: someone sacrifice a virgin to the chaos god
pete_dushenski: that's the ticket
a111: Logged on 2014-09-12 15:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the case of the people making that very cheap wholly natural house, being ordered to destroy it ?
mircea_popescu: however, the actual artefact of the time in the context of its time was maybe capable of 80, and otherwise liked the 50/55/60 limits.
mircea_popescu: lmao check out the nox trabi
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 19:13 phf: somehow you can't just hold one variable, just cause you will it to be so. them dependency graphs find SAT, and the solution is might surprise you!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522049 << this is actually the controlling point. for all the theoretical theory of how "woman" should be ; you're still going to meet individual women with which it works or it doesn't. plenty of cases "the wrong" works way better than the theoretical best, even if present (which it oft isn;t)
mircea_popescu: they may be verboten in yurp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the smaller lawn machines are ~all 2stroke here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought it was all either electric or else 4stroke for the ride-on stuff. 2strioke is such loud, smoky nonsense...
mircea_popescu: i dunno what trabant did 100km/h. maybe in lab conditions, engine on bench sort of theory.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: don't anchor to the numbers... i only brought them up to overcome your lawnmower nonsense
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall the thread where mircea_popescu described phriend who went to usa and tried to have a proper house built ?
asciilifeform: it doesn't! example concerned idiot 'aesthetificating' on top of a thoroughly broken construction.
pete_dushenski: that the mcmansion is designed by children who failed ~technologist~ programs (not even architecture school) is indicative of deeper rot.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: except if you had spoilers on a trabant, you'd be forced to ask 'why do those need to be there' to which the answer is 'oh because the car is dreadfully engineered and will lose stability and traction above 50mph'
asciilifeform: and NOTHING was changed in the code ?
asciilifeform: trinque: do i misunderstand, or you were saying that rss worked great for months, then stopped entirely mysteriously, and there is no clue re why ??
asciilifeform: discussing the 'aesthetics' of cardboard house is quite like putting spoilers on a trabant.
asciilifeform: what i read in there is a lie by omission.
pete_dushenski: they're deeply related.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the article is merely observing that 48yo pack-a-day smoking whoor looks black inside ~and~ outside
asciilifeform: and the article exemplifies it.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i find the focus on the cosmetic when the functional elements are 'dangerous to self and to others' in 1,001 ways, to be also a typically american lunacy.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: melamine biscuits are besides the point. the point is that muricans manifestly suck at not only using name materials like brick and stone, instead preferring shitboard, but that they can't even assemble them into anything coherent. really just a reiteration of the old 'garbage in, garbage out' adage i guess.
asciilifeform: (and yes prolly the same zooko as appears in my blog commentz.)
mircea_popescu: if he were in wot there's hope he wouldn't be doing stupid shit.
asciilifeform: lacking a pgp sig, at the very least i will say that the 'two' zookos appear to share a name and a biography.
asciilifeform: yes, with the idiot altcoin
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522064 << it is the same zooko as in pete_dushenski's article !
mircea_popescu: eh get out of here. it's not so simple as all that. recall that famous japanese chick that fucked some dude to stick a stilleto in his brain because he had won a war / killed her father ?
asciilifeform: how about the cock calibration vernier.
trinque: in the fucking nation
trinque: if not in her mind, where does the specter of cock-defilement live
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but they're not 16yos!
trinque: danielpbarron: it's an insecurity, i.e. "if she has had other dick onoes she might think of that dick at some point"
mircea_popescu: me either ; it's a male thing.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: in exactly the same sense that melamine in biscuits is chinese.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: greek architectural theories are chinese now ??
mircea_popescu: o shit, it's from me linking the pronz isnt it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:38 pete_dushenski: http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad << muricans can't figure out proportions and balance at any level. not political, nor architectural, nor anywhere else for that matter. they've no eye for the aesthetic.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so move to admire the classical civilisation. lotta stuff worth seeing in the middle east.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522015 << what's this, the stick shit on all sides of lulz department ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522070 << the 'sample' goodies box, strangely enough, appears to be genuine (if quite uninteresting, imho.) and previously unpublished. fwiw.
pete_dushenski: http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad << muricans can't figure out proportions and balance at any level. not political, nor architectural, nor anywhere else for that matter. they've no eye for the aesthetic.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: whether she fucks them or not is immaterial, however. hence my recomendation of iran : he might discover that in a hundred smoking hot virgin babes, thereby fitting his bill as stated, there's not a single one worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522033 << the idea is not entirely without merit. people are entirely made up of their heuristics ; much like a child who spent the language-formative years among orangoutans will never make a great tenor, writer or public speaker ; just so a girl who spent the heuristic-formative years among retards will never make a good whore, spymaster or etc.