funkenstein_: It is not the "equality" in these threads that is bogus but the mere comparison without context.
mircea_popescu: "A is magically comparable to B on the grounds that I believe!"
funkenstein_: if A is "just better" than B, there must be some magical divinity in whose image A is closer too.. this seems equally retarded
funkenstein_: there's not much room for magical divinity anywhere in these considerations so I think I'm missing the point
mircea_popescu: then once you've noticed this you notice the insecapable similarities with the systemv maggot, and there you go.
mircea_popescu: inept gofer @ google wouldn't on his own belt come up with the shit.
mircea_popescu: if you harbored any doubts the vermin in question is not merely vermin but teleguided vermin, there you go.
asciilifeform: (btw this subject is near & dear to yours truly, as it was one of the historic 'holy wars' between the common lisp and scheme aficionados - the latter system had tailcall elimination as a required mechanism per the standard, the former - did not)
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 17:33:32; mircea_popescu: well yes, the problem with the magical thinking of retards is that they assume there's a divinity somehwere in whose image they were made.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-11-2015#1329151 << go back to there, flow through once more.
mircea_popescu: ng part : you keep wanting to insert the same thing back in no matter what. <<< go back to.
funkenstein_: all be the same weight to nearest nanogram?
funkenstein_: as in, all occupy the same point of space?
mircea_popescu: which is the reason sane people paint chunks of metal with idiots' guts.
mircea_popescu: no. because they wanted "us to be all equal".
mircea_popescu: the sad story here is that this is a war we already fucking won. about... uh i dunno, fifty times to date.
mircea_popescu: why do you think they were hunted like fucking witches.
mircea_popescu: what, that they were offensively fucking stupiod ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, classification means something different from "epithet".
funkenstein_: well I agree, they don't mean much until a context is provided
funkenstein_: just, grey areas exist where they stop working well
mircea_popescu: classifications either work or don't.
mircea_popescu: for one thing that is not an excuse even if it were true ; for another thing it is not true at all.
funkenstein_: granted, there are cases where it's hard to define but it is so with all classifications
mircea_popescu: (incidentally the reason we were even stguck with that nonsense, which is currently "id papers". but which has been a public nuisance throughout)
funkenstein_: no, only that I can write code to define the object
mircea_popescu: now you're presuming there exists a heavenly Births & Deaths register
funkenstein_: the class of things that are born and die
mircea_popescu: this being the magic thinking part : you keep wanting to insert the same thing back in no matter what.
funkenstein_: can't we steganograph some coin in there?
mircea_popescu: no, meaningless in the absolute form. "incapable of carrying meaning".
funkenstein_: hmm thanks ascii somehow I missed his mention of quakerism, I am particularly interested therin
funkenstein_: that one ant right there, also was born and will die.. just like me
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mircea_popescu: there isn't an "any" ant.
mircea_popescu: the problem with recognizing you're an individual doesn't exist. the problem with "just like any" is that you invent a homomorphism that does not exist.
funkenstein_: I see the inner light doctrine problem ok.. but I'm not sure what's wrong with recognizing I am an individual just like any ant
asciilifeform: ( mr mold, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/06/ol9-how-to-uninstall-cathedral.html )
asciilifeform: during the 19th century. But that's a different discussion.) Thus what we call hate speech is merely a 20th-century name for the age-old crime of blasphemy.'
asciilifeform: 'Even more precisely, it is a core doctrine of the neo-primitive Christianity that we call Protestantism. And specifically, I believe it to be a mutated and metastasized version of the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light. Basically, all humans must be neurologically uniform because we all have the same little piece of God inside us. (All the American Protestant sects, or at least all the Northern ones, became heavily Quakerized
mircea_popescu: it's really the unifying core of retard mental processes.
asciilifeform: mr mold identified this in vintage puritan spew as 'the inner light doctrine'
mircea_popescu: well yes, the problem with the magical thinking of retards is that they assume there's a divinity somehwere in whose image they were made.
mircea_popescu: but the assumption you discuss was not in my comment.
funkenstein_: the trouble with biggles stuff there is that people assume there is some kind of universal context in which phrases like "above others" or "higher level" mean something
asciilifeform: y while the attacker is studying the actual problem of forging signatures. Maybe we're studying the problem of attacking one key while the attacker is studying the actual problem of attacking a large batch of keys. This oversimplification is surprisingly common...'
asciilifeform: 'Maybe we're studying the problem of setting public factorization records using academic computer clusters, while the attacker is studying the problem of factoring 1024-bit keys as quickly as possible using billion-dollar clusters. Or maybe, in an effort to advertise attractively simple problems, we've oversimplified the problem of attacking the actual cryptosystem. Maybe we're studying the problem of recovering a signature ke
mircea_popescu: []mrbiggles00007 0 points1 point2 points 1 day ago (1 child) "Anyone who puts themselves above others in how they would handle any given situation as if they are operating at a higher level than everyone else is usually a fuckwit in my book."
mircea_popescu: actually having a ready window into the universe of 15yos that you open only when you feel like is not so bad.
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3tjqop/so_we_can_now_confirm_that_quantik_has_autism/ << "til" that "the biggest xanax manufacturer on the planet" is on retarddit.
mircea_popescu: lmao the 21co derps don't take bitcoin in exchange for their "bitcoin"-whatever it is
mircea_popescu: apparently not the ukr chick.
mircea_popescu: so you know, the 1-200 niggers on campus got a little scared.
mircea_popescu: but apparently this guy decided he's going to rein in the libertards at purdue
mircea_popescu: "Katrina Shevchenko Demand all you like. If you are there by merit, keep studying. If you got there through affirmative action, get lost."
mircea_popescu: o hey cool, they're making a home.
BingoBoingo: "People are going to start hearing about how there are no more viable organs for donation in the next twenty years." << Truefax
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how do they survive this ? should be right about equivalent to forming gas bubbles in the bloodstream. << gradually increasing exposure
mircea_popescu: how do they survive this ? should be right about equivalent to forming gas bubbles in the bloodstream.
mircea_popescu: i can't quite believe this. da fuck "so much fucking fat in their blood that it actually overwhelms their carrier proteins".
assbot: Fun fact: some people have so much fat dissolved in their blood that it will literally condense out and form visible chunks when they have their blood drawn for testing. | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1QApboI )
mircea_popescu: cross that nosebridge when we get there.
BingoBoingo: Prolly ought to lacquer the inside, if you plan to use it for any length of time. Or you could no if you just want it to smell for all eternity
mircea_popescu: and it will never go away, either. by now vesseness is out, more or less, but even if i make murck's dessicated skull a part of my urinal (which i will ANYWAY, irrespective of how useless it is, because i don't give a shit about utilitarianism in some cases) there's going to be another sciencehatesyou around, ready to strut.
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3thcx5/the_tweet_that_got_toxic_todd_fired_from_r3_cev/ << meanwhile reddit hates programming languages (other than excel) and "r3 cev" is the ever-so clever name the troop of scammers behind the first scam foundation (the one that was pushing pirate & his "miner" friends) and the second scam foundation (the one that was pushing karpeles & co) chose for their THIRD pass at the
mircea_popescu: (the line quoted is a fine example of the cost assymetry, too. tard thinks it's ok to break grammar, because hey, tard immunity! tard doesn't even consider whether it's ok or not to be wrong. ofcourseitis. meanwhile suppose you were stupid and wrong, then what ? i don't mean all the time, like sciencehatesyou. i mean ONCE. which is how the various wanna-be intellectuals across the pond lose all the time. sooner or late
mircea_popescu: hence the us defeat in iraq, with superiority, and the islamist victories in europe, from a deeply inferior position.
mircea_popescu: if you look around, you can readily distinguish the winners from the losers, both afore and after the fact, by how strictly they stick to this point.
mircea_popescu: if the police is out stealing your lunch money, you shoot them in the gut on sight. that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: if there's jack shit you can do about random idiot "forming opinions", you pick a stupid one and form it for him. you don't get invested in a complex, ultimately meaningless game of trying to "help him" or whatever. the old adage "don't discuss with idiots, they drag you to their level and then beat you with experience" means exactly this : it costs YOU something, not them, and they'll win.
assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 21:28:06; mircea_popescu: obviously you can't make "the media" aka usg agitprop machine unhave all the vans and ex-sorority chicks and whatnot. so the only practical solution when you can't prevent them acting on their options is to limit their options to one.
mircea_popescu: so, the same strategy is visible throughout, for the simple reason that it is the winning strategy.
mircea_popescu: not like it wouldn't have been trivially easy for me to avoid the charge, if i felt like it. so than then what, random internet tard would have created a DIFFERENT rationalization as to why i'm bad ?
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3pohex/london_school_of_economics_shits_on_bitcoin_vc/cw8mub0 <<< why do you figure the only thing random something awful tard can say is omaigawd rape & mysogeny ?
jurov: "In developed nations the average person would earn around 15 BW$ a month, but it is hoped that in poorer countries where people have to walk further for work, school, or simply to collect water, the Bitwalking scheme could help transform lives."
trinque: incomplete without the "now"
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 05:03:30; BingoBoingo: The actors were emaciated and pale to highlight their body dysmorphia.
BingoBoingo: on exertion and the inability to visualize his own genitals without a mirror were clearly not evidence enough.
BingoBoingo: ely, the patient did go on to suffer a massive myocardial infarction in late 2013. The argument was simple. Chronic biscuit poisoning has been shown to be directly associated with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a predilection for panniculitis. Without carrying the diagnosis of CBP, the patient had no idea he had so many risk factors for heart disease and thus no motivation for lifestyle change. Increasing dyspnea
BingoBoingo: Also from mines: The suit was originally filed because the patient had multiple chest x-rays performed between the years 2010 and 2012, and the official read never contained any reference to CBP in spite of the fact that all 3 criteria were met. These criteria include: a habitus too large to fit a normal radiograph + a minimum of 3 side roles visualized on X-ray or simply a habitus too large to fit a normal CT scanner. Unfortunat
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 00:49:51; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328878 << hey, in the straights of iran they've flown submarines before.
mircea_popescu: vc derps finally figured out where the tx fee button is ?
BingoBoingo: Also found in the mines
BingoBoingo: Damn their calves were small.
BingoBoingo: "Never Share Your needles, water, spoons, mix, filters or tourniquets" << /me thinks they mixed up their drugs
punkman: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Two_Jewish_women_standing%2C_facing_each_other%2C_in_Tunisia.png teh princesses
BingoBoingo: Wait, sorry. Sea turtle cub. Or wtf you call the smaller turtles that come out of eggs.
BingoBoingo actually feels kinda bad about mocking this creature which is so near death, in the same way one would feel bad about mocking a panda cub stuck in plastic six pack rings on the beach.
BingoBoingo: <punkman> the woman that adds a cup of sugar to every salad << Note the agonal breathing, yet it still can not overcome its addict brain. Literally the physical incarnation of insanity.
punkman: the woman that adds a cup of sugar to every salad
BingoBoingo: At least the soiled pants guy made an effort at being bold
punkman: BingoBoingo: the weird part is how often this happens
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the nation of africa, http://41.media.tumblr.com/0ce4a970a81ea27b8c36bd1880a66349/tumblr_n4lzssOAmA1tp96c7o1_1280.jpg
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 23:48:57; kakobrekla: adlai if its not airworthy, are you going to dive the seas with it?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328878 << hey, in the straights of iran they've flown submarines before.
mircea_popescu: the notion that 80% is something goes hand in hand with the sort of ienpt everything the orcmedia is pushing.
soiled: it's just timing that's the hard part
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> is this one of the birds nominally intended to replace the warthog? << Compliment warthog.
pete_dushenski: on that bombshell, i'm off for the evening. happy friday and to all a good night !
ben_vulpes: the plane is now unflyable, so in the sense that its value was "one returned crew, maybe" its value is now "not likely a returned crew".
ben_vulpes: the net cost of that one incident?
adlai: "The mishap pilot (MP) was attempting to ..." << check it out, they're already slandering it on mircea_popescu
pete_dushenski: along the continuum of depreciation, the net loss in the plane's 'value' will equal the 'cost' of crew life, ya ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: loss of life 'costs' something, which is presumably fixed in this example, whereas 'value' of plane decreases over time, starting at $115 mn and eventually ending up at whatever the scrap is worth melted down.
adlai: and this still doesn't have the report itself, or say what happens to the plane... and i just ran out of distraction-minutes
ben_vulpes: a smaller example: some high performance gliders will tear themselves apart if they go too fast, pete_dushenski
ben_vulpes: i have no idea where it came up with the notion i found it on twitter
adlai: kakobrekla: well pete_dushenski didn't link source so i'm not sure what's in store for that plane, but all i took from the quote is that it won't be chemtrailing isil farmlands
kakobrekla: adlai if its not airworthy, are you going to dive the seas with it?
adlai: "write off" doesn't mean the plane gets scrapped and resold as coke cans
pete_dushenski: for the sake of argument, let's say that the plane will depreciate sufficiently to accommodate for loss of life. so $115 mn lost, but info gained. or $115 lost and no info gained.
ben_vulpes: yes, you can do it, and yes the car will survive. how many hours did you take off of its life, however?
ben_vulpes: exceeding stress limits is akin to holding the tach in the red for an extended period of time.
ben_vulpes: now if the envelope is retardedly small, that's a different problem.
ben_vulpes: exceeding the envelope is bad.
pete_dushenski: despite there being no accident or injury or malfunction
pete_dushenski: st control of the 132ft-wide aircraft before it turned upside down."
pete_dushenski: "The [British] Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new $115million gunship after a pilot accidentally flew it upside down, according to a report. The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship was taking part in a training mission over the Gulf of Mexico in April this year having taken off from Elgin Air Force Base, officials said. The pilot, from 413th Flight Test Squadron, was taking part in a 'sideslip' maneuver when h
adlai: how about "all neural networks can be trained by the sufficiently smart dataset, not only ANNs"
ben_vulpes: the question to ask is "can oncologists beat a coin toss?"
ben_vulpes: which should be entirely unsurprising, as most doctors i've met can't do odds for poker in their heads much less the odds for human ailments.
pete_dushenski: "Over the course of two weeks, the birds' accuracy at studying the slides improved from 50 per cent up to 85 per cent - and in one instance this rose as high as 90 per cent."
pete_dushenski: "Experts trained a group of the birds to tell the difference between benign and malignant human breast tissue using food reinforcement techniques."
pete_dushenski: "They may have a reputation for being bird-brained, but pigeons have found to be as adept as humans when it comes to spotting cancerous tissue in mammograms."
ben_vulpes: re: "ed", a nurse was over last night, lamenting the shift from "emergency room, you know, a big room with sheets, "emergency department" with individually nicely fitted out, warm rooms with room service that someone other than $invalid is paying for"
BingoBoingo: Still the glyphosate in sufficient quantity exists
mircea_popescu: i've not got around to reading anything else of the guy's.
pete_dushenski: the main thing running through my head while TRYING to read about ancient greek economics, what that point mircea_popescu made in a footnote recently about 'economists need businessmen but not vice versa'
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> also, iraq seems to have something like 3.75 mn hectares (9.27 mn acres) of agricultural land for wheat production << Nothing compared to the soy fields USia already sprays with glyphosate.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: speaking of idle masturbation, i tried sifting my way through a few of 'pseudoerasmus' ' other blogs posts and pretty much choked to death on that inanity and pointlessness
pete_dushenski: "hot things attract and cancel each other out!"
BingoBoingo: Still safer than doing the same with a magnesium fire
mircea_popescu: they'll just move.
BingoBoingo: Inducing famine is about all USia can seriously try and even then ISIS is prolly sitting on a decent stockpile of US MREs
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's all idle masturbation. the usg can do about as much there as it can do against martians.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 00:37:36; mats: nobody has the stomach to detonate a nuke over al-raqqah
trinque: this notion they have that ISIS is something to be surgically removed from otherwise neutral "occupied" people, it's cute.
BingoBoingo: Frankly there are far more effective herbicides now than there were in the agent orange days
BingoBoingo: "Ground Clear" concentrate contains only 0.08% Imazapyr 5.0% Glyphosate as the concentrate. Works for most of a year after application.
pete_dushenski: 'agent orange' is off the shelf and u.s. has planes ready and waiting for this ?
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> "ts fields could yield $200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?" << easily, call monsanto
pete_dushenski: "ts fields could yield $200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?"
pete_dushenski: "Arguably the least appreciated resource for Islamic State is its fertile farms. Before even starting the engine of a single tractor, the group is believed to have grabbed as much as $200 million in wheat from Iraqi silos alone."
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BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Just over half the sponsors. Other nearly half is disappoint because they tend to dislike the medicaid rates
ascii_field: the money - decides.
ascii_field: just like in last night's thread where mircea_popescu explains how nobody asks the motherfucking programmers anything
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: but the sponsor - is
BingoBoingo: Most US docs not very fond of the Beetus and fold mold
ascii_field: they also love chronics
ascii_field: possibly the only uniquely usian aspect of this is the eagerness of the medics to stitch'em back up (as described in mircea_popescu's suicide how-to)
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> is it because they were trying 'ironically' ? << likely
ascii_field: is it because they were trying 'ironically' ?
mircea_popescu: add to that the endless piles of wags, whornalists, "agents" and other useless bs, you have better chances to get shot by shooting yourself.
ascii_field: ~90%+ wouldn't pull the trigger in ww2, a few % in vietnam
ascii_field: incapable, rather
mircea_popescu: from the actual data i've seen, about a third of us "forces" are not actually psychologically capable of using their weapons.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, random chick that got insulted cause they asked her where's her bf
mircea_popescu: sane response or no, the us is not capable.
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ascii_field: otherwise 'meat shield'
ascii_field: adlai: this is the only sane response
adlai: fwiw, idf policy post-shalit is that, if you're witnessing the kidnapping as it happens, you shoot to kill nappers and/or nappee alike
mircea_popescu: what, and the chick was just a bystander ?
ascii_field: y'know, the sorta thing you need to not be entirely transparent to usg microscope at all times...
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pete_dushenski: in other news, i'm quite enjoying this atm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLoaMfinbU
mircea_popescu: did they not kidnap and ransom that inept us soldier, what's his name ?
ascii_field: the reason is that the world of goatfuckistan has precious little to offer the kind of people who could arrange for the latter
ascii_field: but there's a reason why it was kalash in paris, and not nuke at davos.
mircea_popescu: with their rot-13 korans ?
mircea_popescu: they're all haxxors ?
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 21:54:18; mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front a tv.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328682 << possibly subtler, in that yes, they might have plans, but none of them include shitting in holes in the ground and catching frags
BingoBoingo: And I haven't figured out a way to make it flash between the two
BingoBoingo: For the search engines.
adlai: uh, 'b' is no longer caged in any cell... he at least seems to have made the best of the west
pete_dushenski: "jondus" is basically the cajun spelling
ben_vulpes: the internet is for moms
ben_vulpes: the internet is for moms
ben_vulpes: the internet is for moms
mircea_popescu: for all we know a & b are ACTUALLY happy doing nothing worth the mention in their london cell.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front a tv.
mircea_popescu: or three, as the case may be.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell gabrielradio fantastique ! i'll take a look over the weekend and whip it up into a piece for contravex.
mircea_popescu: they know it didn't work.
ascii_field: y'know, the classical 'london exit' of a ru oligarch
ascii_field: i suspect that the standard alpha orc still wants to 'make it in the west in the end' (tm)
mircea_popescu: wtf must be going through their head.
ascii_field: i'm sold. but you gotta convince... them.
mircea_popescu: and no, there would be NO reprecussions. those have been out on order for 30 years now.
ascii_field: i just now grokked this - http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328641 - mircea_popescu actually thinks that the ~150 unaligned toy countries are sovereign ??
ascii_field: the bazooka suppliers have childrenz at princeton?
mircea_popescu: the country formerly known as the country to be in the future known as myanmar has been in exactly the same situation of mauretania / ukraine / iraq / what have you for what, 20 years now ?
ascii_field: iirc it's standard british method - the chieftains have childrenz at princeton who could 'have problems'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the concept mostly went away in 1865
mircea_popescu: but states ? the only fucking reason the concept even exists is that it should be fearless.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have nfi why all these dubious regimes don't go on a shoot first policy.
ascii_field: coke in the toilet tank (tm)
mircea_popescu: if they do want to move in, you sure as fuck musta have been doing something.
mircea_popescu: in other news : what you do in your house has no correlation with the police knocking on your door. the only criterion is, whether they want to move in or not, is all.
mircea_popescu: he's been strongly condemned since about the time saddam had wmds.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field was having a private lulz earlier at the "strong condemnation" of the aziz fellow in mauretania.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 20:54:32; gribble: Leblouh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leblouh>; Leblouh - Force-Feeding Young Girls in the Name of Beauty | Oddity ...: <http://www.odditycentral.com/news/the-fattening-farms-of-mauritania-force-feeding-young-girls-in-the-name-of-beauty.html>; Women fight Mauritania's fattening tradition - CNN.com: (1 more message)
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328614 << somebody tell the american chix, turns out there's this secret valhalla for them
mircea_popescu: btw, i humbly submit for your consideration that for the future qntra does s/Obama/President <a href=qntra.net/president-bahamas.jpg>Bahamas</a>/
mircea_popescu: there you go BingoBoingo
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mircea_popescu: <jurov> lol actually that's the future. cars will come barely working with obligation to leave them every other night go for "bugfixes" <<< good god he's right.
BingoBoingo: "If your cat has a high exposure rate to cucumbers, it's probably not going to turn around and think it was anything other than a cucumber. We worry about the ones that have never, ever seen a cucumber before."
BingoBoingo: "If you've already played this prank on your cat, Chan said, you may have inadvertently made them afraid of cucumbers forever."
BingoBoingo: ""What I actually worry about is long-term psychological problems. Some cats are quite delicate," said Lara Chan with the Calgary Cat Clinic."