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mircea_popescu: no the voicing
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 18:29:51; ben_vulpes: ascii_field: on the topic of food for 2016, your tmsr~ work is splendid portfolio material. i'm sure you're aware and will object that "but it doesn't help me eat today!".
stf621: somehow, i regret some decision, because i don't take them, when i was young,because parents..etc
BingoBoingo: But best place to start lion replacement therapy in Europe is probably Italy
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: A species of lion did, but since it's gone go to the next best substitute, the African lion.
BingoBoingo: stf621: But if lions eat some people the can do fine with less trees
BingoBoingo: stf621: Seriously if you want to help nature skip the trees and go straight to reintroducing apex predators in Europe
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mircea_popescu: im sure there's an agar for that.
jurov: the results were obviously not very good
jurov: stf621: i have met several people who were set on plating trees, but observing how nature does it itself was beyond them
mircea_popescu: the way it's going now we have software written by lumberjacks and trees planted by pencilnecks.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be better if you fixed the software and let the agriculture/forestry students plant the trees ?
stf621: to sustain nature and things like this, and...i have another plans, with my life, one of ..is to ,,help,, this planet
lobbes: well, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago ;/
jurov: stf621: here they plant themselves, thanks
BingoBoingo: Or maybe reintroduce lions into the wild
stf621: so..what do you say about a project about tress, planting they..maybe in al EU
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: on the topic of food for 2016, your tmsr~ work is splendid portfolio material. i'm sure you're aware and will object that "but it doesn't help me eat today!".
assbot: Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1HDLh6L )
mircea_popescu: or more properly said : to finally splitting the fake-www chain from www.
mircea_popescu: im so looking forward to moving entirely off the www already...
ascii_field: shine light in the idiot www stack to blind eyes to the low-level strange.
punkman: abstract said they were looking at web interfaces specifically
ascii_field: that you don't actually need the peripherals for anything.
ascii_field: punkman: read it. they decided that a bare qemu 'arm' is sufficient simulation for, e.g., a router.
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 17:53:25; ascii_field: they took a page from the classic book of tricks for usg academe - 'pretend that the parts you didn't touch are irrelevant'
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-11-2015#1322558 << didn't read the paper yet, but are the parts they touched irrelevant?
mircea_popescu: do you also will the cockroaches in new york ?
ascii_field: the most memorable thing was when i got invited to a party held by the white clean-cut university types who organized the whole charade
mircea_popescu: depending, one sometimes needs backup. but it's funny how "the people" changes once it's no longer in a group that supports it.
mircea_popescu: ah then im surprised it was disappointing.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i bet you you don't harrangue the participants.
punkman: gotta be in Athens for these things
ascii_field went habitually to the 'occupy' thing when it was a thing, was disappointed
mircea_popescu: "honey, if you put half the energy you waste on this stupid shit into sucking cock you wouldn't have any of the problems killing you atm."
mircea_popescu sometimes goes to these things.
mircea_popescu: well, not necessarily, just i dunno, to hang out with the angry dumb girlies.
ascii_field: the lulzy part is, as always, that there existed what to leak
ascii_field: (this re: the fw thing)
ascii_field: they took a page from the classic book of tricks for usg academe - 'pretend that the parts you didn't touch are irrelevant'
ascii_field read the paper
ascii_field: it was a fire extinguisher. su was swarming with filth eagerly cutting the whole shebang apart for sale to the highest bidder. the extermination of said scum was the only possible objective for a sane king.
mircea_popescu: it's the clenched teeth after having trying to think and managing to exhaust oneself.
ascii_field: the man only ever had this one idea, afaik.
mircea_popescu: (and no, before you ask : "dictatorship of the law" is the sure mark of a man out of ideas.)
mircea_popescu: was for a while. nothing lasts forever : will-based systems go the way of russia once the will is out ; intelligence based systems go the way of lybia once the intelligence's out.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: notice that one is still here and the other - not so much
ascii_field: (in that any earnest attempt to ~really~ keep the tendrils out of a country result in something recognizably nk-esque)
assbot: U.S. arrests two Venezuelans who say they’re related to President Maduro - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qy48Cj )
assbot: In Monkey Selfie Lawsuit, Lawyer in Chippendales Suit Is the Reasonable One | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1RRhHeB )
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: if monkeys from the congo turn up in london with spears, it is not because a monkey has invented airplane and spear
ben_vulpes: i prefer the kandaharis in kandahar, tyvm.
ascii_field: unfortunately the ten thousand qualified people on the planet all have full calendars, booked with fucking goats, donkeys, installing windows-98-jihad-version with usgcrypt, and cleaning kalash with piss. in kandahar.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: there was a rough translation in the thread
ben_vulpes: you don't recall the "have assets seized, be in wot get recompensated" deed?
ascii_field: the meat.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: for all i know, he's buried nukes in ten thousand and one places. i was speaking of ~the rest of us~
ascii_field: the only 'defense attorney' that makes any kind of sense in modern usa is the same kind as made sense on the front in 1942: a frag in your pocket. with which to blow yourself and the arresting polizei.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 18:48:15; asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms.
ascii_field: i've said it before, and will repeat for the n00bz:
ascii_field: cover any judgment that may be issued against the defendant. But the Supreme Court rarely questions the motives of state actors. If the prosecution can plausibly claim it is freezing the assets for the right reasons, that’s generally good enough.'
ascii_field: 'the court will decide whether the government can freeze all of a defendant’s assets before trial, even those the government itself concedes aren’t tainted by any connection to criminality, thus effectively preventing that defendant from paying for his own defense. Of course, the government won’t admit that this is why it is freezing the assets. The claim is that it should be able to freeze enough property to
punkman: "In many jurisdictions — including in Austin — the onus is on lawyers or their clients to give phone numbers to prison officials so that they can be placed on a do-not-record list. Failing to provide up-to-date contact information would make any inadvertent recordings the attorney’s or inmate’s fault."
ascii_field: 'It is very important to note that we have found absolutely no evidence of attorney-client calls that were recorded without the knowledge and consent of those parties. Our calling systems include multiple safeguards to prevent this from occurring.'
ascii_field: and naturally, the perpetrator is in full ashleymadison mode,
ascii_field: 'Going forward, prisoners will have very good cause to question whether their phone calls with their attorneys are confidential.'
ascii_field: 'Particularly notable within the vast trove of phone records are what appear to be at least 14,000 recorded conversations between inmates and attorneys, a strong indication that at least some of the recordings are likely confidential and privileged legal communications — calls that never should have been recorded in the first place. '
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://theintercept.com/2015/11/11/securus-hack-prison-phone-company-exposes-thousands-of-calls-lawyers-and-clients << mega-l0lz. summary: client-attorney privilege canceled entirely in usa.
lobbes: mitch_callahan: you got a bouncer? There's always BNC4free to get you started
ascii_field: instead of looking for some i/o thing that isn't there in qemu because wtf
ascii_field: punkman: where the thing ~actually runs~
ascii_field: punkman: the basic problem with this paper is that the subset of embedded gadgets which can be meaningfully emulated without extensive reversing is more or less nil.
mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD" << example of "security".
mircea_popescu: dinosaurs and other fossils from a pre-bitcoin world trying their best to not have noticed.
mircea_popescu: and no, contrary to all the pompous / ceremonious bullshit, there's no security there nor any measure of trust worth the mention.
assbot: The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company ... ( http://bit.ly/1O525mI )
assbot: The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company ... ( http://bit.ly/1PDAASW )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: George: "Well, then, I am gonna have to ask you to turn your key."
mircea_popescu: George, in his apartment with Maura: "And so, for all these reasons, we are
BingoBoingo: "A University of Missouri spokesperson said the resignation was not accepted from a professor who came under fire for an email he sent to a student after threats against the university surfaced on social media."
BingoBoingo: quitting is triggering to the fee-fees
BingoBoingo: "whose attempt to resign his position after student uproar over his decision to dare holding class and an exam on Wednesday is not being recognized by the University"
punkman: "Just spent 500$ and am feeling great about it. The DDOS is most likely done by a government agency i suspect"
assbot: Support the ProtonMail Defense Fund by Andy Yen - GoFundMe ... ( http://bit.ly/1NTxE2O )
punkman: "This was clearly a wrong decision so let us be clear to all future attackers – ProtonMail will NEVER pay another ransom." << ddos-geld is bad, so we only pay anti-ddos-geld now
rmoen__: mircea_popescu: just a person interested in the things
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322242 << they throw rocks here, and broken sidewalk pieces, and molotovs. and they hit (armored) cops with sticks and pipes. and some kids beat up a politician outside the parliament the other day. but seems to have the same effect as otherwise peaceful protest.
assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 21:02:55; whaack: I've looked at it, and I saw in the comments it needed testing so I figured maybe that's where I could start.
punkman: "coffee shop owner Steve said: “I have always paid every penny of tax I owe, and I don’t object to that. What I object to is paying my full tax when my big name competitors are doing the damnedest to dodge theirs.”"
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322020 << I don't see it. nobody cares about those folks, and they don't own anything. Facebook might have paid $5k "corporate tax", but they have 100,000+ sq feet office and I dunno, 500-1000 employees in UK?
BingoBoingo: 2011-2013 never happened on the internet
mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with the bright idea of editing together retirement home surveillance footage.
mod6: whaack: as far as programming help, probably the best place to start is to read all of the current vpatches and understand the changes, and be able to build the R.I. up through the latest.
BingoBoingo: Oh, you aren't going to call misc "The Windings"
asciilifeform: did i ever tell anybody that the whole motherfuckin orchestra was called... motor ?
BingoBoingo: Seriously. I deleting some other shit while I was deleting shit.
asciilifeform: 'Likely the DDoS attack on ProtonMail was orchestrated to follow with an offer of generous "help" it could not refuse, necessarily a re-route of all traffic through third-party "anti-DDoS" systems.'
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 00:51:00; mircea_popescu: there is no fucking stable solution to this problem for crying out loud, to have html you need a standard. the moment you have a standard you're stuck with the progre.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-11-2015#1322328 << counterexamples are plentiful but they all involve zero-people-born-after-1985-or-so sorta thing. e.g., there are no z80 'conferences.'
BingoBoingo: So, without the quantcast shit, qntra loaded here in 610 ms
mircea_popescu: then your thing doesn't work anymore and the progre's holding conferences.
mircea_popescu: there is no fucking stable solution to this problem for crying out loud, to have html you need a standard. the moment you have a standard you're stuck with the progre.
mircea_popescu: whole heap of "oh we'll make our bitcoinxt subreddit and everyone will come there!!11" crickets "oh hey look at this nobody gave a shit!"
mircea_popescu: da fuck is with all these people, namecheap went stupid, quantcast went stupid, they're just falling into their own kabukihole
gabriel_laddel: whaack: the masamune respository has not been updated in some time, and many things have changed. I'll be picking up the parts for another machine tomorrow, and will be automating the (currently manual) build process from there.
mircea_popescu: do we still link to them ?
BingoBoingo: It says the poolboy or her dealer runs the house and not her vaguely man-shaped subwife
BingoBoingo: Either of the big high schools in CoMo could throw a much better riot than all the college kids
BingoBoingo: Also the college kids don't supply the same kind of MANpower the highschool kids do
mircea_popescu: that's kind of the one thing that support[s/ed] the centralised state : on their own, warlords warlord over a hunting range.
mircea_popescu: the thing with the thugs is, they really don't like going outside of their territory.
BingoBoingo: That corner of the quad connects to downtown businesses through an arch that runs through the j-school building. Serious potential to surprise some bsns's with a ransacking
BingoBoingo: The thing about the "media got kicked out" protest in front of the J-School is... That actually would have been a good place to launch a ferguson style burn some buildings riot... If only they could find the manpower
mircea_popescu: all those "associate professors" in their late 30s, without tenure, ahhh...
BingoBoingo: <phf> there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably a harness worth of rope next to a dildo collection in every dorm << "Rural King" is the best of those places. Can get rifle, circus peanus, cattle prod, and flowers in the same trip.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the whole libtard charade literally busting at seams. << I'm telling you cultural fukishima. The core has breached
shinohai: If my mother were still around, she'd probably ask me how to install all the toolbars and IE.
shinohai: I'd rather do everything with a quill pen and ink than use an ipad for anything.
ben_vulpes: "On iOS 9.1, Safari tries to support this, but it is dreadfully buggy. Instead of paging down just less than one screen-height of content, it pages down about 1.5 screen-heights of content." << continuing the "apple can't make usable software" thread
ben_vulpes: "First, when the iPad Pro is open with the keyboard attached, holding your arm up to touch the screen for anything longer than a moment or two is ergonomically uncomfortable. " << fucking duh, your arm wears out. human factors research on the shop floor demonstrated this decades ago, but does the american tech industry know or give a shit? ahahaha don't make me choke
assbot: Daring Fireball: The iPad Pro ... ( http://bit.ly/1WNgxHr )
ben_vulpes: http://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro#fnr1-2015-11-11 << as predicted, apple is pushing tablets as their new compute station
mircea_popescu: well, firefox complains, but if i hit it up with curl on the same agent string it just hits a dumbass redirection thing. prolly some cookie based discrimination and fuck me if i have the patience to debugt the webshitstack.
ascii_field: they 'came out of nowhere' in the 1960s-early-70s - as a concession to terro^H^H^H^H^protesters
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: are you familiar with the process whereby the 'xyz studies1111!1' departments at u.s. univ. came to exist ?
mircea_popescu: best "victims of our own success" story of the decade, really.
mircea_popescu: the grunts know why they're showing ivy league the dead cat. /me enjoys the popcorn while people we don't like fight to the death.
assbot: The problem of ideal social systems - reprint on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1kNxPCT )
mircea_popescu: and because of the communication problem (see http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-ideal-social-systems-reprint/ ) they won't be able to do it smoothly.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field understand : if the "huge hedge fund masquerading as church" engine gripes, the democrat party will have to be restructured.
analmaster: i thought they just throw them off the cliff
mircea_popescu: yes, they're all soviets. slightly hungry pissed off low level grunt soviets vs fatcat libertard soviets.
mircea_popescu: throw rocks at the media, force them to pick the "evil people" narrative.
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: the rules for successful are very simple : a) throw rocks ; b) no media.
mircea_popescu: a reality show, and by the time Naomi Klein got there I had already been told to expect someone like her. Do you see? She had already appeared before she got there. Yes, I can take pride in thinking for myself but if I'm going to be honest, all I'm doing is reacting to what I'm told
mircea_popescu: The reason "peaceful protests" don't work anymore is because now the protests are slower than the media coverage. When they threw the tea in Boston Harbor it was urgent, immediate, and by the time the press could interpret it it had already been digested by the public. But now even before the protest reaches critical mass the media, whose agents outnumber the protestors 100 to 1, has packaged and produced it, like
mircea_popescu: ima just quote tlp, because he has a very nice distillation of the problem :
ascii_field: for the trad american sort aha
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the move of kicking out the media is not odd in the slightest.
ascii_field: rumour being, apparently, that the somewhat odd move of kicking out reporters is explained by there having been present 'komyoooonity organizers' from ferguson et al
analmaster: takes a real men to do the job here, a real black man.
analmaster: white men just will not do for the occasion
whaack: Great, I'll try to install masamune in the meantime.
ben_vulpes: if you're feeling adventurous you could try installing gabriel_laddel's masamune and then scream into the log about gentoo quest
whaack: I've looked at it, and I saw in the comments it needed testing so I figured maybe that's where I could start.
whaack: hey again, I've been working on my "IRC Yeshiva" and been patiently lurking. I wanted to let you know you have another programmer pretty much at your disposal should you need one.
phf: kakobrekla: is the current month updating at that 10 minute interval?
trinque: kakobrekla: wonderful, ty. I will cron their deeding this evening.
phf: but that was not the thread i was looking for..
mircea_popescu: jurov thinking about it, the non-people's desire to not-exist is pungent. palpable. yet they keep getting their ways out denied, "oh, war is bad", "oh, suicide is the wrong answer" or blablabla. can't even lick lead paint anymore, can't ride without helmets, honestly we deserve everything we get for stubbornly keeping the dead alive against nature and its own fucking wishes.
mircea_popescu: i suppose actually the eachday.txt is the log already.
mircea_popescu: you know, 100mb every day ? what is this, the blockcain ?
jurov: point taken, even the remnants of nobility in rural argentina don't have vertical social anymore
trinque: kakobrekla: in either case, once we settle on what gets deeded, I'm happy to rig up the cron and make it happen
mircea_popescu: wasn't that your idea ? that in fabled south america people didn't actually invent the telenovela ?
mircea_popescu: so no, they're even more wanna-be than you'd expect.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> less show-offy, more 'vertical' social life << jurov you are fucking crazy if you imagine the thirld worlders are BETTER at being real. they all got tvs over here. every god forsaken favela in brazil, salta, what have you has a tv. no fridge, but tv.
kakobrekla: well i asked before if you want it chunked or not and the answer was not
mircea_popescu: i would expect less than 1% odds of them ACTUALLY being sexual assault, and perhaps as little as 5-10% of them being some sort of contravention.
trinque: kakobrekla: I could diff them on my end, or you could chunk them on yours
phf: kakobrekla: is the first column, the #id ?
kakobrekla: log dump in the form of a single fat file http://files.bitcoin-assets.com/log/
phf: there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably a harness worth of rope next to a dildo collection in every dorm
jurov: i read in south america there still some of that system survives.. but i guess mircea_popescu is not interested in herding peasants
pete_dushenski: the weak are in the right... never.
pete_dushenski: society, culture, the whole lot. gone. out the window. never coming back.
pete_dushenski: jessica, you lose EVERYTHING by affirming the right, nay, the duty to be a victim.
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1ROB6N7 )
pete_dushenski: ” In The Washington Post, Zerlina Maxwell argued: “We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.”"
pete_dushenski: "Last December, when Rolling Stone’s account of a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia began to unravel, some commentators argued that we should nevertheless take claims of sexual assault at face value, on the grounds that statistically, they are very likely true. “I choose to believe Jackie,” Jessica Valenti wrote in The Guardian. “I lose nothing by doing so, even if I’m later proven wrong.
mircea_popescu: so they got drunk and threw it out the window.
ascii_field: at my uni we had two separate incidents, complete with organized mooing, 'candlelight vigils', protest marches, etc. of 'nooses found' (noose is supposed to be a symbol of impending lynching, yes...) - one turned out to be a popped balloon's string on a tree, the other - was never seen by any witness save the instigator of the hysteria
mircea_popescu: make girls then.
mircea_popescu: i don't read them anyway.
mircea_popescu: analmaster and tghere isn't , becausw really, who gives a shit what the agitprop machine "says".
analmaster: like there will be no trace of anything on the internets
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller next month, that and mpif.
analmaster: they redact things without even saying they are redacting things
analmaster: they do
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: dunno if in logs but is there gonna be an MPOE statement this month?
mircea_popescu: the whole libtard charade literally busting at seams.
mircea_popescu: they gotta pull stories multiple times a day each day by now huh ?
jurov: but to avoid inflation, we always got a negative and positive paper with the same value together
pete_dushenski: !up thestringpuller
jurov: as children we were playing toy casino, and when the chips ran out we invented that we issue new ones,
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322083 << bonus: the washpost piece analmaster linked me to yesterday, has vanished into the aether
assbot: The endless story of Korea. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ROxZos )
mircea_popescu: (legal precedent : http://trilema.com/2013/the-endless-story-of-korea/#selection-81.0-81.349 aka "Plaintiff seeks to make his case solely upon the theory that, by reason of the change in the weight of the dollar he is entitled to $1.69 in the present currency for every dollar promised by the bond, regardless of any actual loss he has suffered with respect to any transaction in which his dollars may be used. We think th
mircea_popescu: "does this mean i sell the government a truckload of pork and it pays me for it three times ?" "no dummy, it means that if you do enter into a contract with them to sell them one truckload of pork you a) will never get paid and b) will have to deliver three truckloads. yearly. daily. fuck you!!1"
mircea_popescu: exactly. ie, the usg needs, for continued survival, to count all its money TWICE
assbot: Mizzou Students Hallucinate KKK On Campus | The Daily Caller ... ( http://bit.ly/1ROxIBY )
mircea_popescu: "More substantively—and this is what I want to focus on in this post—“paying” for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather, this maneuver is a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand that would count funds that are already designated for the Treasury as “new” revenue."
mircea_popescu: " but they find easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful"
mircea_popescu: "The House voted Thursday to pay for planned highway construction by drawing on the Federal Reserve’s capital. The idea of using Fed capital to pay for government spending, which comes up periodically, is a bad one, for several reasons."
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of this warm fuzzy coverage of the NSA just brings a tear of thanks to my eye. While you're at it, could you do a puff piece on Stasi, and the KGB/camp system in the Soviet Union? I'm sure they did a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.' << from the not-yet-censored commentz
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, he's gonna be the next best thing to a super secret service agent aka "practically james bond" : he's gonna be a ~practically~ secret service guy!
mircea_popescu: well because i can't stand the bullshit "will to power" prose of the derp, either.
assbot: The NSA school: How the intelligence community gets smarter, secretly - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1ROx734 )
mircea_popescu: anyway, the symmetry with orlov is oddly lolz.
mircea_popescu: see ? i could read the whole thing through because also horses!
ascii_field: this sorta plugs into the root of my allergy for tlp
mircea_popescu: i confess i was reading all through the (very fine!) tlp piece on narcissus expecting a kafka reference at any point
mircea_popescu: anyway : kafka is exactly right, and this is where the siren story meets narcissus' story.
mircea_popescu: inept kids just imagine "art was revolutionezed and the old thrown out". not so, but who can be arsed to discuss the matter with novices in their terms.
mircea_popescu: it IS, btw, a very fine understanding of the matter at hand. it is in things such as these that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS a master, who just chooses to go at it differently.
ascii_field: 'Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing has never happened, still it is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.' (ol' franz k.)
mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above their paygrade (which is to say, the sort of typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego through "ironicity" and interacts with the written excrement of great forefathers at a time when it's safe to do so [ie, afrter the "death of the author]) is that they ALWAYS misinterpret the silences.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing a credible impersonation of the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: i confess this is perhaps my foremost area of research at the present time
mircea_popescu: how to separate the chimp from good humor
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got to be surrounded by idiots and their trinkets to begin with. << yet again and again it comes back to the name of the rose, and the old monk's hater of laughter.
ascii_field: the didn't know how to make ersatz chocolate, either
ascii_field: but why does the reason matter?
mircea_popescu: you know the reason everything was steel in the 70s was because they couldn't mold plastics worth a shit yea ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322017 << 1) i see plastic parts in ALL of these with naked eye 2) WITHOUT EXCEPTION the internals (clickers) are standard
pete_dushenski: the adjustable palm grip is a godsend for these big mitts
pete_dushenski is enjoying the rat9 that alf recommended
mircea_popescu also had occasion to hold one of these in house of avid gamer
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:29:16; punkman: "A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could technically marry the father of his daughter’s children. This would enable an estate of any size to pass tax-free into the next generation on the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course, the younger man would be free to marry the daughter, with the estate thus secured intact."
assbot: Crickhowell: Welsh town moves 'offshore' to avoid tax on local business | UK | News | The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1ROuNsO )
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter." << lol alfie massacring the priesthood.
mircea_popescu: "almost like the state dole!"
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses to it, like a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: ascii_field aptly named, but no : for the underclass "gc" means "gift certificate"
mircea_popescu: otherwise, every time in an islamic country i was everyone's best friend on account of the magic my passport could wreak at the "special shop for foreigners".
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims << this is not insulting to muslims. it is only insulting to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity to fill the existential void.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> Amazon GC ? <<< every time i see one of these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and they don't, and somehow the fact that the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
jurov: i'm syncing over LAN from core 0.10, just to complete the picture
BingoBoingo: Imma guess Miller ended up working for the circus?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Freelapse | Freelapse. A free high that does not count as a relapse for those who are clean and sober, acquired through the following: 1. The effects of anesthesia, during or  ...
BingoBoingo: The effect of cultural Fukishima on athlete recruitment https://archive.is/yWSDP
BingoBoingo: "He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad."
BingoBoingo: None of this community organizer bullshit. Dr. Carson cut people open and reassembled them.
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