ascii_field: alternatively, let's teach legless folk to will themselves new legs
ascii_field: (not really, because i would not wish this on a friend. but you get the idea)
ascii_field: the purpose of dope in this example is as a force multiplier.
trinque: ever the "nuh uh"
trinque: with a great deal of discipline I'm certain one can observe himself in the same manner with no such substance.
mircea_popescu: fine, one would not refuse to use a condom because it's not their own cock!
ascii_field: everybody who knowingly takes anything is 'avoiding looking at the world with not-having-taken-it eyes'
trinque: I have seen both, certainly. Chicks that take all kinds of substances such that they never have to look at their model of the world with clear eyes
mircea_popescu: similarly, if you ask america to vote, ( ) balance the budget ; ( ) replay the 90s, guess ?
mircea_popescu: or if you ask tlp, they're doing it TO AVOID something like this.
ascii_field: possibly the folks who want to 'regress to 5yo' are going for something like this ?
trinque: I would accept that in the vast majority of uses it's regressive
mircea_popescu: not having access to the stuff of being ficve years old ?
trinque: "I am the 3rd coming of Jesus H Christ" or whatever, even worse
trinque: jurov: your observation about yourself is not unlike experiences one might have on acid, in the ballpark of "this entire system of ideas that forms the world as I know it is built of assertions accepted within this universe simulation in the mind" which might be an excellent argument for the general population not having access to the stuff
mircea_popescu: "oh i've been raped". no, you haven't, you were whoring out. "but nobody asked me" yeah, they did. "i'm just here for the free food" well... enjoy the extra protein. actually natural.
mircea_popescu: no but looky, there's fifty people eating in a free fast food joint, except the rule is that when the music stops the cook comes out and picks a patron to suck his cock.
mircea_popescu: "This is the whole gimmick of media, not polar but triangular, right, left, middle, mobilizing an army of assonauts to feel strongly enough about something that they don't do anything."
mircea_popescu: it's really very much an open topic, which is why the "evidence based" court's bitch goes all in for "mri scans!"
trinque: that thoughts arise, then are selected, and so on
mircea_popescu: obviously. they bought.
ascii_field: the prisoners
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:50:44; mircea_popescu: you have to understand ontogenesis is a two step process. first, a blob develops.then, controlled apoptosis, a process so fundamental cells have signalling baked in for it (but not for hunger, not for pain etc) makes the spaces between what will be your fingers.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field imo they answered alright. nature works in the following way : the punishment is the deed. those people who bought into it got their life ruined.
mircea_popescu: jurov yes, but the problem with the evidentiary based standard is that, well, the matrix. this is one of the biggest problems for young children, incidentally. what the fuck is going on!
adlai: ascii_field: the telegraph decentralizes the market for rate limiting, rather than requiring baroque schemes of varying arbitrarity
ascii_field: does mircea_popescu recall the 'repressed memory' trials in usa ?
jurov: there was ample evidence i am wrong
mircea_popescu: what's the parrot remember ?
adlai: trinque: not criticising deedbot-, saying that it's the answer to mircea_popescu's question
trinque: I am quite backed up on things deedbot- needs, but am aware of most of them
ascii_field: also need the knife
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:05:45; mircea_popescu: how do you ascertain the truth of this ?
mircea_popescu: all sorts of caged penii a la blair wet their pants^H^H^H^ girly panties because o noes, nude display of will.
ascii_field: there are biologists somewhere, however laughable, who are not students of darwin. but there are no pr or ad men alive today who are not students of the good doctor g.
mircea_popescu: apparently hitler lost the war. har har.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:01:08; mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their
mircea_popescu: now the question is... was it true ?
mircea_popescu: they laugh their ass off at the new toy, and towards tghe evening the husband shows up too
mircea_popescu: once she lifts the cover off the cage, the parrot takes one look around, one look at her, after which
mircea_popescu: so the woman buys it, and takes it to her house.
mircea_popescu: "nothing really, just this : it's the parrot of a deceased brothel madam. spent all his prior life in brothel, has very saucy conversation"
mircea_popescu: so she goes in, and asks what's wrong the parrot, explains to the shopkeep that she's been saving and so and so.
mircea_popescu: and one day sees in window of pet shop a beautiful white specimen, and the price. which, shockingly, is not only much less than what a parrot costs, but also within her savings!
mircea_popescu: well, let me recount the hungarian parrot joke. so : a middle aged housefrau has always wanted, ever since little girl, aparrot. so she saves and saves,
mircea_popescu: hm, can' find it in logs, either.
mircea_popescu: jurov dja know joke with brothel parrot ?
mircea_popescu: how do you ascertain the truth of this ?
mircea_popescu: but the "Shut up a second" and especially "listen" is not ... convenient for many folks.
mircea_popescu: simple example : if i get a stomach upset, i can identify the culprit through the simple process of ... "shut the fuck up a mintuer and listen".
jurov: mhm.. at the age children try to self-suffocate and mircea went to engage a lamb... i learned to plant false memories in myself. It was very scary.
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's the normal/natural state. people with overrepressive habits (ie, bad childhood) end up blind to their own mind, but...
trinque meditated for hours once and when he stopped chattering to himself about a narrative, there was left something that made me think for a long time about will, and what this observer was that was left sitting there
ascii_field: aha so then yes
mircea_popescu: re tlp's entire "universities don't produce producers, they produce consumers". there's some very specific requirements for "consumership" and they're not the obvious "oh bad people" bla bla.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: are you an aficionado (or the reverse) of m. minsky's 'society of mind' thing ?
mircea_popescu: o do this heavy lifting as long as they are given just the right facts, filtered from the "noise." "Where can we get the right facts, in a world of liars?" Good question, maybe the news?"
mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their mind is prepared t
mircea_popescu: The "independent" demo actually has all the textbook characteristics of a group most susceptible to propaganda, more correctly "pre-propaganda", and by textbook I mean literally Propaganda.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, "Worse, they proudly announce their lack of ideology by branding themselves as Independents-- capital I, a thing, a demo. He willingly lessens his independence to become part of a group.
ascii_field: question is whether it has a 'valve'.
ascii_field: and yes, there will be a cost
ascii_field: (in the sense of 'hind' brains)
ascii_field: but it would not surprise me if the system responsible is simple enough for some realistic dope.
ascii_field: i have no reason to suppose either yes or no
mircea_popescu: and the channel yet again tricks me into revealing even more of the mysterious evil from the tower depths. oy vey.
mircea_popescu: anyway, merely the contemplation of the plain if never discussed (shouldn't this be discussed in school ? you think ?) that cells do not actually have signalling for hunger built in, so the entire insulin system is left guesing, with all the attendant problems of insulin resistence etc. they didn't think this was important enough. apoptosis, yes. this, no. not fundamental enough, didn't make the cut.
ascii_field: where it had the appearance of behaving like a muscle
ascii_field: if we ever get genuine psychology, it will be interesting to learn whether there was any substance to the old experiments concerning will.
mircea_popescu: and newly woman responds smiling that there's nothing to it.
mircea_popescu: you should. very nice softcore/sexploitation movie, epic natural d's. but the story is more important.
mircea_popescu: tho i doubt many in the audience have the actual, proper mathematical understanding to grasp the MEANING of formalisms.
mircea_popescu: all life works in a certain way for the reason that it's cheapest
mircea_popescu: and filogenesis replicates ontogenesis, or vice-versa. first, the woman spits out a blob, then of the blob collection the men kill some,
mircea_popescu: you have to understand ontogenesis is a two step process. first, a blob develops.then, controlled apoptosis, a process so fundamental cells have signalling baked in for it (but not for hunger, not for pain etc) makes the spaces between what will be your fingers.
trinque: mircea_popescu: certainly is; I'm not opposed to the notion, but stating it
trinque: seems the exact definition of slavery, going even to the lengths of damaging oneself if it is ordered either by master or superego
ascii_field: there is, iirc, a clinic in ru that does it. booked for years in advance.
mircea_popescu: question is why would we bother.
ascii_field: as it is, i'm trying to navigate towards fewer 'dopes' (in the very general sense, far outside of 'things you must eat') rather than more.
mircea_popescu: which is why teaching slavegirls to orgasm on command is important. the internalised sexuality is a good and useful proxy for a great many other things they need.
ascii_field: anything could be. could be that i turn up a crate of penis dope and then end up restructuring whole personal economic life around getting moar.
ascii_field: it is constraints from external things that lead people to want to turn their body into a reliable mechanism
ascii_field: i wouldn't want to fuck with sleep either if i didn't have to stand up at a post at x o'clock
ascii_field: i happen to like some moar, others - less
mircea_popescu: i am not arguing from my pov, but from the contrarian pov.
ascii_field: there are times when cock is dressed, even
mircea_popescu: why dress then ? skin not work fine by self ?
mircea_popescu: are you the sort of republican central time backwards orc that refuses science ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, because banal patristics 11 centuries old are too hard to read. "without [the possibility of] sin - no salvation"
ascii_field: what folks secretly want is to discover the dope that opponent does not yet have.
mircea_popescu: then people wanna take drugs, as if juddling all this shit in the vain, vague hope that it's evolutionarized to balance isn't hard enough,
mircea_popescu: anyway, the chief problem with self esteem, and it is indeed a major problem, is that coping strategies develop and are tested as the name says : through coping. will is a fabulous thing, which serves approximately the same role as beauty in teenaged females : now you don't gotta work at anything, because lalaland. and so you don't. and so you suck at everything ELSE. and you're fucked. the problem with self esteem is
ascii_field: 'why did you go to the pig farm, why'
ascii_field: wake up in drunk tank, minus their guns, and policeman tiredly says,
ascii_field: two drunken louts went to hunt boar. one wanders over to a neighbouring 'number' (hunt sub-lot) and says 'there are many moar boar here'
mircea_popescu: i think i must have recounted the story.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and at about the same age, i wanted to fight a lamb! headbutting ftw
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there is a sov joke about this!
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-11-2015#1318481 <<< I thought I remembered somewhere in the logs a conversation you had with someone who asked what a Wagram was.
ascii_field: what keeps the kid from fighting with a garbage truck
ascii_field: now the one puzzle imho is why this mutation isn't fatal
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the ones that are now.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: i can explain what scams are to wilful idiots until i fall over, it's not unlike trying to prevent storms by lubricating the water.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: the erect cock, as an incarnation of will, is the one and only driver of action. which is why attempts to legislate inaction are stuck pretending "rape" exists. unless everyone's flaccid, the supremacy of will over everything is too hard a sell.
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the insistent, unyielding, disinterested in ANYTHING, eternally repeating the same inept shit behaviour of stupidity is certainly a force. that force is called will.
mircea_popescu: eventually they shoot you because you're an asshole.
mircea_popescu: and by 2028 they come twice a day, and you... what ? you do what, link the log, and on and on ?
mircea_popescu: so in 2027 they come for like 4-5 different similar reasons, with the same bs lines. and you quote the same log, and they go the same huh.
mircea_popescu: now suppose cca 2026 some twerps come to persuade you to go take minsk. and you quote this line of the log to them, and they go "huh" becaue hey, log is too difficult and what's a gpg ?
mircea_popescu: let's, for the sake of exercise, suppose that in fact this is literally true, and so therefore sometime in the next decade the us signs an alliance treaty with russia only to try and invade the next year, and after they duke it out for a coupla years the chinese intervene and give everyone penis cages, like so : http://41.media.tumblr.com/b36f7278fe8eecbcd9c887e05101d8ed/tumblr_nsjbitlEao1szhm10o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: "That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.
mircea_popescu: Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha, ok : ""But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."
mircea_popescu: lol meanwhile @tlp, "I'm starting to wonder if the reason it is always pretty white girls who get kidnapped is that the media is the one kidnapping them."
mircea_popescu: o wait, the jews don't agree they're in africa, was it ? only egypt is. jewlandia is in... well it's almost practically europe right ?
mircea_popescu: "i prefer the term jewish-african".
mircea_popescu: i suppose the alternatively counter-cultural reaction would be to write in "no, and i'm not black, either"
ascii_field: but then it was banned in many states (including md, where i happen to live)
mircea_popescu: "you haven't even been to prison ? and you call yourself an american ? get the fuck out of my fucking office, loser."
ascii_field: initially they take applicant's word of honour, but sometimes check public record
ascii_field: this typically takes the form of a paper form with 'boxes' to 'tick'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in usa, it is traditional for folks showing up for a job opening to be asked whether they have been tried/convicted
mircea_popescu: what is "ban the box" supposed to be ?
ascii_field: '“Earlier today I announced that as president I will take steps to ‘ban the box,’ so former presidents won’t have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process,” Clinton told the assembled crowd. She did not correct herself.'
assbot: Hillary Clinton: Presidents Shouldn't Have To Disclose Their Criminal Histories ... ( http://bit.ly/20AvwE5 )
ascii_field: http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/04/best-gaffe-ever-hillary-clinton-says-former-presidents-shouldnt-have-to-disclose-criminal-history << prepare to l0l to death
mircea_popescu: being independent, the only thing they deal in is "facts" or "reality", and gun to head if they believe in anything it's "science." Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. You know, whatever ideologues hate."
mircea_popescu: "Intelligent people, like racists, are fluent in describing themselves in opposition to what they are not, but ask them to define themselves by what they are, tell you what they do believe in, and they're lost. They have opinions on issues, sure, but ask for an overarching ideology and their face botoxes. Overarching ideology? Only people with manifestos have ideologies, not having an ideology is the whole point of
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't put it past them.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how they do this, either. maybe they discovered cold fusion and are keeping it quiet. maybe they're burning tibetans for heat. fuckall knows, but there they sit.
mircea_popescu: no need to guess that once this option became available, the other two disbecame available "en interior".
mircea_popescu: the catch being of course that the options are now "pay ~1k or ~100 pesos for a pot".
mircea_popescu: re the recent alcoa/aluminum discussion, but also a broader industry and futurology discussion : aluminum is now so cheap (ie, china has got SUCH a solid handle on it forever) that home furnishing shops here have started to offer, alongside pots in silverstone and teflon, pure, plain aluminum. marketed as such, too, "puro alumino".
mircea_popescu pays respect to the people who make it so he doesn't have to remember things.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda shameful how we omitted the entire deedbot and btcalpha infrastructure from the things, becuase hey, fuck trinque and mike_c we got the stuff made so we no longer need it made so we can forget about it right ?
mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use a deedbot-based system. and i don't think something like that is usable.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that the requirements of safety and concurrency run into problems of time. there's a reason bitcoin blocks are 10 minutes long, and i fear i'm going to end up having to fundamentally redo the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: i get that this is unhelpful at best, but a) making specific error messages is not trivial, and b) the alternative denomination would be something like "generic error message" which whatever.
mircea_popescu: ftr, mpex will issue "Insufficient funds for this request." errors for all sorts of problems, including some that have nothing to do with the user.
mircea_popescu: "how about as a precondition to anything they abandon their self ?" "OMG WHAT ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH THIS IS DOMESTIC ABUSE BLABLABLA".
mircea_popescu: "you now have a responsibility ot the people who trust you : to this and that they want you to do".
mircea_popescu: how does the justice system con psychiatry to its own ends ? NOT by asking psychiatrists to buy into court proceedings. by pretending in court proceedings to highly esteem their opinions.
mircea_popescu: - not the patients, it-- an easy mark for con men with their own agenda: SSI, the justice system, gun control, schools, whatever. "It's called a confidence game. Why, because you give me your confidence? No: because I give you mine." Take a minute, think it through."
mircea_popescu: "The ad's association to therapy here was probably not planned but it was inevitable, just as Mantegna selecting a psychiatrist and not an engineer or a cook or a stripper as the mark in House Of Games was inevitable. It is the only system of rules based on self-deception, it encourages the illusion of "self" separate from behavior. And as long as psychiatry uncritically elevates identity over behavior, it makes it-
mircea_popescu: "look at all these german cunts" ?
punkman: phun-fact: if you want to get cremated in greece, they ship you to bulgaria
ascii_field: then in some unmarked field.
gribble: Ettore Majorana: The Mystery Might Be Solved - Science 2.0: <http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/ettore_majorana_mystery_might_be_solved-79823>; The Physicist Who Vanished: The Strange Fate of Ettore Majorana ...: <http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/05/the-physicist-who-vanished-the-strange-fate-of-ettore-majorana/>; Ettore Majorana - Wikipedia, the free (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: do you know which is the most advanced one ? ask a 50something stupid woman from the midwest. "oh, it's all energy and people are different". that's the best there is.
mircea_popescu: the clear sign that it's not time yet is the juvenile idiotic look of the attempts to unified theories.
ascii_field sourly mumbles something about unified theories
mircea_popescu: that's the MAIN thing every single course book etc on physics says. and it is INSANE.
mircea_popescu: this goes right into the other discussion : by and large, the role of management is to lie to engineering, because if confronted nakedly, the TRUTH of reality is this head-explody vacuousness. so survivable representations have to be created, and they are better if created professionally - because in their absence the brain will create them anyway, and they'll have all the value and efficiency of something a 2 yo repti
mircea_popescu: <jurov> which is imo dubious way to "keep the herd out" << the secret we're not ready for is that all ways to keep the herd out are dubious ways to keep the herd out.
kakobrekla: -and-the-world
ascii_field returns to sorting panzerfausts in the führerbunker
mircea_popescu: yeah alfie, the risk is that you lose pace. as in, guy who's been sitting in a fox hole for all summer, when a scout regiment finally shows up on the hillside goes all rambo on the opposition.
mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla suspekts there will be more Things before there are less Things <<< i am of the hope that we're done with things and will be a proliferation of subthings. because fuck me if i'm going all the way into microbiology to fix computing.
mircea_popescu: now all we need are the sort of men who aren't liable to get scared.
mircea_popescu: jurov aha. monstrous. but what can you do ? i've been trying to "manage" the issue / pretend like it's not an issue but got efficiently (and righly) uprooted at every step.
mircea_popescu: the plan is the plan. the execution is not at the option of the horde. go reddit moar.
assbot: BashCo comments on Adam Back says there is vote manipulation happening to his posts by bought and stolen reddit accounts. ... ( http://bit.ly/1NTxisP )
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> +1 to BashCo https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3rlkh2/adam_back_says_there_is_vote_manipulation/cwpcopq <---> http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/#selection-3043.0-3043.123
mircea_popescu: ahahaha the idiocy of these people. seriously, the excuse for selling weapons to terrorists is that "a) they're not the terrorists but the terrorist's Italian cousin ; b) we disabled the checkbox anyway" ?
mircea_popescu: check out the brits being sensible ?!
mircea_popescu: "an exception being the UK, which has a minimum legal age of five for supervised consumption in private places"
mircea_popescu: then came part 2, when the kids i was staying with were "omfg you went into a pub ordered a drink ?!?!?!?!"
punkman: the "standard drink" of 20ml
mircea_popescu: in romania opf the 90s, a drink = 100cc. you could get a half if you were sick or something, but you'd have to specify like you specify nonhot at mexican restaurant. five times.
mircea_popescu: i was like.... what the shit, is this like with wine, you brought me a little to sniff it ?!
mircea_popescu: culture shock, largest i ever encountered : 17 yo me in london, goes into pub orders a drink. they bring him... im not even sure what it was, a thimbleful.
shinohai: of the equine kind?
jurov: i could have closer relationship with some of you. but then it would be homo.
punkman: jurov: in regards to brokerage, I got no idea, but otherwise "denoting or relating to a business characterized by a very close relationship with its customers or clients."
jurov: only consumer thing that'd be doable would be trading of CFDs on mpex issues, or other boiler stuff
shinohai: I like the site, just have no idea what I'm doing if I opened an account.
jurov: which is imo dubious way to "keep the herd out"
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:05:37; mircea_popescu: c worked in the 70s just fine, also.
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317882 << it was "fine" just because bad input that would trip up gets() was thought a mistake of the operator
gribble: The operation succeeded.
jurov: and all the stuff below
jurov is blown to realize the full scope of "this" http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317689
assbot: Teenager Jailed for Selling €4 Million Worth of Drugs on the Dark Net ... ( http://bit.ly/1NTzCjF )
shinohai: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115571/teenager-jailed-for-selling-4-million-worth-of-drugs-on-the-dark-net <<< dat picture "Now what? we have all your potato, burn yurt, and rape dottir."
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 01:06:40; mircea_popescu: in other news, johnny cash is fucking great.
assbot: BashCo comments on Adam Back says there is vote manipulation happening to his posts by bought and stolen reddit accounts. ... ( http://bit.ly/1NTxisP )
shinohai: +1 to BashCo https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3rlkh2/adam_back_says_there_is_vote_manipulation/cwpcopq
punkman: "In order to make sure no one ends up blowing a 747 out of the sky, Washington will “retrofit” the weapons with “special” software that makes sure they can only be used in certain areas. "
BingoBoingo just accepts ascii enjoys the ghetto
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317912 << could also mean less money and freedom to move to the congo, spending 10% on rent instead of 90%?
BingoBoingo: I believe is the technical term
mircea_popescu: "The Irish hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood."
ben_vulpes: --batch --verify it is then, shitgnomes.
mircea_popescu: in general, the path of "usable" in gpg is kind-of narrow.
ben_vulpes: fails silently, returns 0, the whole nine.
ben_vulpes: punkman: i know about --batch, but this --verify-files flag in the man pages seems to not work. at all.
punkman: ben_vulpes: what you want to batch them up?
mircea_popescu: lol my butt. "usg got a run for its money the likes of which it had hoped to never see. it will not survive another one in all likelyhood, which is just as well, because november promises at least a couple."
punkman: "In Chinese, 保留 means "super important register fields that aren't on the datasheet.""
punkman: "Bitcoin managed to get it up, but lacked the staying power of its youth and is now collapsing."
mircea_popescu: totally. as in, get type A (wanna do things to environment) people mixed with type B (wanna have things done to themselves) people and performance will improve. just as long as you agree to drop the male-centric definition of performance (the ration of damage done to the quake map by bullets expanded) for a more... you know. jackoffian definition of performance.
mircea_popescu: "The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our performance would improve."
mircea_popescu: why is it that boys need to do something TO the world in order to feel at ease, whereas the girls need, NEED! to have something done TO them in order to feel GOOD with ~themselves~ ? aha, mkay, it's not all about sex. there's also...
mircea_popescu: "Dove is telling you you don't need to do anything to be beautiful, but it knows full well women must do something to themselves to feel good about themselves" << aha. and now tell me WHY THAT IS ?
punkman: "She was so committed to the piece that she would not have resisted rape or murder. Faced with her abdication of will, with its implied collapse of human psychology, a protective group began to define itself in the audience. When a loaded gun was thrust to Marina's head and her own finger was being worked around the trigger, a fight broke out between the audience factions"
punkman: "It began tamely. Someone turned her around. Someone thrust her arms into the air. Someone touched her somewhat intimately. The Neapolitan night began to heat up. In the third hour all her clothes were cut from her with razor blades. In the fourth hour the same blades began to explore her skin. Her throat was slashed so someone could suck her blood. Various minor sexual assaults were carried out on her body."
mircea_popescu: "If your reaction is Marina who? then heres a brief introduction." << how ab out "then this article has no fucking point, nobody cares about obscure if colorful manhattan garbage girls"
assbot: Miley Abramovic: The Artist Came In Like A Wrecking Ball | KQED Pop | KQED Arts ... ( http://bit.ly/1QiiZAF )
punkman: example of that last point http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/
mircea_popescu: just, all the people who have the skill to pull it off have better shit to do, so the world is stuck enjoying 50 shades of grey and what's that thing games something tlp was ragging on.
mircea_popescu: this could perhaps be a pretty uncanny book : the future of europe, with the white harlots living naked in the street and the proper arab girls living burka'd in the house.
punkman: the artsy cunts want to be marina abramovic but end up with "omg naked selfies"
mircea_popescu: "i saw a naked lady in the street - i have nothing to say to her but i'd like to talk to my friends ABOUT her"
mircea_popescu: what's with all the amateur cameramen
punkman: http://cdn-parismatch.ladmedia.fr/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/actu/societe/les-instantanes-de-l-ete-798202/les-instantanes-de-l-ete/8440444-1-fre-FR/Les-instantanes-de-l-ete.jpg (the egg lady, nice tits eh)
mircea_popescu: cally inseparable from the entrenchment of an aristocracy, can't have one without the other once you get bigger than 20M, ask Bismarck. "Does he write for Time?" No. But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows.""
mircea_popescu: ng." How can you work in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn't exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of a "welfare class" is logi
mircea_popescu: in unrelated not-news, ""For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually movi
trinque: "anti-hotlink protection" on the liveleak
trinque: now that's for sure, but I thought these were ass-paintings
trinque: the web's not so bad. if you overcomplicate it that's your problem
punkman: he didn't, some other tard did
mircea_popescu: "See also Princeton, where you will pay them more to get the degree that they will then pay you less to use for them, in no other profession is learning how to do something more valuable than actually doing it. Is that ironic? " << it's not a profession, it's a fandom. and in all fandoms, you pay them more than they pay you, that's the definition.