mircea_popescu: ask first time home buyers looking for a detached house if they know what a radon area is or not.
mircea_popescu: and this is universal. ask people if they have a foot of air behind their fridge, and if they say yes ask them why, and see.
mircea_popescu: but anyway. i maintain the general : you'd be surprised what % of the general population washes correctly, and the only reason you don't know about this is that you don't end up watching hundreds of them shower etc.
ascii_field: next he'll tell us to stop adding abrasive to the jet mixer !
mircea_popescu: anyway, the above is decade+ out of date, maybe it mended meanwhile.
ascii_field: even these typically have a 'tight beam' setting
mircea_popescu: (you'd be surprised what % of "first world" teenagers discover on the porn set that yes you're supposed to wash in between the clitoral hoodand the clitoris, what the fuck. it's still part of you, no matter what your dumb mom might have said christ told her.)
mircea_popescu: it's just... the sleep of reason. "habits" and habituation take over.
ascii_field: i thought the ancients knew this.
mircea_popescu: and then, because this is the lulzy part, it's like a fucking prion this thing. then! people who should fucking know better try and cater to it! and then they get used to THAT and get all agressed when you don't.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:41:52; mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly resea
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291172 << iirc the traditional term is 'lusers'
ascii_field: the place packed with meat.
ascii_field: i can't really blame the cn folks for having an active 'mortido'
ascii_field has colleagues who entertain him with choice security camera footage from the middle kingdom - involving items such as escalator-as-woodchipper, phalanxes of motorbikes flattened by trucks going the wrong way, etc
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mircea_popescu: china, meanwhile, has been in the business of being europe while pretending to be congo.
mircea_popescu: how is it not as disgraceful, you know ? the us is in the business of being congo while pretending to be europe.
mircea_popescu: the historical "sexual modesty" of north america being the original, and to this day best example. in its many plurious expressions, from "rright to life" to that derp linked yesterday or w/e
ascii_field: my current understanding is that usg has been specifically squeezing diesel heat users - they get untaxed fuel that is theoretically usable in trucks, and folks often 'cheat'. it has a colouring agent, and in parts of usa where this type of heater is common, policemen will often dip a wooden stick into a truck's tank to test for cheat
mircea_popescu: the one line on which entrenched rent seeking interest and stupid but unaware youthful enthusiasm meet, is this particular type of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: prolly more a "you know what could help real estate values ? if other people couldn't build sane houses anymore"
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:23:34; mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: all this timswansonism i swear. "we are so and so" because words and things so we don't have to wot or anything. we could put the nonsense in a pdf if you prefer, that makes it more legit!
mircea_popescu: aaaand... who asked them anything ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque> and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management. << word. nothing wrong wih the states mostly on the grounds the mob stuck to the coasts.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:26:16; pete_dushenski: actually, can someone with a twitter account (danielpbarron, shinohai, whoever gets to it first) please to send @jackbaruth this : http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/01/in-which-volkswagen-takes-aim-at-the-insanity-of-statal-overbearing/ i think he'd enjoy it.
trinque is in Denver about to snooze; the pass through from Wyoming tried to kill me with fog and slippery roads, but I bested them
Naphex: they look awesome
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punkman: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/the-delinquent-borrowers-leading-a-student-loans-revolt
mircea_popescu: it is conceivable, if the same pencildicks keep on with the tail up, "regulate" blablabla that we WILL have a market in stolen daughters traded around to prove a point for a few years.
mircea_popescu: the car theft thing was very briefly +ev, right after fall of su when a lot of otherwise powerful and important people didn't have their power and importance correctly credentialled by the western pencildicks
pete_dushenski: well, tomorrow's another day, gnite y'all !
pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
pete_dushenski: and now, your moment of zen : "I investigate self-reported theft data in the NLSY 1997 Cohort for the years 1997–2011. Several striking patterns emerge. First, individuals appear to be active thieves for extremely short periods – in most cases in only one year, and fewer than 5% of thieves for more than three years out of the 15 years of data. Second, self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and
mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparency and regulatory oversight raises a number of risks for users and also poses risks for the payments system, the integrity of the financial system and the erosion of the tax base.
pete_dushenski: have been quite the political heavyweight. i'm expecting it to be quite a splashy affair.
pete_dushenski: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2015/september/remembering-louis-desrochers << i'll be singing at louis desrocher's funeral on tuesday, (which, ftr, is very different from 'dancing on his grave'). it's a choir thing actually, and he was apparently a huge fan of the one i'm in, personally requesting our presence when the day came. i'd actually never heard of him previously, but he seems to
mircea_popescu: "If I sell you a few kilograms of depleted uranium and you use it to create a dirty bomb that renders most of the East Coast inhabitable, how is that my fault?"
pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
pete_dushenski: and while i've had my fun on the beach in puerto vallarta, god invented beach chairs for a reason !
mircea_popescu: you've clearly never had sand go up there.
mircea_popescu: in other news, construction stamp. http://41.media.tumblr.com/57cb873df2b619a3803fbe2fb269b477/tumblr_nisuqsK5Jv1u72nmco1_1280.jpg
assbot: In which Volkswagen takes aim at the insanity of statal overbearing. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcJNBH )
pete_dushenski: actually, can someone with a twitter account (danielpbarron, shinohai, whoever gets to it first) please to send @jackbaruth this : http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/01/in-which-volkswagen-takes-aim-at-the-insanity-of-statal-overbearing/ i think he'd enjoy it.
punkman: I use maybe 500L of heating oil in the winter, yeah
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, heating off the damned tank with ferried gas etc is still cheaper than using electricity.
mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: (salt content is a function of intended maturation period, the longer you wanna keep it around the saltier. still, within some bounds)
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the cheese, as apparently it's unknown other than "that south transylvanian cheese" : sheepmilk cheese is cut up thinly, salt is added and ths is mixed (often, by hand). the result is placed in a tube made out of pine bark. it may or may not be smoked. it can also be placed in a sheep's stomach. inthis arrangement it keeps indefinitely, it is geenraly consumed after about a year.
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mircea_popescu: punkman it's really gpl not natural gas. they truck it.
punkman: at least where there is gas pipe
pete_dushenski: compressed gas adoption was growing quite steadily in n.a. the last ~5 years.
mircea_popescu: much worse power curve of course, but fuck that, they're taxis.
mircea_popescu: because of this, the diesels available were WAY better. it's not that "built to higher specs". it's that built by better people. substantially better.
mircea_popescu: because of this, some of the smartest automotive engineers went into diesel. it looked like the future.
mircea_popescu: what happens is that throughout the 90s, diesel fuel was 50% the price of gasoline, and gpl conversion was not a mass market thing like it is now. you could get it, like you could get nox.
punkman: generally all the professional drivers have diesel around here.
pete_dushenski: sorta playing the idiot as a means of catalysing 'debate'
mircea_popescu: it'snot even true that "everyone in europe = diesel". and it;s not true that "because regulation", either.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu baruth is a bit of a troll. he's baiting here. and hooking 'em too by the looks of the comments.
punkman: how do you cut brie for the omlett?
mircea_popescu: also in the same vein, pine bark aged smoked sheep cheese (romanian thing, dunno if they do it anywhere else)
punkman: I'd say the same about brie :P
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
mircea_popescu: What other reason is there to love fuel oil? Certainly not the characteristics of the chemical itself. It's slippery, it stinks to high heaven, it doesn't evaporate. <<
mircea_popescu: she's not THAT hot and the pic is ~5 yo by now.
pete_dushenski: ima send this pic around and see if anyone knows her. there aren't ~that~ many degrees of separation between her and i
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!) << so cool huh.
pete_dushenski: ikr! 99% of them are in rural bulgaria or some shit.
cazalla: not sure, but that sure is uncanny, wonder what the odds are of someone posting a pic of a chick naked in a car park you know of
pete_dushenski: west edmonton mall, for a number of years, held the record at the world's largest indoor shopping mall. still holds several worlds records iirc.
pete_dushenski: it's just a shame i don't recognise the girl...
pete_dushenski: actually, you can also see the fantasyland hotel in the background (curtain wall facade) and the waterpark (dome roof at right)
pete_dushenski: and for what it's worth, the car looks to be a nissan altima coupe. ~$35k off the dealer lot.
pete_dushenski: this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!)
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:45:13; mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the "took bitch shopping, now she gotta earn it" line, http://40.media.tumblr.com/9b5daf5e77e71674d4eab1a34b11d1a5/tumblr_nii067lpb81u4e2kko1_1280.jpg
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291179 << ok this wins so much harder than that diesel merc chick. why ? because it was taken not in goatfuckistan, not in eastern yurup where the chicks are hungry, not anything like that, but THREE MINUTES FROM WHERE I GREW UP.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:17:06; mircea_popescu: for that matter, the average painting is a fuzzy gray.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291135 << heh. and the average magazine page is an advertisement for big pharma.
pete_dushenski: spend the next decade retooling and reorganising ? uhuh. i think not.
pete_dushenski: what else, destroy one of the only manufacturing industries extant on the contient ?
pete_dushenski: but since vw sorta blew the lid off things, the only thing left to do is rewrite the regs to be more accomodating.
pete_dushenski: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/business/automakers-ask-europe-for-leniency-in-emissions-testing.html << meanwhile, in europistan, automakers are continuing their push for diesel acceptance.
pete_dushenski: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26891/the-end-of-diesel/ << speaking of which, the only automotive journalist with half a head, jack baruth, quoting chaucer and calling for the end of diesel in usa
pete_dushenski: unless you want to end up in the bull-fighting ring chasing after the red cape being waved by the man yelling 'toro!', why bother ?
pete_dushenski: i dunno wtf is with this nasal septum piercing fad sweeping the four corners of the fucking globe but it's abhorrent.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:44:52; AgentScully: piercings are old... those were a pain in the ass
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291042 << i certainly found them sexy when i was younger. strangely, less so now.
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 00:20:13; adlai: ben_vulpes: context is http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913052, the thing is usable, i'm trying to get people to use it. maybe not the most tactful, but i don't have my own pr lady (yet)
cazalla: could've just linked the song pete
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 17:00:35; mircea_popescu: if you ask them.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290967 << lol! orcs are rich, smart, funny, and handsome, just ask them !
pete_dushenski: "For what has she these Grecian arms bestow'd, But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.' This said, himself he dress'd In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest, His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."
pete_dushenski: cazalla like the ancient greek army general ? ya think ?
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:37:15; AgentScully: ah, yeah, I had an orgasm right as the server went down... nik was rather sad about it
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290944 << one of the saddest casualties of disfunctional technology i've heard of in ages. like a mother typing her dying words to her son (in irc, naturally) and having her keyboard fritz out. or something.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290912 << cute *and* quick on the uptake. bravo.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290810 << mp in i) paradise with osama, ii) playboy mansion 'grotto', or iii) volcano island with his own head carved in the side à la dr. evil.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290779 << how could la ancien regime americane not want a third bush ? he knows how to play the part. he's seen it done. imo it'll be a close contest between trump and jeb. no one else has a chance. but it's jeb's to lose. trump has to stay out in front of the spotlight being outrageous day in and day out FOR ANOTHER YEAR, which is nigh on impossible. i give trump a
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 11:25:07; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290441 << this is generally the heuristic for a good place inhabited by smart people. when you're among derps happy to be there you're on a sinking cargo cultship.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290756 << myup. and waaay too many kids in north america, be they full size or as yet to sexually mature, are in the happy happy happy cargocamp. it's pretty sad.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the "took bitch shopping, now she gotta earn it" line, http://40.media.tumblr.com/9b5daf5e77e71674d4eab1a34b11d1a5/tumblr_nii067lpb81u4e2kko1_1280.jpg
assbot: Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KYL7D2 )
mircea_popescu: cazalla time to troll with http://trilema.com/2013/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket/ ?
mircea_popescu: this is incidentally exactly how does cross the road.
mircea_popescu: y conducted experiments get contradicted by practice down the line.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly researched, biased, badl
cazalla: thestringpuller, nope, but weev was on 8chan last night going on about strapping explosives to drones and similar ideas
ben_vulpes: he's not even out yet, but i do plan to teach driving rather early
mircea_popescu: "and next time don't drool on the wheel" ?
ben_vulpes: the fix took less than an hour of time for disassembly, diagnosis, hardware store trip, fix and reassembly.
ben_vulpes: subject of traditional b-a threads, the corvette started honking uncontrollably last night.
mircea_popescu: the average tv show is what you get when nothing's plugged in, that static buzz.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the average painting is a fuzzy gray.
mircea_popescu: there isn't an automatic relevancy renewal. they want relevancy, they pay homage and swear fealty.
mircea_popescu: they very strictly and quite deliberately limitedly have autority over obsolete crap nobody cares about.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the cftc / everyone else must get it into their fucking skulls that they do not have authority to regulate "futures" or "swaps" or anything else in the general.
mircea_popescu: the dog looks pretty beaten.
AgentScully: I wasn't that turned on til I saw the guys having lunch at the other table, and then the eyes of the dog that looks like he has seen entirely too much
thestringpuller: bought it in 2010 (methinks) and just never opened it cause I felt I was too stupid to understand the pages at the time. still feel that way.
ascii_field: buy the dragon book
ascii_field: thestringpuller: the committee took its sweet time lifting features from ada, functional langs (even lambdas…) etc. but does your compiler have them now ?
mircea_popescu: obviously, now /me is lost reading the bash. and therein, "asciilifeform: would almost rather cook own dinner, and not have to deal with derps in any capacity.". which obviously i read "opacity" on first pass.
ascii_field: so for unrelated reasons i picked up 4th ed. of stroustrup. the one with c++11. and lo and behold, it more or less obsoletes 'boost' etc.
mircea_popescu: well, the honeymoon.
ascii_field: for the perfa paper, specifically
ascii_field: i rather ~liked~ matrix printers.
mircea_popescu: the old ones, you know, 8 dot
mircea_popescu: anyway. i can attest at some point programming smelled of listing paper (particular pigment scent at the time) and static dust.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field as the verse goes, "comunismu-ntii te-ajuta, tac tac tac, si apoi te executa, pac pac pac."
ascii_field: most finance isn't carried out by street pizza either
mircea_popescu: yeah, because you're just the guy to program capacitors.
diana_coman: ha ha, double congrats then
diana_coman: don't tell me you found it around the grass area though?
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:42:55; mircea_popescu: let the man earn his sprats
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291040 >> looked for rodari's thing where 'the poor man has seven mondays, the lazy man has seven sundays' but turned up instead the other old favourite by same, regarding 'what do trades smell like?' >> http://www.filastrocche.net/odori_mestieri.htm
mircea_popescu: well, something. happened the past coupla hours.
diana_coman: I didn't get huge loot from either though (no mention in the hall of looters thing, lol)
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i wonder if your ordinary is the reason my q dropped from 303 to 300
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:44:52; AgentScully: piercings are old... those were a pain in the ass
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291042 < i thought pain in the nipples is worse than pain in the ass
AgentScully: piercings are old... those were a pain in the ass
mircea_popescu: let the man earn his sprats
thestringpuller: ascii_field: on the field on a saturday?
mircea_popescu: <AgentScully> I'm kind of sad no one liked my applied crypto pic << wait, you got piercings in the interim ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and cold keeps the riffraff out. << i suppose i look pretty good in fur...
ascii_field: AgentScully: any thoughts re: the S-boxes in GOST ?
AgentScully: I accidentally the server
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:37:15; AgentScully: ah, yeah, I had an orgasm right as the server went down... nik was rather sad about it
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:34:00; mircea_popescu: one of the few not married with children, no less.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 15:55:47; adlai: (you can make a pretty buck "tutoring" college students, if you're willing to tolerate the moral depravity of doing their homework)
AgentScully: someone in Mexico City went through the trouble of stealing a $200 tops thinkpad I had, thank god my hard drive was encrypted because who knows what kind of smut I lost.
AgentScully: Ha... I have 2 currently. Not all the used thinkpads I have owned in my life though
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290936 << i think everybody in #b-a has one or more of these !
ascii_field: and cold keeps the riffraff out.
ascii_field: straight from the horse.
ascii_field: we could drink kumys together !
mircea_popescu: y de el departamento other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/04543e1d00be43279c44250204a5edf5/tumblr_njkkplwLjo1u72nmco1_1280.jpg
ascii_field liked the ulan bator idea
mircea_popescu: i couldn't understand a word they said.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 yeah, phf made it work. see the wiki
thestringpuller: I didn't realize she was british until I saw the fall.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:34:00; mircea_popescu: one of the few not married with children, no less.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: https://blockchain.info/tx/4b5e677f5825e4a212628b528b96e195365dc0681d2b97e53fbb5e2d2ce9564a so theymos is part of mpex team now?
thestringpuller: XT'ers are children without a babysitter: 17:05 < Aquentin> thestringpuller: the consensus rules are real easy to change
mircea_popescu: if you ask them.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/abfcbbc0c57c8d9cd0ecd5651cf6092f/tumblr_njq8wytsIG1u4e2kko1_1280.jpg
Naphex: had to do some builds today to fix some bugs :/ thats why the disconnects
Naphex: AgentScully: how was the xotika experience?
mircea_popescu: one of the few not married with children, no less.
AgentScully: yeah, you are right - I just need to make the plunge and start working on a website
Naphex: straight from the source
Naphex: well there you go
mircea_popescu: "without browser, either."
mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
mircea_popescu: to encourage women to post nude photos. well, more properly said, to make the funamental human failure of NOT having done so apparent to the dumbass prisses that haven't.
AgentScully: there are cat ears
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ if you want to see other girls with strings on their tits.
kakobrekla: if you are confused, the fb stands for facebook
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: is the hero bitcoin needs. subsidizes porn for the rest of us. thank you mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: AgentScully o hey there.
adlai: (you can make a pretty buck "tutoring" college students, if you're willing to tolerate the moral depravity of doing their homework)
assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 20:21:23; Adlai: mircea_popescu: how'd you like to open another PC?
mircea_popescu: ie, once the internet hit the danger of recursion was significant (misspoken by the usual imbeciles as "a new age of communication" etc), but the problem self-sorted itself.
mircea_popescu: it is a very stable mechanism, readily comparable with the blockchain difficulty balancer in effectivity.
mircea_popescu: the reason things like toilets, groceries, reddit etc exist is to prevent recursion.
mircea_popescu: bagging groceries in burbank, potheadding on reddit, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i tohught we were discussing lithuania. but in any case : half of any male population is just there for the shredding. cleanning toilets, why not.
ascii_field: the folks with no economy to speak of - collectively cleaning eu toilets ( ~half of male latvia, for starters) - might giveafuck
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290758 << speaking more of modern petroeconomics than 'who is the longest historical imperial cock'
ascii_field: for the shooter
mircea_popescu: also, conductive cloth does not offer low enough r to make the use of tazers dangerous for the criminals.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290783 << compare cos of chainmail and conductive cloth! if the latter works against electric weapon just as well, the linked article is an advance
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does archive.is or the fbi or whoever need special privileges to save webpages ?
mircea_popescu: i thought the very notion of "kid that lives with parents" is built around "doesn't have any sort of character".
mircea_popescu: check out josh the hero-man.
mircea_popescu: Anyways, thats my story. I wish it didnt end this way, I really do. I had to move back in with my mother, who I dont get along with, and now I have to find an actual job
but I felt obliged to tell you all the truth, and to apologize for the way things turned out. I wont tell you to quit 8chan like I did, but you should at least know whats really happening."
mircea_popescu: I was asked to insert this code by Jim personally. I was afraid to say no, so I said I’d get to it, but went straight home and booked a flight. 8chan had become a shadow of what it once was, and I wasn’t about to betray the userbase and become a lackey for the US government. To be honest, I don’t think Frederick wants this either — but what choice does he have? He is heavily disabled, alone in a foreign thi
mircea_popescu: fter a bit of research I learned that Red Hat is itself an NSA subsidiary, and that the same program has been used by 4chan since 2010. This was presented as an opportunity to legitimize 8chan, and thus remove it from the Google blacklist (and perhaps regain access to funding sites that have shut out 8chan).
mircea_popescu: "A company known as “Red Hat” — famous for developing the Fedora linux distro — contacted Frederick (presumably at the behest of some alphabet agency) offering to sell what amounts to a keylogger program that could be inserted into infinity next’s code. It would store every single post made by every single user on a database run by Red Hat for the use of law enforcement agencies should they require. A
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2015 16:16:35; punkman: " If I was to keep him from kidnapping those two women, which he'd do if I didn't turn myself over to him, I was going to have to turn myself over to the DOJ folks, so they could take the appropriate action to protect those people, and maybe even figure out just who this sick fuck was, and stop him." << cool story bro
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 23:55:55; DanyAlos: It's been a while since I logged in the last time. Have you guys addressed the PoM and Diamond issue? I didn'd find it in the logs.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 23:55:55; DanyAlos: It's been a while since I logged in the last time. Have you guys addressed the PoM and Diamond issue? I didn'd find it in the logs.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 18:55:40; Naphex: thestringpuller: maybe it pays better than teaching math and compiling shit :o
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290571 << or maybe she's just an emotionally balanced, mentally healthy woman. as opposed to all the completely fucked in the head nuts that do not camho.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 18:32:06; thestringpuller: so why be a camgirl?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290566 << NOT being a camgirl is the inexcusable stance, that needs explanation.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, to butter the bread : http://31.media.tumblr.com/a8b68f8799acef24d4dd48d3d26621c2/tumblr_nk6kjl2A711shsytco1_1280.gif
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290496 << the funny thing about australia is that it is a CONTINENT where maling 10 mn a year REVENUE makes you one of the biggest. this internet clearly has helped the economy.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 04:42:17; ascii_field: i was speaking of the other thing - the 'nordicsystem' aspect where lithuania is only a going concern at all because of us state dept., nato, cia.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 04:40:53; pete_dushenski: hell, there are ~far~ fewer who are happy about their station in lithuania.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290441 << this is generally the heuristic for a good place inhabited by smart people. when you're among derps happy to be there you're on a sinking cargo cultship.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290434 << well, for the uninvested, ridiculous. for the invested, more like a necessity.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 04:23:59; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290382 << what is the appeal of living in a nato-colonial bitch orcdom?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290421 << me would inquire as to how you know these things, but /me is just going to categorically intuit and arbitrarily deduce.
mircea_popescu: this delusional system would work pretty well if they took it that final step and completely divorced it from reality. you know, just play with puppets in a room or something.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 04:21:30; BingoBoingo: In other news, look who is back https://i.imgur.com/m3lII4v.jpg
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290418 <<< ahahaha. what the fuck ELSE would you expect the dude to do ? join the marines ? become a monk ? of fuckingcourse he's going to be right back at milking social media and idiots' notions of "how the world is" because "iut should be" because "they think so"
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 03:52:28; cazalla: they also plead not guilty but are told they're pleading guilty anyway
ag3nt_zer0: "“She squeezed me, and I stopped the camera so I could hug her back. Neither of us let go for what seemed like an eternity.”
ag3nt_zer0: http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/watch-the-emotional-moment-this-trans-teen-was-surprised-wit#.fp6v0p8Zr
kakobrekla: the way i see it i need rtl8168e-2.fw but it can be built apparently