ascii_field: no pasaran, motherfuckers.
ascii_field: expecting me to just swallow 100MB of whateverthefuck source, WON'T FLY
ascii_field: but now i have to UNDERSTAND HOW THEY WORK
mats: http://openwall.info/wiki/_media/people/jvanegue/files/spw15_heap_models_vanegue.pdf << 'state of the research' progress report.
ascii_field: e.g., it is good and well to have, g.g., a hindley milner type inference system, or theorem prover,
punkman: mats, probably above my paygrade, but I'll have a look at them
ascii_field: and the ultimate litmus test for whether a proposed security mechanism is usgistic: 'does this item INCREASE - or DECREASE - the amount of complexity present in the system, for which i must defer to someone's authority to determine whether it does what was promised ?'
ascii_field: i ~like~ the idea of 'this quicksort will provably not overstep its bounds.' but much better is ~this quicksort can as easily overstep its bounds as my car can start itself and drive to alaska'
ascii_field: to my shame, ~i~ habitually read these.
mats: punkman: have you read any of the papers?
ascii_field: anyone who proposes one, directly or by implication, is (whether he knows it or not) committing pseudointellectual flimflammery in the service of hitler.
ascii_field: there is not a substitute.
ascii_field: understand, i have no objection to tools such as computerized theorem-proving, data flow analysis, etc. except in that these are put forward as ~substitutes for fits-in-head simplicity~.
mats: i read the logs sometimes.
ascii_field: buncha haskell nerds, etc. there.
mats: maybe this is just not the place for me to bring up such discussions, when folks clearly are not interested in this kind of research
punkman: mats: I'm all for langsec and chipsec and whatever other brand they come up with, but I don't see anyone getting anywhere
ascii_field: the only thing the offerings of usg ~provably~ are able to do is to lighten your wallet.
mats: i research what folks are doing to incrementally raise the cost of attack, because there is interesting work being done there, this is where the money is, and we are all living with various design decisions that can't be undone at low cost.
ascii_field: and yes, i guess, being concerned with the number of intellectual 'cpu cycles' needed to fully grasp the ~implementation~ of the language and the machine under it - makes me a t3rr0r1st11111
ascii_field: my other problem is that i have not yet found an implementation of ml language that fits-in-head.
ascii_field: mats: for instance, i like 'ml' (language.) but i will not close my eyes to the fact that garbage collector is a cross-process info leaker.
ascii_field: and the data structures popular among 'functionality' aficionados are not physically possible, but instead are clunkily emulated ('immutability') with actual ones
ascii_field: but there is no such thing, in our universe, as a 'functional' cpu.
ascii_field: purely aesthetically.
ascii_field: no one who actually ~solves~ problems at the eliminate-a-whole-field level is remotely welcome.
ascii_field: instead, it is baked into the 'firmware' of academia as a thing.
ascii_field: this is not 'ordered from above' in the naive way imagined by hecklers of 'conspiratorial' matters
ascii_field: deceive people into failing to so much suspect that the root of their probems can be dealt with, without telling any lies in the usual sense of the word.
punkman: so what is the formal language when I grab random bytes off someone's HTTP?
punkman: "LANGSEC posits that the only path to trustworthy software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routines as a recognizer for that language."
ascii_field: it is not an uninteresting subject. just as, say, historical climate patterns are not uninteresting. but both would become considerably more intellectually respectable if all of the current academic practitioners of each were to be shot.
mats: i am generally interested in these things because i like knowing about whether a given abstraction kills particular techniques
ascii_field: if pursued as pure mathematics, it can be a mildly respectable thing.
mats: waste of time, like whether and how advancement of formal languages for security is useful, or keeping input grammars regular whenever possible, verifiale parser, ...
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Well that and taking a portion of hungry people and redirecting their worry so they burn themselves down instead of burning the whole show
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> usg has a very effective program for soaking them up << I'm pretty sure the push to get people into grad school rather than employment 2007-2011 was exactly this
ascii_field: usg has a very effective program for soaking them up
mats: then i suppose I'll conclude with disagreeing this is an unworthy area of research.
ascii_field: my statement concerned heuristics for what intellectual pursuits are worth bothering with, given limited resource
ascii_field: mats: i pointedly do not care whether or by whom you were (or like to be) bought
pete_dushenski: anyways mats, whatever they're paying you, you're definitely dancing hard enough for it.
ascii_field: the thing is brazen and one-sided enough to make u.s. 'climatology' look good.
ascii_field: find me ~someone, anyone~ funded by american dollars who puts forth the opposing view from this.
ascii_field: e.g., the push for movement from rsa to ecc
ascii_field: mats: it isn't even that 'don't use the work of dr. x., it will kill you'
BingoBoingo: Actual security research takes the form "X barrier can resist breach by thermal lance at Y intensity for Z minutes"
ascii_field: mats: we are also bedeviled by pseudoscientific academitards who push them as 'security research'
ascii_field: it is certainly both possible and useful in narrow cases. see the ada threads
mats: yes, and if you reject a inputs outside of a defined set of formal-izable grammars, the more constrained the model and subsequently greater approachability towards program verification
ascii_field: program verification is 1) provably unsolvable in the general case 2) to the extent it adds complexity and overall logical mass and subtracts from fit-in-head-ability, it is ~an evil~
mats: anyway, the langsec idea goes, input validation has a striking similarity to program verification, precluding inputs from driving unexpected state and computation
ascii_field: (the actual result of translating from more-expressive language to a less-)
ascii_field: no but the basic idea of turning a high-level message into incomprehensible ground beef
mats: well, as you like to remind so often, x86 ain't everything there is.
ascii_field: the funny part is that this is actually how you ~guarantee~ ease of pwnage
mats: that is: translation to an intermediate language with low expressive power, then back to whatever's parsed by original recipient,as a means of avoiding pwnage by a powerful adversary
mats: acquaintance noted that vinge had an idea that predates 'the cult of langsec'
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 15:14:51; pete_dushenski: mats: i remember one of the ignoble winners from a few years back having researched 'why do computer cables become tangled'
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278557 <<< I still had one of these 5 yrs ago using it as a fileserver xD
pete_dushenski: https://onetoday.google.com/page/refugeerelief?c=CA << the g00gs will match your donation. they promise !
punkman: "Crypto keys leak, loss and theft happens, but disclosure of passphrase like Assange's to journo to book for State cables a classic PR ploy."
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.01010101 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b9
pete_dushenski: mats: i remember one of the ignoble winners from a few years back having researched 'why do computer cables become tangled'
assbot: Salt Programming Language Project | Project and design blog for the Salt programming language project ... ( http://bit.ly/1P8avcq )
funkenstein_: A friend of mine was talking this project up, I thought it might be of interest here and didn't find it in the logs: http://saltlang.wordpress.com
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: congratulations on the newborn!
pete_dushenski: falling down the rabbit hole.
Pierre_Rochard: now enjoying a sabbatical, learning C++ so I can finally ~understand the bitcoin blackbox
pete_dushenski: how goes the wall street dream, my man ?
pete_dushenski: “These analyses reveal a consistent pattern: Treasury auction yields were artificially high (and prices correspondingly low),” according to the complaint. “Defendants then turned around and sold the Treasuries at higher prices (and correspondingly lower yields) in the secondary markets, reaping substantial profits.”
pete_dushenski: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/primary-dealers-rigged-treasury-auctions-investor-lawsuit-says << “The only plausible explanation is that Defendants coordinated artificially to influence the results of the auctions in the primary market,”
funkenstein_: anyway, nice piece you wrote from the trenches. someone had to do it.
pete_dushenski: the sensitive spot is that i'm guilty of trying to make sense of his insanity
punkman: funkenstein_: "can't defend himself, therefore has no value" "obese because can or something like that" << this is not a good way to argue
pete_dushenski: "Noah Smith @Noahpinion 21h21 hours ago : 9/The expansionist imperial period of 1930-45 was Japan's greatest heyday of power and prestige. It was also a period of great dynamism." << because the history of the world started in 1900 because that's all they taught us in social studies class in high school !
pete_dushenski: https://twitter.com/davoutplantaire/status/644762089735622656 << on the money, davout.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:56:27; mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Bundesarchiv_Bild_133-075%2C_Worms%2C_Antisemitische_Presse%2C_%22Stürmerkasten%22.jpg << how the fuck can these people read newspaper print from two feet away.
funkenstein_: are at it http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277699 <-- can't defend himself, therefore has no value
assbot: Logged on 06-09-2015 04:44:54; mircea_popescu: obviously the white guys killed the red guys. the red guys sucked.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 11:33:04; assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 06:50:43; mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/046VT8P << something awful does bitcoin fan fiction. not altogether horrible.
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278429 <-- isn't this thing three years old now? iirc there are a number of variants circulating
pete_dushenski: Foreigners and citizens of Ukraine, who want to visit Lviv should know that the officials of militia, the customs service and other law-enforcement bodies not always follow the law. " << sounds like usistan
pete_dushenski: "ust being acquainted with the laws and following them is sometimes insufficiently." << random ukr 'legal services' co. has it right.
assbot: Executive Order -- Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People | whitehouse.gov ... ( http://bit.ly/1LCkSCc )
pete_dushenski: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/15/executive-order-using-behavioral-science-insights-better-serve-american
mats: i don't get why people enjoy the online card game 'Hearthstone'
punkman: a commodity, security, currency, whatever each USG entity needs to call it in order to pretend they have authority over it
punkman: ""In Europe and the U.S., there's a notion that the state should be constrained, that it's not right to intervene in people's lives, unless for justified reasons. In China, the state has no qualms about that."
assbot: China Is Building The Mother Of All Reputation Systems To Monitor Citizen Behavior | Co.Exist | ideas + impact ... ( http://bit.ly/1iUoMzo )
HeySteve: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050606/china-is-building-the-mother-of-all-reputation-systems-to-monitor-citizen-behavior
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 06:50:43; mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/046VT8P << something awful does bitcoin fan fiction. not altogether horrible.
cazalla: the big white ones anyway
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 02:51:50; BingoBoingo: Oh, no there are fun opportunities that pop up on dating sites like the recently out of a long term relationship and cute girls with borderline personality disorder. THe holy grail to hunt for is the overlap
cazalla: prob right as cheetah lady was the first one my missus picked as "she's total trash"
punkman: the tall blondie is an obvious choice
shinohai: The blonde standing beside her isn't shabby
shinohai: I agree with the blonde HeySteve ... good eye
HeySteve: shinohai, blonde 3rd from left and the redhead
cazalla: that place was so cool back in the day
mircea_popescu: kinda funny how the losers of the decade manage to somehow project their endless hope-disappointment cycle on other people.
assbot: Bitcoin is still funny and the xbox one has the wrong kind of RAM - The Something Awful Forums ... ( http://bit.ly/1UZi72C )
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/Rfi7E#selection-9597.3-9597.92 << all that eager hope. and then... nothing happened. and then...
BingoBoingo: Seriously. And qntra can still take from the the part where something happened because they are all too chickenshit to tell the truth.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy, looking at all the derpy "news sites" that copied qntra but forgot to mention it.
mircea_popescu: wait, all the fuckiung machiens are ok, the problem starts once MEN get usable fuckdroids ?
BingoBoingo: Not woment cazalla, but people who choose the pronouns Meh, Mayo, and Mehrs
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Only the Mayo Gendered would support such a proposition
BingoBoingo: "Any polity that can produce such an outcome should be abolished. Dissolve the United States, replacing it with a set of city-states, villages, and thinly-peopled hinterlands; let every public that wants one have their own Carly Fiorina or Bobby Jindal, and let everyone else go about their business. The candidate who proposes that will be the one to get behind."
BingoBoingo: We, be dragons just burning the poor,
mircea_popescu: 2015 brought the first inklings of acceptance, which is welcome.
mircea_popescu: i would say by and large the libertard mind understands it is an epiphenomenon in human history, and utterly doomed.
BingoBoingo: eh, reading the SA story
cazalla: thought the episode was preddy average tbh
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/046VT8P << something awful does bitcoin fan fiction. not altogether horrible.
BingoBoingo becoming rather convinced the only true SJW transgender is trans-fat gender. Welcome Cartman and our other Mayo-Gendered overlords.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://i.imgur.com/P0GJvi1.png << scam rumour! << Oh, yet another Mayo Gendered anon shill
mircea_popescu: "Of the 60 national universities that offer courses in these disciplines, 26 have confirmed that they will either close or scale back their irrelevant faculties at the behest of Japans government."
BingoBoingo: "Undeterred, Mergos began a community garden, Sunnyside Farms, on the site of her burned home. Someone tried to wreck the garden, so she placed five beehives to keep away troublemakers." << Forgot to bring the three wise men Colt, Remington, and Winchester
BingoBoingo: Fuck them. If they wanted Squatters they should have milder winters like San Fransisco.
BingoBoingo: Fuck him. If he wanted to matter he should have run in 2000 instead of the idiot brother
BingoBoingo: What I really wonder is why there are people in chan without a cheap surplus Ti-92
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: And remember no format of demolition derby allows Chrysler Imperials or Checker Cabs, because they are totally cool
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Just remember the farm equiptment variations got alot more style than passenger vehicles
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: i bet you're right. we'll check one out together before you pull the us-chute
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I seriously think you'd enjoy the demolition derbies. Nothing but cars lesser than Saddam meeting the most nobel ends they can.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278246 << this ~has~ to be some kind of disinfo. it seems impossible, like hearing about a demolished skyscraper un-exploding, an egg un-breaking and picking itself up from the kitchen floor and sliding back into the chicken
BingoBoingo: Ah, mebbe just sufficiently monied that people default to assuming they are pipe hitting members of the tribe
pete_dushenski: there was a blue jays player i had the same suspicion about a few years back. turns out, total goy.
pete_dushenski: hm. not quite enough to go on there.
pete_dushenski: oh EARNHARDT !! fuck i didn't know they were jooz
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Father/Son drivers.
BingoBoingo: If rednecks will bolt v6 and v8 machines together to get up to 24 cylinders... You could try that but smoother
pete_dushenski: the sort ? fuck, if such a jew were an entire sort unto itself, israel would have the entire middle east under its crazy inventive thumb instead of playing d-fence six ways to sunday
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I imagine you to be the sort of crazy jew to replace an 8 with a pair of sixes
assbot: A Eulogy for One of the Best V8s of All Time, the Mercedes-Benz M156 | Complex CA ... ( http://bit.ly/1iltfKR )
pete_dushenski: haha maybe an m156 wedges its way in there
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Depends on how the season goes, that one has a lot more time
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 02:20:55; BingoBoingo: And if any BitBettors are intersted Made this the same day as my first Rand bet https://bitbet.us/bet/1198/connor-mcdavid-will-live-up-to-the-hype/#b4
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278196 << doesn't look like this'll pay out quite as richly, but then again, what could ?
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 01:08:16; BingoBoingo: I as so fucking happy I won the Rand Paul bet
BingoBoingo: Fuck I was on the wrong path doing oild painting of Kim Jung Il on a train getting slaughtered by a heart
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 02:56:26; cazalla: so where is the dating site that removes fat shaming body type descriptions in place of all women are beautiful regardless of size
cazalla: so where is the dating site that removes fat shaming body type descriptions in place of all women are beautiful regardless of size
BingoBoingo: Oh, no there are fun opportunities that pop up on dating sites like the recently out of a long term relationship and cute girls with borderline personality disorder. THe holy grail to hunt for is the overlap
mircea_popescu: "met on the internet" !!!!= "met on dating site".
mircea_popescu: mno, the problem with dating sites is that unless you intend to meet a dog, you're in the wrong place.
BingoBoingo: Eh, what ABout Zi-Zir or some other new age shit.
mircea_popescu: well the gender being stupid-fat...
BingoBoingo: WHich new pronoun is the subhuman one?
mircea_popescu is tempted to start using the subhuman pronoun.
mircea_popescu: so women exist whose pubic bone can not be palpated do they ?!
assbot: Why Dogecoin is a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is a contemptible piece of shit, why anyone who ever worked for it will be dancing in the street for nickels and why Kevin Rose is a fuckwit. Plus other considerations. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ile8kG )
mircea_popescu: and from the "best fake name ever" department, http://trilema.com/2014/why-dogecoin-is-a-scam-why-the-people-pushing-it-are-assholes-why-business-insider-is-a-contemptible-piece-of-shit-why-anyone-who-ever-worked-for-it-will-be-dancing-in-the-street-for-nickels-and-wh/#comment-115375
BingoBoingo: The moral of the story is that waist is a primary measure of health among women in the same way percentage completion to FUDA is a primary measure of health among men
mircea_popescu: the nerve.
mircea_popescu: in other news, hanbot in leather goods store. saleswoman decides to upsell her on leather belt. the innermost hole's about a mile too tight. saleswoman proceeds to turn store upside down out of saleswomany ambition. eventually finds one flimsy belth apparently intended for schoolgirls, that on the tightest setting is you know, sorta sitting there unobviously loose.
assbot: BitBet - Connor McDavid will live up to the hype :: 0.2 B (12%) on Yes, 1.41 B (88%) on No | closing in 4 months 2 weeks | weight: 94`846 (100`000 to 25`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1Yiah8L )
BingoBoingo: And if any BitBettors are intersted Made this the same day as my first Rand bet https://bitbet.us/bet/1198/connor-mcdavid-will-live-up-to-the-hype/#b4
BingoBoingo: You know, BitBet doesn't seem to be doing poorly on the Rand Paul bet either https://bitbet.us/bet/1197/rand-paul-will-get-less-than-7-minutes/#b2
mircea_popescu: notrly. all the places where the beoble abound, you mostly find the trees covered in them.
BingoBoingo: But Rwanda has too much aids, and plastic bags are a net positive for society. The things seriously break down fast.
mircea_popescu: well, other than being a total famished shithole / ex genocide site ec.
BingoBoingo: Typical WaPo reader: "My wife doesnt have a strong sex drive. I have always found sex to be awkward. I have a bit of a mental blockalthough I understand it on a biological level, I still dont like the idea of sticking my body part inside another body." >> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/09/dear_prudence_my_friend_s_wife_stays_home_and_berates_him_while_he_works.html
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: we just lie and steal and you know, it's nobody's fault, not like there exist things that work or people who aren't shitheads just like us. har har.
mircea_popescu: mike_hearnMike Hearn - Bitcoin Expert 2 points 3 months ago - It's nobodies "fault" - there is no such thing as a programmer who never writes buggy code.
mircea_popescu: oh you don't understand, "Gavin has support from the companies and has talked to economists".
BingoBoingo: Fucking Hearnia. How has that crowd gone on so long without consulting a surgeon to repair their pelvic floor?
mircea_popescu: http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34162353/ the lolz of seasons past...
BingoBoingo: Then someone later threw up a smaller million satoshi bet, which also did well.
BingoBoingo: They put out 5 BTC and only the BitBet bet had matched it. s.qntr was way up so I figured I'd price their 5 BTC
mircea_popescu: i meant re the bet lol.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, they added another link in front of ours, but at least this time they didn't replace it with a derpier venue
BingoBoingo: I as so fucking happy I won the Rand Paul bet
BingoBoingo: I still do. Not as many people seem to read it as when MP saved BSDM, but it gets reads by virtue of not being as bad as other places you can find stories missed elsewhere
cazalla: does anyone read slashdot these days?
BingoBoingo: 24 Hours after the submission Qntra has made the front page of slashdot for the I forget whicheth time http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/17/2215209/bitcoin-trader-agrees-to-work-for-police-in-plea-agreement
BingoBoingo: cazalla: What did the acronym stand for again?
nubbins`: OH WELL THEN
punkman: would probably cost more if the plot was empty
ascii_field: 'Still, when a complete, condemnable dump is on the market for a third of a million dollars, it’s clear that money has lost all meaning.'
mats: with the familiar garnish of Tiananmen Sq mention, so readers are reminded chinese people also hate freedom
punkman: "Our intelligence unit’s latest estimates are that U.S. companies and the U.S. economy lose approximately $5 trillion each year, or over 30 percent of the U.S. GDP when you factor the full value of the stolen innovation"
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 23:23:53; punkman: I saw a dog steal an unopened bag of cheetos while I was buying some tobacco from a kiosk couple days ago. guy inside shrugs "what am I gonna do, chase the fucking mutt". I wonder if some bum trained the dog, it was wearing a length of string as a collar.
gernika: the line you quote adds to the eerie similarity to the sillyconvalley vibe I detected though.
gernika: I missed that part - but my favorite was the discussion of how much people of various races were worth.
punkman: I think the best moment was when she says "I don't know if it's just me pretending or if everyone is"
punkman: gernika: she was probably getting further into debt to attend sewing machine school
gernika: punkman: at least she had the opportunity to work in a sweatshop when the startup didn't work out.
deedbot-: [Qntra] Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Grows For The Sixth Consecutive Time - http://qntra.net/2015/09/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-grows-for-the-sixth-consecutive-time/
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 19:55:51; mircea_popescu: well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277984 << what would be better yet is if the various firms who grabbed historical figures they had ~nothing~ to do with - e.g., tesla, galois - were similarly detrademarked
ascii_field: this one actually makes the antonopoulos book look good!
ascii_field: and i've lost what respect i had remaining for the publisher.
ascii_field: the reviews are lulzy
ascii_field: in other nyooz, this horror apparently exists: http://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Blueprint-Economy-Melanie-Swan/dp/1491920491
ascii_field: because they get 'gold parachute' and yacht, while engineer works 100 hr/wk and dies of coronary at 39
mircea_popescu: hey - at least half the trombone & clowning majors can suck cock!
mircea_popescu: and yet they manage to delude themselves into this wholly hallucinated alt-reality where they are actually useful,
mircea_popescu: so far the score's preeeeety badly stacked against 'em
mircea_popescu: whenever you hear the inept business majors with the "adult supervision" bs, you can kindly remind them that they adult supervised xerox right into the fucking hole.
mircea_popescu: the parc huh. myeah.
ascii_field: (xerox is the true unsung hero-to-zero story of usa - for fucks sake they had the interactive graphical computer before anyone else)
mircea_popescu: Rick is a Chinese guy who works in a shitty office in a shitty town. Because the printers suck, occasionally his name is misspelled.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign << Amazing where tiny bits of proto-sanity appear in USG
mircea_popescu: time to reintroduce them to mpex.
ascii_field: either this, or we are meant to think it.
mircea_popescu: it's the strict notion of "happy = everything"
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that they want the god damned life to be a movie, and movies to have happy endings.