assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 03:56:24; asciilifeform: i venture to say that the actual goal of general-purpose (or whatever approximation is possible) homomorphic crypto is quite different.
mats: Torrey's research is actually interesting, if you'd take the time to read it instead of the Wired write up...
phf: jurov: theoretical potential is not the problem. what i'm saying is that there's existing "flora and fauna" that you're going to run into pretty fast. local деревенские "people from the village", police, military divisions that for all practical purposes own the locations principality style and don't need to "trade" in order to get guns, cars and supplies. for some reason that sort of fantasies don't usually go "let's build a dream su
jurov: and yes, it took another 10y for insulation to start seriously
mircea_popescu: better'd be to see who hanged for the fact that prefab production wasn't transitioned to "sandwiched prefab with styofoam". in like, 1992.
jurov: but whole blocks are mostly in half of their 70y projected lifetime
jurov: heh yes, will be funny to see how good is the "lifetime warranty" for
mircea_popescu: but let's not talk of "20 years later". not on the internet, of all places.
mircea_popescu: of course... once they age they'll be the best cockroach house any cockroach could dream for.
mircea_popescu: romania got covered in them too.
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 16:31:25; phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s as a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
ascii_field: ok its in the logz
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 15:46:48; mircea_popescu: "But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
mircea_popescu: HERE IS THE RECENT TRICK THAT B-A REALLY HATES. HOW AN UNEMPLOYED TWERP MADE IMPOSSIBLE TO SOFTWARE.
ascii_field: 'learn the trick reverse engineers hate!!11'
ascii_field: pseudomathematical claptrap.
mircea_popescu: how about you go live in china, then, if your plan is to put your life on a foundation of trade with china ?
ascii_field: ^ them
ascii_field: 'Jacob Torrey – Cyber-security Philosopher and Boffin' << to the furnace
mircea_popescu: if you can't field this you don't belong there.
phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s as a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
phf: the heat in novosibirsk like in all russian cities is provided through pipes in a form of a compressed steam and hot water from a ТЭЦ. (a major difference between eastern europe and the states). if ТЭЦ fails, novosibirsk turns into a ice coffin, on account of all the concrete box construction. that actually happened in the past for short periods of time (like a week or two) and it's usually a major humanitarian disaster. we don't even know
jurov: novosibirsk is on same latitude than denmark.. just that swings between -40 +40C in the year
phf: that's kind of an obvious point to a nerd boy, i thought the solution always was "stop being such a little shit", not "let's change everyone around me so i finally don't feel inadequate"
mircea_popescu: see phf, men are deeply afraid of women. especially the men that never killed anyone for the simple aesthetic pleasure of taking a life.
mircea_popescu: THEY WERE NOT EVEN NAKED!
mircea_popescu: "But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
mircea_popescu: mats there's certainly a difference between brainfuck and c++ programs that's driven by difference between actual brainfuck and c++. what exactly it is, tho...
mircea_popescu: and omfg the x of y enough already god damned pigdinheads
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is anthony bourdain
mats: like he's attempting to improve upon the 'chomsky hierarchy'
phf: this must be a puton, his twitter says "Described by @wireheadlance as the Anthony Bourdain of InfoSec"
mircea_popescu: now my question to you, mats, becomes : what's this to you ? does the apparent novelty catch your eye ? or wut ?
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours the speed of light over other speeds "much more important to "us"". it is a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup that there still exist people who even vaguely understand what this shit even is, because even one in a million that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when that asshole asciilifeform publishes things about pgp keys or that asshole mircea_popescu thre
mircea_popescu: whjat the fuck is this. please explain it to me.
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between the theoretical Turing machines and the machines designed to emulate has grown significantly; most of the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented as it was with a Turing machine. Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become the key features that the industry is working on improvi
phf: (there's a 90s russian commedy, дмб, about a bunch of hapless army conscripts. at some point they are supposed to provide entertainment for generals, in some total buttfuck nowhere location. one of the activities is pig hunting, they release a pig, and the general goes after it. so of course the pig gets eaten by one of the hungry conscripts, and he has to pretend to be a pig running through fields. i can't help but think about orlov's boomer
mircea_popescu is further unimpressed with "Since joining the cult of LangSec, I've spent a great deal of time pondering" intros.
mircea_popescu is not particularly impressed with this recently discovered pop-crypto celeb. srsly, this is it, people stopped giving a shit about "music" so mpaa may die, but there's going to be a naa creating "crypto popstars" instead ?
phf: well, by then, there's not going to be snow, because moderate climate areas are going to be mad max hell holes, where's your siberian mcmansion is only going to appreciate in value
phf: i started reading orlov with his piece about "everyone should get russian passport and move syberia to survive orks and global warming", i thought that maybe he was one of those slightly misguided older russian expats, so i sent him an email in russian with the general idea of, what about existing power structures there, it's not like moving to alaska, there's not going to be a shortage of local generals interested in hunting out of shape expats
phf: duda is a form of bagpipes, though not used in russian much, there's still "dudet'", which is to make a bagpipe sound. someone could work that into him being a blowhard somehow
mircea_popescu remembers the early hopeful days of the chechen republic whatever it was called and that mustacioed fellow whose name, inescapably, came to "joker"
mircea_popescu: i don't disagree with the point at all, i just don't think that's what happened there.
phf: well, the fantasy is a from the perspective of the bureaucrat himself, so he doesn't necessarily sees the bigger picture like a monarch would, he just does the inspection. record would be required though
mircea_popescu: for one thing, if it were bureaucracy driven, wouldn't you expect the girl be shot ? the woman dismissed ? some sort of "repercussions" ? "consequences" and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: the real dynamic there is that the dudes are so fucking scared of actual womanhood they desperately seek, and for their sins find, an escape path.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, one girl, the only one that is overtly flirting with the men, is rejected for the obscure reason that she had a bad 1st molar. the procureress protests (in italian) that such a pretty girlie! nobody even noticed!
phf: oh, lined them up, checked teeth and vulvas
phf: why classroom though? how was selection process working with everyone running all over the place? did they had to dump one or two, because upon closer examination they were kind of meh?
mircea_popescu: bula is, in romanian, the protagonist of all jokes.)
mircea_popescu: at the very least he'll be henceforth known as abdulbek the schoolteacher or something.
mircea_popescu: i'm not an authority on subcaucasian tribal customs, but my guess would be that such deeds would be a face wound for the poor guy in question incompatible with any sort of continued authority.
phf: my interpretation of the piece.
phf: "my brother's brother heard it from the guy WHO WAS THERE" "man, i wish i could just steal girls from classrooms like a brave chechen, because i sure as hell can't talk to them"
mircea_popescu: and the "criminal authority" has a name. also ran a hotel, which also had a name. etc.
mircea_popescu: i think he's mixing the pots, too. this story's from serbia.
mircea_popescu: "Another time, in school, a group of Chechens stormed into a classroom in the middle of a class, selected the three most attractive girls, and dragged them away with them. Later we found out that the girls were presented as birthday presents to a local Chechen criminal authority."
mircea_popescu: beahahahahaa why the fuck is that so funny omg
mircea_popescu: he's gonna build you a wood-and-nails ethernet card!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is that the us never having been a nation, it can't possibly fail like one.
asciilifeform: the latter point isn't even so far off
phf: mircea_popescu: oh that's the idea about him, i guess that makes sense
asciilifeform: phf: orlov is obsessed with the subject of 'noble orcs', where it is gypsy, or eskimo, or whoever hasn't invented water closet yet
phf: that orlov quote is questionable, with the same message as his other writing, i.e. "orks are cooler then you" where you is a u.s. office worker. i grew up in intelligentsia family and when i started getting into fights i was sent to sambo. i also saw fights involving chechen boys, including "деревня на деревню" kind, and in none of those were russian boys holding back. what is this
mircea_popescu: you know, teaching a woman that she's supposed to neglect the functioning of her head so she can focus on... the kitchen, i guess, as the puritans can't quite make the cunt point, is criminal.
asciilifeform: not all the 'brightest bulbs', mind you. there were some comical incidents of the train stopping and local police confiscating (yes) weapons
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. do that, last fucking time you ever have to "fight" the "terrorists".
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 23:42:34; mircea_popescu: if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani.
mircea_popescu: you wanna win one of these wars, simply ship your guys over. by fucking bus.
mircea_popescu: "When I showed up, there were fifteen of them waiting for me, all grown men. I thought that they would simply kill me."
mircea_popescu: there's no way i can explain to williamdunne what he asks and there's nothing i have to ~say~ to chechens.
asciilifeform: (sorta how english is spoken in india, but yes, they speak)
asciilifeform: hey they speak ru. ask'em
shinohai: http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5533944-christian-family-end-times-band-goes-down-in-hail-of-gunfire-at-walmart/
mircea_popescu: On the Russian side, it was invariably the mommy who came, and nagged her son: You shouldn't fight! Fighting is bad! On the Chechen side it was invariably the father who came. He slapped his son upside the head and told him: How dare you lose a fight to a stinking Russianthe son of an alcoholic and a prostitute? Tomorrow you thrash him so hard that he pisses himself from fear any time he sees you!
asciilifeform: (and no, not the barrel. what did you think.)
mircea_popescu: i moreover envision a situation where whatever steel's left, if there is, bands together and the shit gets buried.
asciilifeform: 'And the only reason they succeeded in doing so is because we were total shit. We are still shit, but not quite so liquid, and in that shit there are some steel particles.'
mircea_popescu: why did rome succeed "holding the barbarians at bay" for a millenium and then collapsed in two centuries ? look at what was going on in china during.
mircea_popescu: when it strengthens back, the barbarians run off west, and yo uhave "end of empires".
mircea_popescu: it just is so fucking big it causes gravity waves. when it weakens, the northern barbarians move east and you have european "peace".
mircea_popescu: btw, northern barbarians = the pakis. china's been pushing populations west since forever, and is continuing to do so. not intentionally, mind you.
mircea_popescu: no folks daughters are so exempt except the paki's.
asciilifeform: 'the folks whose daughters are exempt from paki' are as good an approximation as any
mircea_popescu: actually rotherham is not that badly off. kinda why i used it to derail our amiable friend.
asciilifeform: the way 'yi yi zhi yi' works is that a usg fiefdom controls its lower classes, which might otherwise have some vitality left, by importing orcs
mircea_popescu: so if you want to have a superpower, use china. the us is neither a superpower not really invovled.
mircea_popescu: and yes, china would be the main beneficiary of getting rid of all these northern barbarians.
mircea_popescu: and no, the us didn't make shipping cheap, china did (srsly - look at what they did to that market if you wanna get scared).
asciilifeform: or any other Places That Matter (tm)
asciilifeform: they are also not collecting rapemeat in the financial district of london; or in oxbridge
mircea_popescu: yes, for the reason that shipping's cheap now.
mircea_popescu: the part you propose is not necessary.
asciilifeform: but they were shipped in for a reason.
asciilifeform: the last part is not in dispute
mircea_popescu: the pakis are there because between fifty of them they have more balls than the collected population of britons.
mircea_popescu: so no, people aren't these magical snowflakes made out of independent thought and closely held principle. that view is chiefly an economical surplus phenomena, people tend to form that view if they live for too long unchallenged. otherwise, people are lazy and small. some smaller than lazy, some lazier than small. but by and large not worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: da couldn't get her to say otherwise, after all.
mircea_popescu: don't impose your values on others mkay ?
mircea_popescu: those dudes are going to be out before next year's out, they probably just wanted a break.
mircea_popescu: how about the references where hundreds of people were involved in raping thousands of preteens for a decade + and all the ridiculous queen's got are five convictions for less than five years a head ?
mircea_popescu: how about the references where they withdrew complaints / ran off from the da the day of testimony / etc ?
williamdunne: Well the only references I'm seeing to it are describing it as a traumatic experience. While traumatic can be a force for good I can't see anything suggesting it did her any particular favours
williamdunne: From what I can see they may contend that point
williamdunne: Did it work fine for them?
mircea_popescu: but the one time you'll know this, apparently hasn't come yet.
mircea_popescu: it, apparently, for them, worked just fine.
mircea_popescu: so they DO change their mind, and go take their place in the line of plainly wrapped, bipedal fuckmeat.
mircea_popescu: next thing you know, one's doused in gasoline begging for no lights and the other's staring at text messages in her cellphone about her sister and so forth.
mircea_popescu: so in that town, there once were a bunch of girlies, which for whatever reason grew up with the impression that they're not plainly wrapped fuckmeat for some dudes.
williamdunne: Only the town
mircea_popescu: ever heard of rotherham ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne i don't expect this is something that can be verbally communicated, and jesus fuck have i wasted some time if that's actually not so. but perhaps it'll be easier to understand when you take yourself out of there.
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mircea_popescu: williamdunne we're not talking of the same thing.
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mircea_popescu: ;;google "i've never been punched! black and white are the same color! a yellow apple on a yellow cab!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "i've never been punched! black and white are the same color! a yellow apple on a yellow cab!"
williamdunne: For example, when one person tried to get a few to jump me, they were forced to keep a fairly large distance between themselves and I
punkman: asciilifeform: there are folks who were never beaten? not even a bit ? << lots of em
williamdunne: Sure, but I was always on the smaller/equal side
asciilifeform: there are folks who were never beaten? not even a bit ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, by all accounts even the vikings had 'lowering into pederasty' precisely like ru prison
mircea_popescu: so there you go. what fucking "strength".
mircea_popescu: williamdunne what's your theory of homosexual rape in prison ? what drives it ?
williamdunne: Never understood the usage of gang-beatings to show strength. I can understand it to create fear.. but strength
mircea_popescu: nothing better illustrates the fundamentally maggoty quality of the human race than being in the position of, approximately speaking, a highschool disciplinarian.
asciilifeform: they were born to feed cannons
asciilifeform: sorta how it was handled in ru at the time, aha
mircea_popescu: (which was generally resolved by beating the shit out of them in group - apparently teenaged boys benefit from the shared experience).
mircea_popescu: then you had the practical choice of either killing a bunch of 16 yos or complete disorder
mircea_popescu: for that matter, looky here. when i was younger, we had this constant problem where kids watched who knows what on the (recently available) tv and decided they're gonna be MOBSTERERS!!11 LIEK IRL!!
punkman: "if nobody else is doing it, there's no money in this scam"
mircea_popescu: most scamzors live their entire life replicating what actually successful people do.
williamdunne: If they outlaw breathing, you should not break the social contract by fighting for life
asciilifeform: and yes, their ad copy smells of india
asciilifeform: they're stuck competing (for usg trough) with noblis et al
williamdunne: I'd happily give them some silly putty, but I'd rather not be forced to waste my own time and resources for something that should be easy like opening a bank account. Bitcoin has spoiled me.
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 02:12:41; asciilifeform: how long has it been since sc4mz0rz quit doing the most elementary homework to see if other, larger and better-connected sc4mz0rz are pulling the same scam already ?
mircea_popescu: "noble and honorable" since when is this part of the discourse.
mircea_popescu: "The business model associated with the Sabr.io service is noble and honorable, as the company wants to eliminate any criminal activity associated with virtual currencies."
mircea_popescu: give them some silly putty to play with.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne people wanna matter. whenever a vote comes to whether they wanna matter more or less, they vote they wanna matter more. meanwhile they keep mattering less. what's one to do.
williamdunne: yeah, mine came over to my house as well to deal with all the paperwork because she gave me some other pricks passport.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne> 50 shades of derp << they have the same nonsense here. /me had cute notary clerk over for biscuits, problem solved.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I, mr government official, confirm that mrs notary, did in fact agree that the documents were correct that he brought on the day. She said so and she signed it.
punkman: also, there are worse things than having to apostille a document
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> punkman: you can send and receive encrypted and signed emails to and from your relationship manager. << who keeps all of them plaintext in his internet-connected excel.
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> The whole apostille thing is fuckheaded as well << yeah srsly.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> I see change.org as simply an outlet for the masses to feel as if they are inspiring social change. << well mostly it's an obama thing. guy made his own reddit, somewhat more dysfunctional.
asciilifeform: mobilize the bolus! (tm) (r) (uncle al)
asciilifeform: hearn put on 'oppressed by cruel censors' suit, is now a darling of 'the masses' etc
asciilifeform: why would they skip a beat
mircea_popescu: "85% voted to implement a trivial change that was both needed and uncontroversial. they didn't implement it and bitcoin forked. lesson learned! 44% "vote" to implement a change that mp said he will attack. WHATCOULDGOWRONG!111"
mircea_popescu: <assbot> ~44% of Bitcoin mining hash power is currently voting to support 8 MB blocks. << jesus fuck look at these idiots, didn't skip a beat
mircea_popescu: not entirely inconceivable. and if you take the other half and pretend materials are free and you get billed for construction work at 50 an hour, that's about six weeks worth of a 12 man team's work.
asciilifeform: not to mention the fact that au is a kind of proving ground for fresh usg idiocies, with simplified bureaucracy, desaparecido without so much as a squeak
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 08:59:59; cazalla: looking at tassie property.. come across all but abandoned laboratory in the middle of nowhere in the middle of tasmania, maybe perfect for asciilifeform types?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-08-2015#1235694 << if i had to move to another usg fiefdom, why not, e.g., midwest usa instead? same as australia, but easier resupply and fewer natural hazards
shinohai: hilarious. Whining about censorship when theymos censored nothing.
kakobrekla: Guess who else they invested in? Shapeshift.
shinohai: When in Rome, you gotta do as the Romans do I guess.
williamdunne: Use a bank statement with the other bank, to open account with the bank who wants to work with us
williamdunne: Open account with another bank, that will literally send someone to the building to check it is where we say we are
williamdunne: UNless I can sort out proof of address somehow, the process is:
williamdunne: "You need proof of address, like a utility bill or bank statement to open an account in the company name"
williamdunne: And then there is the lulz with South Africa too. "We need proof of address for the company"
williamdunne: http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/scifiseries/2005_the_hitchhickers_guide_to_the_galaxy_wallpaper_005.jpg
williamdunne: Then each page had to be stamped and signed
williamdunne: Then three copies had to be done
williamdunne: Recently I had the pleasure of having a legalized translation done
shinohai: Do they have someone writing out keys on bankslips?
williamdunne: The whole apostille thing is fuckheaded as well
shinohai: Oh well, be the change and all.
fluffypony: the people have spoken!
shinohai: I see change.org as simply an outlet for the masses to feel as if they are inspiring social change.
cazalla: "More than 285,000 people have backed an online petition on change.org, an international website that hosts campaigns, calling on President Vladimir Putin to revoke the decision and hand the food to people in need. " this change.org shit is recurring recently, i come across it even in the local rag
punkman: cazalla: yeah but not where you can see them
punkman: went to the bakery, was thinking about buying a donut, then a cockroach looked at me through the donut hole
cazalla: looking at tassie property.. come across all but abandoned laboratory in the middle of nowhere in the middle of tasmania, maybe perfect for asciilifeform types?
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1235245 <<< sorta mirrors the growth in the blockchain size
punkman: "GAW Miners failed to pay for months of electrical provision as well as infrastructure installation. The utility initially sought $346,647.29 plus interest and court fees."
punkman: "Lipkin also agreed to give up a vacation home in Delray Beach, Florida as part of his plea deal, but he was allowed to keep another home in New Jersey, his stamp collection and another Red Skelton painting."
punkman: "Irwin Lipkin, 77, agreed he owes the government a Rolex watch, a well-known painting by Red Skelton and $170 billion cash on Monday, and was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday"
mircea_popescu: thew problem is of course not mr m.
asciilifeform: (one can debate whether it is proper to speak of a millikan in a subject without experimentals, like mathematics. but overall anybody who fogs brains with his auctoritas while even in the grave, is a millikan)
asciilifeform: almost a pons asinorum for basic literacy in $subject - 'name the millikans.'
asciilifeform: that's kinda the one i think of automatically
mircea_popescu: anwyay, lest we be too harsh on the social pseudoscientists that gotta eat,
mircea_popescu: where "uncontroversial" = fit the political agenda
asciilifeform: filtered or fudged but which remain undetected because the end results were correct. Still more contain honest errors that went undetected because the overall results were valid or the error was peripheral to the main point of the paper.'
asciilifeform: " ... ... Lots of emphasis on stereotyping, how we construct reality, and so on. Nothing that challenges the basic assumptions of social scientists at all. And that's really how he got away with it. He reported what his colleagues expected to see. ... There are probably tons of articles in the scientific literature based on faked data, and undetected because the results were uncontroversial. There are many more where data were
asciilifeform: 'One of the juicier scientific scandals of recent times involves Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel, who admitted to fabricating many of his research results. A full list of Stapel's falsified articles hasn't been published, but the titles of some of his articles (some of which may not be tainted) offer insights. The article that outed him was "Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination.
mircea_popescu: you recall, the whores.
asciilifeform: the safes existed to begin with on account of usg fiat
mircea_popescu: or at least a story on my blog tends to support this theory.
mircea_popescu: safe, like fighter jet , is not the whole story.
asciilifeform once visited a shop, not far from home, which sold gigantic safes. most of the pre-owned units were from pharmacies, and some had catalogues of the contents still glued to inside of door
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of "insecuridad" these folks. like they live with the vikings or something.
asciilifeform: also sold for the asking ?
mircea_popescu: and once i knew that, he had no further questions)
mircea_popescu: (if anyone is curious - yes the pharmacist tested me. he asked "what dosage ?" and i said uh... 100... maybe 50, no, not really. 80 ? turns out he had 60, 90 and 120. because 50 is not really quite enough and 100 is maybe a little too much, but if those are the options go for 100
asciilifeform: (the exceptions are few and generally well-documented)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile usians with the same sort of problem get substandard care in the shape of cox-1&2 inhibitors in massive dossage.
mircea_popescu: for their effectual purpose, good for a decade or more.
mircea_popescu: msotly banned because the idiots prescribed them like they prescribe anything, "forever", and they don't work forever.
asciilifeform: who still makes them ?
mircea_popescu: in this vein : went to pharmacy here, told pharmacist what i want, he went and fetched. cox-2 inhibitor, no prescription needed becasuse the criteria in argentina is "do you speak the language ? if not, get someone who does to write what you need down for you"
asciilifeform: the FBI has caught you downloading illegal material, you don't have a clue what to do. ... ... Most Americans are like that, kept alive and prosperous only through the exertions of people more productive, inventive and generous than they are. The productive view them not so much as loathsome insects, as puppies who will eventually go to the pound if they pee on the rug too often.'
asciilifeform: r people. Your illnesses are treated by people who speak a language you don't understand and who give you little nondescript pills containing who knows what? Everything in your house connects to outlets in the wall that supply electricity created by processes you don't understand. You are reading this on a device that might as well be populated by fairies for all you know. And when something pops up saying you have a virus or
asciilifeform: 'You eat food you didn't grow and in many cases have no idea where it came from or what it looks like in nature. You rely on elaborate machines to get you places, but have no idea how they work. If your car stops, you have no idea what went wrong or what to do to fix it. In many cases, there is nothing you personally can do. To travel long distances you get into a big flying tube that leaves you completely at the mercy of othe
scoopbot_revived: The Trump Train is heading for the White House. Maybe. http://www.contravex.com/2015/08/11/the-trump-train-is-heading-for-the-white-house-maybe/
mod6: 'tis one of the reasons i enjoyed camping in the west so much, back east the mosquitoes try to carry you away.
mod6: where i live these things are not just a nuisance like in .ar, but ubiquitous
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes ? mod6 ? any of you went home with mosquito bite ? << heheh. i might have gotten a bite or two. i paid them back ~10x iirc.
mircea_popescu: Conservatives oppose abortion but are okay with war and capital punishment. (So am I - I think everyone in the capital deserves to be punished)
mircea_popescu: they are kinda incredibly derpy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the ones that did exist, could not bite me!