asciilifeform: ^ fact is, gpl has perfectly valid reasons for existing; most of which resolve to folks not wishing to give aid and comfort to the enemy
asciilifeform: rties to contribute back most of their changes--and so what we really got in both cases was a long list of derived but very different, and often incompatible, systems.'
asciilifeform: 'Most of us had a very strong distaste for the so-called "virus" clause in the GPL, and this is the primary reason we did not adopt it. There was also some thinking that CSRG (Berkeley) and the X Consortium had been successful with leaner, looser licenses, so why bother. In retrospect I think this was naive; if you look at the history, you'll see that neither CSRG nor the X Consortium were really successful in getting third pa
decimation: no, more of "I let these people 'work' on my project and suddenly they were controlling it"
asciilifeform: not much to do with doctrine, then.
asciilifeform: was that when the pickpockets of buenos aires got his mips laptop ?
asciilifeform: in fact, unless you're approximately in the same class of crackpot weirdo as rms - that devil is sitting right next to you in invisible chair.
asciilifeform: the devil that rms preaches about - exists.
asciilifeform never really saw the 'rage' angle re: rms
decimation: Foundation and Wasabi press release. They were actually upset at me for preempting this." << lol this guy is no linus
decimation: "In addition, Wasabi actually held up a NetBSD release for more than a week, while failing to tell even the developer community why. (The main release engineer happened to be a Wasabi employee, so this was easy.) After I personally pushed the release out without them, it was finally revealed that this was because there was a secret arrangement, which only Wasabi employees and Wasabi board members knew about, to do a combined NetBSD
gribble: Achievements - Robert Hooke Society: <http://www.roberthooke.org/page41.html>; Download Sample pages 1 PDF - Springer: <http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9781461408598-c1.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1276559-p174131959>; INNER ELASTICITY and the HIGHER-ORDER ELASTICITY of some ...: <http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/qsystems/jones/thesis/Cousins/c_cousins.pdf>
asciilifeform: 'Even today, most software distributions on the net (and this includes NetBSD) are not signed.' << wat?
asciilifeform: (proposes 'ROL' to augment the customary 'lol' as term of art)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron he can of course point to deedbot deeds proving these claims,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '"Give it here." then in the phone "It's Francine A. Hayek. H-A-Y-E-K." and then after a pregnant pause, "No, just a name coincidence."' << m3g4l0l!!
decimation: also I would note that this happened at a time when the intellectual fashion was to scorn any project designed to civilize the 'other'
asciilifeform: 'the death and life of great american cities' (jacobs)
decimation: actually the elites were racist as fuck, and were quite willing to use the underclass as a weapon against the kulaks while they built imaginary 'barriers' around their homes
mircea_popescu: i fucking wrote about it. elite me lived in the same bus as some alabamian black kids, to no detriment of either of us, au contraire.
decimation: charles murray has written about how the 'elites' and common folk lived in the same neighborhoods together
mircea_popescu: why wasn't the buffallo a "public company" in 1830 ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: I think it is correlated with the mass looting of public companies that became fashionable in the late 70's/early 80's
decimation: the rhetoric in the us tends toward "a rising tide lifts all boats" but the more apparent reality is to squash the up-and-coming - to prevent competition from above and to 'enhance equality' from below
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm not sure about that. it seems to me that the us is all about everyone trying to keep everyone else from doing exactly that
ben_vulpes: if not mr y, then surely lizard hitler
mircea_popescu: i think you drastically overestimate the well being of others. but at least it's consistent with the meta nsa/lizard hitler outlook.
asciilifeform has very few items that rise to the level of 'knowledge' about mr y, mainly thirdhand rumour
asciilifeform: the kind that is a couplea-zeroes apart
mircea_popescu: this pov where women without further specification are somehow valuable still boggles me.
asciilifeform: exactly the same
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he could say the same about you.
mircea_popescu: well... you gotta put something up, you know ? gavin can't run to all of them in his satoshi costume
mircea_popescu: "I enjoy speaking at financial firms on human rationality." << there, your mystery's solved. he's doing the entertainment for vc teambuilding events.
decimation: asciilifeform: she said they would have long conversations where they were apparently mistaken about this
asciilifeform: (no one remotely connected with the filing of an american patent is under any doubt whatsoever regarding expiration thereof)
decimation: re: "intelle;ctual property" < I spoke with a patent examiner once, she said that she often was 'paid a visit' by pharma/medical people who were under the mistaken impression that their devices were still under patent
asciilifeform again not sure of the term of art
asciilifeform not sure of the correct term of art
asciilifeform: the kind mircea_popescu has
asciilifeform: whatever it was a cry for, it werked - mr y has a rotating harem, a flat in san fran, and a phoundation to invoice for the lot - and i don't
mircea_popescu: so your theory'd be, fitting with the above, that this is what they called a "sensitive child" who is trying to assuage his existential vertigo by "taming" [pseudo]science to play the role of a sort of marketing ?
assbot: School of the Woods - Montessori - Established 1962 - preK thru 12 Education ... ( http://bit.ly/1GWnptc )
decimation: exampe > http://www.schoolofthewoods.org/
mircea_popescu: Im not sure why youd use persuasion/marketing as a shiny metaphor for science, other than its the theme of this chapter. If you know science you can manipulate people as if you were literally in control of them seems like a broad, and mostly untrue claim.
mircea_popescu: This whole conversation feels ham fisted, Hariezer is consistently telling us about all the manipulative tricks they are both using. Its less a conversation and more people who just sat through a shitty marketing seminar trying to try out what they learned. WITH RAPE.
decimation: heh no they do high school now
mircea_popescu: very successful with a certain age range, mostly because well... the gals are itching for a trashing, but also kinda affraid it may hurt.
assbot: The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids | WIRED ... ( http://bit.ly/1GWn4qs )
decimation: re: education < http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/ < apparently Thiel et.al. were educated in a Montessori school (which was a crazy idea invented by a random italian chick) to let kids decide for themselves "how to be schooled"
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you know this sort - often comes out at the beach. tall, good looking kid, not a jock, has learned some poetry and gazes into the distance a lot.
mircea_popescu: unlike argentina's, she wasn't pretty, either
asciilifeform: thinking of the woman
mircea_popescu: nah, in the spirit of mr pecuchet
asciilifeform: in the spirit of mrs. ceausescu ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, .ro space has a coupla of these, "artists" that wish to be philosophers/scientists. the result is endless lol fountain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the language is the message, here. guy's not writing down to anyone but himself.
asciilifeform out of the loop for a good long spell
mircea_popescu: is the above quote included in your "read all" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the parlance of folks who actually program computers on occasion - 'blocks of code are a first-class object' is the claim. which is true for all lisp-family
mircea_popescu: If the Flare interpreter knows that "human" is a class defined in the module "people", then it knows to expect that the tag "arms" refers to an instance member with numeric content. This is how the Flare interpreter knows that 2 means the number 2 and not the string "2".
asciilifeform: (no one who actually programs in any lisplike thing whatsoever, will ever write it out that way - the fingers simply won't do it)
asciilifeform: ^ the stuck-capslock 'LISP' is an almost foolproof leper's bell of folks whose knowledge of the subject comes from 1970s encyclopaedia article
mircea_popescu: in what complang is it the case that you can't add stuff to code ?!
mircea_popescu: easily created), these properties are shared by Flare objects and Flare programs."
mircea_popescu: "Flare is based on XML. In dialects of LISP, both the program and the program data are represented as lists. In Flare, the program and program data, and ideally the program state, are all represented as well-formed XML. Because XML is annotative (additional sub-elements can be easily added to any parent element without destroying the structural integrity of existing data) and extensible (new sub-element types can be
asciilifeform: obligatory naggumism: ''It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.''
mircea_popescu: ^ check it out, it allowed them to mix text with display rules, because xml.
mircea_popescu: "Jumping off the
mircea_popescu: right, that's what i;m saying. obviously cunt gets pounded. but all the pretense around it ? y ?
mircea_popescu: that's what ted is, but it didn't start there. that's what http://trilema.com/2014/anonymous-derpage/ is and what mormonism is and puritanism and the us army and generally...
asciilifeform: 'always it is the thief who cries - stop, thief!' or how did it go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's an age honored thing in usia. which is why all the brouhaha over "intelle;ctual property" and "bla bla theft" is so funny for people who aren't either born yesterday or to stupid parents in the great plains. srsly, someone stole from murica ? what, christmas ?
mircea_popescu: then merge that with the "i failed and so nobody else should try it!" reversal of the "i tried and thus no one should criticize me" insanity...
mircea_popescu: d Im too intelligent to look up to my parents the way that children are designed to do. My parents love me, but they dont feel obliged to respond to reason, and sometimes I feel like theyre the children - children who wont listen and have absolute authority over my whole existence. I try not to be too bitter about it, but I also try to be honest with myself, so, yes, Im bitter.
mircea_popescu: "Im too smart, Professor. Ive got nothing to say to normal children. Adults dont respect me enough to really talk to me. And frankly, even if they did, they wouldnt sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. Im isolated, Professor McGonagall. Ive been isolated my whole life. Maybe that has some of the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
asciilifeform: the thing he's very good at is plagiarism
mircea_popescu: lol you know the portrait that emerges is exactly that of the sort of kid i'd bust the nose of within a coupla days of being introduced ?
asciilifeform: for all expressions, rather
asciilifeform: it was rather like a bad ('70s-style) lispalike with xml (yes, xml) for all forms
asciilifeform: mr y seems quite clever so long as he has the sense to stay away from actual mechanisms and physical world in general where if 'your hands grow from your arse' you tend to lose them in the gears.
mircea_popescu: heavy on the sauce, no real meat to speak of.
mircea_popescu: one could read treatises on learned topics written by anonymous americans cca 1800 to about the same effect.
asciilifeform: possibly the 'has' ?
mircea_popescu: debate as to what ? there's no point of contention.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not going by the crowd, but by having actually read everything the fella wrote 1997-2009 or so
mircea_popescu: it's just proof that people are endlessly stupid on their own terms.
mircea_popescu: listen, a large crowd of bearded idiots following the child prophet is no proof of the child's anything.
asciilifeform: the man knows precisely what he's doing
asciilifeform: he writes 'down' to the audience
asciilifeform: he convinced folks with some education in the physical sciences, even to believe in immortality ('ancestor sims', 'nanotech'); deities ('jupiter brains', 'superintelligence') and even immortal soul ('coherent extrapolated volition')
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little to no evidence of this. all i see is the text, and the text is truely appalling.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every year shall bring more.. << give the charlatans some credit here. yudkowsky, for instance, carefully disassembled the broken husk of christianity and soldered all the loose pieces together in a way that it sorta runs again for folks on the right half of bell curve
mircea_popescu: actually the cat doesn't even have to be dense per se, it could just be very hot.
asciilifeform would point out that 'turned into small cat' does not have to violate conservation laws if cat is peculiarly dense, or if the excess mass had been teleported a room away (which in itself does not have to violate conservation) -- but this is probably not what the thing was about
thestringpuller: dr. funkenstein straight from george clinton's mothership
mircea_popescu: of course this argument falls apart once one considers that - according to various muppets cca 1900, "physics was a closed science", so by the logic above proposed everyone should be kept from nature itself as they muck it up.
mircea_popescu: the same insane behaviour exhibited by "bitcoin entrepreneurs" as summed up in http://trilema.com/2015/who-made-this/ is what drives ykwhatever to falsely believe he has understood something about statistics / has anything meaningful to say
funkenstein_: hmm.. more likely they were just the same kind of people who enjoy their power as academics today
mircea_popescu: no, but because acquiring a monkey-ish familiarity with material is a trivial task, which will then prevent an ambitious and inexperienced actor from actually learning anything.
mircea_popescu: never before have i realised the wisdom of the jews / early christians in keeping the books under key.
funkenstein_: the academic bullshit goes way back
mircea_popescu: it's so fucking pervasive by now, they can extract it by simple aculturation.
funkenstein_: the paper belt
mircea_popescu: exactly what it is. backed by nothing but the full faith and credit of the usg, in the shape of little bits of paper issued by Department of Harvard, The Stanford Agency scl etc.
mircea_popescu: and THAT is sure as fuck not implied by the form of any part of any "hamiltonian", w r hamilton's reproductive organs included.
mircea_popescu: however, if you add all the smarts people assign themselves and divide by the ... like i dunno, 5000 or so total iq points available for the bn or so english speakers, you roughly get infinity.
mircea_popescu: if you add all the money people think they're worth, and divide by all the value that actually exists, you only get a few degrees of magnitude out of the process.
mircea_popescu: that's a topic that desperately needs awareness, the bezzle's nothing compared to the igzzle.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck are the people holding up signs with "you are stupid" to raise awareness ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless... good god, i need more hemlock.
mircea_popescu: i am slowly and unpleasantly realising that there will be no end of these ignare cvasi-intellectuals.
BingoBoingo: The woodchipper fanfic was better
mircea_popescu: Poor, misguided random internet person- your donation to MIRI/LessWrong will not help save the world. Even if you grant all their (rather silly) assumptions MIRI is a horribly unproductive research institute- in more than a decade, it has published fewer peer reviewed papers than the average physics graduate student does while in grad school."
mircea_popescu: "I read the comments on an HPMOR chapter, which I recommend strongly against. I wish I could talk to several of the commentators, and gently talk them out of a poor financial decision.
mircea_popescu: "You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! Thats not just an arbitrary rule, its implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling!
mircea_popescu: there's no substance to it past getting you to say that, just like there's no substance past oprah's skin color past getting black people to buy shit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> he posts a ton of extremely ambitious ideas i'd love to see him come through on one of them << you have to understand this is now, thanks to moldbug et all, an internet pose.
decimation: nasa et.al. spend money on usg think tanks to try to come up with a protocol that will magically switch between store-and-forward and low-latency as the channel permits
decimation: asciilifeform: have you read some of the research under the heading "delay tolerant networking"
asciilifeform: (to be fair, there are actually two of them. one is -- distracting actual people from actual work with the noise.)
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: have to understand that what comes out of these people makes considerably more sense once you understand what the one and only 'problem' they ever try to 'solve' really is.
funkenstein_: he posts a ton of extremely ambitious ideas i'd love to see him come through on one of them
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: the real purpose of this 'proposal', if it has a purpose, is 'let's keep thinking about how to kill nodes not controlled by Phoundation'
asciilifeform: is it just me or is it hilariously funny that folks working with (or pretending to, whatever) with bitcoin - the only thing that ever solved 'sybil problem' -for the one case for which it is solvable- -- is spewing this kind of nonsense ?
asciilifeform: http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/33602678 << big moment in the history of that particular set of idiots. they will putter around with 'remote attestation' crap and will end with an inevitable 'most of the nodes are not True Nodes, a True Node is this here sealed crate from us, just plug it in'
cazalla: i swear if and when bitcoin hits astronomical heights, imma start the chimp ufc
mircea_popescu: "you know, the one that's like a gorilla"
mircea_popescu: "what other one?!"
mircea_popescu: would have never probably happened if phys antrhopologist person didn't read and go "dude, that's the other one!"
BingoBoingo: Oh, so you associated chimp with the harmless species that just lez's out all the time.
mircea_popescu: btw, i finally found the source of that debate we had earlier as to how powerful a chimp is etc.
funkenstein_: old fiat misallocated? stop the press
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron> trinque, he didn't earn it; some uncle died and left it to him for the purpose of funding open source << When someone seems this committed to a troll job you can't take them at face value
mircea_popescu: so i'm going to rewrite tlp's short story with the druggie in a moment.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: impersonated... << the real one will presumably say something. ergo impostor, if impostor, is doing precisely what real one wishes.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054269 << essentially yes. it's a result of social dislocation at the top brought about by sudden technological advance that's poorly digested.
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 19:51:07; ascii_field: may I live to see all these valley fuckheads impoverished << optimist. i expect to have my skull used by them as ashtray, rather than vice-versa
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054252 << yes, but then again you're not a sadist, you're a masochist.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054242 << actually, being in a venue where "the medium is the message" is absolutely required for someone who has no message past being part of the median.
funkenstein_: not my stuff there
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054231 << nonsense. trust is not something that can be derived programatically. whether a guy is black or not, whether an institution is segregated or not has no impact on whether you can trust them.
funkenstein_: mircea_popescu, big stack of logs for you. I keep them dry until you tell me where you want them.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054222 << happens to be the exactly only correct way to run automated systems at first.
mircea_popescu: there's no "private notarization"
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 19:18:07; davout: question mainly being: can some random derp take already notarized deeds, and clog the pipes with them, because i assume deedbot will listen privately to deeds being submitted, as long as they're signed with a proper key amirite
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1054191 << yeah the blocks list as discussed!!11
thestringpuller: no one pulls their own strings
mircea_popescu: not mine by any means. the duke of este's.
trinque: saw them as livestock
trinque: reminds me that the mongols had a slur to refer to city-dwellers
trinque: and mostly without knowing they are
ascii_field: ( 1) is for boxes that need the vendor's turdware, naturally. can skip if not. )
ascii_field: so instead of actually racing, folks start to show off their strength by competing who can walk normally for the longest time with a knapsack full of crap
ascii_field: (which in my own mental habit i usually think of as 'peacocking', because it is an even more obvious animal to illustrate the concept with)
trinque: ascii_field: from a perspective it's entirely irrational to have any hope at all; after all, one dies at the end.
ascii_field: yes, '...the ogre cannot master speech' - but it's an ogre - a bloodthirsty giant
ascii_field: possibly i ought to explain. point being that folks are vastly underestimating strength of the enemy
ascii_field: may I live to see all these valley fuckheads impoverished << optimist. i expect to have my skull used by them as ashtray, rather than vice-versa
trinque: scares me the kind of poorly tuned brains running around with fat stacks of USD
trinque: the guy is illiterate
trinque: http://www.trollaxor.com/2015/02/openbsd-fact-check-use-or-not-use-test.html << what the fuck are these slides
trinque: may I live to see all these valley fuckheads impoverished
trinque: having an opinionated ass at the top is a feature
davout: for every automatic thing, there's a computer doing it manually :D
Adlai originally wrote 'no way to build', then choose 'run' intentionally
davout: turning off pm support would be the simplest way
Adlai: that has the advantage of accelerating shared learning
trinque: I could just turn off the PM support
Adlai: replay attacks would still be possible, but by limiting submissions to authed L<3, you at least have somebody to punish
Adlai: does it only accept deeds from authed members of L1/2 ?
trinque: does not currently do anything to prevent the same signed messages from being submitted twice
davout: question mainly being: can some random derp take already notarized deeds, and clog the pipes with them, because i assume deedbot will listen privately to deeds being submitted, as long as they're signed with a proper key amirite
davout: trinque: what happens if the same deed is submitted mutliple times?
dignork: mircea_popescu: comes with bikini wax << maybe PA's for high-ranked officers, dunno any of them.
nubbins`: feathered bread-monster of antiquity
nubbins`: i thought that was because he couldn't stay away from the pretzels
ascii_field: the doctor-following-around part
mircea_popescu: to the degree i had a heart specialist following me around.
mircea_popescu: wasnt author like 17 at the time ?
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 15:13:00; *: Adlai can't find the exact quote but some literary pundit, when asked "but isn't it great that kids are reading [harry potter] instead of watching TV?" responded that he'd rather they watch tv than read such garbage
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2015#1053999 << you'll prolly enjoy http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/eyeargon.pdf then
nubbins`: ascii_field you're set for the day
mircea_popescu: not what happened there by any stretch.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's not petrified in fear yet, it'd be because they're either innocent or an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: there you go. culture war : won. only took like 3-4 years, too.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field : "Huge audience, mainstream production (Alex Winters directed and Keanu Reeves narrated) and the film was pro-Silk Road, anti-war on drugs, and pro-Ross Ulbricht"
nubbins`: don't even get me started on the fucking civet coffee
ascii_field: as al schwartz put it, 'don't invest if the conveyor has to be staffed with ph.d.'s'
nubbins`: http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/212/a/a/tardigrade_propaganda_4_by_theophontes-d598ubp.jpg
mircea_popescu: only so much bw in the neural stem.
mircea_popescu: which is why they're not doing this, or any other of a number of plans that start with
mircea_popescu: (if anyone still wondered what the crab bus was a metaphor for)
mircea_popescu: much the same reason vc idiots could do anything, choose to feed off our discarded tissue
ascii_field: nubbins`: not necessarily. can always build it in the enemy's capital, a bit at a time
mircea_popescu: altho natural engineering has over software engineering this marked advantage, that the horse will throw you off, whereas epistula non erubescit.
ascii_field: where h-bomb is either a fat ship or stationary on land
ascii_field: it is interesting to contemplate what 'cold war' would have looked like if the portable variant had never been built
nubbins`: no joke, in my cubicle life, the christmas social/dinner/dance was called (i'm really not making this up) an ELEGANZA.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's rather reminiscent of the first h-bomb. the one that needed a dedicated building with h2 liquifaction cryoplant
mircea_popescu: now, if your play manages to shine through all that and bring down the house
mircea_popescu: you write a play, and this company wants to do it. they're an odd couple really, not much of a staging company. he's on three different mental meds, she's a crack whore. they make the scenery out of chewed up used tissue.
nubbins`: while i reserve the term "elegance" for things much, much simpler in execution than the flaming turdball of code, it completely applies to Bitcooin as a concept
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe you two could get together! token black guy with token TV hitching it at 3rd conference'd be the tits.
assbot: The conference, third edition pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1EVrflA )
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/#comment-112020 i suspect hte answer is "definitely".
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they feed off it, yes, and i suppose they split its atoms because they are very well-fed from it.
thestringpuller: I wonder if she'll come to the conference
mircea_popescu: ascii_field remember how some idiot was offering this in 2012 and we laughed him out ? well... the vc circus picked it up. because that's what they do, they feed off our offal.
ascii_field: encryption-as-a-service << that has to be a piece from 'the onion'
mircea_popescu: nubbins` here's the kicker : "If your company meets theses requirements, fill in the form below and we'll be in..."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
thestringpuller: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2z7fvl/2fa_on_coinbase_and_other_exchanges_using_authy/cpgdj8u wow these people are so stupid
nubbins`: i'm glad the new imgur iOS app has disabled upload functionality
Adlai: yet silver lines eternal, and the excursion yielded http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/tagged/Hariezer-Yudotter/chrono (drunk physicist reaction rage, by chapter)
Adlai: complete with SHOUTING whenever the author can't find sufficiently expressive words in http://simple.wikipedia.org
Adlai can't find the exact quote but some literary pundit, when asked "but isn't it great that kids are reading [harry potter] instead of watching TV?" responded that he'd rather they watch tv than read such garbage
Adlai: so, seeing as hpmor even got mentioned here, i eventually ventured over to read a bit of it... all else aside, the writing itself stinks just like the canon
Adlai: yes nubbins` army reserve duty, you get paid for it... dignork this is more like "show up for reserves and בט"ל is on the house"
nubbins`: cops are straight-up telling people to stay off the roads
Adlai: adventures in the modern communism: my reserve salary just barely covers 'national insurance' (the less-dysfunctional zionist sibling of 'social security')... there is a certain measure of logic in this
assbot: I just watched the Deep Web film premiere at SXSW. Huge audience, mainstream production (Alex Winters directed and Keanu Reeves narrated) and the film was pro-Silk Road, anti-war on drugs, and pro-Ross Ulbricht. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1EpQMR8 )