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xinxiwang: is there Japanese here?
assbot: Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor's residence drug raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXMQto )
decimation: like, you leave package on the postman's door?
decimation: how would one "send" the mail anonymously?
decimation: why would usg care if you were the intended recipient or a random victim?
assbot: First Difficulty Drop of the ASIC Age | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXLezI )
mircea_popescu: of course they do. trilema credits uses it.
mircea_popescu: "Yes, I2P or Tor would work for such a website. Freenet is probably more secure because there are no entry/exit nodes to monitor, but Freesites can only serve static content, and anonymous Bitcoin payments don't have a way to include a message with them."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to build a case out of that if rigurously observed outside of fed-fiat.
punkman: how hot would the flame need to be to do that?
decimation: the us tardstream media *loves* pre-planned events
cazalla: as they do celebs
cazalla: in hindsight, could've prepared an article for the moment diff changed
punkman: most interesting news for the day
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, wasn't the bitbet bet here earlier ?
assbot: News: Bitcoin Difficulty Drops for the First Time in 22 MonthsCoinsetter Bitcoin News ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXI5jl )
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 19:37:58; asciilifeform: now, if you're willing to live like a feral dog, it isn't even necessary to leave the country. i recall, a few years ago, an article about one fellow who lived in a dugout in a u.s. national park. for ~30 years. he was caught by pure chance.
BingoBoingo made the mistake of going to Library school. "All of these old people are going to retire soon" they said. "People want technology skills they said" as they sort applicants by facebook.
decimation: you should under the stump like that one fellow
BingoBoingo: UNless they changed shit since last I checked.
mike_c: for the record, i was not really complaining about the amount of australian news. I'm read that stuff and am interested. It was just concerning that coinbase does stuff like expand to 20 countries and enable instant trading with no mention.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: emailed to either of us works. If editorial at all to cazalla after the pete_incidents.
asciilifeform: for glbse or the like...
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Cousin had red, brother had yellow
asciilifeform: 'My dick piece never came off, but I didn't want it to, either. I found a black boyfriend that year, and so I discovered that the cause of my orgasm wasn't actually Tyrone's pee.'
assbot: Logged on 18-02-2014 06:07:03; cazalla: btw my brother had the WR for fastest complete time for pokemon red on twin galaxies
BingoBoingo: Maybe. I also bet I can get more interesting pokemans in my version blue on the original game boy
asciilifeform went home, sat down to write broadcast and ended up reading the eldritch horror on mircea_popescu's site.
BingoBoingo: Honestly the situation with qntra shares is that if you want them you write, or buy into something kind of bubbly. I mean there's far less shares than BTC
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Effect will probably be to make BTC to USD transactions a bigger pain in the ass on their platform the next runup << yup.
cazalla: <mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work! <<< there are plenty of bids for s.qntra shares on MPEx. BingoBoingo and I can't cover every single story, I have no intention to sell my own shares so anyone with the inclination to earn a bit of btc can cover what we miss and sell their shares if so desired
BingoBoingo: Effect will probably be to make BTC to USD transactions a bigger pain in the ass on their platform the next runup
BingoBoingo: I think they tend to still sell themselves as a broker
mike_c: the latter
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> qntra is not #b-a news, it is 'better than coindesk' news. i doubt they use otc. << this is a point, but srsly, write it.
mike_c: huh? I don't want to read reddit and other btc news sites. i thought this was whole point of qntra.
cazalla: mike_c, it's also a question of priority, there is little to be gained by giving the coinbse news top priority when it is top of reddit and other bitcoin news sites
BingoBoingo: decimation: Or it robs the waterfall of the ability to paper BTC
decimation: I think the complaint is that whenever the price moves, coinbase suddenly has 'issues'
decimation: eh, if they sell and deliver, that makes them a worth market participant right?
BingoBoingo: decimation: I actually can see a case for people to buy BTC off of CoinBase and pocket them elsewhere, provided they are willing to lose USD to the machine's quirks
mike_c: qntra is not #b-a news, it is 'better than coindesk' news. i doubt they use otc.
cazalla: mike_c, you're always welcome to write it up, pocket some shares in the process
BingoBoingo: I'm coming around to this maybe being newsworthy, but as someone without a bank account I think another USian could do a fairer take.
mike_c: this is silly. where do you think US qntra readers buy their bitcoin?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: If you can news it up, qntra worthy prolly. Just when Australia had an orgy of pieces on the wrong politics...
cazalla: and i don't want to be seen to promote the idea that holding usd on coinbase is a good idea either
BingoBoingo: The Aussie stuff though did come as a huge dump.
cazalla: mike_c, despite my being an aussie, it's not bias, simply interesting news coming from down under past few days, the coinbase thing is meh, plenty of sites have usd type wallets, who really cares imo, they can add the iraqi dinar and maybe i'll post that
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Coinbase is not news. They exist. Their changing shit slightly totally not news. If qntra was a thing when they introduced their wallet less node thing, news. USD paypal wallet thing not news.
mike_c: no room on qntra amongst the daily australian bitcoin news for a piece on coinbase becoming an exchange now? such xenophobia.
decimation: who knows if this guy is legit, but if what he is wrote is true, USG apparently views a group of actual people acting of their own free will to be a much greater threat than rampaging rivers of meat
decimation: "Early this afternoon, I confirmed (through a private source) what I have suspected since last August. Namely that the daily telephone interaction between MO Governor Nixon and the White House has involved Ms. Valerie Jarrett not the POTUS."
decimation: re: follow-up on those 'oath keepers' who 'volunteered' to guard businesses in Ferguson: https://www.facebook.com/duane.weed.54/posts/988857591129752 << "This past Wednesday (11/26), local police were advised in private briefings that the police (i.e. Federal agencies) now consider the Oath Keepers the threat, not the New Black Panthers, the pro-Michael Brown demonstrators, or ISIS."
mircea_popescu: just like you know, pissing on an anthil is "ant deluvionation" if you're looking at the world from an ant.
decimation: I don't think what we do here is 'moldbug studies' but I think the channel is at friendly to some of his conclusions
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: http://www.xenosystems.net/chaos-patch-38/ << a comment at the bottom: "Frog Do Says: IMO, “Moldbug studies” remain one of the more fertile areas of research for the American Outer Right. More interesting info in that “Trilema” piece than anything on Ferguson."
decimation: and asciilifeform is right, the usg folks who 'compute' have no problem running poettering shit if it 'gets the job done'
decimation: and by horsepower I mean "ability to perform arithmetic and convey the results in a timely fashion"
decimation: But asciilifeform is right - the raw brute horsepower per watt of 2014 hardware outpaces 2008 hardware, notwithstanding retarded implementation
decimation: "The CIA confirmed to Fusion that for the last two promotion cycles to the Senior Intelligence Service, 40 percent or more of those who were promoted were female."
decimation: lol http://fusion.net/story/5831/jorge-ramos-to-cia-director-dont-you-need-more-people-like-snowden-2/ << "“We actually don’t even recruit spies, to be perfectly honest,” said Ron Patrick, who heads recruitment efforts at the CIA. “That’s television. That’s movies. That’s the general theme about how people refer to what we do here. But it’s not at all what we do.”"
mircea_popescu: adlai generally, you only need it to twist the arm of pois.
adlai: guessing here: you don't need a subpoena to browse the internet during an investigation, but you do need it to take that same internet page to court as evidence?
assbot: View the profile of rlh ... ( http://bit.ly/1CDramb )
BingoBoingo: In other forum history, the Original supershill https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=15307
BingoBoingo: Not... When the US attourney was doing discovery, but NAO HE REVEALS SUBPOENA???
BingoBoingo: Maybe this is the first formal subpoena, but... The shit that happens on the forum and his only reporting a DPR subpoena nao???
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'd say the top is immanent.
assbot: call an end to the rally ... ( http://bit.ly/1FL6GnE )
BingoBoingo: I just wonder how the fuck is this his first contact with the law when the fucking FBI and Treasury Department drove down from Peoria to meet me?
mircea_popescu: ahh the beauty of 2011
mircea_popescu: Compensation can be in the form of equity or a salary, or somewhere in-between."
mircea_popescu: "Hello, sorry if there is another thread for this kind of post, but I couldn't find one. I'm looking for the best and brightest IT pro in the bitcoin community to be the lead developer in a venture backed bitcoin startup company. The ideal candidate would have at least several years of web application development experience, having built applications from the ground up. A solid understanding of oop and software arch
mircea_popescu: it's good he didn't spend all those donations on "forum software" then
mircea_popescu: their absence "would crush the industry", except they never mattered in any sense.
mircea_popescu: undata yeah, bitcoin totally depends on the sorts of derps that care what some government says.
BingoBoingo: At times it has been a little confusing and difficult to keep the two separate. “On rounds the next morning I’ll ask my residents what the patient’s Is & Os were. They will tell me the nurse didn’t chart them appropriately. So I’ll wander over to the charge nurse and say who was taking care of Ms. Johnson last night –and of course it was me…”
BingoBoingo: “Excuse me…” at that moment when the new nurse looked up from changing a bed pan, “Doctor Fritz!” Shannon yelled in amazement. “No it’s Nurse Charlie tonight,” he responded before she could question any further.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the one of 30 black people of qntra is me
assbot: Steve Stockman: New York's Bitcoin Regulation Could Crush the Industry ... ( http://bit.ly/1CDoQvm )
undata: “Many [doctors] are dropping out of the profession because it’s overregulated. Now, what may happen to the bitcoin community is that, if there’s so much regulation, there’ll be a lot of people who say, 'You know what, I’m done with this. I’m not gonna do it,' and it’s going to crush the industry.”
undata: BingoBoingo: the "protect" has me nervous, but that was the guy accepting bitcoin donations
undata: oz competing with the US for "worst former british colony"?
assbot: Australia: The Tax Institute Calls for 'Voluntary' Bitcoin Registry, Treating Bitcoin as Currency | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1FL4pch )
adlai: only the dead have seen the end of war
BingoBoingo: We know not when the war ends, but they enemy knows even less so!
asciilifeform: however i can't promise that i'll be there, in that after, the war.
asciilifeform: i've been prefixing would-bes in conversation with 'after the war...' for some years.
adlai: that's not really news to me, beyond the details about the heater (congratulations, I guess?)
mircea_popescu: so their children know not of such bezzle.
asciilifeform: adlai: phoundation motherfuckers are crapping into golden toilets as we speak.
adlai wonders whence the Second Foundation
adlai: are you being forced to look at them?
asciilifeform: i can't look at the phoundation figures without spitting with rage.
BingoBoingo: My nostrils can testify that this as of this fall turds were still a more popular fertilizer in my area for corn and soybeans than anything other.
adlai still wonders whether polish is better applied to turds than, say, shoes, or nails
BingoBoingo: Naggum now lives in the realm of the mythical
BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure the state of the world is that the one non-mythical person who knows cpp is asciilifeform and he loathes it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: am hoping that the mythical other fella who knows cpp, can crank gdb, etc. shows up.
mircea_popescu: eh let ppls do their thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: working on the chipped paint on the bumper.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason nobody else wants to. or can. or some combination of these. i can't say.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: path to travel is that i finish me gadget then proceed to fix bitcoind. but in this order.
mircea_popescu: "tl;dr: The Bitcoin Foundation exists so a few people can pay themselves generous salaries and play important. Also, they seem to depend on the Bitcoin price rising seeing they lose money on revenue vs. expenses."
mircea_popescu: Lindsay Holland, assistant director, received $160k + $2,512. I have no idea what she's doing, other than writing press releases, uploading conference videos to YouTube and giving interviews about how she's paid in Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: Gavin Andresen, "chief scientist", received $209k of "reportable compensation" + $2,884 of "other compensation", for more than $212k. Apparently the foundation thinks it's better to pay one guy $212k for writing blog posts and giving talks and interviews than paying three guys $70k each to work on the software the whole pyramid scheme currency depends on.
mircea_popescu: Page 8 shows the salaries the foundation pays.
assbot: Analyzing the Bitcoin Foundation's 2013 tax return : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1FL0FYf )
mircea_popescu: we're back to the fucking state crap and we've not even revolutionized yet!
mircea_popescu: so now since the b-a notary system is down, i can't check on wtf taxes mpoe has to pay
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you totally have to read more qntra. help fix the quantcast demos.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller is blessed in melanin
mircea_popescu: wait, thestringpuller is not like us ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Either one. Given the CIA's history of applying diverse hires I would expect thestringpuller to be assigned to somewhere lilly white or otherwise homogenous. Probably in a deep cover role
mircea_popescu: how about the cia's strength and effectiveness as a potato ?
mircea_popescu: i like these "as an X" aspirationals.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Might as well go. They'll prolly station you in Russia.
thestringpuller: "The CIA's strength and effectiveness as an agency depends upon its ability to employ a workforce as diverse as the nation it serves."
mats_cd03: it breathes
adlai: which raises the question of how "usagi" is pronounced
adlai: after reading a bit more about the scamosphere, in my mind, "usg" now gets pronounced "usagi"
asciilifeform: adlai: the Real! nsa
adlai: oh you're talking about that other nsa
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: not even worth thinking about until chicoms shit on the patents and sell them near cost.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, no argument there.
mircea_popescu: i thought so too, kinda wy i asked. he seems in the prime market to care about em
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the whole notion of files. file systems. memory allocation as a separate thing from disk operations.
mircea_popescu: it's not like there;s an actual dichotomy. you can have a ramdisk or a diskram for all it cares.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because the whole disk-ram dichotomy is predicated on volatile ram.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah, this - no. but realize, all of these nice things (rebirth of ferrite core, nonvolatile ram) is wasted on unix.
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform speaking of the fast memory thing, did resistive ram go anywhere ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but forget about ice cream men. ask your intelligence men if, say, LukOil produces own terahertz silicon. is there any question what the answer is?
mircea_popescu: whereas the point i was making was kinda you know, in general.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, you're stuck in a paraeconomic crevice over there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus << because ice cream truck does not bring in the income to convert it to galactic ice cream empire.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and memory access is the bottleneck.
mircea_popescu: which is why "two oxen" is actually misleading. either it's one ox, or else it's an infinity of chickens. no twos here.
cazalla: adlai: nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags <<< this is correct, it does ignore them and this is actually one of the first things discussed when qntra was launched
mircea_popescu: some things are discrete, an' being an ox is one of them things by definition.
mircea_popescu: but 31 bit doesn't work anyway. it's either 32 or 16. that's it. you don't get "closer"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a broom to me, but the 'rifle' i carry every day.
cazalla: jurov: what's with the submissions to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim? <<< anything contained in a <blockquote> as those length documents are, do not count towards word count
mircea_popescu: somehow having this magical problem that fits just right in this otherwise narrow space seems very improbable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just explaining that, e.g., 2x ram bandwidth - closer to 'oxen' than otherwise.
mircea_popescu: if your problem can be approached with 2014 "state of the art" killer micro, it can also be approached with killer micro that was state of the art in 2009. that's the whole argument.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what did happen was - the 'strong oxen' died. simply died. and this made micros look good, because alive looks better than dead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kiler micros did better than the mainframe <<< noooo.... not for shared-memory problems! not then, not now. please, understand the basic issue.
BingoBoingo: Was last difficulty 40,300,030,328 if so then dropped
mircea_popescu: this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes to sell to the gubmint
mircea_popescu: but i recall that even before the first cray, kiler micros did better than the mainframe.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much yeah. and then Dull Gates dragged the entire "industry" of nitwits along with him.
mircea_popescu: they came up with "smart phones" ? fuck them, i never upgraded, i still use actual phones. samsung is jumping over backwards to supply the market. they cost nothing. etc.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to. << What happened was Microsoft's "Let's mimic the Auto Industries idea of the Model Year" won even if MS could not execute on it
mircea_popescu: but that ended a few years back, and "upgrade" is headed right into the "please install our browser toolbar extension" and "act now!" bin.
mircea_popescu: people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to.
mircea_popescu: this idea that "we'll gavin all over the blockchain technology and everyone will follow" is out of a holywood movie. not how reality works.
mircea_popescu: fuck, for that matter, this thing is universal. so the us only makes "high performance" bullshit antibiotics of doom these days ?
BingoBoingo: If I sound grumpy, it is only because I have come across too many idiots of the "it can't be done" persuasion lately, the kind of managers who have an aquarium in their office because fifteen brains think better than one.
mircea_popescu: there's about five of them.,
mircea_popescu: so you get twice the clock, and i get two of them. sure, there are SOME problems that are provably unsplittable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2008 processor << can get ~2x the clock now. i fully grasp that for your application - there is no reason whatsoever to do this.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine theory an' all, but i don't see it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it sucks, he'll do worse than you << find naggum's piece on how 'market can only tackle one dimension of multidimensional analysis.' yes, other fellow will fold the protein faster, while running poetteringisms.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it << to some extent, the problem i spoke of is a 'two strong oxen' problem. need shared memory.
mircea_popescu: this is the definition of "it sucks".
mircea_popescu: seems 1905 steel girder bridges still work just fine, and yes you can do anything you want done on 486s. heck, it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it than it is to buy the monolithic "custom made" tool.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it sucks you don't update << and lose the contract to the fellow who isn't trying to fold protein on 486.
mircea_popescu: that's the only important thing about technology.
mircea_popescu: every step of the way of technology is sound and can be rested upon.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the issue should be addressed irrespective of how obnoxious X kiddo is.
undata: asciilifeform: oh I don't know, the others don't look particularly hospitable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm more or less wasting life just by having the misfortune to be parked on planet 3 in 2014. this is quite clear.
mircea_popescu: the BPs of this world do not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends which. the oil prospectors that make money do.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except the world broke since naggum wrote this. not even the oil prospectors write custom os now.
mircea_popescu: if the problem exists it's a prime indicator you're wasting your life.
mircea_popescu: there we go.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly. where the fuck is that link.
mircea_popescu: iirc there's a naggum on this topic.
asciilifeform: same goes for any other similarly perverse application where 'horsepower' is money.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt they actually use poettering stuff either, but what do i know
asciilifeform: leaving for a moment aside my own piles of junk metal - folks embroiled in scientific computing are inevitably doomed to use modern hardware. they cannot, economically, freeze in time and live in 2008 (or whenever) for eternity.
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i were to rent hardware, would have to do most of the management work personally on account of massive existing toolchain crud.
mircea_popescu: trying to peg you into one or the other here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i checked, rented gpu was not worth the cost. but say i did. then i get: the very same modern hardware... just - rented.
mircea_popescu: now suppose the major cost of the icecream truck wasn't icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: but both of these make sense from a business perspective.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from a 'business perspective' very few of the things folks do to survive make sense. ice cream truck will not make the owner rich. nor the knife sharpener in buenos aires.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no dc. we're talking about a handful of boxes in a cheapo office. if any more, must have dc cage, then nothing left to eat.
mircea_popescu: but you see how from a business perspective this makes no sense ? the hardware's the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since the world begun.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can only afford a few dozen chickens before 'bracket' rises (cost of next tier of floor space, cooling, begin to dwarf the machines)
mircea_popescu: so there's no 1k chickens where you live ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you haven't even heard the rest of the fun. at my other job, also stuck with maximally modern hw. because how many floating point ops per second determines, more or less directly, how we're paid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the single biggest hog in my butcher shop.
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what the us agency of redhat is trying to solve is exactly your problem,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only winblows, though. but it's the 'heaviest' victim.
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you then - soon enough you won't need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: well this sounds like a fucking curse on the level of, "must have sex in my car trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run the winblows in an emulator on a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: but does not fit in the "what 2010 laptops allowed"
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need a lot of computing that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i tried to explain, recent hardware means, inevitably, either recent kernel, or laborious pick-and-choose driver vivisection.
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don't want the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
mircea_popescu: the cpu instruction set changed or something ? it's the same thing.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can't run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
midnightmagic backs slowly away and maybe should've read back further than one 24-line screenful
midnightmagic: it has an fpga onboard, (almost) no firmware except perhaps for the sdd. it's free-ish
asciilifeform: jurov: i even know what mircea will say now - that poor choice of profession, should instead drill for oil in the north atlantic, or fight in syria.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stupid << answer then. i requisitioned portable comp, could have asked for anything. should have asked for 486? with 640x480 lcd ?
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck takes any electronics from their job is so stupid shouldn't get to live anyway.
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit.
asciilifeform: who cares about recent distros << recent distros - maybe no one. recent kernels - quite a few folks doomed to grunt on recent hardware. who don't have the muscles, time, or energy to vivisect the patches.
mircea_popescu: or why would they.
asciilifeform: gentoo's the last man standing << not standing. hobbling on leg stump like the knight in 'monty python'.
mircea_popescu: prolly gentoo's the last man standing
mats_cd03: i get the distinct impression there's no good distro left besides gentoo
mats_cd03: > that bears a striking resemblance to an androgynous lesbian. A heterosexual dude who, at first glance, is often mistaken for a boyish lesbian. He is usually of smaller build, wears ambiguous attire, (ie: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors) and cuts his hair into a faux hawk or other such lesbian-trademarked coiffure.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dubian | Dubian. A young straight biological male, particularly in his teenage years or early ... The Dubian is indeed a bio-guy, therefore, if you're not into bio-peen, ...
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer ... ( http://bit.ly/1zMYmBZ )
nubbins`: all the system sounds are done by this guy: http://imgur.com/hVCvAkC
mats_cd03: now, to look for another distro now that debian's been converted to systemd....
BingoBoingo: Of course they do. It's how they have to learn through pennance.
mircea_popescu: dude don't tell me the forum muppetry actually fucks itself to memorialize being fucked.
kakobrekla: and then buy it for 150$.
kakobrekla: buyer : "now that you finally made the thing, you can go fuck yourself. bye"
kakobrekla: > It was commissioned by a person on this forum but then they back out half way through completion. Original price was $600usd.
nubbins`: anyway, if anyone's interested, there's maybe ten books left in the first edition of our latest, so get 'em while they're hot
nubbins`: some of these are weird
jurov: grr it linked other image as i meant
jurov: the book "Listen, Little Man!" is good, too, except for wtf conclusions
jurov: nubbins` if you're ever gonna make some b-a book, these reich images are very fitting
mircea_popescu: it's also the one to most famously rebel against its status, but so what of that.
mircea_popescu: artist is a servile profession. the long and the short of it.
mircea_popescu: there's liberal professions and servile professions.
jurov: i guess mircea meant pople working for general public as opposed to their master

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