mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, you ever sorted out the whatever it was ? mah wp expert happens to be sitting across from me.
mircea_popescu: borlandc++ sucked by comparison. maybe because i was too dumb to properly grok the language, or too lazy to learn the spec
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually ironically enough, pascal was supposed to be a shitty program. c++ was supposed ot be the cat's teats. yet the experience i had over a coupla summers with turbopascal is pretty much unmatched. maybe the only time i actually enjoyed coding.
punkman: well if I'm elected alien leader, I'll put a few of them to task
thestringpuller: yum qbasic. the first language I ever learned.
mircea_popescu: punkman you seriously want to do ALL fo them !? this is very nice and all but imagine what happens if the aliens come to elect you their leader. all the shit drops off maintenance ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: what's the new b-a website?
mircea_popescu: and judging how quickly it comes on the heels of the entire gamergate thing, i;m calling it.
mircea_popescu: honestly this entire "feminist protesting" stuff reads a whole lot like the sort of crap that tucker max "strategist" derp would come up with
mircea_popescu: one foreigner in the crowd in Tokyo and your eyes will lock and you know that he knows and he knows that and its this guilty look like you both fucked a hooker or something.
mircea_popescu: When you go to Tokyo
.if youre a white male, you can do what you want. Just grab her, pull her in. Shell giggle. Just say PIKACHU or POKEMON or something to take the pressure off. Im romping through the streets (of Tokyo) just grabbing girls and its like (motions) head on dick (pfft) head on dick, yelling PIKACHU with a Pikachu shirt on
.Every foreigner who is white does this. When you see that
mircea_popescu: uhhh... srsly, staged crap ? these people need better concerns.
mircea_popescu: For your reference, please see the following video. It depicts one of Mr. Blanc's instructional seminars where he advocates illegal and racist behavior as well as video footage of Mr. Blanc in the act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grV1iDns87s
mircea_popescu: diametric well, there's a format for computer models called "3d" something. it sort-of almost works in blender, there's an ancient convertor someone made. this : ttps://github.com/UnoffLandz/unoff-landz/wiki/Editing-Static-3d-Objects
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is like the dns cabal.
mircea_popescu: you might have not noticed this, but! the model is fully decentralised, with delegated subdomains.
thestringpuller: there's already a b-a site
mircea_popescu: and speaking of that, i need someone to make me (another) site. anyone wanna make a b-a site ?
chetty: I vote for the aliens
thestringpuller: but there is a possibility (albeit improbably) someone bombs every mining facility on the planet, and the hash rate plummets making block times 10 hours per
thestringpuller: then bitcoin, would die.
mircea_popescu: more on point, imagine if the blockchain "were down"
mircea_popescu: there's no point in having a bank be the police. let the police be the police, and if they're no good at it let them go home.
mircea_popescu: this "let the word processor be a browser and the browser be a music station and th phone a camera" trend is pure idiocy.
thestringpuller: what about the case when someone goes down for "due cause"
mircea_popescu: let the police do its job.
chetty: banks refuse to open accounts all the time ..or close existing ones ..
thestringpuller: you can't serve the terrorists. it's unpatriotic
mircea_popescu: what about them ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: but what about the terrorists!
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure the license to provide services of any kind includes the obligation to provide them universally.
mircea_popescu: "On behalf of myself and my peers, I am lodging a formal complaint regarding your provision of financial services to Real Social Dynamicsspecifically Real Social Dynamic's co-owner Julien Blanc (pseudonym)on the grounds that their employees, business practices and instructional literature promote violence against women, sexual harassment, rape and racism."
asciilifeform: the 'strangler' fellow who was thrown out of australia
mircea_popescu: *: ben_vulpes trudges back into the wordpress mines <<< wait wut ? why ?
mircea_popescu: team-libtard. "let's thank ourselves for being stupid, it's how they do it on the special olympics too! that's how you win!"
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: great; probably gonna get my account suspended <<< twitter is not exactly a good venue anyway. why would one wish to maintain a lifeline with the weirdo cult of america ?
asciilifeform: /me fat robot << in america, no other kind of robot!
mircea_popescu: fucking alt-realities these people live in.
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski lol@ the derp on your blog. "i am ignorant, justify the world to me! because the stupid but lazy have inherited the earth at some point while nobody was paying attention and now that's how it works!!11"
dignork: a, lol, i see what you mean, it's a typo in original css, full text then: http://dpaste.com/0D7MGFD
mike_c: heh, that's because there is a bug
dignork: i tried with resizing browser on pc, left menu drops to bottom, but the article stretches to full width
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
dignork: TomServo | BingoBoingo: http://imgur.com/a/cpjta Some wasted space on the right side << I suggest adding this to style.css http://dpaste.com/385MY23
jurov: thestringpuller you haven't met him.
thestringpuller: my hypothesis is that asciilifeform is part robot
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
TomServo: BingoBoingo: http://imgur.com/a/cpjta Some wasted space on the right side, recent posts box ends up underneath the current stories.
ben_vulpes: and we don't have access to the original boxen
ben_vulpes: and nobody knows the history of why this whoopie is this way
ben_vulpes: because there are mysterious 'stage' strings prepended to some posts
ben_vulpes trudges back into the wordpress mines
ben_vulpes: i weary of guarding fools from themselves already
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "githug" yes, i understand the weaknesses, and it deserves a callout
BingoBoingo: Well the benefit of many small choppers is that the people releasing them may escape long enough to die in the name of brining the enemy other pain
asciilifeform: 'asymmetric', to use the american term.
BingoBoingo: Tiny chopper is definitely the more interesting concept
asciilifeform: or in the day, and let the idiots shoot one another with own small arms while trying to bag some.
asciilifeform: with thermite limpets.
asciilifeform: naturally, the gigantic chopper is a monumentally-unimaginative idea.
BingoBoingo kind of expected the punchline to be quadrocopter actually delivered fresh fruit
BingoBoingo: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/10/the-sjws-now-get-to-police-speech-on-twitter/
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell richih listen, your blog is down. there's no point sending broadcasts if your thing can't take the traffic.
mircea_popescu: so on they trudge, unable to deliver any value to anyone, supposedly worth however many bezzelions.
mircea_popescu: i mean... it claimed to be worth money. then it turned out the entire thing was fraudulent, through and through. nobody got put away, of course, because this is the us and "tough on crime" maryjane
BingoBoingo: The problem is neither the caller, nor the swatted person. The problem is the proliferation of swat teams
cazalla: anyway this is me on tv, ya might need to turn the sound up to hear and look at the middle of the tv screen to see skype call pop up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAQtXNQDLo
punkman: "At the end of the trip, the driver turned around and begged my fiancee to give him five stars, explaining that he was one bad review away from being deactivated and losing his access to the platform. He wouldn’t let us out of the cab until she promised to do so"
assbot: Uber's Ratings Terrorize Drivers And Trick Riders. Why Not Fix Them? - Forbes
punkman: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/14/what-are-we-actually-rating-when-we-rate-other-people/
mircea_popescu: is this like the new tor ?
saifedean: i'm 34 and in better shape than i ever was, much fitter and stronger than when i was 18. i play football with my university's varsity team, the fittest 18-22 year olds in my college and i'm in better shape than most of them. when i was their age, i was nowhere near fit enough to get into a varsity team, 15 years later, with paleo, i am!
mircea_popescu: well so then.
saifedean: obviously, you can do whatever you want, and you can always have things in moderation and your body will be fine. the problem is when you have things in excess, when they become a regular part of your diet, and that is true for alcohol as well as grains
saifedean: really, before you dismiss paleo, just try eliminating grains from your body for 2 weeks and see what it does to you. every single person i know who's done it has changed their life entirely.
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saifedean: lots of good research on the effect of grains on human brains... http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Sugar-Your-Killers/dp/031623480X
mircea_popescu: a fie upon their early graves!
mircea_popescu: well, all nervous accumulates prions, but i dunno what the situation is for rabbit
mircea_popescu: cazalla you actually eat the brain ?
cazalla ripped the head off a rabbit and fried it in butter with rosemary for dinner.. PALEO!
saifedean: the point from looking at evolution is not to mimic the life of ancient humans, it is to figure out what are the things that make our lives better and what makes it worse. humans love to dip in streams, seas and rivers, and washing copies that. humans only recently developed condoms, and sex in condoms does definitively suck. having unwanted kids sucks more, so you do have to don one, but you would still rather not.
mircea_popescu: i dun care either way lol
saifedean: "you two are aware that if this were the normal about 90% of urban population would die off through simple starvation within the decade, yes ?" how very publicly spirited of you, sacrificing your own health so you can eat in a way that lets peasants survive in giant urban hell-holes!
mircea_popescu: but... i am neither ?
saifedean: mp: " eh get out with the paleo stuff. what do you do for cake ?" <<< you stop being a teenage girl about it and enjoy life without these sugar highs and their crashes. Getting your energy from animal fats makes you constantly alert and with high energy reserves, not dependent on getting your next sugar kick to do anything, and not constantly crashing.
saifedean: thanks for the voice, mp!
saifedean: it's just that computer literacy, wot, irc gpg, and all that is just too much to process at the same time
mircea_popescu: you really gotta get into the wot
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> who remembers the zoologist who tried, for years, to live on the chimps' fruits, and ended with nothing but very ill digestion? << was this one of the lefty us "anthropologists" that keep going to sleep with apes in africa ?
mats_cd03: they are known to suck
Vexual: well a mig would prolly shoot the shit outta that thing today
Vexual: they dont even work yet
Vexual: even the awac version looks good like tey designed both at once
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: ^^ for the third reich afficionados << damn. wayne still has it!
Vexual: they don't fuck about thats for sure
pete_dushenski: these mortal coils being made out of some resilient shit
pete_dushenski: and by extension of the same point, pure-mcd's diet does not lead to immediate death
asciilifeform: avoiding mickey-d and other fine recyclable edibles does not lead to immortality. cheers.
Vexual: don't chew the pillow; it's cotton
asciilifeform or no, he won't, because likes box spring, rather than pit of own shit
asciilifeform: who remembers the zoologist who tried, for years, to live on the chimps' fruits, and ended with nothing but very ill digestion?
Vexual: gotta prepare them properly cashews
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i don't know about cashews, there is a shortage didya know?
asciilifeform waits for paleobitcoin where we calculate the way the gods meant us to, with little calculi - pebbles.
Vexual: theres no good reasoning to a paleo diet, it's no bread no pasta no fun
pete_dushenski: saifedean: if you eliminate grains, seeds and sugars, you effectively eliminate the possibility of developing most modern diseases, including diabetes, cancer, alzheimer's, obesity, and so on << aren't nuts part of paleo ?
Vexual: no, one should always stop off for lunch somewhere nice on the journey
pete_dushenski: it's not enough to just pretend to be all-powerful and all-conquering and then execute
pete_dushenski: reading the logs about paleo, black coffee etc, the health-related upsides of this cult are readily apparent.
mircea_popescu: punkman maybe add a "total deeds in total bundles" thing between the address and your contact ?
pete_dushenski: Vexual ya, not much for shellfish, only started eating fish in the last 2 years.
pete_dushenski: they try so hard, and fail so large
pete_dushenski: saifedean: they are the absolute world champions, along with the south africans << for steaks, alberta is up there.
pete_dushenski: vancouver is the worst major city, in essentially every regard, and all of which stem from a hyperbezzle housing market, in canada... after toronto.
pete_dushenski: saifedean: Vancouver is another possibility... << try affording to live there. bon chance!
Vexual: theres really nothing better to spend money on than food
pete_dushenski: good food never goes out of fashion, even if it might occupy a smaller piece of the pie in bezzletimes
pete_dushenski: saifedean:my idea is to prepare for the future of the triumphant return of hard money, low-time preference, and civilization, and to profit from it by doing good food properly, in a beautiful setting where you can relax around a big grill's fire and enjoy your meal like a civilized human << this does sound rather splendid.
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: turns out, it can keep the sane man about three years. << i lasted 3 months. maybe coulda gone longer?
Vexual: ill have the soup
Vexual: whats to drink?, theres no list
pete_dushenski: saifedean:lol, i think i saw this on pete's blog before... << heh the guy's gone deeper into the archives that i'd thought. i like!
pete_dushenski: the canard roti was most excellent as well
pete_dushenski: lemme find the name of that restaurant...
pete_dushenski: i'd definitely recommend checking out the anthropological museum if you haven't already
joecool: a longtime friend of mine lives there
pete_dushenski: what takes you there?
pete_dushenski: it probably helps that the cops in mtl drive dodge caravans
joecool: heh, i'll head back there this winter sometime, fun city
pete_dushenski: the cops are nowhere near as uppity and self-important
pete_dushenski: alberta is mostly franchises, sorta the only thing that can keep up with the insane horizontal expansion of cities
pete_dushenski: ontario is also a far larger province so there's a much wider range of businesses
joecool: yeah i don't recall having much issue in the maritimes this summer, i was fine in montreal too
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Vexual: did you buy any plastic money yet pete_dushenski? they don't take greenback here
Vexual: you planning to inject some bc into the australian economy pete_dushenski?
Vexual: is it because the rigged snakes and ladders borard i send as tribut eisn't on it?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes (isambard k. brunel!) - saw the 'github.' might be worth making a note on therealbitcoin.org re: the 'github' not being authoritative.
ben_vulpes: it's the best modern america can do
ben_vulpes: ^^ for the third reich afficionados
asciilifeform fell into sin; for the first time in half a decade, cracked a copy protection gizmo
Vexual: she might have been reading the logs
ben_vulpes: no no the nikki
ben_vulpes: owait misread the + for a -
ben_vulpes: he's not even noisy these days
ben_vulpes: individuals nobody in l1's posrating, but that still get upped whenever they come by
ben_vulpes: might i note that while we have the lordship list Vexual and ninjashogun are some early "citizens" if i might be so bold
mod6: mircea_popescu: My plan for now is to just post a summary of the on-goings to the mailing list once per month. This seems like a good start. I can even coordinate with jurov to post the summary before the statement so he can link it in there.
Vexual: then they broke into the radio station and told everyone to take their cars and make a landing strip with their headlights, it was a big success
Vexual: i forget the rest, but they eneded up over some town that realised they were trying to land, and they broke into the town lighting and started doing morse code with the streetlights
Vexual: there was an intercontinental comp, all the latest birds.. the one aluminum beast in the race got into trouble in a storm in australia
Vexual: I heard a great story about regular people getting shit done, it was the 1930s, aeroplanes and radio were the latest shit
decimation: https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/367/ "1. The National Assembly decrees that hereditary nobility is forever abolished. Consequently, the titles of Prince, Duke, Count, Marquis, Viscount, Vidame, Baron, Knight, Lord, Squire, Noble, and all other similar titles shall neither be accepted by, nor bestowed upon, anyone whomsoever."
ben_vulpes: but we'll bark a bit more on the mailing list and some qntra hound can round it up at whatever frequency they please.
mircea_popescu: the pretense of "government" is nothing but exactly that : pretense. useful, to a very limited degree, for fucktards, like the kids that won't "learn" unless there's santa there with the notebook.
decimation: right, once it is obvious that the emperor has no clothes, regular folks just take it upon themselves to solve problems
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. a) not have the problems and b) solve them the same exact way they're currently solved anyway ?
mircea_popescu: on display was the heroism of individuals, in the Air Force and outside, who took matters into their own hands on the spot, rescued people, monitored the situation, evacuated nearby farms in the path of toxic clouds, and improvised as events required."
mircea_popescu: "As the night proceeded, all of the Carter era military malaise became evident. The Air Force lied to local law enforcement and media about what was happening, couldn't communicate with first responders, failed to send an evacuation helicopter for a gravely injured person because an irrelevant piece of equipment wasn't available, and could not come to a decision about how to respond as the situation deteriorated. Also
mircea_popescu: by the way ben_vulpes mod6 you two plan to make some sort of monthly "state of the bitcoin" address to go with jurov's reports ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I imagine this is pretty much how the soviet government worked too << not exactly. http://trilema.com/2013/regulation-for-our-lord-regulos/#footnote_0_51832
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i saw them a hundred times. << the problem with the new, cheaper "media"
ben_vulpes: this just in, the universe is a stochastic bitch: of all qntra posts, their tweetmachine failed to deliver the declaration of independence to the social media shitstew.
cazalla: mod6, i just checked, it didn't go out, i'm guessing the auto feed thing didn't catch it after i changed it from sgornick's account to mine
mod6: cazalla: huh. ok. didn't see that one in the list. maybe i missed it?
decimation: I imagine this is pretty much how the soviet government worked too
decimation: pretend things are swell, shoot any messengers that say otherwise, rotate to a 'diversity tour' before mistakes are obvious
decimation: of course, the reason: "A string of investigations concluded that the nuclear corps had lost its "zero defect" culture. In response, the Air Force launched a program to "sustain, modernize, and recapitalize its nuclear capability." What that meant in practice, Aaron says, was punishing the rank and file for past mistakes while the colonels swept the bigger problems under the rug."
asciilifeform: hemselves from a gangplank directly into the bottom of the capsule. This went on for four or five months.'
asciilifeform: 'sewer pipes in two Malmstrom launch facilities ruptured and a deep stew of human waste lingered at the bottom of the capsules. Despite the intolerable stench, the colonel in charge refused to take the units offline for repair. The men were instead ordered to defecate in a cardboard box lined with a plastic bag, but since nobody wanted to carry the box upstairs when it got full, the missileers began relieving t
asciilifeform: lol, like the lock.
asciilifeform: what man, woman, child on planet hasn't seen the 'domino pizza' one ?
asciilifeform: i saw them a hundred times.
asciilifeform: 'He later confessed to chatting for most of a night with the hotel's cigar sales lady, who was asking questions "about physics and optics"and thinking to himself: "Dude, this doesn't normally happen." Carey was stripped of his command in October' << lol, 'cigar lady' gets 'order of lenin.'
decimation: "But during his senior year, the Air Force ended a waiver program that allowed cadets with imperfect vision—including Aaron—to earn their wings, so after graduation he grudgingly settled for a position at Malmstrom. He was hardly alone in his lack of enthusiasm: According to one study, less than one-third of missileers ever wanted that job. When Aaron hit on women in bars in Great Falls, he would sometimes say he was a wind
mod6: cazalla BingoBoingo would either of you guys mind tweeting out a link to this? http://qntra.net/2014/11/bitcoin-declaration-of-sovereignty-filed/
decimation: http://spacenews.com/article/military-space/42481us-missile-defense-agency-intercepts-three-targets-in-%E2%80%9Craid%E2%80%9D-test << usg wants to physically demonstrate ascii's anti-missiie theory
decimation: asciilifeform: the youth in the motherjones story claims he wanted to be a pilot, air force changed the eyesight rules, suddenly a missiler is he
asciilifeform: srsly, they signed up for human statue detail
asciilifeform: human statues << unlike every other military sentry?
decimation: and the youth who stumbled into the chumpatron of 'manning' the missiles become human statues
asciilifeform: decimation: of course, this is back when the advantage of land rocket was used - they were once fitted with 'mirv'
asciilifeform: decimation: that was sorta the point. tie up opponent's rockets, fewer remain for cities and known sub coordinates
decimation: maintain all 454 ICBM silos, even through it is trimming the number of missiles to 400. (Yes, we will man and maintain 54 empty silos.)"
decimation: yeah: "Ditching the ICBMs would save taxpayers $14 billion over the next 10 years, but not everyone's a fan of the idea: Senators from states where the missiles are based and tested have formed an ICBM caucus that isn't shy to throw its weight around. As a condition for confirming Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's recent pick for undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the caucus insisted that the Pentagon
decimation: what, the icbms?
mircea_popescu: decimation inasmuch as those things are about as useful as the five foot tall plaster cake in a confectioner's window, wut diff does it make.
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decimation: the lefties then interview young men who gave their youth to usg to 'man missiles' http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/air-force-missile-wing-minuteman-iii-nuclear-weapons-burnout
mircea_popescu: xiando My childhood friend Charles whos father worked at the US embassy in Norway (black family) told me that using the N word is really disrespectful and hurtfull. << who're you gonna believe.
decimation: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2014-11/001538.html << herr Walker reviews a book which describes the pitiful state of usg's land-based icbms
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Vexual: xiando, I'm black and I hand out down by the canl in stockholm after sunset sometimes, you haven't seen me?
cazalla: BingoBoingo, they are not people
nubbins`: ben_vulpes what's the app for
BingoBoingo: cazalla: What about the Abbos?
ben_vulpes: its a tiny little thing for someone with too much time on their hands to grind on
ben_vulpes: the budget is half whatever it brings in over its lifetime
joecool: ben_vulpes: what's the budget
joecool: he said the a-word, pass
joecool: lol i saw only 2 black people the month i was in newfoundland, was strange
nubbins`: sorry, i was just amused by the way you worded your sentence. i know what you mean :D
xiando: My childhood friend Charles whos father worked at the US embassy in Norway (black family) told me that using the N word is really disrespectful and hurtfull.
nubbins`: "i don't like the N word but we do not have any here" lel any what?
xiando: Not sure if joke and I don't like the N word but: We do not have any here. None. I have perhaps seen 1 this year. People from the middle east? quite a lot. But no black people.
BingoBoingo: joecool: The proceeds from selling that go into the general fund and not the law enforcement fund, so why bother?
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xiando: Mr. McMurtry said his handling of a case is sometimes determined by department wish lists. "If you want the car, and you really want to put it in your fleet, let me know -- I'll fight for it," Mr. McMurtry said, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html?_r=1 MUURICA and we got similar local laws last month
nubbins`: the greater black-backed gull
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Vexual: it's all about the duck
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's the problem. the way they feel. just like you should be having bigger tits.
mircea_popescu: "Im not some feminist radical Jane Fonda of the 70s type women, but I hate bras. I hate the way they feel. They are uncomfortable. They bind, they chafe, and when you have small breasts, they ride up."
nubbins`: you should see the inside :0
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