billymg: excellent, that will be my next task then
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mircea_popescu: all this retarded posturing. "threat actors", and pixelized screenshots and what the fuck. well earned negrate.
mircea_popescu: big fucking whoop, someone made himself a non-alphabetic ordered font.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i fucking loathe that interactivecorp footer. never EVER seen it on a site that didn't suck balls in the exact wikipedia style of cheap cardboard alt-reality.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile talking of spam :
http://archive.vn/oMEya ("Julia Sowells/534 Posts Julia Sowells has been a technology and security professional. For a decade of experience in technology, [...]" -- looks like your run of the mill 20something instawhore, but whatever, i'm sure she has a decade of "experience" in tabletclucking ; "HackerCombat LLC is a news site, which acts as a source of information for IT security professionals ac
mircea_popescu: ross the world. We have lived it for more than 1 year since 2017, sharing IT expert guidance and insight, [...] ")
BingoBoingo: /me pretty sure the whole "webfonts only have malicious purposes" deal has been happening since webfonts were a thing
mircea_popescu: "www" stands for "what happens if all the dogs get the idea nobody can tell they're dogs ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: "Security Boulevard By Julia Sowells securityboulevard.com A website getting hacked isnt really news today; it has become an almost common thing. So, what should you do if your website is hacked? How can you work on recovering things and bouncing back? Well, its not that difficult. Heres a look at some easy steps that could help in the recovery process:Step 1 Inform hosting company, do some research of your o
mircea_popescu: wnThe first thing that you need to do is inform your hosting company or the person who is hosting your website. "
mircea_popescu: "10 Steps to Recover from a Hacked Website By Julia Sowells techspective.net A website getting hacked isnt really news today; it has become an almost common thing. So, what should you do if your website is hacked? How can you work on recovering things and bouncing back? Well, its not that difficult. Heres a look at some easy steps that could help in the recovery process:Step 1 Inform hosting company, do some
mircea_popescu: research of your ownThe first thing that you need to do is inform your hosting company or the person who is hosting your website."
mircea_popescu:
https://twitter.com/juliasowells << even twitter acct, with a typically "powerpoint"-informed montage in the background. " Julia Sowells @juliasowells Senior #Information #Security Specialist #Cybersecurity Author @Hacker_Combat | Got Tips? Contact me: juliasowells@hackercombat.com"
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 15:42 mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy alt-fetlife, really.
mircea_popescu: "DanaBot Banking Trojans Journey to North America DanaBot, a nasty banking trojan is wreaking havoc now in the North American continent. First appeared in May 2018 targeting Australian corporations hackercombat.com " << check it out, age of sail.
mircea_popescu: no, because i could eventually whistle meaningfully @ the modem.
mircea_popescu: i think anyone who spent any significant time with the damned "bauds" could whistle a reset so as not to stand up
mircea_popescu: "If you are one of those enthusiastic and adventurous entrepreneurs who are on the verge of launching your own startup, heres an important question for you: Have you secured your startup enough so that it can resist the security threats of today? Because if you havent, considering the security threats which are raining down on the digital world of today, you may in for a lot of trouble.
mircea_popescu: Therefore in this blog, lets take a look at some of the cyber security measures every entrepreneur should take, to ensure their startup stays safe from all forms of hacking."
mircea_popescu: letting the girls into the office was ~such~ a fucking dumb idea... what, precisely, is gained by having a bunch of verbose maids running about attempting to "redefine" the "space" more towards their terms and interests ?
mircea_popescu: as it stands now, i believe this julia chick is basically douchebag.
mircea_popescu: ie, physically extant novel cuntspawn "just tryna make it in dis biz"
mircea_popescu: heck, odds are they met "at a conference" where they "being professional" to each other etc (ie, didn't fuck, notwithstanding how dimly regarded teens who don't do it are)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's because your test is biased against women.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i've only seen the other side of the wall 80s, and it consisted of research labs, basically. just like any others, hence the prestige.
mircea_popescu:
https://twitter.com/juliasowells/status/907929912945795072 << item starts in 13 Sep 2017 ; spends a while derping about "niche relevant" re-crapped crap ("First Female White House CIO on #Cybersecurity #Talent" bla bla), buncha zdnet, techradar whatever. then it's "Julia Sowells Retweeted Kevin Jones @kevinjones_hc 10 Oct 2017 British @security experts are stopping two MAJOR #hackattacks every day" ("Hello this is Kevin Jo
mircea_popescu: just because you didn't see douchebag's julia... o wait. i think you might've...
mircea_popescu: awww, you're opting out of the wonderful world of IT expert guidance and insight ?!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> rright but douchebag passed, at least initially, turing test, and these 'people' generally do not << Lacking tits douchbag has to try to brand and personality. Having tits in the Femoocracy, girl just has to scrape and paste.
mircea_popescu: there, intel kicks in : julia sowells, lives with mom @3036 Powell Rd, Blossvale, NY 13308, a single family home worth about 100k market / 60k on tax basis. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1ksqft.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this lulztron just won't quit. "Kriti Sarda, Recently moved to the United States Answered Jan 6, 2016 I work at Appknox and we are thought leaders in the mobile app security domain. I can unanimously agree with everyone here that cyber attacks WILL rise in 2016. Apart from that here are our predictions for the upcoming year - " (meanwhile this quora expert moved back to dfjkhgfkjhgkdjhkfj injia"
BingoBoingo: ^ From the place that brought the world "monkey baiting"
BingoBoingo: Well if they can "council house" Syrian refugees from Ghana...
BingoBoingo: Still the decay Pantsuitism has wrought in 20 centuries must be documented
BingoBoingo: Before too long dogs will prolly be "banned" in the UK because offensive to muslims
mircea_popescu: diana_coman he can unanimously agree all by his lonesome! because prajeet, they be legion.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, quite; I read it as "tripping over oneself in desperation to signalsignalsignal agreement^n"
mircea_popescu: well, and "success" and employment and emigration and a whole hosta things.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the perpetual and universal hostis generis is precisely this "wanna everything be good and why can't everyone just be friends" schmuck.
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BingoBoingo: Everything about that building's exterior except the entrance could be here in orcistan.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, there's the narrow windows and indications the exterior walls extend above the roof creating a slow fence for the azeotea.
mircea_popescu: and this afaik is based on your experience here and what else lol.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-28 16:12 asciilifeform: an incidentally interesting bit is that gardens are an 'unprincipled exception' in usgdom just as they were in su. theoretically a garden aficionado owes every 4th tomato or whatever his 'bracket' is, to usg, as tax; things that grow from the ground count, famously, as 'income' -- even if not sold -- per 'wickard v. filburn'
mircea_popescu: it is literally forbidden in the sense cooking meth is.
mircea_popescu: and entirely imaginary, much like anti-soviet resistence.
mircea_popescu: stuff "we could be doing" so "it's just as good as if we did it" etc.
mircea_popescu: when i discuss some random cuntlet and you propose she's inexistent, i get you concretes. when you discuss some imaginary item, you don't extend the same courtesy.
mircea_popescu: i guarantee you you signed "code of conduct" and promised not to "sexually harass" coworkers and filed in your tax forms and whatnot. ALL of the whatnot.
mircea_popescu: pretense to the contrary howsoever instantiated notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: so yes, i guess "went bankrupt, totally existed, i promise -- never made money never had employees" etc works in the sense of exception.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason neither methlabs nor sane workplaces ~advertise~. "come work here, we don't do the whole usg bs".
mircea_popescu: to cursory examination it'd be the cheapest/sweetest fruit for them, ~nothing else a prospective employer could say scores nearly as highly with prospective employees ~worth employing~.
mircea_popescu: yet mocky is buried under the polar opposite of that -- "security clearance" bs.
mircea_popescu: again -- just because you personally never saw the face of the usg allocated mamie in charge of usg.aspect in question doesn't mean jack. she's still there, and she's still getting the same per capita.
mircea_popescu: the quataris also don't routinely introduce the indian slaves to the qatari admin office.
mircea_popescu: in the end what i'm saying is this : what you perceive as two types (with, and without mammie) are the same type, with mammie. the without-mammie type is illegal. the perceived without-mammie type is merely a particularly cheap outft, where your position is so low you're not showed it.
mircea_popescu: consider the very similar case of cattle farm : cattle may think billy bob farmer is an ok guy, and doesn't even go to town that often.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, should quarantine be established, the differences imagined by the cattle between billy bob and that slick asshole at the industrial farm down the streed vanish
mircea_popescu: in some places. but in the fifty contiguous shitholes, it comes in "admittedly feedlot" and "deniedly feedlot" flaours.
mircea_popescu: in short : you ~did~ sign the damned thing whether they bothered to print one to give you to sign or not.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that if you, joe mc speshul, employed at excellence inc to do very-important-whatever walk onto campus during their "women can think" festival and urinate on the speaker in contempt,
mircea_popescu: the end result will not be, your excellence inc enacting ramparts and shooting any and all complainers.
mircea_popescu: the end result will be, your being fired. exactly like any other rando nobody working accounting at walmart.
mircea_popescu: ie, returning conquering heroes. they didn't get away with putting the precious cuntlets in their tailhookers place ; and that was THE LAST TIME.
mircea_popescu: there is no engineer so valuable in his geekery he exceeds the valuableness of the last set of jocks to win one for the ole' red, white & blue.
mircea_popescu: whichever bank his last pretense to shopdom rests on, in the shape of bank accounts.
mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, there is not the object contemplated in the reich : a thinker so valuable in his thinking, usgistic socialism gives him a berth.
mircea_popescu: yes, this is how my life went in the ~other~ socialism ; and in the "transition" thereafter. but it is NOT the case anyone lives like this in the us.
mircea_popescu: i understand why the notion is interesting, as i understand why the fantasy is appealing. but a fantasy it is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform IF he ever becomes politically relevant, his bank, his landlord, etc.
mircea_popescu: look in the history of early ustarded yahoos "starting businesses".
mircea_popescu: if i had just said "they'll fire themselves" it'd have seemed like rhetoric.
mircea_popescu: point being -- the boyish fantasy of "i'll get SO SMART they'll have to let me be" does not in practice work.
mircea_popescu: the empire is more than willing to do without bread ; it is not willing to do without stupid.
mircea_popescu: yes, but back then the bois aspiring to "an independent life" had enough sense to join highway brigands
mircea_popescu: rather than fantasizing about an island in the sea where they bla bla bla.
mircea_popescu: are you proposing the general population and the solitary confinement are not in the same prison ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me either you're arguing "berth of freedom from inca" or you're not arguing it. which specifically is it ?
mircea_popescu: cuz if it's the NOT, then what the hell's the difference ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i got a secret for you : the shy withdrawing kind almost never get the hole.
mircea_popescu: prisons are run with a view to economy -- to get something, you must first not need it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in this the model breaks down, with the advent of pseudo"technology", the shy withdrawing type can "HackerCombat LLC is a news site, which acts as a source of information for IT security professionals across the world. We have lived it for more than 1 year since 2017, sharing IT expert guidance and insight, [...] " bla bla bla all day long.
mircea_popescu: in that they're (as you well poined out) readily equivalent to "ai", they don't ~have to~ see a face.
mircea_popescu: but in any case -- regrettably, there is absolutely ~no glamour~ associated with the red stapler guy.
mircea_popescu: it's not merely that he can't "progress" in "levels" such that empire gives him an exception.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-26 03:24 mircea_popescu: i see nobody wishes to engage the cunt problem. but yes, IT DOES RUN ON PERL.
mircea_popescu: the "d00d designing turbine parts in broom-closet-sized office" and " i'm not even convinced there's any meat involved" are physically and entirely the same exact thing.
mircea_popescu: ie, not merely "just says wasp". i am actually saying there is no way to distinguish between the two.
mircea_popescu: in the very strict terminology of the turing test : if you get a mystery box you can't explain whether it contains type 1 moron or type 2 moron.
mircea_popescu: chimichurri, who is a boy, went once to the lake, where a dominant duck tried to fuck him.
mircea_popescu: well, this is where the wasp analogy breaks down -- because there is no way to distinguish between the speshul snowflake "engineer" and the speshul snoflake douchebag.
mircea_popescu: this is a difference of all the substance of "difference between car and car is that car is parked while car is moving"
mircea_popescu: the begging and the drinking are states, both items switch through them.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-31 03:56 mircea_popescu: Mocky if this may help you take heart, ~everyone's employability is ~epsilon in the us. "jobs" work as alt-welfare conduits, no genuine productivity is present or contemplated.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 23:49 mircea_popescu: the result being that behaviour in the walrus gif
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe you're right, and the problem is i've predetermined not to see it. but then again this is a terrifyingly weak argument, because of its association with a dutch moron called søren, whose bright idea it was to propose that the reason you don't see what distinguishes his fsm from all the others is that you don't want to!!!
mircea_popescu: i honestly could as well see it, for the same money i don't see it. not like it costs me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you were saying something like "lice are better than fleas, because i personally have a serious problem with jumping" it'd even be one thing, idiosyncratic but specific. what seems to me you're saying though, is "the flying mosquitoes are worse than the ones settled, because i hate flying", and then beiung surprised by the necessary and equally obvious "but alf -- trhe same ones fly and settle in turns!"
mircea_popescu: how does "d00d designing turbine parts in broom-closet-sized office" in incadom distinguish from spammer ?
mircea_popescu: in the end this is the problem, isn't it -- you think that ~yes he is~ making something -- turbine parts. as if the parts have an existence beyond and above the incadom they're made in
mircea_popescu: ie, you're a materialist-idealist. though with some derrogations, you don't like importing the code of these turbine makers.,
mircea_popescu: so basically, that's the dispute. you believe turbine part is turbine part qua se, and i'm gonna say, "but alf... these aren't turbine parts, they're ~religious artefacts~. similarity to actual turbine parts ~coincidental~."
mircea_popescu: and then the conversation flows by itself, "suppose i test one of them artefacts and it matches turbine ?" "then you have ~made~ a turbine ~out of a~ religious artefact"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only rerason it is a logic analyzer is your "perfectly working" stamp.
mircea_popescu: you, alf, have literally produced such a logic analyzer, out of some raw materials. exact same process as electronics factory
mircea_popescu: the dead are distinguished from the alive in that they're broken the meaning covenant.
mircea_popescu: consequently, nothing of theirs can be trusted. they don't have objects in the usual sense. they have religious artefacts.
mircea_popescu: until and unless human culture recoallesces into a form where i can trust their products, it will be the case we have an orc culture, where everything's suspect of poisoning.
mircea_popescu: in any and all cases -- the maker is he whose guarantee we accept.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even as late as 2005, in the subjective sense that i ~trusted~ them to.
mircea_popescu: in the end this discussion turned out most productive. it makes obivous the distinction between the latins (very much alive) and the christians (deader than disco) : i very much expect a phrase lifted from petronius to ~work for me today~ ; i entirely expect any clipping of the "church fathers" to drip more poison than can be ever documented, and in no case be usable for anything.
mircea_popescu: "Clearly Superior Technologies is a family business. We take pride in our level of service and the quality and consistency of our products. We cater to all organizations and individuals that want or need easy button access and a large, easy to control ball with a high degree of durability."
mircea_popescu: sadly, novelty name rather than political declaration. but o well, better a fig than nothing at all.
mircea_popescu: well, somehow. by not being too serious about that "clearly superior tech" thing.
mircea_popescu: aiming to replace the entire technological stack currently in use with their own, better alternative.
mircea_popescu: ~it's what the words say~. it's not "clearly better trackballs".
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a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 19:16 mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, there is not the object contemplated in the reich : a thinker so valuable in his thinking, usgistic socialism gives him a berth.
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-07#1885607 << this is where we do not agree. "Clearly Superior Technologies is a family business." aka a dork manaloning somewhere with the support of a dedicated wife does NOT constitute life ; much in the manner "perhaps some bacteria on mars" does not mean "extraterrestrial civilisation".
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 20:11 asciilifeform: and the latter in particular counts in favour of the hypothesis that yes, there's life somewhere, inca not exterminated errything.
mircea_popescu: the capacity for life of menalone is ~potential~. it is not actual.
mircea_popescu: men alone are not actually alive ; they are suspected of being perhaps capable of coming alive. that's all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you see some problem with distinctions in general or just some of them ?
mircea_popescu: dude's not publishing patches for anyone to sign, and your kind if ineffectual attempts to sign them anyway don't enact patches out of a void.
mircea_popescu: if the standard is low enough for stco to pass, then 1941s france contained 10mn resistence fighters : 9.9 mn of which carefully preserved a room somewhere in the house "where no german set foot", through the procedure of no german happening to want to.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same way you signed a fg, which is the exact same fucking thing.
mircea_popescu: imagine this wonder, "we're winning world war 2, llc", manufacturer of extremely effectual shove handles. THEY NEVER SPLINTER!
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm naive, but i'm satisfied with the extant methods as they stand.
mircea_popescu: "a) here's signed ideal ; b) here's concrete -- c) check"
mircea_popescu: remember that time corp imploded through engineers invovled telling anyone not to buy product, it sucks, they're making way better one ?
mircea_popescu: happened plenty of times. aanyways -- what problem is real then ?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-08 00:13 mircea_popescu: maybe i'm naive, but i'm satisfied with the extant methods as they stand.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 01:09 hanbot most recently ran into this particular flavor of wikiwank when looking for specific incident lead on ms-13 the other day, was bombarded by "trump falsely claims!!!"
a111: Logged on 2014-07-30 13:57 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember the story about gorby and andropov?
mircea_popescu: or any of a bunch of such ridiculous nonsense we mocked over the yeears.
mircea_popescu: i recall recent example i put in, except for the specifics. obama era meanwhile defunded pile of spurious posturing.
mircea_popescu: nope. analoguous to "oh, this bureaucracy can't just put mp-wp on, gotta spend 5mns to pay some indian monkey $500 to wing an "in house" one overnight"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-07#1885620 << i'm satisfied with my stance that "this is all fantasy", if nothing else then because even the clouds make "patterns worth watching" now and again, especially as a function of mood ; and time's certainly going the way of my stance being correct, rather than the opposite.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 20:23 asciilifeform: this was the thrust of asciilifeform's arg in the orig thread -- yes there are still people-who-are-people. even inside reich. and no they havent yet all hoisted the republic banner ( each for own reasons, whether ignorance, or 'gotta pay bills NOW', or whatnot.) but they do make things worth having. and sell ( i suspect largely to one another.. )
mircea_popescu: menalone llc will spawn as it's principal product, and the spawn ain't gonna be like daddy.
mircea_popescu: leaving behind a coupla kids to "deal" with "the complicated legacy". you know p s hoffman ?
mircea_popescu: fat faggot, died recently of faggotry-related health issues. he's been in so many of these...
a111: Logged on 2018-06-20 00:37 asciilifeform: there's a fab in usa where, believe or not, they still make 2um classics like cdp1802 for usg. but they dun take walkins.
mircea_popescu: spawn, what. between tom cruise "accomplishments" and kirsten wiig accomplishments, more or less michael cera.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the warthog got withdrawn. ~for lack of that fab~.
mircea_popescu: i doubt it was anywhere near any biz, seeing how the warthog withdrawal happened prior.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 20:24 asciilifeform: the tailor who made mircea_popescu's shirt is also not (afaik) in wot yet.
mircea_popescu: let the suit die wit hthe man ; socket wrenches another matter.
mircea_popescu: it does work as a closed system : gotta be this intellectually tall to ride is the securest seal ever invented.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 20:25 asciilifeform: if they knew how to do biz ~only~ with one another, and not heathens, i suspect -- would.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 20:31 asciilifeform: but to the extent the props of the reich are working physical artifacts, and they haven't yet descended to shaking pointed sticks and 'ook ook' sounds, they're made by somebody. and that's largely who, folx given -- yes -- some sorta berth.
mircea_popescu: and no, you can't ressurect a dead argument on the tail end of having been hammered into the ground. there's nobody alive ; there's no berths ; you can pursue this fantasy at a terrible cost anyway.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's the (heavily promoted, of course) fantasy of the "geek" in mainstream ustard culture, "oh, i'll be SO GOOD IN CLASS little slut rosa's defo gonna get wet for me". as cameron diaz well points out : never gonna fucking happen.
mircea_popescu: there ~isn't~ a way to be good ~at your chosen field~ such that you're a successful chowdry in incadom.
mircea_popescu: yes, it was an extremely popular delusion in the 90s even, which is to say "within living memory", hence "entrepreneurial culture" and all that wank. nevertheless, delusions, howsoever popular (and therefore osmotically persuasive) they may get, stay delusions.
mircea_popescu: for as long starvation / being eaten alive by wild animals while very fucking cold is not on the table, little slut rosa has other shit to attend to ; outside of deliberate and constructed exclusion of the stupid poor from the workings of society, the stupid poor have no incentive to respect same. and so on.
mircea_popescu: and since we're here, let's go on an archeological detour.
mircea_popescu: the (batshit insane, in modern terminology) claim of the xtians that their fsb controls "life everlasting" was ~meaningful~ in times past, and built out of the following articulation of logic :
mircea_popescu: as the life habits [they stole from "those pagans" the stoics] promoted longevity, it was a trivial observation (for they inclined to observe, of course) that xtians ~live longer~ than non-xtians. THIS was the substance of the entirety of the supernatural claim, for a thousand years or so, and yes, to the orc mind it makes sense that the bearded dood in the sky who makes these weirdos die 70s not 50s perhaps has more of the s
mircea_popescu: as rational inquiry divorced longevity from religiosity, the claim lost its meaning, but it is ever present in strangeola like "smoking is a sin".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason there were three religions in the mediteranean was that specifically all three delivered this.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-02 17:39 asciilifeform: ( the gulag folx chalked it up to 'lack of vodka' for the most part tho )
a111: Logged on 2017-11-10 15:12 mircea_popescu: stipendi peccatus mors est.
mircea_popescu: well yes. the socialist trade is always a case of "substitute vinyl siding for brick wall".
mircea_popescu: now then : all these fantasies, "i'll worship so purely i'll never die", "i'll get a paycheck so huge i won't have to go on dates anymore", "i'll be that kurchatov" rely on something specific : there's gotta be a stalin. there's no stalin of long living, nor is there a stalin of rooseveltian socialism -- the thing's built ~specifically~ (and ~purposefully~, deliberately) as a "stalinism without any stalin".
mircea_popescu: "but mp, you own this-and-so company that got specific safe harbour /legal extemption/ whatever precisely fitting "berth" definition item from x/y/z posturer to authority". "yes, i did ; and i can, too. but it is a) not ever obtained through the avenue here contemplated and, importantly, MUCH more importantly, b) a dodge. it is strictly there to mask from the dangerous the fundamental state of affairs."
a111: Logged on 2015-01-30 05:51 mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
mircea_popescu: remember the famous tito-stalin "leave yugo alone" exhange ? keks.
mircea_popescu: if i had to take a blind wager, it'd be ye olde "information differential" -- jp knew and usg didn't.
mircea_popescu: same way peter minuit bought manhattan. married no slovenly local cuntlet.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-08 00:43 mircea_popescu: even the handcuffs are now zip ties.
mircea_popescu: maybe until the unionized cops who still know how to work a lock-and-key last, who knows.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:43 asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
