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mircea_popescu: in another life, /me got a lot of mileage out of an old painter's table for this purpose, checking civil engineering designs.
mircea_popescu: i put the one i'm reading on top, and the one i note on the bottom
mircea_popescu: PeterL i dunno man, when i did the closest equiv to that, ie, swapping between building project and calculations, i kept the sheets one under the other, not one next to the other.
mircea_popescu: he has a point in that horiz scanning is better in humans than vertical. so if indeed he does something like a stoick trader, 3x2 2x1 etc.
mircea_popescu: so it's really entirely arbitrary, for all you know you use tall displays.
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't complain if it only ran in 80 x 640 cga mode, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing intrinsically unswappable in a laptop. just, manufacturers elect to be idiots.
mircea_popescu: if someone came up with the sane idea of making a 1m x 30cm laptop, whence the screen unfolds and turns 90 degrees, i'd probably consider that item au par with a desktop.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, my principal objection to laptops is that they aren't... WIDE enough.
mircea_popescu: what the computer does without a keyboard is digestion, not thinking.
mircea_popescu: it's the fucking keyboard. that little wire running from kbd to ps/2 port, that's its spine.
mircea_popescu: what did you think the computer's head is ? the monitor ? the cpu ?
mircea_popescu: if detached from your head you'd also be a lot more portable.
mircea_popescu pictures woman flying around with tip of boeing in her snatch, "YES! YES! HARDER!" for a visual.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the only problem is the sort of woman that you end up with, if you own one.
mircea_popescu: mno. "cardildo is not a thing. did you want a car or a dildo."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wouldn't i make a great soviet shop keeper ?
mircea_popescu: there is phone ; there is computer. which did you want ?
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "smartphone". just dumbuyer.
mircea_popescu: unless you were asking for a desktop, in which case make your own.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the official tmsr mobile phone seems to currently be samsung e1200.
mircea_popescu: they actually run a java machine on an android-os phone ?
mircea_popescu: the sort of social relations implicit in that text are so fucking NUTS already...
mircea_popescu: seems like a parallel world, of middle eastern aziz's dwelling in immitation cubicals, running java machines on their "engineering" desktops...
mircea_popescu: " Good morning sir, Can you please see attached, was at the machine shop this morning and he said this has not been paid as of yet. This is really overdue, the machine shop jumps on anything I bring over, does quality work and gets me back the work quickly. Please, anything you can do to expedite this would be greatly appreciated." << speaking of spam. if anyone wants the enclosed JAR lemme know.
mircea_popescu: people generally like to think faust is a story about someone else. just like they pretend italian cinema is about, you know, that place in europe, and they're ruled by hollywood nonsense. as if that's how things fucking work now.
mircea_popescu: pride is, in this manner, for this reason, by this avenue, the spark of lucifer, ie, the genius. he who would make.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this is your choice to make. but be aware that there's a perfectly valid interpretation of that joke where the dying man is actually proud of the competent ho on his side.
mircea_popescu: moral being that at some point you will have to decide what you want the woman to do. she'll execute your priorities, if she's any good, but they must be clear in your head first of all. so : do you want strong boys to work your farm, or don't you ?
mircea_popescu: "ida, tell me the truth. that last one - is he mine ?"
mircea_popescu: so he waves them out, to be with his wife of lo these many years, and, taken by a stray thought, he asks her
mircea_popescu: and he has seven sons. six of which - big, strong, beautiful men. the seventh - well, a repugnant hunchback, like that "marketing director" version of mircea popescu.
mircea_popescu: patriarch lies dying - something like big daddy in the tennessee williams play. he started with nothing, just the rickety box of his bum father, and now has ten thousand acres of the most fertile land this side of the river nile.
mircea_popescu: you know the joke with "tell me the truth, is he really mine" danielpbarron ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yes. if she's not married, and wants to have kids, some sort of arrangement will have to be made. this has a cost. if she is ALREADY made the fix is already in. this is a value.
mircea_popescu: hitler ? need i name hitler ? the fucking point of fuhrerprinzip was "every woman in germany is a whore."
mircea_popescu: alexander's empire existed in no small part because of the various whores, including his mother. caesar very much idem - and marc anthony failed to inherit it.
mircea_popescu: not just wifey, also that "lesbian" what's her name etc.
mircea_popescu: it becomes obvious when inept derps practice it (see the clintons), but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: myeah. especially problematic - the part where the successful arrangement doesn't actually get exposed.
mircea_popescu: you'll have to be careful to distinguish the butthurt of the losers from historical reality.
mircea_popescu: think about it for a moment. you'll know a few hundred people. if you're the emperor most of them will be whores for the simple reason that whores know more people than i dunno, soldiers.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is going to priviledge the lower gainst the higher, and the male against the female ? two strikes against him already.
mircea_popescu: between that on the upside and the dude i linked on the mean.
mircea_popescu: the principal avenue for avoidable bodies is precisely this - guy scores chick above his station, she imagines it's obvious he'll share he imagines it's obvious he won't, then she scores guy above her station because being married to someone else is a significant bonus to high level guys ; then the husband gets uppity, gets warned too late, slaps her arround and then next week gets killed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's a natural trap that ; men don't take what women blather five minutes before being smacked too seriously ; women don't tend to land the bomb earlier than it's obvious they're getting smacked.
mircea_popescu: hey. the source says he did own it ; therefore the source says usg stole his shit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but i don't care. everything the usg says will be used against it in all the ways it can be used against it ; and will not be used for it in any way.
mircea_popescu: words have meanings, even if the lizzards are blissfully fentanyl'd.
mircea_popescu: they didn't say "the company he ceo'd". they said "his own company"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note how one gets "ousted" from "his own" company. because it totally was... his own.
mircea_popescu: at least they're not "promoting the duke family history of individualism". all good.
mircea_popescu: oh since i'm thinking about it : there's two specific items tmsr wants to bring to the field of probate reform : a) no juridical person beneficiary. no government, ngo, corporation, trust etc may obtain as much as a farthing from any succession. physical persons only. b) no tax or fee of any kind may be levied against succession.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heh. aaand a trb node is at height 419220 for absolutely no reason ; 50+ connections, stable etc.