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mircea_popescu: isn't this the same "color of my spleen and i can't see who landed on the moon on my own desk" argument ?
mircea_popescu: you sex through finding a warm, wet hole to stick penis into. no, penis on its own not sufficient. no, hole by itself dun work. etc.
mircea_popescu: you don't just person because you felt persony that day.
mircea_popescu: want to be a person, get teh monyz first. then YOUR SON can be a person in your stead.
mircea_popescu: again and for the last time - being poor disqualifies one ~from humanity~.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure for every machiavelli that did find ink and paper, a hundred didn't. this has very little to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: what, schwartz got named in schroedinger's testament or what is it.
mircea_popescu: gtfo. the sluts at home and the limp dicks at the bar demolished it.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying kissinger demolished nixon era politics.
mircea_popescu: it's really the ~equiv of space race, half century later.
mircea_popescu: what will they spend on ? upkeeping roads ? "social justice" ? building really REALLY large cyclotron much better option than anything the us did with its set of printolade in the same interval.
mircea_popescu: there is no option here. the eu has a budget, which it has taxed. it has to be spent. if it's not spent, recession, and much like a car that has been accelerated to the point where it either continues, or crashes horribly, they have to keep going. if recession, the whole "modern democracy" nonsense comes unglued.
mircea_popescu: recall all the idiot "popular press" going on about how "it'll end teh world!!11" ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the fucking point of "first item of its kind" is to see what happens, neh ?
mircea_popescu: it is also not possible from where you sit to distinguish if your spleen is red or green in color.
mircea_popescu: understandably, it cost a little more than what a us state is worth.
mircea_popescu: but we're not discussing here some sort of novel or unknown item. it's a cyclotron, like 1000s of others extant, only as large as a us state.
mircea_popescu: arguably, also "worth ~= weight in scrap" for that matter.
mircea_popescu: it's a cyclotron dude. so much a technical item as your toaster.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental property of ... property, as a construct, is that it is ALWAYS separable from the real estate.
mircea_popescu: because i now suspect i was always talking of the former part and you of the latter.
mircea_popescu: so let's separate the matter of the actual physical tool that is the cern cyclotron from the presumed bureaucratic nonsense built around it.
mircea_popescu: such is life, but the berylium bed is STILL required if you're gonna use a reflector.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure people had to sign all sorts of spurious crap in order to give themselves a nice tan in the berylium bed.
mircea_popescu: but that bureaucratic nonsense has nothing to do with the damned tools.
mircea_popescu: is your entire objection to be reduced to "for shame the eu billions went to a comission, they should have just given the moneyt directly as personal gifts to science heros"?
mircea_popescu: "i need someone ELSE to GIVE me a million" is the very definition of a kid.
mircea_popescu: with his underwear worn over spandex unisuit! UP UP AND AWAE!
mircea_popescu: mno. the wet dream of every kid with a superman delusion that was recast into "science genius" rather than shed is that hey, he shall FIGHT CRIME ^H^H^H i mean DISCOVER SCIENCE.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501221 << the fundamental reason being, that the forest has been hunted bare, then cut down. this idealistic "i shall make physics discovery without refined tools" yields exactly sovietisms a la "aggregated water" and "Lysenko's hardy winter crops"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: reminiscent of how usg.software works. "so, you want openssh and utf-fonts via which package again ?"
mircea_popescu: "would you like to import full_libertardism() through the venue of atheism, or what exact tiny topic ?"
mircea_popescu: then "people" who are stupid enough to stay atomized "can pick".
mircea_popescu: find legitimate single issue, attach THE WHOLE RAFT of libertardism to it.
mircea_popescu: and they keep doing this, too, if anyone's curtis yarvin's model, hitchens
mircea_popescu: but talking about "got x to y", hitchens is fine example : got "atheist" to mean "idiot liberal". ffs.
mircea_popescu: oh, recall the case of the saudi that "fell" on a naked 17yo girl whose friend was spending the night ?
mircea_popescu: trinque i have nfi where his hatred comes from, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: it has happened historically. just because you're not the sort to do it doesn't mean it';s not done.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his point, that you may well obtain a courtesy earldom from minor german prince and have france court respect this stands.
mircea_popescu: i think you two gotta differentiate "gun as nobility mark" from "gun as tool of labour"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wasn't he the guy that came up with the detente with the soviets ?
mircea_popescu: lemay, since mentioned, fully understood this. iirc he made a comment that if the us lost the war, he'd have fully expected being hanged for war crimes.
mircea_popescu: WHAT they did, HOW they did it, what it came to etc don't enter into it.
mircea_popescu: war crimes are the legal, legitimate behaviours of people we don't like.
mircea_popescu: ftr i don't see the war crimes case against hitler either. i can see it against tony blair, or the current derp, or the german lapdog what's her name.
mircea_popescu: but this is an irrelevant consideration. bahamas is dumb as rocks, but will not hang for being dumb.
mircea_popescu: so you're basically bringing an argument of incompetence ?
mircea_popescu: let em gouge each others eyes out, is right and proper.
mircea_popescu: eh, you never buy all the whores. drives price up for no benefit.
mircea_popescu: also, us reps/senators are shockingly cheap. most third world shitholes more expensive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he, like we, lived in a zombie wave time. you also "left more broken code than you found". so now you're a code criminal ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the popular portrayal of war crime isn't actually all that deep. it's simply "THE BIG THING", which is what the herd needs/wants.
mircea_popescu: the khmer blacks/green/whatever i dun have a problem with.
mircea_popescu: for instance, my objection to the khmer rouge was their being commies, not their butchering a billion idiots per se.
mircea_popescu: in quake, the shirt is all that matters. much like on japanese field of battle, the flag on the little bamboo stick jutting out from your belt.