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BingoBoingo: "
A report of
a one-car accident led to charges alleging credit card fraud against two African men, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said Thursday."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Caterpillar, now THAT is
a struggling Us company.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the problem of slavery, and how beatings get to be
a part of it.
mircea_popescu: it is universally cheaper to make
a new chip than to describe an extant one from scratch.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 20:22:01; mircea_popescu: all the derps that this'd be interesting to are essentially on the same side of the same market : wanna make money (sex) out of their "skillz" (having
a cunt)
mircea_popescu: blaming
a college / all colleges / anyone for this is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ie, no upwards mobility and
a solid understanding of the value and importance of inequality.
mircea_popescu: yes at some point going to college was useful. this BECAUSE at that time people lived in
a society that allowed for it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, math is an AWFUL example for this matter. because, well, in honesty
a "simple" notion such as the notion of
a number is still patently ununderstood by the species altogether. and for that matter minimal effort to even comprehend it starts with what, frege ?
a coupla centuries ago ?
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 20:50:56; mircea_popescu: and so therefore, going from
a to b actually increases the market value of item. through
a process known as "creating
a market".
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:32:26; mircea_popescu: calling
a computer "
a box" is perhaps the most telling of all freudian seepage ever.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 08:32:51; mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally,
a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters),
a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on
a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, an
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell schmidty please fix your connection so you don't do
a lot of join/part
mircea_popescu: "and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach
a later point when his clever shortcut is too primitive to work. Now suddenly you have
a 6th grader who appears to falling behind. But he was never really caught up. I suspect that this almost entirely explains Americans' universal hatred of word problems."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you took your wife out on the town dressed as
a cow ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do what the usg does : differential leverage.
mircea_popescu: ironically, this would prolly be
a killer business in portland.
mircea_popescu:
a choice of either that or the same in hot pink, or rainbow.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital it'd be so great tho, Cuckolds' Gym and Hair Salon.
vulpes_a_hopital:
a but harnessing customers output to reduce the electrical bill has gotta be beyond any argentine
vulpes_a_hopital: great pickup spot if you like socializing with people who
a) do their own laundry and b) have it done somewhere far away from their place
mircea_popescu: there is, in this town,
a place where they sell food by the pound. and you can get
a pound of cooked shrimp for ~2 dollars.
vulpes_a_hopital: no kid under 19 with
a skateboard within twenty blocks of the thing is ever EVER bothered by the cops
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital there's
a bar cum laundromat somewhere in ohio
vulpes_a_hopital: cop stopped me and three friends skating in
a church on
a day off from school
mircea_popescu: not unlike the ridiculous view of field grunts that hey, they know better than the chief of staff what's what, antin-intellectual "social scientists"
a la dundes would like best an unsystematic AND UNSYSTEMATIZABLE "science"
mircea_popescu: editor Alan Dundes dismisses Campbell's work, characterizing him as
a popularizer: "like most universalists, he is content to merely assert universality rather than bother to document it. […] If Campbell's generalizations about myth are not substantiated, why should students consider his work?"
mircea_popescu: there's
a "social sciences perspective" now, and i'm supposed to believe it is != granstmanship.
mircea_popescu: "Others have found the categories Campbell works with so vague as to be meaningless, and lacking the support required of scholarly argument: Crespi (1990), writing in response to Campbell's filmed presentation of his model characterized it as "...unsatisfying from
a social science perspective."
mircea_popescu: answer :
a bunch of ustards will swoop in, pretending the field didn't end and insisting field enders are badmkay and raceys on top of everything
mircea_popescu: anyone wants to know what happens if one dares END
a field ?
mircea_popescu:
A tendency to think in generic terms of people, races ... is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking.""
mircea_popescu: According to Northup (2006), mainstream scholarship of comparative mythology since Campbell has moved away from "highly general and universal" categories in general.[13] This attitude is illustrated by e.g. Consentino (1998), who remarks "It is just as important to stress differences as similarities, to avoid creating
a (Joseph) Campbell soup of myths that loses all local flavor."[14] Similarly, Ellwood (1999) stated "
mircea_popescu: if i had kids there and they wanted money i would go "you can't have
a penny until all those atrocities have been burned down"
vulpes_a_hopital: otherwise, the kids have
a mother, and if she can't outperform the daycare you dun fukked up.
shinohai: thx pete_dushenski .... might buy
a few hundred, duct tape them together and melt the white house
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 21:46:21; mircea_popescu: (yes there's
a deep reason for the schism, no it has nothing to do with politics. the western church mostly provided laas, the eastern church baas.)
Namworld: Hmm, maybe I'm too stupid to enter
a password... but this doesn't seem to work.
Namworld: I meant
a different kind of accident, but sure
mircea_popescu: lol. nah, it'll just create
a market for carpal tunnel potions.
mircea_popescu: they ask how babies are made, do they get
a story or
a demonstration ?
mircea_popescu: "well... it's not
a vibrating wand, it's
a firebolt wand" "CONSUMERS HAVE COME TO EXPECT!"
mircea_popescu: it's often seen as
a problem in idiots who imagien they can keep bitcoin at bay by saying (in some magical correct form, i guess) that "i do not agree" or "i am not inviting this devil in my house" or whatever. "that is not how debates work", what have you.
mircea_popescu: but other than this, to continue the prev thread, no, you do not have control, in the sense that there isn't
a magical write-protect bit you set or unset at your will and unless you've unset it nothing can ever affect you.
mircea_popescu: it does however understand magic. especially because magic specifically exists as
a result of the subconscious' poor grasp of everything.
mircea_popescu: same thing that prevents them anywhere else, obviously. but the subconscious does not really comprehend locks, or rifles, or anything so complex it needs
a factory.
mircea_popescu: as far as average person is concerned, their safety from being, eg, raped, is built entirely out of their belief in the magical power of
a construct like that. it is not meaningful, but magical, in that it projects will and controls "the universe".
mircea_popescu: answer : you do not. which takes us right to the reason most people do not learn
a foreign language, or enjoy interacting with people whose language they do not speak.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted the story to me. they wanted to know if she's married or has
a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in the war. "what war ?" "you know, the war". and then we joked about how it'd play from there, and eventually it came to me the thing to say to prevent fu
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:11; pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such
a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field
a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude."
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 16:44:39; davout: "In my humble opinion: these bots create
a false market. They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe that they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were trying to get the best price we could while at least trying to offer
a better market"
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 14:03:07; asciilifeform: this means
a ROOM full of displays if you can swing it
phf: i had
a picturebook, one of the c1 models