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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope.
the problem with
the mediocre pretending
to "intellectuals" is
they've agreed
to only hurt physcologically.
mircea_popescu: it's
true, he doesn't. NEITHER DO YOU. without
that latter part...
mircea_popescu: so
the notion endured, "oh, mp doesn't understand maffs".
mircea_popescu: and
to most mediocre people, gave
this impression of utter idiocy, because regularily contradicted
their "reasonable expectations". except didn't have
the mp refinement of making it painful for
them later.
mircea_popescu: but
to be unable
to say who you're
thanking at oscar ceremony... kinda blonde moment. you KNEW
they were gonna ask.
mircea_popescu: dood also had serious emotivity probloems -- extremely shy, etcetera. epicycle is perhaps
that encounter with
the czechoslovak "labour people" when
they ask him a (simple, let's be friends) question (context is
that he's
the hero, against soviet invasion, etc) and he
totally can't answer.
mircea_popescu: nah, his romanian was
that of a retard, 5th grade just about. very evidently SIMPLE alphabet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform marginally sufficient material (to show it, if not
to discover it necessarily) actually on
trilema.
mircea_popescu: this, in a fellow entirely unsuspectable of having ever HEARD of husserl, let alone read anything in german, is a feat somewhat comparable
to
the 256 byte 99% lisp interpreter.
mircea_popescu: of particular interest
to you might be causescu's self-concept, especially items such as "a critica" (to critique). i dunno how many of his own words you've read, but
the man had a very interesting (on
the grounds of its incredible low level form
that maintained reasonable function) husserl approach
to post-hegelian dialectics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he had a point, at
that. 20
to
the ruble im sure.
mircea_popescu: so
then, elder brother saying "half of it made no sense" very != archeologist saying "i don't understand how half of
this shit even worked"
mircea_popescu: this is not similar, i was
there for ceausescu not for iliescu lol
mircea_popescu: socialist-nationalism still socialism. make it capitalist nationalism we're in business. specifically -
the portuguese business, rape everyone
mircea_popescu: meh. it'd have had
to be reformed. half of it made no sense.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if he HAD a continuator, like
the chinese managed
to continue xiaoping, i have little doubt i'd be all for
the regime, decked in
the usual "youngest general in
the signals" regalia and we'd be holding
this convo across
the berlin wall.
mircea_popescu: but, no, ceausescu didn't get overthrown because "the people". who
the fuck seriously
thinks "the people" even matter, jesus.
mircea_popescu: and
then in spite of "political control" ie "containment policy" romania operated it's OWN gulf concessions with its own machinery and shipped
the oil on its own boats made in its own factories.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
then in SPITE of "tech control", romania was building its own computers. not good, no. yet. but it's own machine gun factory WAS better
than us anything, after a 20-30 years of "not good, no".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, it's not simply " paying off his national debt". it's like
this : dood went deeply into debt post nixon visit, on
the strength of us jewish promises (ie,
tech
transfer) and
to
the degree of
their own established "deep enough
to have no way out".
they obviously did not deliver, but
then he DID dig himself out, paid whole debt in little over decade. ie, not only
that he paid it, but
that he paid it "imposs
BingoBoingo: Well,
this router is
the beefier Octeon box.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I asked him for
the "how do we get a corporation fast" answer. His answer is off
the shelf.
This isn't
the first
time I've heard "bank reference" being bandied aboutwith respect
to opening a corporate account.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in
that vein, once one starts one doesn't end until california reconstructed.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
ty, I'll
tell
this lawyer being auditioned. I'll also ask him if he can do BROU instead of fucking Santander.
mircea_popescu: "the people have had enough with not being able
to buy consumer goods ; and if
they were able
to buy consumer goods
they'd have wanted
to "form oppinions" in
the manner of ustards, and in
the vein of "school exams
too hard ; work
too long hours ; idealised self not actualised by regime ; let other people
take our industry, we'll do service "industry" ; want
to live
today on money we might make
tomorrow IF and only if we don't
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the people
true and squarely had enough.
this is
the fundamental problem with being saddled with a people in
the first place -- what
they want isn't ever what';s needed.
mircea_popescu: this is spurious in your case,
tell
them you'll pay cash upfront.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo generally
the lowest rank of
the letters of credit.
the bank makes a non binding judgement as
to customer;s ability
to meet a specirfied financial obligation.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-14 15:54 mircea_popescu: and you know, pacepa was no less
than ro resident in rfg. he fucking led
the east presence
there for at least most of 64.
mircea_popescu: (to ruin many "westerners" hopes and delusions of self relevancy :
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737754 means
that no, paris '68 is NOT necessarily more
than
the original later copied by obama-socialism under heading of "orange revolutions". "oh, you mean pacepa's paris v2.0 ? I SEE!.")
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (amusingly, one of
the dudes
that somehow "failed
to identify" pacepa went on
to kill a coupla french spies in sudan)
mircea_popescu: kinda
the blue state blueprint, in general. first subvert justice system
then lie about rule of law
then so following.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : usg focused on infiltrating and corrupting ro justice system first ; as a result in 1999
they came up with a "rehabilitation" supreme court decision. ro govt refused
to recognize it, which resulted in a lot of usg agitprop material as
to how "romania not yet rule of law".
mircea_popescu: i dunno... at some point in
the 80s
the whole eastern front (arafat, gaddafi, ceausescu) had multi-mn bounties on his head. if he survived
that...
mircea_popescu: then he got promoted in 66 (ceausescu came
to
teh secretariatship in 65).
mircea_popescu: and you know, pacepa was no less
than ro resident in rfg. he fucking led
the east presence
there for at least most of 64.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, ion iliescu went
through similar period. "dissident" etc. except for
the pics where he's playing retarded games with ceausescu & co.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker,
the coffee in
this country. HOW do
they do it.
mircea_popescu: imagine, he was a general. before
that, colonel. earlier still, major. prior
to
that, lt.
mircea_popescu: are you aware
there's a substantial ro mystico-scientism putting
the etruscans as romanian derivative ? and no, it's not "ceausescu madness", ro sufragette cca 1920, exact equiv of
that russian fat old woman.
mircea_popescu: petrus pretends
to have created england ; so do romanians at
that
mircea_popescu: of course
they do!
the saving grace is
that you don't speak orc,
to see
the pretense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's been films of elephant etc same.
mircea_popescu: copy/paste wikipedia exams are a matter of necessity if you're going
to bother all shepherds and whatnot daylabourers
to join your "college"
mircea_popescu: the necessary corelate of "no kid left behind" and "creativity!!11", after all. where's all
the world's mediocrities
to come up with shit ?
mircea_popescu: whole "civilisation" of folk hoping
to pass off some
tech with serials shaved off.
mircea_popescu: (then again
this dun say much -- phuctor, "undoable" until it was done, according
to
the idle wankers / "academics" publishing around it pretending
to not know where
they got
their dataz.)
mircea_popescu: "doable", yes, but nobody's writing a php script of
this
to put on his site.
mircea_popescu: the meet in
the middle etc
thing i saw was far from instantaneous. maybe better
technologies do exist, but anwyay