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Landgull: Ascii:
a kalashnikov in the hands of every resident would achieve the same thing.
☟︎ Landgull: So, you're opposed to US imperialism, but simultaneously think that people shouldn't have
a right to self-determination?
Landgull: But the Ukrainians are an actual race and culture - yes they're similar to the Poles, the Hungarians, and the Russians, but whether or not they're
a biological race or just
a cultural and linguistic one, they've
a strong sense of national identity and
a strong desire for national self-determination.
Landgull: Ascii: holodomor and resettling of russians during the USSR definitely effected the country in
a big way, demographically, such that "historically Ukrainian" lands aren't really Ukrainian anymore.
BingoBoingo: Landgull: May I suggest lever action rifle as
a solution to your problems. Since pistol caliber casting rounds with coinsilver is surprisingly reasonable
decimation: the idea that western ukraine exists as
a separate race or language is hilarious
☟︎ decimation: wait, I thought ukrainian was kind of
a rural-hick version of russian (as
a language)
Landgull: Unlike the USgov with
a nebulous idea of "we want to spread democracy guyz" they actually know what they're fighting for.
BingoBoingo: <Landgull> Plus, as I said, the USgov owns the UAgov, but unlike the US where the government really effects your life, the government here is
a mass of incompetent bureaucracy without any serious ability to organize anything. << Kinda why Phillipines is on my exit candidate list. Massively orchish and USG proving proving ground for cultural failures.
Landgull: Well, I'm not trying to be here on
a permanent visa.
Landgull: Plus, as I said, the USgov owns the UAgov, but unlike the US where the government really effects your life, the government here is
a mass of incompetent bureaucracy without any serious ability to organize anything.
☟︎ Landgull: If they want you, they'll find you wherever you go. But it takes
a lot more wanting to deal with finding you somewhere else than it does to find you when you're wrapped up with
a bow for them.
decimation: generally no-knocks are done of folks who give the cops some reason to think they will be
a threat
BingoBoingo: <Landgull> If you just don't want flashbangs coming in your window and poisonous food, then you can have
a much better life outside of the US. << I have yet to seem flashbangs tyvm. I just has
a single FBI agent and single treasury agent sweating on my front lawn like the hambeasts they were.
Landgull: If you just don't want flashbangs coming in your window and poisonous food, then you can have
a much better life outside of the US.
Landgull: If you're going to declare yourself an enemy of the USgov and be
a real threat to them, they'll find you, sure.
decimation: ^ which is when it will be useful to live in
a 'culture of violence'
Landgull: Sure. But I'd expect your chances are better in
a country where the government is essentially non-existent than they are somewhere that they know where you are and can knock on your door.
trinque: decimation: note the hyphen, not
a slash
decimation: indeed, such
a place probably does not exist
Landgull: Ascii: 1) I can buy
a plane ticket somewhere else if
a real invasion happened. 2) If the Russians came into the Ukrainian speaking part of Ukraine, they'd be fighting
a massive guerrilla war...they're succeeding in Donetsk and Luhansk because the people there are Russians and have
a Russian identity.
Landgull: ...I'm telling you from having been to
a number of places and talked to
a number of people, I've yet to meet anyone who hates American people.
BingoBoingo: decimation> ascii you could probably buy
a few acres of iowa for
a few $k << Not really, Chicoms are buying Iowa like it is going out of style.
decimation: indeed. then your only choice is to live under
a stump like that one guy
decimation: ascii you could probably buy
a few acres of iowa for
a few $k
Landgull: Fair points as well. And I'm not suggesting Lviv as
a specific destination, I'm here meeting the girlfriend's family - though it's really quite
a nice city.
Landgull: So, if you sold those skills freelance, for $100 an hour, you could work for 10 hours
a month and live very comfortably in most parts of the world.
Landgull: Well, if you're smart enough to know how to allocate memory in C, you can find
a way to earn $500
a month anywhere in the world.
BingoBoingo: <Landgull> I'm in Lviv, Ukraine right now. I can walk down to the market and buy
a kilo of fresh strawberries for the local equivalent of $.50, and
a bottle of vodka for $2.50 << Welcome to my back yard
BingoBoingo: <Landgull> Well, you strike me as
a pretty decent coder/developer, ascii. In any country that is an outsourcing location for devs, being able to develop and being
a native English speaker makes you
a valuable hire. << Alf is in
a more dangerous position. He is an excellent flenser and polisher. Intellectually uninteresting work will shave decades off of his life.
Landgull: I'm in Lviv, Ukraine right now. I can walk down to the market and buy
a kilo of fresh strawberries for the local equivalent of $.50, and
a bottle of vodka for $2.50
Landgull: Well, you strike me as
a pretty decent coder/developer, ascii. In any country that is an outsourcing location for devs, being able to develop and being
a native English speaker makes you
a valuable hire.
BingoBoingo: Landgull: I've got ideas, just working on means of execution. Georgia doesn't seem like
a good fit.
Landgull: Bingo: Go to Georgia - your visitor's visa is good for 360 days out of 365 (take
a trip across
a border to anywhere, or just give someone
a $10 bribe) and English is becoming the new state language, replacing Russian, so native English speakers are in demand.
BingoBoingo: Landgull: Understand most places where teaching English for money is
a thing are awfully xenophobic to white people as residents. Like Korea.
trinque: I have
a buddy learning that now
Landgull: Or to go to places where you can live comfortably on ~$500-750
a month, and teach English.
trinque: nobody ever once started
a business and made any money
Landgull: Fair enough. I established Paraguayan legal residency
a while back as
a way to 1) have legal residence in
a 0% tax area and 2) have
a guaranteed place I'm allowed to go if the world suddenly decides that it doesn't really want Americans hanging about.
trinque: my life's pretty good, but as long as I'm here I'm no better than
a happy citizen of the reich
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every time i went to buy
a quart of milk the teller asked me what time it is...
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 03:27:28; decimation: I donno, I didn't program it. I still remember cursing portage
a decade ago while recompiling X again
Landgull: Bingo - if central America looks good to you/you speak Spanish, south America is also
a good place to flee to.
trinque: BingoBoingo: have
a destination yet?
BingoBoingo: In other news, training to get into shape for boxing training is progressing nicely. 80 pushups yesterday... May be able to try
a boxing gym next year. Would be nice if I could line it up with USian exodus
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: also, I've
a frozen stage3 tarball you may want to use
gabriel_laddel: mod6: fyi, if you follow that funtoo install guide and don't use the masamune-specific replacements you'll end up with
a binary kernel (funtoo has already started decaying) - make sure you use the KERNEL section of system.html if nothing else
mircea_popescu: retarded people who do not belong in front of
a computer try their darndest to "make it secure" but have no fucking idea what that is
mircea_popescu: it's just this entire frantic activity as
a cover-up for impotence.
decimation: but nevertheless someone thought they should program
a check for the expiration date on the pki cert
mod6: if all else fails, i'll give your guide
a shot.
decimation: I donno, I didn't program it. I still remember cursing portage
a decade ago while recompiling X again
☟︎ mod6: i basically created
a livecd, did everything as instructed through the gentoo handbook.
mod6: thanks, just took
a look. im not even sure my problems are gentoo related exactly. i think i have
a good /etc/fstab. and i /think/ my partition table was setup correctly with fdisk. this pos box had win7 on it, im guessing it's MBR and not EFI.
mod6: i'll try it out. i hosed up my grub; haven't had
a chance to tinker/rebuild yet.
gabriel_laddel: mod6: I have
a *working* funtoo install guide, which is for all intents and purposes the same as gentoo
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 00:40:32; alphonse23_: I've actually been meaning to start using
a key locker or something
decimation: you see the programmers are too busy 'delivering' to think about issues like 'why is the whole thing
a peice of shit'
mircea_popescu: at bug that occurred when the file is on
a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95."
mircea_popescu: "Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just
a simple function to display
a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on
a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes th
mircea_popescu: "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby! Is software supposed to be like an old Dodge Dart, that rusts just sitting in the garage? Is software like
a teddy bear that's kind of gross if
mircea_popescu: "Before Borland's new spreadsheet for Windows shipped, Philippe Kahn, the colorful founder of Borland, was quoted
a lot in the press bragging about how Quattro Pro would be much better than Microsoft Excel, because it was written from scratch. All new source code! As if source code rusted."
decimation: although at times can be
a bit rambling
decimation: asciilifeform: aye, precisely. but those 'bugs in head' are the primary concern of
a programmer, presumably
decimation: but still, not
a bad idea to break code into 'paragraphs'