mircea_popescu: now i gotta check my facts, it's been years

mircea_popescu: as i point out in some romanian article, denim bras had i managed to import would have been gladly worn by those women half the current .ro calls mom.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i think one could scarcely have better political education than a tour of the warsaw pact in the late 80s.

mircea_popescu: i know i do.

mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i am not seriously lowering the discourse to gavin's insanities. a matter of principle is being discussed there, not the irrelevant gargle of whatever derp.

mircea_popescu: i like a man who can use the text.

mircea_popescu: "What, then, did I find to praise in Galbraith? In the first place, his personal example, which is encouraging for someone like me who has entered the later stages of his life. Galbraith wrote The Economics of Innocent Fraud when he was 96. That was the last of the approximately 50 books that he wrote, and he wrote them clearly, never giving the impression of wanting to be thought clever because of the difficulty of wh

mircea_popescu: nah, this man is i think english.

mircea_popescu: then i figured out... vicariously!

mircea_popescu: kinda what got my attention originally, i could read the girl's experienced, but it made little sense.

mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.

mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...

mircea_popescu: that, at least, i can understand.

mircea_popescu: i'd probably make a horrible judge, on the grounds that i'm generally inclined to let off everyone who kills purposefully.

mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i imagine you see my point. what truly subtle meta-Agranov would come up with something like that ?

mircea_popescu: i've not wondered much, kinda discover the potentiality and the actuality in one package as it were.

mircea_popescu: yeah, that i have seen. there's a koi pond simulator

mircea_popescu: i don't think anything ever was as stulfifying as the ipad game scene. perhaps the failed nes.

mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for a coupla weeks to check out the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.

mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between the lot.

mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.

mircea_popescu: in the book days i used to have my books filled with papers.

mircea_popescu: in short, i know of no other process involving the noggin than the full process.

mircea_popescu: and also i need to test and verify what i read

mircea_popescu: but it happens that i oft do have a loit to say

mircea_popescu: decimation my poinbt being, i can't really do anything of the intellect without the whole computer.

mircea_popescu: i don't perceive its utility

mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'

mircea_popescu: i guess so, huh.

mircea_popescu: i condone all violence that doesn't sit around waiting for my condonement.

mircea_popescu: i doubt it's aware enough for something like this.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think this is the best proof possible that current usg does not expect to survive more than a few years into the future anyway.

mircea_popescu: so basically, by pulling a ssn out of my arse i have just about 1:2 odds of hitting someone

mircea_popescu: i've been reading at it all day

mircea_popescu: well i've not got a wedged one