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decimation took
a class on soviet politics in undergrad, but it wasn't terribly informative
mircea_popescu: this is why
a constitution is fundamentally
a joke. if you have the men that you need for it to work, you don't need it. if you don't have them, it's useless anyway.
decimation: as long as there is
a 'reasonable basis' for the law (as in, usg can provide any reason whatsoever"
mircea_popescu: apparently it just needs to ask for permission (from
a usg magistrate - improperly called
a judge for the obvious reasons)
decimation: just like it's absurd to claim that 'in
a democracy, government can do xxx but not yyy'
mircea_popescu: "but he made
a blog post laughing at us for it" "oh... ok then!"
mircea_popescu: im kinda curious in
a scholarly way exactly what sort of outrage would incentize teh usg to go back on its "principal home can not be seized" approach to things.
mircea_popescu remembers old day, after
a two week "if it's tuesday, it's belgium" thing, at 4am in train station guy pouring ~kig and half of coins into
a beggar's lap.
mircea_popescu: notably, i once picked up
a us chick who at the time was engaged to be married.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've not actyually used
a bank since i'm here.
mircea_popescu: what agent is EVER going to wish to go work on
a case where the emperor has dclared "huge value", wioth the full knowlerdge that if the value is somehoiw missing he will be imputed it anyway ?
decimation: in order to sell such
a thing legally in the us, you must explictly gain usg's permission, after suitably demonstrating that it works as claimed
mircea_popescu: st for the monitor screen was $8K (at least that was what I was told). My recollection was that the manufacturing cost of
a Symbolics machine was over $40K. Hence, about one-third of the cost of
a machine was the keyboard, mouse, and display. I told people within Symbolics to consider using
a dumb display as the front-end (something like
a Datapoint terminal). I can remember one employee telling me something like "if p
mircea_popescu: "(4) When I was on the front line, trying to sell Lispms, we had
a major problem. I'd try to sell Lispms to friends and former associates that cost
a minimum of $90K, and generally $105K out-the-door. They were typically given $120K to buy computers. This left them with
a choice of purchasing 1 Symbolics machine or 3 Xerox Dolphins. They generally selected the 3 Dolphins. Our cost for the keyboard was $3,200 and our co
decimation: yes, this seems like perfectly satisfactory course work for
a phd student in engineering/'fabbing'
decimation: I've thought about
a small mechanical generator that could be attached to
a swaying tree
mircea_popescu: this is phase 1. phase 2 is when we target all the cars ever seen parked by
a nsa building. give meta-nsa something to fret about.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of the little toy : i wouldn't mind putting
a few coins behind
a project dedicating to actually creating an array of p2p relays operated "alegally" in the manner described (glued to peoplke's cars without their knowledge).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine reading
a book ghostwritten for me.
decimation: I find it fascinating that
a human can be invented from whole cloth, and then inserted into the political ladder
decimation: "In Dreams, written two years later, Obama takes an unlikely detour to the exact spot on the parallel East River where the north-flowing tide meets the south-flowing river. There, improbably,
a young black boy approaches this strange man and asks, "You know why sometimes the river runs that way and then sometimes it goes this way?" Obama tells the boy it "had to do with the tides." "
decimation: "In To Teach, Ayers recounts the story of an ambitious teacher who takes her students out to the streets of New York to learn about its culture and history. These students ask to see the nearby Hudson River. When they get to the river's edge, one student says, " Look, the river is flowing up."
A second student says, "No, it has to flow south-down." Upon further research, the teacher discovers "that the Hudson River is
a tidal river,
mircea_popescu: hm... i guess in the context "color me" is
a faux pas ?
mircea_popescu: "Calling Bill Ayers
a school reformer is
a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer." << that ayers ?
mircea_popescu: in this sense, i'm
a coder because i ocasionally edit html o.O
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is at best naive to imagine whore is whore "because the money". not so. whore does not give
a shit, at which point might as well be paid. because - queue. has to be sorted somehow.
mircea_popescu: or at least could
a while back. mebbe world's changed, who knows.
mircea_popescu: heck, you can just throw some printed sheets out of
a car going "gangbang at X address" and you'll get
a queue
mircea_popescu: eh, that's
a corner case. most men don't need to be paid to fuck.
mircea_popescu: thus whore always finds herself in the position where the cheapest avenue is to ask master for
a hammer to shut the dumbasses up.
mircea_popescu: however, the nitwits are
a) abundant and b) firmly convinced of the contrary.
mircea_popescu: it's
a very simple thing : whores are, in point of fact, for the fact of having been whores, superior to "mere women", ie, the usual vanilla nitwit. this is
a fact, incontrovertible as the fact that the sun is glowier than the moon.
mircea_popescu: when the necks are [self]squeezed to the point
a supposed "law school" publishes that tripe it is ANOTHER thing.
mircea_popescu: istinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as
a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in
a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."
mircea_popescu: "From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as
a professor in the Law School. He was
a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was
a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is d
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the muppet in chief : anyone ever recall that embarassment when he was calling himself
a "professor of constitution" while having been
a lecturer, so eventually chicago came out with "he was REGARDED as
a professor" ?
mircea_popescu: and anyone (tm) should be able to sever
a cervical spine at twenty paces.
mircea_popescu: "Confirmed: self-inflicted gunshot by neutralized subject," Capital Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said in
a statement.
mircea_popescu: the problem with ascii being like naughty bits is merely
a reflection of the much larger problem : everything about
a text is like that. by itself.
mircea_popescu: rarely do people wish to forget for
a purpose. it's almost always for
a cause
mircea_popescu: everyone that can read it may keep
a copy, and no one else.
mircea_popescu: just as much
a part of it is invisible, and that invisibly decayed.
mircea_popescu: much like any living organism, the text can only be interpreted in its environment (here - the people who wrote it), and only as
a functional, living thing.
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 02:36:29; asciilifeform: to envision
a 'wave of the future' that includes c and unix - entirely other.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but in 2001 you could not find
a better newspaper in new york.
mircea_popescu: then the nazis wiped them, modern jewry is in this situation where someone cut the flower, kept the stalk in
a vase.