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mircea_popescu: trying to finesse himself into
a senior adviser role for gorby
mircea_popescu: for
a government to survive, it must actually have support.
mircea_popescu: does it seem to you
a reasonable plan to demolish streets in this atmosphere ?
mircea_popescu: familiar with the (afaik also uncontroversial) theory that the us is
a nation of narcisists ?
mircea_popescu: so in this sense,
a junkie managing to score
a hit is in fact +ev.
mircea_popescu: there's going to be
a demolished street bearing your name.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if ambling about the terrain going to/from day jobs, etc. - they just quietly pick you up <<
a ro guy famously caught
a coupla "secret agents" tailing him in traffic, beat them up (romanian tradition) took them to police station.
mircea_popescu: they installed
a bunch of autobatteries and shitnow ? /me's not been keeping up.
mircea_popescu: as long as it's clear to the da that
a court showdown will end his career, you're practically unprosecutable, no matter what you do. as long as it's clear to "special ops" that there will be deaths, you're un-opable, no matter what you do. etc etc.
mircea_popescu: it's true : they haven't yet made
a thing for something else to use for this.
mircea_popescu: if your crazy genius lab consisted of shitty hot tweezers that made good sandwiches and very bad vacuum pumps that sang
a capella i'd think you're uniquely ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: sorta like
a parade army. exactly what the italians had, right before the risorgimento.
mircea_popescu: as to van : people like
a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because
a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose
a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: imagine
a device that kept paul atreides from having to fight all the idiot freemen.
mircea_popescu: suppose you are in
a room, with women. there's 100 of them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, prepare for
a lengthy explanation then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they will, to ~their detriment~. i'm not sure this is getting through, or that im doing
a good job of explaining it, but in fact such victories are more expensive than the respective defeats they supposedly keep one from.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 ben_vulpes think
a <27mb bitcoin could be ? << the current statically linked bitcoind is 5.6mb is that what you mean?
mircea_popescu: back to the usg-tb thing : people like
a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because
a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose
a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: to imagine the usg, or for that matter any bureaucracy like
a PERSON rather than like
a disease is imo to be very, very wrong
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:54:27; asciilifeform: 'After making public revelations critical of US policies, former CIA director William Colby was himself found dead in 1996 from
a laughably improbable 'canoe accident'. US Congressman Wayne Owens was found dead in Israel in 2002 while investigating US corruption connections.' << 'best news is the history you didn't know' (mircea_popescu?)
mircea_popescu: (protip : "onlyallfours" is
a very bad idea, especially on hard floors. bursitis is at thing, if you give
a horse shoes to protect hooves from hard pavement, might as well give the slavegirls kneepads.)
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:32:26; asciilifeform: was i the only one here who actually read (for
a time) mr s's (purported) www output (e.g., 'twitter', etc) ?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:08:26; asciilifeform: 'In response to
a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.'
mircea_popescu will underscore there's nothing wrong with cheap ikea stuff. what was at stake above was the expectation that
a sample with weird homologies may be representative for "the world"
mircea_popescu: that usg courts are
a sad joke, again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: that guardian is an intel asset, and greenwald in particular just gavin in
a different color scheme is again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu:
a while later (about the same while later) it was exactly the same thing : "wikipedia at top of all search results because wikipedia at top of all search results".
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 14:56:44; asciilifeform: 'CIA-Wikipedia ("Every dumbf-ck in the world believes Wikipedia") - artificially pumped by CIA Google to top of search results,
a 'Trojan horse' for inserting CIA lies and rubbish - see the EU police report on Wikipedia fundraising fraud...'
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 14:32:24; nubbins`: with 1 hot dog and 200 brands of frozen pizza, this new food needs
a name.
nubbins`: store sells goods, why you need to start the day with
a full register?
mircea_popescu: in short - this is why academic wankery is called academic wankery. it has all the characteristics of useful work save
a few.
mircea_popescu: moreover, "n confirmation doublespends" still needs you to produce mined blocks of
a proper difficulty, which is just as hard as on the main net.
mircea_popescu: the idea you are going to "monopolize" connections to
a node is laughable, as they are all implemented to have hardwired connections you don't get to touch, in
a pedestrian, difficult and unwieldy reimplementation of
a wot system.
mircea_popescu: so some guy wrote some things on
a piece of paper about what he heard on the news and submitted this to his local police station ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not
a bad deal, but meh, spend 35k on this thing ?
jurov: " is set to become the world’s first trading platform with
a direct connection to the classic banking system" davout perhaps you may something to say about that?
jurov: don't see
a problem there. once telnet starts, root access is no longer unexpected.
Adlai watches
a snail crawl across the edge of
a razor
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2013 16:54:13; nubbins`: floor. vast communities of bulky orderlies. rowhouses of nurses. all rooms are hospitals now. the firmament,
a massive inferno of blue-black gods. judges pouring time as the piss of Dionysus. insects dripping honey and pulling wax upon my ears. says, 'All the angels can dance on the tip of
a pin. all thoughts can jig upon the point of
a pen'
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2015 05:51:18; mircea_popescu: holy hell
a sane engineer.
nubbins`: put another way, do not solder
a battery holder into your pogo and use it as
a wallet, either 8)
mod6: ok, maybe i don't understand. but im gonna ask anyway. but what you're saying is that the pogo embedded os wont have
a rng?
nubbins`: i'm gonna be /making/
a serial cable anyway
nubbins`: guy comes up "hey, wanna go in on
a case of beer?"
gribble: Error: "watch" is not
a valid command.
nubbins`: & watch some crust kid barf on
a drum kit
nubbins`: mod6 melvins was
a good guess tho, they get silkscreened posters done locally for all their slows
mod6: Do you consider Strung Out to be
a punk band?
BingoBoingo: If the bad has
a big name it can't be very punk
mod6: <+nubbins`> may have
a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0 << anyone i'd know?
nubbins`: may have
a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0