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decimation: well, that net catches a good portion of the us when considered in its wide sense
mircea_popescu: work is when you do something useful. you're a fricitoner not a fucking worker.
mircea_popescu: you, if your paycheck comes from the governent, YOU ARE NOT A WORKER.
mircea_popescu: "And those workers are different from the ones who decide whether or not to give out a free"
mircea_popescu: in mass' defense, it's really merely providing a very in demand service
decimation: asciilifeform: not to mention you gotta setup a bureacracy so the people can grovel before it for trinkets: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/02/28/massachusetts-bureaucracy-gets-1-in-13-households-to-come-in-and-beg/
asciilifeform: ourts and judges to pass laws to forbid everyone around you from killing, lying, enslaving or imprisoning people, and stealing, but make it all legal for you under different names. Congratulations, you have just founded a country,also known as a state! Go to war with other states, to get rid of surplus wealth and attempt to grab more land to tax more people, when you find an opportunity that they are weaker than you. Secret
asciilifeform: apons and back up your operation, because you're making more an more enemies, but that's okay, you have all the high tech weapons. Start passing laws to prohibit others from owning anything more than a rifle or shotgun, while you buy gunships and tanks and jets and cluster bombs. Hirer very intelligent people who are ready to sell out humanity in exchange for trinket amounts of wealth to fatten their own pockets. Setup c
asciilifeform: b: 'Build your own, so you too can become a state. Then build a prison to house it, and start capturing people, accusing them of shit, and holding them for ransom. Print lots of worthless IOUs and start paying for stuff with them, and extorting money from your neighbors to pay you with your own IOUs every year a tax on their land, or you will imprison and guilotine them. Use your growing wealth to stockpile more and more we
asciilifeform: from guillotine thread: a: 'I want it, is it for sale?'
mircea_popescu comes from a country where "warez" has no particular meaning. you mean software, right ?
mircea_popescu: even got a diskette of fractal programs.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> no if you read the article, the 'startup' is actually a division of tucows, the domainame freeware site << you know twocows i actually like.
nubbins`: what a bummer
decimation: asciilifeform: my hypothesis re: hidden execution in the US was that those who wanted to end all executions encouraged it so that they could then argue that it doesn't have a 'discouragement' effect on crime
decimation: re: electric chair < my understanding is that it was mainly a marketing gimmick for electricity
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:36:01; asciilifeform: when usa was a techno-power, electric chair was king
nubbins`: man, i remember tucows from back when i had to buy a book to use the internet
nubbins`: if i wanna see a card trick, i don't want you to hold the deck face-up
decimation: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-notorious-canadian-internet-company-targeted-by-the-us-government " As previously mentioned, Tucows landed on the US Trade Representative’s annual list of notorious markets due to the company’s practice of not responding to takedown requests from companies alleging that Tucows registers domains for sites selling illegal goods. This is despite the fact that a domain name registrar has
decimation: no if you read the article, the 'startup' is actually a division of tucows, the domainame freeware site
asciilifeform: show me a town where anyone freely digs up the roads.
mircea_popescu: decimation a startup != a town tho neh ?
assbot: A Startup Offering Gigabit Fiber Is Expanding to a Second Comcast-Dominated City | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOEpQt )
decimation: asciilifeform: re: conversation about neighborhood isp: turns out there is a town about an hour away from you that is attempting to provide its own gigabit fiber service: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-startup-offering-gigabit-fiber-is-expanding-to-a-second-comcast-dominated-city
asciilifeform: the long-distance one behaves exclusively like a pair of synched rng.
mircea_popescu: depends a lot on your energy.
mircea_popescu: as a rule of thumb, the first occurs over tiny distances, the 2nd is distance-invariant
mircea_popescu: anyway : quantum tunneling is the observed property of quantum "particles" to interact at a distance without ever interacting with whatever's separating their first position from the second.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know what i'd like to see, a reality show of this guy and athene the best paladin in the world (with his mother)
decimation: asciilifeform: re: asciilifeform: presumably they keel over somewhere else, in a designated place < cats are well known for anticipating their deaths and crawling up some inaccessible hole beforehand to die
gribble: Jonathan Meese & his mother: Mommy and me are animals - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxQntdMjwI>; - Mommy & me rescue - Shamokin, PA Rescue Animals: <http://mommyandme.rescueme.org/>; Mommy & me rescue - Adopt a Pet: <http://www.adoptapet.com/adoption_rescue/85327.html>
mircea_popescu: (there's a widely known, at least in europe, welt der kunst, world of art. /me had classmates going for a while that it simply means "wealth of cunts")
mircea_popescu: DEFINITELY a better approach to the entire eliezer/potter bs than either of the proponents.
assbot: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Lyrics - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOzC1I )
asciilifeform: suppose a man were disassembled into components, sorted by atomic mass. then, next day, reassembled. answer - a) this cannot be done for Reasons b) he died and was replaced with soul-less copy c) he simply got paused and then resumed, will wonder where the day went but nothing else d) none of the above ?
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:56:06; trinque: there's a mental defect where one considers himself to be an idea
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060994 << this is more of an infantilism than a defect. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: that had me for a chuckle, you know ? "too lazy to type it in, it's like characters and shit"
mircea_popescu: a yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i remember correctly, usg is on record saying they lack the ability to input a printed gpg privkey.
asciilifeform: (funded just a bit)
asciilifeform: or simply picture a card with btc privkey
asciilifeform trying to find ancient thread re: drunken red army folks having a duel with submachineguns and blocked by greatcoats
assbot: 3 results for 'ppsh' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ppsh
asciilifeform: (it's linked in a comment on his site iirc)
mircea_popescu: so... have a buncha steel business cards, make your own armor
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i drew a pcb card for mircea_popescu half-seriously
mircea_popescu: except he was shotwith a .38 and he was carring money. so it didn't go through.
mircea_popescu: you know, there's this legend that actually happened of romanian mobster that got shot coming out of a restaurant
nubbins`: what am i gonna do with a steel business card
nubbins`: that's actually a pure gold base w/ some orange pigment added
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a gpg-enabled lawyer, i take it
assbot: 7 results for 'plough' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=plough
nubbins`: not sure if i have pics handy, but i know there's a couple cards downstairs
mircea_popescu: a showgirls style casual nudity meets american psycho casual psychopathology would rock.
mircea_popescu: but the film could definitely have done with a lot more and a lot better nudity.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i never understood the concept of a "paper erection" until i got into this biz, ya know
danielpbarron: i literally have a crate of business cards saved up
mircea_popescu: i guess it's time to come up with a byline for it hm.
mircea_popescu: cool. so submit a nice design.
mircea_popescu: i can go for that as a qntra perk. you gonna be willing to keep the design and make more of the same if these folks run out / for new folks ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu say 600 bezzlars for a dozen people to get 250 cards each, design + shipping at actual cost
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:51:23; jurov: someone go grow a finger from yudkowski's dna and tell him you have the rest of his clone in cellar
mircea_popescu: soon enough he's holding a nonsense.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey, what;d you cost to make qntra business cards for a dozen ppl and ship em ?
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 19:25:54; mircea_popescu: "Citizens ask for permission, expats ask for forgiveness" << maybe he should ask for a nailgun.
mircea_popescu: of course. because he's not a citizen.
mircea_popescu: only as a result of having taken ownserhip of teh citizenry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it were about ox damage it'd be a fine.
mircea_popescu: similarly in the recently invented "sex tourism" trials, you're not on trial for there bering a fgucked 12yo in thailand, but for there being a usian citizen that had some fun.
asciilifeform: possibly some mix (i can think of a situation where it is precisely about ox damage)
asciilifeform: (the crown, who will go after me if i show up with a rifle and a kebeb grill ready to go)
asciilifeform: but this is a trivial observation.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> tries to exercise a delusion of control over his environment via the only means he knows how - by smearing his surroundings, and if you let him - entire planets - with his shit << this, is, fundamentally, "social media", as the recent maddox link amply explains.
mircea_popescu: there IS a difference.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "a strange happened so i badded it" << quite.
asciilifeform: and having the temerity to whine if a white spot remains
asciilifeform: tries to exercise a delusion of control over his environment via the only means he knows how - by smearing his surroundings, and if you let him - entire planets - with his shit
nubbins`: "a strange happened so i badded it"
asciilifeform: a specifically 'civilized' kind of degeneracy on exhibit here
mircea_popescu: but in context this'd be a reasonable expectation.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: in the lab i worked at, permethrin was used as a substitute for sarin (the building was not rated for the latter, needs airlocks, etc)
nubbins`: the guy sprayed a can of raid in a cat's face?
asciilifeform is experiencing almost a kind of synaesthesia. that post -stinks-, just about literally, of american degeneracy. smells kinda like 'mcdonalds'
asciilifeform: we have a tailless one here, and a very ancient skeletal one, both fed
danielpbarron: i got bit by a feral cat and freaked out less than this guy; didn't go to doctor even
mircea_popescu: actually hanbot used to feed chicken livers to this blind dog that had a helper tripod dog (one limb cut off, prolly in tram accident).
asciilifeform: presumably they keel over somewhere else, in a designated place
asciilifeform: though i've yet to find a carcass
asciilifeform: and i'm not even a zoophiliac.
mircea_popescu: "could a rope and an open can of tuna solve this problem ? naaah, best call the plumber!"
mircea_popescu: "gee, i wonder why the poor cat isn't scaling the wall after being sprayer with permethrin and not being fed for a week"
asciilifeform: who brutally murder any tame animal unfortunate enough to be let out for a walk
mircea_popescu: note that it's not even a wild cat.
nubbins`: thestringpuller have you ever thought of eating a large quantity of muscle meat as running a tough program? 8)
nubbins`: Adlai a mix of both
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you may appreciate this thought. So I like XC running, so I just like to run to work out. At some point it's like your body is heating up like a GPU trying to run a video game (hence sweat). So I've always thought of exercising as our bodies running "tough programs". lol
trinque: luminous is sitting a few feet away
nubbins`: skipped 4 consecutive weeks of classes mid-semester, came out w/ an 88 and a letter from the faculty pleading me to change majors