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mircea_popescu: nevertheless, do not expect they operate IN THE WORLD!
mircea_popescu: yea, this is the thing with psychic defenses : they are not optional, but necessary.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of that short, brunette scion of the wealthy dreyfuss fambly (hey, almost like the rothschilds, ok ?) "Ohh.. right. Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just a beautiful moment between two lovers."
mircea_popescu: the problem is not what you call it, but the bizarre notion that there is a switch somewhere.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me we accidentallied into a public-private corssover where i was discussing public matters and you were recounting your sex life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im speaking of the thing. what were you speaking of ?
mircea_popescu: in truth and honestly, humanity has produced one single great idea since the beginning,
mircea_popescu: maybe it's possible to paint it green. so what if it is.
mircea_popescu: random arbitrary measure is irrelevant in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: trinque that's why i say "it's as if he reads his own text with a different part of the brain."
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's nothing wrong with taking pictures, as a memory aid.
mircea_popescu: why THE FUCK do you suppose they throw a fit ? "because towelheads" ?
mircea_popescu: when mircea_popescu burned a koran, bin laden's koran also burned.
mircea_popescu off to ammend the rule, 0 , 1, infitnity MINUS ONE, infinity.
mircea_popescu: this happens irrespective of whether they ALSO fell down in your picture or not.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, if i lean on the pile just the right way, whether you took the picture or not, they will fall down.
mircea_popescu: you snap out your camera, and take a picture of some objects in this room.
mircea_popescu: so we go into this room, where there's all sorts of furniture.
mircea_popescu: it's as if he reads his own text with a different part of the brain.
mircea_popescu: next thing you know teaching hasn't happened in 2o years. wow of wow.
mircea_popescu: because clearly this is a good thing, not like they'll now be more powerful than whatever force is "opressing" them into education.
mircea_popescu: they took a snapshot of the way educating the young worked, imagined that it's held in place by forces from mythology, and proceeded to "give kids a say"
mircea_popescu: it is also how idiot brits/everyone sunk the entire culture of the west after the war :
mircea_popescu: this is the substance of the misunderstanding. you imagine that if you take a picture of a pile of objects, you now have a SPECIAL pile of objects, that does other things.
mircea_popescu: once it becomes the c, your flimsy "federalist papers" won't protect you any more than yes, what trinque said.
mircea_popescu: now you know what populared my imagination coupla decades ago.
mircea_popescu: they usually faint and lose any memories from the past hour.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the google hiring of turds a la hearn and a whole raft of others to be specifically intetional.
mircea_popescu: " and then you look at the code and it's the same set of aggressive, google employed queergenders." << there's more than one ways to go about fucking over the competition.
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, not really popular as working girl working name. for some reason.
mircea_popescu: random lulz : sorana (almost spoken as sore-anna) is a perfectly legit ro name.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform odd that the idiot horde can keep SOME things frozen in time.
mircea_popescu: because check it out, once it needed to open up an interface autocad did exactly what gimp did.
mircea_popescu: which is why pre-ba, all people i knew that knew what lisp was knew it was "oh, scripting language. pretty nifty."
mircea_popescu: i don't mean hobbist projects, owned and managed by the v ery enthusiast in question. i mean shops. with management
mircea_popescu: then again i guess it makes sense, reddit's collectively at that enchanted age when kid walks into bedroom unexpectedly, thinks dad's "beating the shit out of mom". because wut is fuck anyway.
mircea_popescu: Peshawar was known in Sanskrit as Puruṣapura (पुरूषपुर), literally meaning "city of men".
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess maybe ? strikes me as fucking insane, but then again i guess that's their point
mircea_popescu: and the 800k gallons figure is nonsense. 3.2 cubic meters of water srsly ? 150 acres is what, half a square km ? so you're supposedly doing 4 * 8 * 10^5 * 365 / .5 / 10^6 = 2336mm rainfall a year ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> even place large quantity of gold in land mines. hell, make the land mines ~entirely~ out of gold. not like the yellow stuff has any better uses. <<< this is for sure how i'd be running the vault.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> "Russians safeguarding the stock late in the Cold War cached tiny reservoirs of red mercury in sewing machines and radios bound for export" ahahahaha <<< there is a very popular east european scam where "german collector" announces he is paying very high sums for "old german sewing machines".
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> irc is a pain. you would not believe what idiocies i had put in assbot to keep it as stable as it is. << i have a vague idea.
mircea_popescu: but generally their (planeta moldova) work should be pretty hysterical to a russian speaker with ro knowledge