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mircea_popescu: imo the VERY best story of thanksgiving friends is made by pretty much the only thing worth the mention culturally to come out of the bit of romania currently stranded as an "independent state" because russians.
mircea_popescu: well... the hopeful moral in there is that the man STREUGGLES to eat the damned mcflurries
mircea_popescu: next you're gonna say samuel clemens smoke ten cigars a day for seventy years and all it did was to preserve him
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> most people eat every day but never think. << newton's 4th law of thermodumbnamycs.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: 'it' is the honey or the jews ? << the honey. feed it to infant, watch infant become really quiet./
mircea_popescu: dear "the press" : no matter what pig lipstick you try to put on the current iteration of hruschev, he's still uncomfortable wearing shoes.
mircea_popescu: since when droning bureaucrat droning on because too petrified of shutting up is "powerful" in any sense ?
mircea_popescu: either that or "chosen nation" emerges, butchers pharaoh.
mircea_popescu: are you complaining about your own blog to yourself ?!
mircea_popescu: or in the words of the old guard sicilians, "sell the dope to the niggers, they're animals anyway"
mircea_popescu: specifically, that there are two kids of people : the addicts, who aren't people, and the actual people.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform english words don'\t denote anymore. they aspire.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that nsa has nothing worth doing.
mircea_popescu: id-level computer operators and turn them into what they call "cyberwarriors." It's not that they're skilled hackers, it's that the procedures do the work for them."
mircea_popescu: "This cost-benefit analysis doesn't end at successful exploitation. According to Snowden, the TAO—that’s Tailored Access Operations—operators running the FOXACID system have a detailed flowchart, with tons of rules about when to stop. If something doesn't work, stop. If they detect a PSP, a personal security product, stop. If anything goes weird, stop. This is how the NSA avoids detection, and also how it takes m
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, whatg, someone is good enough to make it appear continuous while at the same time inept enough to give 4 days' worth of gestapo click tone ?
mircea_popescu has accidentally kefir, throuygh leaving the milk out overnight. it turned, was quite good.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get a load of this : boxen weren't rebooted.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i could confirm the story that there've been a bunch of stolen servers all through ukr / poland / baltics, "opperation
mircea_popescu: ok so. the story, after what was it, 4 days downtime, once the dude finally came back, is, and i quote, "ok I fixed it. give it about 20 minutes". whereupon at my inquiry trhat what was wrong wit hit ?! the response came that "it was turned off for some reason".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and understand, we're not even talking "server" aka 10 bux a month. or "cheap vps". or even dedicated. we're talking guy who walks in, orders 3 boxes, pays cash. and there they sit babbling.
mircea_popescu: believe it or not there still is some west tecvh they've not fully disassembled yet.
mircea_popescu: and then it will be 200, and then 100, and then you simply won't be able to get a container there. at all.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you think i'm speaking of westardian genocide + mass rape cause overactive imagination ?
mircea_popescu: what, you think the redskins got exterminated because people hated niggers ?
mircea_popescu: that's how commerce works. unavoidably, and to great benefit.
mircea_popescu: the very thing of being a merchant is, that you enter into deals.
mircea_popescu: that's the bitch here. there is no closed form solution.
mircea_popescu: this is very good, patrimonially. the drawback however is, it's very bad, sartorially.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ANYTHING would be proof that. anything. just as long as done by human.
mircea_popescu: you're looking at about 1.5bn investment to make a competitive one.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, most everyone works with a list of dc approved suppliers anyway.
mircea_popescu: whether they bought their own box and colocated it, or rented a precolocated one from dc is a very fine point.
mircea_popescu: punkman in practical terms ownership of capital goods is very messy. you think gm owns the equipment in gm plant ? as what, outright ? mno.
mircea_popescu: they run the technical side, marketing has got to be wholesaled out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not anymore than "Someone somewhere actually runs hydro plant".
mircea_popescu: "this shoe shop just resells shoes from various shoe outlets"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why this would be a discovery or anythning. this is the business.
mircea_popescu: is that i actually make money with these stupid shits.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, EVERYONE in argentina. non 100 bills carry a 5% discount here.
mircea_popescu: their budget is < 500 bucks, which barely buys a bike.
mircea_popescu: exactly. so what happens next ? a) they show up for work and b) the only work they can do is star in movies, where unfortunate thirld worlders suffer the horrible fate of having their ancestral knowledge passed down at great expense that "white man good, you scum" married to the fact that deep down in his entrails he feels like this is a great thing!
mircea_popescu: it's dumb-dumb : the phds pay the rents, the scum gets to keep the pretense going