asciilifeform: given as things did not turn to shit while they were in his hands - i must say yes

asciilifeform: but rms is a man of much greater talent, and isn't really a snake the way esr is.

asciilifeform: emacs in a recognizable form long pre-dated rms.

asciilifeform: rms, interestingly, did to emacs something much like esr tried to do to the things he sprayed his piss on

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eben moglen did 90% of what rms is famous for.

asciilifeform: just not in the sense he claimed.

asciilifeform: meet esr in the flesh - the gasbag won't ever shut up about how his fingers were 'on everything.' -- and they were.

asciilifeform: esr is ~the~ 'plowing fly' of linux.

asciilifeform: (naggumism)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-05-2015#1119815 << oblig ☝︎

asciilifeform: which he appropriated, slapped own name on the cover, and peppered with idiot invented words with no history

asciilifeform: btw, perhaps the lightest, but still not forgotten, of esr's crimes is his theft of the 'hacker's dictionary'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: don't wait for this letter. after all, he still has a skin for them to take

asciilifeform assumed it was a spamcorp

asciilifeform: how classy

asciilifeform: l0l it's a real american corp

asciilifeform: trinque: you so much as entertained the notion that it is ~not~ a scam ?!!

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1266089 << if you 'often hear' this, you may be standing too close to the beast-who-digests-for-800-years ☝︎

asciilifeform: it is not so much about permission as it is about enculturation.

asciilifeform: and be numerous, l0l

asciilifeform: ^ now this, possibly.

asciilifeform: they are placed well.

asciilifeform: not the same as surrender.

asciilifeform: they want to rule without publicly sitting on a throne, yes

asciilifeform: i don't see it.

asciilifeform: did i miss this spreading ?

asciilifeform: wai wut

asciilifeform: ask chechen ?

asciilifeform: other than rapemeat

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (they don't 'nordicsystem' there, no.)

asciilifeform: try 'go to russia.'

asciilifeform: 'like sledding, like pulling the sled' (tm)

asciilifeform: didn't want this? don't join nato.

asciilifeform: yes, it puts out bright light, other things almost impossible to see next to it.

asciilifeform: again mircea_popescu conflates the sv world with the actual world.

asciilifeform: mats: i work with just such a man

asciilifeform: of the human compiler variety - yes.

asciilifeform: scrip.

asciilifeform: *scrip

asciilifeform: (it is actually script, yes, there is a word for it, aha)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'if it covers the rent and the swill, it's money' approximately

asciilifeform: mats: 'many' may be an exaggeration, but yes, exists

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i work with them

asciilifeform: sure there are

asciilifeform: kdomanski: mats is right. it is enough to choose your parents carefully.

asciilifeform: !up kdomanski

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265876 << the interesting part is that this is OPTIONAL. for everyone. even the lowest indian programmer, DOES NOT HAVE TO derpference. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265872 << ergo my reaction to those times when ben_vulpes, trinque, etc express bewilderment at my refusal to 'work in software' ☝︎

asciilifeform: !s which screw

asciilifeform: it doesn't really make much sense elsewhere...

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265863 << i associate the word with the army and little else ☝︎

asciilifeform: as pictured in the very relevant mircea_popescu piece, 'this is not money that anyone had to work to earn and save, it is created with a button press'

asciilifeform: emphasis on 'dust'

asciilifeform: in-dust-ry.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mainly afflicting the www 'industry' & co.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265852 << re: this and the entire thread: it might surprise mircea_popescu, but i have never seen this idiocy alive up close, nor know anyone who will attest to having done so; it is really a west coast / sv thing as far as i can tell. ☝︎

asciilifeform: he is entirely correct.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: having a job history (and if you paid tax, it is impossible to conceal) counts against you.

asciilifeform: gotta decide young

asciilifeform: try getting it ~while being YOU~

asciilifeform: trinque: IF YOU ARE THEM

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't expect to ever meet this mythical animal, aha

asciilifeform: trinque: 10 to 1 odds the card is her mother's ☟︎

asciilifeform: can get 'food stamps' more often, but need multiple years of tax returns demonstrating being a pauper, typically

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265848 << mircea_popescu, like most non-us folk, has a disastrously exaggerated concept of 'can get welfare.' in practice, you HAVE to be black, female, have bastard children, preferably - all 3 ☝︎

asciilifeform: of becoming furnace stokers and night watchmen instead of engineers, as per the su example.

asciilifeform: the contribution of nonparticipation.

asciilifeform: as in, failing to properly serve satan in his hour of need (tm)

asciilifeform: there is ~failing to do~

asciilifeform: as per the su example

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not 'because the people' so much as 'because not giving a fuck'

asciilifeform: but instead, the teenage idiot who wants the car, the money, ~and~ to disobey father - is the mover of civilization.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1265812 << if this recipe were actually followed, you get a usg reich that lasts 10,000 years. still want ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down ! ...'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the man is insufferable in person, also

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is to be backed up, for the last time, over the next couplea days.

asciilifeform: !up analmaster

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: ores. And now they are reduced to explaining at the top of their lungs how the refugee crisis has nothing at all to do with their foreign policy.'

asciilifeform: 'For example, there is the refugee problem, which seems to be affecting all the countries that bombed, invaded or otherwise disrupted the countries that are now causing the refugee crisis. It never seemed to dawn on the highly compensated eurocratic morons that helping the US empire to destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and sow chaos all over the Middle East would result in a torrent of humans deluging their sh

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265249 << related >> http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/09/eventual-consequences.html ☝︎

asciilifeform: !s shannonizer

asciilifeform: i will also note that i know a fella with a box shelved right next to mine (diametric) and his has not gone down even once.

asciilifeform: no shit.

asciilifeform: this is NORMAL

asciilifeform: fluffypony: i have a box in an american dc with ~6+ year uptime.

asciilifeform: fucking cosmic rays, aha

asciilifeform: a little bird held that power switch down, aha

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu WITH MULTI-HOUR DOWN TIMES

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu that box is a titanic disgrace not only to s.nsa, but bisp. every penny you pay for it is a penny given to a scammer who is laughing at us

asciilifeform: TWICE, MOTHERFUCKERS

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu reboot system boot 2.6.32-431.el6.x Mon Sep 7 00:30 - 10:01 (09:31) AND reboot system boot 2.6.32-431.el6.x Mon Sep 7 08:44 - 10:01 (01:17) ---- TWICE

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: with english subs!

asciilifeform: also mega-classic.