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mircea_popescu: if things moved < 5% it was clear, if faster than that holy blur on a shitstick!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>had standard lcd. but the latter do not resemble the machines i have previously used having such << speaing of which, i went to a local cinema yest. place tries real hard to be us like. they had digital projector. not only were the pixels visible with naked eye from middle of room, but
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> anyways, the notion that the us courts have the mandate to execute people or have any other stort of effect on the world is long past its sell by date << word.
mircea_popescu: or that there's more examples of this pinnacle of lulz than there are "scientists" drawing breath at any given time.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but the fact is, the mind-reading box does not necessarily have to... work. to be put in use. << right right. cholesterol is bad for you except its good for you and salt is bad except its good and hey, as long as they got "science" what difference does it make that they're 100% consensused on opposite things every 30 years.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: libtard socialism ftw, needs are respectable wants are criminal so let's pretend like we need shit we must have.
mircea_popescu: it's so badly contorted, for one thing it's anything but a need, for the other why the fuck are you so affraid of me you need to start by lying.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno that nonsense is of any interest rly. ever since ashcroft usg has been putting forth all sorts of spurious claims.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "how about you do some work to justify this dough we're burning through"
mircea_popescu: "humanism" or whatever they call the superset of puritanic socialism.
mircea_popescu: inclusionary writing belongs with stone fucking soup and barn raising.
mircea_popescu: writing is supposed to be fucking exclusionary. this is why it exist : to exclude some people ; and to advantage some of the others at the expense of the remainder.
mircea_popescu: i fucking hate them and i glad they died in a fire, there's nothing either wise or good about this junk.
mircea_popescu: this fucking offensive FOSS/original_wiki brand of "simple clear concise" idiocy is driving me up the wall, today, as the movement's dead just like it was back when the movement was nascent.
mircea_popescu couldn't get through that zimmermann "why i" blabla a decade ago, still can't today.
mircea_popescu: that was a bit ago. and yeah, they did look a little pudgy.
mircea_popescu: "us army wins wars - by first bulding roads in the warzone so the soldiers can get places!"
mircea_popescu: turns out centcom command goes before congress to explain they had like "4-5 people"
mircea_popescu: see what he 1mn army parked in kr does once the chinese go all out on it.
mircea_popescu: heck, last michail 1st5 checked he had full strength garrisons. this was true on condition that they not be removed from places no one is attacking.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter last every ustard checked he had 401k. with dollars in it.
mircea_popescu: last every derp checked he had 1k+ friends. on facebook.
mircea_popescu: the "real army in the sky" isn't part of discussion, it's part of masturbation.
mircea_popescu: as it does, it's good enough and as it won't it won't be.
mircea_popescu: no, it just means it beats the shit out of anything the us army can put on the ground on every encounter to date.
mircea_popescu: im sure byzantines didn't like that stinky paris hamlet either.
mircea_popescu: that you don't like it is a wholly unrelated consideration.
mircea_popescu: looky, it's functional - at least more so than the usg - and it's anti-west alright.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the sum total of "public conversation" in english atm.
mircea_popescu: "here's the laws and and if you don't like it, you can leave" "i'll go join the people that'll fuck you up" "o wait you can't leave" "does that mean you admit your laws are dumb ?" "nope" "does that make you a hypocritical idiot ? " "no it doesnt!!1"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how's this sit with the "not compulsory to live here" argument ?
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 25-03-2015 05:16:55; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have a favourite << i don't imagine the 6 months caught us any fish, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is not a good start either. it's just the start we got.
mircea_popescu: the main difference being that no multi-billion worth of terrorists gave a shit back in 1999
mircea_popescu: that was then covered by endless layers of usg-esque "improvements" mostly intended to cement the gunk in place.
mircea_popescu: in fact gpg has a lot in commnon with bitcoin : an original prototype of a good idea, with a lot of quick and dirty stuff,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mostly for the lulzy "you.com not myspace.com/you" image followed by a windows xp screenshot.
mircea_popescu: then again, it took the internet 30 years and it took bitcoin 3 for the same result, so i guess there's progress.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny how old people STILL don't get the internet, but meanwhile have moved on from ignoring it to pretending they're part of it while it ignores them.