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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.
mircea_popescu: they have no patience for lactose, and won't stand for it!
mircea_popescu: in this sense, the shooters are more important for the sanity of the species than the us congress. they provide a much needed, deeply valuable check on the idiotic, FEMALE behaviours of the herd.
mircea_popescu: try this, do something meaningless, pointless and "wasteful" or at any rate against their internalized normas. it'll give them dry fucking heaves, omfg you're leaving a 50 watt light on, or the water running just because ? headexplody.
mircea_popescu: in this sense going to school and lighting up a bunch of fucktarded kids is the ultimate will, in that it's mostly a gratuitous act. such existentialism bothers the libtard to high heavens.
mircea_popescu: their issue is with the WILL. car deaths are "accidents". that's ok. just as long as nobody gets what they WANT libertard is happy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: than i'm willing to put up with "your money's our business" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather see hillary forced to burka on the senate floor and pelosi whipped in downtown san diego for keeping bad house,
mircea_popescu: and for as long as aml bullshit stands, this will continue unabated.\
mircea_popescu: society's still reeling from the unceremonious introduction of the power law right back into it.
mircea_popescu: because "positive" labels in the rent-extracting sense of "positive" always turn out a little hollow and then a little hollower each passing year. the "ecological" lightbulbs ain't that ecological either. and so on.
mircea_popescu: why ? i suppose the man likes to read. i don't imagine he intends to actually use it.
mircea_popescu: punkman afaik gnupg actually started with the zimmerman code at some point
☟︎ mircea_popescu: however that decoupling does mean trinque is stguck with a blockchain, which... he gets credits for hosting.
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly, as it's the one bit of ai we actually turn out to need (as opposed to starstrucklingly WANT, a la sussman & co)
mircea_popescu: automatic trust turns out to be the hardest problem in computing atm
mircea_popescu: logically there's no point. it's one of those things that were intended to be practically usefull/streamlined etc that backfired.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform agreed re subkeys. tho i think we had agreed on this before.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> btw 'talos' is a cheap front for burning old nsa holez << word.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin puts a time limit on it, of course, but that's all. hence the clock issue.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> z80 box won't keep the blockchain ~only~ on account of slow instruction clocl. << peeps gotta understand that there's really nothing magical about longer numbers. if your computer can add bits, it can add 64 of them also. which is how we were doing arbitrary precision math on the z80, too.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> '[derpage snipped]' << who the fuck is 'we' ?! << i think you know who the fuck is "we".
mircea_popescu: cazalla> but they stop the same muslims from leaving australia to go fight with isis << part of australia's values is hypocrisy. problem ?
mircea_popescu remembers that time when kyle torpey was it posted an article begging for something or the other and then michael derp came in and beleeted it and made a lengthy "full responsibility"-flavoured nonsensepost.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of readily self-contradictory grandstanding and whatnot.