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mircea_popescu: not like it wasn't fucking obvious, hence
the whole "student" vagabond class, already well entranched by
the
time of villon.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the reason merchant class even appeared in medieval europe was because it's cheaper
to rent a house in castle
than it is
to produce it. sucker's play, and
that's how aristocracy bled
to death.
mircea_popescu: if you factor into
this "rent free" what
tomahawks copst anbd what
they do for
that money, you're sunk.
phf: intuitively any rent free arrangement must necessarily cost more, because it's not subsidized by
the master
mircea_popescu: oh, yeah, and
the whole "rent free" nonsense bit a huge girder once i pointed out
to you what
the proper solution for
this boating bs is ;
then it
turned out
the whole
thing was more of an exercise in inverting naggum's matrices "to see if it could be done"
than anything specific.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (in passing let it be said
that
the universal and fundamental quality of snake oil is just
this swiss army knife appearance, it's supposed
to be everything for everyone but nothing in particular
to no particular anyone.)
mircea_popescu: i need some roto'n culo
to "invent"
the houseboat for me like i need some indigent farmer
to invent a new religion on
the basis of "reading"
tablets fallen from
the sky.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but otherwise -- no further
than last year i sat and drank on a "QUIDNON". it was large and well furnished, built specifically for being casino. sat, logically, ON RIVER, beause no waves. and so forth.
mircea_popescu: just more of
the same
tedious, lazy, loathsome "reasoning" by simile.
mircea_popescu: and no, it isn't some sort of brilliant idea
to "you know, like swiss army knife, for sports handhelds!"
mircea_popescu: eh, my recollection of
the discussion is, "there's houseboat and
there's yacht.
there's no batshit-nonsense for
the ~same reason
there's no golf club cum baseball bat cum
tennis racket."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: something
tells me no hotel maid in new york is gonna complain she
tried
to rape her, yes ?
mircea_popescu: oh, in other lulz : laura codruta kovesi, ro axe handle and for ~decade very insistently presented by usg media as a sort of hero of
the fight against "corruption" (aka, non-usg capital) is now sought by police because "somehow" disappeared just as various legal proceedings started.
mircea_popescu: or is
that just more of "he robbed me of
the glamour of yachting as seen by a cat inside a cardboard box" ?
mircea_popescu: how about it's just a stupid idea by a clueless moron who pointedly refuses
to acknowledge his ignorance because he figures if he fixes it he just becomes
the normal unremarkable dork his mommy made him, whereas in militant idiocy he feels unique ?
mircea_popescu: nobody ever encountered
this problem in
the history of life on earth.
mircea_popescu: us is really very "liquidated damages"-y. rather
than mandate performances.
mircea_popescu: but it can also be used in private practice, such as
the obligation of guy who owns
the gate
to give you a key because you have a right of egress, or w/e such.
mircea_popescu: most of
the
time, it's a method of review of administrative activity
that's not well served by equity redress (special court for
that). i got say
the ro immigrations obliged by court
to issuye work permits etc.
mircea_popescu: romanian law has
this wonderful device, successor of
the ancient writ of mandamus, "obligatia de a face". you can sue for
the court
to force specific performance out of people.
mircea_popescu: (the
threat of being sued in romania and
then getting in
trouble when going
to french conbference or w/e is remarkably powerful.)
mircea_popescu: did
take wringing some necks of
the "antispam" mafia, but
they wring surprisinglky easily.
Framedragger: now picturing sending a physical letter with an invite
to irc. possibly gpg fingerprint,
too
mircea_popescu: mine did, all
the way
to when i dropped
the shit altoghether.
Framedragger: asciilifeform:
this'll sound stupid, but have you checked whether mail from your mail server does not get marked as spam by various heathen systems (gmail e.g.)?
Framedragger is content with politness-instrumental-role in
this context, but not certain if even
that helps (being more confrontational (if
that's
the word) from
the get-go ain't a bad
thing, etc...)
mircea_popescu: can't ask other boys
to
talk
to
the girls
that interest you, it's just not how
this whole
talking business works.
mircea_popescu: this is kinda why you're stuck doing
the writing -- you're
the only one who can
tell him from adam. i dun care. Framedragger is polite and everything, but
that goes so far.
mircea_popescu: quite so. /me is not
terribly currious what mario $rando says or does or whatever anyway.
mircea_popescu: as per
teh "whisperers" discussion : after you write, it's his problem. before you do, however, murkier.
Framedragger: ok
then will, can't hurt. but expect same success rate (0)...
Framedragger: asciilifeform: do basically want
to invite him
to audit FUCKGOATS?
mircea_popescu: well, maybe doing it wrong is no excuse from having
to do it.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: mine were over $100 cad each fwiw. and
that was 3 weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: the item smells like
the end of
them. which it is. so... scary as all shit, yes.
phf: asciilifeform: your
thing is existentially
terrifying, it demands a lot from
the "user" (not sure it even accepts
the notion of user) when
they look at it,
they see a glimpse of own mortality
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o shit, will prolly have
to reprice
those
things huh. what is it by now, benjie per ? more ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we shoulda hotglued a chinese singing
thing inside a shoebox.
pete_dushenski: speaking of s.nsa, why does mpex not list website for it ? or for s.mg for
that matter ? s.qntr lists.
mircea_popescu: well, be poor for a few more years, sell a coupla s.nsa shares,
then you'll have.
mircea_popescu: but yes, costa rica mostly "colonial" style. which i like, myself, but i can see
the "if it ain't small streets and vienese palaces everywhere it ain't
the old country". guess not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the difference is
that you could buy such a
thing here.
mircea_popescu: and in
the same vein, just came from accountant, who moved offices because whatever, fambly dispute over property etc. his new place, downtown san jose, is something like 2k sqft for 900 a month.
phf: i
take it for asciilifeform unbroken means exactly cr or certain parts of mexico or southern india even, but with existing infrastructure
to support his electron microscope. having
to build
that infra himself is mp'ism and is unacceptable
mircea_popescu: rolled
today past
this "entrance" at a 30 degree angle from
the wall,
two feet wide. whole place looks like hobbits built iut.
mircea_popescu should
take you for a walk in barrio mexico. somehow everywhere
the "barrio mexico" is
this batshit insane / utterly pictoresque agglomeration of hovels.
totally bohemian, all inclines and strange angles and shit.
mircea_popescu: is it
that you don't wanrt
to live in a country where mcd exists at all ; or where ruined old houses exist at all ?