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mircea_popescu: i wonder how prevalent this actually is. as opposed to interested parties trying to create
a niche for their ngos.
mircea_popescu: "MOSAC -
a charity which supports the non-abusing parents and carers of abused children - says
a third of all calls to its helpline are from women who believe they have been groomed into conceiving
a child."
mats: i'm quoting heavily from
a book that was influential in my youth.
mircea_popescu: mats actually this is
a mental condition in humans, and the desire of squids and generally cephalopodes exclusively.
mats: trinque: its the dream of every living creature. to grow until all the space you can see is
a part of you. the desire for greatness...
mircea_popescu: the nine women - three men island + slavery would have probably icmb'd the other one within
a few generations.
trinque: mats: interesting actually, to think of god as
a human aspiration
mats: run it in
a sandbox
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: would you rather have
a dick sized nipple, or
a nipple sized dick?
trinque: mats: hell of
a disillusionment tale
mats: two kids i played ball with and taught spanish to died when
a few shacks collapsed
mats: i never felt so depressed as when i did 'missionary work' as
a young man in Quezon City
mircea_popescu: "Without
a CEO in charge of the currency or anyone to subpoena, how do you control the bitcoin economy? The law is designed to deal with centralized institutions in which identifiable managers are deemed responsible for an organization's conduct."
mircea_popescu: soo... their inept influence agents got murdered by
a guy we won't name, and so we won't name the thing they were try9ing to influence either ?
mircea_popescu: "During
a conference call with reporters Monday, Fed staffers were asked why the paper made no mention of Bitcoin. They responded by saying that they plan to monitor developments with digital currency, and that later, as those technologies mature, regulators will possibly have
a different strategy."
mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money <<< title has
a point. there is no such thing as "apolitical" money. bitcoin is quite very political.
mircea_popescu: let the smart ones find their own way in, and if there's
a grand total of three of them worldwide that'll be fine.
mircea_popescu: so i find that veronique chick as the first source of the ghost vulnerability, im all about to go into
a rand as to how see, THIS is the sort of actual women in actual tech
mod6: i think he's trying to make
a v6 addr
trinque: lenovo is supposed to be sending me
a box to ship it back... I'll unmount and re-mount the usb drive and it'll work fine
punkman: yeah I wonder why I can't find
a laptop that doesn't overheat
trinque: actually happened to
a dell p4 whatever after it overheated for the last time
trinque: I could get away with nothing-but-emacs in
a vt for most of what I do
trinque: asciilifeform: I'm considering jumping ship to
a BSD soon as I feel like it's an informed decision
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the only kind of animal in
a disneyland is - stuffed. << Plenty of cats to eat the mice and rats.
mircea_popescu: mats: i am disappointed the snow is not piled higher. this is not the apocalypse i was promised! << usg makes
a habit to overpromise and underdeliver.
mircea_popescu: speaking of the derps behind the derpage : "Sara Miller McCune was born into
a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan. She was international president of B'nai B'rith Girls at the age of 19, and has spoken of the importance of tzedakah."
punkman: "blocked from the network by their peers for as
a little as
a day for minor infractions such as slowing down SNet with file-sharing outside prescribed hours, with lifetime bans for violations like distributing pornography."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i do not know enough about koch to say < i do. he's old. this is
a game for men, not for codgers.
mircea_popescu: (the college professor also makes intellectual sense, but the current day implementation has nothing to do with the thing that makes sense - "why is he
a professor ? " "because all these people know him, respect him and wish to be his studends" vs "why are you his student ?" "because hes the professor"
mircea_popescu: generaly confidence crises can be unwound by
a party universally trusted that's techniocally competent
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'the actual rich' as
a monolithic whole is, i dare say,
a fictional trope as well << what, and i suppose the island of beautiful women doens't exist, either ?!
decimation: even if herr koch wanted to create
a 'functional german hamlet' from ukraine, (for instance), how could he possibly do it without making it like disneyland?
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2015 04:45:19; mircea_popescu: decimation it's as fucking unbriliant as
a lump of coal. at the end of the week, instead of having
a decent steak and
a game of bridge with intellgient people,
mircea_popescu: like
a discussion among 12 yo boys about what makes women sluts.
decimation: well, there was
a time for getting out of Paris
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole piece is
a neat summary of just how idiotic the demo is.
decimation: oil is
a terrible store of value - it halved in only
a few weeks! it's
a good idea though, I'm going to wait for the next generation of chemical energy movement & storage
mircea_popescu: yeah but the problem is still exposed : to live like one pleases specifically can not carry
a rider of time limited.
mircea_popescu: so the problem here is thjat some peniless tramp gave himself
a lordship that he then couldn't finance ?
mircea_popescu: seems
a lot more productive. the exiled russian thinkers did pretty good in ny.
a lot better, at any rate, than the nysu "professors"
mircea_popescu: because back then the average american understood himself as
a peniless tramp, that's fortunate to even be allowed in europe at all.
decimation: asciilifeform: does it have
a header already installed (v4)?
mats: BingoBoingo: at
a later date, i'd like some assistance with reviewing and rating materials from the courts-circus project. would you be interested?
decimation: asciilifeform: for 'passive investments' available to the public, that implies
a net worth of > $3 mil
decimation: lol even in ohio
a place near civilization is around $1000
BingoBoingo: The Rum fountain. No author appears to be
a forensic pyschiatrist as he self describes.
TheNewDeal: BingoBoingo this definitely is one of the article I was reading > I remember seeing the receptors lined up as
a fountain
mircea_popescu: odds are, woman decided to have children, his choice was whether to pay
a lawyer AND the woman orjust the woman.
mircea_popescu: reading that whole site's never been
a bad use of anyone's time
mircea_popescu: "So it is inevitable that
a deal will be struck by August 2, because that deal doesn't actually mean anything. This
a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing the household budget, each pretending they aren't going to pay the electric until he's agreed to cut back on beer and she's agreed not to be such
a bitch. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant, the electric's still getting paid. The electric always gets
mircea_popescu: well i only paid attention for
a shoirt time and late on
TheNewDeal: The guy had some of the most advanced discussions on anti-depressants and anti-psychotics that i'd seen before on
a blog
TheNewDeal: I remember someone giving
a blog before that was almost always on psychiatric issues