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mircea_popescu: phf tito was, like stalin was, originally, a hood rat.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least. << it is. meanwhile it't can't possibly be ingenious, because what goes on in man's mind is incomprehensible. be it bullet or whatever else.
mircea_popescu: not that fucking many big guns available. all fucking guns are their standard size, being as they are industrial products.
mircea_popescu: the bullshit is unchanged for 5000 years, first hand observers report it is "exceptionally so and so". and all guns ever used in robberies are BIG
mircea_popescu: eh, they're always much more insidious for being the ones you saw.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "the situation is livable" and "he'll figure it out" and you know, the previous inhavitant was russian so there's satellite dishes.
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose prevents man from cleaning out the trash from his car ?
mircea_popescu: i would propose this is an exceptionally apt comparison, incidentally. the relative economic might of chicago of the 30s as part of the us of the 30s is about where the economic might of the yugoslavia of the 50s as part of the eu+ru of the 50s stands ; the stalin-hoover equality is not particularly inept, on many scores (and the ones where it isn't, it advantages stalin)
mircea_popescu: the mexicans that weren't derpy, you don't hear about.
mircea_popescu: capone was derpy enough to not shoot the fbi head. which is why you hear about him.
mircea_popescu: phf capone was a dollop tho. stalin didn't get tito, tax evasion or no tax evasion.
mircea_popescu: "he struck the fear of god into the local telco monopoly, your honor" "oh shit. 20 life sentences!11"
mircea_popescu: go break into their trunk box, cut the connection to home, install your own firmware ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o hey, apparently they figured out outgoing worked by reading teh logs :D
mircea_popescu: julius caesar lived his entire life paycheck to paycheck.
mircea_popescu: move to romania. easily best internet service in all of the western world.
mircea_popescu: business means "here's what we do and here's how to pay".
mircea_popescu: i thought they got a monopoly. how else would you do it ?
mircea_popescu: first you plan then you budget, not the other way around!
mircea_popescu braces for that sweet sweet time when alf's power goes out weekly and he STILL sticks around.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field keks, thgey want you to pay them to fix their network for them ?
mircea_popescu: trinque> I was amazed to find I was not allowed to have an open port 25 on comcast residential. <<< i'm amazed at the notion of a "not allowed" port in general.
mircea_popescu: google needs to move now because otherwise it could stymy adoption in this early stage of the game
mircea_popescu: if every person on earth wrote just 50 lines of code, which is a very small number of lines of code to write for the progress world etc,
mircea_popescu: join my petition for google to increase its google size.
mircea_popescu: "are you 17 ? you got what it takes to stab your mom ? mp wants to hear from you BEFORE you manage to blow your wad on nothing worth the mention. come let's make beautiful music together."
mircea_popescu: i dun recall it ever taking that long, but, as the man says. give it a bit.
mircea_popescu: in other news, ""Greetings for the day! Hope you are doing great! My name is Letha Lozano and I am a Website Consultant. I found your email account online and would like to discuss some business opportunities with you""
mircea_popescu: punkman i know, i meant about it being =9 specifically.
mircea_popescu: no to the latter. and to the former, make it detatch the db.
mircea_popescu: gotta hand it to the "immigrants" : they got a lot more going for them than zee germans do at this point.
mircea_popescu: aaand from the right in time ministry : the new refugees to Munich are petitioning to have Oktberfest cancled because it is offensive.
mircea_popescu: not like it'd be that hard either. distributed datastore.
mircea_popescu: if teh server bs continues, we end up hosting on USG owned computers exclusively.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform once we decide to go all north korea we use that to make mega-infector steal all the bases.
mircea_popescu ponders whether the embarassment is worth that much. then remembers the value of "the public" is 0. obviously could use this to steal a lot of monyz, but meh.
mircea_popescu: "A recent publication by Kaspersky Lab (mirror) describes the first publicly-confirmed instance of a Microsoft Windows 'trojan' capable of infecting hard disk drive firmware. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr, disk fw is still something WE SUSPECT
mircea_popescu: they're not classy, the "victims" aren't classy either. whence all this class ?
mircea_popescu: but i was asking, what'd be the point for nsa to make something classier.
mircea_popescu: what part of b-a are we analysing today, VariaVarietatis ?
mircea_popescu: myeah, what are they gonna do, include their own keys on the device end ?
mircea_popescu: 1 in 232 chance of selecting zero as the sequence number."
mircea_popescu: rs, since a non-implanted router should not set the urgent pointer, and has only a