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mircea_popescu: yes, it does, but this should not corrupt our understanding of history, politics, or legal matters.
mircea_popescu: owing to a population 1/20 as large, kept in check by a deeply patriarchical society.
mircea_popescu: (but in the original context it made a lot of sense. you really don't want to lose an arm because you innocently wandered into what you thought was a shop. because the patrimonial dispute thereby ensuing can be fixed, but the arm can not be reattached.)
mircea_popescu: one of the most fucktarded things the brits gifted the world.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem if they break into his car and thereby lose a hand in the explosion he's going to jail.
mircea_popescu: "hey, what's that big ipad thing ?" "i dunno man, some older version. worth some scratch fo sho"
mircea_popescu: in short, without "acest articol are avantajul aliteralitatii alaturi", romanian doesn't even aliterate. at all.
mircea_popescu: and i suspect pretty strongly that the interest in romanian such as it is is because ~I~ speak it, here as well as in my harem and anywhere else genuine interest exists for this particular item in the "crappy language pack".
mircea_popescu: i never ever spoke any russian, with anyone, pre b-a, because no, russian is not "the vocabulary", but principally the set of historical russians. between tolstoy and hruschev not so much to pick.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> the language is the lexicon << this is beyond naive and absolutely never the case.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eulora was also unreachable across teh atlantic apparently.
mircea_popescu: takes 8+ days to replace stolen printers in venezuela, takes 8+ minutes to do a splicing in us.net, etc.
mircea_popescu: "Sin impresora para trámites agencia del Banco de Venezuela La Castellana tras robo ocurrido hace 8 días."
mircea_popescu: this is how a bank looks in the united states of america now. and in the future.
mircea_popescu: them rays are strong today, better do less global warming for bitcoin mining!
mircea_popescu: (robbed bank in venezuela, thieves took printers and tvs)
mircea_popescu: "El periodista Daniel Colina informó por medio de su cuenta en la red social Twitter informó que el Banco de Venezuela ubicada en La Castellana fue robado el pasado 10 de agosto en horas de la noche, los maleantes solo se llevaron las impresoras y televisores del lugar."
mircea_popescu: apparently. is a paste by kako above, i have my own copy too
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and nobody can make me. << gotta love republican thought!
mircea_popescu: t we use ecc ? or pki ? they're "perfectly functional solutions" that "other people" have "come to expect" blablabla.
mircea_popescu: sure, one can pretend that "well, it's a country." if one wants to. but for foreigners, no, it isn't. it was an empire and now it's nothing. not even a hole.
mircea_popescu: sorta like being an uk citizen. seriously, in 2015 ? why not be a hittite while you're doing anachronisms.
mircea_popescu: e a ridiculously quaint figure stuck on the long sunk battleships of the past.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> great, but why? << this is a complex point and would require some more indepth discussion to do it justice. in summary to my eyes it is an early attempt by the microsoft citatel to parlay compatibility problems of early linux into a "here, we've strangled it" usg solution. it failed to work irl, and the failure of java is torvalds' chief merit in this world. using it today is not unlike using ripple. you'r
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo i must point out qntra is in fact satisfying its job as a news site. I get news thgere.
mircea_popescu: hey, anyone wanna do a sepa paymenbt for me ? coupla k's.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin gotta have a total lolcow at all times lest it collapses into itself.
mircea_popescu: hearn being around makes me not even miss armandi or taaki all that much.
mircea_popescu: to everyone's surprise, usg is the main driver of all things the usg "fights against".
mircea_popescu: the way modern warfare works, you don't want planes and regular soldiers. you want missiles and partisans. and you don't aim to kill the enemy, you aim to maim as many as possible and encourage them to keep coming. the situation where US population is up 200mn and US war invalid population is up 50mn is a greater win for isis than the situation where the us population is 0.
mircea_popescu: "While I agree that not everyone is bad, I'll suggest that the number of bad people involved in bitcoin so far exceeds the number of bad people in other organizations that the whole system isn't working. I'm starting to consider whether people were wrong about the "decentralization" issue. Is it possible that decentralization was tried, and it is being proven right now that it simply doesn't work because the system bec
mircea_popescu: <phf> i don't know understand why everything needs to be made so idiotic. << heh.
mircea_popescu: sophistry is necessarily positive. i'm merely denying.
mircea_popescu: by this reasoning, real spies could never be caught dead in drag.
mircea_popescu: what " has to be sovereign over own tools of thought" ?
mircea_popescu: but the point is, as your brain's not "sovereign" in this sense, no computer ever will be, and there goes that line.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller isn't batman this derp with a fortress ?
mircea_popescu: btw, am i the only one that finds it funny that some dude whose name was MANning decided to be a woman ?
mircea_popescu: irl, "physical army" never works for thios purpose. what you get is, at best, private manning
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which'd work for the usg rather than for alt-mp because why.
mircea_popescu: just going by the "there's more wives with secret children than men at any given point"
mircea_popescu: i wonder wtf it is, you'd expect they be better than men, generally speaking.
mircea_popescu: you'd think they'd learn women do not belong at state.
mircea_popescu: incidentally - every time they let a woman near secrets it blew up. there's rice. there's nuland. there's clinton. that's almost all of them.
mircea_popescu: your argument was to the name, i delivered the name. it's unsalvageable.
mircea_popescu: we had this with rockefellers in camps, you are barred from using the line ever again.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's just as ex post facto as previously, you just hid it under a rug. srsly, "chewed at straps" ? you just call it that retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: how come the woman can lose state secrets via inept emailing, and is ok, the guy can't talk to some random socially-acceptable whore
mircea_popescu: too much ex post facto in this. kennedy yes, nixon no, clinton yes, petreus no, etc.
mircea_popescu: no fucking idea who'd even want to fuck them, that broken.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i question is, the imbecile adolescent population that is not hard at work breaking the society they live in.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's probable they'd come up with some sort of "doesn't count", but should be fun to see nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: and besides, who cares abnout eiother of these two. you just taker the whole plum book and execute it all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ? there's a complaint, there'sd proof. what else.
mircea_popescu: and on the balance of evidence, it's more likely the 17 yo in question have serious autism issues. because they similarly can't talk to girls and so forth.
mircea_popescu: so yes, we both see that this could readily be done, and we both see it's not done. i wonder in amazement, you posit a "because". i dun think your position's reasonable.
mircea_popescu: heck, the japanese even deployed them as a military weapon.