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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it wasn't discussed as anything more than a very vague possibility. just, your objections got rejected is all!
mircea_popescu: maybe i discover they drop payloads at the backbone level
mircea_popescu: o right. how am i going to get encrypted connections to my various servers. i dunno, BingoBoingo !
mircea_popescu: but that aside, i have very little hope left to be much surprised by people.
mircea_popescu: adding to the amusement, the part that he wasn't aware that to the average romanian, the arab,gypsy difference seems slight. but i suspect you know in english russian, chinese, same deal.
mircea_popescu: well for sure us is very similar to ro, in the following amusing way : /me clearly recalls arab fellow living in romania explaining to me the problems with gypsies.
mircea_popescu: and if i couldn't do business with a defined class, no matter which class, i'd have a very serious PERSONAL problem in my own estimation, and i'd go resolve it forthwith.
mircea_popescu: yes, that's not a concern. nevertheless, whether i buy or i don't buy is still a decision.
mircea_popescu: the rent in romania article i linked coupla weeks ago was discussing "affordability" in terms of, "to people makinmg 400 euro per month as an avg salary".
mircea_popescu: shenzen is, roughly speaking, detroit of 1920 or new jersey of 1880
mircea_popescu: i needed regular supply flights in my own fucking country, just for having moved to the outskirts of my home province.,
mircea_popescu: so you propose to me that a 10 mn sqkm surface inhabited by ~2bn people is ENTIRELY uninhabitable, on account of the fact that... RICE grows there ?
mircea_popescu: kinda my point. working into/out of "cn". what is that ?
mircea_popescu: who's the lame thin fuck of china again ? or i lost an antecedent, wut
mircea_popescu: why would i want to crash some lame fat fuck's party ?
mircea_popescu: how are the girls going to run around naked in siberia ? get locals ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know this worldview is how the south got its reputation for cousinfucking.
mircea_popescu: how's my chances on redheads ? what's the oracle say ?
mircea_popescu: they prolly have a secret word for it too, like fags in 1950 ny.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i presumed they were chip-able in a certain manner.
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's much a process like how we'll end up paying 5k for real cpu
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform xbox is genuinely WORTH 2k of today's watered down dollare.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ran a month or so of a similar thing mostly out of curiosity if this happens. notrly.
mircea_popescu: to the very common "but you gotta play", seen at work for instance by the people who think they HAVE to take a mortgage, or buy a diamond ring, or go to college, or so on.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, this is a very vast thing, it unites the mentioned "when hiring fortune teller - hire cheapest"
mircea_popescu: my reading the magazine above is exactly in same degree and exactly the same kind, "recklessness".
mircea_popescu: in that case, what the guy did was the actual minimal path.
mircea_popescu: also the notion that "anything's an option once all the scripts yield in predictable failure" is hard to maintain
mircea_popescu: but no... they "had to take off", because trained experts, and being trained means not thinking of all alternatives.
mircea_popescu: fuck it, so it runs out of runway, runs through the airport fence, runs out into the fucking street.
mircea_popescu: specifically, the correct move there would have been to cut all engines, engage all brakes (including the chute) and read a magazine.
mircea_popescu: trinque i am not an expert in airflight security, or a pilot or anything. nevertheless, it's my opinion that this is a fine example of what thinking in a box is and what it gets you.