tmsr - Search: a

200200+ entries in 1.536s

gribble: You rated user napedia on Mon Nov 17 07:30:42 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: https://twitter.com/napoleon/status/534321538657308672.

Adlai: i'm not a huge fan of leaving open the door to known-cleartext snooping through pastebin verification, but i imagine there's some way around that

assbot: A nins ? A nins! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ( http://dpaste.com/2RN6X5M.txt )

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/a-nins-a-nins/ << speaking of game

mircea_popescu: that's a new one.

assbot: A Mighty Wind pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ( http://dpaste.com/1H25BAB.txt )

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-mighty-wind/ << if anyone's not seen that, i heartily recommend.

assbot: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right? ( http://dpaste.com/2GKAS1Q.txt )

RagnarDanneskjol: the world could use an updated, expanded 'so you wanna start a bitcoin business'

mircea_popescu: saifedean the way that noobs usually work these things is, they put in some work for a few months, and while they're small whatever bank they lied to doesn't bother to notice.

RagnarDanneskjol: I recommend thy try to get their old jobs back 'fore its too late.. a 'no risk' exchange does sound rather amazing tho

saifedean: So a couple of my friends have started a Middle East bitcoin payment processor: http://yellowpay.co

mircea_popescu: worked for me a second ago

RagnarDanneskjol: that is a very nice feature add. raw is pretty tough on the eyes. at least you have some margin on standard paste and the option to show raw

gribble: What do you think I am, a shell?

mircea_popescu: and their last toe support got squeezed to fuck in s.mpoe, so there's going to be a reckoning next week or something like that.

mats_cd03: anyone keeping a running count of known USG coins?

RagnarDanneskjol: most people are struck once they take the time to learn it. its a damn figure of speech -as in contacting all those I know who are squarely qualified to do this work AND meet said expectations

thestringpuller: the best time to plant a tree is never, because they all die anyways

cascadian_herper: ragnardanneskjol: whats the best time to plant a tree?

thestringpuller: but that isn't a turd!

thestringpuller: or maybe a comic strip...

thestringpuller: one day I will make a book of your turdisms asciilifeform

asciilifeform: RagnarDanneskjol: quite a few people, i think, underestimated the effort involved

asciilifeform: being the first step of a recipe for convincing folks of something that would otherwise be readily apparent as lunacy

asciilifeform: the phrase is a term of art from u.s. propaganda schools.

mircea_popescu: it just has to be a controversy between actual people.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, there's a lot of value to teaching the controversy.

asciilifeform: all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually - a 'consensus.' ☟︎☟︎

assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:19; asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is) a debate. with 'sides.'

assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:05; asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on a particular subject - the lie becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically

nubbins`: yeah, but you gotta do it one at a time that way

nubbins`: o.O osx comes with a python script that merges pdf files

asciilifeform: and if you forget to flip a switch - there it will be, staring right in your face

asciilifeform: as such, you have to surgically remove its metastases even from a fresh 'gentoo'

assbot: Logged on 28-07-2014 19:19:31; asciilifeform: 'Learn not to participate - to the point of utter impossibility of meeting the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see that inside there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard - to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing. The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your

asciilifeform: doesn't need an objective, or a plan

mircea_popescu: except this'd be th every definition of not being people. if they were people they'd do something else for a living.

mircea_popescu: "have some empathy for the people who want to take a shit on the collected effort of the people you happen to respect! they're people too!"

mircea_popescu: if you were a cock - which you obviously are not bwahhhaha i need a minute here lmao - if you were a cock

asciilifeform: 'we rape you but wait we didn't because you are not a you, one cannot rape furniture'

asciilifeform: a sausage and a turd are rather different, even if both cylindrical and both given shape by a piece of gut

asciilifeform: of course, anyone with even a spitting familiarity with software crud world knows that lizard hitler does not need to order these into existence - they happen naturally

asciilifeform: a 'mouse farm' (in the sense of my article 'don't blame the mice')

decimation: it is a neat little experiment in 'infinite democracy'

thestringpuller: sometimes the ravings of a madman is wisdom, other times just noise.

mircea_popescu: "boy that sam h sounds just like a sam h"

mats_cd03: poor guy. cut outta the fold after bein' a regular for... what was it, a year plus?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, at some point im gotta have to insult some unfortunate bystanding trashbag or something, or else collapse into A = A circularity.

mircea_popescu: someone should make a bitbet about it, i'd throw a few cents.

mircea_popescu: and then driveby's have the unmitigated audacity to discuss #b-a cult-ness. how do you like that!

mircea_popescu: There isn't a right answer. As Russ has explained a number of times in the TC, on debian-vote and on his blog, this is about tradeoffs. I'm sure some people will be happy if the project's values are aligned with theirs. When they take that as far as saying the project made the "right decision" or rejected "bad options," they are not valuing the contributions of those who disagreed with them.

decimation: in fact one of the supposed prime 'benefits' of redhat enterprise is that it can 'hook up to' a windows active directory server which acts as an ldap/krb ticket server

mircea_popescu: sam hartman is a 30something nobody, roughly speaking a debian gmaxwell

decimation: it's still a nightmare to deploy to this day, for sure

mircea_popescu: then a few years later windows migrated to "kerberos" as its primary security protocol

mircea_popescu: decimation kerberos was developed by mit in the 80s. a gutted export version was created. as the usg was going to (again) change its export restriction in 2000,

mircea_popescu: to steal a concept, what a riotous approach.

mircea_popescu: "oh, so you want to wear pants ? fuck you, you're wearing a skirt.

mircea_popescu: "I'm hoping that we can all take a few minutes to gain empathy for those who disagree with us." << derping about "empathy" -> straight to the uranium mines.

decimation: yeah, if anything this is a loud bell ringing to anyone 'sane': "these people are crazy, now's the time to exit!"

mircea_popescu: decimation let's be fair here : you're a freshman, there's 12 kids in senior year. eleven strip naked, pour gasoline over each other and set themselves ablaze. the 12th puts them out by running into them backwards then continues to run backwards into things for a week or so, until he's finally comatose and just spazzes quietly on the ground.

asciilifeform: decimation: in wwii << after invention of nuke, they realized that much as they would love to repeat the performance again and again as necessary, might put their own arses in peril. so - settled for a slow and continuous version of this.

thestringpuller: fdr's usg, but a lot more bankrupt.

decimation: mircea_popescu: perhaps I'm wrong, but in the us there is a context of the 'hippie boomer' generation who are all 'retiring' now

assbot: Bill Ayers 'confesses' to writing Obama's memoir. He didn't, but his tease tells us a lot about America – Telegraph Blogs

decimation: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100248221/bill-ayers-confesses-to-writing-obamas-memoir-he-didnt-but-his-tease-tells-us-a-lot-about-america/

mircea_popescu: early us kings were intellectually weak, in world that had but contempt for weaklings. they saw a way out in hiring "pr", people to protect them from the deep waters of speech and thought.

mircea_popescu: decimation admire this funny : early frankish kings were physically weak in a world that had but contempt for weaklings. they saw a way out in hiring bodyguards, which was convenient. for charlemagne.

xanthyos: mircea_popescu: tinychat is a badly coded insecure site where degenerates go on webcam to be codependent alcoholics and prey on underage girls

mircea_popescu: first off, sherwood was a ... wood.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you may be conflating things. guy a) lived on a mountain ; b) among an ethnically opressed majority that he supported ; c) against a technologically advanced foreign power.

asciilifeform: or let's try a degenerate case - hassan i sabbah

mircea_popescu: knew a chick that did both, she had superb tits and splendid teeth.

asciilifeform: at best, a one-way measure

mircea_popescu: it's a joke i was hoping to get in the bash.

mircea_popescu: it's a much better play.

decimation: 'becket' was actually a decent movie

decimation: at any rate nailguns, cars, polonium, ricin, these smack of a weak sovereign, not a strong one. who asked anyone in the 'chinese government' before they did something in Shanghai circa 1920?

decimation: asciilifeform: the best explanation for that kind of thing would be some low-level derp with a hard-on for a particular agenda, who initiates - and the rest of the bureaucracy 'leads from behind'

asciilifeform: but that's a separate puzzle

asciilifeform: at any rate, physical 'hitlers' are not a necessary hypothesis. ussr was perfectly capable of plugging a poor sod on a london bridge with poison umbrella, without competent leadership

decimation: asciilifeform: if 'lizard hitler' is a physical entity, he's probably not working for usg

assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:54:02; assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 22:24:42; asciilifeform: (for n00bs only: who is 'lizard hitler' ? a character approximately as real as magnetic field lines were to michael faraday. don't look for magnetic field lines, they aren't there. physically. or as far as we can tell, anyway.)

mircea_popescu: in that it's neither a lizard nor hitler.

decimation: I guess my point is, if you are looking for 'lizard hitler', here he is - a couple of high level derps decide they can 'get away with X' and convince themselves that 'it's the right thing'

decimation: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/transcript-61/ << hayden 'in the moment' << "And Michael Hayden goes home after briefing the president and the vice president about his ideas for expanding surveillance and takes a walk with his wife. ... "And when it gets public, it’s going to be very controversial. And the people doing it are going to be swept into this thing.” And

mircea_popescu: decimation indeed, up until that point where i make a poll where 200mn vote for him to surgically attach a cow vagina on his forehead

mircea_popescu: "that people who hate us, in principle, exactly for what we are, are a REALLY small fraction"

asciilifeform: decimation: can you picture a kgb recruiting desk?

decimation: asciilifeform: can you imagine a similar conversation at a soviet university at the kgb recruiting desk?

asciilifeform: 'why did you choose to come and heckle a government agency, which is honestly trying to recruit?!'

assbot: How the NSA Recruits in a Post-Snowden World - The Daily Beast

decimation: another lol http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/17/how-the-nsa-recruits-in-a-post-snowden-world.html << "“We need to recruit from Snowden’s generation,” admitted former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden last July. “The challenge is how to recruit this talent while also protecting ourselves from the small fraction of the population that has this romantic attachment to absolute transparency at all costs.”"

xanthyos: mircea_popescu: it's a shame you're not on twitter anymore with that content

decimation: as a gradually larger portion of the 'sane class' in the us begins to perceive usg as more of an enemy than a friend, I suspect the quality of 'chicken' will degrade further.

mircea_popescu: that usually keeps them for a good half hour.

mircea_popescu: xanthyos if you ever want to get a militant feminist rabid, tell her to stop bitching about dairy farm conditions, it's just patriarchy's dry run for her and her kind.

mircea_popescu: yes. the man who wants to make woman cheese has a recipe to follow : https://shanachan.org/fetish/res/11776.html

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so it would follow that usg has a model recipe to follow.