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mircea_popescu: at least the turks just massacred the armenians. what their allies the anglos did in east india...
mircea_popescu: i'm not in the business of understandingly strangling the enemy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mircea_popescu doesn't give a shit about that.
mircea_popescu: that's how they started, i recall the shit they proudly made in the 80s
mircea_popescu: somehow the crappleheads took deliberate bugs for features throughout the lifetime of that scam.
mircea_popescu remembers the days last decade when apple was making money by including a two inch cable for chargers and selling a normal length one.
mircea_popescu: which is suppose is technically better than it catching fire, but this is only from the pov of anyone but tesla.
mircea_popescu: i would guess their costs balooned unexpectedly after they had the marketing discussion and fixed a price point
mircea_popescu: if a car costs more to make than it retails for, it costs more to make than it should by about 50%. you think volksvagen spends 20k to make a car they sell for 30 ? they don't.
mircea_popescu: so what's the idea, "i'm making a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume" ?
mircea_popescu: because yeah, doubling down against mp ever fucking worked. so maryland uni really wants to "win" at internets, right ? digs itself deeper, alf thinks hey, they're home free. i say it won't last, he says nothing ever lasts, we're at a standoff.
mircea_popescu: in fact im pretty sure he's just doing a stewart repackaging, but with more "support the government!" spam in it.
mircea_popescu: of a girlfriend of hers rather than a man she'll tell you.
mircea_popescu: whereas if you do not, she ~might~, maybe, manage to maintain superior brain function control over the rest of herself, and be some sort of a first approximation of the above. maybe. or maybe she won't, and go seek to be assuaged in the arms of other men, more inclined to provide the need - for it is a need. the surogates may work or not, but generally dont, and you'll know about it because if she thinks you're enough
mircea_popescu: and in all this rests a lesson for practical everyday use, too. if you are actually man enough to let your girl know you'll beat the shit out of her if need be, which you generally won't even need to do after an initial stage of infantile testing of the theory as proposed, she'll be the most loving, loyal and internally happy woman that she could ever be.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "the commerce clause" allows one to invade and try rotherdam just as well as it allows one to put the silkroad derp in prison and try miloshevich. why the fuck not, after all.
mircea_popescu: seems odd. if you want it, that legitimacy and that position, boys and girls, this is what you do. and that you don't do it is why people, such as myself, mostly point and laugh at your untenable pretenses of "regulating" bitcoin or online whatever.
mircea_popescu: how come the us schmucks ranting on about their endless and universal jurisdiction over everything to the degree that they seek the extradition of random people derping on the internet have yet failed to seek the extradition of the i dunno, 10k or whatever pakis from england that did the child porn one better ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the fucking township in question has to pay independent experts to come and inquire, because it's fucking 1600 iowa over there in rotherdam.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the fucking ~times~ has to do its own investigation because the reps of the crown are completely lost in their pipe dreams to the point they're covering themselves in the mud of publicly ridicule eagery and with both hands.
mircea_popescu: ttocks and generally bloodied existence. that's how her choice plays out, and in her age and in her anonimity i believe she stands representative.
mircea_popescu: the entire fancy with western society and emancipation and freedom and have you rests on the reserve, no matter how muted, that "it's either this or we rape you". it needs to sit there like the nuclear option needs to sit on the table, for once it goes away, twelve fucking year olds choose, of their own fucking free will, to join the pakis for an all night / all weekend / all the years to come anal stretching, caned bu
mircea_popescu: that's the discussion. there is not now, nor was ever, nor will ever be invented a manner, stratagem or device to circumvent activity, or to make the passive on par with the active.
mircea_popescu: offered the simple choice of A. stick with the alleged representatives of the schmucks that trade pictures of your rape and jack off in "online anonymity" and joining the raping party, she chooses to join the raping party.
mircea_popescu: the alternative, where he texts a chick "hey, we got our sister, we're torturing her, come join" just as the chick in question was giving testimony to the supposed government of the uk - a more illegitimate contrivance never having been known to man, incidentally, they have all the legitimacy to govern kim jong il's favourite dog does.
mircea_popescu: this is the whole thing. what'd you tell a guy who wants to rape twelve year olds ? that it's bad ? he did not ask you that. and you can tell him to you know, wait around on social media untill the cute teenie across the street douses herself in gasoline and invites him over.
mircea_popescu: we don't really know what the paki people who want this do, chiefly because we don't want to. but if we do : in pakistan, they go right the fuck ahead and rape the lot. and in rotherdam, england, they do the exact same.
mircea_popescu: the white people who want this generally sit around the internet "being cypherpunks" and exchanging... depictions of the act. and often enough being "caught" and "prosecuted", on the very untenable rationale that their engagement in the victimless "crime" of exchanging bits somehow promotes and empowers the actual people doing the actual crime of you know, raping preteens.
mircea_popescu: some people, for reasons nobody really grasps in spite of trying for millenia (yes, it's a thing since forever) and in spite of having maybe some decent theories, want to fuck twelve year olds.
mircea_popescu: we should be in a syncronised swimming team ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose this is when we say that the log is both free and good reading and call it a day.
mircea_popescu: i was actually earnest. but anyway, yes, say alternative medicine, get fewer people in wtf state.
mircea_popescu: this idea seems to be borne by your talk of vast arrays ?
mircea_popescu: i thought homeopathy was that thing where diluting things makes them work.
mircea_popescu: onlooker how did you get the idea homeopathy does something, anyway ?
mircea_popescu: srsly, you need what, 15 minutes of her time tops ? she's got the whole day.
mircea_popescu: you know what's also fascinating in the same vein asciilifeform ? not everyone's courting the most beautiful girl in town! in a frictionless infospace they would! nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: expect a millenium of actual slavery for the plebs and not be disappointed by the events.
mircea_popescu: onlooker nah, the pendulum is swinging the other way. the poor had it way better than anyone would have expected, after the ww2 carnage. it is going away, it is perhaps never coming back to this degree.
mircea_popescu: well because for a moment the slave thing and a previous comment sort-of made it look possible that you were 15
mircea_popescu: wait. someone seriously imagines they're missing something by not reading random homeopatic tracts ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, there's no rescuing the poor (and it's a morally dubious proposition to even try). let instead those of the poor that are there undeservedly claw their way out. over many generations of belaboured effort, ideally.
mircea_popescu: with copyrights, intellectual ghetto is merely an unfortunate side effect.
mircea_popescu: without copyrights, intellectual ghetto is a certainty.
mircea_popescu: onlooker you're missing the part where i'm not sharing ideas with you. because who are you.
mircea_popescu: they played some modern shit. fucking insult to civilisation.
mircea_popescu remembers in horror the one and only boston symphonic orchestra session he went to
mircea_popescu: the horse's still not slow just because all these donkeys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know where he's coming from. but what do you want me to say.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mayhap you have the upper hand with that yeah
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform words do not speak as loudly as actions!
mircea_popescu: there's articles about this on trilema, you'll get to them in due time.
mircea_popescu: onlooker i don't think the antiquated legal system being retained was at any point contemplated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform earlier at restaurant i gestured for whatever small thing, girl ran off to do, whole tableful of idiotic argentine she-derps sat agape.
mircea_popescu: onlooker understand something : you got no leg into the world of ideas. i'm simply not sharing. copyright is there to give you a (slight) chance, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: if it was i missed it. but really, 20 years, 1-2k girls, this broadly speaking is on par with the results of the serbs.
mircea_popescu: turns out a bunch of pakis trafficked white girls as young as 12 by the thousands, for the reason of being white. which was concealed by the brits.
mircea_popescu: which strictly exists because of the whole IP convention.
mircea_popescu: what textbooks ? there are no textbooks because why sell shit for 10 dollars