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mircea_popescu: me and five people will see the cannes films and poor people can watch reruns of "best ads of superbowl" over at denny's.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: especially with no copyright. they just get cut out of the loop entirely.
mircea_popescu: onlooker one attaches to form, the other attaches to concept. this is a fundamental distinction in any case. see the earlier thread re lost 1800 tech know-how, and the russian z80s.
mircea_popescu: in this view the nsa spying is more a required public service, like emergency health care.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you waht it is. i get to sometimes beat the everliving shit out of the students.
mircea_popescu: eh, i just had the peanut chicken you perhaps remember, and then went for the nude entertainment thing. hard to bother me for a while.
mircea_popescu: the argument re stealing is actually ancient. it was articulated by the pillars of roman thought, of all people.
mircea_popescu: onlooker i am de facto a banker, but i doubt the term has any substantial meaning to you past "those meanie assholes that make the house i want cost more than i can afford".
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem he knows how this self study thing works, hm ?
mircea_popescu: (ftr, the arms smuggle thing did happen. almost quite to syria. for 10 points, name the famous french poet who did this in his teens)
mircea_popescu: consider the controlling case, as i opposed it to diametric s question back in the day. so quentin tarantino comes in here all upsed about you copying his latest movie. what do i say, "fuck off qt, if you made a movie you didn'ty make that movie" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: don't be coming to me to relieve you of oaths you took on the theory that you shouldn't have and if you were a better man you wouldn't have.
mircea_popescu: as usual, consumers have no business in any of the places they stuff themselve.s
mircea_popescu: do you propose to do away with the POSSIBLITY of that understanding ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ever been privy to something on the understanding you won't be sharing it ?
mircea_popescu: it's not really true. man's no rockerfeller. son of a middling queens landlord is all.
mircea_popescu: iirc lost it all in a dubious las vegas casinos transaction with fucking merv griffin.
mircea_popescu: trinque sorta like the lion sees it. are yo uan illegal immigrant in the savannah ? well... it all depends. how good's your roar ?
mircea_popescu: once you can move that fast, "immigration" is a weird concept.
mircea_popescu: kinda the internal combustion engine changed all that.
mircea_popescu: you took your life in your hands. if some guy with more men and a whip felt like it... you were meat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the golden crescent didn't have the "rights" approach to things.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 the immigrant isn't starting any multinational corporation with his 500 saved up pula, is the point.
mircea_popescu: the only way you pay someone to gtfo is with machine gun fire.
mircea_popescu: i don't see how they wouldn't, practically. a drink's five bux in a bar, their monthly budget back home. what exactly would they do, not like they have any skills of any value
mircea_popescu: derps prefer not to talk about this, but outside of chinese sponsored enclaves and whatever few others here and there, subsaharan africa is going to be a slightly larger yellowstone park in a decade or two.
mircea_popescu: punkman the other sad fact of the matter is that africa is simply collapsing.
mircea_popescu: seems dubious whoever paid the $$$ in question was all too thrilled about it being used to prop up the fortunes of even his own countrymen,
mircea_popescu: there is a fundamental problem in proposing taxes be used for welfare, and then going around and redefining citizenship
mircea_popescu: most people are in fact cows and would greatly benefit from making the step up to slavery, but afaik i'm pretty much the only one with that view.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: certainly a frank approach of any matter is a more respectable thing to do than any alternative.
mircea_popescu: what's this personal thing ? can't have personally defined words.
mircea_popescu: i suppose anyone not aiming to get them pregnant's perverse by the general definition. this also includes the girls in question.
mircea_popescu: they seem more akin to the counterfeit "collabolators" of soviet era.