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mircea_popescu: just drop this "federation" or w/e it's called, start a new one. who gives a shit
mircea_popescu: because it's easier to play the clown, and A LOT more hitchhiker hos line up for it.
mircea_popescu: gavin does the clown, for LESS MONEY than what the headbashers get.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you neglect to consider that for most people we discuss, this would be a step up.
mircea_popescu: this is what you casually forget, when you keep thinking everyone else's doing so much better than you.
mircea_popescu: hey asciilifeform wanna get your head bashed in for 2.5k ?
mircea_popescu: According to the released figures, a combatant with less than five fights in the UFC will make $2,500 in sponsorship money per fight
mircea_popescu: "The deal was reported to be worth $70 million over six years."
mircea_popescu: "It was an expansive decision on the UFC's part, as the promotion claimed its main interest was to legitimize the sport by removing the tacky, albeit characteristic, fight gear that had become an emblem of the polarizing sport"
mircea_popescu: then they have the gall to mock catholocs for being so-and-so.
mircea_popescu: i certainly don't expect the libertard definition of diplomatic to apply.
mircea_popescu: i do not expect the head of a headbashing federation to be "diplomatic", whatever that weans
mircea_popescu: "It was just the latest in a string of calloused comments made by UFC's head honcho -- far from the diplomatic dialogue expected of the largest mixed martial arts organization"
mircea_popescu: i have serious issues taking people named dana seriously.
mircea_popescu: or just do what i do and run a random box for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: this basic formula of yours stays vague deliberately, for the obvious reason.
mircea_popescu: which is kinda why i was encouraging stuff like "rip off vlc's asciigfx codec and make an emacs eulora client"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun think it currently is possible to have an open source graphical anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <phf> lizard hitler's stash <<< yeah, aka "i'll believe this outside phenomena happened if and only if, and only to the degree it, confirms convictions i held previously and independently of reality"
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, which is how snowden (1) got all the stuff in the first place.
mircea_popescu: but the beating usg is taking online for the past half decade makes the beating it's been taking on the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in the park.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a too good position to observe it i guess.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they couldn't even let the ips through, because that badly set up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, that was actually a rather lulzy forced humiliation.
mircea_popescu: and at the time at least they still thought "we" don't have the list
mircea_popescu: the reason they did is that some of the ips were actually traceable to various poorly protected shells.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fwiw, i've not yet published tons of reams of piles of stuff either.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the barnacles are barnacles does not speak much of the ship.
mircea_popescu: recall that one time when iu had to force "wikileaks" to publish documents ?
mircea_popescu: well, everything you saw the guardian publish, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: this is "my girlfriend was a virgin when i met her because her previous boyfriend had a shitty job"
mircea_popescu: but looky : the fact that some later schmuck had better/different materials
mircea_popescu: the problem with this theory is that it's thoroughly based on itself.
mircea_popescu: it can only be plausible if simultaneously a) one's never had any sort of interaction wit hthe usg and b) one's stewed for years / millions of words' worth in some armchair generalship club.
mircea_popescu: so, t1 = snowden 2 ran off with some papers ; t2 = usg figurdd it out ; t3 = snowden 1 is created for purpose of defense ; t4 = greenwald & co start promoting snowden 1 ; t5 = snowden 2 finally makes public contact ; t6 = greenwald & co claim contact ; t7->to this present day
mircea_popescu: not that what you propose doesn't make for a better story, but still.
mircea_popescu: the problem is not that i don't understand what you're saying. the problem is i don't see what you're basing it on.
mircea_popescu: the guy that kept waking up and dreaming stuff with the bush and the policeman ?
mircea_popescu: wait, kalughin ?! the guy who was eventually bent in two, tied together and thrown out with the trash ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, it was a carnegie, and rockefeller, and so on and so on thing
mircea_popescu: still, you know - that old question of "so you want the mike - what are you going to say into it ?"