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mircea_popescu: Current Team (1) Kevin Studer Marketing Manager ; Slashdot Media ("leader in professional tech communities") Sep 1, 2012 -$20M (terms undisclosed)
mircea_popescu: not even sure this actually needs any fixing providing they work
mircea_popescu: anwyay. instructive read for the bois interested in their "profession", its place in the world, future etc. heck, might even help understand girls.
mircea_popescu: why exactly this doesn't pop up in the search tho, is an open question
mircea_popescu: buy up all this cheap crud (software, pornware) by the kg, "monetize" it.
mircea_popescu: "According to a 2011 feature in New York, a man named Fabian Thylmann bought a company named Mansef in 2010 to mash their tube sites and other properties together to form a new company called Manwin."
mircea_popescu: but i mean this is by the fucking book, where the hell was it
mircea_popescu: like it or not, my boys = coders / girls = camwhores thing is closer to the reality of the matter than any hopes dreams or aspirations
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno if you recall stoya's piece i linked some time ago where she decries a very similar process happening to porn.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea the supply chain is THAT vulnerable, thanks god i asked questions.
mircea_popescu: i had no fucking idea this is even a thing, but given that we link against a specified version anyway, there's really no reason to even use sourceforge.
mircea_popescu: not to derp about how there's no proof of "foul play or suicide".
mircea_popescu: i don't understand how the us coroners work these days. if a 28 yo man is found dead at home, the traditional way is to require evidence of natural death
mircea_popescu: "There was "no evidence of foul play or suicide," police in Gainesville said via Twitter."
mircea_popescu: congrats, phoronix, you're now that blonde airhead we like to fuck ?
mircea_popescu: re that phoronix thing : isn't it a sad state of affairs when the year is 2015 and yet the best way some computer expert has to convey his problems to others is BY TAKING A PHUCKING CELLPHONE SHOT OF THE SCREEN ?
mircea_popescu: "After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boy's orphanage he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover."
mircea_popescu: it was... i think it must have been about a ton or some shit. it was huge.
mircea_popescu: nah, us bombed romania plenty in the early 40s. major oil supplier for teh third reich.
mircea_popescu: upon review, b29 was introduced too late to have been related. romania was out by 1944
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how it got there. conceivably, dropped during the war
mircea_popescu: (as a boy, /me used to play around a very large unexploded bomb. the crew had taken out the fuse and left it in place, by the 60s the rains had washed it out thoroughly, by the 80s it was a mostly rusted hunk of metal)
mircea_popescu: "yeah, there is. like how the fuck you didn't abord in the third week like every other case of lethal trisomy"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "but maybe it's not really from ww2, and ms doolittle's poodle shat it out"
mircea_popescu: read the logs at that time, they stand symbolic of this problem. how the fuck is one to prove the internet is broken X way when iot's consistently broken so many ways from sunday.
mircea_popescu: "maybe it's the router". "no, because isp has been sane" "well..."
mircea_popescu: yes but what's that do. i said the same at the time, it was like...mmmkay well... it dun work./
mircea_popescu: what, you mean like people pretending to be judges pretending to listen to people who are pretending to be das pretending to be prosecuting people who are pretending to be breaking the law ? the first in the hopes of selling this into a "political career", the latter in the hopes of selling this into a "career in showbiz" ?
mircea_popescu: and also have perfectly simple and so forth explanations and etc.
mircea_popescu: hello public. look at all the things that aren't happening!
mircea_popescu: yeah. but warning there's gonna be an eclypse is not quite the same as watching the eclypse over a beer, out on a terrace.
mircea_popescu: this is how the us budget is constructed, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: it often happens for very complex systems to behave in highly consistent ways with a clearly identifiable beneficiary all by themselves.
mircea_popescu: (yes, most of the ruins of roman antiquity are in turkey, not europe)
mircea_popescu: but then again - shoot all the males, keep the females under 20ish that suck it enthusiastically has always been the procedure
mircea_popescu: and who's gonna bother with training them individually.
mircea_popescu: now, will large herds of worthless schmucks be turnable into an actual population ? i grant it seems dubious.
mircea_popescu: i know from directly verified experimental fact that properly chained and beaten they DO work. the spark to work and be smart and everything's not lost.