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mircea_popescu: much more instructive is
a lever of reasonable length that sits put on its support
a long time.
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of
a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by
a VERY LONG lever.
assbot: Why You Need
A Degree To Work For BigCo
mircea_popescu: "here's
a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's
a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start
a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: generally everyone produced
a replacement for military service
mircea_popescu: it's not marriage, it's not
a love affair. it's an exercise in destroying everything whatsoever and mocking the rest.
mircea_popescu: in short : ditch this mentality where the other party matters, in any sense, and make
a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: and what's more, the argentine govt doesn't have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have
a horrid starvation of talent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck are you doing working without
a company anyway, and why is it not registered in gibraltar or w/e the fuck they do
mircea_popescu: no fucking body traveled to sit on
a rfc comission unless they really wanted to visit
a gf or something
xmj: Duffer1: Friday I paid
a ticket for 1km/h too much.
Duffer1: i got
a 175$ ticket for failing to come to
a complete stop before exiting
a driveway once
Duffer1: driving 1mph over limit that's
a taxin
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is
a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works as
a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
chetty: usa is
a reverse robinhood
mircea_popescu: so you know, most people making
a buck and getting by this scheme
a buck fiddy are happy with it,
mircea_popescu: i have little faith the man was actually apt to follow the legal intricacies, which altogether require
a different mind than one which wilfully chose lisp over say basic.
mircea_popescu: So the easy question to ask is this: “Are you trying to figure out whether to change? Or trying to figure out which change to make?” << good point. first category needs to hire
a manager, not talk to salesmen.
mircea_popescu: same thing with cops. people don't like the psychopatholgy of policemen, but then again the same "people" are lying and trying to beat down the cop two dozen times
a day
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if they have no intention of buying
a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially to salespeople." << the funny thing in there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie to them as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything the salesman could push out.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more shameful than being
a good usian.
assbot: Re: Dead software (was:
A draft business plan for free software LISP vendors) - Naggum cll archive
mircea_popescu: this is what the idiotic us puritan obsession with propriety has gotten. this. it's
a scourge upon humanity and
a shameful macula of untold disgrace.
mircea_popescu: "What they really meant was, Nobody ever got fired for buying
a Windows Box."
mircea_popescu: Would these people buy
a Macintosh? No. But they would take up
a lot of our time asking “What is the benefit of Mac? Why is it superior to Windows? Explain why we should I buy one for each employee.” And no matter how interested they seemed, and no matter what we said or did, they would weigh their options… and then buy
a Windows computer."
mircea_popescu: i'll readily contend that naggum is
a sufficient, if by no means the only good reason to dismantle any statal revenue service.
mircea_popescu: if turing is
a good (and in fact the only) good reason to dismantle the statally organised repression of gayness
mircea_popescu: tho i guess it actually sounds more like
a messy divorce, with
a child involved. did he have kids ?
thestringpuller: i think the end they made
a business on letting his wife get fucked by millionaires but I'm fuzzy
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, im sure your magical palm will relieve pressure out of
a badly designed, failing apparatus.
mircea_popescu: people have this constant naive approach,
a pipe breaks ? push your palm on it.
bounce is sure there's
a libarts dissertation or two in there somewhere
bounce: could have to do with the demographic, where teen memory is slightly longer than pre-teen memory so they (feel they) need regular reboots to capture the demographic or something. could also have to do with the writers not being on
a short enough leash. dunno really.
xmj: "Opposites attract" is
a lie.
mircea_popescu: but hey, why should it even work, when you got
a whole reboot process.
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain hanbot is
a partial robot though you say she is human ~_~
bounce:
a series isn't
a series without
a reboot or two, apparently.
bounce: here, take
a happy pill
mircea_popescu: who gives
a shit what
a bunch of libtards say, seriously.
thestringpuller: What it boils down to is many people feeling upset that the video game space has been so heavily politicized with
a left-leaning, feminist-driven slant," he said.
thestringpuller: I'm looking for
a liquidity source. Seems coinvoice is
a good shot.
assbot: Cobbs at Chopt: Why does the salad chain call so many different things
a "cobb"?
decimation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building "
A list compiled by Trippy.com and Reuters declared the J. Edgar Hoover Building the world's ugliest building, and found it to be
a "dreary 1970s behemoth".[60] Los Angeles Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds remarked that the Hoover building is "so ugly, local historians say, that it scared authorities into setting higher standards for pedestrian friendliness among buildings
decimation: as I recall the fbi headquarters is
a block away from the theater where lincoln was murdered
decimation: i bet they will sell you
a power5 turd too
mircea_popescu: ibm actually has
a nice building down here. my lawyer rents
a floor from them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that you feel the love and understanding of
a bunch of similar mouthbreathers ?
ben_vulpes: turns out, i'm liable for unemployment benefits if i fire someone for doing
a poor job.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just
a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings << i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically the whole car is powered offa one of those 4.5 volt things discussed here previously
mats_cd03: would he have caught
a bullet, or successfully delivered head to obama post-explosion?
mats_cd03: re: sr gonzalez - imagine if he had
a special vest on, rather than
a knife.
ben_vulpes: would never pass muster in any of the design or fabrication classes that i've taken, but i'll be surprised if it doesn't move from shack to shack for at least half
a decade.
decimation: I'm not sure if the guy did
a schematic, would be helpful
decimation: yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just
a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings
ben_vulpes: well,
a face, and then rotate 180 setting the piece down on the spacers again before clamping to get the machine to define your planes of perpendicularity.
ben_vulpes: in that situation you mill one face flat on top of your spacers or whatever they're called (i've forgotten), mill the opposite face parallel, clamp in
a vise and then mill the remaining important face perpendicular to either of the two previous