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mircea_popescu: eh you should drink it. for one thing, there's more for victory, and for another bottled champagne doens't keep forever.
mircea_popescu: bequeath “my sword to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
mircea_popescu: menahem what you don't likely know is that i lived a decade and change of my life previously also with people tastiung my food etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah because the receptacle appears rigid. girls pee at many angles.
mircea_popescu: and i intend to withdraw long before advanced age makes the crown too heavy to carry. i have a fucking life to live outside of public service.
mircea_popescu: you know templeos is only a step in that direction, i'd like to see unix skinned by valley girls, upper east side hipsters, mexicans, etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the bag makers can be blamed for this one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dja eat the 24g or whatever it had for teh maths ? or can spare the 4g ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nope. it's supposed to have been fixed like three revisions ago o.O
mircea_popescu: "it sucked because their keys kept jumping off and you'd lose the dumbass ballpointpen springs "
mircea_popescu: "Mai erau CIP-urile, pe care incarcai interpretorul BASIC de pe caseta, era nasol ca resetai si iti lua timp si incarcarea lui. In plus ii sareau tastele in permanenta, si pierdeai si arculetele de pix din ele, se rupeau piciorusele de plastic, era aiurea."
mircea_popescu: she could be an anais nin of photography and he could be an henry miller of poetry
mircea_popescu: they prolly come in discount packages with leika film cams
mircea_popescu: (significantly harder, ofcourse, but at the time most everyone was used to manual typewriters, which is maybe 10x the force anyone born after 1980 types with)
mircea_popescu: but the tim-s was decent, about on par with today's no name chinese kbd
mircea_popescu: the hc had a very retarded arrangement, where the straight rather than /-\ shaped keys caught, and so on.
mircea_popescu: they briefly used a "sealed flexible plastic sensor" bs, but got out of it within a year or so
mircea_popescu: the tim-s had a decent, steel spring actioned keyboard
mircea_popescu: well minus the monitor and deck tape, which are random items
mircea_popescu: what was the name of that derpy french knownothing the english world went all gaga over earlier this year ?
mircea_popescu: anything but that. the chinese paid with slaves later on, and it took.
mircea_popescu: in any shape or form the deal would have been a tech transfer, not an item sale.
mircea_popescu: because idiot's main concern is whether this makes the other guy better than him
mircea_popescu: the reason "export controls" work is that idiots perceive themselves as ~equal to everyone else.
mircea_popescu: what, you think women pop out smart people now or something ? what is this, the spherical future ?
mircea_popescu: dude, i had to be the first one to show the concept of a map to random cairo cab driver.
mircea_popescu: if his desperation of the world meant what it usually means, he'd be long gone.
mircea_popescu: if he were not desperate ~of the world~ he would be pursuing a career.
mircea_popescu: it is meaningless to speak of a revolutionary's desperation.
mircea_popescu: recall the case of the british terrorist who used caesar cypher because "excel smarter than anything the gyauri could have invented" ?