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mircea_popescu: for instace : more
than half of
the people doing
time at any specific moment are NOT actually convicted of anything.
mircea_popescu: way way
too common an occurence for
there
to be
that few. shit's more common
than murder, definitely.
mircea_popescu: i don't, specifically, but you run into
them with some regularity when spelunking in court "records".
mircea_popescu: repackaging of
the ancient socialistoid idiocy, "oh, creative people just can't keep
themselves from creating shit we can all eat" ; except it's "men can't sit put" now. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: female state. it expects its victims
to want
to get shit done, and hence
they came up with
that.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-31 18:52 asciilifeform: so, formula is: 'don't own. if you own, don't admit it. if you admit it, don't write about it. if you own and admit and write, don't sign your name. if you own, admit, write, and sign name, don't be surprised.' (apologies
to rev.
t. reese.)
mircea_popescu: bitch, if and when i feel like buying you a new pair of sneakers i know where
the shop is and where i keep my money.
mircea_popescu: 15yo marches downstairs, "i am giving you another chance
to buy me a car"
mircea_popescu: check it out, judge "giving chance" ? what is
this, a romantic comedy ? dork with no
tits and no clue "giving another chance" for someone
to be her meal
ticket ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't
think
the content of
the rt link may have happened in angloverse.
mircea_popescu: (depending how capable one is re bitcoin network, you might be able
to see
they
tried
to relay it starting ~26 hours ago, but plenty of places didn't even hear about it until ~6 hours ago).
mircea_popescu: re bitpay earlier. and generally speaking, expecting
the y-shitonator bitcoin "infrastructure" simply going away by
the end of
the year isn't exactly misplaced.
shinohai raises a glass of hot
tea in BingoBoingo's honor
BingoBoingo: wishes unnecessary with presents like
that link
mircea_popescu: it follows v arious rss feeds, like
trilema's, qntra's, phuctor's etc
Reuel: Hey guys, how come deedbot spits out article urls every know and
then? Is it like an ownership registration?
mircea_popescu: but hey, at least it drives adoption for ben_vulpes 's
thing
mircea_popescu: i recall
they cut staff at some point. haven't pulled
the plug yet evidently.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently bitpay will not show you
the bitcoin address unless you provide
them with an email address.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect you're right. of course, a nation
that deliberately destroys
the memory of competence in
the hopes of making life more comfortable for itself merely succeeds in making death
that much closer. but
that's another
tale.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes it's well known by people in
the know. nobody else, becauyse hey, nytimes has a lifestyle section.
mircea_popescu: thousands of films pre
technicolor are alread yloist ;
the few remaining kinda going
that way.
mircea_popescu: ~nobody knows because hey, "trade secret", but
the shape of
the old celuloid vaults is beyond sad.
mircea_popescu: but of what. i had "high res" scan of andalou dog in my hands,
the real mccoy. 99% compressed it looked exactly
the same
the original's just
that bad.
mircea_popescu: yes i'll get archival copy of stuff i like. amusingly, 99% of which doesn't exist in better resolution anyway. wtf am i going
to do with an archival copy of cat on
the hot
tin roof, watch
the original artefacts in preference of
the modern ones ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then again, diablo 2 notably got
to keep its cutscenes. so i
think it was very much an aesthetic decision.
mircea_popescu: i for first
time saw mm7 cutscenes recently.
they're pretty idiotic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeat
they don't quite live
to expectation huh.
mircea_popescu: fucking 7gb monstrosities
they do nowadays. like i really have
to see
the unwatchable crap in high definition.
mircea_popescu: phf no cutscenes and no cd audio
tracks was
the standard for my gaming experience.
tbh i liked it.
mircea_popescu: toast almonds. straight out of
the oven, nice and HOT put
them in old style glass, pour cognac on
top.
phf: hmm, battery about
to expire. afk
phf: i've been
trying
to
track down whole earths catalog hypercard for a while, but so far unsuccesfully. haven't
tried hard enough
though
phf: but it was all mostly "creative professional"
tools. audio, dylan/lisp stuff, hypercard
phf: i briefly had an account on a mac warez server,
that you could only connect
to using a mac os 9 exclusive
tool (in 2010!)
phf: i
think
there was
this famous doom-like,
that came out before doom, but otherwise it seems like all were either ports from dos, or else ported
to dos
phf: which also meant
that some guys were forever unobtanium. like phatansmagoria, i saw it at a "legit" computer store once, but didn't get
to play until i could lift it off
tpb years later
phf: nah, full blown games, not shovelware.
typically rar'ed and gotten
through
the most brutal of scene strips, so no cutscenes, no cd audio
tracks,
typically pre-cracked
phf: you'd basically save your change and not buy a piece of pastry
three of four
times during lunch, so you could pick up one of
those beautise
phf: so you missed out on "10000 best games!! (for DOS)" cds
too
phf: hehe, you left
too early.
those cds were like a boy's
treasure
trove box. you never knew what you're going
to get, but every one of
them promissed mystery ~and delivered!!!~
phf: i suspect
the cds predate
the "here kid".
they would also contain current issues of phrack.
the
thinking is probably "i'm going
to pad it with every single
thing i could find on my upstream BBS"
phf: pretty sure every "hacker's
top
toolz" cd from gorbushka had an nfo file describing
this hack
mircea_popescu: i
thought
there's a service where you send
them your mangled/burned/whatever bills and
they credit it
to your account.
phf: well it's like with fpgas. once you have complete documentation, it means
there's no possible way
to get
the
thing