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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh, so far nobody even compiles glibc. go away with your exotic temptations, fair lady.
mircea_popescu: heh. was example earlier in the log about how "police work for them". was re three strikes ballot in ca.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> and of course ethernet over coax somehow never happened << how not ? it's how i got broadband for a decade. "catv"
mircea_popescu: <decimation> "2. All police assets from Baltimore City and surrounding <<< the point of the king's police is to maintain the king's claims to sovereignity. it is not the police's job to protect you. you don't get to sue either the police generally or individual police officers for having failed to assist - even in places where you can sue ordinary citizens for same.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because everyone knows the way to make silicon is by the dozen
mircea_popescu: (obviously ru bureaucracy needs something for import substitution, but other than that...)
mircea_popescu: not sure why you, or i, or anyone would give a shit about some closed turd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did they ever come out wiht the elbrus 8s ?
mircea_popescu: you will notice it was definitely not the us' fault that you couldn't find jeans in moscow cca 1985.
mircea_popescu: whereas ustards expect to be pushed, and are so used with the pushing they simply can't find the lake
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure they export anything you want. but ~you gotta want it~.
mircea_popescu: who plays counterstrike on a laptop for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: the chinese export what you wish to import, they don't care.
mircea_popescu: the sort of retards with good food and all, but still. don't be surprised they don't know the difference between a tool and another tool. as long as it's not for farmin' or cookin', they dunno.
mircea_popescu: for all their pretenses, they do not qualify as a town, they're goat herders at best.
mircea_popescu: you know, contrary to your high regard of them, argentines are retarded.
mircea_popescu: it is not their job to care. retardo-us may imagine all it wants that icbc only exists if they say it does, and gs is best whatever because so sayz washington post.
mircea_popescu: they aren't nor shoudl; they be. lemme tell you something : the largest bank in the world (icbc) trades in the states on pink sheets
mircea_popescu: i don't mean one that sucxks. i don't even mean one that doesn't suck. i mean one that's about (amd/intel in 1995)**3
mircea_popescu: blatantly steal all the intel stuff, throw out the garbage, let anyone who wants to complain talk to their hand.
mircea_popescu: im really hoping the chinese come out with an actual chip alternative.
mircea_popescu: the only shit they're still selling is stuff like the fx gaming processors, mostly to nvidia fanbase.
mircea_popescu: how to improve on 1024 chickens ? upgrade to 1024 turducken
mircea_popescu: in random wtf today : minecraft server runs on one core only o.O
mircea_popescu: o, yeah, that eightcore fx thing. but it's a middling offering at best.
mircea_popescu: a battle amd has lost, incidentally. i don't even know if they have anything
mircea_popescu: and the only thing that even offers 4ghz sucks even worse.
mircea_popescu: btw, some funny shit : from what i hear from people who'd know, 2.x ghz processors actually solidly outperform 3.x ghz processors
mircea_popescu: 20 requests currently being processed, 28 idle workers
mircea_popescu: damn this entire fetlife fraudulent dmca business has been one of the best things. i really love these new servers i got.
mircea_popescu: "five elephants decided to figure out what man is. according to their unanimous testimony, man is essentially flat."
mircea_popescu: but france is the most socialist country and it attacks people with money!
mircea_popescu: obviously a kid can learn any language it hears growing up.
mircea_popescu: not that many white people speaking sino-tibetan languages, not that many black people speaking indo-european languages, not that many yellow people speaking semitic languages etc.
mircea_popescu: because obviously the most commonly held lowest denominator of culture (ie, language) is pretty race-related.
mircea_popescu: so if you get mugged by a korean guy you can confidently pick him up out of a line-up of six other korean guys, same age same height ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heck, most monocultural folk can't even DISTINGUISH people of other races.
mircea_popescu: obviously all this is pointless once we have internets and wots and so on. but for a long time before now...
mircea_popescu: and if they don't like it, let them look more like upstanding white folk.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda what happens with racial stereotypes. if you grow up among white people, you immediately recognize white trash. black people don't register properly in this scheme, so your mental heuristic (correctly) just assigns the trash bit to all of them.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne less time wasted identifying the idiots, which need to be oppressed ?
mircea_popescu: in a functioning sexconomy, bad surogates on display are arousing not depressing.
mircea_popescu: depends. if you regain control, a lot. if you don't, itdoesn't make a difference anyway. a bagful of dandelion fluff is never going to make an airplane anyway
mircea_popescu: but whatever, horowitz can pay. they can push back and forth the same million in qe, taxes, fines, donations, govt contracting and whatever until they fall over. every 1000 times they do it, the "gdp" goes up by 0.0001% or w/e
mircea_popescu: so wait, the violation of "bank secrecy act" consists of having kept banking secrets ?
mircea_popescu: jurov not something that is established experimentally, either
mircea_popescu: yo t4nk fix that connection before you end up on a ban list.
mircea_popescu: if only it were the case that people are lazy and stupid because lizard hitler.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he'd better, because the only way that thing can exist is via subsidies. like the student dorm
mircea_popescu: (by the way, oxyuriasis is one of the major risks of rimming)
mircea_popescu: Adlai and lice, crabs, threadworms, bad clothing, warm beer, nose hairs, dresses in unflattering colors, lanky adolescent girls and cavities.