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mircea_popescu: powered down. and what it does INSTEAD of booting is what totally blew my mind
mircea_popescu: i make a bootable gentoo cd. system boots fine on it. this was last night. today, i go to work on it again, IT NO LONGER BOOTS.
mircea_popescu: the neverending fountain of weird shit... so alf get a load of this!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sql profiling, nothing to do with browsers.
mircea_popescu: this, i'll grant, is an insane piece of gnarl with three joins in it. for prototyping not really used in code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shut up dude. if advanced aliens show up they perforce know of caching
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, checking cache takes 1/3 of the total time
mircea_popescu: the donkey said to the man breaking ground, that no grains grow in freshly broken ground.
mircea_popescu: the point asciilifeform doesn't appreciate here is that i'd much rather spend 10k to sue forbes over a missatributed story than spend 10k to buy "clicks" on facebook or w/e.
mircea_popescu: they don't as much as have a fucking legal address on the site, anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of i expect to get that head. i am getting that head.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i'd say they'd banned from qntra, and we just rewrite their breaking stuff without credit given, but then again they've not broken anything since like the 80s, they just rewrite random feeds.
mircea_popescu: what about sanctions for human rights violations in africa's most recent presidential autocracy ?
mircea_popescu: but hey, the us is solving its homeless population, and the un doesn't even seem to notice or anything.
mircea_popescu: i would imagine by now the number of retarded people being abused through this scandalous mockery of law exceeds the "sex offenders"
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i recall some stuff about how white sperms beat up black sperms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform danae fucked a (pee) puddle was pregnant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yeah, if they actually were intellectually respectable i'd prolly be there.
mircea_popescu: part of why isis seems respectable where the usarmy does not.
mircea_popescu: they'll revert and you'll be out of the loop soon enough.
mircea_popescu: you're merely stating that you're not really the new boyfriend.
mircea_popescu: consider the matter in terms you're better equipped to handle. if, upon breaking up a girl with her former boyfriend, you institute a policy that she may fuck him whenever,
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow it is discovered bharara was acting under mere color of law,
mircea_popescu: otherwise we'll start having to take back the ilk of shrem because hey, "they torched his house".
mircea_popescu: it makes no difference. don't want to sell, don't sell.
mircea_popescu: these are unequal things. commerce is between equal parties. employment is between unequal parties.
mircea_popescu: they didn't, yoiu know, take employment with the govt.
mircea_popescu: "steal from the public" is what, microsoft ? jp manufacturer of resistors ?
mircea_popescu: ya ya, except if you become an "oligarch", then they invent imaginary arears and steal your shit.
mircea_popescu: which is why i write about people like bfl on trilema, but not about any one of the countless heists.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to be a thief, it's another to pretend not to be a thief.
mircea_popescu: "here's how much you group of criminals owe. the pay is X an hour. get busy."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see a plan to have everyone who ever worked for a government shipped to the salt mines until the whole sum is made back.
mircea_popescu: anything anyone owns on the grounds of having interacted with a government is to be taken outright.
mircea_popescu: confiscating the bureaucracy's "money" is not even on the table.
mircea_popescu: "into the country’s top-level bureaucrats and state employees "
mircea_popescu: "The complaint said Siddiqui had been in contact with al Qaeda members and Velentzas was Facebook friends with Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran charged with attempting to aid Islamic State, a militant group that holds territory in Iraq and Syria. Pugh, 47, of Neptune, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty last month."