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mircea_popescu: what's to know, even. and don't give me the ny longshoreman's union line.
mircea_popescu: fascinating just how ignorant muricans are these days.
mircea_popescu: there's no we. scammers always start with this "we" business.
mircea_popescu: alol k. "and then the greek word for hot sexy teen was mistranslated by the hebrew word for baren ugly old hag!"
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Theocharakis never characterized the technical teams of the institutions with the phrase attributed to him," the ministry said in a statement. "On the contrary ... he referred to them as saying they include 'top-notch people with impressive skills.'"
mircea_popescu: from a greek perspective, switching bases every 10 years would be the best outcome, they can hire poor polacks to manage for the construction work.
mircea_popescu: unless they can find a way to run them in a vms or something.
mircea_popescu: worst mission in the history of armed forces. "here are some fjords. find the subs. ALL OF THEM."
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think putin is having string orgasms. imagine, greece in a compact with russia! sub bases ALL THROUGH THE ISLANDS.
mircea_popescu: all conmen ever claim to live at the pleasure of the king, of course.
mircea_popescu: the imf didn't give them money so as not to get it back.
mircea_popescu: there is after all a difference between farmer burning his own crop and guy going and burning other people's things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re greece, i see that they're resource burners. that's not the q.
mircea_popescu: you mean ipv4 works other than the "it doesn't allow every idiot online" aspect. gotta keep it under 10 mn or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. ipv6 is fatally flawed in that it has no wot.
mircea_popescu: universal ip, as a sha512 hash. no more of this "os doesn't know its ip" bs.
mircea_popescu: okok. rishonim as opposed to achronim, modern commentary as opposed to ancient. and the kotzker guy is just some famous rabbi.
mircea_popescu: artifexd baby we need that thing so we can use it as a model to make a new dhcp too!
mircea_popescu: they happen to matter a whole of a heck more than whether you're either right or reasonable, as it happens.
mircea_popescu: do you own your servers which you colocate ? do you rent time on a shared server ? these things matter.
mircea_popescu: so, it can be very serious or not serious at all depending on who you are.
mircea_popescu: would they have done the same if i didn't have a lawyer ready to sue ? no. had the dc been more scared of me than of them if i hadn't etc ? no.
mircea_popescu: so they sent a bs complaint, i replied, they sent a dmca, i counternotified, they went away beaten.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm specifically aware. probably, at least tried.
mircea_popescu: Chillum a) feudalism is the most complex form to date b) democracy hasn't failed, it succeeded. like communism. turns out nobody can stand its final form.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to want to hang badly dressed women, and then where will we be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, this greek stuff is a fine test of the whole array of lizard hitler theory. clearly he couldn't possibly allow this, right ? when's the last time someone defaulted to the britton woods system ? when's the last time a government said fu, we're not going to do what you want us to do so we fail electorally ?
mircea_popescu: and, obviously, the "welfare of the children" is the chief concern.
mircea_popescu: so... i suppose the us, germany and whoever else has money must pay for the house where greece fucks random dudes and "raises the children"
mircea_popescu: the process took a few decades to come to roost, but now stupid countries are behaving comensurate with that.
mircea_popescu: basically, in the 70s stupid dudes in government decided to force men to pay for stupid women in the house.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who the overgrown infants think they're fooling,
mircea_popescu: you see ? a! like, there are others, this is just one of a class!
mircea_popescu: “We may have to go into a silent arrears process" << check it out, they have a word for it and everything!
mircea_popescu: THEN leave, two months late and leave dead hookers in the matresses.
mircea_popescu: not even. sign the lease, expect leasor to buy you drinks at the bar, sublet the place to a bunch of other dudes, never pay a dime in rent
mircea_popescu: ocasionally the hre would come over, the local whores (ie, married women) fucked the soldiers raw.
mircea_popescu: Chillum greece is the main example of a certain way to run a country, which is : make promises to whatever power, then not keep the promises see what it does.
mircea_popescu: "Greece no longer has enough money to pay the IMF €498m on April 9, and also to cover payments for salaries and social security on April 14"
mircea_popescu: maybe next they can leech some money off the russians for a while, making promises ?
mircea_popescu: make it possible for imbeciles to live with it, not really.
mircea_popescu: necessarily, as something becomes "popular" the percentage of imbeciles increases.
mircea_popescu: people, the sort who imagine themselves "part of the community" for no reason, not being able to pass even the minimal qual of running a node, have nfi just how heavy 1mb blocks are