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mircea_popescu: now let's see the da that KNEW THIS and made this call prosecuted under rico.
mircea_popescu: that way they don't have to explain to the judge why the testimony of convicted felons should be taken seriously.
mircea_popescu: good thing they got the conviction through BEFORE saying these people were felons
mircea_popescu: also it's prosecuted not persecuted, unless intentional.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i will be forever grateful if qntra breaks with the general trend in the "press" and actually points out that MP knew this months ago.
mircea_popescu: check out that crazy mp telling sec to back up its supoenas in writing.
mircea_popescu: check out that crazy mp saying the usms thing was fraudulent!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, "the protocols of the elders of zion" is not an isolated product, much like the spec of dust that has a light shone on just right isn't the only spec available in the area.
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone in the usacademia has read anything first hand in the past three decades.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, straight plagiarism would require reading source material.
mircea_popescu: jurov that piece is, roughly speaking, the result of a cat reading a mayan calendar and inputting the result into google translate.
mircea_popescu: punkman ozzie govt only needs courts if it needs them.
mircea_popescu: people wanna explore an address or block, let them do it themselves.
mircea_popescu: ie, every false prophet to date is looking upon the same sky, and will readily interpret whatever happens there in whatever terms they figure would make them look least like an idiot.
mircea_popescu: are we just replaying the october revolution over here, that's the vision ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform, what would you say is the difference between orlov as quoted and the fiction of the "imperialist burgeois" as classically described (1890s, even) ?
mircea_popescu: seems not. fabian's not been answering anything for a while.
mircea_popescu: which is why the original "get in the wot" discussion with the sec.
mircea_popescu: btw, speaking of guilds : they actually survive to an amazing extent. outfitters in canada for a very good example.
mircea_popescu: sysadmin at the time was "you don't buy "a router". write this down : linksys wrt54g"
mircea_popescu: Chillum amusingly this is what asciilifeform wanted to do.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` we can now just capture the packets and "activate" any pogo anywhere on the basis of another pogo can't we.
mircea_popescu: resulting in a transfer of value from the dudes to us.
mircea_popescu: my explanation is that because of the standardization of everything, the makers just made them "as they're made" ie prevailing bs (business standards) and the buyers bought and marketed them "As they're marketed"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, ironically, this item was bought as a loss leader, and so, it would specifically NOT be wanted to be used this way.
mircea_popescu: ^ Chillum this makes sense, and it's why this is probably happening here
mircea_popescu: go through webcasts to see how people deal with this normally.
mircea_popescu: yes, to the degree it'd be depicted there, this man is an oscar winner.
mircea_popescu: not, "superhot blonde rare". that's 1 in 100. people who can act are in 1 in 10k
mircea_popescu: but i have, and i tell you... people who can act are RARE.
mircea_popescu: srsly now. this theory of yours would be perhaps appealing had i not spent any time on a set.
mircea_popescu: as in "of course i could but i wonder how this woman is trying to trick me" ?
mircea_popescu: dude, you're telling me that first jew boy with the rolling eyes and the slow repeating the task is putting out an act ?
mircea_popescu: it really is a great montage that, what with the bovine derping about how "we ARE" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but there is genetic indication of suinity.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, even wioth the arts, the distinction holds : the patron has no particular taste, merely money and friends.
mircea_popescu: patron-client relationship is what i tought you meant, off the ancient post-imperial and late-imperial model.
mircea_popescu: ie, rich guy back east, went west to start a farm, sucked at it.
mircea_popescu: dude farmer is a term of art from back in the day the us mattered.
mircea_popescu: and i mean... the fact that us young adults score worse than anyone else is not a direct product. they worked to get there : the school's so dumb, why learn ; the kids aren't learning anyway why not make it dumber... 30 years later in this process the fucking mit grads can't make a flashlight
mircea_popescu: "is luser luser because on windoze, or is on windoze because luser ?"
mircea_popescu: leaving us to wonder whether the stupid tools drive the stupidity of the people, or stem from the stupidity of the people involved.
mircea_popescu: Adlai stupidity is coercitive, wheter obviously so or not.
mircea_popescu: the general depth of conversation mirrored quite exactly the office.
mircea_popescu: 90% of lines were "hello x", 90% of the remainder "so how's it going". maybe 1 in 4 hello-handshakes succeeded, and less than 1 in 100 went past 2nd pass.
mircea_popescu: i participated in a bdsm chan for a few days, it was painful.
mircea_popescu: permanent log online + gribble ;;later tell for noobs - > wunderbar system of thought management.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rsa per se is not even really involved in all this o.O
mircea_popescu: Chillum i'm just going through the logs. pretty much everyone here reads the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: they just happen to be the wrong policies by the wrong people for the wrong purposes is all.
mircea_popescu: a cognate of any claim to authority on any matter not deriving from la serenissima is both fraudulent and actionable.
mircea_popescu: the bug in pki is that any system designed or proposed by any party other than us is security poison.