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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.
mircea_popescu: if placebo works, get paid. if it doesn't... "some DARKER force than my powers..."
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me... don't these dating speshulists sound very much like the classical shaman ? "you are under a terrible dark curse kind sir" "i will fix it".
mircea_popescu: what you do is, you look for zombies. all it takes is a good archive of vulns and a working grep. then you take your chances.
mircea_popescu: you don't have to be a genius and read machine code to find new holes. that's for alfs.
mircea_popescu: something the imbecillians (is it ok if i refer to people born in the 80s as the imbecillians, given the poor results discussed yest ? generation y seems improper) all forgot.
mircea_popescu: it does speak of the ancient and great power of the irc, tho.
mircea_popescu: Chillum ah yes, that. but this wouldn't really be a browser anyway.
mircea_popescu: make a unpnp user ? sorta like apache's, "nobody" ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i know, i was just amused at ther possible solutions :D
mircea_popescu: trinque ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.) < ?
mircea_popescu: i was gonna send that indian chick your way but then you weren't online
mircea_popescu: "you can make even bullet out of frozen shit - but for alf likeliness must use bronze!"
mircea_popescu: drive the chinese farms out of the business of creating fake "users" and "reviews" and whatnot for the sv bezzleworld.
mircea_popescu: so here's an idle thought : one could import apple into the pogo, create an autovote application for 20 dollars a device