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mircea_popescu: 1 in 2 households are looking for something to beg and someplace to do it.
mircea_popescu: in mass' defense, it's really merely providing a very in demand service
mircea_popescu comes from a country where "warez" has no particular meaning. you mean software, right ?
mircea_popescu: generally, any friend of the usg is an enemy of the world.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> idea is that they 'have the choice to surrender to usg' and didn't make it << myeah. they gotta be supported.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, the usg doesn't like it. how surprising.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> no if you read the article, the 'startup' is actually a division of tucows, the domainame freeware site << you know twocows i actually like.
mircea_popescu: but then again in qm, your existence is not so distinct from your energy.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yes, something like that. as if you could only be right before or right after the door but not in between.
mircea_popescu: as a rule of thumb, the first occurs over tiny distances, the 2nd is distance-invariant
mircea_popescu: quantum entanglement is the property of two apparently distinct "particles" to share more than they should.
mircea_popescu: this is most annoying when for instance electrons ignore dielectrics
mircea_popescu: anyway : quantum tunneling is the observed property of quantum "particles" to interact at a distance without ever interacting with whatever's separating their first position from the second.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know what i'd like to see, a reality show of this guy and athene the best paladin in the world (with his mother)
mircea_popescu: (there's a widely known, at least in europe, welt der kunst, world of art. /me had classmates going for a while that it simply means "wealth of cunts")
mircea_popescu: DEFINITELY a better approach to the entire eliezer/potter bs than either of the proponents.
mircea_popescu: One more dies one more lives, one baby cries One mother grieves...
mircea_popescu: then on the other line alf was going nuts about kbd emanations good for 20 meters even!
mircea_popescu: that had me for a chuckle, you know ? "too lazy to type it in, it's like characters and shit"
mircea_popescu: was in some court case or other during the great assault on private email providers of 2012-2013
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i remember correctly, usg is on record saying they lack the ability to input a printed gpg privkey.
mircea_popescu: it did work. bullet didn't even make it through the whole ~200 leaves.
mircea_popescu: so... have a buncha steel business cards, make your own armor
mircea_popescu: except he was shotwith a .38 and he was carring money. so it didn't go through.
mircea_popescu: you know, there's this legend that actually happened of romanian mobster that got shot coming out of a restaurant
mircea_popescu: hired another lawyer the other day, left him my card, then when we met socially later he was like... well the office tried to figure out wtf. first we thought those must be like mail codes of your country. but then that didn't make sense. so susie said you must be in porn.
mircea_popescu: course, not so easy to pull it off, need just the right kinda asshole.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` noteven for ronald mc donald / gavin mcsatoshi / etc ?
mircea_popescu: a showgirls style casual nudity meets american psycho casual psychopathology would rock.
mircea_popescu: but the film could definitely have done with a lot more and a lot better nudity.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo here is your very helpful trigger : ^
mircea_popescu pictures danielpbarron doing that thing with the cards in american psycho
mircea_popescu: later tell bingoboingo here is your very helpful trigger : ^
mircea_popescu: nubbins` : name/surname ; nick ; gpg/gpg on one face, dunno exactly what should be for qntra on the other.
mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen.
mircea_popescu: i can go for that as a qntra perk. you gonna be willing to keep the design and make more of the same if these folks run out / for new folks ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why people go to school : so they can be in the company of their betters (something us kids have serious mental issues with) where they can create this sort of braindamage, be bullied for it, fix it, and so end up sane.
mircea_popescu: he, superficially, has an autodidact's understanding of the basics. that means they are subtly broken. he then proceeds from there, and errors compound.
mircea_popescu: same design, name/surname, nick, gpg key on one side, qntra this that on the other ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey, what;d you cost to make qntra business cards for a dozen ppl and ship em ?
mircea_popescu: how did that inept quote go, "citizens ask for permission."
mircea_popescu: only as a result of having taken ownserhip of teh citizenry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it were about ox damage it'd be a fine.
mircea_popescu: similarly in the recently invented "sex tourism" trials, you're not on trial for there bering a fgucked 12yo in thailand, but for there being a usian citizen that had some fun.
mircea_popescu: you will not be on trial for ox damaging, but for human misbehaving.
mircea_popescu: or the one before that. or i suppose most of his links.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> tries to exercise a delusion of control over his environment via the only means he knows how - by smearing his surroundings, and if you let him - entire planets - with his shit << this, is, fundamentally, "social media", as the recent maddox link amply explains.
mircea_popescu: directly anticultural, and through that mediation, civilisation-destroying.
mircea_popescu: it starts with "you will be beaten daily until you know how this works"
mircea_popescu: so what if it does. tb goes with pallor, we don't call one the other.