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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.
mircea_popescu: "o look, the usual crutches i use to hide my idiocy don't work, now it's nude on display".
mircea_popescu: the word for this can be "civilised", but it just as well be "fucking stupid".
mircea_popescu: that's the long and the short of it. has nothing to do with people.
mircea_popescu: bs. the problem there isn't anything to do with "people". dependent cattle behave outrageously if taken outside of their pens.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "a strange happened so i badded it" << quite.
mircea_popescu: i was just filling in the gaps, dunno wtf he actually used,
mircea_popescu: permethrin is this contact insecticide that is well tolerated by mammals,
mircea_popescu: actually hanbot used to feed chicken livers to this blind dog that had a helper tripod dog (one limb cut off, prolly in tram accident).
mircea_popescu: actually i used to know, many years ago, an old, 2/3 tailless , earless, blind tomcat.
mircea_popescu: exactly. my objection isn't particularly that the cat got hurt as much as it is the guy didn't.
mircea_popescu: but i guess it's because we're sociopaths, aka, idiot-intolerant.
mircea_popescu: "could a rope and an open can of tuna solve this problem ? naaah, best call the plumber!"
mircea_popescu: "gee, i wonder why the poor cat isn't scaling the wall after being sprayer with permethrin and not being fed for a week"
mircea_popescu: and all days until the one day, because it seems our fate :D
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gtg, we shall continue this argument tomorrow
mircea_popescu: imagine your daughter fails exams, now can't go to school. so what, you make her a mini university out of cardboard, and while the other girls to go school
mircea_popescu: this is what it is, and the most important dynamic since combustion engine.
mircea_popescu: derp fucked up on bitbet, it turns out bitbet is not a consumer venue, sales doubled that quarter.
mircea_popescu: cisco was caught working with usg, lost 90% of sales in onequarter.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field compare, for it is informative, cisco's experience with bitbet's experience.
mircea_popescu: whereas mykotronx can stop tomorrow, and that tomorrow is coming.
mircea_popescu: but there's nothing anyone can do to prevent s.nsa from baking what it bakes