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mircea_popescu: what, it's secret, i don't get to see it ? only the choice alfs ?
mircea_popescu: so basically... it's about as redundant as everything else the power rangers have made, past coupla years.
mircea_popescu: your contract must be specified. once you specify it, you have specified a way to circumvent it. end of story.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> more efficient economical system runs through the fuel - faster. elementary << nope, other way around actually. the more advanced, the more fuel.
mircea_popescu: and russians don't have many freiends in the caucasus etc
mircea_popescu: everyone in the middle east hates the big satan / us for exact same reason
mircea_popescu: simpler explanation : everyone in central europe hates the russians, because last time they had the chance to matter they fucked it up.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ahem. the us is sitting on a lot of unearned mineral resources and unraped land. like say, alaska.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field an advantageous explanation would be : they knew they didn't do it, so...
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't go around logged into the windows equivalent of root.
mircea_popescu: lobbes well actually, since a bunch of uninformed idiots are creating the problem in the first place, adding more resolves it rather than anything.
mircea_popescu: all it takes is to make inner city clinic prescriptions for "medication" contingent on voting card.
mircea_popescu: ostensibly to give them candy or something. THAT they will know about.
mircea_popescu: chetty same way they do here, or anywhere else for that matter : bus them in.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or anyone inclined, can we have a qntra piece discussing why
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057797 is an attempted self-boon by fiat, which bitcoin will ignore like all the others ? and warn reuters and whatever idiot signed it to dessist from lying and misrepresenting while they still have their heads ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: jurov well... getting idiots to mind their own fucking business might be a bridge too far.
mircea_popescu: jurov so the idea being that it's better in one empire than the other ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so wait, the fact that it was downed by a missile is not disputed ? then why's this relevant ?
mircea_popescu: "Investigation into the chemical composition showed that they are remains from a BUK missile, among which fragments from the warhead – the pay load. The fragment of the warhead consists of a low-quality alloy of steel common to this form of ammunition. It appears from electroscopic enlargements that a fragment shows a cast-on Cyrillic serial number from the Russian language next to a partly broken number 2."
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't recall what the positions were there, was it the pro-russians saying the pro-nato downed it with a jet, and the pro-nato saying the pro-russians took it down with a buk ?
mircea_popescu: but in any case : i happen to think the attempt'd do a huge service to all usians.
mircea_popescu: no, generation of demons and monsters through masturbation.
mircea_popescu: this seemed a plausible theory for centuries at a stretch.
mircea_popescu: for all you know sperm tries to impregnate the tiles everytime someone jacks off.
mircea_popescu: if you were a film producer you would filter the actors, yet reality doesn't care ?
mircea_popescu: what makes you think you can make a north kr. with fatties ?
mircea_popescu: this isn't a conflict that can be won. inasmuch as it's a conflict, it was already lost.
mircea_popescu: what, fetlife will order my content off my blog ? what's your scenario here ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the idea that as the skin fails away the body can move to a 2nd line of defense is ridiculous. people with burns over 80% of the surface don't survive on their own.
mircea_popescu: take, for argument's sake, the guy in tienanmen. now, the cost of the tank running him over ? w/e, five cents in detergent and ten cents in gasoline.
mircea_popescu: your model's anchored in an older time, a quieter time.
mircea_popescu: that world doesn't exist, most soldiers die of ricochet.
mircea_popescu: your model worked fine in a world of lumberjacks and church bell towers a day's walk away from each other.
mircea_popescu: costs, baby. nothing's more expensive than action, especially when you're in a swamp.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, her negotiating basis changed, and so now the victory of the opposition is incontrovertible.
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone seriously believes she moves into anything but a jail cell once term ends.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: plus, everything else, starting with the press and ending with... who the fuck wants to talk to her now ? kim ?
mircea_popescu: what was the cost of this ? there's three working on it now. so the cost was, superficially, problem x3.
mircea_popescu: take an example further away, may help. so cristina ordered the death of a prosecutor that was going to put her in jail.
mircea_popescu: now, granted, a transhumanist in the audience aged about 11 and with an education consisting mostly of harry potter books may think himself so important that this is a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: the dod accuses him so and so,. he's all over al jazeera explaining what a poopyhead obama is.
mircea_popescu: suppose petreus didn't go down for it, went on a snowden tour. what then ?
mircea_popescu: they did it themselves, by doing what you propose is "unavoidable".
mircea_popescu: clinton ejaculating on some fat broad is not outrageous, sparked an outrage.
mircea_popescu: but think for a moment through it. so, in a country where petreus can't have fun with an ugly stupiod old whore, there still exist these people who can do outrageous things.
mircea_popescu: you understand ? the ro revolution was not in the slightest hindered by the fact the ro army tanks were right there.
mircea_popescu: i am saying two things. one is that your model of "folks involved" is actually inconsistent. the other is that for any consistent model, the -ev is so pronounced as to make any other alternative rationally preferable.