asciilifeform: 'Physicist Steven Jones, who first pointed to the use of thermite in the destruction of the two towers had to agree to having his university buy out his tenure or his university was faced with losing all federal financing.' << anyone remember this?
asciilifeform: no. it's perfectly rational disgust at n-th generation regurgitated crapolade disguised as 'deep wisdom.'
asciilifeform: proponents of what is currently permitted in bezzlandia, that is
asciilifeform: the proponents (there's exactly 1, monsanto corp. and its subcontractors) are happily and silently raking in the $$$
asciilifeform: purpose+effect - rather than 'uses godless tech, must be satanic'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specific excuse idem << this is more like the fabled pestholes where female dies of appendicitis unless a female appendectomist can be found, because 'modesty.'
asciilifeform: what does $1 usd cost in soviet rubles? zimbabwe dollars ?
asciilifeform: there are more people who miss required classes in marx-leninism than there ever will be people who will miss the silicon valley crapolade.
asciilifeform: there's not a single post where the 'parody horizon' isn't crossed or at least approached...
asciilifeform: if controversy is manufactured from whole cloth, in empty space, then typically - both.
asciilifeform: (at least two! of which the artist controls at least 1...)☟︎
asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is) a debate. with 'sides.'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on a particular subject - the lie becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: american propaganda schools have an interesting term of art,
asciilifeform: it's precisely like calling bitcoin a 'crypto-currency', as if there were other similar apparatus worth mentioning, sitting on the shelf next to it.
asciilifeform: the only extant commercial mods are - to help the plant resist megatonnes of poisonous crud poured on top.
asciilifeform: focusing on the fact of modification, rather than specific purpose, is idiotic.
asciilifeform: 'A simple “no” in answer to questions regarding NSA involvement could end the controversy. The government’s failure to answer generates a presumption that either “no” would not be a candid response or the prosecutors do not know the answer.'
asciilifeform: guru gets up, leads n00b to a plank with a single very sharp nail.
asciilifeform: he finds the guru, sitting on the mandatory bed-o-nails
asciilifeform: n00b goes to india to learn yoga (the -real- yoga, that lets you take a day's break from breathing and talk to the gods, in imagination of homo sovieticus)
asciilifeform: every time i see the bed of nails i think of the soviet caricature☟︎
asciilifeform: most you can hope to own, in original sense of that word, is - your arse. and that's only if you abscond with it before someone finds a better use (e.g., biodiesel.)
