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mircea_popescu: i can readily see in the future "special" hard drives being made.
mircea_popescu: has little to do with journalism an' everything to do with... wel, irc, basically, and the very republican roots of la serenissima.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the internets, srsly. who the hell ever called up w r hearst to inquire about whatever points of minutia in some goddard article.
mircea_popescu: Aquent i don't want to anything dood. you want to, an' so far it's not going too well.
mircea_popescu: we should prolly hold a call vote see how mit is regarded, i thought it unanimously despised.
mircea_popescu: ahaha that ben_vulpes / adlai cultard thing. i'm bashing it.
mircea_popescu: who was that guy kakobrekla really liked, cognitive-something. kept making these and then posing into the forum's ethics board.
mircea_popescu: when usg says something, it becomes allegedly, and until and unless it receives our imprimatur, it STAYS allegedly.
mircea_popescu: and this is why "apparently" is not more appropriate. the locus of power is b-a, not usg. when we say something here, fact or no fact, it becomes "apparently", like it or not like it.
mircea_popescu: that the usms claims to have held auctions is undisputed. that it in fact did not is also plainly factual.
mircea_popescu: "mp is bad mmkay!11" "you know the only reason you eat is his tolerant magnanimity" "doesn't make a diference".
mircea_popescu: cazalla "usrn -1 points 10 hours ago Doesn't make any difference." << lawl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do you mean no one knows lol. they gotta make the targets.
mircea_popescu: hey, half the us casualties, gotta provide them somehow.
mircea_popescu: the only thing that's useful in urban warfare is hiding.
mircea_popescu: "but brother, why do you try to rescue cost savings ? you know it;s in its nature to sting you". "yes. but it is in my nature to be stingy."
mircea_popescu agrees that in practical terms, the useful full auto is rarer and rarer
mircea_popescu: it comes to us from a time of emplaced machine guns and stuff
mircea_popescu agrees that in practical terms, the useful full auto is a shrinking space.
mircea_popescu: with batallion size deployments rolling auto is much more effectual than "selective" whatever, because people are weird. sorta like how women living together synch periods, soldiers end up all looking in the same spot.
mircea_popescu: they're not that few, if you're actually fighting. as opposed to what regular armies regularly do.
mircea_popescu: trilema's been getting a shitton of traffic past week, maybe you got it on a blink.
mircea_popescu: decimation: the paragraphs starts with "There are several reasons why calling the OpenSSL configuration routines is advisable." and then fails to name a single reason << the actual reasons are not the point, the statement that "there are reasons" is the point. fashion, no substance. you wanna be with the in crowd, don't you ? be hip, upgrade. there are reasons.
mircea_popescu: mod6: im glad we're all trying this now. << kinda the advantage of doing stuff here.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> decimation: anyway, it totally works fine for me on my aws machine. << hehehe
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform pronounced fatwa on 'pastebin' << kakobrekla said we're supposed to use dpaste.
mircea_popescu: you know it's be so great if someone made a client that auto-pastebinned
mircea_popescu: what's it change tho. it's common for rapists to regard themselves as "good fathers" and so forth, because she was asking for it or w/e.
mircea_popescu: not the right sort of morals, these, that are actionable. gotta have some of a more theoretical sort.
mircea_popescu: "so the wife's a nag ? doesn't mean i /have to/ beat her until she desists. build mancave instead." on it goes. politicians are idiots ? self-appoint as "better than this" and that's that, work done. not like you have to shoot the bad politico if you can't vote him out. what, /have to/ ?!
mircea_popescu: "so what if make sucks, not like i have the responsibility to find and support an improvement. i just type here."
mircea_popescu: decimation no. jwzery. this attitude whereby one's excused from political involvement.
mircea_popescu: lawl. this guy misread so much of recent history i'm giving up on reading it.
mircea_popescu: above were being made and enforced with no government oversight. So the Government convened some hearings. The unanimous consensus, even by Ralph Nader, was that attempting to regulate this process was an invitation to chaos. "
mircea_popescu: ey usually end up being workable. After two decades of fumbling, we have settled on a de facto standard for computer operating systems. It has imperfections - some serious - but it generally works. Imagine being saddled with a computer architecture defined by some central planning committee in 1983. At about that time, someone in the U.S. Government realized with horror that all the standardization agreements mentioned
mircea_popescu: "In Western democracies, even in the U.S. where the hostility to regulation is greatest, there is a vast amount of central decision-making, but day to day decisions are left to market forces. A lot of the regulation - everything from bolt threads to type fonts - is carried out by tens of thousands of standardization agreements worked out by the industries involved. The solutions that arise aren't always optimal, but th
mircea_popescu: btw, re "useful idiots", anyone actually read Mona Charen ?
mircea_popescu: time for bed, and in the early morning a very morose londoner sat with his breakfast.
mircea_popescu: so one time when a horse neighed, he got all scared. but the farmer told him to relax, horse just does that, it's called neighing and it never killed anyone.
mircea_popescu: which was impressive to him, because a) they had food and b) good living conditions (as compared to shitlondon of the time)
mircea_popescu: the story is, that a london redditard (poor kid from periphery) visited some peasant family once
mircea_popescu: one's categorical symbolization, the other's a kenning.
mircea_popescu: anyway : "the sea" is the hellespont (which is what xerxes ordered flogged) in the same way hron (whale's) rade (road) is the sea.
mircea_popescu: (i'll help by pointing out that alf's device in discussing xerxes is structurally similar but stylistically very indicative of the changes in society since then)
mircea_popescu: but anyway, anyone guess what "hron rade" denotes, in "english" ?