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mircea_popescu: notice that the us diplomacy is nowhere nearly as inept handling china. arguably russia is more of a threat tho, at least immediately.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is simply what usg... is << i actually have a more psychotropic theory. basically, on some subconscious level, us knows it's become uss. and what it wants is, the validation of "well i didn't do anything useful, but at least the stupid thing i did i did WELL". this to be obtained, in the way such nonsense works, by confronting the symbolic representative thereof and "winning".
mircea_popescu: mats: give it another four years and all the useful combat vets will have exited the service out of sheer disgust << almost there anyway, yeh.
mircea_popescu: next he shows up have him detained at border for 36 hours, let him go with a 10 year interdict.
mircea_popescu: why would anyone still receive him after something like this i dun understand ?
mircea_popescu: were i putin i'd put something in pravda.us "Kerry is so inept I would fire him if I ran the US."
mircea_popescu: decimation: "Oh I'm totally an awesome diplomat, look at my years of usg experience!" << this lol.
mircea_popescu: you know ? he's arguably not even PART of the usianistan.
mircea_popescu: "moscow" "lying" "to his face" ? wtf is he, supervisor in chief ? dad ?
mircea_popescu: that's not the point. the point is, who the fuck ever heard of the attitude.
mircea_popescu: same al gore schtick. "what's at state in a us presidential election is who gets rome and who gets constantinople"
mircea_popescu: assbot: Kerry: Moscow lying 'to my face' over Ukraine << roflmao. fuckwit lost some election long long ago, imagines what this does is put him in charge of Barbaria ? instead of you know, Usia ?
mircea_popescu: actually, i recall mentioning here that "wtf, this guy publicly takes pride in having lost his gpg key ?" a while back
mircea_popescu: right. neither did zimmerman until he one day started derping about "dark phone"
mircea_popescu: my heart was the size of a rice grain when djikstra got linked yest.
mircea_popescu: “It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.
mircea_popescu: part of the reason nasdaq would like it to is that it's yet anopther "make bitcoin more like fiat retardness"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller part of the reason it doesn't matter is that nasdaq would like it to.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i'm not certain that submission as evidence nullifies IP rights << it's a right nightmare.
mircea_popescu: <mats> and anyway i like to see what people offended by mp are up to << lol me too. but this guy... he's not offended, he's just trying to you knwo, "make it in this game".
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> (oh, and those "experts" in rails/django/yii/whatever tend to swallow wholesale whatever braindamage comes out of the "community") << that's because these are experts in groupthink, having come of age in the 90s at the earliest.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> idk. noobs will make sites. and their wordpress blogs will be used in ddos reflection attacks. what can you do. << kvetch
mircea_popescu: "the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines" ?
mircea_popescu: the gays got their way with marriage prior to the freeze, but that's it. pedos aren't getting theirs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, the "sexual disorder" of the 90s is definitely coming to a close. it's too expensive, and to most dickheads undesirable anyway.
mircea_popescu: cunts shackled and sad on the internet their forecunts had fought to conquer ?
mircea_popescu: no, it's just provincialism, the same idiotic middle age women that run apple now run google.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field how's blogger.com banning porn further that ?
mircea_popescu: they aren't thinking per se anymore than an ashtray is a party.
mircea_popescu: tell me, if i burn the walmart in connecticut tomorrow, has capitalism had a setback ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but you take an eerily supermarket view of this setback thing.
mircea_popescu: this can be rehashed indefinitely, but what exactly does it do ?
mircea_popescu: meh i canbt find it. anyway, it was yet another of the "bitcoin has failed" but this one was because "greed made it not applaud gavin"
mircea_popescu: to illustrate what i mean, here's a quote from the mooks in question :
mircea_popescu: and yes, most derps & mooks have only a fleeting superficial view of it. so ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i specifically dispute the stance that we're trying "again". it's still the same one try, and it's still going oin magnificently.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, "Did the writer not know that the use of the term "the real world" is usually interpreted as a symptom of rabid anti-intellectualism, or did he not mind? "
mircea_popescu: need an expert to buy a ticket, and for this discouragement of air travel we can be grateful" << my exact brand of ecology,
mircea_popescu: "Academic computing science is doing fine, thank you, and unless I am totally mistaken, it will have a profound influence. I am not referring to the changes that result from computers in their capacity of tools. Okay, the equipment opens new opportunities for the entertainment industry, but who cares about that anyhow. The equipment has enabled the airline industry to make its rates so complicated and volatile that you
mircea_popescu: ly by the donation of equipment that had better be ignored."
mircea_popescu: "Under current circumstances I would not even attempt to promote co-operation between the academic and the industrial worlds, because it seems pointless and dangerous. I have come to the conclusion that, industrial management being what it is, it is extremely unlikely that computing science can save the computing industry. Conversely, the computer industry can severely damage computing science; it does so quite regular
mircea_popescu: besides the point. that's what being in a hurry looks like. "omfg, i wonder if there are many people following me", said that blair deffective while walking towards the elephant rifle in hand
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are always plenty of crumbs scattered around for the man carrying a large enough hammer.
mircea_popescu: not being goal-oriented, but cause-driven, la serenissima is in no particular hurry.
mircea_popescu: well the advantage is that people can take all the time they need.
mircea_popescu: find your own crumbs. that way a) we're stronger and b) there's no "income" tax.
mircea_popescu: versity scientists should co-operate more in order to become more competitive..... Bureaucracies are in favour of teamwork because a few groups are easier to control than a large number of rugged individuals."