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mircea_popescu: new pick=up line. "i'm a pedant. wanna wear my pendant ?"
mircea_popescu: there were more women, is fo sho. lotta girlies today.
mircea_popescu: well that may be. there were certainly less retards chasing the "Social media" dragon.
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter, being times man of the year in 1966 vs being times man of the year in 2006.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the difference between being a star in hollywood cca 1955 vs being "a star"/waitress in a la diner today.
mircea_popescu: it's just... what it meant being on rotten, or maddox, or drudge coupla decades ago is completely unrelated to what it means being on slashdot, reddit, or w/e today.
mircea_popescu: which both shows the absolute loss of gatekeeper power on one hand and the massive decrapification of the software on the other.
mircea_popescu: but people readily ignore this fact. normal traffic ? x ; being linked by all the internet ? a*x. being ddosed ? b*x.
mircea_popescu: not anymore. the ddos back in sept was what, 100 to 1k x more visible in server logs.
mircea_popescu: so ridoinculous btw. there was a time, 10-15 years ago, when something like this would have taken a site down.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron btw, there should be NO references. all text referenced by url should be quoted in the instructions, and link to original.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the name&shame of vcs that did superfish was on slashdot etc
mircea_popescu: nuclear warheads also failed to reach widespread adoption, such a failweapon.
mircea_popescu: lol @ that log. "widespread adoption", such a red herring.
mircea_popescu: it's not entirely certain that ever actually happened.
mircea_popescu: but the general rule of fist is, "nothing manmade can resist arbitrary pounding"
mircea_popescu: well, none of these things matter to the layman until they observe another monkey fashion a club out of it and blooding some faces
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: also does dmca really have the provision for 'complainant must sue before date x'? (ianal!) << yes. this is what dmca is substantially : dc gets a claim. if customer responds with counterclaim, they forward it to claimant, who has 10 days to show proof they sued.
mircea_popescu: funny how pulling on a thread firmly unravels whole stacks of shit.
mircea_popescu: so... we're in settlement talks. which, should they break down, we'll be in court.
mircea_popescu: they claimed that it's not properly drawn up. meanwhile i discovered that the dc in question (worth ~1.7mn) is actually owned by the same holding company that owns ccbill, which is a "high risk" cc payment processor, which has a business relationship with fetlife.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ where this was even for ? isp ? << well, turns out the datacenter (phoenix nap) refused to forward the counter-notification.
mircea_popescu: pretty good indication of the principle that propaganda works both ways.
mircea_popescu: "Beck’s astounding comments about the Obama regime appear to have merit as London’s Daily Mail is reporting today"
mircea_popescu: So bad have things become in the United States that one of their top right-wing commentators named Glenn Beck warned his listeners this week that the Obama regime was turning America into a Nazi-like Third Reich and leading the US into a “society of gas chambers”.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: this has made me wonder how much "book value" of these big shops is similarly inflated. << from the recovery practice, one would not usually expect more than about 1% of book value to be recoverable through asset sales.
mircea_popescu: mats: benghazi parts two through twenty will soon be upon us << myeah.
mircea_popescu: mats: the subconscious domination of a white woman that is << wait, you her or her you ? dat ambiguity
mircea_popescu: decimation: mats: unfortunately being asian puts you at the bottom of every welfare list << yeh azns took ur jerbz.
mircea_popescu: last time i was in an access controlled building they had to provide an intern to run behind me holding my fucking card.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, i don't even wear those idiotic card things.
mircea_popescu: so these total fuckwits imagine they asked a powerful person to... write on their own fucking forehead ?
mircea_popescu: a bureaucrat, getting paid "fairly" is a problem, yes. but a leech ? a leech is a revolutionary.
mircea_popescu: well wtf do i care, some guy steals some back ? more power to him.
mircea_popescu: in any case it's not "your" tax dollars. it's obama's. he already stole them from you.
mircea_popescu: which is really not the fault of poor/lazy/stupid people
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps the delusion here is that the fucking govt is an enemy not an alter ego ?
mircea_popescu: well but see ? russian guy comes into play. "why the fuck wouldn't i take money if i can get away with it ? and why aren't you fucking cheering me for it!"
mircea_popescu: suppose i discover my next door neighbour receives 10 bn pesos from argentine government each week.
mircea_popescu: i imagine a better question would be to ask why the fuck does this matter.
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand, you go to jail in romania for being a socialist.
mircea_popescu: it is the fate of the intellectual to discuss things that shall never be.
mircea_popescu: getting to do it while someone else pays for it - not just the roof and food, but the "whose fault it is!" is ideal.
mircea_popescu: some time with their thoughts hindered no adult thinker.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but understand : there can be no further emergencies.
mircea_popescu: so they put you in this place, which is fundamentally quiet. you can't be disturbed.