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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.
mircea_popescu: most people that had a decent career etc wanted - 1 year's vacation. and to sleep.
mircea_popescu: a while back i ran a "what'd you do with 100k euro" thing on my blog (because some fucktarded populists were "promoting a law" to give every schmuck 20k - romanians don't want living wages, they want universal windfalls)
mircea_popescu: there's exactly one rape there, and it comes out of a political struggle.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to make this easier to approach, i would propose the situation depicted in american history x is perhaps the best summary of the situation.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a farmer not milking his cows because "they broke down", or not slaugthering the pigs etc.
mircea_popescu: you can live a whole life w/o running into either just fine.
mircea_popescu: not to say rape doesn't exist in prison. however, celebrity also exists in california.
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives. why'd they bother with some random dude.
mircea_popescu: but it's fine, send the pet out on a fact finding expedition.
mircea_popescu: now multiply this by a reddit, and you see where we are.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stop the first woman over 30 you see, ask her if she had sex today.
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives, why do you imagine they'd bother with some dude.
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of it, of course, but it'd be a rational move for them.
mircea_popescu: ironically, most married with children white collar men i know would actually enjoy prison
mircea_popescu: they're so fucking free they despair for a guide of "how to behave" in prison.
mircea_popescu: "No matter how many episodes of Orange Is the New Black you’ve binge-watched, the experience of life behind bars is basically unfathomable to those of us who have only ever known freedom."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is it like the "baby delivery" school, in that it involves "all family members" for maximal bezzletronicity ?
mircea_popescu: does it go "kill someone on your first day, the flimsier reason the better, the more blood the better" ?
mircea_popescu: pretty soon derps in prison so numerous actual prisoners are too wtf'd at these idiots running around dreaming a little dream they just hang themselves ?
mircea_popescu: they're going to have a dating/selfhelp for this, too ?
mircea_popescu: some idiots somewhere put pen to paper cca 1700 to communicate the idea that "if only we made the children of the scum literate the word would be a paradise"
mircea_popescu: if you don't know very much, all sorts of stuff smells like salvation.
mircea_popescu: that "a better world" as some people imagine it is always laughably derpy is no secret.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo only retrospectively. prospectively, it was designed to bring about "a better world", as some people imagined it.
mircea_popescu: not how this works. biological samples are either uniformly infected or not infected.