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mircea_popescu: didn't the atms recently get shut down or is that a different country ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this one might not need soldering? << really, it doesn't NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste, whatever.
mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don't know you're there to crap on it.
mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what a man who is trying to con a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
mircea_popescu: cazalla fwiw, exactly nothing in ro press re voxility srl.
mircea_popescu: this, fwiw, is patently false. even now is being advertised a device which, iof placed on tank, will make the car not use fuel.
mircea_popescu: "There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops, that try to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in the gas tank. There are no automotive faith healers, who lay their hands on the hood and pray."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller incidentally, exactly how teh neanderthal got wiped out.
mircea_popescu: wer sind sie eigentlich, dass sie einen befehl, den ich gebe, zu missachten wagen!!??!?!!!?! etc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
mircea_popescu: could the roman empire have mandated its legions wear the fucking scutum, pilum and thorax ?
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of adults tell stories that happened to me as if - them.
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of romanian kids claim to know me for their own circle ?
mircea_popescu: there may be some relation even, and some factuality to the claim and existence to the group. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: it holds the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is that women are whores"
mircea_popescu: you know you WILL end up having to come up with "the only reason sun raises in the morning is usg" at some point
mircea_popescu: at least software has the excuse it takes any retarded kid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller move to wash dc, put up craigslist "Black man looking to humiliate married white women. Husband may be included.". watch how you make more money than alf.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller why ? and if so, join some swinger's club.
mircea_popescu: how do you think the gmo stuff is made ? same principle, different lego blocks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the substantial difference between ENGINEERING and GAMBLING is important here
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: decimation: out, that we should think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." << to a large degree, the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens. this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar
mircea_popescu: so they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back to town, at which point...
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
mircea_popescu: only if you go there lawfully. otherwise you have to pay.
mircea_popescu: decimation: he's getting kinda old and tired frankly << yeah we should have a linus retierment betting pool
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but how often linus commands 'shit' << an argument of an entirely different consistency hehehe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. << hey, you made your bed for yourself here :D lie in it! he can't get out because he can't get out, what more do you want ? :D
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system <<< "One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
mircea_popescu: you're still there, your house is still there, your family is still there because we can't be bothered to take them away. that's all.
mircea_popescu: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything.
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," Love told a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor" for the hacked agency.
mircea_popescu: "as a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be the new rape trial defense.
mircea_popescu: "As a matter of policy, we generally do not comment on extradition-related matters."
mircea_popescu: why this is my problem and for the court to decide if this gives them authority to convert chattel."
mircea_popescu: "I cannot speak to the contents," he told Ars via online chat. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is being withheld from me, and that must be justified. The current justification is due to the inability of the NCA to understand certain data. It remains for them to establish
mircea_popescu: grossed 30mn over a 5mn budget. not exactly a killer anyway.
mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos and derivative material.
mircea_popescu: but this is specific softcore/exploitation. in comes in all color schemes neh ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted to other types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
mircea_popescu: aren't skimpy/no clothes mandatory in college anyway ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you look at the demos, it's the most common item on menu.
mircea_popescu: do you agree with that fat fag's evaluation that no women ever date azns ?
mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged to get married so they can eat fo free << which is how the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
mircea_popescu: you can basically build a taser out of a battery and a capacitor
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this actually explains quite a bit << why did you think the pentagon spends so much.