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mircea_popescu: who the fuck is going to be somehow able to charge enough for servers to pay some dude 150 an hour to read random crapolade copy/pasted by nobody on the internet ?
asciilifeform: this was not the implication in the original piece tho.
asciilifeform: ah then yes.
mircea_popescu: and going to trial in california is no sort of punishment of the state of california.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 17:18 mircea_popescu: (short version : lawyer lobby added law on books that allows them to sue anything that doesn't have a warning label on ; there's 0 enforcement from anyone but the lawyer mafia ; and for that matter no penalty for mislabeling anything ; consequently all of california is today a huge sticker reading "this item is known to the state of california to cause cancer")
mircea_popescu: no, actually, it concerned an isp which, like any other isp, can't afford to actually pay a lawyer to read all the legalse spam being thrown their way. the guilty party here is the state of california, as per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524561 ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: that is, if the aim is 'educational', rather than simple pest control.
mircea_popescu: moreover, you say money is not adequate punishment ? take me through the margins, explain this to me.
asciilifeform: iirc the dispute concerned a derp who enforced a nonexistent dmca claim
mircea_popescu: uh. so i should punish random derp for ... living in where ? and if he wants to move i tell him to go where ?
asciilifeform: unless you can figure out how to put it on mars.
mircea_popescu: PeterL too bad nobody is reading / has read trilema for the past however many years. hurr.
PeterL: from comments on link I posted a minute ago: "Any college receiving public funding - what college doesen't?- should have their funding immediately frozen if they don't take an immediate, corrective action." < seems commenters have the same idea as mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: nono. let's go through this story because the republic's failure to create an isp is one of the largest stains on its cheek, so i'm sure the discussion will be instructive.
asciilifeform: you might read mircea_popescu's piece and think 'aaah he never said how this ended, i am safe in my idiocy'
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure i agree even with that much.
mircea_popescu: moreover, commercial litigation is bundled/sold/bought as so much negotiable paper. it's almost never the original parties that are involved, much like your 20 bux for a boxed cd set dun go to the artist.
asciilifeform: settlement is a poor punishment imho for the type of derp discussed in the piece
mircea_popescu: also, for fairness/completeness : if you actually go to trial over a minor commercial case where a reasonable settlement offer is on the table (provided you somehow find a lawyer to do this which is not actually trivial) the judge will throw molotov cocktails at you.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's flowers, of which few will carry fruit into the world ; they all knock on life's door, then most wither, dead.
mircea_popescu: multe flori sunt, dar putine rod in lume au sa poarte ; toate bat la poarta vietii, dar se scrutur multe, moarte.
mircea_popescu: does it appear to you i'm in any kind of short supply ?
asciilifeform: this we learn in kindergarten, yes, but i somehow pictured that mircea_popescu wanted to make a spectacle .
mircea_popescu: trials ftr, in commercial matter, are less than 0.1% of cases
mircea_popescu: a trial ?
asciilifeform: ( was there a trial ? )
mircea_popescu: i say it, it's mandatory for them. nobody cares if they like it or not, or understand it or not. wtf is this, lalaland ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose it was ok for the reddit hordes to not read that. because why ? and i suppose it was acceptable for college kids to NOT LEARN IT. since when is self-directed education a thing ? and why would it be ?
asciilifeform: how did that go btw ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 20:30 asciilifeform: https://archive.is/1fqR8 << 'And it’s our duty and our responsibility as entrepreneurs, as citizens of the f—— world, to make sure that s— does not happen. '
mircea_popescu: nobody asks this. who the fuck cares what is on twitter ? and what difference does twitter make ?
mircea_popescu: more importantly : how the fuck "calexit" being on twitter makes it "a thing to cover" ?
asciilifeform: ifornia is "blue" because electoral votes are an all-or-nothing thing. In reality, Donald Trump got about 3 million of the 9 million votes cast for president in California. Those votes for Trump don't matter, though. '
asciilifeform: from same fishwrap, 'But post-election, there were a bunch of tweets from people saying they thought California should secede from the union, and so #CalExit became a thing to cover. Here's the thing about this particular secession movement—it is utterly oblivious to the ideological diversity within the state, thanks to the wholesale Democratic domination of the government due to population density in urban coastal communities. Cal
mircea_popescu: and so very adequate too.
mircea_popescu: and before that it was british corrupting influence as per byron. and before that etc.
asciilifeform: i dunno that there exist on planet3 'innocent barbarian'
mircea_popescu: just like stone age man still has to do iron age, even if we're not doing iron age anymore.
mircea_popescu: i have no use for americana, yes. but the only way 3rd world shitholes can become even vaguely digestibles is throuigh a lot of americana.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure this would help. i have a huge helping of "innocent barbarians" right here, and the obvious solution is for them to... first eat up 50 years of hollywood then we'll talk.
asciilifeform: hence the babylon example. picture chix with 0 hollywood exposure.
mircea_popescu: because where is there this wise 22yo woman ffs.
mircea_popescu: this being another thing most (western) men never think about : a sexual preference for young women NECESSARILY connotes a sexual preference for fucking derps with mistaken notions about the world.
asciilifeform: even dirigible does not magic away the problem, it could even be that mircea_popescu would much more enjoy fucking ancient babylonian gurlz, whose training could take a week instead of a year, no 'gargauni' in the head to start with, but they are not available.
mircea_popescu: god how i'd cancel their funding.
PeterL: for the lulz: http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/10/colleges-cancelled-exams-for-students-tr
mircea_popescu: i guess it could be thus reduced.
asciilifeform: and dan mocsny actually had this in an old post.
asciilifeform: anyway, folks-sans-dirigible-have-no-preferences-just-illusions, etc., sure, we had thread.
mircea_popescu: also being idiot dun enter into any of this. two different things being two different things doesn't make you anything in particular.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the discussion there wasn't "i'd rather" but "i prefer". which things also aren't equal. i rather all sorts of things i don't prefer all the time, it's the key to sanity and male reproductive health.
asciilifeform: i also dun own a working time machine, but have very definite preferences of where to go in it, i suppose i must be idiot
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to say "between 1980 and 1990 i went to bed with 244 women of which 179 were blond, therefore i prefer blond women" ; it's quite another thing to say "when i dream up a dream girl, she's blonde".
asciilifeform: by that token, it is just as foolish to say that i would rather visit mars than venus, given as i have flown to 0 planets ?
mircea_popescu: moeover, there's an important distinction most people don't think of : if you've fucked under a few hundred women, one's "preference" doesn't exist as such ; they're discussing their ~projection~ of a preference, which isn't the same thing. not even remotely similar in fact.
mircea_popescu: even collective - it's a fashion not some sort of biological thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's really no sense in "evolutionary" takes on individual sexual preference.
mircea_popescu: shaved head kept inch thick beard yest, "that's so hot!"
mircea_popescu: i live in this strange blessed state where i've not to date managed a hairdo teh womenz didn't like.
asciilifeform: because i think i have that bit exactly flipped.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who was that, tlp ?
PeterL: but I think my wife would leave me if I did my hair like his
mircea_popescu: consider running after retirement, apparently that's all the rage nowadays.
PeterL: I would look alot like trump if I grew my hair out a bit
PeterL: yeah, I got that.
mircea_popescu: PeterL if it wasn't obvious, the bald thing above was because trump has such a great piece.
PeterL: I used to drive an old dodge pick-up, was good sturdy truck. gave it up for a minivan when I got too many kids to fit in the cab.
mircea_popescu: god this guy fucking rules.
mircea_popescu: d sex with 10000 of these gorgons."
mircea_popescu: "Beauty is a social construction. I'm all in, but it is a construction nevertheless. The reason I think women are hot today is that they are today, not that they are hot. I watch pornos from the seventies and I think to myself, "well, it would be better than bestiality, I guess." Everyone from the cast of Shampoo to the special guest stars on The Love Boat make me want to be a promisekeeper, meanwhile Wilt Chamberlain ha
mircea_popescu: it's vaguely regrettable no one with an old dogde pick-up ran. then he could have driven it all the way over to the wh and park it on the lawn.
asciilifeform: lel mr t apparently just landed in mordor.
mircea_popescu: for all physchopatologies, a frank view of the disease is quite exactly the next step after "madness".
asciilifeform: i imagine that, to modern english folk, 'sparta' is the next stage after 'madness'.
asciilifeform: ^ this suggests typo
mircea_popescu: that epic feeling when the entire set google can produce for a greek excerpt is trilema. ha-HA!
mircea_popescu: you jsut say that because you're balding.
PeterL: the refreshing thing about Trump (and would not have been with Hillary) is that now if the president does something stupid I can say "That was stupid" without everybody saying "Stop being RACIST"
mircea_popescu: in sparta, by gorgo's to quote : "Επειδή γαμώ την ράτσα σου". in athens, they did not as far as one knows.
mircea_popescu: t kill me make me stronger.'" I hope to God a bus tries to make you stronger."
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown_relate_t.html << the tlp in question. "Why would she think this? Because she's stupid? Actually, yes: the culture you know least about has all the answers, which is also why the Guinness ad hypermale in pre-season Special Olympics has chosen to tattoo gigantic Chinese characters on his arm to explain his ennui to himself. "It's a chinese proverb, 'That what doesn'
mircea_popescu: once no more "evil xenomen" to come and kill "teh babies", no more jewish anything either. which is why it failed in the states - no leverage to quell the wail, there.
mircea_popescu: but fortunately the 2nd part could also pass silently.
mircea_popescu: "of course they killed all the ones i didn't bother to hide - and i didn't bother to hide them because they suck because you're a dumb worthless whore whose cunt runs on perl and consequently all manner of ungodly slime crawls out from between your legs"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in idish land, the wail was supressed through "oh honey, there's nothing io can do, those mean xenomen came and killed your baby"
mircea_popescu: the REASON british empire fell has naught to do with anything else but the presence of arthur blair - that despicable fuckwit who pissed his bed. and his existence is due to the fact that he grew up with his mother's tit around.
mircea_popescu: the british "blood and soil" implemented the wail-supression through the mechanism of sending all kids off to work for osmeone else, so the woman's dumb feelers wouldbn't be aroused by the foreign kids imported into household. and it worked, for as long as they stuck to it - and it immediately failed once they gave it up.
mircea_popescu: lowbrow ROMANS of all fucking people conquered them. imagine this nonsense. and they even figured it out and put it in the holy texts, "god wants you to kill your boy!"
mircea_popescu: look at it from the historical perspective : music was invented in babylon to quell the wail ; because the males there had the wisdom to kill the boys - for "no reason" but did it. then the jews came along and put it in their book to not do sacrifice children - and so the dumb women flocked to them, and they birefly prevailed. only to go to shit in a handbasket soon thereafter, so much so the fucking short-legged short-dicked
asciilifeform: historic j00z handled this in slightly nonstandard way -- culled males were driven out to convert
mircea_popescu: spill the blood of the children, or go to hell.
mircea_popescu: no, it's not that. it's simply - if out of 100 newborn male babies 50 make it to be 7 ; and then 25 of those make it to be 14 and then a dozen make it to 21, you will have a splendid culture, civilisation, and generally world.
asciilifeform: it isn't any magical trace nutrient in the earth, per se, but the 'you live in this here duchy and dun mix with randos'
mircea_popescu: there's nothing specific about the soil ; and the meaning of "blood" is - spill the blood of the children.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 13:57 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563912 << anything where half or more of the hopefuls fail to make it in, AND half or more of the first year fails to pass into 2nd. it must be selective in this sense, with an understanding that most extant fenotypes are biological failures of no further interest or value.
mircea_popescu: the thing ex-lithuania did for the jews wasn't "the soil" nor blood in the general understanding. it was simply http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563952 ☝︎
asciilifeform: 2nd gen - sinks into the swamp.
mircea_popescu: obviousy a life without hardship is a life of decay. past that general - i dunno.
asciilifeform: the j00z, pulled out of their shtetl planet, end up heiling clitler, etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't necessarily despise it ; i am however unconvinced. moreover, while examples with your tendency certainly exist - examples of the contrary tendency also do exist (eg, romanians-abroad are far the fuck better than romanians-within, and always have been).