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KRS-One: from what
I saw of odesk it seemed like a cesspool
mircea_popescu: a.
i bet you they don't whip them nearly enough and b. why the fuck aren't they doing this to white kids already.
mircea_popescu:
i tell you,
i read those stories about x company using forced child labour and my only two thoughts are
jurov: 1. linux will ahve one button "Do What
I Mean"
jurov: maybe
i said it already but still, how will the OS work in 50 years?
mircea_popescu:
i rue the day
i'll end up in a car filled with buttons labeled conveniently "easy" "simple" "fun" etc for my convenience.
mircea_popescu: . If it's not immediately clear to you why citizen banking is a bad idea in general,
I'd suggest paying the first person you can find who can draw a flow chart of themselves, your torso, and a scalpel to perform heart surgery on you; on the off-chance you survive, the recovery time'd make for good reconsidering.
punkman: generic tact switch is EOL'd. Clearly
I should know about this.
Namworld: Depends on how long it's been left in disrepair
I guess.
Namworld:
I know, that's why
I said
I hope that's how Detroit ends up.
Namworld:
I was kinda hoping for a ghost town large enough to have skyscrapers in disrepair.
mircea_popescu: Kern county has
i think 100 or so abandoned settlements
Namworld:
I need a ghost modern city
I won't have to take a plane accross the oceans to see in China.
Namworld:
I hope Detroi becomes a complete ghost town eventually.
benkay: you won't catch me in detroit any time soon. the only dystopian megalopolis
i'm interested in is buenos aires.
davout:
i watched the original one a week ago, it is amazing, the haircuts, the glasses, the music everything
davout:
i watched it, it's fun
benkay:
i love how american movies are 90% animated these days. actual actors must just be too damn expensive or the profit margins just darn slim.
benkay:
i saw a trailer for a new robocop last night
davout: so if frantic isn't that good
i guess
i'll have to settle on robocop 3
mircea_popescu: no wait wait,
i'm getting the credit. it was mine. kakobrekla just implemented it badly.
KRS-One: someone told me once about microdosing LSD...after a while he spoke perfect German without learning..wtf?
I am still thinking he was bullshitting.
davout: but
i guess the point is to be aware of what happens not shut everything off
davout: KRS-One: when
i sit
I try to not think
KRS-One: try it sometime..u can think some crazy shit..idk maybe its all the drugs
i did
mircea_popescu: (obviousl;y some research as to the more nubile forum members being
i norder)
benkay: "
i'm doing a survey on sexual practices. oh hey! you're right up my alley - come with me,
i'm going to insert someone else in you."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're talking about recruiting, here's a ploy
i invented during dinner earlier :
benkay: don't know that that's a calculation
i really have time or interest in. sounds more like piles of time spent surveying that'd be better spent recruiting the surveyed into my bed
KRS-One: there is a lot of gayness out there, in my .bait
i find solitude.
benkay:
i forewent standard deviant 'cause
i expect too much from y'all apparently
benkay: also yes
i do but that's not the point
i'm making.
mircea_popescu: you kidding me,
i'm like the one left rock of actual straightness in a sea of you bicurious drug addled peeps!
KRS-One: Self awareness has an attribute of realizing we are animals, but
I'm not sure
I agree with all that.
ThickAsThieves: also the more highly intelligent people
i'm friends with seem sexually confused at best
ThickAsThieves:
i have this working theory/curiosity that a majority of artists are gay
mircea_popescu:
i wonder what "champagne velvet" from terre haute, ind bottling co tasted like
davout:
i found one, but it has been removed due to copyright complaints apparently
davout:
i'm in love with his accent
mircea_popescu: care which. place, a placea, to like. -
i lui pronouns required by the verbal form
davout: explain "care-
i place lui"
mircea_popescu: "Frantic e exact genul de film care-
i place lui Harrison Ford. " = frantic is exactly the type of film hf likes.
KRS-One:
I don't know much about language but find it interesting..funny how many words are similar.
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
i notice the 1st comment is from a french speaking emanuelle seigner fan.
mircea_popescu:
i know romanian and french and spanish and as a result portuguese is directly transparent
ThickAsThieves:
i know some portuguese and it's not much help for romanian
KRS-One: Some very well cultered people in this chat room,
I'm in good company.
KRS-One:
I tried so hard to play his music..Benny Goodman had a great band.
KRS-One: It took me years, but
I'm sure you can say that about any instrument.
KRS-One:
I'd have to sit and think to remember more.
KRS-One:
I used to play trumpet in grade school and
i was well schooled in music and music composition.
mircea_popescu: (
i don't dispute it was great.
i dispute you can even name it)
the20year: Tool is one of th few 90s bands
I like
mircea_popescu: maybe the 90s were ok in grenwich village too, but
i wouldn't trade.
KRS-One:
I noted no lack of prosperity.
mircea_popescu: which... you know, the braindead have it very well today,
i'm sure.
KRS-One: In the mean time,
I think my wife awaits in Germany. Wonder what the
I.T. market for a gringo guy from the U.S. is like there.
mircea_popescu:
i wonder how many people actually felt this way historically.
mircea_popescu: god
i'm so happy to have been born now rather than at any other time.
mircea_popescu:
i mean... zero hedge tries to push a bitcoin bet site, gets humiliated like 10k to 1 by trilema
mircea_popescu:
i am confident he wasn't meaningfully involved with... silver.
punkman:
I only ever read MPOE-PR recent posts
mircea_popescu:
i wonder how many more people enter bitcointalk googling for mpoe-pr than for anything else
mircea_popescu: the best part about google is that by googling mpoe-pr
i get a link to her recent posts
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla so you're a global warming denier
i take it.
punkman: "
I'm so "experienced"
I've invested in two dozen scams."
pankkake: scammers now pretty much always start with "
I've been a victim of scams myself"
kakobrekla: like in a way that
i can be reproduced
ThickAsThieves: when
i use console to add node, it replies with a blank comment
pankkake: someone did it in the thread
I think
Duffer1: same dir as the exe
i believe
pankkake: well,
I don't know where to put the altcoin.conf then