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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: punkman oh i c. yeah.
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.
ThickAsThieves: we've bottomed i guess
mircea_popescu: god i love her.
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.
mircea_popescu: these fuckwits jesus christ. HI GUISE I R BANK H3
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 can't visit tv shows tat...
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: Maybe not for you I guess eh
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.
pankkake: http://i.imgur.com/aoVkQ8x.png mining at that pool is getting annoying
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.
ThickAsThieves: i was saying confused mor egenerally
ThickAsThieves: oh i was expanding beyong just gayness
mircea_popescu: you kidding me, i'm like the one left rock of actual straightness in a sea of you bicurious drug addled peeps!
ThickAsThieves: as do i
ThickAsThieves: well i wouldnt do so in a judging way
KRS-One: i think its in the genes
KRS-One: Self awareness has an attribute of realizing we are animals, but I'm not sure I agree with all that.
ThickAsThieves: i suspect there is
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: i references the film, lui is the possesive for ford.
mircea_popescu: care which. place, a placea, to like. -i lui pronouns required by the verbal form
davout: care-i verb ?
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 never actually learned it
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)
mircea_popescu: what was le contrebandier, like 55 i guess
ThickAsThieves: i'll listen to a little Ella Fitzgerald
ThickAsThieves: god i hate tool
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.
mircea_popescu: davout i hope so for his sake.
ThickAsThieves: but i suspect 2010s will be similar
KRS-One: I noted no lack of prosperity.
mircea_popescu: which... you know, the braindead have it very well today, i'm sure.
mircea_popescu: give me a motherfucking break, i'd have been breivik
mircea_popescu: nah, it was bullshit, i couldn't have stood the 50s
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: apparently i'm rate limited
ThickAsThieves: lol i was just gonna say Pooh Bear Karpeles
mircea_popescu: i always wondered why it's not splentit.
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
kakobrekla: ThickAsThieves at some point i reckon
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
ThickAsThieves: do i need to use SOCKS?