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mircea_popescu: kinda what got my attention originally, i could read the girl's experienced, but it made little sense.
mircea_popescu: the other half, murderers, arsonists, all sorts of truly pathological types.
mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: "The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong."
mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: but none of this "accidental" talk if it is at all possible.
mircea_popescu: i'd probably make a horrible judge, on the grounds that i'm generally inclined to let off everyone who kills purposefully.
mircea_popescu: man can see what's wrong with socialism, but he can't see what's wrong with his own prose
mircea_popescu: it's strange, this unseemly ability of felons, to hide the substance of their felony. first of all from themselves, and even should they be blessed with remarkable observation powers.
mircea_popescu: lol@ filthy orwell, going full throtle into "the country is weakened by the war, now is the time to socialism!11"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i imagine you see my point. what truly subtle meta-Agranov would come up with something like that ?
mircea_popescu: it does sound rather like something you get convicted to, doesn't it.
mircea_popescu: i've not wondered much, kinda discover the potentiality and the actuality in one package as it were.
mircea_popescu: the banal observation that three hour's walk is pleasant, but quarter hour's standing unpleasant not exactly with them ?!
mircea_popescu: do people really have such poor grasp of basic mechanics as to not understand that if you're not walking, there's really noi reason to be standing ?!
mircea_popescu: this "people standing on magic carpets of the future" meme is so incomprehensible to me.
mircea_popescu: much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men."
mircea_popescu: "One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler's recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler's real self is in MEIN KAMPF, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society
mircea_popescu: yeah, you want her to learn german, get her a german speaking dog/
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the only non-infantile use of the thing.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anything ever was as stulfifying as the ipad game scene. perhaps the failed nes.
mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for a coupla weeks to check out the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.
mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between the lot.
mircea_popescu: it went from 16 to 64 bits, sure, but otherwise the box is exactly the same size even
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
mircea_popescu: good god. a cloud of now useless paper, and a criminal eyed mp
mircea_popescu: and the worst thing a maid could do is drop a wreath of books on the way to shelving
mircea_popescu: as in, have someone to (cut, if uncut) and prefill with blank paper.
mircea_popescu: in the book days i used to have my books filled with papers.
mircea_popescu: in short, i know of no other process involving the noggin than the full process.
mircea_popescu: but my mental life is not compartimentalized, like kitchen.
mircea_popescu: decimation my poinbt being, i can't really do anything of the intellect without the whole computer.
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
mircea_popescu: but fine, the notes : suppose you now want to write an article. how do you type, and how do you send it to trilema ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if you need to bash something what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air. "
mircea_popescu: myeah. obviously point meant as a general - and thus indefensible - jab >
mircea_popescu: nobody else could make ti pocket calculators for lack of ti chip documentation. leaving alone why anyone would want to, after ti paid for tha someone to build their plants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but it makes them because "it controls the ip" or how did that line go/
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'
mircea_popescu: i condone all violence that doesn't sit around waiting for my condonement.
mircea_popescu: set it to go off whenever a large collection of radiodildoes, phones and toy cars goes over it
mircea_popescu: um... wouldn't you just set the bomb to go off when the jammer goes by ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh reuters has a yearlong delay off trilema huh.
mircea_popescu: people's disenchantment with their own wives isn't predicated on the theory that somewhere there's a sane woman waiting.