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mircea_popescu: the nontriviality there is a little ofsometing else. the thought process of "she's a total bitch, let me try and work with her nevertheless" is responsible for more unhappy marriages than any other thing.
mircea_popescu: then start shooting police officers coming to steal the cash.
mircea_popescu: decimation pity they don't have the backbone (and leadership) to start a cash only program, and publicly denounce banking as a scam.
mircea_popescu: i can;t wait for when it's not about the block size but about the total bitcoins, and it's noit about "saving africa" but about saving ubs, and the howlers are not on the forum but on every tv screen,
mircea_popescu: so there's no confusion if i'm gettingserviced by oliver bussmann or by his mom.
mircea_popescu: ideally they patent the particular way in which they suck my cock.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody lost his job as ubs cio by doing old idiocy
mircea_popescu: if ubs wasn't so very bankrupt, it'd even matter more.
mircea_popescu: there you go, who asked if to own or to burn ? to this.
mircea_popescu: i thought this was highly personal and entirely idiosyncratic a view
mircea_popescu: and if you look at the place's history... those wolves that ate boston... their teeth are still visible in the striations of the skins of these people.
mircea_popescu: it's this particular concoction of the forcible solipsism of crusoe with the narcissism of a fifteen year old boy that grew up alone among cows, with the desperation of a dying beggar on the dark side of the moon.
mircea_popescu: about a farmer. who was in debt. who was married to a marry sue, whose published novel saves the farm.
mircea_popescu: so she stopped writing ~poetry~. and instead wrote a miserable novel
mircea_popescu: but then!!11 for it has a c. then her husband , who you know, was hoping to be able to enjoy a drink in a bar without being laughed into the ground sometime before he dies completely forbade any further writings
mircea_popescu: but then, for it doesn't end there! then she confronted teh comedy goldminers by saying that "they each paid a quarter to see a fool, but she's been paid 50 bux and sees a roomfull of fools"
mircea_popescu: a) claimed that the poor arrangement / band / etc were the reason people "didn't like" her 2nd performance.
mircea_popescu: but she persevered. the exact manners in which she persevered are, to me, the best summary of the american spirit that can be had.
mircea_popescu: this was a simple woman who couldn't write, that infatuated herself with the notion that she can produce poetry
mircea_popescu: it's just this font of lulz, like, hm... quintessentially american to me.
mircea_popescu: the best part of tradecraft is that it is so god damned hard to do well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check out this funny happenstance : once bb dropped the philippines bomb ? 20 mb thread suddenly of no further interest, off first page etc.
mircea_popescu: don't lol mr, my work on this topic has been reviewed by internet csseconomists and other lolexperts. plus oleg leganza.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> can also scan the old-fashioned way but then add two or three zeros to time required. << yes, but cheap enough :)
mircea_popescu: i mean, obviously, an idiot will exist for whatever idiocy. pretending that "transsexuals are hot now" is just trannie wet dreamin'.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can i get some public/private separation here!
mircea_popescu: all the people who act all shocked when gavin & co can't get enough credit to write a hello world in basic fail to recognize about two years of history trying to gently nudge, then educate, then eventually beat the idiots into some sort of shape
mircea_popescu: always handwaved away by teh power rangers, but hey, you don't end up at the bottom of my shitlist by being responsive and responsible.
mircea_popescu: except... i kept saying it and saying it since ages ago ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so how doers this work, email to address, gz in attachment, clearsigned text as email body ?
mircea_popescu: btw, since you were asking ( a while ago) : found the oldest src set, monday may 21st 2012
mircea_popescu: and yeah pretty sure we're not the onlyones. not by a longmargin.
mircea_popescu: i don't just "keep it around', it's what i actually use.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory serves there'sa cutoff that severs unproductive connections after an hour.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i didn't see a 168000 exactly freeze either, ever
mircea_popescu apologizes for all the spam in the more important discussion.
mircea_popescu: and somehow this gets conflated with marital status ? who the hell cares if the woman's "married" whatever that even means.
mircea_popescu: such a dumb premise tho. "i will write very bad prose, which will prove to you that sensible is shocking!!!1"
mircea_popescu: which is why english, latin and every other language has a gender pronoun and declension.
mircea_popescu: but i'm not particularly interested to discuss anyone outside of their gender.
mircea_popescu: well here's the thing : i don't happen to give a shit about the guy's color
mircea_popescu: he seems to be proposing the notion that saying she when i mean a cuntbearer is about as bad as inventing a special ble pronoun to denote a guy's color
mircea_popescu: not in the way white men and black men are superficially different
mircea_popescu: and yes, women and men are structurally different, and will never be the same.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing of depth in there, it;s just the usual libertard tedium.
mircea_popescu: guess I cannot truly believe that anyone would see this piece that way. To misperceive it this way would be like calling someone a vicious racist for telling other people "The word 'nigger' is extremely offensive." If allusions to racism, especially for the purpose of satirizing racism and its cousins, are confused with racism itself, then I think it is time to stop writing."
mircea_popescu: ith this piece, despite-but also because of-its shock value. I think it makes its point better than any factual article could. As a friend of mine said, "It makes you so uncomfortable that you can't ignore it." I admit that rereading it makes even me, the author, uncomfortable! Numerous friends have warned me that in publishing this piece I am taking a serious risk of earning myself a reputation as a terrible racist. I
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but looky : "Perhaps this piece shocks you. It is meant to. The entire point of it is to use something that we find shocking as leverage to illustrate the fact that something that we usually close our eyes to is also very shocking. The most effective way I know to do so is to develop an extended analogy with something known as shocking and reprehensible. Racism is that thing, in this case. I am happy w
mircea_popescu: A Person Paper on Purity in Language << i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik windows doens't mind secret partitions.
mircea_popescu: especially since usgavin has made space double and bandwidth expand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs that at 4mb, nodes can be run as virii by now without problems
mircea_popescu: jurov not a crime. but you could also just 192.0.0.1 and typeadmin admin