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mircea_popescu: it was to be fixed "eventually". power rangers still not got around to it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno anyone using it seriously - the sort of derps that'd want that moved to ubuntu anyway
mircea_popescu: mike_c: whatever. so much for learning something new today. back to a more familiar distro. << debian past sarge suffers from bitcoin past 0.5 problem
mircea_popescu: This is the whole gimmick of media, not polar but triangular, right, left, middle, mobilizing an army of assonauts to feel strongly enough about something that they don't do anything.
mircea_popescu: You'll counter that there are right leaning and left leaning independents, isn't there a difference? but this misses the point: propaganda doesn't try to get you to believe something, but to do something, and in this case it is to do nothing-- it doesn't matter what you choose to believe, as long as your outrage is done from inside your house.
mircea_popescu: The media explains how things relate to him, and as long as he understands what's going on, he feels empowered. He is given an ideology without even knowing it. Now he doesn't actually have to do anything, indeed, it's way the hell better if he does nothing. All that's required is support, and through his support not only will "the right things" happen but he'll share in the credit.
mircea_popescu: souflakis is particularly rich. "we will agree with you through the simple process of you all being just as stupid as we are. problem solved."
mircea_popescu: for the past... uh i dunno, 2k years ? pretty much the mode
mircea_popescu: typical moive, too, now that they've got all the free money that they were liable to get. greece is basically a hooker.
mircea_popescu: humanitarian disaster, yeah. greeks no longer able to spend whole day crowding the coffee shops across the acropolis, acting like they're the russian rich people coming to visit
mircea_popescu: "Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday that he wanted a "viable, mutually beneficial solution" to what he called a humanitarian disaster his country has suffered as a result of the austerity imposed by its creditors."
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Greek PM: We will no longer submit to the EU - Al Jazeera English << the great us - germany war heating up huh.
mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone is stuck waiting for a ghost fix or w/e, not bakcported yet into your distro :
mircea_popescu: jurov apparerntly there's some issues with the mailing list
mircea_popescu: to quote the immortal pesto... "well that ain't gonna work ?!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in retrospect, this is without the db fixes ?!
mircea_popescu: to quote deedee, "do with your magic science or something!"
mircea_popescu: i hear he has a magic tool to make the usb sticks half price every year or something,
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gavinandresen hey derpyshits, where's the economist "experts" when you actually need 'em ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gavinandersen hey derpyshits, where's the economist "experts" when you actually need 'em ?
mircea_popescu: (if you use usg "free" storage, "special deal for gavincoin")
mircea_popescu: and now THERE asciilifeform hjas us: nobody exists without a bag of thumb drives
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because why not ? for the same reason korea why not aircraft carrier, in nucet.
mircea_popescu: women aren't sluts just because they're dressed in the nude ; derps on tv aren't scientists just because they wear a white lab coat ; stinky hobos at your local starbucks aren't anything other than all the other people in starbucks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : 50% of america dreams of but doesn't own and can't afford a laptop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, slower. obviously if a block takes less thna 10 minutes it's still perfectly usable.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nah this won't work. the usb actually steals entropy from pc neh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really, you can get a few bux that way but import the risk you get a special box of special units.