asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've often wondered if there is, somewhere, a literal 'money laundry' - for trips to Dubai, etc. where a nanogram of coke merits the firing squad
asciilifeform: typically these have a toggle that moves the clock/data line from 1 serial rom to another
asciilifeform: (executing from rom, esp. the 'serial' 8-legged variety, is dog-slow)
asciilifeform: that is, copies them to cacheable RAM on boot
asciilifeform: one reason might be that pc architecture, almost always by default, 'shadows' roms
asciilifeform: (naturally, rom with physical switch for write-enable)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: servers that are rebooted are not really the same servers anymore << i bet i'm not the only one who wonders why kernel-in-ROM never caught on
asciilifeform: the gypsies (any left in Ro?) aren't the least bit slavic
asciilifeform: incidentally, this fellow, afaik, was not a psychiatric case himself, but for some reason enjoyed trolling usenet groups full of such
asciilifeform: (last turd. anyone who wants more can visit the site)
asciilifeform: derstood as an attempt by men to democratize the experience of enjoying beautiful women. So far, technology hasn’t been up to the task—actual beautiful women are still better—but technology will keep improving.)'
asciilifeform: With Howard Stern’s girlfriend, the salient features are absolute: her looks and her receptive behavior. If every woman looked similarly good, and behaved as adoringly toward the average working stiff, they would still look good. (A man can test this hypothesis by viewing photographs of thousands of attractive women. Even after massive, pervasive exposure, they still look good. In fact, pornography can be un
asciilifeform: ntract, they would all be merely average again in the eyes of women. (Consider that the average US working stiff is fantastically wealthy in Medieval terms, but modern US women have simply raised their materialistic requirements commensurately.)
asciilifeform: 'It’s interesting to consider which gender’s ideal can be realized first with technology. It should be a lot easier for technology to simulate Howard Stern’s girlfriend (for the satisfaction of men) than for technology to simulate Howard Stern (for the satisfaction of women). With Howard Stern, the salient feature is the success, and the relative status. If every man had a $500 million satellite radio co
asciilifeform: 'If the world’s most beautiful women want to be gold-diggers, that’s their right. It doesn’t “humiliate” me. It merely establishes what I would have to obtain (namely, wealth and fame) if I wanted to bang some of those women. The actual women, that is. Technology may provide an easier alternative. And a more intellectually satisfying alternative too.'
