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mircea_popescu: but otherwise, it's about two degrees of magnitude harder to find passible shooters than it is to find passible language-of-the-week coders.
mircea_popescu: the argument is about as retarded as saying that "one real warrior can be more valuable than" bla bla. sure, the guy who puts up the flag can be misrepresented so and so.
mircea_popescu: that's a dangerous path to take. because "screw you bitch, i can sit in a chair and fly a desk too."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty soon the jury will have to deliberate on the exclusive basis of one sheet of paper on which the words "The People consider the defendant guilty" are written
mircea_popescu: mats calling it "a cyber missile" is a good joke. calling some beheadings "a new hairstyle" is a bad joke. gotta keep track!
mircea_popescu: i guess it's time for cazalla to get a ten page wikipedia article in all teh languages.
mircea_popescu: lol that blinky map dohickey (revolvermaps.com) reports "119 Recent Pageviews". over about 10 minutes ? so like
mircea_popescu: i guess hauling all those submarines in helicopters in boats in trains arrangement for securitah has its disadvantages. can't move fast enough
mircea_popescu: strangely, he also seems unaware of teh obama charlie hebdo blunder. i dunno when the us was as politically isolated in its past 1848 history as the time when everyone was in paris except obama. putin was there for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, i'd love to see the math by which russia produces oil at a profit when it's $25 a barrel.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the definition of bias. "agreeing with others in the parts where they agree with you."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re orlov : my very biased opinion is that "look, a collection of interesting facts and assorted insanities. the facts i recall reading coupla weeks ago in trilema."
mircea_popescu: "And without a functioning industrial economy crude oil would be reclassified as toxic waste. But that is still two or three decades off in the future."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << btw saw the saudi prince interview where he admits they're best buds with putin now ?
mircea_popescu: bah, so im writing an article. put down the first paragraph, 800 words worth of notes.
mircea_popescu: i can see why he wrote it. wtf is wired doing publishing it
mircea_popescu: mats dude, a piece about one kevin poulsen featuring a large picture of said kevin poulsen (who looks like a dork) discussing kevin poulsen and stuff to do with kevin poulsen.
mircea_popescu: you definitely should read her exhaustively before anything else
mircea_popescu: coderwill it's not entirely clear what you mean by "exchange", but in any case : what you're looking for has been covered extensively by mpoe-pr on the forum, back in the early days when the sort of nonsense was a lot more prevalent/
mircea_popescu: it's ludicrous as a concept. showing that these idiots posing as "leaders" have the intellectual penetration of frogs.
mircea_popescu: except, how the fuck will that work ? here's a broken c program, make a basic version of it and then try to enforce it
mircea_popescu: basically the proposition is that rather than writing good software, bad software will be translated into law language
mircea_popescu: this entire "forget how the machines work we'll make a legal representaton of how they SHOULD work and then hold you to respect that whether you knew it or not" is such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: mats: usually its all world domination and biodiesel << world biodisomination!
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: I want to hire a statistical company to make a distributed properly research. << there's perhaps better uses to that capital, whatever you'd be spending. seeing how the value of asnwering the "what does brazil think" on whatever topic isn't really that great. i guess it could be a useful demonstration of methodology etc, but that needs some sort of a plan, won't do much as just a shot in the dark.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: But I want to write it in Portuguese to someone translate it to me to English, and I make the final review just to see if anything was misundertood. << this is a non-starter. the person doing the translation can just write their own stuff directly. you're not famous or anything, why'd you imagine someone'd be bothered translating you specifically ?
mircea_popescu: but there'd have to be some sort of serious upfront commitment to it. one article now and again isn'treally worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i believe english is strongly encouraged. from what I remember when the guy wanting to write in italian showed up. << well, nobody speaks italian. brazil speaks portuguese. i don't directly see a problem with it, if the coverage's any good.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: and does the cooking too << i remember that part.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> from the top of the hill << o look, czechoslovenia!
mircea_popescu: back in the 90s the diesels were pretty economical cause diesel was 30% off
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what he does is, "here's a turing machine, and here's how im painting my game on it. "
mircea_popescu: apparently a sack of 20 different apples is "turing complete" if you provide the turing completeness separately
mircea_popescu: tank isn't that big if memory serves, more like 52, and fuel economy is not that bad, more like 7ish
mircea_popescu: jurov it's counterintuitive, but the session thing is not actually increasing security.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> its hard work, i hardly get any sleep << sleep is for pussy!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> also i must confess, it uses only short key ids internally << this should be fixed, and rly shouldn't be to hard to.