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mircea_popescu: That's pretty much how it went. Soon, I found myself sitting on the couch at home chatting with people from the laptop instead of sitting at my desk where the "real" computer (Linux box) was. It slowly wormed its way into my life, and before long, I was using it to browse my usual haunts
mircea_popescu: With all of my music on there, suddenly I no longer needed to fight with whatever screwball music player was on my Linux box at the office. I just moved my headphones over to my laptop and kept them there. iTunes took over my music playing needs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes derpy anon chick with no contributions or redeeming qualities, woke up talking one day about torvalds. the old libtard story about how "words are bad mkay"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re conductive cloth : easy cheap and pleasant anti-taser pill. watch the operator /whould police tough man get 3rd degree bunrs ? win.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: derpy? i mean culty. <<< dude you may be the only head of a foundation that says such things.
mircea_popescu: which is what i mean by "anger" earlier. yea, anger. just, not the sort people talking of it would like to presume.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg choppers were supposedly fired upon during 'katrina' << not supposedly. actual fact.
mircea_popescu: "the masses" exist thermodynamically because the government is giving them free stuff.
mircea_popescu: decimation: how does usg so utterly dominate the masses? <<< you can't be serious ?
mircea_popescu: eh get out, be the master you wish to see in the world.
mircea_popescu: yeah, srsly. fuck the act, why do you want to fire her.
mircea_popescu: tbh, i wouldn't fire a 13 a day woman that fucked up something through not having a clue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: real question is whether mr o actually drinks the 'kool aid' re: riots being 'popular anger', or merely pretends to. <<< fwiw, i also happen to think they're based on popular anger.
mircea_popescu: fuck, back in the day if guys didn't hear a "walk with me" for a week or two straight they'd start worried they got fired and everyone forgot to tell em.
mircea_popescu: you seriously can't tell me one walk every coupla weeks is overcommunicating.
mircea_popescu: undata: which runs counter to the point of hiring her << fwiw my read is exactly opposite. chick was fine, dude was inept.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (not a misprint! there were once intelligent, educated woman programmers in usa. but when the profession became 'blue collar' - akin to, e.g., cement mixer operator - they mostly disappeared.) << chetty being one of them.
mircea_popescu: by the way, the dark meadow is probably the best ipad game ever made. it's so good in fact it's definitely giving the platform a reason to exist.
mircea_popescu: what if no seaweeds ? what if "seaweeed tax" introduced ? etc.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how i could fuck an 80s woman without a three week prep course.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i sersiouly see more future for irc than for the web.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im not spending a million dollars to buy into what's fundamentally a dead tech.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it. much like your finger cannot function for long or very usefully unless attached to the rest of you << so very aptly put.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: literally, piles << quite. for a while in the 90s the way to get a cessna or local clone was to go to the pile.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes generally, get a dedicated/colocated box, run w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg ships afghani opium directly into ru. <<< opium wars 2.0 ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: I was kind of wondering about it recently, it could make sense <<< i said i suspected so, now he's haunting me with it.
mircea_popescu: if you can live with a cpanel account i can spin you one up rightnao.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla im kinda against giving any money to "least effort" sorta providers, because it narrows the pie for the legitimate guys. if i want 10 items of which one is rare, i WILL NOT buy the 10 from any of the shops that don't carry the 10th. that way that guy gets some nice business and the idiots get a valuable signal.
mircea_popescu: ah. yeah makes sense. "least effort hosting" specialists.
mircea_popescu: i don't care what you use, but it's not online is the problem.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he is literally correct incidentally. we have email where "isp expert" confused the incoming with the outgoing
mircea_popescu: punkman so what do you need to host it ? an aws ? or what ?