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mircea_popescu: now, how some uncultured lout in australia and a bunch of uncultured louts in the us managed to reinvent the exact pits of scholastic thought in 15th century europe
mircea_popescu: "we punish not for what they did, but because they think they should be punished"
mircea_popescu: this struck me when i read it because it is an exact reprise of the scholastics backing the inquisiton :
mircea_popescu: "We would never strike a student and whether the software is pirated or not is not the issue. He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this "and then she lied about it" reminds me of a very particular thing that struck me a while back.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 well like that i can't imagine how you could avoid depression.
mircea_popescu: undata because the ones that'd have enough sense for such a thing long left for isis ?
mircea_popescu: what is this bullshit ? i demand equal trophies given to men.
mircea_popescu: poor unloved isis, no wonder it's going to rape the mdcss in corpore.
mircea_popescu: now they changed their tune, loving the wrong guys is no longer the cure.
mircea_popescu: undata it's more amusing than that. 50 years ago, the fucktarded feminists in charge were all about how "love is the answer to all problems"
mircea_popescu: should not get to confront the storytelling nature of their activity.
mircea_popescu: but the large bulk of pointless idiots that are telling themselves stories
mircea_popescu: nah but see, not what i mean. obviously the ones that are worth two shits don't need to find out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform teh old guys are really worried that the young guys may find out that the young girls are more impressed with isis-ing than with whatever the old guys clamor to be impressing them.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 so what do you do, cook and clean ? give head ? sing & play the harp?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i think the great theory goes, that you don't need people who care, or who are competent, or understand anything etc. you just need enough of them.
mircea_popescu: if you want practice, go to boring women's thanksgiving parties.
mircea_popescu: i don't really trust mass produced sweets. in house all the way!
mircea_popescu: if nothing else, decent odds it'll get you out of jury duty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, can't hurt to inform another million.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, an undisputed and for that matter indisputable string of caselaw.
mircea_popescu: US v Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006
mircea_popescu: ”If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence ... and the courts must abide by that decision.“
mircea_popescu: btw, to help publicise the most important, and therefore least well known aspect of the us justice system :
mircea_popescu: ah if only bitcoin were around in the 90s, back when greenspan was still in charge.
mircea_popescu: ears in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.”
mircea_popescu: “Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of y
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine why. all the good slovak fucks i had were gypsy
mircea_popescu: if they should be sterilised, you have no conceivable reason to seek their approval.
mircea_popescu: if they're some people whose agreement you seek, they shouldn't be sterilised.
mircea_popescu: jurov in general, so that most of each generation succumbs to avoidable causes, and most of the survivors don't dare speak.
mircea_popescu: generally, because socialist government is by definition inept, i guess.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as something still exists for putin to run over, neither has russia "starved to death" ?
mircea_popescu: didn't bagels7 just bitch that her dad didn'g buy her a computer ? im sure he must at some point have bought some grain too.
mircea_popescu: generally, the leadership of "socii", ie "allies" ie vassals is worse than at the center.
mircea_popescu: jurov czechoslovakia isn't soviet russia tho or what are we talking about here
mircea_popescu: by 1980 the globalisation of trade makes such approach useless.
mircea_popescu: jurov and if you also count greece as part of europe, they had a famine tambien.
mircea_popescu: nah, the famines were criminal particularly because stalin's soviets were net exporters.
mircea_popescu: whioch reminds me. asciilifeform you know the irish "fear gortha" ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> and there was no such famine in eastern eutope outside russia inn 20th century << silesia famine in 1850 ? hongerwinter ?
mircea_popescu: that's the clear and incontrovertible proof that mechanized agriculture wasn't available even beyond the pale. let alone inside russia proper.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> and it was *after* mechanized agriculture was available << it was not at all available. do you know what the tachanka was ? Makhno's thing.
mircea_popescu: <bagels7> they didnt have tchonology like today? <<< they didn't need it, because they weren't nearly as many.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> detectably plenty of starvation in ancient world, even with 'sound money' and good management << quite. famine is a great motivator, and to be honest i do not see why half the population should not at all points be hungry.