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mircea_popescu: either he's an officer, which is weird, but weird is not new in the game ; or else he's just yet another aspiring-talking head, except not working for X company but Y, or else i'm wrong.
mircea_popescu: gernika the kgb does not recruit nobodies for this role.
mircea_popescu: so wait, you COULD be a tailor ? cuz yo usorta like cut stuff now and again ?
mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 12-08-2014 05:29:50 <punkman> I am subjecting myself to Swanson's book << anything came of this ?
mircea_popescu: which is, i guess, what "traditional marriage" is all about.
mircea_popescu: generally, that's the formative experience of failure. when one's daughters are given away as objects to they in the other system, because even as objects there they are still worth more than were they to stay in their parents' own system, much like infinitely nothing of something is still more than absolutely all of nothing whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, but the idea is for it to be done for free.
mircea_popescu: so orlovs' prediction is that in the near future i will be able to order oligarch underage daughter prostitute to my hotel room in odessa ?
mircea_popescu: "Some of the action is bound to be quite shocking; for instance, while the elites and the oligarchs themselves are rather well defended, at least initially, their children, ensconced in various elite schools, academies and universities, comprise a soft target, setting the stage for school take-overs, mass kidnappings and shootings of a very different sort from the ones seen to date. "
mircea_popescu: could also say "they're letting the women lead much to their detriment"
mircea_popescu: the apportioning of penance among the universally guilty humans, the temproal role of the church,
mircea_popescu: it's like accusing someone of us "rape". do they have a penis ? well....
mircea_popescu: listen, until you start doing your own photosinthesis, you can be accused of being "parasitic"
mircea_popescu: otherwise endlessly spinning the "simulated loads" of bezzle is a great way to keep a great engine away from the road.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't disagree the brain works. im just saying, it's not working till it does work.
mircea_popescu: what used to be fearless warriors are now blind old dependants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a much larger issue there. iran is mostly ethnially persian. the leadership, ethnically arab. on their own, the arabs are usually poor. therefore they depend on govt dole.
mircea_popescu: till you get your wheels on you're just a prototype. a good one, sure, but...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is the engine spinning on the test bed a working engine or not ?
mircea_popescu: everything else is forever abundant. and so... they may well wish to live
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing ever in deficit in the world is the working brain and the erect penis.
mircea_popescu: there's something afoot with the dns service worldwide tho
mircea_popescu: " There tends to be a clean break with the old, collapsing society, which is motivated by money and prestige within society at large, because these entrepreneurial groups are motivated by honor and prestige within the in-group only." << what is the wot if not exactl;y that ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, he's involved << wai wat. << does this need elucidation still ?
mircea_popescu: "the country works whether it's your ally or your enemy, as what it does"
mircea_popescu: undata violence is not merely physical violence. tim swanson got bludgeoned into the dirt, what is that if not violence ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno what he meant by it, but what he actually said does allow an interpretation that actually works, so. benefit of the doubt.
mircea_popescu: "the sec wants to matter, the sec better get in the wot". hasn't turned bloody yet.
mircea_popescu: " And as the unraveling progresses, the violent entrepreneurs develop agendas of their own, which, inevitably, involve having the cooperation flow the other way: instead of cooperating with those formerly in charge, they demand that those formerly in charge start cooperating with them. And it is here that the scene turns bloody."
mircea_popescu: in a sense, "entrepreneurs of violence" is just a particular facet of sovereignity. orlov was in a room with a sovereign elephant and what he came out with was the trunk.
mircea_popescu: i have servers, too, and as the ddos rises so do the servers. simple equation there.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i always did, but that is besides the point anyway.
mircea_popescu: he's not particularly powerful, at least not in any way the pete's derpy commenter would recognise. but that's an unrelated matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say i'm the poster child for orlov's "violent entrepreneurs". it's not that i make an enterprise of violence, is that i clearly and pointedly reserve the right to use violence without limit.
mircea_popescu: well if the one you're thinking of is, then the one you;re thinking of might be, yes.
mircea_popescu: if they weren't worthless they'd be invovled NOW. since they aren't now, they won't later.
mircea_popescu: undata you act as if this political thing is a reserve ability all men have.
mircea_popescu: did you just download pastebin.com and are now rummaging ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform americans aren't a nation. no such for them.
mircea_popescu: then flush it down the drain for all it matters, you just want to meet the people involved.
mircea_popescu: buy a pound of cocaine, uncut, on the premise that it muyst be exactly one pound and exactly uncut.
mircea_popescu: having those friends will pay in 2020. having a basement full of whatever might get you killed.
mircea_popescu: anyway, unlike stockpiling X Y or Z magical golden pill produced on antiquated thinking, going out and making friends with a drug dealer TODAY is both actionable and useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, they will. VERY distinguishable. recall the previous fall : who dared go around in a militsya uniform ?
mircea_popescu: no, not gangs. gangs are roughly what the police is. hardly entrepreneurial/
mircea_popescu: same people wil be selling water and batteries soonish
mircea_popescu: $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure($permalink_structure); is the call you care about
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a $prefix defined in wp-admin/options-permalink.php but "you really should not fuck with that"