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mircea_popescu: all i see so far - is
that softening
the grip on IP is actually more harmful
to human life
than keeping it
tight.
this entire cosplay
thing exists essentially because
the various "ip holders" aren't nearly as vigorous as
they were in
the 70s (good fucking luck doing "your own version of mickey mouse/donald duck" because "you
think you look like
them" and
then - horror of horrors!!11!!1 - selling fucking
tschotchkes)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi, i'm
trying
to make sense of nonsense over here and it spills.
mircea_popescu: is she on
tour or some shit ? no fucking rock band made
their own costumes out of $200
to go on
tour. ffs.
mircea_popescu: wtf, someone somewhere actually believes someone could conceivably want
this ?!
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is going on in
this america,
they dress out of an hour's work ?
mircea_popescu: "Lindsay’s costs are mostly for costumes. Prices vary, depending on complexity. Her favorite costume, Game of
Thrones Cersei Lannister cost $200 (and didn’t sell many prints). For
this she used upholstery fabric at $30 a yard." << im
trying
to recall when it was i bought a woman an outfit for less
than $200. wtf.
mircea_popescu: if
that ever existed outside of local popular imagination, it's long gone.
mircea_popescu: somehow
they don't even notice
this. "why aren't you in asian
then ???" "oh, from ohio
to la was long enough a
trip for me!"
mircea_popescu: "tell you what, pack of cards counts 52, so call it 52
THOUSAND. and
this is america."
mircea_popescu: the definitive statement ; "and
this is romania - in moscow
they must be having it better!"
mircea_popescu: ome of its stars – like Alodia Gosiengfiao (5 million plus facebook fans) might easily pull in a high six-figure income." <<
THIS.
mircea_popescu: "And a lot of income comes from merchandise sales. McCaskill estimates
that “top
tier” cosplayers might make around $70-125,000 a year. Breaking
this down, if a cosplayer attends 26 conventions a year and sells 100 prints (a low number) per weekend for $20,
that’s $52,000 a year. Minus costs (makeup, equipment, photography shoots)
that sounds pretty sweet. And
this is North America.
The Asian market is much larger and s
mircea_popescu: the grift works
towards a specified
target. scamzoring is just low effort whaling,
trying
to eat
the copepods
that socialist state redistribution produces.
ben_vulpes: phf: i will kick your bot over while you're at
the burn if nobody else has/will step forward
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's an actual professional calling, unlike all
this shit. respectable if done well.
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck. a set is an hour and a half, and while not
the multi-k figures, it still pays 4-500 ish.
ben_vulpes did not realize
that griftering was a noble calling
these days!
mircea_popescu: "Most cosplayers are shy about revealing
their exact numbers, so we sourced some from industry experts. Cosplay Photographer Don McCaskill said
that a low day rate is $75
to $300 for a cosplayer."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suspect
they meant
the grift not
the graft.
mircea_popescu: by now
these idiots are so infatuated with
their own "SOCIAL MEDIA!!! HUGE!!!" gargle
they don't even comprehend numbers. "it's a number, so it's huge, righht ?"
mircea_popescu: 796, you realise. almost enough
to be
the 3rd elected alderman in shitown stickville.
mircea_popescu: "Lindsay is candid about how she makes her career choice work. It’s about grafting, and having a heavy social media presence. She runs a busy Facebook,
Twitter and instagram page, and has held a Reddit AMA
that received 796 comments."
mircea_popescu: "The line was for
TwitchCon merchandise.
T-shirts were $22 – $25.
The next day
they were $150 on eBay." right, right "were". how many fucking sold ? "I CAN DO ANYTHING! I'VE NEVER BEEN PUNCHED!"
mircea_popescu: saying it makes it
true
to an outstanding level, not even reached by most altcoins.
mircea_popescu: e. He believed Flood Gaming was ideally placed
to broker deals between
Twitch stars and corporate brands."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in more "truly
the internet is fucking
tiny and broadly irrelevant" news : largest
twitch-influencer (syndicate) serves about... 1k views/day. meanwhile at hallucination farms (eg
https://archive.is/jQxr9 ) : "Twitch and
the global economy" ; "Twitch
Talent Agents" "David Goldberg, of New York and Hong Kong-based agency Flood Gaming said
that Amazon buying
Twitch made him realize
there was real money
to be made her
mircea_popescu: da fuck, you can probably find 100 servers
that fedex you banana peels.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the "184 servers were probably planted by you on
the interwebs" line forgot
to be mentioned in response, i assume ?
phf: "With an Internet-wide scan we identified 184 HTTPS servers repeating nonces, which fully breaks
the authenticity of
the connections." "Furthermore we discovered over 70,000 HTTPS servers using random nonces, which puts
them at risk of nonce reuse if a large amount of data is sent over
the same connection." from mr. bock
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 23:03 pete_dushenski just learned in
the most untimely way possible, in
the midst of an unexpected rainshower apparently on his building and his building alone,
that his lexus (jay) has 'feature' whereby remote unlock button is held and all windows incl. sunroof open simultaneously. and ofc, he'd sat on
the button or something jit. quelle experiment!
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 23:24 mircea_popescu: phf>
there's some kind of massive delusion going with
these people <<
they were never humiliated. it rots
the brain. idiot literally imagines
that just because he doesn't understand how
the ocmpany is run,
then
therefore it's not run at all and
there';s room for him
to pretend it's like washington state cca 1916 and one gets
to be mayor just for showing up, population 1
town.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 22:33 phf: one guy was convinced we'll let him open a uk department (he's ~support~, answers
tickets, but has a degree in business something or other), wouldn't let
the
thought go even after
told no multiple
times. he would schedule meetings on behalf of company with various uk foundations, etc. he had a meeting with richard branson as part of handful "young entrepreneurs",
to
talk about, yes, moving
the company
to uk.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: (really bitch, it's "win-win" ?) <<
this, as it happens, it what specifically set off my bullshit alarm. i don't disagree
that
technology means doing more with less, nor with
the place of religion in filling
the materialistic voids created by modernity.
mircea_popescu: back at
the ranch, i wish
to make 10 dollars in a world where
the peons make one ; and i specifically do not wish
to make a hundred in a world where
the peons make ninety.
to say nothing of fucking equality ; let alone
the hollywoodian imbecilism of lottery winners.
mircea_popescu: there's a good reason optimism and pedophilia appear indistinguishable in
the afflicted, as
this inexplicable, howling madness of unfathomable profundity.
mircea_popescu: this "trade power for fetish of power so we can fit more shiny happy faux people on
the marble" was bullshit since day one.
mircea_popescu: moreover, who
the fuck wants "actual
things". will any sane lord
trade lordship for ipad ? so
that what, you can click on pictures of farms ? like a chicken ?
mircea_popescu: the delusion of growth is coming
to an end and
there's going
to be a loser for every winner and a ravished maiden for every satisfied gunner.
mircea_popescu: "Technology means doing more with less. In
the absence of
technological progress, we end up with a zero-sum world, in which
there must be a loser for every winner. It is not clear whether a capitalistic economic system could function without growth; and it is unlikely
that a representative democracy, which requires
the give-and-take of win–win compromise, would continue
to function." << why hate on
the guy ? other
than
the
mircea_popescu: phf>
there's some kind of massive delusion going with
these people <<
they were never humiliated. it rots
the brain. idiot literally imagines
that just because he doesn't understand how
the ocmpany is run,
then
therefore it's not run at all and
there';s room for him
to pretend it's like washington state cca 1916 and one gets
to be mayor just for showing up, population 1
town.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and yes,
they
teach each other
things ; if you're not fucking boring / mommy fixated, you'll end up with very different girls which makes it better.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes suppose woman is depressed. much more effectual for you + OTHER WOMAN
to
tell her a nice story
BingoBoingo: <phf> "no external links unless
they are in mp's host file" << Not quite, but basically no links
to places spamzors like such as youtube/tumblr/etc without pretty pleasing an approval right after comment is submitted.
pete_dushenski just learned in
the most untimely way possible, in
the midst of an unexpected rainshower apparently on his building and his building alone,
that his lexus (jay) has 'feature' whereby remote unlock button is held and all windows incl. sunroof open simultaneously. and ofc, he'd sat on
the button or something jit. quelle experiment!
☟︎ ben_vulpes: how do mistress and wife mitigate each others management costs? is
this one of
those "well you put
them in
the same room and
they just start eating each other out"
things?
mircea_popescu: phf> ben_vulpes:
that video is now <<
the logs prevail.
mircea_popescu: phf
the unending lulz of gunner being "pulemetchik" will never be explained.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> are mistresses much
to manage ? (open q
to
tmsr~) << no.
the whole point of
the fucking mistress is
that she's a negative management cost. she helps with
the wife ; and if
the wife's any good she helps with
the mistress etc.
ben_vulpes: and it's hysterical
that i should say "these kids" because wtf i'm younger
than many of
the worst specimens i've met
ben_vulpes: whoa
that last
tidbit sounds insanely familiar
phf: there's some kind of massive delusion going with
these people,
that even video above doesn't fully do justice
phf: one guy was convinced we'll let him open a uk department (he's ~support~, answers
tickets, but has a degree in business something or other), wouldn't let
the
thought go even after
told no multiple
times. he would schedule meetings on behalf of company with various uk foundations, etc. he had a meeting with richard branson as part of handful "young entrepreneurs",
to
talk about, yes, moving
the company
to uk.
☟︎ phf: nah,
they were all pampered, a kindness
they
took for weakness. next round will simply be on
tighter specs-- "clock in/clock out", "this many days off", etc.
ben_vulpes: "take more
than a week of your PTO and
they FIRE
THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT!"
ben_vulpes: ideally you want
to hang on
to 2 or 3 of
the meekest so
they can
tell
the story
to
the next round of draftees
pete_dushenski: "The iris-scanning
technology, which relies on an infrared camera lens mounted on
the front of
the phone, can also be used
to unlock a secure folder within
the Android operating system. Users can store sensitive documents and apps in
the directory, which remain encrypted even if
the phone is unlocked. Iris-detection is fast, identifying a registered face and unlocking
the device in less
than a second duri
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: all good. couldn't have been
that important.
phf: "no external links unless
they are in mp's host file"
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo: qntra snarfed a comment of mine containing a youtube link about a week back. just a heads up in case you're sifting
through spam. << Youtube disallowed,
too far in
the past
to dig out of anywhere. Resubmit.
pete_dushenski: thermostat ransomware is sure
to be a hit everywhere other
than san fran where it's 20c year-round
phf: ben_vulpes:
that video is now
the prism
through which i see majority of millennials. our support
team were literally like
this, down laugh, awkwardness, and
the painful "whiteness".
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I dunno, but I accidentally defeated
two of
the
things last year with overspray from actual
target weed.
phf: "i want 40 days of outstanding pto" "your own calendar says you
took 60 days already, so you should be paying us" "..."
BingoBoingo: Anyways roots far
too deep
to dig. Responds
to glyphosate. Responds very quickly
to glyphosate/triclophyr mix often sold as "poison ivy" killer.
ben_vulpes: eh, not really * monkey. more paratroopers
to parachute into whatever and
take arbitrary pillboxen.