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mircea_popescu: punkman what happens should one try to register mirceA_Popescu ?
mircea_popescu: then let it be, dubious adding more complexity will do anything.
mircea_popescu: if you bundle its contents with later material you have constructed two competing txn, one of which will be introduced.
mircea_popescu: the reason is that once you broadcast a tx, you no longer have control of it.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Jeffrey Robinson, Author & Journalist << oh he's the clueless idiot with yet another "bitcoin book" that's neither a book nor about bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the only way to change it is to bury it in a sea of "jeez, i guess i was wrong" and subsequent self improvement. << a good point.
mircea_popescu: money works the same way, there's us and there's reddit, and there's no real path for the redditard to get in the wot. sure, he could, but as the article says, "The small chip camera owner cannot cross the forbidden zone for 30 BTC reasons, and even if he did, he wouldn’t have the necessary skills."
mircea_popescu: computers have worked exactly that same way, too. there's people who cli and then there's the hopeless horde looking for the any key. there's nothing in between, nor should there be, and kids learning to "program for the web" aren't ever going to become professionals.
mircea_popescu: this is how things naturally evolve, and it also happens to be the right way.
mircea_popescu: this is absolutely the rule of the world. why do you think there's monkeys and humans, and nothing in between ? author ever heard of punctuated equilibrium ?
mircea_popescu: at are so expensive that even professionals cringe. It’s like owning a jumbo jet: you can’t afford not to fly it, hence the constant references to workflow in the marketing. Alas, in between these two types we find the equivalent of a valence band or forbidden zone." << this has nothing to do with marketing.
mircea_popescu: "Digital photography today is another victim of the dead hand of marketing, where short term gain overrides any other concern. Broadly speaking, marketing has created two types of camera. There are those with small chips that are cheap – increasingly incorporated into a cell phone – have a rubbish lens, need no skill to operate and therefore teach the user nothing. And then there are those cameras with big chips th
mircea_popescu: disney is butthurt that it doesn't make that list, but it definitely never will.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the open secret here is that google for many years has no longer used computers to compile its list, but merely links wikipedia facebook and some other friends to the top by default.
mircea_popescu: at least if they had made it .co.uk it'd have been complete.
mircea_popescu: "because Disney.go.com is the official domain for The Walt Disney Company." << i have nfi how to put into words the idiocy of this
mircea_popescu: guy in bar "i wanna piss on the ceiling" bartender "stfu and piss in the toilet, a toilet should be enough for all the pissing"
mircea_popescu: "Medium format system cameras also have interchangeable backs, so you can switch between monochrome, colour and Polaroid film in seconds. In due course, you would switch to a digital sensor and leave it there." << here.
mircea_popescu: "really honey, you wanna fuck but don't wanna suck ? oh, and this is up to you, is it ? stfu and swallow it!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conversely, the fault of people who think they can so misapply their will.
mircea_popescu: the "profession" of photography is not evolving towards going back to film cameras. it's evolving towards drone cameras. they find the right spot on their own, fly around, take a bunch of photos for you etc.
mircea_popescu: afore the computer each sort of drawing was its own profession, with its own tools.
mircea_popescu: yeah. pure forms. writing, words or numbers. but not drawing, either.
mircea_popescu: generally the computer revolution has killed the outskirts and "empowered" the pure forms.
mircea_popescu has a penchant for watching notions dieing a grizzly death in the field.
mircea_popescu: just like the plumber using silicone curing isn't a silicone professional in any sense.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't so dead at some point in 1920, of course, but that only to us. i'm sure in 1920 some similar dispute raged, either about draughstmanship or some other sort of engraving.
mircea_popescu: so, no, it's no longer a profession. it's dead as its own thing, no matter who does what to whom.
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, so stated our dispute boils down to me saying that it is upon you either to present an outside criteria or else yield. (which is why i assumed your criteria is presented, and summarized it as "pre digital"). my point generally is that you can't present any meaningful criteria anyway.
mircea_popescu: jurov i bring as proof the difficulty real fags have in dating.
mircea_popescu: but by definition it can not. whatever it comes up with is actually the marketing-approved photography and all is well.
mircea_popescu: then yes, there's a market for marketing-approved photography.
mircea_popescu: bounce what is this market for "professionally done photographs", wherein the definition of "professionally" is coherent with pre-digital photography ?
mircea_popescu: not so many. just as many as poorly managed youth existed. it's a lengthy history full of gaps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes yes, all the benefits of being a prince in terms of the harem girls' awe, none of the risks in terms of the other dudes beheading you. i know all about the mental processes supporting adolescent frottage
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, to summarize : the discussion as to whether a profession is doing ok or not, or even is still alive, can not rely on a discussion on they who call themselves followers.
mircea_popescu: i suppose since nancy reagan was hiring court astrologers the argument can be brought that the colonies were slower on the uptake, but be that as it may...
mircea_popescu: chick comes to me, "hey, this chick is born in so and so sign, marry her" i'm "leave here and never speak to me again"
mircea_popescu: chick goes to mp's great-granddad in 1514 "hey, this chick is born in so and so sign, marry her!" mp's granddad "hm, that;s an idea"
mircea_popescu: heck, i can probably find people soliciting to protect the us from alien invasion.
mircea_popescu: i can find even more astrologers taking comissions, does this mean astrology is alive and well ?
mircea_popescu: bounce why do you think "people calling themselves artists and asking for money" is an argument ?
mircea_popescu: punkman there's gotta be soemthing the matter owht the bot
mircea_popescu: gpg: Signature made Sun 02 Nov 2014 11:29:39 PM EET using RSA key ID F3251143
mircea_popescu: actually dali should probably get mention as the chief marketing whore rather than those two. makes little difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: there are, of course, still prohpets around. doesn't mean religion ain't dead.
mircea_popescu: bounce your argument that "there's still deluded idiots pretending that "painter" is an adequate synonym for "bum" " fails to support your earlier assertion that "photography hasn't killed painting".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes point remains, when you have a buy wall you increase the price, rather thna flatten yourself against it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes depends, maybe the 240 a month goes into creating a relationship with the provider or w/e. at that level, the skill of the manager is much more important than technical considerations. think of it, most embasies cost more than they have to.
mircea_popescu: "evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing." <<< there isn't going to be a professional photographer anymore than there's going to be a professional dresser.
mircea_popescu: 9k not the same, i don't care what the pretense at hand is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:... $8500 << ... in excees of 300 dollars a month << you have to understand, 300 a month may well be the threshold of "minimum we'd pay for servers". because it's a tiny sum.
mircea_popescu: mostly because that reanimated corpse of buscemi is a very great weird actor.
mircea_popescu: punkman: saint john of las vegas ? << think I've seen that, what's mp's take on it << i thought it was somewhat similar to dead man. just as totally fucking absurd and meaningless, but not unpleasant neveretheless.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: either way, it does appear that every 5th mircea_popescu comment gets eaten by contravex's spam filter << just happened again lol