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mircea_popescu: speaking of romanians raping words (which is what they do) : patent in romanian means a type of pliers.
mircea_popescu: then i discovered that no, the overpass is not material.
mircea_popescu: only after a while it occurred to me that wait a second, not like these people could know that ?! wtf ?!
mircea_popescu: in romanian, gang means, "underpass". and for a while i thought that's what it meant, rape occuring in such a place
mircea_popescu: decimation unless you both have equal armies, neither of you is signing any contracts.
mircea_popescu: whores in poorer countries are much more careful to charge all entrants.
mircea_popescu: bezzle influence. they will charge a derpy usg bureaucrat 2k for an hour, and then take three dudes at some party
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, usa is one of the few places where the girls do pro bono work.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know the etymology of that term ?
mircea_popescu: decimation seriously, it's unsanitary, this. take the world back, man!
mircea_popescu: "and this, my dear girls, is how you make a cnc mill out of menstrual blood"
mircea_popescu: it's the duty of any gentleman to fuck a whore at least yearly.
mircea_popescu: listen, if smart people don't fuck whores, the poor girls are left with a very poor impression of maledom
mircea_popescu: actually, better q, do they even have spas where you live.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the ultimate girl toilet, what is all this "lift the seat, lower the seat" bs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and suppose i have a toilet in my house that instead of the usual seat has a penis shaped stick to sit on ?
mircea_popescu: but your arguments don't work like you want them to nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's never happened, cuz why would somebody.
mircea_popescu: but your point doesn't work, seeing how... there isn't a way.
mircea_popescu: this equivocation would be the other, smaller reason copyrights still survive.
mircea_popescu: undata anyway, you're equivocating two things here. on one hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for the proposition that someone should make money off the writings of dead authors ; on the other hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for the theory that you should be able to play any computer game you wish without having to pay the company that made it anything.
mircea_popescu: exactly that way : its customers ended up on food stamps :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally : you know what "solid earner" died the exact death you describe ? buffett's "discount stamps"
mircea_popescu: undata they've not gotten anything intelligent done in 20 years. plenty of idiocy got done tho.
mircea_popescu: see the famous case of that neonazi kid whatever his name is
mircea_popescu: here's a good one : it'll never happen that they'll send people to prison for fixing software.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how many of these "it'll never happen"s i heard ?
mircea_popescu: undata no. by acting as if the usg actually has some sort of power or importance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that being the only reason it still survives as a going concern.
mircea_popescu: undata well there's no problem with helping it along, but your proposed measures have the opposite effect ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not my perspective, though we don't disagree. in my view of the matter, they will be done in by the fact that the intersection of thinking people and copyright observers will become the null set.
mircea_popescu: how did it become the case in us of fuckyou that you can be fined for using the internet ?
mircea_popescu: somewhere your thinking's broken but i don't readily spot where. wtf are you on about, "dropping that risk to nigligible" ?
mircea_popescu: undata it wouldn't do anything. you're basically saying, "carbon credits will permanently solve the eco whining". no, it provably won't.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck would awk be if someone tried to rewrite it to include privacy ?
mircea_popescu: undata listen, you're misdesigning here. the "privacy" angle is not to be solved at the tool level.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel the compulsion to collect them in case 1984 << you are doing a good thing.
mircea_popescu: which i think will be pretty shattery. roughly same topic.
mircea_popescu: but incidentally : i have for the past hour been writing on this piece