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mircea_popescu: i guess that's as good a reason as any
mircea_popescu: in fairness i guess they are researching rail guns to fire bullet-like items
mircea_popescu: well you know, large enough to not have to apply qm.
Joshua-I: Pretty kinetic until they're not
mircea_popescu: even the fucking nukes are thermic weapons. what kinetic ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck are these people thinking ? they're seeing themselves as some sort of 17th century naval artillery dudes, firing kugels at one another ? there's nothing kinetic about weapons in use today, they're all thermic.
mircea_popescu wonders at this novel tendency of us military types to call traditional warfare "kinetic".
Joshua-I: You out there fam
deedbot: [Trilema] The "crisis" of "democracy" - http://trilema.com/2016/the-crisis-of-democracy/
mircea_popescu: whatever you put in, is now in, not just for the parts you intended but for all the parts it might have.
mircea_popescu: i suppose god might make an appearance. but i dun wish to commit to shape.
mircea_popescu: a traitor hero. meh.
mircea_popescu: and of the worst kind
asciilifeform: one of the dogmen falls into disgrace and decides that he could bugger all of the bubblefolk at once, if only he 'jacks in' himself
mircea_popescu: but i sure as fuck am not putting American Squarejaws and his Love Interest in there
mircea_popescu: so unless i figure out how myth may continue, it's stuck there.
mircea_popescu: basically, i perceive i've basically wrote myth, and simply do not wish to degrade it into narrative
mircea_popescu: time shall tell
mircea_popescu: i took it as far as actually having to make a decision, and is stuck now. do i introduce a hero ? do i make it what ?
mircea_popescu: the problem is i kinda dunn owhat i want to do with it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider continuing the tale? it was spiffy
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/the-darkening/ << on reread, this is actually fine dribblet of tmsr-church mythology.
shinohai: $later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/139r
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is the field-grunt arm of nsa. traditionally headed by same stuffed shirt as the better-known one.
mircea_popescu: emblem, is the MD5 hash of their mission statement."
mircea_popescu: in other news, wikipedia delivers : "United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is an armed forces sub-unified command subordinate to United States Strategic Command. The command is located in Fort Meade, Maryland, and centralizes command of cyberspace operations, organizes existing cyber resources and synchronizes defense of U.S. military networks. The text "9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a", which is located in the command's
mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've created a sort of monarchy without a king, basically just the court and nobody there to behead us - we'll call it democracy. if anyone inquires into the matter we can always add modern in front and it'll be all good!" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "someone i nthe sky giving us moneyz for sitting on ass and derping importantly" ? that's not fucking democracy, but the opposite thereof.
mircea_popescu: what the FUCK did you think "democracy" means ye gits ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, lovely verbiage "crisis of american democracy" = "guy we don't like massacring bureaucracy on the basis of popular vote"
mircea_popescu: if anyone other than you actually had any faith in this theory, they wouldn't be quite this desperate now would they.
asciilifeform: and they will make it look entirely legit, to whatever naked eye.
asciilifeform: a great many folks who are in a position to enthrone clitler, by whatever means, regardless of what winblowz CE buttons the sheeple click on in the voting booths, will be doing their thing.
mircea_popescu: curious if they'll exclude her now. lol.
mircea_popescu: lol @ginsburg. she's only there to be a president's whore, who's anyone kidding.
mircea_popescu: what else was in it ? somehow it's nto triggering memory.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 19:09 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which, the "Galt's gulch" thing ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502191 << mno, the 'sovereign citizen' thing ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Supreme Court justices don’t — at least until now — take public stands on presidential or other elections. One reason is that they are barred from doing so by the federal code of judicial conduct...'
mircea_popescu: how the fuck endorsing the patent loser is "doing his best" i have nfi.
deedbot: [Qntra] Theresa May British PM After No One Else Wants Job Following #Brexit Vote - http://qntra.net/2016/07/theresa-may-british-pm-after-no-one-else-wants-job-following-brexit-vote/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which, the "Galt's gulch" thing ? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Ceded and endorsed Hillary because she endorsed marijuana legalization. Also did not want to get Vince Fostered.
trinque: went and licked the boot too
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If person asks "What creature shits most delicious turds" I'm still prolly going to offer coffee bean civet.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: nah, that's free
thestringpuller: "Did someone touch you the wrong way at work? Sue them!!!! For $9.99"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu do you have the link to your series re: same handy ?
asciilifeform: american law is sufficiently complicated, but - more importantly - arbitrary in its application, that there exists an entire subculture of sc4mz0rz peddling 'legal miracle cures' to idiots
thestringpuller: for and Order Form to send with a
thestringpuller: Supreme Court Decision and how to obtain
thestringpuller: For more information on The History,
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is not, cannot be, any such thing as actual allodial title in any country you're likely to visit, and anyone who informed you to the contrary is selling something.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if usaschwitz were purchased, invaded, ceded to, occupied by, malevolent martians, very few people would notice a difference.
asciilifeform: 'The vehicle title that you may hold is not a full, paramount title unless you have the Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin (MCO) of the vehicle...and that is held by the State. You are not allowed to possess it. [In almost all cases, new car dealers automatically submit MCOs to the State...unless you insist that it be given to you.] As soon as you "register" your vehicle, if you have an MCO, you must submit it to the State. '
asciilifeform: as often is the case with title wankage, search yields gold: http://individualsovereignty.blogspot.com/2013/09/allodial-title.html
thestringpuller: I'm certain if bankers wanted land they just hire guys with guns to take it from you
BingoBoingo: Wyoming fails too on reasons like EPA can tell you not to do stuff on land
thestringpuller: "Many Americans have not come to the realization that their homes, businesses, and properties are collateral on the federal debt, even if you have the deed and it’s paid for, in FULL! If the federal government defaults on its interest obligation, the private World Bankers automatically become the new "Land Lords" of every home, business, and property in the United States.
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: You don't lost the land if you don't pay property taxes. Actual definition includes further rights beyond that.
thestringpuller: when you actually own the land
BingoBoingo: Or at least the closest thing to it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There is in Wyoming for right price. It's why the Cheneys are there
asciilifeform: aint no such thing as allodial title in usaschwitz
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: Wyoming, still has Allodial title to the land
felipelalli: BingoBoingo: what is the best state of US to live?
felipelalli: Rio is to me like another planet. It really worth to know one day. It's different.
felipelalli: I hate when I have to go there, I try to avoid aways.
felipelalli: it's not so bad like that, I'm a little paranoid! But you mix the paranoia + some violence and...
mircea_popescu: obviously a few million people do manage to survive amirite :)
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: well, if you can survive, the cunts are good there, for sure! lol
mircea_popescu: eh who cares. how about the cunts ? the booze ?
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: it's like a big slum, and it is too dangerous.
BingoBoingo: But what the diverse gang of three did was apparently use the app to find pokemon hotspot and rob distracted derps
BingoBoingo: I think just about 20 years now
mircea_popescu: possibly because of ben_vulpes and his pokemon red being just about the right age... twenty years ago or so ?
mircea_popescu: none of this is much helped in respectability by the fact that a common ro language insult for idiotic younger kids / small brothers etc is "ba, pokemonilor", ie, you pokemons.
mircea_popescu: so the pokemon robbers robbed the robbees of what, their pokemon phones ?
phf: mircea_popescu: yah, it's not forgotten. i wrote a parser for it, but need to go make sure that negative ids work everywhere
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 17:09 ben_vulpes: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2016/07/how_puerto_rico_beat_the_hedge_funds.html << obab gets to claim victory, kicks can down road for successors. ¡sorpresa!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502060 <<< argentina will be FUCKING THRILLED. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 16:24 Framedragger: so husserl's bracketing technique in phenomenology is used for signaling online harassment targets in sociul meedia. world is truly a place of wonder
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502056 << this is what you get for sending ustards to college. they "adapt" what they read to the "practical needs" in their environment. problem ? ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: hey phf you getting the historical log added to search ?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/squares-do-morals-a-porno/#footnote_9_49613 << apparently only survives in trilema record.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't seem to turn it up in the l0gz
mircea_popescu: SAME fucking recursion being the problem.
mircea_popescu: recall the ancient discussion with cads re his girlfriend and her "intuition" about the diagonal proof ?
asciilifeform: iirc hofstadter had a very similar thought.
mircea_popescu: recursion is prolly the core of the pons ; tbh much more than "iq <100" vs "iq > 100" traditionally translated as "college man" vs "common man" or w/e ; "comprehends recursion" is much better a divide.
mircea_popescu: re regexp : yes, kindergarten level but TOO MANY OF COMPLEX
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: I really hated the original gameboy transfer mechanism when wireless became a thing. Easier to battle and trade with your friends between classrooms.
BingoBoingo: Hey, Zbigniew Brzezinski still makes morning television appearances
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: cables are necessary for actual data transfer
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502086 << dunno. cables were annoying as fuck. and even with wi-fi not even cazalla got a chance to play X or Y with me. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ie, what happened was, rocket locked, launched, heli got "incoming" alert, fired a pair of flares, rocket actually missed it but got the tail anyway
mircea_popescu: re the helicopter/rocket, it's by now established that the heli fired flares.
mircea_popescu: discussion went something like "i never heard of who was architect of nixon historical visit to china ; i have heard that kissinger is at fault for vietnam (never heard that he got nobel prize for ending that war)" "well, read less codepizd or w/e you're reading"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 16:14 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1501990 << let's have the s333333kr1t, lovable kissinger ? can haz article ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502040 << i dunno about lovable part ; but inquiry as to what exactly is the problem with him produced nothing, so... i'ma just let that sit. ☝︎