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mircea_popescu: you suppose naming your kid gamble is likely to give him a head start in lif ?
mircea_popescu: dignork: doesn't scale to group sex though <<< course it does.
mircea_popescu: "when one peers into the void, the void peers right back"
mircea_popescu: that's why their failure to do so collapsed the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: that's why getting him there was so important for the swedish collaborationists.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: not just usa. ask mr. assange <<< no, it;'s just the usa
mircea_popescu: hanbot: lol punkman. financial aid dorm, now with free cams. << shit, didn't i come up with that idea like 5 years ago ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: I think the university should just film everything, help them pay off that debt <<< you sound like motherfucking mp.
mircea_popescu: hanbot: punkman that good2go piece reads like advertising << duh. how do you think the pretense of "media" is preserved ? edvertising!
mircea_popescu: punkman: "nine technical leaders" <<< ahahaha just this.
mircea_popescu: nobody even knew that's how the roman matrons dressed.
mircea_popescu: you could say that before angie duff of derpytown, montana thought to dress in a sheet for her school play role as a roman matron
mircea_popescu: so maybe we get to see the first one party system in history where people enthusiastically support the idea.
mircea_popescu: usians are notoriously idiotic in that they act all smug about how they're special to have had an axe handle shoved up the butt.
mircea_popescu: maybe you get to have some actual fun and the same candidate is endorsed by both caucuses
mircea_popescu: bounce nah, democrats never lose an election again, for as long as the pretense of a usa is maintained hence.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 pretty much central europeans are the us repository of whiteness.
mircea_popescu: suppose you tell me what number you'd like put on it and we can both go home having recreated the entire us state in five minutes.
mircea_popescu: the uncertainity principle is exactly due to their being quantified
mircea_popescu: the moral of this koan being that nothing is quantifiable, except for the things which are already : energy and matter. not space, not time, not the chain of causality.
mircea_popescu: for instance, hand't i been a gangster when i was in my teens, i could have gone to school, where i'd have learned many valuable skills and in time maybe even ended up a major revolutionary entrepreneur.
mircea_popescu: bounce to rehash a limb of the previous discussion, you maybe heard that the best way to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on. same thing with your thief : the opportunity cost of being a criminal is major in that you don't feel as much pressure to develop more useful traits.
mircea_popescu: which is a lot more than the statal excrescency on human society.
mircea_popescu: but this is conventional and as such brings into question convention altgoether, as a device.
mircea_popescu: were she mauled by a savage beast, while unfortunate, it is quite natural.
mircea_popescu: it's deeper than the govt legitimacy problem, too. it's the conventional nature of it that's the major destructive factor.
mircea_popescu: so why even bother with those violin classes she was saving up for ?
mircea_popescu: it's the fact that she now can't plan, because lo and behold, randomly sent to jail.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's not the month in jail, just like the problem with stealing isn't really that omg, someone's going to miss what you stole.
mircea_popescu: fucking oneself ain't all that it's cracked up to be anyway.
mircea_popescu: i'm with him. telling an asshole to go fuck himself is hands down the hardest thing for people.
mircea_popescu: exactly, an abundance in practice does not speak as to how the behaviour is expensive.
mircea_popescu: uhm. enough to pay girlies to show their tits ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: bounce never knew one that had ulcer. plenty of govt drones did, tho. fancy that.
mircea_popescu: and here we make the junction with how lying is an expensive activity - you gotta keep track of all the lies.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, the "keep her busy" ideology of metastatic xtianity is exactly the same. "no time to think evil." they actually go out and say it.
mircea_popescu: bounce yes, you will. spending their cattle rustling money trying to impress the wenches.
mircea_popescu: the "good hardworking type" myth is exactly that, too fucking exhausted to be evil.
mircea_popescu: aand where's malice going to be found as an art for its own sake ?
mircea_popescu: back when urban and rural even meant something anymore.
mircea_popescu: bounce also, postmodernism is fucking with me. pretend the year is 1950.
mircea_popescu: if i show you two people that's all you know about em.
mircea_popescu: where do you suppose it's more likely for a suprlus to accumulate, urban or rural setting ?
mircea_popescu: im saying routers are expensive, you're saying there's a lot of internet traffic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the implications of a call aren't always obvious, which is a point well understood by security analysts, especilally with all the practice of late, and also how we ended up with all that sweet greek mythology about fate.