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mircea_popescu: so nobody is complaining. like, i can hire someone for 2k a month because they won't complain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no need for rockets. you don't kill cockroaches with a .5
mircea_popescu: bounce right, "<mircea_popescu> it doesn't cost THEM fifty trillion to try and fail to build a new airplane."
mircea_popescu: unless the planet is naturally hospitable, unless there's an angle somewhere, not happening.
mircea_popescu: yes well, people don't undergo centuriesd of expense to fulfil a cartoon dream.
mircea_popescu: unless you make your own crops and your own space stations...
mircea_popescu: no way in fuck you're going to be a "sovereign" on a planet you just colonised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, you know what an indentured servant is ?
mircea_popescu: fuck, you could live in that "gulch" real estate scam.
mircea_popescu: you could live on the antarctic right now, if you fancy paying 2k for a bottle of fizz.
mircea_popescu: or unless earth goes to shit to the degree of making mars look like freshly shaved virgin pussy
mircea_popescu: so then why mars specifically ? why not real estate 5000 feet underground.
mircea_popescu: people can get by for a while just making good use of the history book.
mircea_popescu: (and europe pushing china out of their galileo thing was incredibly stupid, but then again europe is chiefly remembered in history for astounding stupidity)
mircea_popescu: there's no way to effectualy destroy these, and there's no way the us aircraft carriers could survive an hour in a hostile china sea.
mircea_popescu: chetty i will tell you one new idea they came up with. they made the astoundingly daring move of organising their defense on sane grounds. china is surrounded by about a million rockets.
mircea_popescu: careful management and patient attention is good enough for a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: the romans lived a millenium out of carefuly implementing the greek ideas.
mircea_popescu: bounce perhaps not very creative, yes. perhaps that may matter. if it will, it won't be this century.
mircea_popescu: china's parents woudn't approve, and moreover china doesn't want to be either stupid or in possesison of a car wreckage.
mircea_popescu: even if the us imagines that now that china has the better car it should drive it the same way it drove its own, right into a wall.
mircea_popescu: and china is liable to continue on the course that brought it success, humbly begging for what it wants, rather than suddenly swich to the course that sunk the us.
mircea_popescu: if you pour from a to b but never from b to a, you can bet your ears b's gonna be fuller.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean the us has transferred all its technology there in exchange for cheap labour but under condition it shares the tech
mircea_popescu: it doesn't cost THEM fifty trillion to try and fail to build a new airplane.
mircea_popescu: bounce china is sitting prettier than everyone for the very simple reason that it has the absolute lead in all technology.
mircea_popescu: and certainly the chinese have "problems" they never heard of. similarly to how putin "doesn't understand how reality works".
mircea_popescu: so you know, arab women are unhappy because they don't live in the downtown on foodstamps, which has to be better than what they got because what else is the speaker doing there ?!
mircea_popescu: bounce you will have to appreciate idiot western peoples, even without any help from the propaganda machine, automatically interpret phenomena in a certain key.
mircea_popescu: china is traditionally a sort of dog vomit (the fungus). it doesn't really war.
mircea_popescu: you're using some sort of prior here im not privy to. say wut ?
mircea_popescu: doubt they really need to. besides, they're playing this game of humiliating the us,
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 yeah hk sovereignity is a doomed proposition
mircea_popescu: i was thinking wtf, AND linking loper.os, what world is this
mircea_popescu: "Programmers have indeed created a universe where "science doesn't work." Learning where the permanent bugs and workarounds are inside a phonebook-length API teaches you nothing. It is anti-knowledge. Where your mind could have instead held something lastingly useful or truly beautiful, there is now garbage."
mircea_popescu: always fascinating what extremes idiots will go to before owing to their idiocy.
mircea_popescu: so the latest revision of the dsm crapolade actually lists relationship ~intensity~ as a clinical pathology.
mircea_popescu: so he's attacking me and he's the one with the liability ? wtf is wrong with kids today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw you ever heard of the exploits of one Yevno Azef ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you're going there for a massage you get a massage. if you're going there for a blowjob you get a blowjob
mircea_popescu: RPrpRP are you the kid with the wordpress trackback list i published yest ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: that gets to the root of the problem. I have no idea << this is like proposing that the show moves out of town to save on props. the town is the show. the props are just the props.
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> i developed a talent for checking out with my eyes open while standing up, though. << this has been a 100 year tradition
mircea_popescu: <decimation> my personal opinion is that something bad happened on the jet, oxygen got sucked out before anyone could do much, becomes 'death ship' << <nah trhey have a whole system with masks etc.
mircea_popescu: but by the age of infertility one'd expect even a libertard to wisen up a little.
mircea_popescu: nubile young women being too stupid to live is almost expected
mircea_popescu: there's this failure that aspires to be an artist through pr.
mircea_popescu: it's so sad to see the libertard behaviour trying to take hold in otherwise pleasant countries.
mircea_popescu: not so smart making calls on babies, either. l;et them grow first.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> counting a shifter as 'xxx gates' worth << how the fuck does that work. bit register shifting ?
mircea_popescu: bounce it gets complicated, obviously. tbh i don't have atm an opinion on the libre thing
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> bounce: search channel logs re: at least three separate discussions of how this came to be << you know, giving terms like "xilinx" is better than an empty search entreaty. he doesn't know what to search for.