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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you gonna pretend like the peasants are people, you're stuck pretending language as they speak it is language, and that fifty words should be enough for everyone
mircea_popescu: point remains. pest (annoyance) != pest (plague bearer)
mircea_popescu: вредительство, вредителями, what the hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: and if the system is uprooted, you really think something like its coiffure fashions a la mastercard would somehow survive ? how.
mircea_popescu: the carnot cycle is rigging the system of thermodynamics
mircea_popescu: airlift is achieved through "rigging the system" of dynamic equilibrium
mircea_popescu: rigging the system is pretty much the only strategy. give an example of something else at work.
mircea_popescu: but that doesn't make them anything other than styles.
mircea_popescu: this is for sure. they're a part of it, like the hair styles of the late empire are part of the late empire.
mircea_popescu: bounce well, they won't go anywhere for as long as the system that spawned them lasts.
mircea_popescu: but hey, props for trolling bounce into a frenzy, i never saw him talk this much b4
mircea_popescu: dude reading this moriarty fellow interact with xmj is like watching a drunk clown trying to ride a cow with k-j, except the clown is really a cow in clown costume and the cow really a clown in cow costume and again adn again.
mircea_popescu: bounce: but the takeaway ought to be that you (ie, those in power) are rigging the system then blaming the victims for having let the system end up being rigged against them. <<< this is exactly right. how else would anything work ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: we could start with his idea of 'young and old men ought to live in separate countries.' << they do, mostly.
mircea_popescu: it's quite amusing, and will put the entire "secret cabal" thing into such perspective...
mircea_popescu: decimation: I don't get the jews. why do they care about jews? They are just a small subset of europeans among the unwashed masses of europeans <<< you should learn yidish to see the things some jews think about some other jews.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a professional scammer not scamming usg also, would be like a pro mechanic who won't fix own car << these words.
mircea_popescu: decimation: apparently sabu of anonymous was living in a usg welfare apartment << the great "we infiltrated them for once" success story ? myeahg.
mircea_popescu: you both can't be sovereign, so you got yourselves a problem now.
mircea_popescu: you probably want to be sovereign on your own [inasmuch as you bought them] chips
mircea_popescu: it means exactly what signatures ever meant : nvidia wants to be sovereign on its own [inasmuch as it produces them] chips
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: is this buono or male? <<< suppose your roommate goes "certain aspects of the appartment are only available with my permission".
mircea_popescu: problem of mod\ernity is everyone trying to meta the shit out of their lif
mircea_popescu: no, because it is always going to be the same : industry.
mircea_popescu: not random examples. car : used individually, useful if used by a lot ; parabolic mirrors : used globally, useful if used at all. washing hands : used individually, useful if used at all.
mircea_popescu: but let's stick to history. car or parabolic mirror to put ships on fire
mircea_popescu: obviously i can appreciate your position : for all the banality of sex, it's still a big deal to the virgin.
mircea_popescu: the only relevant change there is that the car is history and the moon lander is not.
mircea_popescu: they'll go on to reddit to discuss how X Y and Z are betting websites for as long as they can still find coins in mom's cushions to pay for the pizza.
mircea_popescu: forget "hearts and minds", that's the telltale preoccupation of a dying empire. concern yourself with the ground under their very feet and let them figure it out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do something useful. hence "if it works".
mircea_popescu: to tell me that range is included in the item is nonsense of the first degree.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is because of the dynamic range allowed in a single blob <<< this is nonsense. the "range" is not intrinsic to the blob. the blob will only hold as much as it physicall can. what its concents mean to you, is entirely up to you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if you had a truly clean break with the age of turdware - there would be a market for about six machines. << this is diletante business analysis. you really only need one, provided it works. look into the early history of ford cars.
mircea_popescu: this is a major cause of the foss taking so very long to be killed.
mircea_popescu: he just woke up to the concept of "never do something stupid, no matter how much you "gotta" "
mircea_popescu: but unlike the other fucktards involved, he didn't go away into the night, and his efforts are at the root of why we even pose a problem to the usg today in the first place.
mircea_popescu: and if your project is long term... well there you go.
mircea_popescu: in general, not doing something stupid "you got to do" is better on the long term than doing it.
mircea_popescu: rms's tortured existence is proof as to their uneven strength : neglecting the "gotta" works better than baking it in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: then squadron with stone megacock can feel victorious, vindicated. << methinks this view is a little too convenient.
mircea_popescu: chetty was this before or after they started paying terrorists for the safe return of deserters ?
mircea_popescu: because it's obviously not military SERVICE. it's MILITARY service. killing people.
mircea_popescu: you gotta kill some people. avenue A is like so, avenue B is like so... hmm... well ok, let's go with B
mircea_popescu: decimation: usg is the unintentional beneficiary of a great deal of "I want to make a difference" altruism << so no, it's not altruism. unrelated to that, there's a lot of "usg is the only obvious recipient for a bunch of faking of the <i want to not have sex but for everyone in school to think i do> sort."
mircea_popescu: ownership is a convention, meaningless outside the convenants.
mircea_popescu: who claims to own it... whatever, im sure the fish acting as host for whatever parasite's obligate fish phase are "owned" by someone, at least according to them.
mircea_popescu: military service of some sort or another is a required stage in male maturation.
mircea_popescu: in spite of there being numerous posters in full view saying "by traipsing around here you agree to blablabla"
mircea_popescu: decimation: what I find inexplicable is that you find folks in the us who absolutely hate everything about usg policies, in terms of how it mismanages wealth, fails to jail criminals, etc, and yet are willing to serve the military side <<< similarly, the wild animals that hate everything about the government will still traipse around on "government property"
mircea_popescu: "the Russians are from three to five years ahead of the US in the field of atomic aircraft engines and they will move even further ahead unless the US pressed forward with its own program"
mircea_popescu: i was like "let others hit it first ill go later to not herdkil the server"
mircea_popescu: anyway, ru version of ed reads like mostly adult male, as opposed to mostly preteen female.