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mircea_popescu: decimation: why lock yourself in a tiny box when you have the tools to build a mansion? << because you're a vampire and the casket with your home dirt feels cosiest ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: trololol... << he's not trolling, he's just new and clinging to it like it's his foreskin or something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: honest in the sense that water, shit need to run. << the spanish right would disagree.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform derps atoms in unheated wooden hovel with 0-phase (extension cord from house...) << mp lives in land of currently spring. forgets the rest of the world has autumns and shit
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes pays 575 covering deskspace for 6 << not bad deal.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts << there are some places ip makes sense.
mircea_popescu: here's a lol : i've still not changed my nickserv pw. har har.
mircea_popescu: what's next, the ridiculously impotent attempt of teh usg best and brightest on freenode too ?
mircea_popescu: as far as that goss, they follow the nature channel and advertising for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 yeah well, i meant actual people, not anon mass.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the story here, derp couldn't get a secure cpanel environment in 3 tries ?
mircea_popescu: actually... im not so sure anyone follows twitter. it's mostly for speaking, that thing.
mircea_popescu: for all you know, you could be the son of a closeted gay man.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is one going to "quit" anonymous. not like you can join it.
mircea_popescu: "These are the Functional Kingdoms, including Haskellia, Ocamlica, Schemeria" ok that's not bad.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there? << in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can't be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!) <<< i'd be happy if people just came to some sort of consistent treatment of focus
mircea_popescu: boo hoo racism, horribru how they hired the woman after all.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her. << that was exactly my note.
mircea_popescu: vodka is no good, but spritz will definitely loose up any woman.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if smoking will ever be replaced by something equally insane
mircea_popescu: none of this to propose smoking is healthy or anything
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn't eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
mircea_popescu: no, but the damage in smoking 700 ciggs in one go has more to do with the one go than with the ciggs
mircea_popescu: then after a month have all the radiation you missed out on
mircea_popescu: wait i've been bloggibng for longer than you've been not smoking ?
mircea_popescu: this argument is broken against smoking. it's an argument against universal health care.
mircea_popescu: well on the neutral industrial basis of it, a pack is like 20 cents or something.
mircea_popescu: the serbs been doing this for a while in timisoara. (serbia not b eing part of the eu)
mircea_popescu: you couldn't buy them in the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don't buy from anyway.
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb <<<
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's this group that believes the earth is hollow inside, and stuff lives there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
mircea_popescu: i expect no less of a human, why would i deter this of a computer ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` more weight than you weight or more weight than you press ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the same people that know how to game google into the dirt "don't know how to target".
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always the ready excuse of the manufacturer of a bad car that "people just don't know how to drive"
mircea_popescu: if i ever need a way to counterweight a guillotine i'll think of you!
mircea_popescu: yes fb, tyvm for having built a car that can't move but is a great guillotine counterweight.