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mircea_popescu: people often thought mpoe-pr is me, or male, or so forth.
mircea_popescu: it will work. call him your legal representative, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: much more instructive is a lever of reasonable length that sits put on its support a long time.
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: rarely has the imbecile/genius duality been more pointedly on display.
mircea_popescu: it's mindblowing just how clever, on the point and far seeing reginald braithwaite is, while at the same time how idiotically fixated on "equality" and "empathy" and all the rest of that pointless drivel.
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: just as long as you had someone to serve for you, all is well.
mircea_popescu: generally everyone produced a replacement for military service
mircea_popescu: o yeah. you were simply required to not alter the headcount.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> hire doppelganger, walk out << incidentally, you know they did this in the times of the good soldier svjek ?
mircea_popescu: business partners with the usg, god help us. what will fiction produce next, the harem of wolves, flying to the moon on own farts, mind boggles.
mircea_popescu: it's not marriage, it's not a love affair. it's an exercise in destroying everything whatsoever and mocking the rest.
mircea_popescu: in short : ditch this mentality where the other party matters, in any sense, and make a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and what the fuck are you doing owning companies in own name anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? hire ms boring to sit in that office and split
mircea_popescu: and what's more, the argentine govt doesn't have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have a horrid starvation of talent.
mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can't be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no because argentina consists of pampas cats
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck are you doing working without a company anyway, and why is it not registered in gibraltar or w/e the fuck they do
mircea_popescu: no fucking body traveled to sit on a rfc comission unless they really wanted to visit a gf or something
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it was the superhighway something or the other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and didn't forthwith set sail for argentina because ...
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works as a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
mircea_popescu: the politico leeches sucking that fiddy cents for nothing are trilled
mircea_popescu: so you know, most people making a buck and getting by this scheme a buck fiddy are happy with it,
mircea_popescu: their deal is, "we have all this oil, we will spend the proceeds on welfare, in exchange we also take everyone's money"
mircea_popescu: well, amateur in the "this is what i think the law should be" school of amateurship, or amateur in the "trying to figure out what this thing is" school of amateurship ?
mircea_popescu: the cleanest way to represent the legal tradition, as well as the legal implementation of that tradition in any extant sovereign of the fiat, geographical, obsolete kind,
mircea_popescu: i have little faith the man was actually apt to follow the legal intricacies, which altogether require a different mind than one which wilfully chose lisp over say basic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform course, that's his off the cuff interpretation of what happened.
mircea_popescu: So the easy question to ask is this: “Are you trying to figure out whether to change? Or trying to figure out which change to make?” << good point. first category needs to hire a manager, not talk to salesmen.
mircea_popescu: not the sorts of jobs one can do and remain in possession of his wits.
mircea_popescu: same thing with cops. people don't like the psychopatholgy of policemen, but then again the same "people" are lying and trying to beat down the cop two dozen times a day
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if they have no intention of buying a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially to salespeople." << the funny thing in there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie to them as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything the salesman could push out.
mircea_popescu: didja do your homework ? yessir. didja learn anything ? o, no, i wouldn't do that!
mircea_popescu: "They weren’t interested in finding out whether Macintosh would be useful for them: They were interested in being able to say to the world that they have an open mind and researched all the possibilities, but somehow, somehow, they finished up back where they started, using the same damn thing that everyone else is using."
mircea_popescu: but it starts looking badly if they somehow manage to stay.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more shameful than being a good usian.
mircea_popescu: this is what the idiotic us puritan obsession with propriety has gotten. this. it's a scourge upon humanity and a shameful macula of untold disgrace.
mircea_popescu: "What they really meant was, Nobody ever got fired for buying a Windows Box."
mircea_popescu: Would these people buy a Macintosh? No. But they would take up a lot of our time asking “What is the benefit of Mac? Why is it superior to Windows? Explain why we should I buy one for each employee.” And no matter how interested they seemed, and no matter what we said or did, they would weigh their options… and then buy a Windows computer."
mircea_popescu: "In those days, nobody bought Macintoshes. But strangely, our office was besieged by people wanting us to demonstrate the Macintosh and its nifty features.
mircea_popescu: i'll readily contend that naggum is a sufficient, if by no means the only good reason to dismantle any statal revenue service.
mircea_popescu: if turing is a good (and in fact the only) good reason to dismantle the statally organised repression of gayness
mircea_popescu: tho i guess it actually sounds more like a messy divorce, with a child involved. did he have kids ?
mircea_popescu: "He ran in to some very serious problems that poisoned his existence for many years, and made him lose faith in humans. These problems (I won’t go into details, let sleeping dogs lie) would have agonized anyone, but most people would, in time, have come to terms with life’s injustice and cruelty." << asciilifeform what, was the guy in jail or something ?
mircea_popescu: maybe because you don't wanna sleep in the bed where all the random bacteria off random cocks collect and pool.
mircea_popescu: why fuck your own wife when someone will pay to fuck her for you, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, im sure your magical palm will relieve pressure out of a badly designed, failing apparatus.
mircea_popescu: people have this constant naive approach, a pipe breaks ? push your palm on it.
mircea_popescu: at the cost of killing the whole copyright notion altogether.
mircea_popescu: donald is one of the very few well managed franchises.
mircea_popescu: but hey, why should it even work, when you got a whole reboot process.
mircea_popescu: bounce well to be honest (and i've unstudiously avoided both for two decades or more), they're all the same one thing, and so the classics have been badly reimplemented by the us pulp industry many times, and they keep rebooting it