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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
mircea_popescu: bounce now why'd that be amazing. it's supposed to be cheap and replicable.
mircea_popescu: so the girls build their girlclub to support each other through puberty and dream of one day being married.
mircea_popescu: this is like junior high courtyard bs. the girls get upset that the boys ignore them so they complain. which the boys ignore, because the girls stink and are stupid and who wants to be involved with one.
mircea_popescu: who gives a shit what a bunch of libtards say, seriously.
mircea_popescu: i could be him, if i ever deign to write for forbes, which seems unlikely unless i buy it and then it'll be Popescu
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure they're just managing real estate left over from the 80s
mircea_popescu: ibm actually has a nice building down here. my lawyer rents a floor from them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that you feel the love and understanding of a bunch of similar mouthbreathers ?