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mircea_popescu: the entire fucking echafaudage of shit piled upon shit strictly depends on "decorum" and nobody saying the things.
mircea_popescu: with the usg at the helm it really didn't belong anywhere near the common linux newb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bitcoin was taken out of main for this exact reason.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski about the same people who "invested" in eth.
mircea_popescu: not that anyone is actually using the power ranger implementation anyway, but as an academic point.
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like doing some public research to show exactly how this can be used to breach the anonimity of compliant clients, by all means. you won't have to dig too deeply.
mircea_popescu: would be "good citizens" always know better, a la prikoke
mircea_popescu: worth a quote, he basically says what i've been saying to would-be "good citizens" to relatively little effect.
mircea_popescu: would have had more than ample character for a tranquil period. But the epoch of grandiose social and political convulsions demanded an extraordinary firmness of these men, whose abilities secured them a leading place in the revolution. The disproportion between their abilities and their wills led to tragic results.
mircea_popescu: [By contrast] For ten years they [Zinoviev and Kamenev] had been enveloped by clouds of slander paid for in heavy gold. For ten years they had swayed between life and death, first in a political sense, then in a moral sense, and lastly in a physical sense. Can one find in all past history examples of such systematic, refined and fiendish destruction of spines, nerves and all the fibers of the soul? Zinoviev or Kamenev
mircea_popescu: n intellectual circles, of the conduct in court of Danton, Robespierre and others. These were the instances of revolutionary tribunes who found the knife of justice suspended over them, directly in the midst of the arena of struggle; at a time when they were in the full flower of their strength, with their nervous system almost untouched and, at the same time, when they despaired of all hope of salvation.
mircea_popescu: I have had the occasion to hear tranquil petty bourgeois tell me in the days between the beginnings of the trial and my internment: “It’s impossible to understand Zinoviev … He is so lacking in character!” And I would reply: “Have you yourselves experienced the full weight of the pressure to which he has been subjected for a number of years?” Unintelligent in the extreme are the comparisons, so widespread i
mircea_popescu: well, save it, kill it, wht the hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: so in the end, the government of the people by the people for the people, in its quest to not perish from this earth, became government of women, by women, for women.
mircea_popescu: answer : because women. pregnancy is also -ev, and yet women do it. the same psychological complexes that control that can also yield amusing social results.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now THERE'S a peculiar if well documented biological fact : how the fuck can such a drastically -ev strategy be and remain a schelling point.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking career choice, joining the "people party". being a boxer is degree of magnitudes a smarter move.
mircea_popescu: "What an example to the proletariat! He had to die, anyway, so he might at least have died in a way that did the Party some good!"
mircea_popescu: no bureaucrat is ever going to pose problems anymore than any other random schmuck that signed the "plea bargain" is.
mircea_popescu: yet nobody is doing this. why isn't holder a constant prop in the courtroom, showing why any testimony by a police officer should be discounted by the jury ?
mircea_popescu: consider the simple fact that any legal proceeding could be extended anywhere between six and ninety weeks by an endless parade of character evidence showing usg agents lieing, being required to lie, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: they tend to pick on poorly educated, poorly connected nobodies with priors.
mircea_popescu: moreover the machine generally is careful in avoiding messing with the sort of people that'd stomp it.
mircea_popescu: luckily there still can be found 12 people in any county that have nfi what computers are, and the judges, appendages of the state, are quite effectual at forbiding any courtroom instruciton.
mircea_popescu: hopefully a republican wins before the whole shebang collapses and we get to see it.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal don't confuse digestion for simply passing things through the system untouched.
mircea_popescu: an event that factually happened, but at the END of the police-led abuse, not at the beginning of the "unknown" led abuse posited in court paperwork.
mircea_popescu: the actual events (police broke in and rape your fambly) are replaced by the parallel construction (someone came in and did it) on the turning point of "the door being left open".
mircea_popescu: and the police will more than happily try and find those bad people. sometime.
mircea_popescu: at trial, it is established beyond reasonable doubt that your negligence in locking the door allowed "some bad people" to come and rape the lot of you, a week after it actually hapepned
mircea_popescu: what really happened is that a) they had the keys all along and b) had been tailing you all over town, listening in on your phone conversation, instant messaging and late night cuddle sessions
mircea_popescu: one day a bunch of dudes come in, start raping the women and make the lot of you slurp the cum right out of their battered snatches.
mircea_popescu: you and a dozen friends all marry super-knockout trophy wives, living in a gated community called "the garden of eden", doing all sorts of fun shit.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal lemme put this in more readily digestible terms for you.
mircea_popescu: they used their numerous tor holes and exploits, then claimed to have done what what you seem to believe.
mircea_popescu: that's why the fbi untruthfully claims to have happened.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal you familiar with the concept of "parallel construction" ?
mircea_popescu: taking two girls eager to swallow if you need to take a leak however..
mircea_popescu: see, this is why taking two girls to a cafe isn't such a big deal.
mircea_popescu: dude, srsly ? mahattan coffee house with no urinal ? in 1981 ? what the fuck is wrong with this somalia.
mircea_popescu: im to the toilet. Adan explained that the toilet could be reached only through the kitchen, and because the restaurant did not have accident insurance for customers, only employees could use the bathroom. Abbott argued with him. They took their dispute outside, where Abbott stabbed Adan to death.
mircea_popescu: At around 5 am, on the morning of July 18, 1981, six weeks after getting out of prison, Jack Abbott and two women, Veronique de St. Andre and Susan Roxas, went to a small cafe called the Binibon, located at 79 Second Ave in Manhattan. Richard Adan, a 22-year-old aspiring actor and playwright, was there working as a waiter in his father-in-law's restaurant. Abbott got up from his table and asked Richard Adan to direct h
mircea_popescu: for a while there you could steal anyone's car just by pretending to be them, like with a twitter account
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.) << they already had a pilot for this. amusingly, it was sold as an expensive ad on for luxury brands. northstar or something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that caselaw is ridiculous bs and wouldn't stand.
mircea_popescu: i guess this is the birth of "clam chowder" as a slang way to denote piss, on the expectation that well... average cunt is delighted to chomp on a jet.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it's not supposed to be on your tongue, it's supposed to be on hers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's homeopathic dood. you piss and dilute.
mircea_popescu: which... it is. just like code written picemeal by freelancer php developers will shock and amaze anyone who ever took a systems design class
mircea_popescu: in general anyone with a solid education reading enough law and praxis to form an opinion inescapably forms the opinion that "this shitpile is made by remarkably uneducated folks"
mircea_popescu: trying to make the law democratic by sourcing it in a parliament and applying it according to "what people think" can't possibly work and yhas no alternative but to degrade into soup
mircea_popescu: anyway, law as (mis)practiced in the us suffers greatly from a broken application. the legal system exists and is borne out of a wider social system based on hierarchy and personal sovereignity. such as, the classical monarchy.
mircea_popescu: the very fucking point of the legal system as an interllecual exercise is as a reality digitizer.
mircea_popescu: "Why aren’t there any in-between verdicts?" << this cant be a good summary.
mircea_popescu: you know calling trollage "a troll" makes baby jesus a cry.
mircea_popescu: trivializing actual issues in a neverending quest for online cred is definitely working so well for everyone o.o
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Woman claims she has PTSD from Twitter and cyberstalking | Mail Online <<< yeah, and im sure any guy with actual trechn exposure under artillery carpet bombing is more than happy to not smack her a coupla across the skull.,
mircea_popescu: cazalla why wouldn't she ? if you spoke to a black country miner cca 1800 he'd think any hole in the ground is as much a mine as any other if it pays
mircea_popescu: it'll be because of what social media fucktards said about it.
mircea_popescu: and from there to rape glamor is a short path indeed. and it will not be because what mp said about rape,