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mircea_popescu: no they haven't lol.
mircea_popescu: lol even today., well yes even today, what's changed ?
mircea_popescu: most serious bunkers include some.
mircea_popescu: "theoretical physicists calculate the imaginary part of schroedinger function collapses for various items in their room and then convert it all to matrix form to go to sleep"
mircea_popescu: but i enjoyed looking at the pictures.
mircea_popescu: admittedly i couldn't really do the exercises
mircea_popescu: !ip Kieronbm
mircea_popescu: who do you think you're talking to here.
mircea_popescu: i had THE COLLECTION.
mircea_popescu: he's setting himself up for catastrophic rewind.
mircea_popescu: not like he has an elaborate sorting system in place.
mircea_popescu: what's he going to do if say a bn chicks actually decide to go for it ?
mircea_popescu: guy's what, 60 by now ?
mircea_popescu: kinda makes me chuckle privately.
mircea_popescu: lol it bothers you ?
mircea_popescu: taleb
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why the fuck windows.
mircea_popescu: they taught the greeks magic and romans to write don;'t you know./
mircea_popescu: i think even mentioned.
mircea_popescu: yeah i know. we had a bunch of crypto natl-socialist idiots in romania too.
mircea_popescu: !up guest3455
mircea_popescu: you know words that don't even exist!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why's the reporter so fucking excited lol
mircea_popescu: yay.
mircea_popescu: ;;ud ukrs
mircea_popescu: o right
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: ;;ud urk
mircea_popescu: this isn't such a great thing for babies.
mircea_popescu: http://oglaf.com/buttocks/ << almond milk i'd go for.
mircea_popescu: when i see that name change i salivate.
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, de retz has some mentions in his memoirs, to the same principle.
mircea_popescu: the owner of one figuring it's better to keep the other in the hands of its current inept owner than let him lose it.
mircea_popescu: i think balzac is the first to describe it. some small sleepy country town somewhere, with two printing licenses
mircea_popescu: its age, indeed. two hundred years old and change.
mircea_popescu: millions of country boys had to be assembled in the choir invisible to rectify the mistakes of two inept diplomats.
mircea_popescu: what's that cost him ? the great patriotic war.
mircea_popescu: so, what's the gulag got stalin ? a pliable idiot.
mircea_popescu: if they worked together we'd be sitting here speaking german threatening doom to the third reich.
mircea_popescu: who's to blame ? inept ribentropp, inept molotov, chiefly.
mircea_popescu: think of it : two major powers, with very close ideologies, the absolute leader of one in love with the absolute leader of the other, managed to go to war!
mircea_popescu: you know ? putting some idiot's wife in the gulag doesn't make him suddenly smart.
mircea_popescu: but he still sucked.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no biggy. this is the fungible sort of work, it'll wait.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's been for many decades now the established mo of the great "nation" of the united states : to grow an inch, cut an inch off the measuring tape.
mircea_popescu: "well honey, that doesn't make them any less bums"
mircea_popescu: "why do you hang out with these bums ?" "because they're the only people that call me a beauty queen", said the ambitious teenaged slut.
mircea_popescu: obviously. but the convenience does not resolve the other angle. it's a ruinous association.
mircea_popescu: gets to run a piece of shit "resource" that everyone pushes as if it were useful.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the very guy the entire clampdown on the internets exist to protect the internets for
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be perfectly fair, the guy wasn't keeping his finances in the best of orders (according to you know, the criteria required so you don't get called "a cult leader" by teh cult leadership). nevertheless, nothing nearly as bad as what the childfucker jimbo wales did in his day
mircea_popescu: cazalla you're not supposed to sit, but that's a splendid idea : pole dancing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty much yes.
mircea_popescu: fuck, for that matter, quite legitimate.
mircea_popescu: go work out. none of that high performance gym shit tho, this isn't to perform, this is to relax. ride a horse. swim. something sane.
mircea_popescu: dja work out ?
mircea_popescu: started with the tri, got the whole stack by now.
mircea_popescu: pinched nerve.
mircea_popescu: cazalla care to share with the group ?
mircea_popescu: the guy to run the software package.
mircea_popescu: cazalla new gf ?
mircea_popescu: i mean not that more will hurt, when-and-if.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of the machines per se tho.
mircea_popescu: same cool.
mircea_popescu: same dress n'est pass ? same look ?
mircea_popescu: o look at that! buskers!
mircea_popescu: even at the risk of driving down legitimate promises and capable people, the theory goes, this is still a worthwhile endeavour.
mircea_popescu: and the fiat state is predicated on the theory that productive work may be extracted out of assemblages of a trillion shitheads that by and of themselves are wholly incapable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. the fiat economy is predicated on the theory that value may be constructed out of a trillion promises that each on and of itself is worthless
mircea_popescu: on one hand because it is actually very limited on th edirect, on the other hand because it is very affraid to use even the little it has lest a hb rehash.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's all social engineering. the nsa does not have any technical capbility worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: ty for participating everyone :)
mircea_popescu: aand problem solved.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like freenode, except with a helluva lot more moneyz.
mircea_popescu: that's immaterial. the threat defense, however, will be an array of geographically distributed servers which someone will have to shepherd the ircd on.
mircea_popescu: this thing seems to hold true in the most perverse and unexpected of applications.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know there's this pesky rule of nature that the more one speaks the less one knows.
mircea_popescu: i guess the catholics also did pretty well on the score.
mircea_popescu: that's an easy sell if there ever was one.
mircea_popescu: someone should start a church of confusing form with function.
mircea_popescu: so end the glorious sunday pronouncements, join us next sunday for nude frolicking in the grass and fire spitting.
mircea_popescu: and therefore! whosoever knoweth well the workings of the irc demon and how to set it up let me know, for we shall have a plan b, and our plan b shall take over the earth!
mircea_popescu: knoweth ye, that while it is unlikely for freenode to buckle, more than anything because its brains are so scattered it's unlikely to manage to gather enough management to do anything, nevertheless this isn't a reason to not build parachute
mircea_popescu: pronouncement #b : and then he spake thus : ye knoweth the evil people of the world know no rest, for the very fire of hell scorches their gullets on the inside so they may never sit quietly in a room. and therefore it will come to pass that they will put pressure on freenode, starting for instance last thursday. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: pronouncement #1 : and he said unto them lo! that bitbet now allows searching by weight of bets!
mircea_popescu: hi all, and welcome to mp's string of sunday pronnouncements!
mircea_popescu: aite ima go dance in the rain. later.
mircea_popescu: aite lemme know.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so how long was it unmining today ?
mircea_popescu: %p
mircea_popescu: !up knotwork
mircea_popescu: !up dxrt
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/u4v6XjB.gif
mircea_popescu: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pkUFRs9vaXA/TDrOfTIDkqI/AAAAAAAAyjI/lZ1kUx6B9kk/s1600/4756763833_ffb7ccc7ba_b.jpg "does this make me look fat ?"
mircea_popescu: "only da police may militarize BITCH"
mircea_popescu: wait wut ?
mircea_popescu: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/img/mempool/the-problem-with-altcoins/cargo-cult.jpg << pretty great pic
mircea_popescu: i tell you... the veal they got these people...
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this-guy-has-eaten-nothing-but-raw-meat-for-five-years << he;s probably from around here.
mircea_popescu: lions and such are panthera, different type