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mircea_popescu: like, police officer messed with plumber for an hour, now county has to pay $1500 plus lawyer fees
mircea_popescu: so do the pds routinely pay small claims for pointless detaining professionals ?
mircea_popescu: then the go on to say that the unlawfullness of the arrest is no defense.
mircea_popescu: that missouri statute is such bs. all the 1st para is replete with "lawful arrest"
mircea_popescu: does he fucking have an opinion on restaurant meals too, like the previous idiot ?
mircea_popescu: and since when the fucking hell does blasio have anything to say about resisting arrest ?
mircea_popescu: but why does it work for your thing ? you're not saying anything normative there.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's normative, i can see it. "when we feel depressed let's take our clothes off and bellydance instead" that makese sense.
mircea_popescu: "When considering what jurisdiction in this world is or is not, or perhaps which one just might be ever so slightly closer to being the land of the free than some other's let us examine a snippet of text that enumerates a right of citizens of some actual jurisdiction the world which might give many people in the United States some pause."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: did you and pascale hate it? << if the girl's frail and the guy big it dun work.
mircea_popescu: and the us crime problem is mostly a creation of the uspds.
mircea_popescu: air travel is insecure BECAUSE the tsa not in spite of it.
mircea_popescu: the us is insecure BECAUSE of the dept of state and us army, not in spite of them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I actually think the endgame a portion in Ferguson seeks is a police department like East St Louis's which see falling crime in spite of near complete inactio << it's not in spite. it's BECAUSE.
mircea_popescu: there's the louisiana territory, the texas republic, old dixie, the original colonies, republic of sociocalifornia etc etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and unlike, say, yugoslavia or ussr, there are no conveniently-drawn ethno-geographic bantustans for it to cleanly collapse to. << sure there are.
mircea_popescu: It is said, if you try, you can bugger the fly, or the swallow as it skims so skilfully by
mircea_popescu: eventually the hedgehog loses it and peeps "i have no hole, let me be!"
mircea_popescu: bear of course finds it, and spining it all around like a hot potato on his paws mutters with great urgency
mircea_popescu: so eventualy gave up, curled in a ball and hoped for the best.
mircea_popescu: just the poor hedgehog, with his tiny feet couldn't really keep up
mircea_popescu: all animals took to flight, earthworms hid in the ground as deep as they could go.
mircea_popescu: and the bear took to the road to find something to stick his hard cock into, repeatedly.
mircea_popescu: one day he got really spunky, and his three bear wives ran off in this peculiar manner of females whose cunt is sore.
mircea_popescu: mkay. so in th forest there lived this very horny, huge schlong bear. sort of like one eye pete of the beardom.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor << this reminds me, you know the horny bear joke ?
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "the performance people moved away from vinly". it's dead.
mircea_popescu: it won'tr come down to who has many people that can and will fire a rifle.
mircea_popescu: it's just... you know that no modern war will be won by small arms fire. like if the uys and china went at each other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform similarly no improvement in vinyl discs.
mircea_popescu: hillbillies with chemical weapons are a self limiting problem anyway
mircea_popescu: no wait, in the 20s it was bb pellets. what do you think thompson fires ?
mircea_popescu: dude im missing out on the party. i thought gangland was mostly 45
mircea_popescu: would be kinda cool if the next few crowd shooters adopt this strategy as the maximal damge game theoretic solution.
mircea_popescu: i bet you if you asked the whole complement of us police it'd be their honest estimation that in their absence the whole population would simply die overnight.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo gotta admire the mindframe these grunts get into.
mircea_popescu: “It was havoc at that time. He also got urine thrown on him, having to deal with that is obviously disgusting,” Jiminez said. “However, when he‘s trying to protect the public and asking people to back up, under no circumstances do I, or our department, condone his language.”
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mostly remarkable for "Russia, already the largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, is weighing up plans to become the biggest supplier of helium, the inert gas vital for medical scanners, welding tools and rocket fuel, as the U.S. sells reserves from storage."
mircea_popescu: good to know the us govt is in some way related to every modern atrocity.
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. government had a world monopoly on helium and in the mid-1930s refused to sell any to the Zeppelin Co. in Germany, which is why the Hindenburg was filled with highly-flammable hydrogen when it exploded."
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry << or in any case, a good rendition of a very large matchstick.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure bits here and there in normal course of business, but that's about all.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or mircea_popescu finally bought atomic dirigible. << i've not actually sold any bitcoin, still.
mircea_popescu: an infinite supply of such examples is how the idea that normal people aren't entitled and shouldn't be entitled to an opinion came about.
mircea_popescu: in the moment they FEEL they're just like you. then later, they're no longer around to eat dirt, and if they are they won't eat the dirt anyway.
mircea_popescu: the chick however, she comes from money, ran for the danish pirate party iirc, got a seat.
mircea_popescu: dignork srsly. he's such a total dork you could not believe.
mircea_popescu: but yea srsly, in the space of six months i went from >1bn to like what, 200mn ?
mircea_popescu: dignork ok, i didn't want to do this but you asked for it. prepare to be glassed.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, a food chain here is called mustachios.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: that's a premium upgrade << cut glass. 10 bux in any mirror shop.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes. difference being that they never shot gorbachev.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: the hospital would have taken note of who took the bullet, no? << well if they didn't, either the police comissioner hangs or they got themselves a police state.