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mircea_popescu: make a guess : is the third the best or the worst of the group of 3 ?
mircea_popescu: there were 3 gs-14 under 24 in 1998. fifteen years later, two left, the third was promoted.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, check out the lone GS-15 under age 24 in 2013.
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to not know what astroturf means or something.
mircea_popescu: now try check out that acct. 100 followers, pixelated user pic...
mircea_popescu: speaking of spammer : "You can see closing trades for all Julian's long and short positions and track his long term performance via twitter: @JulianClose_MIC ."
mircea_popescu: well no. seppuku aims to open the large liver vein. apendectomy, oppositely, to not open it.
mircea_popescu: actually peritonitis resolves naturally in about 5ish percent of cases.
mircea_popescu: Antibiotics were administered directly into the peritoneal cavity << holy shit fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: now im starting to suspect it may just be a case of romanians stealing a good story.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now" << there is this legendary romanian surgeon who supposedly sutured his own appendix. this may be apocryphal, in any sense i wouldn't try to undergo surgery w/o painkillers, tis nonsense.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: my stomach isn't a basketball anymore << poor duff.
mircea_popescu: but so they're infertile and past the age of 16 or so, their breast tissue secretes copious lsd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine if you could genetically engineer human females
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that kind, the useful kind. merely the current kind, ie, the resistant thing.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies << the problem with that article, as with all "studies" of its ilk, is that it makes the (generally reasonable, now not) herbi mistake, as detailed here :
http://trilema.com/2014/no-argument/ mircea_popescu: so people all over the intel community can laugh at you for yet another week, for yet another reason.
mircea_popescu: so you have to evacuate the whole shebang like crazed rabbits, and do a shit job of cleanup in the process
mircea_popescu: because if you give iraquis a ton of m16s they're not going to raid your embassy with them
mircea_popescu: if that goes away, the current usg-friendly columbia govt goes away.
mircea_popescu: the whole of the production control stragety in columbia is to helispray
mircea_popescu: Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling << think more, roundup resistant coke.
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me someone put a 27 cubic meter thing in low earth orbit ?
mircea_popescu: well if the satellite was nothing but a pressurized xenon container, it may have somehow squeezed in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this put in orbit with the use of the russian's rockets or arianne ?
mircea_popescu: that's a german uboat. so like... a satellite about halfway between a bycicle and a nazi uboat.
mircea_popescu: well definitely no satelite the size of the washington monument was ever put in space.
mircea_popescu: once one actually promotes cold callers and phone marketeers to govt positions, there are bound to be problems.
mircea_popescu: cue successive list of idiotic, bureaucratic "attempts" to "in good faith" "make progress towards fixing going forward"
mircea_popescu: bureaucrats looked at cost to fix problem vs try and get rid of him, miscalculated. tried the latter.
mircea_popescu: master in charge of saying "this key is ok to be used in production" refused to say so.
mircea_popescu: t find a briefcase, or paper for forms, or a currier or gas for the plane.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is still waiting for the first leak from the u.s. dept. of wherever-the-stoolie-reports-from-btc-exchanges go. << there was recently a dump of everyone-on-coinbase, for instance.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: because? << specify what are you trying to accomplish. impossible to explain what's wrong with any given methodology to resolve an undefined problem.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i kept mpex online for a few days more than the consensus'd have expectd or called reasonable on occasion.
mircea_popescu: then i wondered how to fix, and then i realised that well... no way really, best wait to be taken to task for my business insider treatment of science.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i realised as i was typing that the connection is actually not as close as i'd have liked.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate kyrio -3 does not understand how the wot works or what it's for.