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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine some sort of copulatory connection will be standard.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to do submerged anyway. the only real reason to move is abvout the same as getting new ips, ie, avoid the enemy.
mircea_popescu: decimation i tell you, if the tesla experiment works out we're going to see subs.
mircea_popescu: "yes you may gather together to overthrow the state, just as long as you get an approval form stamped by said state"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first. <<< this brings to mind the ridiculous "permit to assemble" device.
mircea_popescu: no, srsly. controlling masturbation in little girls was much more a priority in victorian england that in teh case of boys
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa indeed, and ironically i suspect it's exactly for this reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform teacher rubbing vulva on corners is no indication of an absence of hands, pockets or brain.
mircea_popescu: people'd have been sticking cunt drawings on her back for the rest of her life.
mircea_popescu: see, a teacher like that'd have never survived in mp's school.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at lulzranch : carnivores having well developed teeth is in no way a predictor of their preference in eating meat over say photosynthesis.
mircea_popescu: something being asserted by a state sponsored "ed" program of any kind is more a predictor of the something being wrong than right.
mircea_popescu: yeah, made by the same people, with the same political aggenda, and with the same utter ignorance and disrespect for observable reality.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a psa "ed" effort that was accurate in details.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't begin to give less of a shit about what sex "ed" programs say there, wherever that is.
mircea_popescu: so composed out of thermal electro plant, battery recharge stations and a fleet of subs...
mircea_popescu: what with its super vulnerable carriers and errything.
mircea_popescu: and im not sure who can afford to piss off a nation of submarineers, but it wouldn't be the us.
mircea_popescu: in any case : international waters are international waters
mircea_popescu: let there be electric recharge stations on the ocean floor.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : a current car spends 90% of time in the garage. fu that.
mircea_popescu: well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed.
mircea_popescu: it's not that familiar to me, i'm a sf noob/ignoramus :D
mircea_popescu: leaving the landspace to be inhabited by the proles, toiling in the mines and sub factories under the carcinogenic sun
mircea_popescu: making orlof a sort of low tech early pioneer in the right direction.
mircea_popescu: the sub having replaced the car that replaced the knight's horse
mircea_popescu: so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people that are people actually live in one ?
mircea_popescu: think about that solipsist heaven. a one man diesel attack sub.
mircea_popescu: more importantly (and somewhat secretly) : they're one man subs.
mircea_popescu: apparently much easier to make it silent, whereas the nuke ones can not
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : the diesel sub is making a major comeback
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you accept bitcoin as a desktop garden under a lcd backed monitor, one can, does.
mircea_popescu: destroy land/wealth equivalency << this is gone , actually, which is why i rent.
mircea_popescu: im kinda waiting for the twinks to get bored of being irrelevant, get upset and threaten to sue everyone else for using their invention.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: or say, go and fix RuBisCO, world's most inefficient enzyme << it's not its fault! hard fucking shit!
mircea_popescu: do we have any reason to suspect bitcoin will bring about by and large more prosperous societies in the sense of people affording better friends ?
mircea_popescu: or mebbe some knew but the group as a whole got desperate enough.
mircea_popescu: but i guess i was giving the bright financial minds on the other side of the tug rope undue credit for being absolutely intelligent so as to know.
mircea_popescu: the problem being that going the other way is a) unduly expensive and b) shockingly ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: so you can only miss the chance to sell 10k 3 times or something? << that was going the other way.
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah i imagine tomorrow will be teh day of mourning for teh would be manipulateurs.
mircea_popescu: jurov well sitll planning to have it online this month.
mircea_popescu: dude i leave for a day and where is the two digit bitcoin!
mircea_popescu: he did also sort-of maintain employment in the interval, so w/e.
mircea_popescu: i duinno that he did ever make any money, i highyl doubt it. he did go to some personal trouble to try and cover for the various potholes he made, at some point even selling (or claiming to ?) his guitar
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you may have the best roi of all the hollywood majors.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal he was a small, very vocal, very entertaining player.
mircea_popescu: they all traded with each other, often on bizarre terms, which'd make any judge simply lump everything together in disregard of any veils.
mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that the guy run his affairs cca 2012 as if they were fantasy baseball. buncha names/identities with no substantial business existence or raison d'etre, making the thing difficult to remember or sanely structure historically.
mircea_popescu: well, his relevancy came at a very late point. he had been making noises for a long time, but nobdy paid attention for an equally long time.
mircea_popescu: consider the situaiton where a bunch of people actually believed the earth is flat at some point
mircea_popescu: i know it looks impossible in retrospect, but it was the fact at the time.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people ACTUALLY believed a) pirate is a bright ceo etc