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asciilifeform: silmarillion is more of a fictionalized history text than a proper yarn.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "i can't picture how cat could piss on this item".
asciilifeform: punkman: i can't even picture how that could be hollywoodized
punkman: hmm they still have the Silmarillion book left, guess that'll do for another trilogy
asciilifeform: we had vol. 1 and 2, 3 was not translated yet! (afaik)
asciilifeform: i actually read it on the airplane.
asciilifeform: incidentally massively loved in ru world also, despite the translation being a ~very~ recent ('90s!) thing
asciilifeform: hey t was a medievalist / norse specialist.
mircea_popescu: but yes, pretty much everyone with serious cultural immersion in anglosphere said the same re tolkien. what can i say, i'll take yer word for it.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather read early medieval poetry - and i've not done that in a decade or more. no shortage of stuff to read.
mircea_popescu: anyone these fuckwads touch is suspect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had i never read the original prior, yes, it would have been marked for shit.
punkman: are they doing more tolkien movies?
asciilifeform: hollywood made a piece of shit trojan war film, even. does iliad now turn to shit also ?
punkman: tiny book compared to LotR
punkman: the hobbit movies were such crap
asciilifeform: likely he would have never permitted the idiocy, if alive.
asciilifeform: t does not belong in the list.
mircea_popescu: whole tolkien/rawling/etc 2000s bullshit runs together in my mind with star wards and iron pants or w/e the 2010s "superhero" films are.
asciilifeform: (who has time?)
asciilifeform: one of the few worthwhile fiction in engl. in 20th c.
mircea_popescu: so wait. is this sauron bullshit older than lord of the rings hollywood crapolade ?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uruk-hai | In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional epic, "The Lord of the Rings," the Uruk-hai (Black Speech meaning Orc folk) were a new breed of Orcs that appeared during the ...
asciilifeform: not nazgul tho
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nazgul | Nazgul. One of the dark lord Sauron's nine minions. Also called Ringwraiths/Dark Riders/Black Riders. Their leader was the Witch King of Angmar They are the ...
mircea_popescu: shitty google srsly. what, i'm going to click wikipedia links now ? isn't even in my dns list.
gribble: Nazgûl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl>; Nazgûl - The One Wiki to Rule Them All - Wikia: <http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl>; Nazgûl - Tolkien Gateway: <http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl>
asciilifeform: srsly, almost as if these folks are escaped nazgul
mircea_popescu: prolly pronounced tyrone
BingoBoingo: AHA US football has one of those, but his name is Marshawn Lynch and he's very dark
mircea_popescu: but other than this bit of lolz, i dunno who the fuck would care what messi does.
mircea_popescu: otherwise wouldn't piss on argentina to put it out if it were on fire
mircea_popescu: messi is particularly amusing because every other fucktard, by which word we mean mouthbreathers born out of argentine mothers, is all infatuated with the guy, while he barely condescends to put up with the idiot reporters for long enough to keep the endorsements going.
asciilifeform: hey these are the brilliant mindz who managed to sleep through the nsa ant catalogue
mircea_popescu: "oh this is using too much vocabulary for my head"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That list could be interesting if they drop the Putin-Messi sex tape
mircea_popescu: yeah, which means the inept arsewipes will ignore it like everything else.
asciilifeform: afaik whole thing is public ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think Rush Limbaugh invented the word lamestream
asciilifeform: humans, orcs, politicos, pretty much every other name ever appearing in a fishwrap, is in there somewhere.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: massive leak (or burn, as you like) of tax haven docs a few days ago
mircea_popescu: other than lamestream which seems a superb construction (didjha invent it bb ?), i have nfi what you ppl are saying!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: however you cut it, the hatred by the folks who are forced to pay tax, of those who are not - is strong.
BingoBoingo: But How to tell who is who? And seriously wy all the wealth shaming?
asciilifeform: the d.c.-based 'reporters on lsd' or whatever it was, naturally squeaks not a word re americans on the list
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have nfi what is being done there!
BingoBoingo: ascii what can really be done with all that that isn't being done in the lamestream?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://cryptome.org/2016/04/nml-168-09.pdf << possible qntra ?
deedbot-: [Qntra] DoctorClu Pleads Out Leaving CMU Tor Attack Unlikely To Be Contested In Court - http://qntra.net/2016/04/doctorclu-pleads-out-leaving-cmu-tor-attack-unlikely-to-be-contested-in-court/
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/2KWDGFV.txt
mircea_popescu: sounds like he was victimized by "experts" to pay for these features, too.
BingoBoingo: Well next piece on qntra is about to mebbe drive him a bit more traffic?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're seriously driving 1/4-1/3 of all his traffic i guess
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the logic of keeping a blog to feed dead tree book publishing business when a) the publishing business is really trying to sell pdfs for 5 paypalbux and b) the blog is read by fewer people than ever heard of mike hearn ?!
BingoBoingo: Or meebe he only appeals to elitist venues like hear
mircea_popescu: actually he rarely beats the hundred. nuts.
mircea_popescu: but how ? srsly now, nobody can be that fucking obscure.
BingoBoingo: yeah, to all points
mircea_popescu: "a manual of female ownership". wasn't this guy living alone as a hobo in the ghetto ?!
mircea_popescu: wtf, srlsy, he's that obscure ?!
mircea_popescu loaded the root, holy shit, "20 reads" ? "100 reads" ?
mircea_popescu: such is the power of philipino copywriting.
mircea_popescu: misbehaving girl punished to read that thing in lieu of whipping now begging to be whipped instead.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, gotta thank pete_d for his guardian link.
mircea_popescu: in other news : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi6AzHM6sJ0 << christina applegate of obscure chicago area cable show uses "i'm jelly" for the first time, spawning a meme that liquefied much shit hence her time!
mircea_popescu: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/pete_santilli_to_ask_court_to.html << same rag, further driving the alf case that the "freedom fighters" are uniformly retarded.
ben_vulpes: which makes batching trivial. "does this key match something in the DB?"
mike_c: and a 'last' endpoint could just grab.. the last one. But whatever, not huge thing. it works.
ben_vulpes: does look from here as though there's some key from a request to the action to be performed in the OTP url.
ben_vulpes has no actual idea how trinque's written the thing, only making inferences.
ben_vulpes: mike_c: requires server-side complexity to handle batched ratings
mike_c: unless you are sneaker-netting I don't see how making me go to a different URL everytime helps anything
asciilifeform: and just say no to auto-authing!111
mike_c: and znc I have tried and failed with in the past. possibly just user stupidity.
mike_c: why evil. as long as I have to type in my passphrase..
ben_vulpes: the last time i fucked with bouncers, let's say.
mike_c: hm. ok, I'll check that out
ben_vulpes: yeah don't do that
mike_c: sure, once you figure out the mess that is znc
ben_vulpes: mike_c: ssh -t $BOUNCER tmux attach
mircea_popescu: then he calls Ștrul. "hey, i sent over some guys to cut up your wood" "who ?" "same guys you sent last month to dig my garden"
mircea_popescu: and to honor alf's memory of the siguranța statului : Ițic calls the ro SS. "hey, Ștrul has some wood" "so what of it ?" "he drilled it and hid jewels, diamonds, dollars and probably ammunition from his brother in america"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i don't suppose anyoen read Ițic Ștrul, Dezertor (Isaac Trouble, Deserter) ?
ben_vulpes laughing out loud on the shop floor
mircea_popescu: "hey Ițic, do you suppose this is work, what we're doing ?"
mircea_popescu: Ștrul&Ițic taking a shit
mike_c: unless this is the collecting acorns thing
mike_c: ah. no, i don't know this one
mircea_popescu: that's the other joke with the jews :D
mircea_popescu: you know the joke with the jews ?
mike_c: manual labor is for the birds
mircea_popescu: 2nd guy who wants this huh
pete_dushenski: sorry for the dine n dash. bbl.
pete_dushenski: i have some more fiddling to do with trb it seems.
trinque: yeh, wallet is unusable without this
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: luttwak is known to all, e.g., his 'coup - practical handbook'
pete_dushenski: then a 'listunspent' would seem a useful call function to bring to trb (it was in 0.7). unless there are other call functions that already do the same thing ?
trinque: pete_dushenski: that's what I was talking about re: -lows
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski typically crud like that goes for a few hundred bucks, and is a counter-signal.