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mircea_popescu: no, the day's developments mean that isis has now secured communication lines for its pincher of baghdad
mircea_popescu: "The day's developments mean Isis now has effective control over three cities, including Falluja and Ramadi in neighbouring Anbar. "
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine biological shock is going to be much going forward
mircea_popescu: it'll work, too. mexico has a better chance of ruling the us than either democrat or republican party in ten years.
mircea_popescu: also a doomed hope. the cartels will sooner or later make continued oil exports dependent on continued opium imports
mircea_popescu: i'll bet you the us won't be buying much oil from sa by the end of the decade.
mircea_popescu: it's an ally of the us in thesense the tour guide of the fat tourist is an ally of his.
mircea_popescu: and once the withdrawal is complete by autumn i wonder just how safe any us interests in the midwest will ever be again.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, back on the realpolitik map, i wonder just how defensible afghanistan is w/o iraq,
mircea_popescu: funny btw, the us overthrew ukraine, the russian-backed syria overthrew iraq.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 you know, iraq 2 mayt well turn out to be the largest intl mistake the us ever made
mircea_popescu: i can't image a us policy of easy money not including easy reserves.
mircea_popescu: russia is emerging as a major ally of the muslims, and its strategy to energetically isolate the west is starting to take shape.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's not a good link, that's a bead link.
mircea_popescu: decimation: the burea-tard who signed Obama's birth certificate died in a plane crash (survived the crash but "had irregular heart beat" after 60 minutes in the water) <<< that took a while.
mircea_popescu: [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth1 OUT= SRC=208.94.26.148 DST=192.168.0.100 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=242 ID=65083 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=46252
mircea_popescu: or do you mean that ancient "rsyslogd was HUPed, type lightweight" bug they've had for ages ? did it eventually prevail upon them and so they just took logging right out of 12.04 ? :D
mircea_popescu: they even had a special doohickey made so they could add it in the menus
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Also, did anyone else here have reason to learn Ubuntu 12.04 ships without syslogd or rsyslog << is that even possible ?!
mircea_popescu: benkay afaik heart beats on its own localised nervous system
mircea_popescu: "The earliest types of EDA routers were "manual routers" -- the drafter clicked a mouse on the endpoint of each line segment of each net. Modern PCB design software typically provides "interactive routers" -- the drafter selects a pad and clicks a few places to give the EDA tool an idea of where to go, and the EDA tool tries to place wires as close to that path as possible without violating DRC." << my naive bias thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok im cured. this and the oxide gate problems, i can see it now.
mircea_popescu: "Particular difficulties ensue if the rules are not simple multiples of each other, and when vias must traverse between layers with different rules."
mircea_popescu: surely if they both were online both'd have done 500 btc, keeping their parity
mircea_popescu: suppose one day there's a panic, which takes one offline but not the other, which now dows 500 btc
mircea_popescu: pankkake unless one exchange is offline for a little bit.
mircea_popescu: (ie, someone who's not won loses nothing by making a spurious claim he has. this then taxes mod time, and the more complex the claim the better for the claimant)
mircea_popescu: the problem with this, of course, is that it gives a monetary incentive to make comments, at which point the result will be a flood of nonsense
mircea_popescu: im thinking a solution going forward would be "claim bets", ie, bets that resolve one way unless proof to the contrary is presented in the comments.
mircea_popescu: pankkake this sort of bet is problematic, because what the fuck's the submitter to do.
mircea_popescu: jesus republic of the soviets they got going over there. go ask lenin whydontcha
mircea_popescu: since when the motherfucking hells does the administration have a say in this!
mircea_popescu: chetty "Or, the Court might ask the Obama administration for its views on pari passu"
mircea_popescu: or add a rule "whenever the last bet on page is not in my list of read bets, halve the checking interval"
mircea_popescu: davout except satoshi is misleading, itcould receive a goat.
mircea_popescu: such as for instance i dunno, blizzard gets scared and pays us 50 bux to not run wow out of business
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people reading the logs just got a legal & philosophical education.
mircea_popescu: the shorter stick IS ACTUALLY as long as the longer one.
mircea_popescu: but that whatever you may think your measurement shows,