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mircea_popescu: <mike_c> you don't think they have their own staff all over the place? << perhaps you grossly overestimate what that's worth.
mircea_popescu: the guts of current pc cases are so soft they bend more than pcbs
mircea_popescu: the chines ehave found the cheapest allow that's still "metal"
mircea_popescu: sadly i lack a cutter shop in this part of the world, so we'll never know if mike_c had it and the mobos had stuff added.
mircea_popescu: (that's a summary. the reality is more complex but not substantially different)
mircea_popescu: they eat a -.1% on 20% so they may make 8% pon 80% or w/e it is they make
mircea_popescu: FabianB, because in order for fractional reserve to work, banks have to have some fractoion deposited with central bank.
mircea_popescu: As stated before I will continue to pay out dividends to all invested. Thoughts of suicide have crossed my mind more than a few times in the past week but I am unable to leave my investors high and dry due to my lack of control."
mircea_popescu: halmark of the forum ceo : does thinks he had no intention of doing.
mircea_popescu: It was never my intention to use the funds as I did, I had plans and budgets developed for them."
mircea_popescu: "To all investors, I sincerely appologize for misusing the funds you have trusted me with.
mircea_popescu: "well i have a lots of tattoo the wings is spreading all over my chest and make it more bigger than the actual size and its very painful specialy when the needles hit my upper cleavage all the way down to the half of my boobs "
mircea_popescu: this klye thing is too good, i guess ima make an adnotated version.
mircea_popescu: I will continue to try to try and develop Klyemax and get revenue streams flowing.
mircea_popescu: "This is a massive set back, which is entirely my fault.
mircea_popescu: did danielpbarron just get sent upstairs to clean his room ?
mircea_popescu: im fucking unsafe, aparently someone's burning obscure bits off my hardware with a magical death ray
mircea_popescu: mike_c, are you serious ?! who even cares if the on board lan card works ?!
mircea_popescu: i even tried to attach the speaker, but it makes no sound
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone waiting for mpex deposits/withdrawals will have to wait till tomorrow. with my apologies.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile other board won't see any harddrives. because fuck you, who said a board should see hard drives ?
mircea_popescu: i mean what, the ite chip blew overnight out of loneliess ?
mircea_popescu: but for another thing, what sort of failure mode is this you tell me ?! fans spin, on both cpu and vid card, but monitor reports no signal and board ignores atx shutdown
mircea_popescu: b) won't even turn off. ie, hold power down 5 seconds ? nada.
mircea_popescu: so i set up a new desktop system, works fine. i go to bed.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves, it's always dangerous to imagine things will forever go the way they went the past month.
mircea_popescu: anyway, take the ethical end of it : would you rather have drug addicts use clean needles or w/e they can find in hospital garbage ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c, there's also some interest to allow people be served.
mircea_popescu: the correct conclusion being that a bystander is insane and the police officer cowardly.
mircea_popescu: "In the months of fear and shame that followed my being charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, I continuously analyzed my own mind-set that day, trying to understand how I did something that both a bystander and a police officer considered criminally dangerous, and the best I could come up with was the theory that I’d been lulled by nostalgia into a false sense of security."
mircea_popescu: all the many things that are STILL not dangerous today.
mircea_popescu: ious banks, schools and offices, he was left alone in the front passenger seat of a convertible Mustang for a good portion of his childhood, primarily because he was shy and wanted to not have to meet new people. For people of our generation, living a suburban childhood, the car was central to our lives, not simply a mode of transportation but in many ways, an extension of our home.
mircea_popescu: in the trunk of the station wagon on long road trips. I remember standing up in the back of my father’s LeBaron convertible while he cruised around the neighborhood, or spending an hour lying low on the seat of our station wagon, feet against the window, daydreaming or reading in crowded parking lots while my mother got groceries or ran other boring errands. One friend tells me how, from 7-Elevens, to Kroger, to var
mircea_popescu: My friends and I sometimes play this game, the did-our-parents-really-let-us-do-that game. We recall bike ramps, model rockets, videotaping ourselves setting toys on fire. Many remember taking off on bikes alone, playing in the woods for hours without adult supervision, crawling through storm drains to follow creek beds, latchkey afternoons, monkey bars installed over slabs of concrete. My husband recalls forts built
mircea_popescu: i do not wish to be involved with anything that annoying.
mircea_popescu: well if i had no other reasons to not have kids, this'd be sufficient.
mircea_popescu: "I know that a home with an unfenced swimming pool is as dangerous as one with a loaded gun."
mircea_popescu: do you acknowledge you now have to obey him and so on ?
mircea_popescu: so if in your state it's legal, and a gay dude buys you from your parents