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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
mircea_popescu: talks back to quite ancient tradition. 6 millenia or more.
mircea_popescu: but for that matter, the catholic contemporary instistence on "raising the children in the church" and promising to do so
mircea_popescu: because that man made a firm promise prenup to never kill her children in this manner.
mircea_popescu: a woman had a positive incentive to mary a christian (this is much pre jesus, btw)
mircea_popescu: and from the stupidity of the illusion of control, as los_pantalones aptly put it, the control theatre
mircea_popescu: and out of this effort to cover screams of children and take their mother's mind off it
mircea_popescu: to cover the screams of the eviscerate dbabes and their badly hurt mothers,
mircea_popescu: to prevent pestilence, they started lkeeping fires going all the time
mircea_popescu: \and to improve the ocntrol of this, they found a place, a natural canyon,
mircea_popescu: the fathers BOUGHT poor kids to kill instead of their own kids.
mircea_popescu: the mothers had serious problems with this. the fathers did to. and yet... cold equations of power.
mircea_popescu: because if you can't prevent it, the only other way to gain some control over it is to do it yourself.
mircea_popescu: parents loathe this. and more so in 4000bc than today, for today it's only imagined, whereas then it was a fact.
mircea_popescu: kids die, in 4000bc. unavoidably so, for a multitude or reasons.
mircea_popescu: a key part of this risk management was the following weird as shit aspect :
mircea_popescu: turns out, among the many things the ancient babylonians invented, such as the seals, and commerce,
mircea_popescu: ok so, you've probably heard of gehenna, but you probably don't know what it actually was.
mircea_popescu: mike_c, btw, the "mom did spanking" part is extremely important for the WOMAN's mental health.
mircea_popescu: speaking of weird compounds : when i was a kid you could buy coideine phosphate otc. and people did.
mircea_popescu: (actually what i said iirc was that if it's needed you suck a sa parent, which ... well... yeah)
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> what do i care if he wants to roll on the ground at the mall and scream? go for it. << you care because if you didn't you'ds have married a chimp instead of his mother.
mircea_popescu: mike_c, no, you just beat it until it's too scared to scream.
mircea_popescu: re that link : i had this nutty discussion with a guy at the mall in timisoara, his 4 yo kid was throwing an absolute tantrum on the ground
mircea_popescu: argentina, meanwhile, wants you to wait *maybe* two years. that's useful.