318700+ entries in 0.065s
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.
mircea_popescu: davout, meanwhile one has emerged in conversation. you folks coming to live with me in romania'd have had to wait > 10 years plus for citizenship, making it useless. any attempt to get the foreign minister to commit to making ongoing exceptions predictably failed, not for lack of him wanting to help, but for pure wtf... it's a eu country, it'd have ended up on all the newspapers.
mircea_popescu: hopefully the islamists come riding horses, and so the entire population of "France and Belgium were broadly supported by the other countries - Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Britain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain " can be sexually satisfied.
mircea_popescu: let's make sure our boys can't compete with their boys, and if push comes to shove our entire country is made of girls.
mircea_popescu: "Officials from the group will hold meetings with "the leading Internet operators" this month to look into the possibilities for immediately shutting down web sites and barring messages that spread hatred or encourage violent militancy or terrorism, the statement said."
mircea_popescu: mike_c, ikr? california so much more visible from space.
mircea_popescu: in other words, religion managed to never bother me anywhere - egypt included - as much as it bothers in the us.
mircea_popescu: that'd be the problem, this "i can do it" atttiude applied to religion. which isn't religion in any sense, unless you count ustardianism as a religion.
mircea_popescu: and he clearly believed that a bunch of new world fuctards have truely and really discovered something imp0ortant about jesus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that's more a factor of us specific idiocy. there was a fuckwit in the street hre, clearly american, derping about jesus to people. he clearly had a mortgage back home,
mircea_popescu: i will further point out that argentine citizenship, unlike romanian citizenship, is a two year affair.
mircea_popescu: do me a personal favour and don't wait for the exit taxes payable in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: much like getting into the wot, the best time to have done that is a few years agp
mircea_popescu: diametric, all that stuff aside, asciilifeform, as well as you and everyone else that can form this question or similar questions are well advised to get out of the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: jumping from log to log in the virgin forests of bitcoin-assetia
mircea_popescu: the rest is tacked on because the sec is in a very unenviable strategic position after our meanwhile piublished discussion, and would like to turn the "either mp's way or the highway" into some sort of "either mp's way or epsilon"
mircea_popescu: <diametric> mike_c: wasn't part of erik's fine simply because he had IPO'd without filing the required documentation? << no. he was fined for having advertised a glbse scam.
mircea_popescu: this is a trend that has being going on for three years and is likely to continue : people who think they know better than me / don't listen to me will have problems.
mircea_popescu: otherwise the entire discussion covers his glbse offering
mircea_popescu: you will notice that the mpex offering is attached in the deal in a spurious and mostly doomed attempt to shoehorn some relevancy in the matter.
mircea_popescu: my take on the erik settlement is in the logs, lemme fish it out
mircea_popescu: diametric, well, i'm not a lawyer, and especially not one admitted before the sec bar
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, as a s.nsa manager i'll have to ask you to refrain from eating any crazy poultry or fowl,
mircea_popescu: not necessarily always relevant, that's usually harder to optimize for
mircea_popescu: well no, i don';t have one. i do have the habit of asking unpleasant questions.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves, basically you've elected to not be part of bitcoin and so to dull the ache of it will now play an ipad app game about bitcoins ?