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phf: (in other apple is dead not so news, i logged into a developer account in hopes of grabbing xcode dmg's direct instead of going
through apple store, and oh boy. what used
to be a rather spartan list of downloads, docs, resources has
turned into "Click your iPhone app into Apple Store! Anyone can do it!" complete with giant banners of hip womens holding iphones. where's
the docs? where's all
the shit? literally
the only
thing you can do
mircea_popescu: and nobody i ever met retires
to palo alto. have you EVEN SEEN
the place ?
assbot: British Court Clears Saudi Millionaire Who Claims He
Tripped & Fell On
Teen Accusing Him Of Rape : News : Yibada ... (
http://bit.ly/1PQJycM )
mircea_popescu: " is
that usg has
the politburo in both cases by
the balls,
they all have swiss accounts 'which could have problems' if
they don't play ball." << if we were discussing a
tissue sample,
this would directly map
to "god's life force prevails"
mircea_popescu: and
there's sure as heck no "life power" behind it all, which amusingly is your go-to answer whenever complexity overwhelms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's just... you have no ready model for
this particular
thing, in your head. it's showing.
tissue decays and reacts
to its decay in particular manners, which are pointedly not arbitrary.
mircea_popescu: for me, it was way
the fuck cheaper
than
to pay
the woman for her work. for her, it was an excellent alibi.
mircea_popescu: let me give you an example : when i was 16, i was paying rent for a place i practically never used,
to a married mother of
two. who
took it in all
the holes like a champ,
twice a week.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform international
trade is particularly complex and famously confusing.
mircea_popescu: no, it's
the
tendency of people
to abuse
the usd as a
temporary replacement for btc, until btc was devised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would propose
this is not so, nobody actually PAYS
the us for ip. merely subsidiaries repatriate capital under
that guise.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2016 15:17:11; mircea_popescu: PeterL>
The rest of
the world starts ignoring
the US,
the US pretends
they still control everything << incidentally,
the soviets had a very similar delusion going, see komintern etc. it worked about as much as
the us
thing does, which is
to say not at all unless you're either very enamoured with
the delusion or otherwise see a ready way
to profit from castigating it.
mircea_popescu: now, your earlier point notwithstanding, bahamas is still an ineptitude record-setting president, on
the level of j. davis.
tis not ~by~
the adversity he encounters
that you know a man, but IN.
mircea_popescu: sounds good phf. ftr i dun
think
there was anything wrong with your
thing per se. broke an assumption i made
that i still don't well understanbd, so... it counts as a positive.
phf: (so
to wrap up previous
thread, patches will remain, until clicking any patch in
that graph produces a press, ideally clicking on one of
the patches from mod6 release should produce press identical
to mod6's press even in
the presence of conflicting patches. i'll solve
this problem sometime
this week)
Reydevkiwi: just saw a doc on all
the backdoors in apple phone os,
then
this
☟︎ mircea_popescu: better aligned
than
the us,
tis
true, but still a minor player.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2016 14:59:11; mircea_popescu: no but don't you
think it's kind-of funny nobody goes "hey, bahamas-the-laureate said embargo will
totally hurt russia - it decimated our allies instead. maybe bahamas is just fucking stupid ?"
phf: mircea_popescu:
there's another patch
there
that's named differently
that does same
thing
mircea_popescu: i had, because i expected
the
thing
to work in
terms of straight url substitution.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2016 02:44:08; phf: (my press is still broken
though, because i want
to have all
the patches
that were ever produced in
there, even
the conflicting ones, and simply
throwing
them into a pile seems
to not work. i'll figure it out sometime
this week)
PeterL: well,
the other stuff. lard was joke
PeterL: seems
to me
there is lots of resources here
that other people may want
to control?
mircea_popescu: PeterL hey, sounds exactly like argentina!
tough market.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i am aware
that you're
thinking you're decent people, and your friends idem, and you'll
toil and labour and
this can't all be
to waste.
the
thing you're not aware of is
that i have friends like
that in say
togo. ever heard of
togo ? and had friends like
that in lebanon years ago, and so on.
PeterL: lots of farm land, mineral resources, space in which
to operate factories
mircea_popescu: what else
that anyone could conceivably want is found in
the 50 states ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but, fortunately for it,
the us has nothing
to offer. it'd be an active safari grounds for live slaves, if
the women weren't generally ugly and universally fat. it is being raided
to shit by indian/chinese people for whatever shreds of prestige it may have left,
tho from what i hear us diplomas are becoming 2nd rate in beijing
these days.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and no,
the notion
that
the usg has any say in
this is preposterous - if
the mexican narcos decided
to
take over,
they would
take over, and no us president would even deign
to EVEN NOTICE
that "hey, at some point in
the recent past
the border was on
the river".)
mircea_popescu: because it is in fact cheaper
to do
this
than undertake
the expense
to administer it.
mircea_popescu: note
that
the few people who actually do atm derive value from it,
the mexican narcos, do not bother
to replace
the federal government, just route around it.
mircea_popescu: PeterL attacks are driven by value. if/when someone finds a way
to explot it, it will be. so far, it's made relatively safe by its sheer uselessness. which measns
that like africa, it will HAVE
TO stay dumb
to survive.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder
to see it at work,
too : consider
the case of ross ulbricht. amply retarded kid, did pretty much every stupid
thing in
the book. yet because he was indicted by
the us-komintern, he still has A LOT molre support
than would be warranted on
the face of
things.
PeterL: I guess my question is: will other countries actively attack
the US?
mircea_popescu: most of what
the komintern practically did was allow a ready way for people outside of russia
to get rid of
their inconvenient opponents.
mircea_popescu: PeterL>
The rest of
the world starts ignoring
the US,
the US pretends
they still control everything << incidentally,
the soviets had a very similar delusion going, see komintern etc. it worked about as much as
the us
thing does, which is
to say not at all unless you're either very enamoured with
the delusion or otherwise see a ready way
to profit from castigating it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
to
think
that if only
they had
the fucking common sense
to allow
turkey in (like mp said, back in
the day, but hey, why listen
to mp when you got politicians et all) would have not only prevented
this, but made
the whole effort productive instread of merely defensive.
mircea_popescu: french farmers
that depend on eu money, which is
to say french farmers, may not be so amused.
mircea_popescu: davout laugh all you want, but you know zee germans are counting
those bn against
their eu contributions yes ?
mircea_popescu: last i heard germany only wanted 5k a head, so it should come out
to maybe 50bn or so, not
the end of
the world
mircea_popescu: obviously, europe enjoys getting fucked, after so many years of not getting any. but still... money is money. sending washington
the bill for
the 10mn arabs ?
mircea_popescu: retarded euros on
the other hand... "us posturing precipitated an immigration influx
that we reallty can't support. wat do ?" "i dunno, but
try
to not notice
that
the us-provided security costs a degree or
two of magnitude more
than
the worst possible case would be without
them around"
PeterL: The rest of
the world starts ignoring
the US,
the US pretends
they still control everything
mircea_popescu: "obviously, pretend like nobody could have predicted" "a
totally, solid plan mate!"
mircea_popescu: and even
the retarded canadians... "us posturing precipitated a
trade war
that just ENDED canada as an industrial nation. wat do ?"
mircea_popescu: PeterL you mean other
than pretty much every one
there ? from argentina
to saudi arabia,
take your pick ?
mircea_popescu: im sure it's ever so glorious being black and having
these idiots for "supporters". with such help you really don't need any enemies.
mircea_popescu: so far, positive action produced pretty much
the least competent us president
to date, a few notches below even jefferson davies (and actually very similar in style,
too!) who just happens
to be a black man.
PeterL: Who is going
to be
the first country
that openly spurns
the US?
mircea_popescu: no but don't you
think it's kind-of funny nobody goes "hey, bahamas-the-laureate said embargo will
totally hurt russia - it decimated our allies instead. maybe bahamas is just fucking stupid ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet
the canadians aren't swarming across
the border
to fucking burn down
the dangerous rogue state next door.
mircea_popescu: shinohai moslty manufactured by
the us "embargo on russia". which so
totally hurt putin o noes.
mircea_popescu: yeah, england's not really on
the map, unless you wish
to join
the arab footsoldiers and rape fat ugly chicks for
the next decade.
mircea_popescu: (for
the record, most autistic children misrepresent
themselves as smart, and actual smart children as some sort of chtonic horror/chtulhu)
mircea_popescu: if your kid is not smart, but merely autistic,
then some hope may exist - but probably in china
PeterL: I could go back
to my ancestral homeland, but I hear England sucks more
than US now
mircea_popescu: this is a complicated question. if your kid is smart, such
that all he needs
to make money is for bitcoin
to exist,
then most of
the world fits
the bill, because all he really needs is weak local government.
PeterL: and it is different in other parts of
the world?
mircea_popescu: and yes,
this was EXACTLY
the situation
throughout
the 2nd half of
the 20th century in russia & friends.
mircea_popescu: even if he WANTED
to, your kid will not be able
to support you ; chiefly because he can not have nor can he acquire any money or property.
mircea_popescu: now replace "i materialize out of
the ethers and offer well
trained young slave" with "any discretionary expense" and you've got a pretty accurate picture.
mircea_popescu: consider
this simple point : so i materialize out of
the ethers and offer well
trained young slave
to us kid, for $sum. how can he pay ? he can't. he has no money,
the usual way he pays for
things (begs daddy-government's agent, called "bank" for absolutely no reason much like fast-food is unrelated
to food, being a species of engine oil) does not work for
this purpose. what's left ? we just discussed how he can not do
PeterL: I have decided
to stay here, so I will just have
to deal with
that decision
PeterL: one has
to prepare for
the future somehow
PeterL: what, you expect government
to be able
to support your retirement?
mircea_popescu: you can't seriously contemplate
this applies in
the us ?
PeterL: isn't
that why you have children, so
they can support you when you are old?
davout: "not what consumers have come
to expect." <<< child pays for parent may one day be a
thing
jurov: heh
that won't really work (our fees are $x, add
to
that $random on
the murican side)
jurov: davout
try formulating
the question for lulz "us clients complained about fees, what do you recommend
to
them"