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mircea_popescu: the paleologoi. christ himself, you see, was going to come lift the siege.
mircea_popescu: bounce dreaming is the last refuge of the defeated. you know who else did it ?
mircea_popescu: bounce you know how wikipedia-history based on press-narratives works.
mircea_popescu: if you actually bother looking at the facts, the two regimes are scarcely different.
mircea_popescu: cads that's nonsense, the north korea is much less free than the average. in fact, about as unfree as the us.
mircea_popescu: what do you think sunk hitler, technological inferiority ? puhleaze.
mircea_popescu: zee germanz had much better "technical capabilities" than their intellectual, strategic and ultimately human capabilities.
mircea_popescu: if you were a party organiser and all you had to show me were math wallflowers i'd equally point and laugh at you.
mircea_popescu: well, academia is hte largest, but ohter than that as a single entity, i believe it.
mircea_popescu: there's a german Peter Sragher version which is pretty decent. but otherwise the guy seems an incredibly well kept secret. funny how that works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, is there anything in russian by the guy ?
mircea_popescu: (who aren't likely to get the reference or have read the guy's work)
mircea_popescu: it's mostly used derrisively to bother anticultural and antiintellectual lines
mircea_popescu: something like "let us not dispell the world's corolla of wonder"
mircea_popescu: one of his lines is meanwhile common cultural cliche in romanian, "sa nu strivim corola the minuni a lumii"
mircea_popescu: there's a romaina guy that did extensive "research" on this topic, his name was lucian blaga
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the average cunt with a hidden angler fish right under the flesh would be also indistinguishable from the average cunt.
mircea_popescu: china russia israel korea brazil more or less in order
mircea_popescu: and who respect themselves enough not to live in the cockroach trap.
mircea_popescu: you know, brain surgeon ain't likely to work for the cockroach infested hospital. because he prefers working with people he respects,
mircea_popescu: when there's so many so very much better offers o nthe table.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how you imagine someone with the capability of running an actual spyshop could be lured to work for the us
mircea_popescu: on the actual ground, the us has serious problems hiring people who don't spend most of their time wondering if "deep down" theyt're really women or not.
mircea_popescu: cads this sort of thinking is fed by watching movies and faping on reddit.
mircea_popescu: generally diplomacy by and large goes the way of spyshop-y.
mircea_popescu: anyway : meanwhile things have deteriorated, and the us "spyshop" doesn't even count. it's in there in the 3rld world, between congo and indonesia or something
mircea_popescu: so basically think fat kid that's allowed in the sikrit fraternity because he lets everyone borrow the stuff his rich parents buy him
mircea_popescu: rthe only difference betweenthem and the french being that the french had no money, either.
mircea_popescu: the us humint was never any good, even at the height of the cold war they were more of a laughingstoc operationally,
mircea_popescu: the us made the mistaken strategic decision to move from humint to sigint at the end of the cold war.
mircea_popescu: not so far off from claiming neobee floundered because mpex.
mircea_popescu: not to imply anything about either your bra filling abilities or his bar hopping skills.
mircea_popescu: moiety i imagine cupcake mantits met snowden the same way you met BingoBoingo
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj more like "because they fucked up a bitbet."
mircea_popescu: cads he's just a random has-been talking about the topic of the moment, imo.
mircea_popescu: cads wait, you doubting 100% of all plaintext phonecalls are being recorded ?
mircea_popescu: cads snowden was a contractor. he didn't have access to the strategic bundle.
mircea_popescu: kinda the reason why the rsa corp is going the way of cisco.
mircea_popescu: or 2nd and 3rd hand commentary by us propaganda sources?
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between snowden and "what the guardian represents".
mircea_popescu: which is precisely why he makes the sort of cargo cult suggestions he does make.
mircea_popescu: jurov "In this paper we will describe some of the shortcomings and suggest solution"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves prolly have to move it on punched paper acroiss airgap
mircea_popescu: cads diametric you two should joint or several work out something i can ipo.
mircea_popescu: fast food chains compete for customers. rich people compete for seats at the hot club.
mircea_popescu: because you have to establish yourself to the provider, not the other way around.