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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.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:trying to "play" it to what you think the client will accept << what the fuck self-sabotaging second guessing bullshit is this, seriously! bejaysus.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:hourly from the get-go just doesnt work << it does work in some fields. lawyers are the typical usecase, but also many high-demand few specialist engineering fields. you pay the hourly rate to qualify yourself as an actual customer
mircea_popescu: but the man doth have a point. i find it shocking that us pretend-academia will offer "women's studies" shit about that twerking girl, but there's no actual airgapping programme anywhere.
mircea_popescu: you're asking "so how do i build my house". well... hire an architect ?
mircea_popescu: to actually implement it you hire someone to do it you know ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well that general question has been answered in the general as best it could on the post man.
mircea_popescu: basically, always and everywhere take THEM as the joke, see how long they last.
mircea_popescu: before you know it, you now control peer review in your field.
mircea_popescu: get the hottest 12 chicks to boothbabe topless, only invite to present those professors who you owe favours to.
mircea_popescu: cads do this as a power play. it's what i'd do if i were somehow inexplicably interested in math academia.
mircea_popescu: "you" can have a girl hang around the whole day for the cost of two beers, except not YOU.
mircea_popescu: course in typical nerd fashion he misrepresents what happened, but hey.
mircea_popescu: the rough equivalent being the it corp dudes that go to check out the babes at it conferences.
mircea_popescu: 5th wheel intern-ish girlies without clear responsibilities, which'd be the ones answering to a call like that, those you can seduce.
mircea_popescu: and secretaries you don't seduce. they're always busy at work.
mircea_popescu: which you only actually comprehend months after the event.
mircea_popescu: cads only if you're the sort of type that enjoys failing in a humiliating manner
mircea_popescu: turns out buncha eager shaved beavers work for low end publishing houses in 2000s boston. i ended up with many new friends.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves incidentally, best fun i ever had in boston was the day i decided ima coldcall small publishers for my book.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 what decent size budget when his entire line is like 20k a year ?
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda curious what happens should cads coldcall some random doods and then proceed to "get someone medium level on the phone and then explain something like"
mircea_popescu: check that out, ThickAsThieves finally figured how to run a client for atc :D