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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform intelligence doesn't kill people, bureaucracies kill people.
mircea_popescu: what's next, most thieves i've met in jail weren't all that good at it ?
mircea_popescu: intelligence types are better company than almost any other class
mircea_popescu: so they tried something along the lines of what seems a meanwhile abandoned project to inject title
mircea_popescu: early on, noob of-counsel had realised title'd be iffy but hadn't yet realised title will be challenged.
mircea_popescu: a more persuasive theory is that the usg used this opportunity to launder its own mining proceeds.
mircea_popescu: it's really the fundamental principle that allowed the MF Global debacle.
mircea_popescu: such as, to cover its own shortfall, or as directed by a frient of its (such as a regulator, without a court order) or in any other case.
mircea_popescu: watch the dood actually win the powerball or some shit.
mircea_popescu: soo, the mpoe astrology department informs me that april the 20th, other than being orthodox easter, is also going to be a grand cross and the first of four blood moons.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'll happen should kim herp-derp decide to shave his balls.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, otc hasn't existed for 16k days i would hope
mircea_popescu: why does it say "This user has not authenticated for more than 16156 days" ? i've authed like... yesterday
mircea_popescu: that thing should have read "We thought we knew better than MP, but we did not. We will now wear rough burlap on the skin for the next year as penace"
mircea_popescu: (before being repurposed by english to mean "criminal", felony denoted the behaviour of the overly-socially adaptable, they who go from inflexible grandeur in the presence of inferiors to abject suckupitude should any superiors show up. de funes in the gendarme series is a fine example)
mircea_popescu: goat can't manage to go through two hours without trying to suck up to someone, he's quite eastern.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this has all been very exciting but i'll have to bid you all a very good morning.
mircea_popescu: benkay one doesn't get too far in life by paying any heed to the youth.
mircea_popescu: punkman1 well, it was known since t+1second, but it's good someone actually put it in writing, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: an earnest hussy looking for a husband'd seem a lot more respectable than a pretentious priss pretending she belongs in tech or government or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. and he catalogued them into "martini" and "gin"
mircea_popescu: it's a wholly innovative, verily incisive bit of us-science.
mircea_popescu: "2) Fairness/cheating: This foundation is related to the evolutionary process of reciprocal altruism."
mircea_popescu: "1) Care/harm: This foundation is related to our long evolution as mammals with attachment systems and an ability to feel (and dislike) the pain of others. It underlies virtues of kindness, gentleness, and nurturance."
mircea_popescu: no wonder painting is dead as an art. who, or should i say what, to paint ?
mircea_popescu: i'm being persecuted in effigy by wikipedia james blond.
mircea_popescu: "b) is actually Romanian, and perhaps in some relation to the Romanian Foreign service."
mircea_popescu: it's not the woman that's intimidating, of course. but she looks like the sort of men that'd pursue her might kill you
mircea_popescu: don't go up and strike a conversation with the tall woman. why not ? well...
mircea_popescu: maybe what the real problem is has more to do with lions. as long as we sit put and do nothing, a lot of pointless, small, provably impotent nothing...
mircea_popescu: his ready answer is that "The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster."
mircea_popescu: "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable boring committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?"
mircea_popescu: but it's the pointlessness of the activity that strikes me.