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mircea_popescu: i suppose ceramic armor plates on tanks don't shoot, either, and so it's immoral to spend military funds on armor plating research and deployment
mircea_popescu: hey, i had it without reading it. purist argument from dumbland.
mircea_popescu: Mar 15 03:49:38 <bitcoinpete>;;later tell mircea_popescu: I should check out the film, I've only seen the mainstage production :)
mircea_popescu: the false flag conpiracy theory is getting better and better hah
mircea_popescu: soo, the missing plane is placed between kazakhstan and turkmenistan now ?
mircea_popescu: my original comments refer strictly to this, while old landline is what it is, nobody forced cellphones to suck
mircea_popescu: none of the old infrastructure was usable, not really, towers is one thing copper is another and so on
mircea_popescu: but let me point out that digital comms is a whole new industry.
mircea_popescu: joecool i guess there's a good point here, in the sense that the infrastructure is really old, phreakin did exist, what is one to do
mircea_popescu: they wheeled in some ancient revolutionary bolshevik to praise the party.
mircea_popescu: someone did this as power moved from lenin to stalin but i don't recall who the fuck
mircea_popescu: hey, even sacred monsters a la buffett are reduced to teary eyed confessions of belief in the party, even at the zenith of their career/intellectual lucidity
mircea_popescu: they've plainly confessed to it what with the "too big to fail" doctrine,
mircea_popescu: it's by now a mistake to see anything in the us command economy as meaningfully separate from anything else.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who exactly would wish to live in a world where a company making a product asks any government what it thinks on the topic.
mircea_popescu: so knowing that, let's build another whole industry on rotten basics
mircea_popescu: the whole banking system was well fucked, what with its odd notions of a cheque
mircea_popescu: then again... chinese people. someone probably told them not to use cell phones
mircea_popescu: this'd be a better distinction than simply over/under, because it's a difference in kind not degree.
mircea_popescu: rom entities to rules, it also lost the support of the people. There weren’t that many people burning American flags in 1860, you know ? Why do you think not ? You can support a government killing Indians, or bison. You can’t support a government fighting chemical compounds."
mircea_popescu: specifically, "As far as experience shows, people don’t tend to support states that either stupidly or unwittingly include rules among their enemies. You can’t win a war against math, or against drugs, or against “social injustice”, or “kulaks”. Soon after the Soviet government moved its focus from entities to rules, it lost the support of the people. Soon after the other-Soviet government moved its focus f
mircea_popescu: and for that matter it'd be a lot saner if you stuck around for few hours after asking for input on an article in so i don't have to make gribble work overtime
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl_ the point about "over regulate people" is vague, in that nobody, from obama to ayn rand, believe their activity is "over regulatory". indeed, all over regulators in history carefully consider the point of over regulation (in their own reference frame) and decide they're being reasonable.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl_ perhaps the oil painting example is weak, seeing how the artist would probably benefit from being physically present for the wedding.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think there's a special command like addkey or somesuch
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps the best i've read on the topic, for any value of best equal "entertaining due to the propaganda dial being turned to such 11, the insanity of the whole process becomes obvious even to the casual observer resulting in an unintentional self-parody quality"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete you've seen the mainstage production of tom green's freddie got fingered ?! that existed ?!
mircea_popescu: dignork anyway, the honest answer is that i've greatly overstated what's likely happenstance to make an otherwise valid and much more general point.
mircea_popescu: well why do i speak english, im not from scotland, you know ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so how's that look, is the guy winning or what ?
mircea_popescu: apple aren't engineers, they're like yahoo. a media buying company.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy shoulda started a police department instead of a frozen yogurt brand.
mircea_popescu: me either. but from reading this i can't imagine the woman under 200ish lbs
mircea_popescu: so basically in rothbard's reading, this rand character is the quintessential balabusta, a staid, obnoxious, overarching yet profoundly ignorant and puritanical fat old woman.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` supposedly this is how art evolves. mistakes end up baked in by their success.
mircea_popescu: ahaha this shit's too good. did this one actually happen ?
mircea_popescu: it could be inspected in detail, his doom as a member of the movement was effectively sealed."
mircea_popescu: information and after spending a sleepless night, the girl rushed to inform the top leadership of this terrible transgression. Promptly, the leading participants were called on the carpet by their Objectivist Psychotherapist and bitterly denounced in their "therapy" sessions: "After all," said the therapist, "you wouldn’t mock God." When the owner of the tape refused the therapist’s demand to relinquish it so that
mircea_popescu: "Driven by their conception of rational duty, every Randian lived in – and indeed was himself – a community of spies and informers, ready to ferret out and denounce any deviations from Randian doctrine. Thus, one time a Randian, walking with a girl friend, told her that he had attended a party at which several Randians had made an impromptu tape imitating the voices of the top Randian leaders. Stricken by this dire
mircea_popescu: which you know, is what the economy of the bankrupt world degenerated into, the economy of views. of which unit of account is one "mom look at me! mom look! mo-om!"
mircea_popescu: im sure while it fails to produce much coin if at all, it produces tons of definitely very valuable "views"
mircea_popescu: it yields the illusion of being "part of the community"
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic was it just a renamed backoriffice for maximal lulz ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves someone was saying a few days ago about all the bitching that thing caused in ##mtgox
mircea_popescu: notrly, let enough do that then slap a surcharge on them
mircea_popescu: chris christie wants to protect his career, he can't piss off the larger players
mircea_popescu: also, afaik nj is an important lobby stronghold for importers in that market.