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mircea_popescu: they were housed somewhere at the time the clinton binge begun
mircea_popescu: it is equally unfair, and quite callous, to sign up for mortgages idiots whi ocan't afford them
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i will take the other end of that view : it's unfair to make the blind the designated drivers of your bar hopping party
mircea_popescu: Here's something to quote at the Dr. Gregs of Bitcoin finance : "Inevitably, of course, business errors will occur and the wise manager will try to find the proper lessons in them. But the trick is to learn most lessons from the experiences of others. Managers who have learned much from personal experience in the past usually are destined to learn much from personal experience in the future."
mircea_popescu: gimmicks are fun for a computing project in computer class,
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete just generate entropy the traditional way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it conveniently dots the screen, so no need for radio mouse
mircea_popescu: what they'd do is what they currently do in the shitty pits they inhabit (starbucks et atll)
mircea_popescu: "You have to work if you want a share of communal food"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im still digesting the earlier forum thing
mircea_popescu: "we need to go to each church and offer them contracts to not be churches any more"
mircea_popescu: o hey, we'll be just like the amish, except suckier and without tradition
mircea_popescu: "We actually hope to make a local restaurant and turn it into a national franchise"
mircea_popescu: "and if they make bigger bunker busters, we'll just pour more concrete"
mircea_popescu: "all rooves are poured rebared concrete 10 meter thick"
mircea_popescu: anyway, how would one design buildings to "withstand" direct military attacks ? use an abandoned salt mine or something ?
mircea_popescu: "we just called it the citadel because the outhouse was taken
mircea_popescu: and you can even use microcellular concrete or w/e you call it in english
mircea_popescu: except you also get the choice to make a brick-in-concrete pillars with poured concrete foundation and wood roofing house,
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, the same exact situation is the case in romania
mircea_popescu: how about my choice of not living in a carved up rock ?
mircea_popescu: "Your home will be built to your specs (details available at this website) with utilities stubbed to the interior. You select the facade for the exterior of your home. You are responsible for completing the interior of your home as you wish. You may choose to do the work yourself, or hire contractors. But every single detail, from paint to tiles to counters, is your choice."
mircea_popescu: HOUSING DETAILS: All homes will be built of poured concrete for exceptional strength and durability.
mircea_popescu: "i am proud of these unrelated people's feudal architecture!"
mircea_popescu: i guess the very essex-looking walltower kinda makes the point better than 10k words
mircea_popescu: someone somewhere actually believes that *us people* are anything but exceptionally stupid nao ?!
mircea_popescu: The Citadel is evolving as a planned community where residents are bound together by:
mircea_popescu: "There are thousands of acres of in BC Canada that are owned by the Queen of England....If we squat there drill some wells and plant some trees. Do you really think the Queen is going to bring us an eviction notice or force us off the land with military force?"
mircea_popescu: [\\\] people wanted you to have a nice surprise on mother's day.
mircea_popescu: it's this mystical re-enactment of the venetian republic.
mircea_popescu: it could have been right out of Master of Orion, this research
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete hes the guy with the galt gulch project neh ?
mircea_popescu: lucky the ukraine thing didn't happen in winter btw, or else it'd have been quite literal cold war.