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mircea_popescu: when i do hidden in plain sight, it's hidden. when the usg tries it, it's snowdened.
mircea_popescu: well, that i don't. however, i do understand quite well when i don't understand something.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun i just did what i always do, told people what to do.
mircea_popescu: many things are not. basic, for instance, is eminently secure.
mircea_popescu: KRS-One i always thought it's insecure, and insecurable
mircea_popescu: KRS-One i know people who have to maintain it that are shocked on a weekly basis by both what it can do and how it works.
mircea_popescu: the guy has some very specific sexual hangups. it's all centered on rape, can't see violence, can't see submission, he's impacted.
mircea_popescu: elevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer... and spouse
mircea_popescu: When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as irr
mircea_popescu: "magine a large corporate machine mobilized to get you to buy something you don't need at a tremendously inflated cost, complete with advertising, marketing, and branding that says you're not hip if you don't have one, but when you get one you discover it's of poor quality and obsolete in ten months. That's a BA.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the us has spent more on syria than syria'd cost to buy, whole.
mircea_popescu: there used to be. herodotus or who observed that it seems ignoble and unworthy of a man to plow the field
mircea_popescu: it used to be, sure. but now it's more like a welfare programme
mircea_popescu: logofat = youthful scribe used to take down dictation of his lord and sometimes a little cock.
mircea_popescu: rather than in proper thermodynamics notions of reversibility
mircea_popescu: perhaps unobvious in the fuel analogy, because the inadvertent reader will think in terms of power
mircea_popescu: or that he regrets the ride after havin been taken for it
mircea_popescu: i mean there's no requirement that the chump don't enjoy it
mircea_popescu: for the pleasure and enjoyment of... the company. OF OTHER LOSERS LIKE THEM
mircea_popescu: as immortalised say in the romanian saying, "logofete brinza-n cuiu, lapte acru-n calimari, chiu si vai prin buzunari"
mircea_popescu: but that aside, you familiar with the *medieval* notion that a healthy young boy should learn a trade, and only phtisic good for nothing losers go to university ?
mircea_popescu: you really should, it's quite excellent literature. unlike french cheese, this is passable, and why we tolerate them in europe.
mircea_popescu: moiety yes, write down what you do. you're the only one doing most of it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo asciilifeform actually, a university (in the classical, functional and ideal sense, no relation to us/uk "college") is the prototype of the honest chumpatron
mircea_popescu: so moiety is basically discordian and unconformant in absolutely every which way.
mircea_popescu: the oft retold story of me talking the bitches out to frolic in the snow, people with dogs going all stiff, carefully looking away. the dogs, kinda curious hmm... what is with these humans here ? the masters, completely nuts.
mircea_popescu: well either keep walking or else, you know, smile at her, do with the eye, tweak her nipple, something.
mircea_popescu: benkay` fucking people. they run into naked girl, their interaction with her is subsumed to futzing with the phone.
mircea_popescu: like any good tool, it can be used by people as smart or as dumb they may happen to be.
mircea_popescu: the great advantage of the irc is its splendid flexibility.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the arduous task of reading -assets logs / lurking is at least offset by it being... interesting.
mircea_popescu: i can take an investor on any terms i want in 2013, seeing how i'm already valued at a billion, with him or without him.
mircea_popescu: benkay` as per the earlier linked tlp article, narcissus got hooked by entity not returning his love.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun sheep have no privacy, nor crabs nor birds. privacy is a construct of the human mind, and it is built upon identity. which you don't currently have.
mircea_popescu: the philosophical problem would be that privacy is impossible without identity