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mircea_popescu: cads you have no modelling, there is no economy and no sentiment. fugeddaboutit.
mircea_popescu: "jules, you give that fucking nimrod fifteen hundred dollars i'll shoot him on general principle" "now... I ain't giving it to him Vincent. I'm buyin' something for my money. Wanna know what I'm buyin' Ringo ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the john is not a fool, he's buying something for his money.
mircea_popescu: cads picture a chick showing up to the sky olympics with toothpics for sticks.
mircea_popescu: you'll have to read teh log, argument started centuries ago.
mircea_popescu: do you think it's wrong or weak for someone to make a living as an electric engineer specialised in pottery ?
mircea_popescu: no matter how he tries to fake the pretense of being an actual artist.
mircea_popescu: i can think of many ways people structure deals to avoid tax.
mircea_popescu: the amount an artist earns strictly correlates with how powerful his lord is
mircea_popescu: there, share it with the feminists, it'll make them like me, much to their detriment.
mircea_popescu: maybe the unseen painting also has. for what we know...
mircea_popescu: except the point of art is that it doesn't work like commerce.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform slowly dieing out, like the email spammer.
mircea_popescu: the people who do views have nothing else to do with their time
mircea_popescu: so if i were to give you one of the two, you'd pick the mona lisa ?
mircea_popescu: the oscars this year totals films watched by 48599 tons of tit fat.
mircea_popescu: why not compare movies by the gross weight of tit watching them ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck sits in museums with a clicker doing cezanne vs caravaggio minutemanview competition ?
mircea_popescu: the mona lisa people have spenbt 45804958609458609458609845045809845 minutes watching.
mircea_popescu: would you consider more important the mona lisa or an equally large, equally well made unknown painting certainly made by da vinci ?
mircea_popescu: and that different discussion i will appoach from the following different angle :
mircea_popescu: cads that is a slightly different discussion, and in no way related to "views".
mircea_popescu: now the people who have no idea about electronics regularly buy whatever someone;s telling them to.
mircea_popescu: (promoted by interested parties, of course, which is to say scammors)
mircea_popescu: a view which is actulaly getting a slight resurgence these days.
mircea_popescu: and its forbidding a serious abuse of the state power against individual sovereignity
mircea_popescu: but i would like to add the observation that according to the 1800s crowd, patent medicine was actually useful, actually valuable and actually working.
mircea_popescu: all this dovetails neatly, of course, into our earlier kabbalah discussion,
mircea_popescu: first and foremost we must agree these "views" are a thing.
mircea_popescu: nor are you at liberty to imagine the symbol views denotes whatever definition you may happen to allocate it.
mircea_popescu: all this aside : putting "views" next to a number does not transform the number into a measure
mircea_popescu: there's nothing particularly wrong with being a fraudster, i guess, until you end up believing your own crap.
mircea_popescu: they simply use that particular bezzle to defraud whoever's so inclined.
mircea_popescu: in fact back in the lycos/infoseek/geocities days most everyone did.
mircea_popescu: cads i can make a webpage publishing arbitrary numbers.
mircea_popescu: nono, i'm impressed, deeply, just, there's nothing there to be impressive k ?
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as a "view" and consequently nohing there to count.
mircea_popescu: i merely showed how that idiocy reduces to the absurd.
mircea_popescu: cads no, you did. "the 9 videos in the series got 20 million views"
mircea_popescu: "i saw you on the internet. so here's le diable et le bon dieu, read for me."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if giving these chicks a book and asking them to read is a legit pick-up now.
mircea_popescu: but! that said orgasm distraction is certanly a fun game.
mircea_popescu: i'd guess about 35% of adult females can actually orgasm in the situation described.
mircea_popescu: but if you "interwoven" on nyse the sec will put your head on a pike on columbus ave.