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mircea_popescu: i'm in jail, i'm in jail. it applies to all possible reasons i might be in jail.
mircea_popescu: 43985734987984357 counts of 5 minutes = 5 minutes in jail.
mircea_popescu: but if you ate once you don't get "one count of eating an olive, another count of eating another olive" bs.
mircea_popescu: nope. if eating is punished, you ate, you get punished.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you can't commit the crime x times, unless you do x things.
mircea_popescu: González was charged with 174 counts of murder—- two for each victim—- and was found guilty on 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder on August 19, 1991. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4,350 years). It was the most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state of New York
mircea_popescu: benkay it's still a scam, but this month more quoting wikipedia less quoting trilema
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you do have a good point there in principle, but im not so sure the laptop resolves the movement problem.
mircea_popescu: there is an absolute limit to the smallest firearm usable on a battlefield. so in computing. the laptop is below that limit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you shooting a .38 in each hand > me with my .5 DE ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> to say that laptop is unnecessary is like supposing that nothing smaller than a squad machine gun is of any use in war << this is facually true
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> this isn't really an issue with full-scale machines, where you can mix&match hw <<< shit, laptops just got killed.
mircea_popescu: Vexual actually, on earth iron and nickel are, not tin.
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember that earth is actually "reasonably" representative of the actual unviersal distribution of elements.
mircea_popescu: decimation planet earth is not really far off the universal average is it ?
mircea_popescu: course... you're quite healthy "yet" the day after you've fucked all the girls at the pit stop too.
mircea_popescu: it'd have blossomed again, im sure, but europe bleed it twice in 50 years
mircea_popescu: yeah, well. the people whose retarded children followed lincoln in his nazi adventure.
mircea_popescu: what was her name, peaches, rosy, eve ? something with apple in it maybe.
mircea_popescu: party's over, but yeah, that one chick with nice tits that took her top off... what a hoot.
mircea_popescu: you can feel it, in retrospect. all this govt money everyone had... greatest party of all time.
mircea_popescu: the 1990 us (lots of people with lots of welfare money to throw around) is not coming back. ever.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, don' go fighting the war of the past.
mircea_popescu: ie, it's a cube. basic geometric shape. "herp derp i can recognise this in my surroundings"
mircea_popescu: what you take for "good engineering" is really just what nintendo was trying to do with the "game cube".
mircea_popescu: to create product you can sell in the 1990s us, you create something that people CAN IDENTIFY and push their want buttons. is all.
mircea_popescu: apple gets this the other way around : the SHOW itself wants to gain value from the association.
mircea_popescu: think about this : all OTHER mass market folks need to PAY celebs and producers to get product placement
mircea_popescu: if you only buy +ev packages for 10 years and have the bankroll to buy anything, eventually you end up king of the hill
mircea_popescu: this is strictly because apple had at the helm for a decade+ a person who actually understood how worthless advertising is, and just told the horde to get fucked
mircea_popescu: decimation apple has unmatched strengths in marketing and advertising
mircea_popescu: would you say the lack of coca-cola competition for healthy fizz drinks proves no major pharma company is well managed ?
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps it's proof that apple hardware is not well designed.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` suppose tomorrow I decide i want a diff video card.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, executive assistant chicks with 4 feet worth of leg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't a laptop by its definition ALREADY an oddity ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that is exactly the sort of idiocy. it has all the markings.