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mircea_popescu: i was going to say something with urmom in it but nothing good came to mind.
mircea_popescu: i mean... you didn't even know they existed before the whole kuru incident.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, the vast majority of complexity resources in living organisms are dedicated to immunity. which is why the damned things work "in most cases"
mircea_popescu: they'd be a lot scarier if they hadn't been around for practically ever with absolutely no ill effect.
mircea_popescu: mebbe i didn't pay enough attention, but it seems diff classes of things
mircea_popescu: whereas the induc thing was just able to infect at compile time
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's hw they kill cows, at least afaik. the concussion bold thing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo inasmuch as the brain itself can't feel pain, sectioning of the spinal chord is pretty much it. hence the guillotine and such. probably the best solution there is, but derps don't like it because it's bloody
mircea_popescu: you know, the self-perpetuating compiler thing still hasn't been shown in the wild
mircea_popescu: anyway, they've got cameras everywhere, now hooking up the fridge and the thermostat, i'm looking forward to the netware hitachi wands
mircea_popescu: well definitely the safest fridge is one that... you know, just fridges.
mircea_popescu: need. people do things just because things can be done these days.
mircea_popescu: possibly cause you were going by trilema header pics which are mostly me in my 20s ?
mircea_popescu: it makes sense if you think about it, people are but temporary. words are forever.
mircea_popescu: deego because we'd rather shit on people than shit on words.
mircea_popescu: whatever you do you'll have wasted your time at that age.
mircea_popescu: it's what i do / have been doing professionally. i'm a strategic advisor, and one of the best. what i do is i sit down with boards/ceo teams and guess the future for them.
mircea_popescu: dilution is not the situation where there being insufficient prime rib to go around some people have to eat burger patties.
mircea_popescu: yeah, as if anyone could possibly confuse derpcoin for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: it's bad enough we get the collateral damage of unclehowells showing up here with their idiocy cause they saw somewhere the girl mentioning this to someone else. let the kids follow konye, yo. it's best for everyone.
mircea_popescu: the world works by fucktards following britney and obama around, not by them pestering the actual technocracy.
mircea_popescu: you don't want the stupid poor focused on important stuff.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is officially under the protection of the gods, it's unseemly, this.
mircea_popescu: i tell you honestly, i could not have paid for things to work out better.
mircea_popescu: <diametric> i wonder if I can make money body scanning people and printing them into onto cocks that I can cast with food safe silicone and make edible dickheads.
mircea_popescu: i had people fighting with my preconceived notions for months before i actually gave the thing a look
mircea_popescu: diametric yeah, they reminded me of all the fiat-bitcoin stuff going on in the 2000s
mircea_popescu: i had totally forgotten just how damned good cuecat is.
mircea_popescu: aled their name, email address, age range, gender and zip code. This was not a breach of the main user database itself, but a flat text file used only for reporting purposes that was generated by ColdFusion code that was saved on a publicly available portion of the Digital Convergence web server.
mircea_popescu: In September 2000, security watchdog website Securitywatch.com notified Digital Convergence of a security vulnerability on the Digital Convergence website that exposed private information about CueCat users.[14] Digital Convergence immediately shut down that part of their website, and their investigation concluded that approximately 140,000 CueCat users who had registered their CueCat were exposed to a breach that reve
mircea_popescu: yes, well, that's unfortunate. i suppose people that wish to starve will starve.
mircea_popescu: clearly that state does not fully understand its inferior position to businesses.
mircea_popescu: i certainly can't see how anyone'd accept to run his business in france.
mircea_popescu: who owns the company, the shareholders or the french republic ?
mircea_popescu: « Aucune décision de l’assemblée générale ne peut avoir pour effet d’éteindre une action en responsabilité contre les administrateurs ou contre le directeur général pour faute commise dans l’accomplissement de leur mandat. »
mircea_popescu: ok, i've not had so much fun since reading the forum digest this morn
mircea_popescu: ". First off, marketing departments in big companies are under-budgeted, under-staffed, and under-appreciated. " bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: ahaha the guy is so close to sprouting a mpoe-pr line, and yet he somehow just... can't.
mircea_popescu: "the ones that the booth babes had no trouble attracting were often low-level, overconfident IT nubs — the guys that were already always first at the hosted bars and whose highlight for the quarter was being authorized to travel for the event. They had neither the authority nor the budget that made them ideal prospects for our sales teams. All these guys do is lower your conversion from lead to opp and lower your ROI
mircea_popescu: derp. some retarded 20something that can't hold anyone occupied for five minutes is in no sense of the word a "babe".
mircea_popescu: "Many times I observed that while my team was busy in demos with other prospects, the booth babes were unable to hold the interest of these execs for the extra five minutes that I needed to get a person from our team to engage. I had no such trouble with the other ladies since I had requested that specific soft skill."
mircea_popescu: in short, it takes skill, skill which random muppets in the freakshow do not have. big whoop. don't blame the hammer for the bumps on your head.
mircea_popescu: and you don't use them to "sell", you use them to project an image.
mircea_popescu: yes well, you can't go to the car race in a box with wheels glued on and then decide "cars are stupid"
mircea_popescu: they're fucking up the babeness and then pretending "it dun work".
mircea_popescu: if i ever go to the ces my booth babes will be topless
mircea_popescu: (Protip: It’s frowned upon when you actually put “booth babes” as line item in your budget).
mircea_popescu: something between conversion and embezzlement i guess.
mircea_popescu: "En France, l'abus de biens sociaux est un délit qui consiste, pour un dirigeant de société commerciale , à utiliser en connaissance de cause les biens, le crédit, les pouvoirs ou les voix de la société à des fins personnelles, directes ou indirectes." Prescription3 ans CompétenceTrib. correctionnel
mircea_popescu: " CueCats were also bulk mailed (unsolicited) to certain mailing lists, such as subscribers of technology magazines Forbes and Wired."
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I'd just buy myself things "for the company" << Well Mr. Ipswitch since everyone of my expenses are obviously for a legitimate business purpose. ( Elaine turns on water pic to water plants.)
mircea_popescu: there are some trilkema articles but they be in romanian as this is pre-change
mircea_popescu: it's possible there's some stuff in the early posts of mpoe-pr
mircea_popescu: pankkake same old story, the same derpage from new derps. the derps last three months on average, but their derpage is immortal.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1> because all the bad luck was used up on labcoin, actm will be a huge success <<< bwahahaha