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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
mircea_popescu: someone patented straight lines in that fuckfest of insanity over there.
mircea_popescu: "The bars are tilted 22.5° to the left, both for stylistic reasons and to avoid Lemelson parallel barcode patent concerns."
mircea_popescu: pankkake wait, you're from the magical land of the minitel aren't you
mircea_popescu: i was keeping this as my personal private chuckle re all the ninnies with the qr codes that revolutionise w/e the fuck
mircea_popescu: unclehowell as far as anyone knows, you're some guy that started talking the moment he joined and what he had to say was some sales angle. this is exactly how to end up on the ignore list of half the chan within five minutes, and on the mocklist of half the rest.
mircea_popescu: pankkake what, the bbss ?! those weren't free, foo. urmom was payin' for it.
mircea_popescu: dja understand by this reading the average fridge is a honeypot ?
mircea_popescu: this works sort-of well, until you end up with things like... i dunno, every show on tv being a honeypot by this approach, as well as every newspaper and most of everything else, cause they damn sure don't work for the advertised/intended purposes.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i suppose his argument is chiefly "what else could it be"
mircea_popescu: this "making things easy" bs is just another name for "painting yourself out of the picture"
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's deeper than that, too. us people wanted a system that'd work without their input. thirty years later... they have it.
mircea_popescu: the modern equivalent of "let's go to war for the love of jesus"
mircea_popescu: except the entire thing is directly the result of political negotiation, as an exchange of power.
mircea_popescu: such bs all this. the whole charade is predicated on supposedly acting on principle
mircea_popescu: "you've not lived until you brought strippers on campus, to parade nude for the benefit of all the stuck up "career" bitchez"
mircea_popescu: no no she has a point, they have a stupid glue thing they use for fake lashes
mircea_popescu: millenials is how women that don't fuck tender reffer to the chicks which are just about ripe.
mircea_popescu: subquestion : did the elctric chair include a buttelectrode ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform forbes has the circulation of mail order catalogues for anal plugs cca 1950, what herding ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'd happen if you replaced the wsj's experts with seventeen magazine's experts for a week
mircea_popescu: it seemed to suddenly add up to a lot more dough than normally.