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assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 16:31:44; asciilifeform: (fwiw
the subject has no emotional button push for me, because i don't expect
to last for as long as five seconds under feudalism)
mircea_popescu: the mandatory googles
that drm
the environment "to protect
the user" are exactly
the same notion, coming from
the same place, going
to
the same place.
mircea_popescu: the most obvious problem with it from your planet should be
that it is cosubtantial with IP.
mircea_popescu: "entirely without" is a meaningless conceit of no value of import, which you nevertheless desperately wish
to have because it's a requisite pillar for
the
temple of nonsense you build and apparently invested yourself in.
trinque: where were
their equations?
trinque wonders if asciilifeform
thinks
the Kievan Rus were better off without coming under Mongol administration, because of course
the Mongols were savages.
mircea_popescu: how quickly we forget
that china is
to japan what
the ipad is
to
the blackberry.
mircea_popescu: how quickly we forget
that it was actually japan
that drove
the harpoon into
the great "western" whale.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck do you
think it's
the samurai rather
than
the peasant doing poetry ?
mircea_popescu: anyone can be boole in
this sense, just close your eyes.
mircea_popescu: that it sometimes works is a case-by-case
type of argument, useless when one
tries
to argue class.
mircea_popescu: "something other
than immediately +ev practicalities" is
the definition of insanity.
mircea_popescu: (in which case -
the harem is really
the perfect solution. mother-aged children are pretty uch
the only human beings i ever knew
to benefit from socialism. so make
the harem, let
the women be sisters, let society function.)
mircea_popescu: funny how
this works, makes me
thing socialism is a constant, like
the water
table.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : incas were prolly
the most socialist
tards alive, because
they managed
to split up,
the inca owned everything.
trinque: you say "something should've been done!" in response
to boolean algebra sitting
there
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:41:44; mircea_popescu:
the russians got steel plants faster with stalin
then
they'd have without.
mircea_popescu: their fucking library!
they made it,
they burned it! what's it
to you ?
mircea_popescu: so
then what calamity ? "historical calamity" or "they got what
they had coming", exactly
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what cultured means
to you, but
there's something definitely wrong with
the archeologist who goes
to
the local court
to file a restraining order against
this one long extinct
tribe for having broken all
the pots of
this other one.
trinque: the problem of having leaders with nothing exciting enough
to do
that it requires new science is a primary problem from which other
terrible problems flow
trinque: so what, we needed a boolean algebra stalin
to speed
that up at
the expense of someting else?
trinque: when a man has a problem requiring it, it will have a price in
that world
trinque: lol, management of a large business is no sort of "one
thing"
trinque: the proof is in
the dope pudding.
trinque: I
think you overlook
the question of what kind of a mind is required
to manage
these vast enterprises
trinque: "peddling dope" such
that one has a surplus from
the dope is
the exact first step
towards having any
time
to do
these higher minded "honorable"
tasks or whatever
trinque: are
there different classes of acts of futility, some of
them being worthwhile?
mircea_popescu: the only people who did something of
themselves were
the ones who didn't.
mircea_popescu: simple heuristic : nobody who paid his
taxes for 1989 ever had any money, nor did his children have a chance
that was in any way connected
to
them. black fucking holes of dumb.
mircea_popescu: depends on what "folks like me" means. if it means, folks who stubbornly live in moscow and work for
the state, you're right.
mircea_popescu: and, again,
the most important predictor for
the effects of digestion was...
mircea_popescu: survival of soviet families depended on HOW connected
they were, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: the important point in
that comparison is
that her
transition is NOT going
to be managed by her
mircea_popescu: you understand ?
tools have
their mass, which means microscope is perfectly usable hammer.
mircea_popescu: every object has other assets.
THIS is what it means
to be an object.
mircea_popescu: her : "so how
the fuck would i manage my
transition!111!"
mircea_popescu: her : "and besides,
that webcam site was not even in russian"
mircea_popescu: her : "even if you are right about where
this shit's headed, i would not last five seconds"
mircea_popescu: so
the year is 1988.
the persons are a well connected mobster and a youthful rose. she is in a
terminal year at university, studying
to be a soviet state company accountant. he just came back from dubai.
mircea_popescu: let's work an example with sluts, easier
to
take women as objects
than yourself as an object.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i did not say 'wot is useless' but
that i in particular do not - as demonstrated experimentally not long ago - command particularly much market value
there. <<
the idea is not
that you command anything.
the conversion from postmodern derp
to feudal subject is not done under
the control of
the derp.