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mircea_popescu: they get culturally absorbed. the price is complete and total loss of identity.
mircea_popescu: this is important. the defeated tribe does not get to live on through "scanning".
mircea_popescu: so put it in there. but mind what i said : RETELL.
asciilifeform: it isn't in the log until it is.
mircea_popescu: if it's not in the log, the difference is not there.
mircea_popescu: if it's in the logs it gets to live.
mircea_popescu: i'm not scanning fucking accra idols, either. i piss on them instead. they make fine urinals, for a very good reason.
mircea_popescu: unless they come back out from the graves and make books matter again, they get burried with them.
mircea_popescu: they lost. i didn't tell them to lose. they did it all on their own.
mircea_popescu: either retell the books you care about or let them die.
mircea_popescu: either retel the
mircea_popescu: same exact fucking thing with the books : they belong to a defeated people.
mircea_popescu: ie, there, "it's not the job of the state to protect the cultural patrimony OF INDIVIDUALS and their clans ; if those individuals and clans are so degenerate, bankrupt and chlorotioc as to no longer be able to protect their heritage, let the worms havce it. no, not even for comunist metaphisics ; no, the property of x isn't "ours", no x's history isn't "ours". let them uphold it or let it die. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you could wait 10,000 years for it all to get rediscovered but IT'S GONNA END UP IN BOOKS AGAIN
assbot: N-am putea sa avem si noi on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1iSqalr )
assbot: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha si conul Andrei Pippidi. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1iSqaln )
mircea_popescu is in principle opposed to scanning books for the same reason he was against the "preservation of historical buidlings" in http://trilema.com/2009/el-ingenioso-hidalgo-don-quijote-de-la-mancha-si-conul-andrei-pippidi/ (and summarized in http://trilema.com/2009/n-am-putea-sa-avem-si-noi/#selection-49.186-53.326 ) ☟︎
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asciilifeform: sorta like it's the year 1000 again.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like it or not, just about everything worth knowing at present is ONLY on dead tree
mircea_popescu: they shouldn't have been fucking books in the first place.
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:51:29; asciilifeform: 2) NOBODY ought to have to do this twice
mircea_popescu: not "technically" and not "desperate". the word is "in yo' face, foos!" and "you are poor for a reason, and that reason is you suck."
mircea_popescu: the consequences of the derps "revolutionizing" things are always this one and the same. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:29:16; punkman: "A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could technically marry the father of his daughter’s children. This would enable an estate of any size to pass tax-free into the next generation on the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course, the younger man would be free to marry the daughter, with the estate thus secured intact."
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:40:20; copypaste: I am again thoroughly convinced that KickStarter is nothing more than a platform for clueless derps to make money on even more clueless derps
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-11-2015#1321275 << no, that's "america". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: see, libtard camp falling over itself on the score of "who shall profit from this event".
BingoBoingo: The j-school's building is probably in the best location on campus
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lmao, the media is "a mizzou institution" ? << "Top Journalism School"(TM)(R)
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you understand how every urgency is the result of bad design, right ?
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 22:09:41; mircea_popescu: ok, so via plane you get there faster. whatever. what if you're not the sort of infantile imbecile that has to get places fast ?
mircea_popescu: lmao, the media is "a mizzou institution" ?
mircea_popescu: "In a truly weird turn, the Mizzou story now seems to have rotated into a battle between activists and another Mizzou institution: the media."
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mircea_popescu: maybe i want to travel in no less than 1k sqft.
mircea_popescu: sure. but on the speed/size continuum all choices are arbitrary. you don't don a spacesuit to be shot to new york.
BingoBoingo: Boat can have problems too
mircea_popescu: what if what's important is to get there with three women and a library in woprking order, while having your evening port in comfort ?
mircea_popescu: ok, so via plane you get there faster. whatever. what if you're not the sort of infantile imbecile that has to get places fast ? ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 09:12:17; punkman: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-disturbing-truth travel by boat an increasingly attractive proposition
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-11-2015#1321251 << in honesty i never quite understood the "scrap boats" thing in the 30s/40s. or rather, why in the 50s they didn't fix it. ☝︎
thestringpuller: one to gut one for collecting
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asciilifeform: but partly that you don't nuke something that nobody will be making any more of, and which you ~like having~ enough to want to go through the bother of a scan
asciilifeform: i suspect that partly it is a cultural thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually not a single one of my ru scans looks like the result of cutting spine & sheetfed
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> again those tend to be findable in clean scan ALREADY << But yes, reason these are available in clean scan is exactly not fancy "book scannzors" but likely sensible people who know to lop the spine off and just do the sheetfed thing.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and otherwise you're nuking something worth 300-500 usd << For this you want a sewn hardcover to unsew, or a page flipping monkey
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: generally, the books for which this option is attractive are ~already~ on warez << Sure
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that's pretty ingenius. going to tell people that next time someone asks me how to "scan a book"
BingoBoingo: <jurov> btw, bitmonero is going to hardfork, too << Up to twice a year
asciilifeform: and/or being pablum that isn't worth scanning to begin with
asciilifeform: again those tend to be findable in clean scan ALREADY
BingoBoingo: Also for that purpose get the trade paperback of the book.
asciilifeform: (depending on the b00k)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: generally, the books for which this option is attractive are ~already~ on warez
BingoBoingo: <copypaste> I thought it had all the moving parts of a pro one; automatic page turning and so on << Faster still is cutting the spine off of book and using sheet fed scanner
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funkenstein_: maybe not exactly the same but appears to also be related to dynamic linking to whatever happens to be there in openSSL
funkenstein_: is that a repeat of the block 168000 fork?
jurov: btw, bitmonero is going to hardfork, too
mircea_popescu: not yet old enough to own his own goat, something pashtun kid passed with flying colors age 11. but hey, maybe "we" "need" to spend more on "education". clearly it's been doing wonders for them.)
mircea_popescu: (the above is, incidentally, the whole reason and rationale of the diamond ring, and the fact this point is never made in oh-so-edgy and libertarded discussions of the habit plainly indicates for me just how much of women do the incels in question understand, and what miserable family heads they;'d make.
mircea_popescu: even tho they're an advertiser.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the 2nd add is very well done, i wouldn't negrate the author
mircea_popescu: which, in the kind of the sort of woman that doesn't even own her own suit, is precisely how it goes. "real me = motherhood" or some bs.
asciilifeform: ah, and the charity 'could not possibly like my tits,' ergo - genuine ..?
mircea_popescu: "these people don't even know me! IT MUST BE FOR THE REAL ME"
mircea_popescu: "he doesn't love me, he just likes my tits, doesn't count."
mircea_popescu: you don't see how the charity aspect actually strengthens it ?
asciilifeform: or do i just lack the necessary lsd here.
asciilifeform: where is the 'human element' or whatnot
asciilifeform: baby in the bath wants finger, but won't grab the faucet - how does the charity thing work
mircea_popescu: it's there in mythology as well, for the 50% of the heroic population that's battling cunted demons in their head.
mircea_popescu: so, give her this supervaluable unique important trinket that can focus the love and good will of the community for her.
asciilifeform: which ring? the 'one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind'em' ?
mircea_popescu: it's not a practical matter. it's that if you give a woman a token she can fix her grip on, she'll be less anxious and more confident
asciilifeform: and that the moneyed ladies who buy ersatz chocolate in a train station for the cost of its weight in plutonium, ought to pay for this
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the ring works.
asciilifeform: sorta implies that there is this silent mass of downtrodden mill gurlz or somesuch who could have the coveted american dream (tm) Respectable Job, if only she could afford a new skirt...
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mircea_popescu: o was such a great thread. lemme fish it out.
asciilifeform: can't say that i do..
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol, recall the indian kid ? with an idea ? for an app ?
mircea_popescu: who the hell is she ? i have this unshakable impression of knowing the girl
thestringpuller: iirc from terminator that's when we start time traveling?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the libtards will do when they discover the machines actually like their enemies much better than them
thestringpuller: i wonder what I'll learn tomorrow
thestringpuller: today i learned that mircea_popescu listens to destiny's child
asciilifeform: 3 comes with risks though.
asciilifeform: 3) could always just decide that books are for the birds, and that the congo is an acceptable standard of civilization.
asciilifeform: for completeness, and because mircea_popescu is asleep, i will mention the third,
asciilifeform: which is why a proper w4r3z infrastructure is essential. folks will scan if they have some notion that the result will be taken up and live.
asciilifeform: 2) NOBODY ought to have to do this twice ☟︎
asciilifeform: 1) there are NOT so many books worth keeping!
asciilifeform: scanning books is very tedious work, but it is important to remember that:
asciilifeform: today i use a tripod and ordinary digital cam, similar to how old-time spies used 'minox'
asciilifeform: at least not the $15k one i used some years ago