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mircea_popescu: they'd better fix the fucking ocr rather than expect me to undertake the slightest inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: here's an idea : if they can make cameras capable of reading passing car plates at night without failing,
mircea_popescu: jurov because these are largely contrary requirements i imagine/
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's an old idea. borne principally by the observation that *it would have made sense* for it to be thus optimised.
mircea_popescu: fiat is this outmoded government-captive currency surogate.
mircea_popescu: pankkake sorta like the monthly reports mpex has been mandating since i dunno, 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: how do you call the special large glass bottles you move must in ?
mircea_popescu: well since we're doing this entire "let's teach mp vintnery terms in english as if the english speaking world even makes wine",
mircea_popescu: to which currently spoken romanian is pretty much the best extant reflection.
mircea_popescu: "life sucks, how do we kill ourselves". and it does include both considerations.
mircea_popescu: ahah! so my lawyer went and picked his vinyard, and so he sent me 20 liters of however you call the pre-wine juice thing.
mircea_popescu: paracetamol is a quite feasible if unpleasant way to do yourself in.
mircea_popescu: but it doesn't get better than "kids" because we don't actually have a clue wtf causes it.
mircea_popescu: random_cat reye's syndrome, kids under 12ish aren't prescribed aspiring if they ahve a fever because of it.
mircea_popescu: aspirin documentedly gives you ulcer, and there are some rare liver failure modes.
mircea_popescu: well lsd in particular is quite lulzy for a schedule i substance
mircea_popescu: standably reticent to risk their livelihood by going against these guidelines."
mircea_popescu: "Though these rules against testing are only DEA "guidelines" (we do not believe they are part of any law or publicly available official policy), representatives of at least one lab we spoke with have been threatened with having their license revoked after participating in research the DEA didn't like. Since DEA licensing is required in order to handle Schedule I substances, labs that work with such chemicals are under
mircea_popescu: .6 is not even a round lol. i don't even know anyone who'd sign for less than about 5mn by now.
mircea_popescu: they're hoping they maybe come up with something. at least it's a known brand that's known for actually doing something.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, perhaps if dudes learned what to say to cleavage then cleavage wouldn't feel the need to abstract itself eh.
mircea_popescu: ya srsly, at this rate assbot is getting banned for spam
mircea_popescu: next time some goof with no history of accomplishment says big things i'd better pay more attention.
mircea_popescu: "OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around the country are more than a walk in the park. They are most likely the start of a new era in America." Jeffrey Sachs
mircea_popescu: well i guess it's a great time to try it out, have him dump the files and we'll figure it out.
mircea_popescu: basically, the entire thing revolves around blender, which has built in support to export as what's needed (cal3d)
mircea_popescu: anyway : the work of the intellect is to make the world intelligible. not necessarily to make it something else. to some degree it could be argued making it something else is proof of not having understood in the first place, which is why technology alone is a hard argument to bring.
mircea_popescu: no, my critique was levelled at the sad pretense at universities the american colleges are.
mircea_popescu: far as anyone can tell, america's contribution to human understanding is some sort of variation of "special-subgroup-studies"
mircea_popescu: Kleeck__ you'll be hard pressed arguing technology is an intellectual pursuit of such central relevance as to excuse the problems tho.
mircea_popescu: yeah, apple is basically the idea that wires are too hard.
mircea_popescu: after all, the objection wasn't that the paint on the cover of times is flaking or anything of the sort.
mircea_popescu: and no, technology is not the premier thing one has in mind when they discuss the intellectual.
mircea_popescu: Kleeck__ if you think microsoft is somehow intellectually relevant we have a problem.
mircea_popescu: i for one am kind of curious what he misunderstood/misraprehended this time to great concern.
mircea_popescu: kleeck_ relevance is the property of a construct of holding interest in a particular context.
mircea_popescu: i mean they never had it, but at least back when they were trying it was funnier.
mircea_popescu: kinda sad to have the americans completely surrender any attempt at intellectual relevance tho.