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pete_dushenski: what are
the chances
that democracy doesn't produce
the best results ? but rather
the results
that favour usg interests ? hm. i wonder.
pete_dushenski: go figure
the one political leader in iran who doesn't have
to worry about re-elections has
the most considered perspective.
pete_dushenski: ""Negotiations with
the United States open gates
to
their economic, cultural, political and security influence. Even during
the nuclear negotiations
they
tried
to harm our national interests.," Khamenei was quoted as saying on his website.""
pete_dushenski: because what's
to negotiate with ? usg is a nebulous metastatic blob with no end and no beginning.
trying
to have a conversation with it is like
talking
to a
tree and expecting
the forest
to play along.
pete_dushenski: "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and
the United States" << because not even iran will negotiate with
terrorists.
ascii_field: in
turn, no one bothers
to develop an actual driver because 'dontcha know, ubuntu is linux and
there is a linux driver'
ascii_field: (functions only if you use
the ubuntu kernels and never attempt
to so much as rebuild)
ascii_field: because it enables a host of sc4mz0rz
to peddle 'linux-compatible!!1!!!11' crud
that is entirely not
ascii_field: incidentally,
the very existence of 'ubuntu' is a blight.
ascii_field: this is (or was) afaik
the most expensive portable sold, and it is ~still~ a
turd
punkman: why doesn't
the external display work?
ascii_field: most of all for
there being no (afaik) alternative
to it
ascii_field: i cannot even begin
to describe how much i hate
this
thing
ascii_field has been
trying and failing
to get external lcd working on a w540 for >year now
pete_dushenski: $cad 1 = $usd 0.66 at
the
time, was parity five years ago, now back
to 0.75
punkman: how much was
the gameboy around
then?
pete_dushenski: ah scratch
that 40 guesstimate :
the 1996 model msrp'd for 2079 yen, $usd 15.99. so probably closer
to $cad 20.
pete_dushenski: global phenomenon eh. i don't
think
they were exactly cheap either. maybe $cad 40 ? in ~1997 money ?
pete_dushenski: jurov: you ever play
tamagotchi ? i
think i was
the only kid in my class who didn't. maybe one other.
jurov: convert your dog
to
tamagotchi!!11(r)(tm)
pete_dushenski doesn't, ftr,
think alf is anything like a 'crank' but
that he's easily
the foremost expert on
those who are
pete_dushenski: he'll sense
things
that no person ever could, and have
the ability
to articulate it !
pete_dushenski: 'alf dog' can
truly be man's best friend : always keeping him on his
toes, alert, aware of
the faintest rustles in
the leaves
pete_dushenski: it'll obviously
talk, mostly pessimistic/crank whispering, fomenting rumours from across
the land
pete_dushenski: hell, when eulora gets animals,
this beast should be
there !
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure
the bar is lower for dogs, where's
the alf dog ? not meeting a stand-out example allows
the others
to enjoy
their mediocre unexceptionalism
pete_dushenski: jurov: looks like amethyst. /me recalls
traveling across canada in my early youth, stopping at amethyst mines, being fascinated by
the colour and size of
the formations
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski im not so sure of
the entire moulding
thing. i
think i met more competent dogs
than competent humans in my life, mostly because
the bar so much lower for dog. and it's self-moulding really, just as long as you don't get in
th way
too much.
mircea_popescu: and
THEY KNEW it was fucking stupid, which is why
they put
that ground copper on it or w/e it is.
mike_c: but still, just put your goddamn pants on so we can go
to
the park.
☟︎ mike_c: Although
there is
that weird feeling of frustration and pride when your stubborn
two year old will not do what you want, but you realize
that's because he is a lot like you.
mike_c: mhm. let's circle back on
that when your newborn gets a personality :)
pete_dushenski: mike_c: more easily
than people, yes. but people
too !
mike_c: you can
train a dog
to do what you
tell it.
pete_dushenski: not
that
the unconditional love
thing probably doesn't hold some appeal
pete_dushenski: i mean, if you're going
to put
that much work into a lump of flesh, from infancy on upwards, why not at least mould it in your own image ?
mircea_popescu: beats wood off
the authentic cross and holy water from
the whatever.
pete_dushenski: "For just $19.99, ShipFoliage.com will send you a few leaves harvested from
the colorful forest floors of Vermont and New Hampshire. “Each leaf is carefully picked and color balanced in a bundle of
three,”
the website reads." << so $6.66 for a generic leaf ?? what was
that about money not growing on
trees ?
mike_c: I'm looking forward
to Eulora land ownership.
mircea_popescu recalls many winters ago going
through books, discovering $680 express charge.
turns out
that if you want nyc service "within
three days" you gotta pay like a week's wages. otherwise,
the waiting list's 5 weeks long.
mike_c: hehe, don't lose
that guy's number. I bet a good contractor is almost as hard
to find down
there as it is up here.
mircea_popescu: stories from
the deep, for my good friends in nyc (paging mike_c ) : plumer called yest ; said he's gonna show up
today between noon and 3. showed up at 1. fixed
thing with his own parts, half hour labour, certified sort of
task.
the bill ? ~120.
punkman: "Like
the other packages,
this one included a circled hand and
the words, also written in gold Sharpie: “See, not so short!” I sent
the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, “Actually, quite short.” Which I can only assume gave him fits."
punkman: "There is always a photo of him—generally a
tear sheet from a magazine. On all of
them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort
to highlight
the length of his fingers."
punkman: "Just
to drive him a little bit crazy, I
took
to referring
to him as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in
the pages of Spy magazine.
That was more
than a quarter of a century ago.
To
this day, I receive
the occasional envelope from
Trump."
assbot: Is
the Yeti Real? Researcher Finds Himalayan Yeti “Genetically Identical”
to Ancient Polar Bear : Conscious Life News ... (
http://bit.ly/1FTiF8Y )
mircea_popescu: it's a
typical surface-and-radius problem, and we for some reason fell on
the lucky side of it.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:54:48; punkman: "We
try a chest X-ray,
turning up
the power
to
the maximum setting. All we see is white:
The patient’s body is just
too
thick
to allow standard X-rays
to penetrate
to
the bones; he is a walking lead shield."
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:35:36; phf: known as блат in russian,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though
that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i
think it basically applies
to overall structure of society. when shit hits
the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich,
this is such and such..."
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:23:01; phf: in su we were
taught a different strategy, since "having evidence" is
top kek, know who
to call if
things go bad. if you had no one
to call, you were shit out of luck
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:28:13;
trinque: most of my work involves
the device in my lap currently, don't need
tons of space
mircea_popescu: they'll get all
the effort underway for a "sting operation", easy 100k worth,
then you can just point and laugh at
them.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:01:20; phf: you should
try buying some weed from him
mircea_popescu: this makes it a better
thing
to do
than any alternative, for
the guy in question.
mircea_popescu: anyway, inplainer
terms :
the point of rolly by some schmuck's house is
that you get
to be in
the car, and
the clock is
ticking, and you almost certainly won't get shot.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:45:57; BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> why bother ? << Because
they know black people don't live hear, and
they want me
to call local PD because
they anticipate racism.
mircea_popescu: dude, if
they had
the fucking balls
to be effectual
they wouldn't be
themselves, now would
they.
mircea_popescu: anwyay,
the ba log is really nothing other
than properly kept minutes.
mircea_popescu: she actually does have a point,
tho im sure she made a mess of it. or maybe not.