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danielpbarron: i
too must use a winbl0ws machine at work, and
the password is on a post-it note stuck
to
the monitor, as is usually
the custom with machines of
this nature
PeterL: So I have
to use Winblows at work.
The most annoying
thing is
the
tendency of programs
to steal focus at wierd
times. Like, I start a program, see it is going
to
take a minute
to load, switch
to my other program and sign in, but wait
the first stole
the focus and now my password is sitting
there in plaintext. Bleh.
mircea_popescu: ontent
to eat native grass. And never mind
that
there likely were more bison produced naturally on
the Great Plains before farming
than all of beef farming raises in
the same area
today."
mircea_popescu: quote of interest, "The Dust Bowl was no accident of nature. A functioning grassland prairie produces more biomass each year
than does even
the most
technologically advanced wheat field.
The problem is, it's mostly a form of grass and grass roots
that humans can't eat. So we replace
the prairie with our own preferred grass, wheat. Never mind
that we feed most of our grain
to livestock, and
that livestock is perfectly c
mircea_popescu: the amplitude of pretense is
to be measured at
the muzzle of
the pretender,
tho.
mircea_popescu: well sure, for as long as a usg-pretense exists
to keep bankrolling everyone's pretense, everyone's gonna keep on pretending.
mircea_popescu: im sure
they're
trying
to stuff
the bill into SOMETHING. an acquisition of some sort, vc capital somewhere, a credit card balance movement
to a larger credit card. it hasta.
mircea_popescu: (btw, it is also customary for banks
to continue servicing abandoned bank accounts. for
the same reasons as
the grass cuttings -
they figure
they got a claim
to A
THING and sooner or later will make good on it. with interest.)
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 04:10:54; asciilifeform: 'In
the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
mircea_popescu: the us got a random guy from kenya
to pretend like he's a law professor ; anhd some random derp from pakistan
to pretend he's a district attorney.
mircea_popescu: you might find
that most of
the windows with lights in
them are painted cardboard in
the shape of a window with a light in it.
mircea_popescu: an exercise not unlike explaining why "the green stays left in
the mandelbrot set for as long as it does"
mircea_popescu is skeptical. and will continue
to be so, because
time
ticks behind him. in a decade i'll pretend
that not only am i right now, but was right all along : no better stock in
that place.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:55:56; mircea_popescu:
there isn't a better stock in
the us.
mircea_popescu: that "oh,
they were fired via email ? did
they check make sure it's not fake ?"
thing still has me lolling.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:55:24; punkman: opensource
to share with
the neighbors
https://github.com/whitepacket/ZIB-Trojan "Replace Bitcoin addresses in clipboard with yours." "Undetectable ad-fraud smart viewer" "automated system for handling [Bitcoin] payments, providing bot-net binaries, and creating bot-net IRC channels."
mircea_popescu:
http://trilema.com/2011/entypus/ << i also had one of
those large wasps
that build
their nests out of chjewed sand/clay (the prev ones were "paper wasps", build
the nest out of a sort of paper made out of chewed wood) and fill
them with spiders
they caught and paralyzed, with added egg.
punkman: opensource
to share with
the neighbors
https://github.com/whitepacket/ZIB-Trojan "Replace Bitcoin addresses in clipboard with yours." "Undetectable ad-fraud smart viewer" "automated system for handling [Bitcoin] payments, providing bot-net binaries, and creating bot-net IRC channels."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: monsanto should ge au wasps
to build houses in new mexico.
mircea_popescu: cazalla
this is romania. we have 100 lb women and
tiny polen wasps here.
mircea_popescu: y're not here
to state
their oppinions, eat doritos or drink bear.
They're here
to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until
they fall over."
mircea_popescu: "Teh romanians entertain
the mistaken view
that one can't die of hunger. One can. Not only can, will. A certain count of Romanians (as large as necessary) will die of hunger, in
the closer or more distant future, because otherwise
the populace does not seem capable
to comprehend
that
the only reason
Trompi dropped
them in
the world is so
they work.
They're not here
to enjoy
themselves,
they're not here
to be happy,
the
assbot: What is believed
to be
the world's biggest wasp nest has been found in northern
Tasmania - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ... (
http://bit.ly/1KVnHSo )
punkman: (for some kinds of autofocus at least, like
the ones
that shine an IR light)
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you count such procedures as manual
then yes.
punkman: there is nothing for autofocus
to
target when
the subject is very close
to
the lens
mircea_popescu: (sane = not expect it
to succeed, understand how it
tries.)
mircea_popescu: (digital cam autofocus
thing is NOT able
to resolve
the n/p problem of "correct focus". it just
tries. and fails, predictably, after missing some optimums)
mircea_popescu: but it's more
to do with
the fact
that i understand how
the fucking focus
thing works and just
time it in my head.
mircea_popescu: and
there's
this cloud of little 2mm guys jumping from where yo ustep
mircea_popescu: one of
the best parts of cutting grass in like may/june was, after you cut it,
the next day or w/e, you go for a stroll