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ascii_field: by - supposedly - itself. but this is where we go back to 'i don't have a public key for it, so what, if anything, is to be taken
as 'it said' is a ???.'
mircea_popescu:
as far
as i can see the only salient points re isis are that a) has own agency ; b) percepibly unalligned to usg.
ascii_field: but isis is being advertised
as a conquering thing in the ancient sense. with territory held, administered, taxed
ascii_field: except that buried in all of these are actual questions of fact that have - somewhere - answers. such
as 'does this army fully support itself on plunder, or needs external supply, and if so, from where'
ascii_field: 'muppet' is to be understood
as a kind of quasi-autonomous golem.
BingoBoingo: PeterL: But at least for next year we've already signed a 3-star tight end and our next great white hope at quarterback is getting some game time this year
as a true freshman
PeterL: grabby receivers
as in they catch all sorts of things?
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:23:51; mircea_popescu: "To get Heaviside away from Newton Abbot, his brother Charles arranged for him to live with his sister-in-law, Mary Way, at her home in Devon. Since Mary lived alone, having the eccentric Heaviside live upstairs from her seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, things got even more bizarre at that point. Heaviside insisted on treating Mary
as a slave despite her being the owner of the house. Not
PeterL: I don't think a win over a FCS school should count on the record (but a loss should count
as 2)
mircea_popescu: "Likewise, barter is a very awkward way of doing business, especially when the other party to a deal is across the world. That’s why gold has acted
as the medium of exchange for 5000 years or so and why gold or a gold-backed paper certificate will eventually replace all the fiat money that exists today."
mircea_popescu: the "future of bitcoin" will be bitcoin, and it will be pointedly NOT "
as anonymous and private"
as a made-for-usg fake anon/privacy hangout. at the very least for
as long
as i'm around.
mircea_popescu: at the very least the question
as to WHY the phenomena observable take place is left entirely to the viewer. to my mind this disqualifies it.
mike_c: I don't think it's amazing
as a film, but I've seen it a few times.
mircea_popescu: the sane "this is alien therefore must investigate" is rare enough to be usable
as a selection heuristic.
mircea_popescu: et — reinforced by the revised bankruptcy laws that make it impossible to ever write-off this sort of debt. When will they get political about it? Their debt loads will disfigure their lives
as surely
as a tour of duty in Vietnam would have forty years ago. Perhaps Siri has not informed them about this."
mircea_popescu: little thought is given to "what did the daughter go there
AS ?"
mircea_popescu: (and yes is what i mean by savage/monkey, and no it's not an easy point to grok, and yes i did have this
as a term paper in my naked girly school once and so sure, imagine myself with the whiprifle looking down on your efforts if it helps)
mircea_popescu: he apparently also has no idea that he looks to people who actually know about the world
as a retired and perhaps scandalous antrhopologist of the "physical" ilk.
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked
as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally
as a staff writer forRolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He
mircea_popescu: would you not say the attempt to treat people
as things has gone far enough ?
cazalla: punkman, ya think
as much
as a single person uses that facebook pgp?
mircea_popescu: “I did a U-urn and screeched wheels and they began firing handguns at us—boom, boom, boom! I thought we would die, but their fire discipline is
as poor
as their manners.
mircea_popescu: (i do not see any lack of continuity in soviet degeneracy
as compared to pre-soviet, but then again that's just me._
phf: well, the way i see it, pre-soviets my family had a handful of hotels and titles with corresponding land, there's not much pie growing possible, it's either i who own them, or some bloke in the ru pipeline hierarchy, and
as it stands it's not me. so i'm only parodying soviet terminology with "impaired" talk
mircea_popescu: (hey, is my inclination to reuse qualify me
as a noob lisp-er ?)
phf: hmm, i see the point
as it applies to mayakovsky. attempted to answer, had some promise, but then chocked. but i guess when it comes down to it, it's not so much that i see intrinsic value in art, it's that i'm claiming that shalamov is art. but then not being a wealthy patron, that's irrelevant. qed?
phf: imho the poetry of soviet union was atrocious), so i see pre-stalin
as last patrons
phf: why, no. i'm thinking of, say, malevich's kvadrat, joyce's ulysses, bely's leningrad, all essentially
as being the final point to a long conversation. the conversation might be valueless, but some wealthy people were watching and periodically clapping. stalin patronises essentially clean slate, in fact aggressively disinterested in the old conversation. but i guess i do see more value in pre-stalin art then i do in stalin's (mostly because
phf: there was a line of patrons that all wanted same stuff but improved, fresh ideas rooted in the old ideas, or at least they accepted that
as art. stalin did a sharp break with that, so maybe pre-stalin they were last patrons of the same lineage?
mircea_popescu: (i have never seen a toilet in the arab world, be it poor
as fuck rural or not, that didn't have a water jet for your ass.)
mircea_popescu: no more wealthy people, no more art
as a possibility, is the proposition.
mircea_popescu: " was precisely funny
as long
as a wealthy patron was laughing"
phf: d get paid for it", but then repeated ad nauseam
as if the original lack of art was art itself by people who have no skills or talents and later gavins, like warhol for general consumption. but it can't be applied, because there's nothing to apply there.
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't think dadaism can be applied. the original joke seemed to be that you can pretend like you do art, have all the trappings of artists with no actual art involved, and it was precisely funny
as long
as a wealthy patron was laughing. it's not funny anymore because the joke was a response to malevich and joice, kind of like "if there's nothing else left to do it, let's just have artists pretend like they are doing art an
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:48:54; ascii_field: (what commercial chip do you know of that sells
as a ~range~ of possible performance ??!!)
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:41:24; ascii_field: apparently they have a bastardized wot
as well.
mircea_popescu: this incidentally also goes for socialism, which yes, inasmuch
as it's "the political ideology of the stupid" is indistinguishable from applied dadaism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that one is not the same
as other is what happens to be true.
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 01:56:31; mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is what they mean when they discuss self-love
as a sin. this is it. the delusional notion that you're good and valuable
as you are will fuck you up every time you run into something that puts your worthless shitpersona in perspective. because you won't be able to go on knees properly for lack of practice.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 18:16:12; ascii_field: phun phakt: it is not a proven fact that the difficulty of the rsa problem
as such is equivalent to that of factoring.
mircea_popescu: rly, "blockchain networks", go paint your asshole with lipstick, it's about
as obvious.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is what they mean when they discuss self-love
as a sin. this is it. the delusional notion that you're good and valuable
as you are will fuck you up every time you run into something that puts your worthless shitpersona in perspective. because you won't be able to go on knees properly for lack of practice.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 16:54:58; ascii_field: 'galaxy, star, planet, moon, comet' << glorious. they retired the naval org chart (before that, prior to mr mold selling out to usg, it was feudal titles of nobility -
as in my former 'dukedom')
mircea_popescu: because he might just
as well run the jail like his own personal whorehouse.
trinque: I don't know that it's anything
as centrally organized
as Orwell's thing
mircea_popescu: it's a sort of misery that masquerades
as "good enough".
pete_dushenski: just checked local classifieds, whole box with 'opteron' can be had for
as little
as $150 still
cazalla: i guess handball is
as ambiguous
as football the world over then
cazalla: no ace king queen jack dunce then i guess
as we did here
mircea_popescu:
as seen in amato's liceale. "Ve ho fregato perche non le porto!"
trinque: this is what I thought badminton was for
as well; something absurd to do while drinking socially
mircea_popescu:
as far
as anyone could imagine, russia was going the way of ex euro colonies in africa.
phf: i've not seen a chinese export, until the first wave of chelnok came back with bag full of stuff from turkey (traded
as i recently discovered for priceless pre-soviet antiques for pennies)
phf: we actually did have fuse at some point. one of the kids had one of those "engineer" fathers, who, i remember gave us, of note, soviet spectrum knockoff, rc plane engines of various sizes. he's also the one who converted part of forest glade into a "proper" badminton field, and then, with his wife
as a partner, proceeded to regularly slaughter us in regular tournament matches
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for bomb of equal effectivity
as fuel bomb, made out of your own choice of nuclear.
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort that went into these machines far outweighs what you might get in a modern computer, and that’s something i don’t think the world will ever see again" << he's wrong, fwiw. the amount of competent work that went into art
as the empire got fucked in the ass exceeded the amount before.
mircea_popescu: the whole reason we EVEN THINK of software
as user-serviceable is this.
mircea_popescu: " there was also a demand for systems that could be easily introspected, debugged, and changed by individual engineers, which was something mainframes couldn’t easily do
as one mistake by one engineer could bring down a system serving dozens" <<< since we're doing the entire underappreciated point thing.
mircea_popescu: hint : the "expectations" about "what the internet is" which were build in the 90s by people about
as informed or inclined to think
as the current "blockchain technologies" crowd, are predicated on a MAXIMAL EXTENSION of an optimal ideal nelsonian network.