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gabriel_laddel: decimation: lol if the US suddenly disappeared Israel would destroy its enemies << this is sorta the impression that I currently have.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: exactly why it should be part of the "promised land" missive.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm not living among my own kind as it stands.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: absolutely correct. should be something more along the lines of "unemployment rate for skilled programmers".
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: "largely confined to an enclave of his own kind" how horrible....
gabriel_laddel: PeterL: its just a request, he has 0 obligation to follow up on it.
gabriel_laddel: r locations, military prowess, unemployment rates / economic status, known quantities of natural resources, criminal character, ease of purchasing land, electricity etc. & interesting historical tidbits.
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: consider this a request for a qntra article entitled "the promised land" with exit points: Russia, Israel, Argentina & China weighing the relative tradeoffs of each with the angle that the US is going to fail. things I'm interested in knowing about each territory: character of the rule of law, taxes, status of the tech scene, character of the gov., description of major cities, # of nuclear reactors and thei
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: hmmm. I don't know much about the situation there and will refrain from commenting on it.
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: really? because now they can't kill irritating brown people outright?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: oh, lol. old fat guys can be perfectly good programmers.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: and what do you mean by cannon fodder - 130k/yr slave?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: really now. you're unusable in, e.g., Israel?
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: everything I've got to my name fits in two bags. I understand that ascii can't leave because of equipment, but that isn't the situation for most people.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: right. so what I'm driving at is that one must make that destination himself.
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: come on. you're telling me that you can't set out for the promised land with 50k cash in your back pocket and be able to figure out some way to a) have bitcoin in the future and b) make enough USD now to live on?
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: You don't have to give up USD immediately if you leave the US.
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: this is however, a good thing. it will leave out the
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: of course it isn't easy. building Israel into somewhere you might actually want to live wasn't easy.
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: dosen't matter really. have you met any American cattle? when the country fails they'll find themselves rejected everywhere / killed outright.
gabriel_laddel: "It's a shame that taxpayers have to be on the hook for the criminal actions of their "servants" but it's still good when citizens let police know that there will be some consequences for rights violations."
gabriel_laddel: "no, baaah, not my laambs!" "I paid my baaah taxes!" *bleating continues*
gabriel_laddel: "noooo mr. ss man, I was baaaah, a good baaah bah baaah citizen baaaah baaah"
gabriel_laddel: "before 'the sheeple wake'" hmmm... I'm sorta under the impression that they're not ever going to wake. the thing with sheep is that they get tend to get slaughtered. after 5-10 years of living the life of American cattle the brain starts to deteriorate from lack of use. threaten them an all you get is pathetic bleating.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: nah, all over the place. But I only ever compute in bed while sitting.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: okay, so the monitor folds down with a usb keyboard in some sort of rack attached to it.
gabriel_laddel: re in bed computing. is there something wrong with a bluetooth keyboard on the lap and a monitor that folds onto the ceiling?
gabriel_laddel: (re: Threaded Emacs, I've already walked that road - don't waste your time. Not going to happen and won't fix the underlying issues with Emacs anyways.)
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: does midnight commander have anything over dired?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: while we're on the subject, is there anything you consider absolutely essential for computing outside of CL+SLIME?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: if you've information contradicting the stackoverflow question in question please say so. I'm in the middle of building a non-retarted linux distribution and would like to have Emacs as battle ready as possible by default.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: the never ending quest for a bed-ready computer?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm rather curious as to why you're fixing (for some value of that word - more akin to fixing up a corpse before burial, w/e) up a openbsd box when you've got your own gentoo 'fork'?
gabriel_laddel: does anyone with experience with either gentoo or funtoo care to share their impression(s) of the projects? I'm interested in which group of devs is more intelligent, sane, etc.
gabriel_laddel: yeah, I know. there must be a table avalible through some hack though, ie the master 'document' javascript object.
gabriel_laddel: no more fucking with browser versions, just abstract over one version in particular and never again upgrade.
gabriel_laddel: bounce: I'm going to do this fucker once and for all and be done with it.
gabriel_laddel: ged into the desired table via regexps, pointers would be greatly appreciated. I'll post the finished output of this somewhere permanent to make it worth your time. I'd like to call these functions while the program is running btw (via mozrepl). The format of the table I would like to generate:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/144251/raw gabriel_laddel: bounce: I'm looking for a canonical reference for the entire API exposed by mozilla firefox (I realize there are two, JS and the XUL. I'd like both). I'm looking through the firefox extension documentation, but frankly, they're shit (eg, I want to open a new tab, where is the page describing this function call? not anywhere in the search!). If someone familiar with the sources knew of a few files that could be massa
gabriel_laddel: anyone here experienced with hacking firefox / conkeror?
gabriel_laddel: ;; later tell nubbins I'm not familiar with the btc codebase, but is there any reason not to include diffs from 5.3 to n.m in the appendix?
gabriel_laddel: decimation: It's by far the best I've found on UNIX. I've no LispM experiences and so can only imagine.
gabriel_laddel: "to develop a platform that *we believe* is secure, robust and stable..."
gabriel_laddel: ;; rate xinxi -2 doesn't understand that he doesn't understand English, or is fraudster/incompetent
gabriel_laddel: mats_cd03: RagnarDanneskjol: oh, the fuzzy border between fraud and incompetence.
gabriel_laddel: 17:40:23xinxi:I read your comments carefully and have revised the site according to them. << tbh, I got bored within the first 1-2 minutes of browsing around. you probably want to pay someone who knows about copy, marketing etc. to fix it.
gabriel_laddel: 16:18:34xinxi:is gabriel_laddel here? << people generally read the logs, and there is a feature for gribble known as ";; later"
gabriel_laddel: xinxi: if you don't mind my asking, where did you get your phd from, what is your favorite programming language(s) and why?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: where is that quote from? "Fuck yes we can...."
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the paper isn't arguring "better" simply that iq holds for races across environments.