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thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: are you talking about the berkleydb thing?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu, maybe a poster campaign with a bit of cheekiness this time
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:26:21; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: destroying the "industrial" paradigm << expand on this. recall also the thread where we discussed how pashtun blacksmiths can make kalash, yes they can, not not one of them can make a single 7.62x39 round from brass scrap
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: can't find the article which talks about kids in US being analagous to growing corn
trinque: +
mircea_popescu | <trinque>
http://deedbot.org/ << there be deeds << cool. why are some repeated ? << test values; I published bundles with the same messages a few times while working
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: what else to do ? << learn to concentrate better instead of being a fucking child?
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: people just hang around << i find this is because people lack focus during the meeting. You stay on topic until someone mentions something off topic. "Blah blah blha pink floyd" "Oh you like pink floyd?" 30 minutes later you realize you're still talking about a 70's rock band and not about that thing you're supposed to be meeting about.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i recall at one office job, my boss' boss' boss was getting a promotion, and so called all 120 programmers into a boardroom, 30 at a time, to explain about his new responsibilities but nothing will change for the rest of us
trinque:
mircea_popescu: nice jurassic park poster
mike_c: too bad
mircea_popescu can't say what he thinks qntra share price is right.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: I've been to several stores and they put the Cisco routers on the bottom with sign "Spookware" and Asus routers on the top shelves with "No Spookware"
decimation: I suspect
mircea_popescu is working on it
punkman:
mircea_popescu: as a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows : << alt.anonymous.messages can also be useful
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: usual 30 bux a month << for 1 gbps ?! fuck me if that's even close to accurate.
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trinque:
mircea_popescu: when I became disillusioned with god and state, that involved a realization that I could feel towards myself any way I saw fit
trinque:
mircea_popescu: that's an exceptionally clarifying statement, and one which I think helps me articulate the identity thing
trinque:
mircea_popescu: how can anything be done about that particular problem of identity?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: heh, I've always figured I'd be dragging myself out of rubble at some point
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: high speed << not actually a major problem in the american population centres
bitstein:
mircea_popescu: Good advice, thanks.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: BitcoinXT is the hearn foundation Bitcoin fork which has all kinds of features even Gavin rejected because they make nodes incredibly more DoS attackable
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2015 15:20:03;
mircea_popescu: the ONLY way i'd have them fighting overseas is if congress approves this plan whereby a) all territory we step on gets granted territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads there, and HAVE TO marry local
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2015 17:39:09;
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like suicide : the people who succeed we want. the people who fail should have succeeded.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: todd gack mysteriously missing. <<< yeah, what sort of name is that anyway?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: not banned. permitted in 'viewable only to registered' sites.
ascii_field: (expect
mircea_popescu to retort 'throw the damn thing out' but i'll note that they aren't exactly in limitless supply - nor do we yet know of an alternate box that is)
ascii_field: in some cases (
mircea_popescu of all people ought to know ) partial copy of something survives
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: point being that it's much easier to honestly work towards some useful end when not fighting over crumbs
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: I remember that a while ago you mentioned you lectured at local universities. Was this in Romania aor Argentina?
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: Yep. Aggressive intelligence frightens the luddites(?) who have temporarily taken over.
mats:
mircea_popescu: their reading comprehension is awful if they went and wrote this piece afterwards
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: folks aren't signing up for uni because of employment, but as a temporary reprieve from... what comes next
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: actually my explanation is out of date, now that i think about it
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: that's not even the interesting part
punkman:
mircea_popescu: it was great when they weren't all "no kid left behind"
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: you just need a pulse << not how it worked in ussr. sadistic entrance exams (for sci degree, that is. not for meritwash of apparatchik children, that was done american-style)
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Did you not have your TSA approved paper gown?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu seems like this is also how calgary is cool but largely sucks
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i'll blithely respond by gesturing to all the people in my life who came here by chance and never left again 8)
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> he has all the sexual projection of a highschool retard. << "non-threatening" 1950's USia was retarded in this way
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu> elvis was dumb as rocks, if reports are to be trusted. << And drugged all to hell. Owner screwed the pooch on that one.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> so your welding really consists of owning the dc. << Ideallu solder and powersupply is chozen such that yes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu ^ where this was even for ? isp ? << well, turns out the datacenter (phoenix nap) refused to forward the counter-notification.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: So in the newest Batman, the valet is the coldest killer
decimation:
mircea_popescu: don't you think shame is a motivator?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> some time with their thoughts hindered no adult thinker. << No guarentee roommate would be adult thinker
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> there's exactly one rape there, and it comes out of a political struggle. << Is rape ever anything other than politics?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> most people don't bother fucking their wives. why'd they bother with some random dude. << Prolly so random dude doesn't fuck them. WHy do dogs sniff assholes