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mircea_popescu: whatever
the pretext : so it's "easier
to print", so it "can be handled by
tabled", what have you, it's an abuse of
text
mircea_popescu: point being,
they're all
the same
thing, aka a pdf : an attempt
to encapsulate
text into some sort of blob.
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 15:23:37; cazalla: mircea_popescu, what happened
to your body guard anyway..
took bullet? jumped on grenade? retired?
ben_vulpes: in other news, it's raining for
the first
time in...weeks? months? in portland.
ben_vulpes: girl says "watch
the
tests come back and
the nurses struggle
to say 'you're a weenie, pregnancy hurts,
there's nothing wrong with you go home' politely"
shinohai: Sorry
to hear
that. I had surgery for a kidney stone years ago, and it was no picnic
ben_vulpes: taking care of
the girl. kidney/bladder mystery.
ben_vulpes: today we irc from
the maternal care clinic!
mats: literally worse
than AIDS
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 17:34:50; mircea_popescu: but
to whosoever struggles
to understand my outright rejection of pdfs :
think moar. same stupid shit,
the ebook of
the 90s.
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 03:40:11; asciilifeform: making list of whose packets
to drop must be hard wurk
mircea_popescu: but
to whosoever struggles
to understand my outright rejection of pdfs :
think moar. same stupid shit,
the ebook of
the 90s.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 03:00:14; asciilifeform: last
thing
the 'ebook' racket wants is an infinite fountain of free.
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 02:49:08; decimation: cazalla: doesn't
that strike you as
the dumbest
thing ever?
mircea_popescu: " how nerds around
the world are
trying
to silence violent ISIS
terrorist propaganda."
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 02:08:44; decimation:
translation: we will crush anyone who attempts
to enter
this space
shinohai: Oh gawd, Miami was much
the same last
time I was
there.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212471 << more like, only path
to survival for google.
they don't have an actual place in
the marketplace,
they're much
too large, old and ossified
to find one. if
they don't pull a redhat/mcdonalds/walmart/whatever and screw
themselves in
the usg spigot,
they're going
the way of revlon.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 00:47:17; nubbins`: now it's just a
thing people do. i have a friend who painted his house neon green
cazalla: zzzz preserve your memories,
they're all
thats left you
cazalla: in
this house, we make pizza base from scratch mother fucker
cazalla: mircea_popescu, what happened
to your body guard anyway..
took bullet? jumped on grenade? retired?
☟︎ cazalla: fkn sambuca, should'va stuck
to soap bar, cause soap bar lastrs cause its fkn consistent
cazalla: ;;later
tell bingoboingo i don't mind
the darker complection but hope you
tripple wrapping
that shit brudda
cazalla: well,
that'd be
the rest of
the sambuca gone.. result is muh monitor is looking like it is placed a couple metres away and is like 50m wide
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 00:19:48; nubbins`: any home owners in here wanna share
their annual insurance premium, as a percentage of
the value of
their home?
mircea_popescu: which point should readily explain why it costs
the chinese nothing
to make missiles and
the usians can't afford
to make a plane.
mircea_popescu: it is a much stronger state
that which
taxes everyone, no matter how little,
than
the one which mostly doesn't
tax, but gets "more money".
the money it gets are worthless
to it
assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 23:59:48; asciilifeform: usg has a firm grasp on milking
the real feed base -
the low-six-fig-usd artisan
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 <<
taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second.
the noton
that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses
the point by about
the same berth as
the notion
that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money".
this is simply not how
the car works.
☝︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 20:58:09; ascii_field: i.e. if
there is anyone here with a linux box on which any of
the bins built
thus far fail
to run, something is very very wrong
decimation: I guess
the 'bitcoin core' devs and
their patrons are regrouping
decimation: asciilifeform: actually I was
thinking about how one could buy otherwise useless land in
the desert, get usg
to subsidize solar, and sell space in a 'miner's datacenter'
decimation: yeah,
the miners were not known for actually holding gold
decimation: yeah, like
the 'gold rushers' of yore,
the folks who got rich were
the middlemen
decimation: as for 'sheeple' - you of course realize how
thin
the shadow of an implication of a
threat you would need
to make for a
tenure-hopeful
to be
thrown into near-suicidal doubt
decimation: because if
the shoe-shine boy could get in on
the racket it's already blown its load
decimation: yeah,
the plebes are kept out merely as a side effect of
the gorging
decimation: but it has enough loopholes
to not make a difference
decimation: they kinda made a halfass derp in
that direction
decimation: generally
the crown, or one of its organs
decimation: sure, but
they use
their exalted position
to keep out
those who don't have 'notes from stalin'
decimation: actually what I find far more offensive
than pablum-slinging are
the academic publisher fiefs
decimation: yeah,
there's a
tacit agreement - you can copy our stuff but only we can sell it
decimation: they can't help
themselves because 'think of
the publicity!'
decimation: many otherwise strict copyrasts load up youtube with
their warez (where
they are easily copied)
decimation: asciilifeform: actually I find youtube
to be an interesting case here
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, either
they
think
they can't 'reach
that market' or
they are dumber
than
the average prole