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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also tied in to your 'then the centurion walks in, a different kind of man' story.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. in the words of herr kokkarinen: 'modern hipster is not being rogered, because the cock is entering ironically(tm)'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i brought it up on account of 'orcs' rather than gulag. what orcs look like to human.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes! it.
asciilifeform: to a 'human', what can be more revolting than an 'orc.' now where was that prison film review by mircea_popescu ?
undata: mircea_popescu: the southern cock will rise again!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the land of 'soft power' - soft gulag. (almost inevitably hands want to say 'soft cocks' also.)
undata: mircea_popescu: I see the point about a genuine display of power
undata: mircea_popescu: not-maximizing isn't the same as actively grinding away at your population until as jurov points out the numbers start to really dwindle
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: american doctors are dangerously expensive
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the part with illiterate idiots (west) - yes
jurov: i also heard there's an approach somewhere "mircea_popescu is evil"
undata: mircea_popescu: such a reading list would be a welcome post
jurov: mircea_popescu: how it can be divided from politics? "yeah they're utterly brainwashed zealots, but otherwise i like their political views"???
undata: mircea_popescu: well yeah but needs more 'bama
jurov: mircea_popescu beatings and brainwashing
jurov: bagels7: you were just properly raised by mircea_popescu's standards
jurov: mircea_popescu i don't get it, what sets isis aart from iran and taleban?
undata: mircea_popescu: I've seen it mentioned several times that "ISIS" is the face of a force non-negligibly comprised of former baathists, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's put it this way - the arab lands burn, and we know the arsonist - usg. who can say that arsonist is not still in control?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so far usg is keeping these folks intensely interested in clitori butterfly collections and not the least bit in higher mathematics, without apparently breaking a sweat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: human material matters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iran - 'tried shit.' i would need serious evidence of pig flight before believing that fundamentalist clerical revolutions are anything other than usg 'yi yi zhi yi' methods.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: may as well ask 'where's the better chance, mars or venus? and ant civilization or cockroach civilization'
undata: mircea_popescu: right, doesn't war tend to be about brutality, dominance, etc?
undata: mircea_popescu: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/08/16/ISIS-calls-for-an-Islamic-curriculum-in-Syria-s-Raqa.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where are the noteworthy intellectual achievements of the new caliphate? e.g., are they throwing out winblows (and not via return to 15th c. tech) ? who is paid to think thoughts in the lands of the new flag, and what kind of thoughts ?
mthreat: mircea_popescu: did you see this - http://bubblear.com/hey-beautiful/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'A revolution without dancing is not a revolution' but - s/dancing/mathematics
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i get that anti-intellectual 'black hundreds' phenomena are an expected thing. yes, they're inevitable after corrupt 'scientocracies' fuck up the planet. but - it still sucks.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik isis is about as interesting as the iranian revolution. and for the same reason.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps as many as there are archimedes among modern greeks ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who hasn't. how many al-kwarizmis among isis now ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's pure mathematics doing in isisland ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ok but you clearly walked away unscathed, our nignog in quesation did not
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i'll train em to fight like pokemon
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you could make a deal where you prepaid consumption at fixed rate. so i did << and then how many tons of aluminum did you refine? or wasted!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 3x what a house apparently costs in ohio << dirty math here. house in ohio costs 100% of a typical ohio inmate's disposable income. just like in ca or dc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum field demand >> http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3140985758772364@naggum.no.html << here
asciilifeform: mats_cd03, mircea_popescu: regin trojan << mega-lol. run moar winblows, yes.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm familiar with the females of my age group couch surfing, living on gov't grants, waitressing, staying up late chain smoking over the odd "piece".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "25% salary cuts every 2-3 months" << this is a thing?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/cererea-de-suspendare-a-pre%C8%99edintelui-traian-basescu-sau-cu-caragiale-tot-inainte/ << i nominate for translation queue based on link title alone
cazalla: mircea_popescu, of course
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: alas bitstein and krawisz are (hopefully temporarily) taken up with other ventures. Personally I think the SNI website is unfinished in its current state, but there’s only so much arm twisting I can do with friends
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you have incoming turdogram.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: can we have /mode +b *!*@unaffiliated/moriarty please, all he does is join here to pm spam and then leave :P
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2014 01:38:58; mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it - http://imgur.com/mZnf775 ☟︎
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu no the question was did someone abuse the britneychain ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the excess packets - cheap. the ddosyness - no.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why, in my unofficial wonderland, you can't even open a socket without transmitting an rsa-signed a 'this is me, and my wot' breath of life packet. ☟︎
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu right after maddox ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chick makes 1500 per show, 18k for the whole season, pre tax << what does 18k usd buy in ro ?
jurov: mircea_popescu stan is talking about pseudo-8088 memory space done by real mode segments
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as a paragon of programming << news to me
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i just treated girly anemia with succinate << what lead you to that treatment?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/and-another-one-bites-the-dust-bitmarketeu
thestringpuller: laffs for mircea_popescu *
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://copypast.ru/uploads/posts/1342177290_mntbf1m5zo0.jpg << relevant
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this gaffe is pestilentially ubiquitous
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu ya that article was embarassingly shitty
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2014 02:17:56; assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:05:02; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-wisdom-of-crowds-apparently-it-mostly-depends-on-the-crowds-in-question/#comment-110073
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nl is nato colony however
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wondered if actually 'news' or smoke.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://twitter.com/ecb/status/535781717760811008
cazalla: mircea_popescu, fixed typo so dw BingoBoingo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Girl under a train - they sometimes fumble, / She might cry hysterically, or no; / You can hear Reanimator mumble: / 'Please give up your ghost, my dearest, go!' / Lifetime as a cripple? Who will feed you? / Even could I do a bloody thing? / Tell me, dearest, who you think will need you, / Without legs, and without everything?' << approx. partial transl.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: nurse's article: http://www.bards.ru/archives/part.php?id=15568 << obligatory. vysotsky's 'doctor reanimator.'
thestringpuller: never would take you for a beavis and butthead fan mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Turks got their butts from Armenia too, that's why they had to genocide the men
punkman: mircea_popescu: griechenland
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seriously behold the liberals shilling for botique rifle http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-math-makes-smaller-bullets-deadlier-1627307057
cazalla: mircea_popescu: wait so it's free ? <<< lol yes, not a paid placement, this is more a test anyway
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a revenue share thing, dunno its been up long enough to get clicked yet
cazalla: mircea_popescu, we discussed using text links either above/below each article as well, thoughts?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, you should've seen the huge ass banner BingoBoingo put up before we settled on the box on sidebar :P
cazalla: mircea_popescu, load a post, not qntra.net itself
cazalla: mircea_popescu, point of an advert yeah?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, does it look like this http://imgur.com/R6KHRw4 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu never leaves dynamite at home when going fishing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: text editor experiment << when you build 'emacs', you can select 'use mmap for buffers' as a compile flag. ☟︎
TomServo: +mircea_popescu | show, don't tell. when you tell a) everyone knows you're lying, whethetr you are not not and b) nobody can be bothered to go look anymore. fucking show. always. << Wouldn't this also apply to your qntra article?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo mircea_popescu cazalla http://pastebin.com/3BZXpunJ
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "hands full" << was that a pun?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu not overly
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Perhaps you would like to a your second piece for qntra. Stumbled into a US abuse of court thing with Kim Dotcom I'm writing up.
pete_dushenski: heya mircea_popescu
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i can't push assets i don't have
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol! what part of 'emigration' do people not get?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: grunt at ft. meade had to let go of the red button to light a cig
decimation: mircea_popescu: could it be that your nameservers (ns7 and ns8) are also inaccessible, thus causing the 'dns outage'?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the piece where explains three basic types of eunuch op
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aside from examples like 'emacs', most of what is actually useful in 'open source' was written in other times, other walls, pre-dating it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not altogether certain it was ever alive.
decimation: speaking of which mircea_popescu: so you called it with the debian GR re: systemd, they 'voted' to make init scripts 'optional'
asciilifeform: when mircea_popescu first suggested it
asciilifeform: i assume that if mircea_popescu wanted to play funkspiel with the fellow on the other end of the wire, he would have kept the discovery to himself...
mthreat: mircea_popescu: back from patagonia. kilometers driven: 6900