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mircea_popescu: "all girls are similar until they strip"
decimation: the problem is all the graphics shit
decimation: in theory bsd and mac should be similar
mircea_popescu: teh exact customer you were talking about.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> oh macs. yeah that's been a pain. a binary for it is still being worked on, but it's slow going. if you have an ubuntu anywhere, from what i hear it's pretty smooth. also windows binaries work.
mircea_popescu: <waylow> I'm on mac so I couldn't figure out how to install the game
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 00:07:18; mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no value in software. let him steal.
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174805 < lol software is the only game that pays ☝︎
asciilifeform: (from which was eventually promoted to sharashka)
asciilifeform: incidentally k. did 'win from not signing the papers,' in a way. after recanting his confession (given under torture, which mutilated him in ways which ultimately led to his death) his death sentence was commuted to life-at-hard-labour
BingoBoingo: From an era before Whitey invented suburbia to concede sexual prowess to the african american ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i dunno that primary sources escape the suetonius objhection.
BingoBoingo: Gus the Christmas ornament of course being one of the antagonists in the original blockbuster film
asciilifeform: re his treatment
asciilifeform: incl. letter of k. to beria
mircea_popescu: well then we can't really say much can we.
BingoBoingo: Maybe this is the wrong epoch's fiction being contrasted. Maybe 'Uncle Tom' and 'Gus' the christmas ornament would cover a larger range of outcomes.
asciilifeform: yes, he was there...
asciilifeform: s. is approx. the same kind of guide to the subject as svetonius and '12 caesars' is to his.
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mircea_popescu: at least he WAS there.
asciilifeform: if this means 'fiction' i should like to know where is reality.
asciilifeform: naturally i wasn't there, saying hello to k. in person
mircea_popescu: so we're switching "fiction as written by a respected source" to "fiction as alf feels like recounting it for the purpose of current convo" ?
asciilifeform: just to make sure that he doesn't - to manhattan (and, at least officially , that manhatten doesn't ~him~)
asciilifeform: on the contrary, at the peak of his career, he had two goons stationed outside of his apartment door at all times.
asciilifeform: what if he has asked 'i want to live in manhattan as a free man' as 'terms' ?
asciilifeform: did k 'name own terms' ?
mircea_popescu: pick one, they all have it, as part of being credible.
mircea_popescu: do i need to quote verse and chapter to you ? because if i do you're eating crow.
mircea_popescu: this is strictly different from "jewish princesses imagining themselves special in own mind"
asciilifeform: well, he gets caviar while the worst gets beans, sure
mircea_popescu: people naming their own terms were in there - provided, of course, they got to magic away problems.
asciilifeform: in sharashka, the very best rocket designer's terms are 'i get to eat'
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 01:46:57; mircea_popescu: anyway. people who actually magic away problems, in any field, name their own terms.
asciilifeform: back to thread where we http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174986 >> demonstrably false in a sharashka. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Seriously people were like "It's a misdemeanor don't fight it." I'm like "It's a misdemeanor and I'm white. They prolly don't anticipate having to prosecute it"
mircea_popescu: Because people normally plea evidence was never collected or lost according to intel << lmao.
BingoBoingo: h any ability he might have had to use "powers of office" effectively castrated.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the goal here is to do maximal damage to the system. << This. On my misdemeanor charge which it was suggest I settle organizational incompetence on the part of the police and prosecution seems to be scuttling whatever case they may or may not have had. Because people normally plea evidence was never collected or lost according to intel. Alleged "victim" is reportedly now a joke subject to taunts from coworkers wit
mircea_popescu: and yes, it's a choice even if you didn't get to make it.
mircea_popescu: nobody said you get to make all the choices you might wish to.
asciilifeform: or is there a colony of 'left' on mars.
asciilifeform: what is this 'left', when the bottle has no outside.
mircea_popescu: turning back on one';s choices later is not another's problem. i am not held to explain why the guy that changed his mind failed both ways.
mircea_popescu: anyway. see the married men article. they who wish to be exonrated left,long ago. those who stay ALREADY MADE the choice to max damage.
mircea_popescu: but broadly, "if the rule of law didn't suck, or if it did and nobody'd bother showing it - what then ?"
mircea_popescu: i don't think the connections will ever be certain.
asciilifeform: open to seeing the logic ?
mircea_popescu: i beg to differ, i see it quite plainly.
mircea_popescu: or dja regard the present as unconnected ?
asciilifeform: need a microscope to see it.
asciilifeform: and the 'damage' was a tiny scratch on the bumper
asciilifeform: 'max damage to system'
asciilifeform: fella was brilliant, and devoted entire trial to making 'rule of law' look as ridiculous as it is
asciilifeform: read transcript of his trial some time
mircea_popescu: oleander blosom sees to it that's the last time YOU're running anywhere. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: oleander blosom doesn't run outof your mouth, plant itself back on tree.
asciilifeform: leaving aside the fact that poor u. wanted to save own sorry hide, rather than 'damage system,' there is precedent.
mircea_popescu: the goal here is to do maximal damage to the system.
mircea_popescu: the goal here is not to "Exonerate"
mircea_popescu: you're misrepresenting things.
asciilifeform: herr ulbricht didn't have a 'lawyer problem,' he had a military problem. or could a sufficiently expert german lawyer have exonerated, say, the 'july plot' folks who failed to nail the fuhrer
BingoBoingo: This is why for my still to be litigated misdemeanor charge attorney is still working off of his flat $150 pre-trial fee.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform me too. the problem is - this was one of the more successful ones.
mircea_popescu: "what's the point of donating - prolly go straight to a lawyer snake anyway"
mircea_popescu: but THEY know what they're doing. they are doing exactly tyhis : make the chumps helpless.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Pure chumpatron to drain actual Ulbricht supporters of resources << and the fact that kid would sign off on this - pretty disgraceful.
mircea_popescu: "this program does nothing" "yes, but it takes some time - like any other program!"
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps not painfully obvious to you on account of some version of the memory hole effect, but it can not be readily put into code, the degree of braindamage. perhaps a field full of gotos with no other instructions ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the dratel example is particularly on point. what that man did was the equivalent of a bitdaytrade "platform".
mircea_popescu: anyway. people who actually magic away problems, in any field, name their own terms. ☟︎
asciilifeform: after that, it's merely a matter of 'build skyscraper'
asciilifeform: and any undergrad 'ee' student can draw you the muller gate standard cell in cmos.
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't give 50k to random unknown schmuck without a wot for the obvious reasons, regardless what they can or could do.
mircea_popescu: apparently they'd have to bake a whole new silicone process.
mircea_popescu: according to you, at least.
asciilifeform: plus lawyer was quite possibly the wrong tool for the job. ulbricht needed to hire 'blackwater' rather than lawyer.
BingoBoingo: Pure chumpatron to drain actual Ulbricht supporters of resources
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: to be fair, we don't know what he paid. perhaps d. agreed to work for considerable discount..
BingoBoingo: Lawyers who can reliably contain problems don't const $maxint. The only lawyers who charge $maxint aren't charging for their lawyering, but marketing. Hence Ulbricht hiring the maliciously incompetent Dratel snake.
asciilifeform: ditto for surgeons who specialize in the nearly-impossible, etc
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 00:44:04; mircea_popescu: anyway. lawyering is only "different" because of your perception. most lawyers die in debt, still not having paid their college costs
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174921 << i don't single out lawyers from naive 'but mine has mercedes!' observation, but because the lawyers who ~actually reliably magic away problems~ are not dying in debt. or worrying about rent. ☝︎
asciilifeform: but it'd have to be 100% of ฿escape_rocket, yes
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 00:52:54; mircea_popescu: and so here is the (designed, by the way! deliberately, by the way!) impasse before the free world : one percent of the money spent on $profession actually goes to ~the individual members of $profession~, and then of that, 99% goes to the display monkeys, who are five people, and the remainder however many split the remainder 1%, which generally means they pay to participate.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174939 << the magic of bitcoin is that 100% can go to the fella who is willing to dive in a pressure suit below five kilometres of liquid shit and retrieve grandmother's dishes from the sunken h.m.s. shitanic ☝︎
asciilifeform: and yes, the 'software industry' is so utterly rotten that an individual act of deretardification has to be contemplated on own merits, rather than as 'market action', modellable with the usual rules. sorta like buying a russian nuke. sui generis.
asciilifeform: but to bring it back to the 'dirty house, cleaners want wheelbarrow of gold, so must stay dirty' - i doubt mircea_popescu is suffering from any software problem that, say, terry davis (deliberately not nominating any of the folks here for this gedankenexperiment) couldn't or wouldn't fix for, say, 50000btc
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i'll listen sympathetically to any programmer that can't feed himself ; and i'll be amused at any programmer that "but oprah!". the field's over there, and it takes all comers. don't mind the manure.
mircea_popescu: but that it won't be used at all.
mircea_popescu: because their 2bn is conditionally theirs on the understanding not that it won't get used "for terrorism",
mircea_popescu: not like they can spend two billion to buy a hundred thousand aks and ammo for them and shoot the whole charade into the ground
mircea_popescu: and yes the trillion spent also means five people got two billion a pop give or take to be paraded across the country with a large jam tomorrow sign affixed.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the trillion spent means the govt got to offset 990 billion off another whatever indescript entry in its ledger,
mircea_popescu: and with math, too : if social expenditure for field is one trillion, and the headcount employed is one million, that means one million get to divy up a hundred million, thus making a whooping 100 a head. that's not even the fabled dollar a day.
mircea_popescu: well duh baby. because it never was, that's why.
mircea_popescu: then coders (unlike doctors! or lawyers! and the lawyers would JUMP at the chance, if it were somehow feasible - but so far it's only feasible in banking and finance, mostly) get the option to work for equity, but
mircea_popescu: and so here is the (designed, by the way! deliberately, by the way!) impasse before the free world : one percent of the money spent on $profession actually goes to ~the individual members of $profession~, and then of that, 99% goes to the display monkeys, who are five people, and the remainder however many split the remainder 1%, which generally means they pay to participate. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> once you discover the hidden variable - that most of the creatures masquerading as 'people' are actually apes - you are left without one side of the equation << Ah, the Roof problem. Rook shot up nine respectable civilized folk. If he really cared to address his precieved problem his target ought to have been a crack house.