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pete_dushenski: "I would respond
that if he has a SIM card in his phone,
then
the phone emits roaming signals which allow its position
to be determined with surprisingly good accuracy by using multilateralization—measuring its relative signal strength at several of
the surrounding cell phone
towers." << doesn't
this require 'stingray' ?
pete_dushenski: "So, for instance, if it
turned out
that Obama were indeed a space lizard (how embarrassing!)
the administrator would simlply click on “conspiracy
theories,” click on
the checkbox next
to “Obama is a space lizard,” and click “uninstall.”"
chetty: its ok
tho, Eulora is up
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i've been
told
to use hate as a measurement of success.
assbot: Logged on 01-06-2015 20:16:56;
trinque: little guy seems
to be doing alright
mircea_popescu: what sort of industrial warehouse do you run in your own house over
there!!
nubbins`: i'll shake
the spiders out of
the remaining inventory at no extra charge
mircea_popescu: this has been
the most distant christmas in hystory, but! apparently it's coming.
assbot: Logged on 02-06-2015 10:34:32; nubbins`: given
that
the outstanding debt and
the box of
tees are 18 months old and 20 months old, respectively, i
think it's
time we settle up
assbot: Logged on 02-06-2015 10:34:11; nubbins`: mircea_popescu, your outstanding shipping bill is $70 and i still have a box of NSA
tees
taking up space in my studio
williamdunne: I'm not awful at running, I'll
take my chances
mircea_popescu: if georgie ouzounian runs into you somewhere in dusty utah and you're wearing
that shirt and it reads "I'm better
than you" he's probably going
to accost you.
williamdunne: It actually doesn't look half-bad on
the
t-shirt
williamdunne: It really is incredible how helpful
the lady has been, I'm used
to
the standard snobbery from others in her position
williamdunne: 23:53:41 - WolfGoethe [~textual@cpe-74-66-238-187.nyc.res.rr.com] entered
the room.
mircea_popescu: anywhere you go, you're unimpressed with
the local assholery.
williamdunne: 23:51:45 - williamdunne: "I'm better
than you" should suffice
williamdunne: 23:51:05 - menahem: debating if i should add a quote
to it
williamdunne: 23:48:16 - menahem: what do you guys
think of
this
tee ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Its okay,
the cult has been restored with a
t-shirt with your face on it
assbot: Logged on 01-06-2015 15:06:01; shinohai:
This is about
the only place
that isn't an echo chamber anymore sadly.
williamdunne: If you want I could just add oglaf
to scoopbot..
williamdunne: Although I guess you just have
to check every Sunday so not
too bad
BingoBoingo: * williamdunne is actually just sitting at home refreshing people's RSS feeds pretending
to be a bot << Oh,
that's how oglafbot works
williamdunne is actually just sitting at home refreshing people's RSS feeds pretending
to be a bot
BingoBoingo still has
the expectation
that scooping bots go rogue
williamdunne: Guessing
the new reconnecting stuff actually works
williamdunne: Yeah,
think he last went down maybe
two weeks ago?
nubbins`: hm, apparently
this actiontec router might be worth
tossing
pete_dushenski: i'm in
the market for a new modem. don't want
to swallow whatever cisco garbage shaw cable provides
nubbins`: "is it any extra fee
to bring it
to
the door?" "nope" "what kinda beer do you drink?"
mircea_popescu: eventually it was "fuck
this shit, we make
them as
tough as pipes"
nubbins`: guy asked me if i wanted fibre
to
the pole or
the door
mircea_popescu: they're reinforced
to hell precisely because of people like you.
nubbins`: mild panic
this past winter when i realized
the obstruction my metal snow shovel wouldn't pound
through was... fibre into
the house
mircea_popescu: decimation and
the pretorian guard failed
to help nero.
decimation: the surplus of bitcoin failed
to help dpr
nubbins`: so i just got
this in an email from my isp
mircea_popescu: i can't eat a digital biscuit, meanwhile you go make someone shove pens in his butt, without
the digital biscuit.
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, you can. and it's your choice
to either feed me or eat it. how about
that.
mircea_popescu: decimation you know
this is what people said
too ? "can't eat an iron sword"
nubbins`: my
timely quip is no longer
timely
mircea_popescu: find me a state in
the history of
the world
that can run
the sort of deficits we run.
mircea_popescu: then
the industrial revolution came, and england was
the size of a cumsplotch, and it didn't matter.
mircea_popescu: territory was important when
the economy was based on working
the land.
mircea_popescu: territory's not worth squat. bitcoin,
tmsr~ does actually better
than any known state PRECISELY because all its
territory is virtual.
mircea_popescu: you'd
think people actuaslly involved in strategic planning have enough of a
tin ear
to hear
the sort of "o noes,
things aren't like we have emotionally invested ourselves into
them being, let us rehash how
trhings shjould be so we don't have
to change or even examine our priors" whine.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who
the fuck came up with
the
territorial nonsense quoited above anyway ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, for
the record,
the only cockroaches in
the middle west are
the americans atm.
jurov: they're more like
taleban
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski roflmao. "one way
to stop sucking would be
to rule instead"
pete_dushenski: fuck, al-queda should've been a walk in
the park by comparison.
pete_dushenski: isis is no more capable of being destroyed by
the usa's excuse for a military
than al-queda was
pete_dushenski: ^seriously, where do people get
these swiss cheese heads ?
pete_dushenski: ements, because
territorial authority is a requirement:
take away its command of
territory, and all
those oaths of allegiance are no longer binding. Former pledges could of course continue
to attack
the West and behead
their enemies, as freelancers. But
the propaganda value of
the caliphate would disappear, and with it
the supposed religious duty
to immigrate and serve it.
pete_dushenski: "One way
to un-cast
the Islamic State’s spell over its adherents would be
to overpower it militarily and occupy
the parts of Syria and Iraq now under caliphate rule. Al‑Qaeda is ineradicable because it can survive, cockroach-like, by going underground.
The Islamic State cannot. If it loses its grip on its
territory in Syria and Iraq, it will cease
to be a caliphate. Caliphates cannot exist as underground mov
pete_dushenski: and spoil
the look on
their face when i
tell
them
that something in
the world might be more important
than
their wedding ?
pete_dushenski: if another one of
them has a wedding at
the same
time as $conference....
pete_dushenski: speaking of
traveling, fuck me if i don't have four sets of friends who just got engaged in
the last month or
two
pete_dushenski: plus, when i was in romania, i was in sinaia, brasov,
timisoara, and a few other places, not just danube :)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i'm
talking mostly about
the ones
that've made
their way
to canada
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mircea_popescu: course you probably stuck
to
the danube plain, where all
the garbage ends up.
pete_dushenski: from all
the ones i've come across, an admittedly smaller but still far from zero quantity, female.ro is right up
there with
the best of 'em
pete_dushenski: romanian women would be right in between
the bubblebutturks and
the skinnyczechs
pete_dushenski: prague and istanbul both have fantastic food, bucharest is meh in
this regard as well
mircea_popescu prefers
the
turkish 35lb butt
to
the czech slender
type
mircea_popescu: anyway, istanbul's great, prague's fulla sluts and
therefore greater. bucharest... whatevs.
jurov: really,
this needs much more
time
to be able
to grasp
the game idea and write something positive