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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes brejnev's. which one,
the pre war ?!
decimation took a class on soviet politics in undergrad, but it wasn't
terribly informative
mircea_popescu: much like
the us. except
the soviets making up
the soyouz actually had more autonomy
than wisconsin
decimation: the detail I recall is
the vast pyramids of committees and soviets
that each 'advise'
the next layer
decimation: on paper, democracy blooms. in practice, party secretary is
the
tzar
decimation: actually
the soviet constitution is exactly an excercise in 'process determines outcomes'
mircea_popescu: whether outside or in.
the scribblings of
the mental patient - informative.
mircea_popescu: this is why a constitution is fundamentally a joke. if you have
the men
that you need for it
to work, you don't need it. if you don't have
them, it's useless anyway.
mircea_popescu: all constitutions are constantly reinterpreted. see discussion about
the bbs above.
decimation: as long as
there is a 'reasonable basis' for
the law (as in, usg can provide any reason whatsoever"
decimation: unfortunately no
transcript.
the relevant point was about how
the constitution was 'reinterpreted' during
the new deal years
to mean
that
the 'equal protection under law' clause doesn't apply
to actual laws
mircea_popescu: basically it means
that if old bitty runs down your new car with her beater,
decimation: lol well
then what does it protect against?
mircea_popescu: "Florida Constitution does not protect homestead property against
tax liens, homeowner association mechanic’s liens associated with labor or materials
to repair or improve
the homestead property, and voluntary liens including mortgages and homeowner association liens. "
mircea_popescu: this is
the libertard verbiage as
to why king abolished proper
title. "the drunkard nobles wanted
to be able
to sell!!1"
decimation: and residents about
the lack of property maintenance on many rental properties...blah blah"
assbot: Rental Property Ordinances and Inspections What is
the Rental Housing Inspection Program?
The program is based on an ordinance w ... (
http://bit.ly/1ymZX5X )
mircea_popescu: "Article X, Section 4 of
the Florida Constitution exempts homestead property from levy and execution by judgment creditors."
mircea_popescu: apparently it just needs
to ask for permission (from a usg magistrate - improperly called a judge for
the obvious reasons)
decimation: just like it's absurd
to claim
that 'in a democracy, government can do xxx but not yyy'
decimation: in practice, if usg wants
to move you out of your house,
they just freeze your accounts and bleed you with fines
mircea_popescu: ildlike curiosity is channel surfing and
the
ten-second sound bite."
mircea_popescu: "Now we can address
the contention
that children are innately curious.
They are not in
the sense used here -
they are
tinkerers.
The commonplace observation
that children have short attention spans is direct refutation of
the notion
that
they are creative and curious in any deep sense.
The
tragedy of our society is not
that so many people outgrow
their childlike curiosity, but
that so few do.
The adult equivalent of ch
mircea_popescu: "but he made a blog post laughing at us for it" "oh... ok
then!"
mircea_popescu: im kinda curious in a scholarly way exactly what sort of outrage would incentize
teh usg
to go back on its "principal home can not be seized" approach
to
things.
decimation imagines what would happen if he
tried
to pay for groceries with euros
mircea_popescu remembers old day, after a
two week "if it's
tuesday, it's belgium"
thing, at 4am in
train station guy pouring ~kig and half of coins into a beggar's lap.
decimation: mircea_popescu: I suspect
that many usians go
their whole life without
touching non-usd currency
mircea_popescu: i was pretty amused at
the notion, on multiple fronts.
mircea_popescu: notably, i once picked up a us chick who at
the
time was engaged
to be married.
mircea_popescu: what agent is EVER going
to wish
to go work on a case where
the emperor has dclared "huge value", wioth
the full knowlerdge
that if
the value is somehoiw missing he will be imputed it anyway ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: fcc can and has send agents
to seize your supply of device
mircea_popescu: i don't
think anyone directly realises what epic self decapitation
the dpr was for
the usg.
mircea_popescu: they gonna send some agents
to confiscate imaginary bitcoin which
then doesn't exist because "the agents stole it" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation and if you don't care
to "sell it legally" what happens ?
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 03:14:45; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: can't speak for others, but i refuse
to consider
the leaking
turd usable in any sense whatsoever.
decimation: in order
to sell such a
thing legally in
the us, you must explictly gain usg's permission, after suitably demonstrating
that it works as claimed
mircea_popescu: eople can't appreciate why
the machine is
the way it is
then
they're stupid." Unfortunately,
the potential buyers desired (drooled)
to have
them but few could afford
them."
mircea_popescu: st for
the monitor screen was $8K (at least
that was what I was
told). My recollection was
that
the manufacturing cost of a Symbolics machine was over $40K. Hence, about one-third of
the cost of a machine was
the keyboard, mouse, and display. I
told people within Symbolics
to consider using a dumb display as
the front-end (something like a Datapoint
terminal). I can remember one employee
telling me something like "if p
mircea_popescu: "(4) When I was on
the front line,
trying
to sell Lispms, we had a major problem. I'd
try
to sell Lispms
to friends and former associates
that cost a minimum of $90K, and generally $105K out-the-door.
They were
typically given $120K
to buy computers.
This left
them with a choice of purchasing 1 Symbolics machine or 3 Xerox Dolphins.
They generally selected
the 3 Dolphins. Our cost for
the keyboard was $3,200 and our co
decimation: also I'm not sure
that
the rf band
they are using is actually legal for
that purpose
decimation: re: smaller office < note
that one disadvantage
that mit has is
that because
they are
taken superficially as 'the hotness',
they probably encounter very little negative feedback on obviously fucktarded behavior
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 03:14:45; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: can't speak for others, but i refuse
to consider
the leaking
turd usable in any sense whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: decimation in
the endless words of george, "you will note
that i am in
the smaller office!"
decimation: yes,
this seems like perfectly satisfactory course work for a phd student in engineering/'fabbing'
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 03:06:58; asciilifeform: and
there is
to be one in every office, lab, bus,
train, - elevator.