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mircea_popescu: decimation if i was sure, i'd recommend it
to bright young
things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ask someone whom you know in
the civil service what does an overturned conviction do.
mircea_popescu: the problems
the social security system has are not limited
to
the social security system.
they are endemic, and
that because
they are systematic.
mircea_popescu: pay a lot
to gain very little vs pay nothing
to gain whatever you
take for yourself. hmm....
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is an angle alf does not wish
to see (deliberate engineer's blindness), but in fact compare
the afore-mentioned weev with
the unfortunate da prosecuting. is weev a lazy bum ? yes. did
the poor da work butt off
through law scool ? yes. still not paid debt ? yes.
decimation: asciilifeform: was it a home depot? I've had exactly
the same experience
decimation: ^ note
that
the hippies in
the 60's were
the 'young male', and now
they are
trying
to 'maintain responsibility'
mircea_popescu: decimation it means, "try and leech as much as you can off
the young and impressionable females before a determined and disinterested young male gores you."
decimation: and 'responsibility' means 'yer ass is on
the line now', not 'you can choose
to do as you wish'
mircea_popescu: soon
the same old jokes from
the 70s are going
to begin
to circulate once more.
decimation: one sees exactly
the same phenomenon in usg
today
mircea_popescu: and so a position "of power" was a
terrible curse no one wanted.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. more important in practice -
the need
to cut
the grass.
decimation: I suppose
the only 'norm'
that moscow really cared about was 'nominal submission
to moscow'
mircea_popescu: feudalism empowers he with most knights,
the rest - he wight less concern.
mircea_popescu: decimation
the problem with a "democracy", aka representative democracy aka people's soviet is
that
the victory is always
to
the fearless.
decimation: I
thought
that
the 'political meeting' was for
the party
to
tell people what
to
think, not vice versa
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 since you use
the web platform andso prolly don't have a local log.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help you if i stand up in
the "political meeting" and ask you about X.
Guest64542: ok I see
that
there is a record of our conversation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember
the power of
the "people's denouncing" in
there ?
that's
the equivalent.
decimation: bureaucratic mastery,
to
the "science beat" at
the
Times."
decimation: re:
the gray journal: vintage moldbug > "Of course,
they can't do much. You can't submit
to
the gray journal.
There is no formal review process. You simply have
to know someone who knows someone who... and who is on
the end of
this chain? Five or
ten very ordinary people, with no particular expertise in anything, perhaps a BA in some science or other. Who happen
to have gotten
themselves assigned,
through whatever feat of
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2015 04:54:00; mircea_popescu: Guest64542 you know about
the log ?
Guest64542: Mr P ummm I am not sure what you are
talking about LOL
Guest64542: Mr P:
Thank you for sharing your perspective on
this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i guess
this makes me
the first of
that evil species of barristish sticklers
that you all love
to hate
that you ever met.
mircea_popescu: i like a challenge as much as
the next fellow, i guess.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 as far as i'm concerned,
there's a crowd of silly people somewhere on
the web
that
tricked a dc into bankruptcy. yes.
Guest64542: Mr P: Sounds like your real dipute at
this point is with
the dc
mircea_popescu: gotta absolutely have /10001 so
the next one is /10002 ?
mircea_popescu: but seriously, you're all
tech savvy people. who
the fuck claims
to have, you know, "built
the site with security in mind"
then makes
the db
trivially iterable because couldn't be bothered
to hash
the anything ? would something like user/F2xWjk been so very hard ?
decimation: which is why claims
to originality are doubly amusing
decimation: crossfit is
the 1920's 'strong man' circus act, reinvented for
today's youth
Chillum: like a movie by some
twisted director
that keeps you watching in abject confusion/horror
menahem: also
the reason why I stfu until I know backstories from
trilema.
Chillum: at first I stayed for
the spectacle, after
that for
the intrigue
Chillum: part of what makes
this channel intersting
Chillum: mircea_popescu: as usual
the conversations here require context
that
takes
time
to learn
decimation: the CrossFit
thing is hilarious
too. it's
the latest fad amoung youth
mircea_popescu: but seriously,
they're
total fucking idiots. i even had a lengthy comment explaining
to
the derp in charge how
to salt and hash
Chillum: is
this like
that guy who used a college network
to download shitloads of public domain but held by private companies court records?
mircea_popescu: turned into a service for folks
too poor
to afford a lawyer.
mircea_popescu: what started as a service for folks
too simple
to understand why
they do not wish
to be /user/1004555
decimation: mircea_popescu is performing a service for folks
too poor
to afford a lawyer
Chillum: then I am
talking about
the wrong part of DMCA
mircea_popescu: im not about
to put anyone in prison.
this is about money Chillum .
Chillum: a
toothless old lady shrieking at people
Chillum: DMCA make a lot of
things illegal but does not provide an easy path
to conviction
Guest64542: ok I get
that. DMCA is not
the proper mechanism for enforcement
decimation: but
that would be something for a judge
to sort out I suppose
decimation: mircea_popescu:
true, but I suspect
that
the dc could 'find you violating' without asserting anything w.r.t. dcma claims
mircea_popescu: misusing it in
this manner is a misdemeanor, and more importantly, a path
to civil liability.
mircea_popescu: the dmca does not provide for an avenue
to enforce anything you wish.
Guest64542: Mr. P: is it possible
that scraping data is a violation of FetLife's
TOU?
mircea_popescu: decimation
the dc could claim absolutely anything
they wish.
the standard still is preponderence of evidence.
Chillum is grooving
the
Thelonious Monk's - Monk's Dream with a puff of smoke
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I suspect
that anyone who has standing
to assert section 512(f) probably will get a settlement
Chillum: mircea_popescu: "chills" is what
they called me in high school
Chillum: just never learned
the protocol under
the client
mircea_popescu: generally
these end in settlements,
to avoid
the ever balooning costs.