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Cummerbund: mircea_popescu: Do you mean if
the subject matter is poor? I'm merely referring
to sentence structure. I would at least like
to pretend
that
the subject matter is okay
decimation: mircea_popescu: of course, most of
the actual slave driving is directly done by.. engineers in management
mircea_popescu: someone should write a sf piece about a deranged capitalist who deliberately buys up software outfits
to
torture
the engineers.
mircea_popescu: bad writing is just
the outside manifestation of a dysfunctional mind.
Cummerbund: You guys' all remind me how
terrible my writing skills are. Nice post funkenstein_
funkenstein_: since vixra comes up again here's one of
the other great
things you can find
there
mircea_popescu: but srsly, i can't for
the life of me imagine a different way
to run a
tech corp
these days.
decimation: yeah who are
the lizards who run google?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ehg for all you know working at google is essentially having
to report on
this private irc server
twice a week
decimation: well,
to be clear,
the chump market as represented by wall street fund managers
decimation: asciilifeform: what fascinates me is
the fact
that even
the higher management who is nominally 'free' find
themselves enslaves
to apple's paradigm (for example, making iphone clones)
decimation: asciilifeform: by
that definition, nearly everybody working 'in
tech'
today is a slave
whaack: (It's javascript with static
type checking)
decimation: asciilifeform: right, meat robot is given perimeter in which
to work
Cummerbund: It was more naivety before learning what needs
to be learned, so rightly I was embarrassed (As opposed
to just wrong)
Chillum: it has happened
to me several
times
Chillum: it is not hard
to embarrass yourself here, everyone here is always right
Cummerbund: Yes, I
typically work Australian hours
mircea_popescu: dude... somewhere
there must be a lawyer who legally changed his name
to
decimation: I suspect what happens at google: many people write and re-write
the same bits of software
mircea_popescu: on one hand,
their patent inability
to come up with anything worth
the mention since adwords would be concerning. on
the other hand, naggum's observation
that you wouldn't know smarter
than you if it hit you on
the head holds a lot of water.
decimation: asciilifeform: by "nobody solves problems at google" I assume you mean in
the "from first principles" sense?
mircea_popescu: teaches me
to bitch at dwarves for
their dubious
tech choices.
trinque: man,
that's a smile headed for mediocre state bureaucracy someday
decimation: she's a woman, her mug is plastered on
the webpage
decimation: for one
thing, I doubt he's being charged for a felony as a juvenile
trinque: florida's public school system is skewed by
the number of criminals in
the state generally
Chillum: I am feeling a little hyper
today
Chillum: at least I did not say "loo"(british for
toilet)
Chillum: I
think defendants should be allowed
to permit
the offended party
to smack
them in lue of charges
mircea_popescu: Chillum when i was about
that age kids got all uppity ran lard all over blackboard.
Chillum: just like if he snuck into
the office at night and changed
the blackboard, a silly prank, still illegal, light sentence appropriate
Chillum: I would hope
that
the sentence reflect
the seriousness of
the crime... 48 hours probation and a stern "Don't do it again!"
trinque: so how about
this is a
teenage male pulling a prank
Chillum: capturing a WPA packet legal, cracking password from
that packet legal, logging into
the network - criminal unauthorized access
Chillum: still used
today, meant
to be a catch all for something
too complex
to put any
thought into
Chillum: it is from some computer law from
the 80s or 90s
decimation: being as how
the journalist is likely retarded
decimation: it would be interesting
to know exactly what
they are charging him with
Chillum: well prepare
to be regularly disappointed
mircea_popescu: not discussing
the legality. discussing
the nonsensicality.
Chillum: you don;'t have
to break anything for breaking and entering charges
Chillum: using an admin password
to log in and changing nothing would be just as illegal
mircea_popescu: for one
thing,
the computer still works.
the broken lock does not.
Chillum: if he broke into
the staff office
to change
the blackboard it would still be breaking and enetering
Chillum: to forest gardeners love
those roads
decimation: in
the us it's quite normal for shit
to be spread out across
the countryside
Chillum: you just have
to be okay with driving over 1 inch
this
trees
decimation: the
thing
that struck me as weird about
the eu (comparied
to
the us) was how compact little
towns are, and how rural
the countryside is
Chillum: it is all new growth but
there are so many ways away from people if you pick one at random you won't see anyone
Chillum: The island I am on has logging everywhere but with a 30 year recovery period. So
there are logging roads everywhere
that are abondoned for
the last 10-29 years
BingoBoingo: Chillum: Center of
the University campus
there is a forest. with nothing more
than dirt
trails and occasional bridge. Fastest way
to get from one side
to
the other is
traversing
the woods. Because of USian automobile-subdivision
town planning outside of downtown most residential areas are separated by virgin-ish woods
Chillum: the eye of
the needle was a crowded market in a narrow alley
mircea_popescu: which... it does.
they
tell legends of women
that could suck a golf ball
through a garden hose, but new york regularly sucked
the jew riding a camel
through
the eye of a needle.
Chillum: the manner in which a city
treats you is directly related
to how savvy you are
Chillum: they behave a lot differently when
they become
town scavengers
decimation: mircea_popescu: I would note
that singapore exhibits all
the signs of burning
through
their 'stored fuel'
Chillum: ever seen a seagull out in
the wild?
They are majestic.
The city seagulls are vermin
BingoBoingo: Chillum:
This is a rural/Suburban border
town. Deer cull very effective here. Now when I lived in Carbondale... Deer raided
the garbage dumpsters more
than
the raccoons did.
Chillum: I used
to do a bit of deep forest gardening. I would use capsicum liquid all over
to keep
the deer away
BingoBoingo: Chillum: Edging back garden with peppers handles deer/birds usually. As do
the coyotes/feral cats. Getting drunk and pissing in yard handles coyotes.
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:43:33; ascii_field: because
the only approach
that i believe
to be correct, will result in something
tangible only long after we are all dead.