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mircea_popescu: for a government
to survive, it must actually have support.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're neglecting
the only important
thing here, which is
the actual fine points of
the relationship between
the abused wife and her husband.
mircea_popescu: trinque understand something : if one million people becomes 1% more likely
to lie on
their
taxes,
trinque: seems easy
to convince
the narcissist it's "not him"
mircea_popescu: does it seem
to you a reasonable plan
to demolish streets in
this atmosphere ?
mircea_popescu: familiar with
the (afaik also uncontroversial)
theory
that
the us is a nation of narcisists ?
mircea_popescu: let's
take
the cheapest way out. familiar wit hthe guy whose name history has lost (:P)
that set fire
to
the whatever so his name may be remembered ?
mircea_popescu: there is no undertaking more expensive
than
that pavement job.
mircea_popescu: i can
trivially send pizza
to
the "secret" subsecretary of state for whatever, and he's stuck wondering how i know ?
trinque: maybe
the ratio's irrelevant
mircea_popescu: trinque good for you. not particularly relevant
to him.
trinque: and
the ratio of people reacting sanely
to not
trinque: isn't
the demolished street only helpful if
there are onlookers who care?
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense, a junkie managing
to score a hit is in fact +ev.
mircea_popescu: maybe it's because you're
trying
to use some sort of subjective scoring it occurs
to me
mircea_popescu: there's going
to be a demolished street bearing your name.
mircea_popescu: cost
teh ro govt millions
to
try and wash it up, eventually was more or less forgotten. but finding agents willing
to
tail
that guy was difficult for years after.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if ambling about
the
terrain going
to/from day jobs, etc. -
they just quietly pick you up << a ro guy famously caught a coupla "secret agents"
tailing him in
traffic, beat
them up (romanian
tradition)
took
them
to police station.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik swiss defend
themselves by "neutrality"
mircea_popescu: but for as long as
the "how do
they know it's not really an ambush ?" question has an obvious and correct answer, you already failed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no,
this is possible if maintaining decent op security.
mircea_popescu: this does not work against ideologically motivated adversaries, but it works against bureaucracies something splendid.
there's always another fire
to put out.
mircea_popescu: swedish military doctrine, notably, is constructed around
the core concept
that
they do not aim
to defend
the country,
they aim
to make invasion economically unfeasible.
that is all.
mircea_popescu: the entire construction has very speciffic dead points, and
they're anything but secret.
mircea_popescu: as long as it's clear
to
the da
that a court showdown will end his career, you're practically unprosecutable, no matter what you do. as long as it's clear
to "special ops"
that
there will be deaths, you're un-opable, no matter what you do. etc etc.
mircea_popescu: the cure looks very much like you'd imagine : strong encryption, strong (mental especially) discipline, minimal fortification along
the riverline.
mircea_popescu: it's
true :
they haven't yet made a
thing for something else
to use for
this.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is ALSO not controversial - virtually half of all material prepared by
the bureaucracy states in one form or another
that
they're "not prepared for
this
type of challenge"
mircea_popescu: because what, if it did exist you'd lunge at it with your waffle making hot
tweezers ?
mircea_popescu: and if
THAT were your lab, i wouldn't particularly be persuaded by "no
tb cure could exist"
type of arguments.
mircea_popescu: if your crazy genius lab consisted of shitty hot
tweezers
that made good sandwiches and very bad vacuum pumps
that sang a capella i'd
think you're uniquely ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: sorta like a parade army. exactly what
the italians had, right before
the risorgimento.
mircea_popescu: this is why all
the ridiculous military failures of
the us since vietnam : it built an army which is only useful as an army if NOT fighting.
mircea_popescu: if air superiority comes
to air engagement, walks away with so many broken arms it's not worth
thinking about.
mircea_popescu: the weird
thing about
the situaiton of usg particularly, and of usg-likes (ie, most cancer) is
that "everything is only intended
to be used in
the situations it wasn't designed
to be used".
mircea_popescu: people who go "sure, whatever. make sure you have good AP and check
the vests" are not
the
target of
this sort of bs.
mircea_popescu: as
to van : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of
the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on
the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have
to shoot me, and expect
to fail unless you bring armored units, and
to lose a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: imagine a device
that kept paul atreides from having
to fight all
the idiot freemen.
mircea_popescu: NOT having
to
turn
them down personally is empowering for you.
mircea_popescu: the other direction being
that you DO NOT WISH
the attenntion of most of
those women.
mircea_popescu: so, filling reddit with apparently correct but actually provably falsifiable nonsense is not something
that concerns me.
mod6: huh,
the statically linked binary is between 5.6 and 5.2mb. On my x86_64 builds it was often around 5.6mb. i just pulled up my paste from
the debian x86_32 bit build (
http://dpaste.com/1YQR1W7), here's 5.2mb. and yesterday on gentoo x86_32 it was 5.6mb.
mircea_popescu: while also providing sufficient proof for 1%
that in fact someone's
trying
to interfere
mircea_popescu: BUT! if
the solution
they come up with is
to make an artefact which convinces 99% of
the women sorted by stupidity
that
they shouldn't fuck you,
mircea_popescu: now,
the reason
this is stupid, on multiple planes, we won't dsiscuss here, for space.
mircea_popescu: they're all naked and dripping. suppose
that someone for whatever stupid reason does not want you
to fuck, because
they imagine
this is how you don't get
to kill
them.
mircea_popescu: suppose you are in a room, with women.
there's 100 of
them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, prepare for a lengthy explanation
then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they will,
to ~their detriment~. i'm not sure
this is getting
through, or
that im doing a good job of explaining it, but in fact such victories are more expensive
than
the respective defeats
they supposedly keep one from.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 ben_vulpes
think a <27mb bitcoin could be ? <<
the current statically linked bitcoind is 5.6mb is
that what you mean?
mircea_popescu: back
to
the usg-tb
thing : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of
the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on
the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have
to shoot me, and expect
to fail unless you bring armored units, and
to lose a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i understand
the
theory we're discussing,
they'd be all
the same
thing ?
mircea_popescu: to imagine
the usg, or for
that matter any bureaucracy like a PERSON rather
than like a disease is imo
to be very, very wrong
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:54:27; asciilifeform: 'After making public revelations critical of US policies, former CIA director William Colby was himself found dead in 1996 from a laughably improbable 'canoe accident'. US Congressman Wayne Owens was found dead in Israel in 2002 while investigating US corruption connections.' << 'best news is
the history you didn't know' (mircea_popescu?)
mircea_popescu: "you mean
to
tell me we could use
these
to run bitcoin nodes ourselves ?!?! FU NOT SELLING
THEM NAO"
mircea_popescu: "Can you
tell me what you're wanting
to do with
them? " ?<< lol nubbins` got
teh usms curious nao