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mircea_popescu: i don'
t need any cable where i can'
t see it nor anything but cable tyvm.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you don'
t even need much caning to get a willing slave into a sane head space.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is this a mistake? << see there. i don'
t say such.
ascii_field: when ben franklin wrote that 'most people die at 25 but aren'
t buried till 75' he was describing a very real thing.
mircea_popescu: see, all the other dudes are there for whatever reasons - he's there because of who he wants to be. "the sort of guy who fights in the civil war - if only the latrines weren'
t barbed wired"
mircea_popescu: soldiering it was, but his protestations make it obvious he didn'
t reallyt have any business there.
ascii_field: so now 'that wasn'
t soldiering' and 'that wasn'
t sex' ?
mircea_popescu: more importantly - soldier doesn'
t havfe the choice of "i'm too good for this"
ascii_field: this works because infantry is a machine (yes) not man. i.e. soldier hasn'
t the choice of 'i don'
t feel like it'
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? it doesn'
t DO anything. it's there so the fucktards can BLAME IT for who they are.
mircea_popescu: why aren'
t you all the things you aren'
t doing, like putting your cock in the mouth of girl sitting across the table ?
mircea_popescu: notably, the 10k fuckholes aren'
t "more valuable" in either scenario. they ARE however LESS UTILIZED in the second.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 16:22:05; mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don'
t need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don'
t know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
mircea_popescu: im sure they did. i would say overal there's no stupid thing the us haven'
t tried
mircea_popescu: you can'
t have a toy election anymore than you can have a toy pregnancy.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get this nonsense. who the fuck gave her the autority to overturn the election.
mircea_popescu: yeah but of interest here would have been the convicts that don'
t write.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 15:39:52; mircea_popescu: in fact, the reason prison is better than the web (no, it's not "the internet", fucking reddit facebook and washpo aren'
t "the internet") is preciely that they fuck up the derps in prison.
mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don'
t need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don'
t know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im sure alf doesn'
t wanna be an engineer either, he wants to be a hunter. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, but women don'
t wanna be extras in a man's movie just for being women". tough.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> But oh, I saw 100million written down so, lets just believe that shall we? << that's not even it. the tlp article has the story, and it's rather obvious : they ACCEPTED to be extras in HIS movie. that's what it is. rihanna, of course (of course ? madonna didn'
t do that for ritchie, not really ; angelina jolie didn'
t do that for brad pitt ; moreover nobody told them to get the fucking crazy out of their
mircea_popescu: in fact, the reason prison is better than the web (no, it's not "the internet", fucking reddit facebook and washpo aren'
t "the internet") is preciely that they fuck up the derps in prison.
☟︎ mircea_popescu reads tpbit thing, is unimpressed. oh you mean people wanna blather about nothing rather than do work because a) it's easier and b) they don'
t wanna do anything anyway, they just wanna appear so and so ? mmmkay.
mircea_popescu: but in any case... "The audience-- people, Twitter, performers, Leno, The View, the President-- are can'
t help but comment on the show. They don'
t understand that they are actually part of the show. They aren'
t getting paid, but neither were Statler and Waldorf. And they were the funniest part of it."
lobbes: Me: "I don'
t want to spend more money"
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 04:33:24; mircea_popescu: why is black = masculine ? why, because black needn'
t wrinkle.
funkenstein_: likely true, though a video made by some people you don'
t know doesn'
t verify it
punkman: I don'
t think I'd buy gold coin off random guy on the street either
mircea_popescu: anyway. tlp's idea about how to report the stuff in the media to prevent its repeating is entirely correct (and also exactly what china does, which he doesn'
t notice - tho he notices correctly that it's what the dod forced everyone to do for the wtc bombings)
BingoBoingo: Can'
t talk about that. "Ideation" in psych lingo.
mircea_popescu: This is how famous people die: they take stimulants to party all night, and sleep very little. Finally, on day 3 they're too wired to fall asleep naturally, so they take a few extra sedatives (because they feel so wired.) However, the full dose of the pills doesn'
t happen until after they fall asleep; the sedation is worsened even further by stimulant withdrawal; and, of course, the natural exhaustion that comes with
ben_vulpes: b-a can'
t distinguish the jigga man from dre, thestringpuller
BingoBoingo: The concise explanation of why parents who aren'
t poor and even some who are don'
t let their kids play 'Murican football
mircea_popescu: why does black not need wrinkle ? because so many blacks are in jail, black women can'
t afford to choose.
mircea_popescu: why is black = masculine ? why, because black needn'
t wrinkle.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tlp observes "what the fuck is with the kids today, they all wanna be black ?" "they don'
t wanna be black, thgey wanna be masculine".
mircea_popescu: this is a different identical fake hood dood isn'
t it ?
adlai still hasn'
t figured out deterministic newline munging in multideed bundles
mircea_popescu: "these words don'
t say what you thought they did, they say what we want them to say, eat it up Washington!"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically if you drink more than a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done. << Seems like a safe way to thin out some hamplanets, while preserving people who aren'
t quite HCFS addicts
jurov: heh helium won'
t dissolve in water, i'm +1 with nitrous oxide
mircea_popescu: shouldn'
t they use , i dunno, helium ? to reduce their footprint ?
mircea_popescu: "Adolescence is supposed to be an identity Schrodinger's Cat: multiple simultaneous states which eventually collapse into only one. The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn'
t matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well. The same potential for, say, happiness exists whether you are
ascii_field: 'we will save you from usg unless ordered not to by usg so don'
t be surprised if never. but you can feel great!'
ascii_field: why would anyone 'hunt terrorists' (who aren'
t there) when he can hunt fat duffel bags full of benjies.
mircea_popescu: "we can'
t tell you about how we've not caught any terrorists because that would expose our inefficiency to the scrutiny of terrorists encouraging them and thus harm national security"
mircea_popescu: that's approximately the number of times they caught anyone who wasn;
t a derp.
punkman: I also thought backscatter couldn'
t see inside truck
gabrielradio: mircea_popescu yea, it didn'
t sound right indeed.
mircea_popescu: meaning they steal, rape, arson and kill << burn and pillage eh ? you don'
t arson anymore than you disease.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the very amusing situation where people (including derps with aspirations of culture and intelligence a la orwell) fell for the very obvious trick of pretending that the nazi/fascist police state stuff was not merely the germans/italians being TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, ie, doing exactly what britain, the us, russia will do themselves later on, but somehow it were specific about them. sort-of like
t mircea_popescu: go to a different shop, a little further. advertisement on wall, "if you want this shop to survive, don'
t ask for a discount".
ascii_field: l0l who the everliving fuck doesn'
t have $ 25 ?
mircea_popescu: hint : people don'
t accept one oz in trade for 25 bux.
mircea_popescu: "i won'
t starve, i got a college education / 401k / my gold coins collection"
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 19:53:28; mircea_popescu: jus don'
t answer the mail, it'll take care of itself.
ascii_field: '(Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable. Although we still don'
t know if this is correct, or how subsequent generations of forensic tracking technologies might work, it is probably safest to assume that all
diametric: Surprisingly there aren'
t that many police deaths in the US per year.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the concept that you can'
t build muscle and lose weight at the same time ?
mircea_popescu: your hunger doesn'
t go away because "that's enough, i've been hungry for six hours now". on the fucking contrary.,
mircea_popescu: he's in canada. their housing doesn'
t have its own housing there
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 17:09:05; pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: but tax collector doesn'
t have own branch office
diametric: would explain why he didn'
t reply hehe
diametric: oh I didn'
t realize he wasn'
t voiced when I said hello.
kakobrekla: <Xplosionist> Oh, wait, you can'
t actually _send_ a transaction without being in-sync, can you? < not sure if those are actually being broadcast before it syncs
Xplosionist: i have 0.11.0, it's working okay for me on multiple macs. haven'
t tried it on other OSes.
shinohai: I don'
t have a "latest" copy of it. 0.11.0 crashed on me several times, not that I needed it anyway.
shinohai: Don'
t even need core client to sign a tx and push it.
Xplosionist: Oh, wait, you can'
t actually _send_ a transaction without being in-sync, can you?
Xplosionist: But, maybe the bitcoin core client doesn'
t work the way I thought it did.
Xplosionist: I don'
t honestly know. Hours, to be sure, but less than a day.
Xplosionist: No, I sent from my bitcoin core client, but it wasn'
t caught up, and it didn'
t realize it would take that long to send it out.
Xplosionist: K. Thanks. I saw a "conflicted" report in my client, but wasn'
t 100% sure that meant what I hoped it did.
pete_dushenski: just flitted through the canadian tax code, nothing in there about receiver general not accepting cash, nor anything on cra website about 'we don'
t ACCEPT cash' just 'don'
t send cash, send cheque'
mircea_popescu: (and no, the "apts don'
t exist" "apts exist" debate is not meaningful. some things exist, unrelatedly to the brand and independent of it. the brand however exists for the reason brands exist.)
pete_dushenski: says nothing about "don'
t fly to our nearest office and drop off suitcase"
mircea_popescu: in neither case do you go on the alf pipe "mechanisms don'
t exist".
mircea_popescu: MOSTLY because the derps don'
t know what they should be "upvoting". obviously the guardian's not gonna be talking about this.