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decimation: well,
there is
the question of 'who pays'
mircea_popescu: people go nuts. as if babies are required
to come from
the stork, and for free, because htey're wrapped up
too
tightly
to consider fucking.
mircea_popescu: decimation other
than
the genetics of intelligence,
the children is another way i get conservatives enraged.
mircea_popescu: what's different is a bunch of ideological spew clouding
the issues.
decimation: well, it excludes
the quite legitimate work of raising children
mircea_popescu: in your classical "ancient
tribe in
the caves" about 2/3 of
the
tribe did something.
mircea_popescu: i'da made
the comment
there, but apparently greenspun doesn't know how
to comments.
decimation: well,
that net catches a good portion of
the us when considered in its wide sense
mircea_popescu: you, if your paycheck comes from
the governent, YOU ARE NOT A WORKER.
mircea_popescu: people object
to slave hard drives being called slave hard drives, in spite of
the accuracy
mircea_popescu: "And
those workers are different from
the ones who decide whether or not
to give out a free"
mircea_popescu: 1 in 2 households are looking for something
to beg and someplace
to do it.
decimation: forward
to 2:57ff
to see
the old dude scold some chick about 'war crimes'
decimation: although in
this case it was shareware generally
decimation: yes, with
the meaning shaded with
the implication
that
the software is unlicensed
decimation: asciilifeform: did you get
those little paper catalogs of shareware which you could order on diskettes?
mircea_popescu: generally, any friend of
the usg is an enemy of
the world.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> idea is
that
they 'have
the choice
to surrender
to usg' and didn't make it << myeah.
they gotta be supported.
decimation has fond memories of downloading warez from
tucows back in
the day
mircea_popescu: and obviously,
the usg doesn't like it. how surprising.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> no if you read
the article,
the 'startup' is actually a division of
tucows,
the domainame freeware site << you know
twocows i actually like.
decimation: just like
the same ones burden
the death penalty with layers of bureaucracy and
then claim
that it's
too unwieldy
to use
decimation: asciilifeform: my hypothesis re: hidden execution in
the US was
that
those who wanted
to end all executions encouraged it so
that
they could
then argue
that it doesn't have a 'discouragement' effect on crime
decimation: asciilifeform: note
that keeping
the execution behind closed doors greatly diminishes its intended effect
to encourage
the others
nubbins`: i once saw
thomas edison electrocute an elephant
decimation: re: electric chair < my understanding is
that it was mainly a marketing gimmick for electricity
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:39:58; asciilifeform: so from
this it follows
that
the current ceremony (injection with not-quite-poisons in an elaborate pseudo-medical setting) also symbolizes something about modern usa, re: national character.
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:36:01; asciilifeform: when usa was a
techno-power, electric chair was king
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform:
the one common anthropological
thread i see here is
that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in
their chosen means of execution. e.g.,
the french guillotine across all five 'republics'
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 00:39:01; *: asciilifeform has been enjoying 'Seeing Justice Done.
The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France.' (Paul Friedland.)
decimation: asciilifeform: I don't get why we don't still use
the guillotine
nubbins`: man, i remember
tucows from back when i had
to buy a book
to use
the internet
nubbins`: if i wanna see a card
trick, i don't want you
to hold
the deck face-up
nubbins`: wonder will
the
town wait
to be sued before giving up subscriber info
decimation: yeah I guess
that's
the idea, but it seems dubious
that usg will
tolerate such behavior
decimation: essentially no say in
the content of
the websites on its roster, Bunton
told me. "
decimation: apparently
tucows is on usg's shitlist because it won't play ball
decimation: " "We want
to blow
this
thing up, and we want disruptive services at disruptive pricing," Robert Wack, Westminster's city council president,
told me. "We've got Comcast and its usual suite of services, Verizon DSL, with its patchy service areas, and dish and satellite services. Nobody is happy with any of it, and none of it has
the capacity we need
to
take
this city into
the future.""
decimation: and
they are merely 'operating'
the network after westminster, md builds it
decimation: no if you read
the article,
the 'startup' is actually a division of
tucows,
the domainame freeware site
mircea_popescu: but
then again in qm, your existence is not so distinct from your energy.
nubbins`: this is all
the sort of
thing i understand while reading it but don't really copy it over
to long-term storage
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yes, something like
that. as if you could only be right before or right after
the door but not in between.
mircea_popescu: as a rule of
thumb,
the first occurs over
tiny distances,
the 2nd is distance-invariant
mircea_popescu: quantum entanglement is
the property of
two apparently distinct "particles"
to share more
than
they should.
nubbins`: quantum
tunneling is when i go outside but skip
the door
mircea_popescu: anyway : quantum
tunneling is
the observed property of quantum "particles"
to interact at a distance without ever interacting with whatever's separating
their first position from
the second.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu just checking
to see if anyone was paying attention 8)
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:07:43; nubbins`: unless you're bringing quantum
tunneling into it 8)
assbot: Best Paladin of
The World pwning nubs on My Heart Will Go On from Celine Dion (ATHENE #1) - YouTube ... (
http://bit.ly/1FOCdsp )
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know what i'd like
to see, a reality show of
this guy and athene
the best paladin in
the world (with his mother)
decimation: asciilifeform: re: asciilifeform: presumably
they keel over somewhere else, in a designated place < cats are well known for anticipating
their deaths and crawling up some inaccessible hole beforehand
to die