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mircea_popescu: anyway, last fucking job you want in a conflict zone is flying
the helicopters.
davout: does anyone know
that pilot joke? "how do you know someone's a pilot?"
mircea_popescu: im sure driving a car is pretty awesome
to fish, and for
the same reason : "mamma mia if i crash
this
tank im fucked"
mircea_popescu: that in
turn being because helicopters exist in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: davout but
then again,
they don't have
to be FOR something.
they may well just be BECAUSE of something,
that something being "we got a helicopter"
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 05:15:29; asciilifeform: but soon it was clear even
to imbeciles
that flying was an aristocrat's (or
totalitarian
thug enforcer's...) game.
davout: i'd
tend
to agree with asciilifeform, what are all
these US police helicopter-chase shows for if not for clearly asserting
that "there's nowhere
to run" ?
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 05:13:40; asciilifeform:
the helicopter is
the symbol of statal power against
the peon schmuck
mircea_popescu: with all
this digitality of modernity, it
turns out
the postwar mobsters were eerily before
their
time.
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cazalla: the 2 year retention period is sorta bullshit anyway as it's
the ISPs who need
to keep
the data for 2 years, but if a gov dept such as ASIO or
the police request
that data,
they are allowed
to keep it forever, so i'm sure
they will just request all data so
that
they can keep it forever (if
they aren't already doing it)
cazalla: as well as a black list
to block sites like
thepiratebay.. fraser's death couldn't have been
timed better
tbh
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 20:22:56; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057738 << it is. people (especially people kinda
too lazy
to study
things in depth) have all sorts of
theories about privacy and keep pestering me for special addresses etc. it's a fashion is what it is, one i don't aim
to encourage, and i'm stuck because w/e, serving
teh customer.
cazalla: chetty,
that would be retaining meta data for 2 years
chetty: cazalla better
they
talk about
that
than whatever new evil laws
they are up
to
cazalla: at least it seems
that way anyway
cazalla: fucking media here.. former PM malcolm fraser dies.. every politician gets his 5 minutes in every newspaper,
twitter feed, radio stream
to express what a great leader, game changer etc etc
the dead guy was
BingoBoingo: Everyone here is here
to read
trilema basically
brendafdez: if i'm not gonna do anything based on
that information atm
there's no reason i should care...
cazalla: how about.. i'm
trying
to read here, do you mind?
cazalla: scary? i won't give him
that :)
cazalla: brendafdez, you don't care about
the price?
cazalla: the old mircea_popescu pic complemented
trilema, but
this new one is difficult with MP staring at you while you read
brendafdez: drunk and all you still care about
the price? :P
fluffypony: made
the mistake of wearing
that when flying out of Dallas
to go back home, and had random people shouting "Go Cards!" at me
fluffypony: bought a Pujols
t-shirt and everything
BingoBoingo: It is neatly
the opposite of
the abortus which purports
to host a "super bowl"
BingoBoingo: The best way I can explain baseball aesthetically
then is as a dance where every movement holds
the entire game at stake
brendafdez: apart from
that, i've only
travelled briefly
to neighboring countries, like uruguay (many
times), brazil (once), paraguay (once)
brendafdez: always lived here, yes, except for
two months or so i lived in munich bc some stupid institute decided
to foot
the bill :D
trinque: other
than
that, I don't know
that
the US is producing a lot of worthwhile art
brendafdez: Lots
to learn, maybe I could appreciate it someday...
BingoBoingo: Oh, I'm not
talking about someone who
throws
the ball
the hardest. I mean art. Waino
tosses
the ball among
the most pleasing line.
brendafdez: art is in
the eye of
the beholder, so I won't dispute
that. I would however find it hard
to see art in sport. It must be
there, but generally I just couldn't care less. When
there's a major sports event here, it means 'good
time
to go outside and
take pictures of
the empty streets and such'
BingoBoingo: The art show is
the wa Wainright gets opposing pitchers out
BingoBoingo: It is
totally still a
thing. It is my favorite baseball
team
brendafdez: St Louis Cardinals was a baseball
team
then?
That was
the art show? :P
BingoBoingo: The getting off part is fine. I'm just not much one for
the loving part.
brendafdez: the sooner you fix
that monogamy
thing
the better, me
thinks
BingoBoingo: There was
this hot German exchange chick in High School my sernior year evern
though every class was equivalent of her Junior year. Let's refer
to her a Kirsten Nao
brendafdez: not
that I have much success with
the locals, either...
brendafdez: I need
to find a foreign-speaking gf/bf/whatever soon, being with
the locals doesn't compare
BingoBoingo: I've always found German
the hottest when I
though
the Girl might bake me
trinque: pissed off my parents, good enough for me in early
teens
brendafdez: I was still a
teenager, so you can't blame me ;)
brendafdez: I could never bring myself
to like
them, but I liked bands
that were such crap
brendafdez: then it
the most un-hot language imaginable
brendafdez: you can say it softly, but people
tend
to picture it in
their minds with a Hitler voice xD
trinque: sounds like you're going
to drain her blood
BingoBoingo: Just
the German language doesnt allow for
the flirting
that makes
the pursuit fun
BingoBoingo thinks bagging a north Korean chick would be better
than Everest
BingoBoingo: That's
the problem. Here
they pretend no corruptness while being sooper corrupt.
brendafdez: IT was
the hottest
thing ever, girl whispering in german softly
to your ear... ahhh priceless.
brendafdez: BingoBoingo if much of your feelings of unsafeness stem from local State corruption, you'd like it in Argentina. It's not
that
there's no corruption over here, on
the contrary, but
they get
to interefere much less with peoples lives.
The fact
that people here see
the US as
the land of freedom really boggles
the mind.
BingoBoingo kinda wants
to it
the phils before .ar
to pick up a cheap wife
☟︎ brendafdez: There I fell in love with a Russian girl, it was in 2008, it was awesome
that we'd both speak with each other in a language
that was foreign for both, felt special, like being in bitcoin
these days (?
☟︎ brendafdez: it was an enjoyable experience when I lived in Germany for a brief period, a couple of months, just getting
to speak
the local language gave me
the
thrills (I'm weird, I know :P)
brendafdez: dunno, but even just for
the language id like
to go. I mean it's weird for me speaking english so much in
the internet, and never having been
to an en speaking place.
BingoBoingo: Eh, not really worth it. What is
there left
to see?
brendafdez: tbh, I doubt I'd be able
to get a US
tourist visa even, at
the moment
BingoBoingo: I actually kinda want
to visit
the phillipines before argentina
brendafdez: just move here
to argentina already :)
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: If you want
to love anything at all here you would love
the St Louis Cardinals. best art show in
the middle west
trinque: I drove
through
there moving
to
the pacific nw
trinque: that's what
the
texas panhandle smells like
BingoBoingo: I've lived
through a warm midwestern spring already where you can smell
the pigshit on
the beanfields. Not a
thing
to relive voluntarily
brendafdez: dunno, maybe
they are slightly more careful with
that over
there
BingoBoingo: I live very close
to fields I am prolly lost in
that way already
brendafdez: but if you live close
to
the field you'll likely get intoxicated by
the monsanto crap+
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: Well, I'd have
to get further south
than Mexico.
They might want me for lab work
brendafdez: Well, here in Arg
there are soybeans aplenty
BingoBoingo: Some years I am surrounded by Corn,
the others soybeans
BingoBoingo: From being in
the middle of a hostile wasteland
brendafdez: So your feelings of 'unsafeness', where do
they stem from?
brendafdez: I'm not sure if 'not at all' conveys
the whole meaning of my degree of ignorance
BingoBoingo: <brendafdez> BingoBoingo over here in brendaland utc -3 is a good
time for stories :P also i hate
that it's
too hot and can't sleep. I was
trying
to avoid selling more btc
to get a/c considering winter is supposed
to be coming << Bingo is not all powerful like MP, but for
the right price could correct all of
these problems
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: I do however feel much less safe here in
the middle west
than I did even 24 hours ago
brendafdez: BingoBoingo over here in brendaland utc -3 is a good
time for stories :P also i hate
that it's
too hot and can't sleep. I was
trying
to avoid selling more btc
to get a/c considering winter is supposed
to be coming
ben_vulpes: also you'll wnt
to
talk
to kakobrekla about permavoice in any event
ben_vulpes: ask kakobrekla about it, he's savvy
to bot dynamics
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: I'm of dutch and not sicilian ancestry so I can't make strong promises of vengance based on besmirching
the family name.
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeh how do I associate
the fucker with my account?
BingoBoingo: For
the longest
time allegedly St Clair county has
tried
to fuck with me. 7 hours ago St Clair county seems
to have made
the jump from fucking with me specifically
to fucking with members of my family.
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: So you know USia has federalism.
The state level (Illinois in
this case) defers
to
the county. In
this case corrupt as St Clair county which contains East StL in its borders.