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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I liked
that form factor. Just looking at
the models
that slice a zero off of
the model number atm.
BingoBoingo: Blade 150 seemed
to offer some compute power while also offering more EM shielding
than its Blade 100 bredecessor
BingoBoingo: Does
the sun ray have any compute power of its own? Blade 150 looked interesting because somewhat portable pizza box form, IDE drives, and good old VGA monitor hookups.
BingoBoingo spent some
time
today looking longingly looking at sun blade 150's (model I did not know existed or had forgotten about) on Ebay.
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BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: About how it would work IRL. "Security
Theater" and all
that
danielpbarron: "OK, here's
the plan. Our evacuation
tactic is
to lock everyone in
this room.
They should all be extremely safe
there. Except we haven't secured
the vent OR fire escape... Oh well, I'm sure
they'll be fine."
They must have been evacuated for maybe
TEN MINUTES before
the zombie breaks into
the fire escape door. Wow,
that is a fantastic "safe zone".
funkenstein_: i hope
to make myself useful around here eventually
funkenstein_: i
tested
the 0.5.3 build on an old ubuntu box, built like a charm
funkenstein_: lol, wow
that's quite a bit more information
then
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Oh no
that's just his substance. You know instead of being limited
to
TCAG like
the rest of us his genetics require
the whole character set.
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: He might be communting from
the field
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, me in istanbul. very competent local secret service guy wants
to know where i'm from. "i'm american" "no you're not. you're bulgarian or something".
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, lulzy scene. my in bucharest, with slavegirl, at mother's appartment. she goes "oh, so she's X ?" "yeah. would you like
to see her naked ?"
mircea_popescu: that's
the golden standard as a field anthropologist : once
the gorillas start plucking your lice.
mircea_popescu: lol oddly protective. you have
to learn a foreign language yo. you have
to love a woman
that's perfectly incomprehensible for your parents.
that's what
travel is .
the rest's
tourism.
funkenstein_: mostly gringo stuff but not
tour guide. some hitchhiking and low budget stuff, but nothing i would brag about here
ascii_field: visited as in, came &
took pictures? or more ?
mircea_popescu: well, did you ever spend
time abroad ? how much ? did you learn
the local language ? did you fuck local or brownbag ? etc.
funkenstein_: mirecea_popescu, change of position with
time? i misunderstand your question
trinque: someone will always own
the dirt, and have a name for himself and
the people who live
there.
funkenstein_: equally
treated as useless unless evidence is presented otherwise
ascii_field: and
that folks who disagree, are necessarily idiots ?
ascii_field: that you are 'generic human' who ought
to be equally wanted anywhere
ascii_field: funkenstein_: but unless i misunderstand, you see
the passport as a dumb, pointless ritual
funkenstein_: ascii_field,
that's what i did learn when i did
travel
ascii_field: states come and go, civilizations are in it for
the long (but not infinitely long...) haul.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the fucktarded notion
that "children belong
to
the goddess"
that not even repressive medieval christianity could stamp out may well be a problem of
the western line.
ascii_field: funkenstein_: if you actually
think 'nations are irrelevant' and
that folks across
the sea are funnily-accented clones of yourself - buy a plane
ticket, learn something
ascii_field: aha. but in
the process of digesting it, cn would have
turned into something like ru
mircea_popescu: both
the muscovys and
the abassyds very useful for
this .
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if cn sat next
to europe
there wouldn't be a europe.
ascii_field: ru is sorta what cn might have looked like if it had sat next
to europe
funkenstein_: sounds like y'all
think nations are still relevant
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
that's chinese. confucianism
through and
through.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that
the first's fighting a proxy war with
the second via us/ru is... a little
too livresque for my
taste.
ascii_field: and other resistance
to 'civilized' degeneracy
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i won't say specifically ru, but various aspects like 'children belong
to parents as meat, not
to
the state' being in
their bones
mircea_popescu: well maybe uninformedly, but i do believe
there is such a
thing as chinese, and european civilisation.
BingoBoingo: Mao and
the Japs ended whatever might have been Chinese civilization
mircea_popescu: as painful as
this may sound
to
teh respective loyalists.
mircea_popescu: there's no usian "civilisation".
there's also no russian civilisation.
ascii_field: all states are evil << entirely below
the conflict between
the mega-states, is some pretty fundamental clash of civilizations
mircea_popescu: After
the battle, Hermoine becomes concerned
that women are underrepresented among heros of
the wizarding world, and starts a “Society for
the Promotion of Heroic Equality for Witches” or SPHEW.
mircea_popescu: the us version of
the same
thing is outright annoying.
mircea_popescu: how could you NOT live
there. perusing cnreddit and
thinking "yeah... but
then again...
they cut his balls off"
mircea_popescu: imagine, a country over a billion strong, in which nine in
ten young males are castrated.
mircea_popescu: if
this works, china will become irresistible
to say, me.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i do not
think so. i
think
they're
trying
to drone
them.
trinque: the way
they absorbed our industrial capacity is astounding
mircea_popescu: and especially
the poltroonish reaction of
the us
to
that...
BingoBoingo: Not yet, but China's going
to need a war soon
to cut down
their surplus dude problem.
trinque: getting us
to sign onto free
trade agreements, etc
trinque: china's maneuver against
the US will go down in history
mircea_popescu: neither has russia, but
then again it can be granted it doesn't need
to, having been so recently gutted entirely.
BingoBoingo: I just hope
the big 3 (Russia, China, USia) simply keep up
their current equilibrium of losing.
mircea_popescu: one could perhaps shop for evils one likes,
these stone homosexuals,
those rape niggers,
those others strangle unvirgin
teens, whatever.
mircea_popescu: which is why i'm very little inclined
to
take jurov's ideas about you know, russia holding anyone back
too seriously. all states are evil.
trinque: I know we did
things like
this in Iraq
mircea_popescu: this has been an ongoing problem for a good half decade by now, if not longer, and in
this sense exactly identical
to hitler rule in europe,
mircea_popescu: trinque anyway, if you feel like digging,
the outrage of mass rape by uk & other nato soldiers in darfour is amply documented, if amply buried by
the "respectable" anglo venues, starting with bbc.
mircea_popescu: cazalla inb a word, i'd say it's exactly
the correct position.
mircea_popescu: cazalla : in context of virtual coins, bnr makes
the following statements : "not national currency, not foreign currency, no one has
to accept it as a means of payment"
kakobrekla: as
they can use
their own coin washer for deposits
assbot: Soldiers rape more
than
TWO HUNDRED women and children in Darfur village in eight-hour attack | Daily Mail Online ... (
http://bit.ly/1xCZtCP )
jurov: i did not say bbc is innocent. but covering apparatchik's mishaps vs. war propaganda aimed
to alienating whole groups of population?
mircea_popescu: if
they order puffer fish because "i know what i'm doing",
they get puffer fish.