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decimation: note
that usg only gains superpowers when she's
trying
to conduct a worldwide coordinated deception
mircea_popescu: except... she's a dumb 13 yo with barel yany
tits,
that nobody but you would even notice.
mircea_popescu: you
think it does, because
to your starstruck eyes
this 13 yo girl is like ... madonna.
mircea_popescu: is your argument going
to be
that "unless it shows her naked fucking a satellite it's not
truely a diary" ?
decimation: the journalists are made
to look like buffoons
mircea_popescu: you can't get
the budget high enough without making secrecy impossible.
mircea_popescu: what you propose (a forced meme film
that is secretly made) can not be done. period.
mircea_popescu: well, i'm not
the king of
tinseltown, however, on
the grounds of my cursory familiarty with
the
topic of making movies (ie, being a producer),
mircea_popescu: the major difference here being
that your example is some kids having fun, my example is some idiot
trying
to force a meme.
mircea_popescu: to get an idea of what 10mn buys you, check out
tucker max' film.
mircea_popescu: just look at
the crud
that gets released. and
that's on "normal"
topics, girl meets boy or w/e.
mircea_popescu: dude,
they can't even make a film looking credible on 100mn.
decimation: re: snowden film : he seems pretty genuine
to me
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 02:56:12; asciilifeform: where only some piddling 300 life insurance policies have
to be paid out
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 01:51:12;
trinque: ^ demo
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 00:51:31; mike_c: ^ 200 satoshis is worth less
than an ad view at $2 cpm
mircea_popescu: well im not really
THAT into it, but i recall part of
the eu assumption conditions was "no
territorial disputes and no unresolved conflicts"
mircea_popescu: for every 10 bux of
this
there's 100 bux of "we got raped and had
to pay
the rapist for his cab fare"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure.
the
thing about
them orders and dynasties is...
they do not work.
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 00:12:16; asciilifeform: iirc sp
technically never made peace with ru.
mircea_popescu: if you ask
the slut, often enough it's because "he's
the only one
that asked, and i was getting bored"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why does
this guy
take
the slut home and not some other ?"
mircea_popescu: that pellet of usd
that htey lost in iraq,
that went
to
the arabs more
than
to
the pansy ass sons of - sons of whom anyway ? patreus ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would guess
that
the successful instances of actual merit wash, as opposed
to usg being straight scammed,
to be under 10%.
assbot: Logged on 27-02-2015 23:59:53; Stunna:
The amount given away is pretty minimal due
to botters
mircea_popescu: obviously
they'd operate on a (being scammed)
to (merit washing) continuum. it won't be either 0% or 100%.
mircea_popescu: or is one special among all
the idiot bureaucracies for reasons (tm)
mircea_popescu: the heamul project one. you recall, generalissimo peron was going
to get cold fusion going.
assbot: Logged on 27-02-2015 20:45:01; ascii_field:
the racket is open
to 'favourite sons' exclusively.
trinque: perhaps if
they fought each other for social position
trinque: asciilifeform: less wolf
than social insect
though isn't it?
trinque: we are certainly not grazing animals, nor should we behave like
them
trinque: I
tend
to pine for some period of harsh weather and natural disasters as yeah,
training wheels
trinque: I
think we'll benefit greatly from
the hostility of space
trinque: everyone's making app
things
trinque: asciilifeform: we just need
to
take on problems with actual risk
BingoBoingo: Clear subtext of final 10 minutes is
that aspiring Snowden 2.0 ended dead or on anthill
BingoBoingo: Obummer specificaly indicted several
times
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2014 02:58:15; asciilifeform:
the entire field, giving its history and monetary incentives, is a poisonous offering.