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PeterL: EG game of
thrones, I still don't know if
the character's name is Jojen or joien, since it shows up with about equal amounts of each spelling?
PeterL: I have a couple of ebooks with
typos like
that
lobbes: asciilifeform: can we apply
that
to wasps, for
that matter?
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2014 22:56:06; asciilifeform: 'Dijkstra said angrily. (He’d been visibly shaking his head
through out
the
talk even before
this outburst.) “How many bugs are we going
to
tolerate?” he demanded. “Seven,”
Teitelman shot back.'
lobbes: coderwill:
there will always be
turmoil.
The best
thing you can do is look out for your own interests.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 01:02:05; mircea_popescu: apparently kids crying are annoying in general, but for
that month it
takes
them
to die of hunger...
mircea_popescu: and
to such a degree
they kill
their children with
their own hands, at
that.
coderwill: the mass media pushes a divisive agenda, whatever causes
the most polarization makes
the most profit
coderwill: hence why i stopped reading
the news
coderwill: not many people
trying
to help one another, more so many serving
their own interests despite one another
coderwill: well, hopefully no one will get hurt anywhere, it's awful
the state of
the world
mircea_popescu: i've not even met one million people yet i'd ever wish
to meet again, wtf billions.
mircea_popescu: and b) wtf 2bn. i don't want
to consider a 2bn end scenario. what's wrong with 10 million ?
PeterL: coderwill:
that assumes constant population growth
coderwill: mircea_popescu: yes, but collectively it ends in geopolitical
turmoil, it seems
coderwill: Essentially, it states
that due
to population growth and
the rate of consumption, and
that at some point in
the future it will be mathematically implausible for
the world
to meet
the consumption demand.
coderwill: A few years ago I read a white paper about
this
thing called
the Olduvai
Theory.
decimation: well
that crazy guy in pennsylvania
tried
that, didn't get very far
mircea_popescu: decimation quite exactly
the
trunk
that my earlier "half a milion people shoot half a million cops".
decimation: going
to start ignoring is I have
to do whatever
they say."
decimation: for your impertinence is because you exercise power via
the Constitution. If
the Constitution doesn't count, you don't have any legitimate power. You are a
thief, a brigand, an officiant busybody, somebody who should be
tarred and feathered and run out of
town on a rail for
trying
to exercise power you don't possess. So, if you are going
to--if we are going
to start ignoring
the Constitution, I'm fine with
that;
the first part I'm
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "The parts he likes makes sense and
the others are crazy; what do you do? Here's
the problem with public officials--because
that's really his audience--deciding
to ignore
the Constitution. If you are
the President, if you are a member of Congress, if you are a
TSA agent,
the only reason why somebody should listen
to what you say instead of horse-whipping you out of
town
mircea_popescu: lobbes well i can agree wiht
that, but apparently he doesn't, so when
talking
to him i'll pretend like perhaps it hasn't.
lobbes: mircea_popescu: seems dubious
the us still has five years left in it. << would you not agree
that it is already dead? A decomposing body still sticks around for some
time. Where is
the line of 'no longer left'?
coderwill: mircea_popescu: it's really interesting
that his sentiment was
that it is either going
to be
this one or
the next one
that does us all in
mircea_popescu: pretty excellent seeing how it's ww2 he's
talking about.
mircea_popescu: "While I have been writing
this essay another European war has broken out. It will either last several years and
tear Western civilization
to pieces, or it will end inconclusively and prepare
the way for yet another war which will do
the job once and for all."
coderwill: mircea_popescu: interesting - i'm not sure if it will be similar
to orwell, but i just bought a book
this afternoon called "the
third policeman"
mircea_popescu: coderwill as chance would have it, im reading a bit of orwell discussing exactly
the same.
coderwill: i used
to worry a lot about what was going
to happen in
the world, but
the
things
that are happening make no sense
mircea_popescu: he hibernates five years at a
time and would like
to know if
to drink some coffee.
coderwill: asciilifeform: i stopped reading
the news because it is so negative
coderwill: do you all
things will be more or less
the same
they are now, geopolitically in
the next 5 years, or do you all
think
they will change drastically?
decimation: asciilifeform: more
than likely
they were promoted because
they looked especially good with
their hand on
the captain's wheel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and how much must your enemy pay you for you
to love him ?
mircea_popescu: completely unrelated, "Poe's outlook is at best a wild romanticism and at worst is not far from being insane in
the literal clinical sense. Why is it,
then
that stories like
The Black Cat,
The
Tell-tale Heart,
The Fall of
the House of Usher and so forth, which might very nearly have been written by a lunatic, do not convey a feeling of falsity?"
decimation: hey he went
to afghanistan and annoyed some pederasts
mircea_popescu: rather
than 50, with 30 years worthless except for
that camp's whims.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it's always wise
to give up on libertardism when one is 20
decimation: re: muppet pyramid: actually gen. stanley mccrystal (whom michael hastings interviewed) pretty much 'gave up' because of
the muppet pyramid above
mircea_popescu: i'll be sure
to
tweet criticisms of her accessories as she does it.
decimation: even he gave up
that prerogative in exchange for friendship with usg,
that
turned out
to not serve him very well
mircea_popescu: not bs cockless "oh, maybe
they spiked his car, maybe
they cut his glass stool and he spilled wine on his good
tie'
mircea_popescu: no dude. send your aide de camp
to drag a naked victim behind his horse all
the way
to your gate and nail
them
there.
mircea_popescu: (and by
the way : kardashian ? WAY better model for any 16 yo girl
than
this levy sandsack)
mircea_popescu: it's not like she's some sort of anais nin,
this woman.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the notion
that old men are not inclined
to fuck and
the notion
that poor people are content with poverty are both nonsense of
the first degree.
mircea_popescu: is enough reason
to make his profession -ev for a man of ability and intellect.
mircea_popescu: tell you what,
the fact
that he can't round up gawker, atlantic, wp and anyone else who ever wrote his name in print and shoot
the lot
mircea_popescu: and
the unmitigated impudence of
these "journalist" shitheads ...
decimation: apparently while you are on a hopeless mission in
the desert you can email
that 'socialite'
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 20:55:15; decimation: stand
there, and look like a captain. Chicks dig it. And yes, sir, it sure does pay.)"
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 20:55:13; decimation: "(I actually have great sympathy for
the professional. In a bureaucratic oligarchy like ours,
the professional both rules and is ruled. At
the
top,
there is no one on
top of him. Yet he cannot change his mind. He would simply be replaced.
There are always younger, more eager professionals. Sovereignty is conserved; it is always humans who rule; and yet, it seems
that no one rules. Who gets
to put