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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point i was perhaps understatedly making is that the LEGAL profession is now under attack from the red brigades. they fought the doctors in the court system for 30-40 years (whiole the idiot lawyers looked on, thinking they're special)
mircea_popescu: american exceptionalism is getting raped pretty good these days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not the "full faith and credit of the united states", no.
mircea_popescu: this is the new us citizen pay class, "How deep in the red may you arbitrarily sign yourself, where may is used in the sense of must" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, so check out imperial poverty. manafort dude has "homes" ie real estate picassos worth maybe 11mn and loans outstanding worth 12 ? so he is "rich" because he's in the red 1e6 as opposed to poorer plebs only allowed in the red 1e4 or 1e5 ?
mircea_popescu: you see it everywhere, from the supreme court all the way down to obscure daycare
http://www.27bslash6.com/flash.html (" He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable." ) sorta thing
mircea_popescu: then it was exactly what SOPS likes, a meta-discussion.
mircea_popescu: this facebook thing... used to be a great bureaucrat's toy in the days when the inca was smaller and still struggling to infest medical profession. "supoenad records", some doctors mentally slow enough to imagine they held the only copy.
mircea_popescu: im guessing this is how it's going from now on, "send your kids over, i'll fuck 'em while you perform"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Immediate family members are therefore personally responsible for substantial payments to the Court should Mr. Manafort not" << lulzy.
mircea_popescu: i thought one was supposed to loathe details and conspiracy theories, at that.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the sagittarius of tmsr is mired in teh potomac swamps.
mircea_popescu: anyway, flew 1k km, missed target by 1km. perfectly in line with scud capabilities. kinda why it's not much used, either.
mircea_popescu: basically the claim here seems to be that "if they hit anything, they hit the body after warhead separation", which seems a satisfactory description of fact.
mircea_popescu: "oh, we shot it down". well... considering 99% launches fail to touch target... "safe lie"
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the riyadh bombing : the "scud defense" thing is particularily lulzy because the scud's chief characteristic is how inaccurate it is.
mircea_popescu: make sure you don't miss days though, people who build up pented excitement get VERY pissy.
mircea_popescu: and there's nothing wrong with a weekly rhythm of it either, gives reader chance to follow along.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no problem, as long as clearly communicated.
mircea_popescu: also lettuce announce there's going to be a nov-dec joint qntra statement.
mircea_popescu: let me take this opportunity to point out to asciilifeform that his first item in the epic ffa write-up was dec 1st. this is dec 4th. wasn't it supposed to be a 1 hour apart publishing or what's going on there ?
mircea_popescu: in other machine-made lulz,
http://archive.is/rdZnl : the title is "the comehack" for some reason, but the header is me walkin' with a newspaper wrapped machete in hand.
mircea_popescu: well... if you feel like documenting it so i'm not the only one explaining how reddit is worth < than the slashdot's coupla mil, lock stock and barrel...
mircea_popescu: i'd say add it, you know, "or you could buy a preinstalled laptop"
mircea_popescu: well, 1 is better than 0. it's not like there's 2 and i'm proposing one quit.
mircea_popescu: but if you're going to have a standard os you're going to have a standard os.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure this guy will actually send you one if you pay him ; as opposed to the other one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for eg danielpbarron has that selling eulora boxes thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so why not have two rows line normal people. started at 1 0 then moved to 0 7842 then ended at 0 4990
mircea_popescu: i deeply care python 3 won't build without gcc 6 hurr.
mircea_popescu: fortunately it's a whole pile of source that nobody could possibly ever want,
mircea_popescu: yes, but... i still dun have a gcc 5 anywhere for instance.
mircea_popescu: so basically, will be driven via cloud and google/apple duopoly.
mircea_popescu: "more secure" in the sense of, "against non-nsa attackers only"
mircea_popescu: i'm guessing the gcc 6 branch lacks any sort of incentive exactly in the manner gcc 5 did, making this kind of measures necessary ?
mircea_popescu: is the idea here that "should you attempt to ask questions on stackexchange there'll be a crowd of politruks whining about it" ? or something else ?
mircea_popescu: "Modularity and code reuse are, of course, A Good Thing. Even in the most trivially simple case, however, the CS/IT dogma of code reuse is totally foreign in the bazaar: the software in the FreeBSD ports collection contains at least 1,342 copied and pasted cryptographic algorithms." << of which none actually work, is the caper.
mircea_popescu: people generally laugh at flaubert for having spent however many weeks to discern if 20 or 22 degrees was "more adequate in his text", but the elided truth of the matter is that they who ~entirely~ lack the mechanism there used in excess are in a much sadder spot than poor ol' oncle g.
mircea_popescu: whereas to literate folk, this is a major topic. "i...can't say that. why can't i say that ? why won't that let itself be said ?!"
mircea_popescu: in fact, they don't expect language pushback (resistance of medium) at all whatsoever, and don't understand how to decode when the words are crying to the heavens their sadness in abuse.
mircea_popescu: all the foregoing aside (and much related to what you say) i suspect this is also a very specific vulnerability of the esl folk, in that they DONT expect the language to complain when misused.
mircea_popescu: the first is how articles are born in the first place, half the time. because "lo! bad construct detected!"
mircea_popescu: the second is more than half tyhe time how trilema articles end up so long, those that do -- there was a shorter thing there that didn't hold, but for expressive rather than fundamentalreasons.
mircea_popescu: i can't be the only one dedicated enough to the craft to actually be bothered by such.
mircea_popescu: how does he manages to avoid the exception, you know ? "this enumeration... it doesn't work... what am i actually talking about ?"
mircea_popescu: shit happens to me ALL! THE! TIME!!!! writing trilema pieces.
mircea_popescu: somehow he manages to write that AND NOT at the same time throw an error. "wait... i... can't actually explain this ?!"
mircea_popescu: i ~can~ name what makes me better in any professional field ffs. who can't ? how couldn't you, if it is indeed professional field!