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mircea_popescu: should
they call home and have an adult male
take
them in hand ?
mircea_popescu: should
they carry mace and avoid walking alone at night
to
the car ?
mircea_popescu: is
the paris police force in danger of rape ? what's next ?
mircea_popescu: this isn't a "and
they run into a cop while he had his back
turned and shot him dead".
this is "french police reliably can not hold its own against determined assailants". well...
mircea_popescu: on one hand, because a lot means
they're expensive, and
taken from more useful stuff. on
the other, because if
the cop can't hold his own
then why even have him.
davout: the ones on
their bicycle are
the most problematic ones,
they sneak upon you
mircea_popescu: but
that's exactly my problem here.
there are A LOT of derps masquerading as cops. neither of
these is good.
davout: but yeah,
there are quite a few cops in paris
davout: well,
the
third one isn't
that close
mircea_popescu: so. ran into a random patrol. shot at
them. moved on, ran into another. shot at
them
too. ran into random cop. shot him
too.
mircea_popescu: nouvelle fusillade: un policier, âgé d’une
trentaine d’années et rattaché au commissariat du XIe arrondissement, est
touché puis froidement abattu au sol.
mircea_popescu: En quittant les locaux, les assaillants
tombent sur un véhicule de police en ressortant dans la rue. Ils ouvrent à nouveau le feu avant de remonter à bord de leur Citroën. Une course-poursuite s'engage. Ils empruntent l’allée verte, une rue perpendiculaire à celle du siège de Charlie Hebdo. Croisent une autre patrouille de policiers, en VTT. Nouveaux
tirs, sans victime. Arrivé sur le boulevard Richard-Lenoir,
davout: police is annoying yes,
they did save my ass once
tho
davout: what shooting are you referring
to precisely?
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck do you run into
three police cars doing
three miles in
the utter periphery ?
mircea_popescu: what was it, 19th arrondisment ?
that's like... barracas, basically.
mircea_popescu: they don't stop crime,
they just bother
the 0.x% remaining parisians who actually have a job
that's not enacted by hollande's fiat
mircea_popescu: NONE of which manage
to do anything but get shot. why even call
them police
then ? what are
they for, hussling people, right ?
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, epic fucking police state you got
there. so, some people driving
through
the armpit of paris run into
three police patrols. because wtf, 30% of all paris works as cops or something ?
davout: i have never looked
this up actually
mircea_popescu: legitimate questions, all fo
them. and
they always get
the same answer, of course. but irrespective of how well
the cowboy manages
to re-adjust
mircea_popescu: "Mother do you
think
they'll drop
the bomb ? Mother do you
think
they'll like
the song ? Mother do you
think
they'll
try
to break my balls ?"
mircea_popescu: not at all what i mean. consider
the difference between say, a carpertner apprentice and a cowboy apprentice, both 15 in 1915.
decimation: well, if
they play
their cards right
they can scam fiat from outsiders hoping
to 'change
the process'
decimation: washington DC is famous for being 'inbred' in
the sense
that its 'experts' are all home-grown
mircea_popescu: something like "tom sawyer pinched himself and saw
that he was flesh and blood like any man".
mircea_popescu: obviously
that process only works in a narrow conventional field,
to
the degree it might as well be a literary device. but literary characters are not necessarily aware of
their conventional nature.
mircea_popescu: yeah, perianne boring is a product of a process, rather
than a person.
decimation: well,
the ostenisble reason is 'security', but
the actual reason is
that it is one more 'perk'
that can be given as a favor by someone who appears
to have power
decimation: suddenly 'because security' -
tourist are now restricted
to little groups led by a poor student
decimation: up until a few years ago, it was permissible for anyone
to walk into
the Capitol and walk wherever
they pleased
decimation: all of whom come for
the promise of 'gaining access'
to 'power',
the appearance of which is doled out carefully in DC
decimation: yeah,
the 'actual work' of pretending
to help voters, drafting bills, etc is generally performed by 18-25 year old women
mircea_popescu: but yes, decimation has a good point. nothing brings
the abandonment of
that republic clearer in view
than going
through its halls while on business.
decimation: mostly, except for
the annual 'state of
the union', in which case it is very important
to be seen 'in session' for
the cameras
decimation: everyone else in Congress has 'better
things
to do'
decimation: 99% of
the
time
the room is completely empty except for
the speaker, a few derps on
the podium, and a clerk or
two
decimation: actually if you go
to visit Congress in person (not recommended), you discover
that
they are never 'in session'
mircea_popescu: "In 1980,
the average Politburo member was 70 years old, as opposed
to 55 in 1952 and 61 in 1964." << in
this view
the soviets fell because
they couldn't find enough 85 yos for
the 90s
decimation: heh in
that case,
the us senate supports whatever wintel
tells
them
to, which is gonna be 64-bit
decimation: the republican senate 'in principle' opposes
the
taxes and spending required
to give free medical care
to old people, but in reality fully supports showering its vote bank with
trinkets
decimation: fiat, fiat business stock, fiat bonds, promises from usg
to pay
assbot: Logged on 09-01-2015 00:39:45; pete_dushenski: and it might be a bit loose
to call spinoza an inventor given
that he only crafted words
decimation: generally
the soft-money
treadmill is such
that only
those who have run
the race for awhile actually have any assets
decimation: I
think
there's a soft-money aspect here
too
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps. it only works if young women buy into
ti
tho.
decimation: until
they have
their final birthday party
mircea_popescu: jurov brings a very interesting question re supporting eulora. we could in principle drop 32 bit support. now, if
this were a crypto
thing or any such high assurance system i'd never consider it. but it's a game.
decimation: plus
the aged have control over
the levers of power, sufficient
to 'raise
the bar'
to attempt
to extract increasingly more effort from
the young
mircea_popescu: generally because
the living standards decay is obvious
to
the younger men.
decimation:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/02/1418761112 << lol usg 'research': "The number of principal investi- gators for R01s who are 36 y of age or youn- ger has declined from 18% in 1983
to 3% in 2010.
Today, more
than
twice as many R01s are awarded
to principal investigators who are over 65 y as are under 36 y, a reversal from only 15 y ago."
mircea_popescu: prolly help if it were signed / dated, but
that's not such a big deal.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what more
than "here's
the db" which nano already does ?
jurov: grrr i so hate spotting
typos. and it's in first sentence. ( BingoBoingo see qntra comment )
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: i'd love
to see api endpoints for all of
the
things
too
thestringpuller: assbot: wot should have better API for us
to dock our interfaces into
kakobrekla: yes -
they burned all
the free resources.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla:
they migrated off of heroku?
BingoBoingo: Most common size
the
things come in is fuck up a few
trees and remove approximately one roof
BingoBoingo: Well gotta do
that design inspired by nature
thing
BingoBoingo: We have naturally occuring deroofers
that roam
the countryside in favorable weather...
Tornados
mircea_popescu: i wonder if
there should be some sort of
tracked or maybe flexible wing roof remover ? like a huge can opener.
mircea_popescu: “Eventually, law enforcement knew and anticipated needing
to enter
the residence, in order
to
take
the subject into custody. Based upon
the information being developed
through interviews and practices used by other agencies in
the past, it became necessary
to breech part of
the outside area of
the house
to ensure
the safety of all involved.”
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i know chicks
that principally like
the sea/desert. i like forrested hills. you're apparently some sort of scrub bush apache stock. << I imagine mircea_popescu
taking
the girls out
to catch
their own mink and fox
assbot: Logged on 09-01-2015 19:42:28; mircea_popescu: i'm paying 2btc (once) in return for a single btc stolen from bitstamp's aws cloud after
today. comes with a signed certificate.
thestringpuller: the music is all programmed in layers so
that depending on what
the user is doing
the music
triggers, but it's all
timed
to a single metronome:
the heart beat of
the city
mod6: i do kinda wish i could grow a mustasche like
those guys in
the picture
though.
mod6: when your digits start
to
thaw,
they feel like someone hit
them with a sledge hammer. not a
ton of fun I
tell you.
mod6: haha, perhaps. im sure ive had frostbite like 69
times
thestringpuller: mod6 only likes
the desert cause he lives in
tundra for 9 months out of
the year.
mod6: part of it is,
there arn't many people
there.
mod6: haha. i love
the desert.
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck can all
this be accomodated in whatever Xtown.
mircea_popescu: i know chicks
that principally like
the sea/desert. i like forrested hills. you're apparently some sort of scrub bush apache stock.
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
this is a point often skirted by
the "paradise on earth" folk, be
they "bitcoin country" or anything-else-country (loads of
these historically) : not everyone likes
thesame!