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undata: are you kidding?
these "riots" are
the US version of
the same festering problems you see anywhere people are rotting in socialist paradise
undata: ... what problems,
the "riots"?
BlueMeanie4: there are plenty of black ppl who
think all
this is ridiculous
BlueMeanie4: personally, I
think Russia has a hand in all
this
mircea_popescu: reading
this steam lispo
thing, howdja get so cynical asciilifeform !
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo meh. more likely, a
tweetmeet with some politicos
trying
to be all you know,
talked about.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm
thinking something like "Do
the right
thing"
trashcan
through windows... prolly at least one good fire.
BlueMeanie4: the whole
thing is a massive media manipulation stunt, seems we get one every few months
these days
BingoBoingo: Anyone offering odds on whether New York gets riots
tonight?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> possibly author assumed
that i read whatever snakepit he linked
to it in. << more likely assumed you'll see it in your logs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so why is
this piece supposed
to bother you ?
BlueMeanie4: well
that aint gonna get ya users now will it? ;)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt anyone much cares bout
teh master key, but anyweay.
undata: If I have mastered 2+2=5,
there are
things completely out of my reach
gribble: You rated user BlueMeanie4 on Sat Oct 18 13:17:40 2014, with a rating of -2, and supplied
these additional notes:
thinks
the WoT should be more like an iPhone;
http://twitter.com/BlueMeanie4. undata: asciilifeform: so someone can surely be beaten into
this state; what I'm asking is whether
they don't become useless as a
tool in
that state
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2014 05:15:13; asciilifeform: it is beyond us
to produce a dual system of astronomy?
The stars can be near or distant, according as we need
them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal
to
that? Have you forgotten doublethink?' '
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2014 05:15:13; asciilifeform: 'Winston made another convulsive movement.
This
time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as
though answering a spoken objection: 'For certain purposes, of course,
that is not
true. When we navigate
the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient
to assume
that
the earth goes round
the sun and
that
the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do
mircea_popescu: undata
there's a reason i dun want new york after all.
undata: doesn't
this suggest followers which are
too sure of "what is" are not good slaves at all?
mircea_popescu: the only reason obama doesn't get a glass shard
through
the eye is
that nobody gives a shit about him and his eye
mircea_popescu: ever wondered how
these dudes in
their very distinctive gear manage
to go in and out of
the roman camp ?
mircea_popescu: i know
this from experience, so does anyone else in any way involved with any aspect
thereof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't find it hard
to believe us security sucks.
mircea_popescu: "Then, God be bless'd, it is
the blessed sun: but sun it is not, when you say it is not; and
the moon changes even as your mind. What you will have it named, even
that it is; and so it shall be so for Katharina."
undata: mircea_popescu: dunno, I've met plenty without
tits
mircea_popescu: undata>
there must just be a class of people who are wholly programmable, who will ignore reality completely if
told
to do so << yes.
this class of people is called "women".
mircea_popescu: <undata> what I'm stuck on is
this: you can have a hole in
the pentagon smaller
than
the wingspan of a plane << of course. why not ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because you 'clearly do not know how
the world works' or
the like. << a sword
that cuts both ways.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 08:57:03; mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison <<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of
those spammy "toolbars"
they had for netscape
that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
undata: "if works" <<
that's
the whole point, isn't it?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> fact is, if works, will be used. << so much
this
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 16:46:43; mircea_popescu: logo could be one of
those mechanical vaginal pears
they had cca 1600
undata: what
troubles me is whether
that
thing has a legitimate use, or whether
there are particular humans
that are irredeemably broken
undata: the religion rootkit, whatever you want
to call
that
undata: this,
that
there's a script which is expected
to precede
that which my own eyes
tell me
undata: there's a distinction
there between one who can lie, and one who doesn't know it's a lie
undata: a person who can do
that is a danger
to everyone
undata: there must just be a class of people who are wholly programmable, who will ignore reality completely if
told
to do so
undata: what I'm stuck on is
this: you can have a hole in
the pentagon smaller
than
the wingspan of a plane
adlai: ditto for studies on
the objective and subjective effects of 'oiling'
the
thinking machine with various alkaloids,
terpenoids, etc
undata: I'm still stuck on
the CIA having given a bomb
to a guy who boarded a plane
mircea_popescu: oh check it out,
the us warcrimes list includes wartime looting!
BingoBoingo: Who said anything about downloading... It's probably in one of
the piles of processed
tree corpses in
the garage.
adlai: "The ‘batteries’ were among objects looted from
the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad during
the invasion by
the USA and its allies in 2003. It is not known where
they are now or if
they even still exist."
http://www.badarchaeology.com/?page_id=208 undata: however
they've done
this, bravo...
BingoBoingo: Oh shit!!! asciilifeform Fuck
that was a while ago.
mircea_popescu: just so,
these dudes were going
there because "el dorado", not because... whatever, empty space.
mircea_popescu: take woman with cock in her mouth. she's
there because "the guy really respects her" right ? and "he has a great sense of humor" right ?
mircea_popescu: the ways common psychology works,
the ways people motivate
themselves
to do
things
they'll do anyway...
BingoBoingo: Turns out underwear bomber was likely very cooperative because he
thought
the CIA would bring
the FBI in on
this whole informant
thing.
mircea_popescu: it has everything
to do with wanting
to motivate euros
to get
the fuck
there, much like
the wild stories propping up
the south sea bubble
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i'd posit it has nothing
to do with gold, olr with "gems" which
they claimed
the streets are paved with (most of which - obsydian).
mircea_popescu: im in
the business of
trying
to form an idea of wtf happened.
mircea_popescu: im not in
the business of proving
to a bunch of idiots
that
they're wrong.
mircea_popescu: but i don't happen
to favour
that sort of standard of evidence.
adlai likes
the speculation
that artifacts
throught
to be gold are just electroplated