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assbot: Bill Ayers 'confesses'
to writing Obama's memoir. He didn't, but his
tease
tells us a lot about America –
Telegraph Blogs
assbot: Logged on 24-10-2014 04:44:03; asciilifeform: 'At
the 1980 Olympics, Brezhnev begins his speech. "O!"—applause. "O!"—an ovation. "O!!!"—the whole audience stands up and applauds. An aide comes running
to
the podium and whispers, "Leonid Ilyich,
those are
the Olympic logo rings, you don't need
to read all of
them!"'
decimation: I'm pretty sure obama just signs what he is
told
to sign and reads what he is
told
to read off
the appropriate prompter
mircea_popescu: early us kings were intellectually weak, in world
that had but contempt for weaklings.
they saw a way out in hiring "pr", people
to protect
them from
the deep waters of speech and
thought.
mircea_popescu: decimation admire
this funny : early frankish kings were physically weak in a world
that had but contempt for weaklings.
they saw a way out in hiring bodyguards, which was convenient. for charlemagne.
decimation: asciilifeform: all powers
to say
things are reserved
to
the
top
tier of usg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ask diana what's her name,
the sec senior counsel chick.
xanthyos: if you didn't want
to play chess against birdman with
that gui i doubt you'd want
to load
tinychat
xanthyos: mircea_popescu:
tinychat is a badly coded insecure site where degenerates go on webcam
to be codependent alcoholics and prey on underage girls
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
think you may be conflating
things. guy a) lived on a mountain ; b) among an ethnically opressed majority
that he supported ; c) against a
technologically advanced foreign power.
mircea_popescu: knew a chick
that did both, she had superb
tits and splendid
teeth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more like, judging dentist by inverse count of loud screams on
the premises ; plastic surgeon by inverse count of lawsuits.
decimation: mircea_popescu: which play,
the private beheading?
decimation: at any rate nailguns, cars, polonium, ricin,
these smack of a weak sovereign, not a strong one. who asked anyone in
the 'chinese government' before
they did something in Shanghai circa 1920?
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: i don't use keybase but my key was generated
there <<< "your".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you could say
teh plugging with ricin episode was
the result of competent kgb leadership neh ?
decimation: asciilifeform:
the best explanation for
that kind of
thing would be some low-level derp with a hard-on for a particular agenda, who initiates - and
the rest of
the bureaucracy 'leads from behind'
mircea_popescu: decimation it'd be
the big bad, by definition. it only exists conceptually
to accomodate asciilifeform's rampant pareidolia :D
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i wanted
to see if anyone knows him. "can get an inquiry with" is
the opposite of
that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, but
they still have
to be... you know, NOT wet pasta.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so anyone know
this Khalahan Henkh fellow ? << anyone respond
to
this?
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:54:02; assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 22:24:42; asciilifeform: (for n00bs only: who is 'lizard hitler' ? a character approximately as real as magnetic field lines were
to michael faraday. don't look for magnetic field lines,
they aren't
there. physically. or as far as we can
tell, anyway.)
decimation: I guess my point is, if you are looking for 'lizard hitler', here he is - a couple of high level derps decide
they can 'get away with X' and convince
themselves
that 'it's
the right
thing'
decimation: she said, “Uh-huh. Is it
the right
thing
to do?” “Yeah, I
think so.” She said, “OK, we’ll deal with
that when it comes.”"
mircea_popescu: and nobody hates it, either.
the usg is widely despised, and in some quarters reviled.
mircea_popescu: sudenly
the entire polling
thing won't be as legitimate.
mircea_popescu: decimation indeed, up until
that point where i make a poll where 200mn vote for him
to surgically attach a cow vagina on his forehead
undata: "Potter says he is still deciding if he will press charges for assault." <<
this is weak
decimation: although
to be fair, I'm sure in his world as long as he has some poll
that implies
that 50% of usian support whatever he is planning
to do, he would consider it 'legitimate'
mircea_popescu: "from
the small fraction of
the population
that has
this romantic attachment
to absolute
transparency at all costs." < <
the sweetest sugar of etatism,
decimation: asciilifeform: can you imagine a similar conversation at a soviet university at
the kgb recruiting desk?
decimation: annoy
the shit out of some gov't clerk, he lashes out, news at 11
undata: tut
tut, hapless romantics
assbot: How
the NSA Recruits in a Post-Snowden World -
The Daily Beast
decimation: I suspect
that pre-snowden,
this kind of
thing rarely happened
assbot: Video shows
two men's confrontation with NSA recruiter at UNM | KOB.com
mircea_popescu: for all we know, it is *possible* it dun happen
this
time. wink wink.
mircea_popescu: mind
that
the fact
that it so works in practice is no actual proof.
xanthyos: mircea_popescu: it's a shame you're not on
twitter anymore with
that content
decimation: as a gradually larger portion of
the 'sane class' in
the us begins
to perceive usg as more of an enemy
than a friend, I suspect
the quality of 'chicken' will degrade further.
decimation: I'm not really sure usg even knows how
to 'supply'
decimation: asciilifeform: "supply chicken" << I get
the general impression
that
the 'chicken' volunteers
hanbot: mircea_popescu: hanbot mail
the man would you. << so emailed.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos if you ever want
to get a militant feminist rabid,
tell her
to stop bitching about dairy farm conditions, it's just patriarchy's dry run for her and her kind.
mircea_popescu: in
the end
the whole discussion neatly reduces
to whether men are more like cows or more like mice.
mircea_popescu: whether
this is workable or not is in
the end
their problem.
thestringpuller: i backed my
trilema cookie up via gpg on a bunch of sites like dropbox
nubbins`: incidentally, my
trilema cookie was
the one
thing i didn't save when i wiped
this machine
thestringpuller: i will when butthurt ddoser decides
to stop ruining
the nice
things for us
nubbins`: "Provincial budgeting has been off by an average of $800 million a year over
the past seven years, largely due
to inaccurate oil projections."
thestringpuller: it was slightly before
the "MPOE is likely monetizing itself" article
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: where is your announcement
that happened in nov - dec 2012 saying you were selling more shares of MPOE on MPEx?
nubbins`: "well if my old-age pension won't be
there, at least i'll have my... uh.."
nubbins`: ok
this was actually a couple years ago
nubbins`: maybe still winding
thru arbitration. i'll dig
nubbins`: "
type situations in
these parts,
the past couple years
nubbins`: there have been several "take half your pension or
take none of it
mircea_popescu: like
those slumlord fire hidrants,
they're red and
they're safelt
there