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mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is exactly how hiring a lawyer has worked since at last
the 60s
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what i meant was a distinction between self publishing, ie, being
the editor, and self-rape, ie, being
the customer of an editor specialised in raping idiots.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one of
those fast food chains of legal practice. high churn, large staff of largely unqualified lawyers on dead end career
tracks, whole
thing kept
together by paralegals, somewhat.
mircea_popescu: admitting anyone was
to date naive enough
to allow
them
to file on his behalf.
BingoBoingo: Oh, so like
the
think
that got shat into news about litecoin mining which was settled last year
mircea_popescu: they're
too lazy
to do
their research and sprout nonsense in
their pr. imagine
the sort of horribru buried in
their court filings
mircea_popescu: well, i guess
this is a good point for anyone considering using Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP : don't.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i've read
that,
this is just something i come across while looking for news
cazalla: " Earlier in 2014,
the SEC investigated Eric Voorhees for
the unregistered sale of securities of SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds, using
the Romanian online crowdsale platform MPEx
to solicit investors from 2012
to 2013."
mircea_popescu: "Would you drive across
this bridge? No. If it somehow got built, everybody involved would be executed. Yet some version of
this dynamic wrote every single program you have ever used, banking software, websites, and a ubiquitously used program
that was supposed
to protect information on
the internet but didn't."
BingoBoingo: If I were
to imagine a serious book piracy operation,
the standard glue "Perfect" binding would be prefered
BingoBoingo: Twas 2009, POD had been a
thing for a while
BingoBoingo was disappointed in
the quality of his print on demand
turd.
The spine was an outie...
mircea_popescu: (true story, gave one
to woman, she's like "oh
this is so nice, i've never read a book before!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o btw, does
the end product of my first foray into
that industry suck ?
BingoBoingo: Oh, and original resolution of
the NL MVP Stanton bet ended up being right. You can have
the mods clear out all of
that penny sports bet baseball spam nao
mircea_popescu: things
that can be easy already are.
things
that aren't easy can't be made "easier". if you can't afford a house,
taking credit doesn't make
the house easier. etc.
mircea_popescu: when one approaches you with
the proposition of "making
things easy" what he means is, your wallet. easier
to carry.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. In
the aftermath I did
the math on, "What if I actually had something worth publishing on
tree cadavers"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: 20 or so I believe. I
think on ebooks I got 30%. "Self" publishing is a racket
mircea_popescu: it will follow
the sugar gradient and
that's all it does.
mircea_popescu: a bureaucracy is history-less, in
that it is incapable of learning from its mistakes, just like amoeba is incapable of learning writing.
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the story of iraq v1 and v2, for
that matter.
mircea_popescu: be serving.
The USAF was killing
the very peasants it was
there
to save from communism.
mircea_popescu: The only problem was
that
the bombing was helping lose
the war. Predictably,
the peasants
turned against Saigon, leading
to
the introduction of US ground forces in 1965. Like
the “body count”,
the number of “structures” destroyed had no relation
to actually winning
the war. It was an indicator of organisational “success” wholly divorced from reality, and from
the values
that
the organisation was supposed
to
mircea_popescu: More
targets meant more bombing, and more bombing meant a bigger role for
the USAF.
The result was more budget, more planes, and career advancement for all concerned.
mircea_popescu: while at
the same
time sucking in ever more resources from worthy and effective activities.
mircea_popescu: As far as I am aware,
the phrase came into usage among knowing observers of
the Vietnam War. A self-licking ice cream cone is a programme or policy
that costs money and resources, generating a great deal of activity; produces indicators of its own success, preferably quantitative; but does not actually achieve its announced goals. Indeed, a proper self-licking cone undermines
the very purposes for which it was created,
BingoBoingo: Los Zetas started as a bunch of experts, but finite hit points and now
the human shields are in charge and Nuevo Laredo can't have a nice hooker district anymore
mircea_popescu: she's
too horny
to go
to bed so she fucks a coupla passing bums, with disastrous effects.
mircea_popescu: something like
that. woman previously married
to some hard drinking bozo meets a phthisc young man who's a "student" whatever
that may mean.
the
three quarrel,
the kid ends up killing
the man,
talks
the woman up a storm
then... leaves ?
BingoBoingo: Pretty much
the story of Los Zetas, but in reverse
BingoBoingo: And eventually after some embarrassment
they have less ideas and America leaves,
then ??? ISIL
BingoBoingo: The spectrum of US Armed forces experiences
this past decade is a wide one.
The cousin nao afraid of dentist in his whole
time enlisted in
the marines was either in
the US or on a boat.
undata: why "IS"? I'm sure he and others clearing houses of everything
that moved didn't help.
undata: a brother of a friend was in fallujah; I've heard a few of his stories, and
they weren't about iced cream.
BingoBoingo recalls friend
telling stories
that when
the was in
the Infantry every few weeks he'd have
to watch
the Airforce at his base have friendly BBQ's with
thier Afghans
mircea_popescu: it's already "desertion means leaving a world
that you don't understand" and move
to "desertion means joining a world you easily do"
mircea_popescu: really,
the lucky aspect for
the us army officers is
that
the arabs don't bother
to learn english. otherwise,
the sheer cultural pressure would probably make "boots on ground" untenable.
mircea_popescu: i can readily see numerous angles
through which retiring from
the us military
to baghdad rather
than kansas is preferable
to
the 19 yo mind.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
to get
their
teeth done. << One cousin enlisted for
this reason. Now afraid of dentists.
mircea_popescu: notice
that in a group of 100k idiots, you may end up with a subgroup of 100 or 10 idiots of any particular braindamage you wish.
undata: if we see IS as an actual
threat, we really must be in sore shape.
mircea_popescu: why were
they in
the army in
the first place,.
to police reddit ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure.
think about it : be
the gods of
their age group ? instead of going home
to hear a stupid bitchfest, stay with
the people where rape is something you're supposed
to do ?
mircea_popescu: undata women are principally distinguished by a preference for
the shit
they know.
undata: mircea_popescu: certainly not. neither is
the current circumstance
though
mircea_popescu: but
the politicos of
the
time were caught in
the very real vice of "well, rome's poor or
the vandals, about as
trustworthy"
undata: so
this islamic state consolidates parts of
the middle east?
that's probably a great
thing.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it was
the premier driver behind
the eventual move
to mercenaries, something otherwise politically incomprehensible for
today's curious student.
BingoBoingo: I
thought
that was linked here not
too long ago, except
they went native at
their own station.
undata: I can't rub
two coherent
thoughts
together
that make going back
to Iraq a good idea.
mircea_popescu: happened
to
the late romans a whole heck of a lot more
than
they ever cared
to admit
mircea_popescu: should be funny
to see when
the first supposed army uniot goes native.
BingoBoingo: I recall
they were short on
toilet paper and
toothpaste last
time. I recall solicitations for "care packages" consisting of basic necessities when I was at school.
mircea_popescu: this
time
they will be short
toilet paper and
toothpaste.
undata: mircea_popescu:
they didn't even have enough armor, etc., last
time