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decimation: when one signs up for a 30 year mortgage it's pretty easy
to imagine death coming first
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know
the etymology of
that
term ?
decimation: I'm sure
there are high-class hookers somewhere in wash dc, but I suspect
they also charge $$$
decimation: I suspected
that she resided in
the neighboring
trailer park
mircea_popescu: decimation seriously, it's unsanitary,
this.
take
the world back, man!
mircea_popescu: "and
this, my dear girls, is how you make a cnc mill out of menstrual blood"
decimation: once in my youth I intercepted a business deal between a hooker and a john using a scanner in
the portable-phone frequency range
mircea_popescu: it's
the duty of any gentleman
to fuck a whore at least yearly.
mircea_popescu: listen, if smart people don't fuck whores,
the poor girls are left with a very poor impression of maledom
decimation haven't availed myself of
their services
undata: better stated,
the only owned information is a secret
decimation: I've been
told
that many 'massage parlors' in maryland are in fact brothels
mircea_popescu: actually, better q, do
they even have spas where you live.
kakobrekla: penis shaped stick
toilet - and i
thought i was fucked.
undata: <well worn argument
that bands will still make money if
there are mp3s>
undata: and needing
to ignores
that many will just pay people
they want
to support
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2014 06:20:35; mircea_popescu:
the power of jesus compiles you!
undata: owning information is not
the only option here
assbot: ClubOrlov: Survival of
the Nicest?
decimation: he's going
to use
the power of
the state
to compel you
mircea_popescu: i suppose
that's
the ultimate girl
toilet, what is all
this "lift
the seat, lower
the seat" bs.
☟︎ decimation: that would make it difficult
to
take a shit
mircea_popescu: and suppose i have a
toilet in my house
that instead of
the usual seat has a penis shaped stick
to sit on ?
decimation: copyright enforcement is
the unwanted bridge
decimation: I would use
the bridge, for simple pragmatic reasons
decimation: If
there's a bridge
that you voted against and
the gov't built anyway, would you use it?
mircea_popescu: but your arguments don't work like you want
them
to nevertheless.
undata: that said, I have no plans
to mirror
trilema
undata: I am certain
that page is not why people are paying you for your content.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2014 15:52:13; mircea_popescu: make
thing infringing on mp's
trademark. have mp notice you in google. mp files complaint with fb, yest. page suspended,
today.
assbot: Copyright Notice pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
undata: maybe it's not
the above, but something
undata: well, something which does more damage
to
the fountain
the more people want
the shit seems fun
undata: there are shit-fountains in
the us I'd love
to help wreck.
mircea_popescu: but your point doesn't work, seeing how...
there isn't a way.
undata: my point is
there's always a way, and
that fact doesn't necessarily stop good content
undata: he could pay once,
then host it himself
mircea_popescu: this equivocation would be
the other, smaller reason copyrights still survive.
mircea_popescu: undata anyway, you're equivocating
two
things here. on one hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for
the proposition
that someone should make money off
the writings of dead authors ; on
the other hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for
the
theory
that you should be able
to play any computer game you wish without having
to pay
the company
that made it anything.
mircea_popescu: exactly
that way : its customers ended up on food stamps :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally : you know what "solid earner" died
the exact death you describe ? buffett's "discount stamps"
undata: if only
to kill
the revenue of game of
thrones-ing
undata: I
think it would be fantastic
to have an appified (derped) way of downloading game of
thrones
mircea_popescu: undata
they've not gotten anything intelligent done in 20 years. plenty of idiocy got done
tho.
mircea_popescu: see
the famous case of
that neonazi kid whatever his name is
undata: this assumes
they can do anything
decimation: mircea_popescu: I'm sure
there are bureaucrats
that would love
to do exactly
that
mircea_popescu: here's a good one : it'll never happen
that
they'll send people
to prison for fixing software.
undata: the us govt *made*
tor
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how many of
these "it'll never happen"s i heard ?
undata: any more
than
they can ban
tor
mircea_popescu: undata no. by acting as if
the usg actually has some sort of power or importance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that being
the only reason it still survives as a going concern.
mircea_popescu: undata well
there's no problem with helping it along, but your proposed measures have
the opposite effect ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's not my perspective,
though we don't disagree. in my view of
the matter,
they will be done in by
the fact
that
the intersection of
thinking people and copyright observers will become
the null set.
undata: I fail
to see
the problem with helping
that death along.
undata: the laws aren't against
the app
mircea_popescu: how did it become
the case in us of fuckyou
that you can be fined for using
the internet ?
mircea_popescu: somewhere your
thinking's broken but i don't readily spot where. wtf are you on about, "dropping
that risk
to nigligible" ?
undata: why would dropping
that risk
to negligible be doing nothing?
undata: right now
there is a nonzero risk (in
the US)
that you get outed by your ISP and end up paying loads
mircea_popescu: undata it wouldn't do anything. you're basically saying, "carbon credits will permanently solve
the eco whining". no, it provably won't.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2014 19:19:31; asciilifeform: 'Learn not
to participate -
to
the point of utter impossibility of meeting
the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see
that inside
there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning
to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard -
to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing.
The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your
undata: I've used i2p for various
things