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asciilifeform spent 3 days getting a wireless card to work, all because some shitgnome silently removed support for 'wireless extensions' in a driver (e.g. 'iwconfig') in the name of chope and hange.
bounce: using a lot of automated (and suitably squaddie-proofed) tools does not a "technology company" make
mircea_popescu: anyway, enough of that derpage.
mircea_popescu: dude everyone fancies themselves a "we" and a world creator
mircea_popescu: “That’s awful, but you gotta admit… hilarious!” Once again, high-fives all around. This is the world we have created.
BingoBoingo: A lot of automation there
BingoBoingo: Plus to that is McD's is probably more a technology business than most startups
mircea_popescu: such nonsense, really. people this frail have no business in the public view. take a mcd job and be happy there
asciilifeform: <ninjashogun> you're not correct that I have any connection with the u.s. government. (or any other government). Other than holding citizenship and in the interests of absolute full disclosure, I served briefly in the military. This isn't text or me saying it
mircea_popescu: 2. ignore them (they escalate, make your life more miserable, DDoS, ruin your career, etc. i.e. They Win) <<< wait, wut ?
asciilifeform: hell, when we turn his microphone off, we're doing him a favour. perhaps they let him clock out then.
asciilifeform: except, i suspect that he rarely goes hungry.
asciilifeform: we all know where the button is, yes.
TheNewDeal: If you ever need a spamgun for hire, you know where to find him
BingoBoingo: Shave the feathers?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this chick is so overdramatic.
ninjashogun: I think you trolled hard enough for a couple of months to move on to something more constructive. Even weev did.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 35099821874.7 based on data since last change | 35178251876.6 based on data for last three days
asciilifeform: i sympathize with any poor sod who grunts in a salt mine doing something bloody ludicrous and humiliating, but this has to break some sort of record.
ninjashogun: I don't htink that's the sole purpose of letting me speak.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: let's start with the basics. you come here, knowing that the sole purpose of allowing you to speak is, more or less, public vivisection for our pleasure. and yet you come. this suggests that you are carrying out your duties to earn your bread.
ninjashogun: What I mean is that that is the meaning of the sentence "things you don't understand and things that are random don't share much common ground" gramatically. (though i understand you're just being rhetorical). after you factor out the double negatives.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, that is a lot of negatives :)
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun things you don't understand and things that are random don't share much common ground.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, it's pretty hard not to see how making random USG accusations isn't exactly the same as using a made-up hot-button "she used DMCA take-downs"?
mircea_popescu: shaman sitting on the steps of white house. "and now president will come out" obama pops out. shaman "i control the presidency!!!1"
mircea_popescu: this entire "o hey, X event is exactly like Y dumbass article i found" is pretty cool tho.
asciilifeform: the air in your fist can heat up to 1000c, theoretically, by itself
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, if I wanted to build up a WoT reputation I would just make a new nick and do some low-value transactions. ☟︎
asciilifeform: wot is a stochastic system, like thermodynamics.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, actually, scammers don't hvae a problem building up a WoT reputation as has been shown repeatedly through ultimately failed ponzi schemes, fraudulent exchanges, etc.
asciilifeform looks forward to seeing butterfly collections fill up with folks banging on the door of the wot, 'i'm not a spammer! here's 150 friends who swear! and none of them are in, it's because you drink koolaid'
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, you are literally talking exactly as described in the article I've just linked. This makes you feel better I guess?
mircea_popescu: yeah hiring for that is like hiring for the press
asciilifeform: humint bugger has to tend, befriend, schoozle, bamboozle - before he is ever permitted to hire. at least in the civilized world - can't speak for crazyland
asciilifeform: like the static on a screen contains many 'movies'
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, I didn't try to hire anyone here!
mats_cd03: anxious to con someone with talent for which to substitute as his own
mats_cd03: i've observed both sides of the humint game and ninjashogun is just a failed mba
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, yes in the sense that several people here have said things like "I read thorugh that twice and don't see where USG comes in"
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, tihs is exactly why I linked you http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point -- saying this is literally exactly the same as the DMCA allegation. Nobody knows hwere you came up with it.
assbot: weev: "Women in tech", doxing, Kathy Sierra, and the koolaid.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: see, you have to understand, poor fella's just trying to do a job here. station chief said, 'recruit mole, your budget is initially $0.' so he's gotta do it, or at least fail convincingly.
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, what do you mean "I offer to enslave you instead"? I didn't offer anything but told you you should do something in general terms, i.e. whatever you come up with. I didn't have a specific suggestion for oyu.
asciilifeform: aha the doxxing crap
mats_cd03: i'm a disgruntled IT slave and you offer to enslave me instead
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, it's hrad to see what you get out of making statements like this but you expressed to me privately that you were dissatisfied with your work and had to jump through mental hoops to justify how important it might turn out to be in hypothetical (and unlikely) situations. The truth is you could have a bigger impact doing something else, and you know this. (You brought it my attention.)
mats_cd03: so forgive me if i think youre trite
mats_cd03: i have belonged to 2 cults prior to this one
assbot: Trouble at the Koolaid Point | Hacker News
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, (and others) I found this article interesting and very relevant to the culture you're buliding here. http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425501
TheNewDeal: TomServo what was the site with the charts such as btc/gold btc/wti ?
mats_cd03: you'll have a better return on investment than derping here, i promise
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: actually he does have one thing to offer - the truth about why he came here. but i don't expect to hear it.
mats_cd03: you should instead turn your attention to leeching from the government as others like you
mats_cd03: you have no skills, nothing to offer besides talk without substance
BingoBoingo: Long day full of turning wood into mulch
BingoBoingo: * thestringpuller, yeah autocomplete
thestringpuller: no The20YearIRCloud
thestringpuller: i'm thestringpuller
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Still the misdemeanor
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, other people have been fine with them. It's better to have proposals and not want them than not to have them, for most people in a position to seriously consider them. (called 'dealflow').
mats_cd03: i want you to know that ninjashogun
thestringpuller: you're on trial?
BingoBoingo: Just talked to the lawyer. As long as I stay patient I jsut might win this case through attrition, the DA... just... can't... retain... licensed... lawyers
thestringpuller: nanotube: how come I can wget the downloads on http://cahier2.ww7.be/bitcoinmirror/otc/today/ ?
assbot: 3 results for 'web of trust database' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=web+of+trust+database
thestringpuller: !s web of trust database
gribble: Check links against the Web of Trust database - Meta Stack Exchange: <http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58558/check-links-against-the-web-of-trust-database>; WOT Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOT_Services>; "World's Largest Public Hacker Database" | Forum | WOT (Web of Trust): <http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/31000--world-s (1 more message)
thestringpuller: ;;google web of trust database
justusranvier: On the plus side, this arrangement means I can run Skype in a virtualized sandbox that's far away from my real desktop
mircea_popescu: it may be the worst design i ever heard of
mircea_popescu: this boggles the mind
mircea_popescu: and so if it misses a packet in there you just keep on typing n ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier so then what happens actually is that if you press a key it sends a packet over and if you depress it similarly
justusranvier: I have a vm running Xorg on a VPS, and I connect this desktop remotely using Spice protocol
pete_dushenski: and i'm off to have two lovely romanians make me a home-cooked meal!
assbot: How A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain’t Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: my third response to gavin for the day: http://contravex.com/2014/10/07/how-a-bigger-blockchain-is-less-secure-and-why-block-size-aint-gonna-increase-any-time-soon/#comment-30754
assbot: theymos comments on A Scalability Roadmap | The Bitcoin Foundation
BingoBoingo: Even thermos doubts Gavin https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ighvq/a_scalability_roadmap_the_bitcoin_foundation/cl25hmw
mircea_popescu: lmao your wifi did that ?!
justusranvier: go a few parents up to finnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd the staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarting po
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i didn't mean that color. i just meant, red prius roling headlights at white prius for being such a mainstream pos car.
assbot: justusranvier comments on A Scalability Roadmap | The Bitcoin Foundation
justusranvier: This was a more important thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ighvq/a_scalability_roadmap_the_bitcoin_foundation/cl2fbhx
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Best part. The authors and subjects... all white as gypsum
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do the gawker idjits figure they're any better than the ozarks idiots just through being a different color...
mircea_popescu: dude, that article's something else. buncha tiresome hippies rolling their eyes at b uncha tiresome fargo inhabitants.
mircea_popescu: Uh HUH!" Dan Witz's mosh pit paintings? "AbsoLUTEly!" This is actually a clever form of communications ju-jitsu, because, over time, you start adopting the same affectation just to fit in, until one day you hear yourself saying "That ghost tour was AMAZING!" and you wonder if you have lost your identity somewhere along Highway 86.
mircea_popescu: ss your heart" Southern affectation of intense, polite agreement with everything that makes a mockery of any attempt at challenging conversation. Even when Bucky started ranting about various street artists and why they are or are not sellouts, Berry would strenuously agree, despite the fact that—and I don't think I'm speaking out of turn here—the street art scene in Branson is rather limited. Banksy's new piece? "
thestringpuller: Where Denzel puts a C4 block in the rectum of a police chief
justusranvier: Oh, that one. Sorry, having less-than-optimal connectivity to my bouncer right now
BingoBoingo: You know at this point the shit Gavin proposes on the roadmap has to suggest a three letter agency gave him an explosive buttplug.
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2014 23:36:46; thestringpuller: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2im4zv/gavin_andresen_proposes_bitcoin_hard_fork_to/cl3pga6
mircea_popescu: uh that's a weird trail mix..
mircea_popescu: "BRANSON, MO—Among the things that I dislike most in this world are patriotism, religion, tourist traps, country music, and the Walmart corporation. So I traveled to the one area of this nation that captures them all. It did not go as planned."
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 no. they have their cults and we have a culture.
mircea_popescu: probably wasted in the venue, but i do kinda see you as this barefoot preacher to the huns.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier that's a rather intelligent point.