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chetty: if you actually figured out all your
tax in us wouldnt be much diff
mircea_popescu: their deal is, "we have all
this oil, we will spend
the proceeds on welfare, in exchange we also
take everyone's money"
mircea_popescu: well, amateur in
the "this is what i
think
the law should be" school of amateurship, or amateur in
the "trying
to figure out what
this
thing is" school of amateurship ?
mircea_popescu: the cleanest way
to represent
the legal
tradition, as well as
the legal implementation of
that
tradition in any extant sovereign of
the fiat, geographical, obsolete kind,
mircea_popescu: i have little faith
the man was actually apt
to follow
the legal intricacies, which altogether require a different mind
than one which wilfully chose lisp over say basic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform course,
that's his off
the cuff interpretation of what happened.
mircea_popescu: So
the easy question
to ask is
this: “Are you
trying
to figure out whether
to change? Or
trying
to figure out which change
to make?” << good point. first category needs
to hire a manager, not
talk
to salesmen.
mircea_popescu: not
the sorts of jobs one can do and remain in possession of his wits.
mircea_popescu: same
thing with cops. people don't like
the psychopatholgy of policemen, but
then again
the same "people" are lying and
trying
to beat down
the cop
two dozen
times a day
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if
they have no intention of buying a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially
to salespeople." <<
the funny
thing in
there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie
to
them as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything
the salesman could push out.
mircea_popescu: didja do your homework ? yessir. didja learn anything ? o, no, i wouldn't do
that!
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mircea_popescu: "They weren’t interested in finding out whether Macintosh would be useful for
them:
They were interested in being able
to say
to
the world
that
they have an open mind and researched all
the possibilities, but somehow, somehow,
they finished up back where
they started, using
the same damn
thing
that everyone else is using."
mircea_popescu: but it starts looking badly if
they somehow manage
to stay.
chetty is glad you put
the 'good' modifier in
there
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more shameful
than being a good usian.
mircea_popescu: this is what
the idiotic us puritan obsession with propriety has gotten.
this. it's a scourge upon humanity and a shameful macula of untold disgrace.
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mircea_popescu: "What
they really meant was, Nobody ever got fired for buying a Windows Box."
mircea_popescu: Would
these people buy a Macintosh? No. But
they would
take up a lot of our
time asking “What is
the benefit of Mac? Why is it superior
to Windows? Explain why we should I buy one for each employee.” And no matter how interested
they seemed, and no matter what we said or did,
they would weigh
their options… and
then buy a Windows computer."
mircea_popescu: "In
those days, nobody bought Macintoshes. But strangely, our office was besieged by people wanting us
to demonstrate
the Macintosh and its nifty features.
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mircea_popescu: i'll readily contend
that naggum is a sufficient, if by no means
the only good reason
to dismantle any statal revenue service.
mircea_popescu: if
turing is a good (and in fact
the only) good reason
to dismantle
the statally organised repression of gayness
mircea_popescu: "He ran in
to some very serious problems
that poisoned his existence for many years, and made him lose faith in humans.
These problems (I won’t go into details, let sleeping dogs lie) would have agonized anyone, but most people would, in
time, have come
to
terms with life’s injustice and cruelty." << asciilifeform what, was
the guy in jail or something ?
thestringpuller: i
think
the end
they made a business on letting his wife get fucked by millionaires but I'm fuzzy
mircea_popescu: maybe because you don't wanna sleep in
the bed where all
the random bacteria off random cocks collect and pool.
mircea_popescu: why fuck your own wife when someone will pay
to fuck her for you, for
that matter.
thestringpuller: why make
the movie yourself when someone will pay you
to make it for you
mircea_popescu: people have
this constant naive approach, a pipe breaks ? push your palm on it.
mircea_popescu: at
the cost of killing
the whole copyright notion altogether.
bounce: to
the point
that as soon as
the mouse
threatens
to go out of copyright, copyright gets extended
mircea_popescu: donald is one of
the very few well managed franchises.
bounce is sure
there's a libarts dissertation or
two in
there somewhere
bounce: could have
to do with
the demographic, where
teen memory is slightly longer
than pre-teen memory so
they (feel
they) need regular reboots
to capture
the demographic or something. could also have
to do with
the writers not being on a short enough leash. dunno really.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty well you're not in
the demographic you know ?// you mean libtards? I dun have
to be in it
to be sick of it
xmj: you're crazy yourself. law of attraction, like attracts like, all
that
xmj: thestringpuller:
then you're legit crazy
xmj: thestringpuller: do
the people from
the other gender you attract mostly exhibit craziness?
mircea_popescu: bounce well
to be honest (and i've unstudiously avoided both for
two decades or more),
they're all
the same one
thing, and so
the classics have been badly reimplemented by
the us pulp industry many
times, and
they keep rebooting it
bounce doesn't really want
to know but can't help but wonder what
the
top reboot count is, and which series.
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain hanbot is a partial robot
though you say she is human ~_~
bounce: a series isn't a series without a reboot or
two, apparently.
mircea_popescu: bounce now why'd
that be amazing. it's supposed
to be cheap and replicable.
bounce: (says me, having studiously avoided both for
the last couple of years, as much as possible anyway)
bounce: here,
take a happy pill
chetty is
totally sick and
tired of
the girls vs. boys crap
chetty: well if girls got actual armor
they might play more :P
mircea_popescu: so
the girls build
their girlclub
to support each other
through puberty and dream of one day being married.
mircea_popescu: this is like junior high courtyard bs.
the girls get upset
that
the boys ignore
them so
they complain. which
the boys ignore, because
the girls stink and are stupid and who wants
to be involved with one.
thestringpuller: it's just funny
to me
that even "gamers" are sick of
the feminist...
mircea_popescu: i could be him, if i ever deign
to write for forbes, which seems unlikely unless i buy it and
then it'll be Popescu
thestringpuller: What it boils down
to is many people feeling upset
that
the video game space has been so heavily politicized with a left-leaning, feminist-driven slant," he said.
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decimation: could buy on ebay at
that quality level
decimation: it seems
the hype for
those
things outstrips
the actual usefulness - usefulness defined as meeting actual people working on interesting ideas
decimation: asciilifeform: did you ever show up at
the dc 'maker space'?
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