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assbot: We'll put guards on Scottish border: Ed Miliband reveals incendiary plan as Yes camp leads for first time in shock new poll | Mail Online
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mircea_popescu: to the degree he had to be escorted out by the ushers
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> http://www.mekanizmalar.com/desmodromics.html << i read desdemona in there for some reason, which reminds me of a story. picture youthful mp at maly, for a staging of othello, in russian. now, bearin in mind that in romanian "zdreanta" means rag or figuratively whore, picture youthful mp hearing a very decided othello burst out "davai zdreanta, desdiemona!!1" and go into incontrollable peels of laughter
mircea_popescu: this is not the case in any natural language, poetry exists anywhere.
mircea_popescu: so you have to specify the gender of the teacup in some contexts. does not equate to "speaker can not make ambiguous statements"
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform has seen this said about more than one obscure natural language, it always seems to be a reflection of the linguist's ineptitude, in practice. << quite. it's not true of inuit languages any more it's true of russian.
ThickAsThieves: At this point I don't care, as it wouldn't really affect the market price to find out
ThickAsThieves: <+TheNewDeal> ThickAsThieves any foia response? // None reported.
kakobrekla: o a type 4.
asciilifeform: at this point it seems clear - the man is working hard to make us laugh
Apocalyptic: who in their right mind would favour such a thing
asciilifeform: hence the one-star performance.
Apocalyptic: "i.e. just turn on either the microphone/speakers or monitor/webcam to read and communicate with the cardano)?" you gotta be kidding me...
kakobrekla: hrm, if he is really a mole he is doing a terribly poor job :(
assbot: Real estate tycoon Larry Glazer, wife were aboard plane that crashed near Jamaica - NY Daily News
asciilifeform: he can collect his 'order of lenin' right after that chap who burned down a u.s. nuke sub a few years ago.
asciilifeform: (obvious. the man is clearly a mole, and doing a terrific hash of his duties on purpose.)
asciilifeform: assuming mr. spam is, in BingoBoingo's words, an 'unsavoury garnish', i'd like to nominate him for red banner of lenin.
asciilifeform: this is just too good.
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asciilifeform: ^ anyone who yearns to hear this fellow talk - can turn the required knob.
asciilifeform: strup`fndr> hi, yes I am the same person (startup founder, offered services as well.)
asciilifeform: ^ spot the perpetuum mobile.
asciilifeform: in ussr, most children knew the word - as a brand label of delicious ice cream.
cazalla: https://www.youtube.com/v/7ljvEKOMElY state dept propaganda doesn't have shit on the ones IS make
nubbins`: the word eskimo is seen as derogatory in canada these days, you don't really see it in print anymore
asciilifeform: and refers to it as 'eskimo.'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: linked document (military manual) suggests a type of pidgin, which it claims can be understood in much of alaska and northeastern ussr
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: by now i'd imagine that assumption is SOP. but we're dealing with a vintage piece here.
BingoBoingo: Or their ego being unable to accept that their research subjects might be making jokes about them in front of their face
asciilifeform has seen this said about more than one obscure natural language, it always seems to be a reflection of the linguist's ineptitude, in practice.
asciilifeform: 'The rules of grammar are many and precise and the person who speaks Eskimo cannot make any ambiguous statements.' << really now.
asciilifeform can picture the sheer machinist-grade squareness of the bricks these folks were shitting
asciilifeform: 'All Soviet interrogations are based on the assumptions that: (1) all prisoners are liars; (2) most Westerners can be bought; (3) those who cannot be bought can be broken; and (4) the process of breaking the prisoner can be continued as long as necessary to acquire the desired information.'
mircea_popescu: something tells me relatively l;ittle has changed tho
mircea_popescu: the notion that anything like the present usg survives not defeat in the field, but merely an unfavourable if momentary turn of events is pushing it into sf.
asciilifeform: 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and has
asciilifeform: lol! '5. Agents should not have been members of the armed forces of the United States nor employees of the United States Government. 6. Agents should be chosen from those persons who will not be logical internees of the enemy.'
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure he isn't the sort to have passed the lab component of any physics course
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did that guy die ?
mircea_popescu: decimation there was. nobody cared.
BingoBoingo: The punter tried to tackle: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--E7xeAeZ1--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zwp2p9imqfeieamtdgne.gif
decimation: yeah that's a good point. there's not a bitbet on this point interestingly
mircea_popescu: it's what the french call a marote
assbot: Spiderwoman Brings Hope to Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF - Bloomberg
mircea_popescu: that thing had been opening for > 1 year, and was going to matter imminently for about as long.
decimation: the winklevii fund will open sometime around then as well, which might attract more usd into btc
mircea_popescu: decimation there's this tendency for hasing to go up significantly oct-nov-dec
mircea_popescu: kinda curious if the winter explosion takes us into e11 by new year's
mircea_popescu: lol it just shaved a day in two hours.
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decimation: "Take it up with your propaganda—it's too strong" << all manner of misery results when people start believing their own bullshit
mircea_popescu: so you know, telling me how strong people who temporarily became poor didn't really give much of a shit in terms of "the rich" is about as confusing as discussing pregnancy in terms of "look what people can do". tis not people, tis women and women only that can do it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, orlov misses the major point here. it's not about rich/poor as a measurable characteristic. some people are strong, some people are weak. whether the weak are temporarily rich or permanently poor makes little difference at all, money's not for them anyway, nor anything else good in life.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the funniest part of all of this being that all the -otc derpheads that rate you have not actually and colectively traded as much.
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danielpbarron: ;;rate fluffypony 3 my PPUSD for his BTC; I sent first, he followed through no problem. double digit BTC
mircea_popescu: i know multiple chicks there, none of them having ever had it.
mircea_popescu: what, you think the sultan of brunei actually fucks every girl in the 500+ strong harem ?
mircea_popescu: it's the abject middle class that haggles.
decimation: the problem is the divorce between 'charity' and 'responsible to authority'
decimation: yeah there's some truth to that. there's a matter of scale involved too
fluffypony: ;;rate danielpbarron 2 safe, efficient, 5-digit trade
mircea_popescu: meanwhile poor people resent other poor people for various reasons. "she's a slut" "he's a bum" "they're too self righteous" etc.
mircea_popescu: it's nonsense anyway. the people who actually make money - and by consequence pay taxes - have little problem with limonov and a bunch of other idiots getting 300 bux a month or w/e it is they get. which is why most rich people will pick a eager young slut's rent tab & so forth. da fuck does it make a difference anyway.
asciilifeform: s too strong.' -- herr limonov.
asciilifeform: 'I receive Welfare. I live off your labor: you pay taxes and I don't do shit, twice a month I head down to the clean and spacious welfare office at 1515 Broadway and pick up my check. ... What, you don't like me? You don't want to pay? It's not much—278 dollars a month. You don't want to pay. Well then why the fuck did you get me to come here, me and a whole crowd of Jews? Take it up with your propaganda—it'
decimation: well when you give the vote to every breathing biped in a certain area this is pretty much what happens
mircea_popescu: (arachne, for they innocent of the classics, was a rude halfwit spinster - think modern day ceo-wannabe forum kid)
mircea_popescu: what the fuck even.
mircea_popescu: a country in which dyonisos is defeated by apollon may do well for a while. but in this case, dyonisos was defeated by arachne.
mircea_popescu: and from the fact that the idiotic population of the us allowed the tavern lobby to be broken up and replaced by the church lobby.
mircea_popescu: this may be how it survived, but no. it stems from stupid us women going to churches run by stupid irish men, back in 1950.
decimation: I think this 'Puritanism' stems from a basic lack of skills on the part of the bureaucratic leaders. i.e. if you don't know how to write a contract for a nuclear submarine, you try to make sure that your employees are well dressed and that 'decorum' is kept.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the other ranch, who the fuck needs viagra http://naughtybits.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hole-in-one5_small.jpg
decimation: the permanent bureaucrats who run usg are famous for this attitude
mircea_popescu: there should be a word for this specifically american idiocy phenomenon. derpitanism or something.
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference ? "poor people aren't having FUN on those foodstamps".
decimation: yeah if you zoom out, you realize this guy (or really his navy masters) is getting dinged for throwing a good party for some tired sailors in exchange for a few spare mil$ here and there: corruption! Throwing away trillions on various welfare/healthfare schemes: legitimate!
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asciilifeform: (with regards to which 'corruption' ends up a matter for criminal courts)
mircea_popescu: hardly a collection of people to follow in business.
asciilifeform: 'corruption' in usa is just the same as, e.g., russian 'corruption' - took some, didn't share upwards with superior.
mircea_popescu: yes, but then again the us is chiefly known for having squandered a fortune and built up the history's largest pile of unserviced ious.
decimation: this goes to what those in the us perceive as 'corruption'.
decimation: well, it's the 'navy times'
mircea_popescu: what exactly makes this an allegation ?
decimation: "Federal prosecutors allege that Leonard Glenn Francis, the head of the Navy’s primary husbanding company in Asia, regularly enticed naval officers to direct warships to more lucrative ports for his business by offering bribes including junkets, prostitutes, cash — even “Lion King” tickets."
decimation: re: navy << http://www.navytimes.com/article/20131115/NEWS06/311150017/-Fat-Leonard-fallout-Officers-talk-growing-bribery-scandal-epic-parties- They are more willing to pay for Singaporean whores
mircea_popescu: and even there it's just the head.
mircea_popescu: you're thinking navy.
decimation: well, certs that are hand-rolled on the thighs of young maidens by contractors with specific (unstated) qualifications: http://www.forge.mil/ExternalPKI.html
decimation: asciilifeform: I thought that the usg signed stuff with rsa certs generally
asciilifeform: similar to present-day situation with pb-free solders.
asciilifeform: large number of gearbox failures in '70s was blamed on the faux oil.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's still no substitute for petrified whale vomit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://naughtybits.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/aqua-man.jpg ask and thou shalt receive.
asciilifeform recently learned that, for some niche applications, the known substitutes for whale oil are rather poor.
mircea_popescu: if there was a way to save whales but it meant bottling them... if there was a way to attain immortality but you had to be an overweight, socially awkward shut-in ? etc.