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decimation: the reddit of
the
time being
the stall of some brother or something?
mircea_popescu: and what did
they do ?
they went
to reddit
to call him names!
mircea_popescu: the women - which, by
that
time, were mostly prostitutes - all hated him for it,
mircea_popescu: he was a censor, and as a censor he had
the authority
to forbid luxury expenditures. which he did, by forbiding some
types of
textile, which were very expensive, all imported, and wore quickly.
mircea_popescu: decimation re heirloom items. anyone know who cato porcius was, and why he got
that name ?
mircea_popescu: decimation point being
the vultures in question'd have made good money out of it.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> don't forget
the machines and
their vendors. various parts with high-threes or low-fours 'MTBF', periodic mandatory maintenance, etc. - churn inventory. <<< would seem
to contradict asciilifeform> u.s. presidential car is an infamous laughing-stock - broke down recently in england (?) and
they had one hell of a
time finding a shop
that would attempt repair
decimation: supposedly
the constitution forbids forcing citizens
to quarter
troops, but apparently giving up
their livelihoods and ruining
their vacations so usg can have a security part is 'ok for
them'
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over here, i ran into a chamber minority leader (they have like six) in a coffee shop by
the courthouse.
mircea_popescu: said no roman emperor after caracalla, for
the very reason
that made charlemagne great : he was nothing much outside of
the chief of
the guards.
decimation: Or load up on any of 100000
trucks who move such cars as a
trade (or
trains)
decimation: as if you couldn't just drive
there in 4 hours
decimation: asciilifeform: but
the
trouble is
that instead of conjuring actual heirloom objects,
the usg method is
to piss away
the money on 'airlifting' an SUV from DC
to New England
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and even
though
the president has very little personal authority his underlings are more
than happy
to
throw
this security party because
they each get a part << quite.
decimation: hehe yeah. as one commentator put it (on greenspun's site): "I doubt
that Obama (or Bush in his day) even
thinks about what kind of
travel arrangements are being made on his behalf. It’s
the lackeys around
them who like
to be part of a grand spectacle, compounded by unfettered risk aversion in
the federal and MA security apparatus."
decimation: and even
though
the president has very little personal authority his underlings are more
than happy
to
throw
this security party because
they each get a part
decimation: it's an elaborate cargo-cult of security with real humans acting as
the 'cargo plane'
decimation: but
these guys also conjure
the salaries for all of
their minions out of
thin air
decimation: which would be one
thing if
they were
the doge of venice
decimation: hehe perhaps after a rich prince has funded your secure
terminal
decimation: no, it was something more - including all
the clean supplies, carpets, foods, habits
mircea_popescu: supposedly
this is
the most striking quality of a functioning harem.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah when I read your comment it brought
to mind my youth: my friend's homes each had a different smell which struck me as I entered
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, winsor & newton is
the brand
decimation: nubbins`: are you going
to use acid-free paper?
nubbins`: pascale is using some sort of watercolor pastes
these days
that come in impossibly small
tubes, i'll check
them out next
time i'm upstairs
assbot: Air Force blames crew for C-5 crash |
The News Journal | delawareonline.com
BingoBoingo: Looking for something
that might beat
the old standard of India Ink, but as far as I know
that is
the state of
the art
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Something
that pairs well with
the lifespan of cotton fiber paper.
nubbins`: ah, care
to direct me a bit more
than
that?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: What are your
thoughts on archival inks?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
that's not it. a buncha fuctards have
to be hosted somewhere, and
they don't carry
tents
to camp in.
nubbins`: nice
to meet your disaster, here's 10
tons of co2
decimation: the guys 'in
the loop' with all of
this supposed knowledge apparently can't differentiate between luxury resorts in Massachusetts and a
third-world hellhole
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oh but i am aware. and
the reason i wake up so chipper & cheerful i nthe mornings is quite a large pile of
this, where
the oppressed have
the key
to
their freedom in
their hand and somehow omitted
to going
to school
the day its use was
taught.
mircea_popescu: (such as,
the worst
thing a contemporary president can do for a disaster area ?
travel
there.)
BingoBoingo: Julius Ceasar would make
the redditard's case for waiting until
the
time comes, if only
they knew of him
mircea_popescu: decimation
the point is valid, and people with a clue ocasionaly make it
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people keep
thinking of it in
terms of a sort of older us without
tablets. it's so reactionary in fact it'd put medieval england
to shame.
assbot: Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Obama and New England aviation businesses start
their vacation
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, rome did not have income
tax, or consumption
tax. it had a capitation, and some
trade licensing fees.
BingoBoingo: Well in contrast Julius spent months in pirate captivity
threatening
them with crucifiction and managed
to live
to see his ransom arrive so he could carry out
the
threat
mircea_popescu: (he once or
twice got beat up pretty bad on account of it,
too)
mircea_popescu: doesn't
this much unknowing
throw a hole in your rome model ?
mircea_popescu: this was predicated on
them not knowing who he was, and furthermore, on him not knowing who
they were.
mircea_popescu: i
think
this may be a flaw of modelling. consider
this point : one of
the ways nero got a bad reputation was
through going out at night and assaulting random people in
the street.
decimation: I guess I was
thinking about where
the surveillance state fell on
the urban-rural axis - it seems
to me
that it is ultra-urban (Roman). While it might not be able
to process infinite information, what if
the level of information it could process is 'good enough'
to
turn
the entire world into Rome?
mircea_popescu: ie, more context of what you plan
to use
that definition for.
mircea_popescu: which means you're quite stuck. but perhaps if you had a question or some statement
that could be
tested or something ?
mircea_popescu: hehe well yeah, here's
the problem : nobody;'s written
the
trilema dictionary yet, and
the author itself feels unequal
to
the
task of defining
the feminine, which is why i passed above.
mircea_popescu: but you're familiar enough with my
thinking
to be aware how dimly i view
this proposition
that kids should be encouraged
to "guess" what "the words mean in context" rather
than look it up
decimation: I get what you are saying about
the cost of information storage and processing being nearly infinite, so it's a foolish idea
to begin with. My guess at
the "feminine" part was
that
this bureaucracy imagines it can comprehensively exercise control over
the world without a face-to-face confrontation.
BingoBoingo: decimation: I don't remember if I ever knew. You just kind of
tune someone out after
that.
decimation: BingoBoingo: what was your classmate's
theory on
the Observer who animates
the cosmos?
BingoBoingo: The first giant red flag I experienced about grad school in philosophy was
that a classmate existed such
that
they claimed
to be an absolute Berkely/Hume Idealist
decimation: In your urban v. rural article, you mentioned
that
the surveillance state is "feminine
thinking". what do you mean by
that?
mircea_popescu: in parts. contrary
to what
the european hordes
thought, aristotle holds not
the answer
to everything,.
mircea_popescu: what gave it away and what made you
think
that in
teh first place
mircea_popescu: the other
thing is a convention,
the result of nothing but spuriousness.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal
there's a difference between form as you use it and form as used before. yours is
the result of everything spurious being
taken away, it's
the form of livingthings chiseled in a million years of predition and ovulation.
assbot: A complete
theory of economics pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Well, right. You can't give me pyramid,
though you can give me pyramids or a pyramid.
TheNewDeal: for instance if you looked at computer code you could ask. What does it accomplish (what is it's function?)? and How did it go about doing
that (in what form?)?
mthreat: <mircea_popescu> mthreat how did
the exclusion clauses work in search agai ? //
the minus sign excludes
terms, e.g. wheat -chaff