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mircea_popescu: n intellectual circles, of the conduct in court of Danton, Robespierre and others. These were the instances of revolutionary tribunes who found the knife of justice suspended over them, directly in the midst of the arena of struggle; at a time when they were in the full flower of their strength, with their nervous system almost untouched and, at the same time, when they despaired of all hope of salvation.
mircea_popescu: I have had the occasion to hear tranquil petty bourgeois tell me in the days between the beginnings of the trial and my internment: “It’s impossible to understand Zinoviev … He is so lacking in character!” And I would reply: “Have you yourselves experienced the full weight of the pressure to which he has been subjected for a number of years?” Unintelligent in the extreme are the comparisons, so widespread i
mircea_popescu: well, save it, kill it, wht the hell's the difference.
asciilifeform: but, to complete the metaphor - it ever hopes to birth the mythical beast that will save it.
mircea_popescu: so in the end, the government of the people by the people for the people, in its quest to not perish from this earth, became government of women, by women, for women.
asciilifeform: there is no solzhenitsyn among the honeybees, lamenting 'why don't we sting, if we're to die anyway'
mircea_popescu: answer : because women. pregnancy is also -ev, and yet women do it. the same psychological complexes that control that can also yield amusing social results. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: now THERE'S a peculiar if well documented biological fact : how the fuck can such a drastically -ev strategy be and remain a schelling point.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking career choice, joining the "people party". being a boxer is degree of magnitudes a smarter move.
asciilifeform: the 'moscow trials'
mircea_popescu: "What an example to the proletariat! He had to die, anyway, so he might at least have died in a way that did the Party some good!"
mircea_popescu: how did the qute go,
asciilifeform: it is a definite - if peculiar - biological fact - that being condemned to hang somehow doesn't cause people to sprout balls
mircea_popescu: no bureaucrat is ever going to pose problems anymore than any other random schmuck that signed the "plea bargain" is.
mircea_popescu: yet nobody is doing this. why isn't holder a constant prop in the courtroom, showing why any testimony by a police officer should be discounted by the jury ?
mircea_popescu: consider the simple fact that any legal proceeding could be extended anywhere between six and ninety weeks by an endless parade of character evidence showing usg agents lieing, being required to lie, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: they tend to pick on poorly educated, poorly connected nobodies with priors.
mircea_popescu: moreover the machine generally is careful in avoiding messing with the sort of people that'd stomp it.
asciilifeform: and, well, that.
asciilifeform: whether it will ever play out in a courtroom, or - 'defense attorneys can also have problems' - remains to be seen
mircea_popescu: luckily there still can be found 12 people in any county that have nfi what computers are, and the judges, appendages of the state, are quite effectual at forbiding any courtroom instruciton.
asciilifeform: and - given what is known about 'wintel' - we have precisely this scenario
asciilifeform: the funny part is - consider, if it were generally known that, e.g, fbi, owned a cocaine teleporter (purpose-built) that specifically sends to toilet tanks - the arrestee could bring this possibility up as a defense
mircea_popescu: hopefully a republican wins before the whole shebang collapses and we get to see it.
mircea_popescu: im waiting for the first presidential indictment.
asciilifeform: ^ above case strikes me as a textbook case of 'can have problems'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well information wants to be free neh ?
asciilifeform: or, for that matter, exist even in the evidence room, and not merely loaded for the occasion from the prosecutor's private collection.
asciilifeform: or that the contents of his confiscated disk were placed there by his hands
asciilifeform: that the packets left his machine as described, or, if they did, that his head had anything to do with it
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal don't confuse digestion for simply passing things through the system untouched.
asciilifeform: i.e. - on whose word are we to believe that mr. pedo is a pedo ?
mircea_popescu: sure but that's too much effort.
TheNewDeal: I think the first explanation is much more digestible
asciilifeform: there is also the tired, old, mundane 'there is a kilo of cocaine in your toilet tank' theorem. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: an event that factually happened, but at the END of the police-led abuse, not at the beginning of the "unknown" led abuse posited in court paperwork.
mircea_popescu: the actual events (police broke in and rape your fambly) are replaced by the parallel construction (someone came in and did it) on the turning point of "the door being left open".
mircea_popescu: and the police will more than happily try and find those bad people. sometime.
mircea_popescu: at trial, it is established beyond reasonable doubt that your negligence in locking the door allowed "some bad people" to come and rape the lot of you, a week after it actually hapepned
mircea_popescu: then they leave the door open on their way out.
mircea_popescu: what really happened is that a) they had the keys all along and b) had been tailing you all over town, listening in on your phone conversation, instant messaging and late night cuddle sessions
TheNewDeal: this is getting incredibly off-topic, but feel free to continue
mircea_popescu: one day a bunch of dudes come in, start raping the women and make the lot of you slurp the cum right out of their battered snatches.
mircea_popescu: you and a dozen friends all marry super-knockout trophy wives, living in a gated community called "the garden of eden", doing all sorts of fun shit.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal lemme put this in more readily digestible terms for you.
BingoBoingo: It's no secret that the biggest open tor flaw is that anyone with enough tor nodes is going to often going to get some users traffic for all three steps
mircea_popescu: they used their numerous tor holes and exploits, then claimed to have done what what you seem to believe.
mircea_popescu: not the contention.
TheNewDeal: I'm confused here. You don't think they were smart enough to deploy malware that would give away information?
mircea_popescu: that's why the fbi untruthfully claims to have happened.
TheNewDeal: it's as if the website owner himself started hosting malware on his site, then people downloaded
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TheNewDeal: I'm just saying, tor wasn't supposed to prevent any of those things from happening (in my limited knowledge)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal you familiar with the concept of "parallel construction" ?
mircea_popescu: taking two girls eager to swallow if you need to take a leak however..
mircea_popescu: see, this is why taking two girls to a cafe isn't such a big deal.
TheNewDeal: BingoBoingo they somehow take over a website, use it to deploy malware, and that defeats tor how?
BingoBoingo: Manhattan is the urinal
mircea_popescu: dude, srsly ? mahattan coffee house with no urinal ? in 1981 ? what the fuck is wrong with this somalia.
mircea_popescu: im to the toilet. Adan explained that the toilet could be reached only through the kitchen, and because the restaurant did not have accident insurance for customers, only employees could use the bathroom. Abbott argued with him. They took their dispute outside, where Abbott stabbed Adan to death.
mircea_popescu: At around 5 am, on the morning of July 18, 1981, six weeks after getting out of prison, Jack Abbott and two women, Veronique de St. Andre and Susan Roxas, went to a small cafe called the Binibon, located at 79 Second Ave in Manhattan. Richard Adan, a 22-year-old aspiring actor and playwright, was there working as a waiter in his father-in-law's restaurant. Abbott got up from his table and asked Richard Adan to direct h
assbot: Cybersecurity official uses Tor but still gets caught with child porn | Ars Technica
smidge slaps TheNewDeal around a bit with a large trout
mircea_popescu: for a while there you could steal anyone's car just by pretending to be them, like with a twitter account
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.) << they already had a pilot for this. amusingly, it was sold as an expensive ad on for luxury brands. northstar or something.
TheNewDeal: yay, 6 years later I add !s to the wiki
xanthyos: "this is the second one back" << actually it's the third. the first involved a long discussion with dpb re: the wot
danielpbarron: i didn't know about this thing he was promoting; it's some sort of FIAT denominated gambling somethingorother
danielpbarron: he didn't keep me on long this time
TheNewDeal: wish I would have caught the beginning of your chat
TheNewDeal: he sounds like an ass-clown to me
xanthyos: this is the confidence game of a snake oil salesman
TheNewDeal: what is this trash?
xanthyos: danielpbarron IS STREAMING LIVE ON http://www.donkdown.com/live-radio/ SPEAKING TO SEALSWITHCLUBS FRONTMAN BRYAN MICON LIVE LIVE LIVE
asciilifeform: (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.)
TheNewDeal: !s test
asciilifeform: mandatory 'V2V' << if the bureaucrats simply wanted to enable self-driving cars in dense city traffic, optimized stoplights, etc. - they could mandate a simple radio beacon in tail light lamps (screw-in replacement.) doubt there'd be mass protest - it'd be a machine-vision-friendly version of the light cars are traditionally required to emit anyway. but (no prizes for guessing) - 'V2V' is not about automatic car
BingoBoingo: devthedev: Well, if I didn't the feds prolly wouldn't have been able to drive down from Peoria
devthedev: Bingo lives in the US right?
mod6: all seems to work good.
mod6: i linked this to my name in the page: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=mod6
mod6: mircea_popescu: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots << just updated some links in the atcbot top section, and cleaned up the bottom command section: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots#atcbot-commands
mod6: i added a WoT link to my name in that wiki page also - hope that was ok. I don't love that little globe that pops in there but w/e. Any thoughts?
assbot: A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
RagnarDanneskjol: I went straight for the bot edits too - wouldn't let me b/c you were in there. Neat
mod6: sweet, got the wiki updated easily. and got that link to point down to the atcbot section too. kewl
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xanthyos: donkdown freeroll, 380 registered of 315. "i am the most respected name in internet poker." (bryan micon)
kakobrekla: and with that im off . later
assbot: Rape as a disciplinary tactic - Salon.com
ben_vulpes: "By using the global PHP $_FILES array you can upload files from a client computer to the remote server."
ben_vulpes: i found fractals in the fractals
TheNewDeal: me too
kakobrekla: since im setting this up anyone else wants wiki access?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that caselaw is ridiculous bs and wouldn't stand.
mircea_popescu: o just the guy i wanted to see.
mod6: hey kakobrekla, can I get access to the wiki so I can update for the recent bot changes? Also, I'd like to see about setting an anchor there so if someone actually clicks on that one link it'll take 'em to the correct bracket below.
asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, american jurists are busy reaming the 'eggshell skull' doctrine to cover asciirape, etc.
mircea_popescu: mod6 you gotta sk to get wiki cred.
mircea_popescu: I WAS CVASIRAPED BY THE #BITCOIN-ASSETS LOGS!!!