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mircea_popescu: "how great would it be if we cut off everyone's legs, and hired someone to push them around"
asciilifeform: you're converting their fat to fuel
asciilifeform: that is, it doesn't matter that the well is -EV if expendable slaves are pumping by hand
mircea_popescu: nah, the cripple came up with it all on his own.
asciilifeform: roosevelt (or stalin, for that matter) just subscribed to a somewhat baroque school of biodiesel manufacture
asciilifeform: e.g. oil well that needs more joules to pump than you get out - is abandoned
mircea_popescu: yeah, the whole story works fine for as long as the expansion of debt remains unrestricted.
asciilifeform: considering that this is rather opposite of the thermodynamics we learned in kindergarten, perhaps deserves explanation ?
chetty: got to keep pumping that debt
mircea_popescu: they can only get evicted provided their eviction costs more than it's worth.
asciilifeform: and still not seeing it. a few mil. people in usa evicted, how many shot at the sheriff? ten?
mircea_popescu: every dollar the usg extracts from anything costs it more than a dollar as a precondition of its continued existence.
mircea_popescu: this being the fundamental of rooslvelt's new deal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda why the credit bubble is required for usg : because all extraction only works if it costs more than it extracts
asciilifeform: (i'll spoil it: with 20th c. tech, virtually always a 'yes')
asciilifeform: ^ canonical book on the history of when extraction was more (or not) expensive for the state, than it is worth
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asciilifeform: ;;google the art of not being governed
assbot: Amy Collins sentenced to house arrest, probation - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
nubbins`: book a courtroom, judge, sheriffs officers, all the paperwork that a dozen or two clerks can grab...
mircea_popescu: they only get THAT free if they find someone to beg or steal it off.
mircea_popescu: it cost the sops prolly close to 1mn.
mircea_popescu: problem is all this cost her < a hamburger (which she gets free anyway)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: then, i presume, the men in white coats came in ?
nubbins`: To the judge, she said, “Mr. Supernumerary, why are you still speaking? I’m the only one with standing in this courtroom and have the rights.”
gribble: Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : “And how we burned in the ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34738-and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what>; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (Author of One Day in the Life of ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>; The Gulag Archipelago - Wikiquote: (1 more message)
assbot: Member of Freeman-on-the-Land movement voices objections - Local - The Telegram
asciilifeform: need to find how to make the 'no' stick.
asciilifeform: these folks - a classic illustration of how it is not enough to 'say no'
nubbins`: prior to becoming a life advisor, she'd done stints impersonating a doctor, among other things
nubbins`: the accused was "educated" on the ways of being a freeloader-on-the-land by a mentally ill woman who grew up 4 houses away from me
nubbins`: there was one of these cases here in nl
asciilifeform: aha this
gribble: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/>; You have no potential. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/you-have-no-potential>; Octombrie 2013 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/10>
asciilifeform: anyone have mircea_popescu's article on these handy ?
assbot: 1 results for 'freeman on the land' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=freeman+on+the+land
nubbins`: !s freeman on the land
assbot: Pay up or pay time: Alabama’s private probation industry | Al Jazeera America
asciilifeform: 'LeGuin had told police he was part of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which believes the federal, state and local governments operate illegally.'
asciilifeform: chetty: cave man (or airplane man) is not an automatic born champion at saying 'no'. which is how we got 'the state' to begin with.
asciilifeform: ^ for non-usaians, this is a result of the peculiar custom of u.s. police using firemen as human shields
asciilifeform: 'When Dallas firefighters drove by the house, LeGuin allegedly started shooting at them. He hit the fire truck at least twice, police said.'
mircea_popescu: 1st century tech is good enough for this task really.
asciilifeform: with something more than 19th c. tech
asciilifeform: at some point, one or more of the folks lowered into bitcherasty by usg will have a logical, adequate response.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing "surreal" about it and it's not going away. it will have your throat slit if you persist. love, mp.
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: Maj. Jeff Cotner of the crimes against persons division said the whole incident was surreal. “I’ve been here 32 1/2 years. This is bizarre,” he said. <<< dear usg worker, do yourself a favour, read http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/ today.
mircea_popescu: "LeGuin did tell a 911 call taker that he intended to occupy the Far North Dallas house as a sovereign nation for himself."
mircea_popescu: the worst thing in that pic is the astroturf.
the20year: i hear they're aiming for a 0.5% APY
mircea_popescu: yes that
mircea_popescu: what i want to know is, how's eskimobob's rent a clay oven business working.
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mircea_popescu: http://www.ziuaconstanta.ro/images/stories/2014/08/03/radu-mazare_stefan-cel-mare/radu-mazare_stefan-cel-mare_1.jpg << this guy is the mayor of a seaside romanian town.
asciilifeform: (and the by now known to virtually everyone nsa typewriter trick)
asciilifeform: with a spark gap for the audio source
asciilifeform: principle is ancient though. it's how the first 'artist tablets' worked
asciilifeform was surprised too
asciilifeform: ers tells which key was pressed... It’s corrosion resistant, impervious to the environment, and yes – it will work underwater.'
asciilifeform: 'This extremely rare type of keyswitch actually presses a fake switch, similar to the Cherry MX Blue ‘jumping bean’ mechanism... Underneath each row of keys is an isolated ‘transfer bar’, which the sliding ‘beans’ strike. On each end of the bar, a transducer (i.e. microphone or piezo) picks up the sound of the strike transmitted through the bar. The difference in arrival time between the two transduc
asciilifeform: machine wins. but three drivers sitting in front of it, sure
asciilifeform: pipetting liquids in a predefined volume all day long is not one of these cases
assbot: How Intel Grooms Its Leaders The succession formula is downright revolutionary: It picks CEOs years in advance, without drama or surprise. - July 1, 2004
mircea_popescu: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/07/01/374834/ << for historical interest. this is how the party records looked back when the usg had few and marginal enemies, a solid grip on power, and people looked at the usgisation of places like intel as a Good Thing.
mircea_popescu: there's no need for two guys to come up with ways to test the mdma. one's enough. there may be need for three dudes to implement the testing, however.
asciilifeform: nah the other two-in-a-box. e.g. let's have kgb and gru play same field
mircea_popescu: the irrelevant and replaceable parts are the actors, not the agents.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, if you meant two in a box like this idiocy : http://www.opposingviews.com/i/two-in-a-box-management-works-like-equal-parenting it's exactly not what i had in mind.
mircea_popescu: lol well that's why it's funny.
chetty: thats a joke? I thought it was a true story!
mircea_popescu: you recall the romanian bridgebuilding joke ?
mircea_popescu: very fair system, too.
mircea_popescu: whichever rocket is not seen... it's where the other rockets land.
mircea_popescu: make three rockets.
asciilifeform: rocket's a bitch to move.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, they do all 3 in different gulag stations
asciilifeform: one calls out recipe steps; one actually tightens the bolt, whatever; one - verifies. then they all sign. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if not, the roman triumvirate works as invention too
mircea_popescu: well it's not so much to invent, babylonians prolly invented it.
asciilifeform: korolev, afaik, invented this system
mircea_popescu: the courts can';t afford it and the das don't want it, but that is immaterial here i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: have three of them.
mircea_popescu: not like this is an unmanageable problem.
assbot: Annie Dookhan, former state chemist who mishandled drug evidence, agrees to plead guilty - Metro - The Boston Globe
asciilifeform: i.e. this - http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/22/annie-dookhan-former-state-chemist-who-mishandled-drug-evidence-agrees-plead-guilty/7UU3hfZUof4DFJGoNUfXGO/story.html?p1=ArticleTab_Article_Bottom
mircea_popescu: not like they have to test so many samples they can't afford a lab technician
asciilifeform: when i studied ochem (admittedly a while ago) telling the two apart still required a human who could read spectra reasonably well
BingoBoingo: Prolly, whether the NFL does or not is murky.
mircea_popescu: you can test specifically for mdma clearance tho neh ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Amphetamines are which is what the test was positive for. His story is MDMA, because recreational drugs have a lesser penalty (counseling vs. unpaid 4 game suspension)
mircea_popescu: (also author of the sec, in case anyone missed the memo on what exactly the play is "undo the new deal", should they continue unaligned.)
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ us liberal dictator, died in office, during his 4th term.
mircea_popescu: according to people who didn't read literary digest, own a car or a phone however... he stayed.
mircea_popescu: according to these, roosevelt was going out of office.
mircea_popescu: here's a funny story from the past : in 1936 (ie, after the disastrous effects of roosevelt's socialist inanity became apparent to anyone worth the mention), literary digest sent out 10mn questionnaires to all the people buying it + anyone with a car or a phone.
assbot: Orlando Scandrick tried to explain his PED use. | SportsonEarth.com : Will Leitch Article
ben_vulpes: (from #emacs: "better than a gun-activated bitcoin printer")
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point i had buried under all that failpaste is... wtf, "petrodollar scam breaking down plz send me paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr dollar instead" ?
nubbins`: how many horses did you need to make that much paste :D