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benkay: any of the above not necessary for either boys or girls?
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ? // statistically likely
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the immortal words of pesto, that ain't gonna work.
pankkake: funny, just made the same comment
benkay: (and after all, there’s nothing wrong with changing keys once a year anyway) // what, mpex gets to rotate keys, but nobody else gets to rotate the keys they use on mpex?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if power supply issues can be ruled out entirely - it is entirely conceivable that zapping the drives was the actual goal of the enemy. why? perhaps to lead to new ones being bought from a diddled supply chain.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally, this is what a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose... << only works on stalin, and execs who actually do drugs.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ?
assbot: MPEx status update pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: analogous to soviet 'analgin' ?
benkay: well i certainly don't hire masters degree holders to stand by the crank and turn it all day
asciilifeform: benkay: the more school you've had, the less i'll pay you << how does this work? do you hire detectives to ferret out folks with secret diplomas?
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is what a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose...
asciilifeform: say what you like about soviet apparatchiks - but they weren't dope fiends.
asciilifeform: '...injecting heroin to Google executive Forrest Hayes and never trying to help or to call authorities when it was clear something had gone terribly wrong...'
benkay: dumb context free puns dot com for today:
benkay: latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat ☟︎
benkay: actually i think i'm going to hire people to execute on curricula of my own design.
thestringpuller: and lemme guess benkay your future spawn is going to private school :P
benkay: i declined to continue to conversation.
benkay: then she went off on the importance of education to what she does - shepharding 8 year olds around.
benkay: i told her that we have an inverted education incentive structure - the more school you've had, the less i'll pay you.
benkay: business partner's mother was in town recently, wanted to know what we'd pay for a master's degree
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.// I thought it already was
BingoBoingo: benkay: The pause button works perfectly for its master's purposes
assbot: The Art of CRXTO | Technoccult
benkay: beware the autoplaying video whose pause button doesn't work
mircea_popescu: at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.
mircea_popescu: mptranslate : "the reason we're claiming the arabs are going down while they're clearly kicking our butts has nothing to do with [our] ideology and everything to do with SCIENCE! Honest!"
benkay: i'm sorry, i don't understand the difference between said social policies and ideologies
assbot: Bad social policy, not ideology, is to blame for the Arab worlds downward spiral
benkay: my work day starts at 7, but i don't hit the tubes till ten or later.
punkman shakes titties for assbot
jurov: CryptOprah: tits 4 bitcoins?
JorgePasada: mats_cd03 I like one and a half, maybe two of those
jurov: gonna blog about derps... once this debilitating gastroenteritis pain subsides
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada f.derp backs them.
HyperChetty: asciilifeform, change it a few names and it would be perfectly up to date
jurov: yes, that's why i guessed ankh
BingoBoingo: jurov: asciilifeform: Notive running right through the middle of the place is that giant open sewer
Mats_cd03: plenty of derps in with the bidness crowd
jurov: asciilifeform what's that. ankh-morpork?
JorgePasada: I'm assuming that's what they all are, not actual shares
JorgePasada: What are you basing the derivatives on?
JorgePasada: Apparently some idiot doesn't know how to title things
jurov: once they get their spinning rust right
jurov: same as the other ones
JorgePasada: saying a thing like that
bitstein: "CoinSummit London is a two day event connecting virtual currency entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, hedge fund professionals and others" - so... the worst of the Bitcoin community
JorgePasada: Yeah, thems fun
jurov: they'll never... but they could do at least something marginally useful, like gpg signing parties
JorgePasada: All the derps :-)
bitstein: When will the conferences end...
jurov: so who's talking and derping there?
jurov: Who's there?
JorgePasada: I'm lazy and I'd have to SSH into my box at home
JorgePasada: thx for the V
jurov: ;;later tell mike_c in wol, adding 50% line into histograph would improve its readability
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: only worth reading if there's a source other than alexander lebed circa 1997. ☟︎
gribble: Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe: <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20041116/5049.html/_res/id=sa_File1/Nuclear_Terrorism.pdf>; Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - Council ...: <http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/nuclear-terrorism-ultimate-preventable-catastrophe/p7410>; Graham Allison: "The Ongoing Failure of Imagination" - ABC (1 more message)
Mats_cd03: ;;google nuclear terrorism the ultimate preventable catastrophe pdf
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.76646065 BTC to 11`815 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
Mats_cd03: more rogue nuclear material in the wild
punkman: https://blockchain.info/address/1AcAj9p6zJn4xLXdvmdiuPCtY7YkBPTAJo << what's up with "Warning! this bitcoin address contains transactions which may be double spends."
jurov: lol dramatic is the right word
HyperChetty: Germany took the dramatic step Thursday of asking the top U.S. intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country,
HyperChetty: There’s that old joke in Washington: that the definition of a camel is a race-horse designed by a Congressional committee.”
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.7995 BTC for No on "Germany wins World Cup" http://bitbet.us/bet/993/ Odds: 63(Y):37(N) by coin, 64(Y):36(N) by weight. Total bet: 16.01404948 BTC. Current weight: 94,376.
pankkake: and he wasn't there
BingoBoingo: Well, assbot keeps them...
artifexd: In a world without assbot, only the other bots can speak... (Read in the voice of Don LaFontaine)
mircea_popescu: that said, the thing is quite retarded.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you should see the hq ICBC has here.
assbot: SA to fork out billion for BRICS bank
mircea_popescu: decimation the solution obviously is, "make an ideology to which dissent is a self limiting condition"
decimation: well the solution to your order lies somewhere between ghandi and stalin
mircea_popescu names decimation the new head of the secret service. order #1 : arrest all the dissenters so that the population remains > 0.
mircea_popescu: it's not even scientific, for that matter.
decimation: technology (in certain respects) has been getting better, but it seems to me the problems faced are "np-hard"
mircea_popescu: i think so yeah
asciilifeform recalls that xerx ordered the hellespont not only whipped, but... branded
mircea_popescu: what'd bobynin say to abakumov ?
mircea_popescu points stan to chapter 20ish of the book in question.
asciilifeform: it's that, or 'whip the sea'
asciilifeform: i.e. technology
asciilifeform: actually you can order reality around. it just takes a while to figure out how to speak the language to 'order' in.
mircea_popescu: they *did* whip it for failing to obey.
mircea_popescu: xerxes famously ordered the hellespont around, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: but the interface between sovereignity and productivity is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: i mean, the girl being a good slave may die trying
decimation: you make a good point mircea, human sovereignty is always tragically limited
gribble: Menstrual extraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_extraction>; Menstrual Extraction | WomensHealthSpecialists.org: <http://www.womenshealthspecialists.org/self-help/menstrual-extraction>; Menstrual Extraction - Sister Zeus: <http://www.sisterzeus.com/MenExt.htm>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can i now order her to unperiodize herself << minor nitpick. this is actually possible.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal is flying an impossible taks ?
TheNewDeal: you could still go down on her, that's your sovereign power ;)
mircea_popescu: i thought you had just said i was sovereign.
TheNewDeal: what does that have to do with sovereignity?
decimation: obviously this is an impossible task, and you are not in a position to demand such a thing from nature
mircea_popescu: decimation so suppose i want to go down on her and she says her period started this morning. can i now order her to unperiodize herself ?
mircea_popescu: things are progressing smothly in the manner of fml.