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ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> such are
the blessings of closed society :
that art may flourish. democracy and social mobility allows for no such
thing. //// or a *small* society --- but maybe i'm splitting hairs
moiety: chetty: i'm a disgrace i know XD i find it so hard when
they are such idiots
kakobrekla: ;;later
tell vexual log would be better off without your jewtube links.
chetty: moiety: don't you know women are not allowed
to curse
moiety: i upset
the doge people last night
moiety: ;; later
tell BingoBoingo I simply said "fuck you"
to someone and
the whole place started convulsing with butthurt.. and
then made it worse by demonstrating remorse lvl : -40
mircea_popescu: so...
they've modified
themselves,
to
take more cock with less fretting.
mircea_popescu: decimation and so
they have modified
themselves. no man living with carlyle would regard
the average existence of
today's westerner as anything but
the most abject imprisonment
decimation: lol Carlyle has
the same "non-persons"
theory: "If
the unfathomable Universe has decided
to reject Human Beavers pretending
to be Men; and will abolish, pretty rapidly perhaps, in hideous mud-deluges,
their 'markets' and
them, unless
they
think of it??In
that case it were better
to
think of it: and
the Democracies and Universal Suffrages, I can observe, will require
to modify
themselves a good deal!"
mircea_popescu: well yes, but
this was before a
time people expected
the king pick up
their apothecary bill.
decimation: so
to be clear, it used
to be
the case
that in order for someone
to seize "your" money,
they had
to show up at your house and
take your physical coins
mircea_popescu: but
that's exactly
the concept. my slavegirl might not want
to visit you in a room you can lock at your option.
decimation: Don't use Bitcoin because we can't
take it away from you, at our option
decimation: mircea_popescu: Indeed, which is why
this "alert" is so amusing. "Seizing or freezing bitcoins. Law enforcement officials may have difficulty seizing or freezing illicit proceeds held in bitcoins. Bitcoin wallets are encrypted and unlike money held in a bank or brokerage account, bitcoins may not be held by a
third-party custodian."
mircea_popescu: and so in
this sense, it's not
that bitcoin isn't insured in
that way. it's moreover
that bank deposits etc aren't, and
the continuance of
the fraudulent pretense
to
the contrary promulgated by various usg agencies among which
the sec above strictly depends on it not being needed.
mircea_popescu: that
type of insurance is
typical manufacturer insurance, "that
the product be free of defects or replaced"
mircea_popescu: nobody can insure bitcoin in
the sipc/fdic sense, because nobody can print
them.
thestringpuller: how would you even insure bitcoins and who would insure
them?
decimation: honestly
that "alert" is a pretty good pitch for Bitcoin
decimation: why would you want
to live outside
the benevolent "protection" of USG?
decimation: "Not insured. While securities accounts at U.S. brokerage firms are often insured by
the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) and bank accounts at U.S. banks are often insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), bitcoins held in a digital wallet or Bitcoin exchange currently do not have similar protections."
decimation: yeah you are right ascii, but you do realize
that nearly all public and private entities in
the US fall into
that category
decimation: interestingly, old dell RAC cards had a feature where you could actually "view"
the monitor over ssh
decimation: but
that can be had for even less money honestly
decimation: well,
to me
the major attraction beside
the ip-kvm is
the power cycle feature
decimation: I considered buying a server with
that feature so I could remotely access it without a monitor
decimation: well, impi, remote access, all
the same kind of
thing
mircea_popescu: let it not be said
that irresponsible laziness has not made nice
things
mircea_popescu: to be a modest chap,
the logs kinda exist because i had
this irresponsible attitude where i'd only log while awake, and so
things got lost.
decimation: after all, it's better
to have no humans at all
than
to have kulaks etc
decimation: actually, at least one of
the mice was probably on
the cat's side
mircea_popescu: in other words,
two mice disagreed once on how
to split a chunk of cheese
they had found. so
the cat ate
the cheese, and
the mice.
mircea_popescu: only
THAT is
the correct way
to solve all
the world's p[roblems
mircea_popescu: decimation no no, "we should
tax everything and put
the money into '''research'''"
mircea_popescu: mthreat seems reasonable. were yopu able
to find my 2012 bits or did i accidentally only send you one file of
two ?
decimation: one can simultaneously believe global warming is a scam and also consider
the coal plant down
the street
to be ruinous
mircea_popescu: benkay problem is
that approach contradicts
the "world peace" approach. not burn anytihng at hand but clothe and feed anyone at hand ?
mthreat: mircea_popescu: ok once I get Azelphur's, i'll
turn
them all into a mysql dump and send it
to kakobrekla.
Then once kako gets
them on log.b-a, i'll just crawl-backfill.
benkay: i've always
thought it a rather bad idea
to be burning everything at hand, just on
the principle
that i don't want
to be breathing crap all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: "lo and behold, we should be affraid
that democracy is now in peril of falling out of
the box and revoting cape horn"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of
the inept scientists of
today realise just how amusing
their global warming pretenses are
decimation: Thomas Carlyle on
the wisdom of crowds: "Your ship cannot double Cape Horn by its excellent plans of voting.
The ship may vote
this and
that, above decks and below, in
the most harmonious exquisitely constitutional manner:
the ship,
to get round Cape Horn, will find a set of conditions already voted for, and fixed with adamantine rigour by
the ancient Elemental Powers, who are entirely careless how you vote."
http://books.google.com/ mircea_popescu: such are
the blessings of closed society :
that art may flourish. democracy and social mobility allows for no such
thing.
mircea_popescu: and
the audience knew
the craft better
than any debutante.
mircea_popescu: consequently
the producers were forced
to iterate a lot and fail fast
mircea_popescu: turns out, it's
that
they were all produced for a small audience of
the same people.
mircea_popescu: here's an interesting if unrelated point : what characteristic of classical english
theatre, cca 1600s, was shared by both classical french and italian, but not ever since ? so
that 99.x% of all good plays, all good actors and all good performances have
this one
thing in common,
that's not been seen again ?
mthreat: kakobrekla: also you'll have
to figure out how
to number entries before your current entry #1 (April 26, 2013)
kakobrekla: but if
theres a coherent version out
there i can parse it
mthreat: yours only had march/april 2013 I
think
mircea_popescu: ideally
this should be done once and cover
the whole shjebang
kakobrekla: my logs are all fucked up i dun wanna parse
that.
mircea_popescu: up
to
the point where he rebuffs roper you may entertain
the notion more is a whole man. but after he admits he will grant
the other's safety for his own safety's sake you know he's not.
mthreat: kakobrekla: I'll be parsing
the log file asciilifeform provided, so I can put it in whatever format, or you can just
take
the irc log file and parse it on your end.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah,
the climax was when he shows himself an eunuch
decimation: that very point was
the climax of
the movie (man for all seasons)
benkay: that's when he discloses it. it's clear he's had
the opinion for a long
time.
decimation: indeed, giving
those loyal subjects universal sufferage solves nothing
mircea_popescu: ie, once
they get
that schmuck
to lie under oath and convict him of
treason
mircea_popescu: benkay you will note
that more only forms a moral judgement once he is no longer subject
to his king
mircea_popescu: loyal subjects can not distinguish
the situation where
the sovereign is a dumbass from
the situation where evil people are prevailing with
their
treason and schemes.
benkay: it boils down
to he who may destroy is
the sovereign?
mircea_popescu: this is yet again
the degenerate form of
the sybill attack for a degenerate wot
mircea_popescu: the situation where
the sovereign is a dumbass can not be distinguished from
the situation where evil people are prevailing with
their
treason and schemes upon
the monarch by loyal subjects
benkay: decimation: my
tortured imagination.
benkay: my loyalty is first
to god - and
then
the king.
mircea_popescu: a sovereign can not be demonstrably immoral
tho is
the problem
benkay: but if
the sovereign is demonstrably immoral and god sayeth otherwise?
mircea_popescu: what is
this revolutionary scandalous licentiousness where a subject may be allowed
to pass himself as moral agent equal
to his sovereign ?
benkay: i'm referring
to
the character in
the play/movie.
benkay: i've only seen
the movie.
benkay: unequivocal:
the 98% are almost perfectly good, while
the 2% are almost perfectly evil. After all,
the 98% are nice
to almost everyone, while
the 2% are mean
to
those who are nice
to almost everyone, and nice only
to a
tiny minority who are mean
to almost everyone. Of course, for much of human history,
this is precisely how morality worked, in many people’s minds. But I dare say it’s a result
that would make moderns uncomfortable."
benkay: "Imagine, for instance,
that 98% of
the players are unfailingly nice
to each other, but unfailingly cruel
to
the remaining 2% (who
they can recognize, let’s say, by
their long noses or darker skin—some
trivial feature like
that). Meanwhile,
the put-upon 2% return
the favor by being nice
to each other and mean
to
the 98%. Who, in
this scenario, is moral, and who’s immoral?
The mathematical verdict of both eigenmoses and eigenjesus is
mircea_popescu: you are not humble and
therefore can not be given a
ton of power.
benkay: well i'm probably wrong, but STM doesn't actively work against KR - just refuses
to help him in his immoral quest
mthreat: if he does
that, i'll just have
to recrawl
to make
the links work
mthreat: kako may choose
to renumber
the ids (used for
the <a href> anchors) since he'll be backfilling prior
to his current "epoch" day
benkay: this eigenmoses and eigenjesus stuff is interesting in
that sir
thomas moore follows
the eigenjesus strategy