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mircea_popescu: uni being cool don't enter into it. florida and arizona party schools are very cool, i would visit, i would not ever stay lmao
nubbins`: it is cool, but it just can't pay manual laborers $70k/year
mircea_popescu: have "toss the feminist" festivals, people (that aren't retards) may wanna come.
mircea_popescu: yeah but this can't be fixed administratively.
mircea_popescu: all the schmucks that can't leave.
mircea_popescu: because the only reason it exists is that it's useful. if useful can't pay useful can go hang.
nubbins`: because if there wasn't a catch, it'd just be a boondoggle
mircea_popescu: nah, that i can see paying for. what i can't see ever paying for is "social studies", "womens studies" etc.
nubbins`: i feel like an educated populace isn't a terrible idea, as long as it's educated in things that aren't fucking out to lunch
mircea_popescu: that doesn't exist irl.
mircea_popescu: same reason women don't have to pay to go to a club, especially if they go naked.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` generally you don't have to pay if you're very very good. at least the ones i'm familiar with.
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/feed/ << doesn't work somehow ?
pete_dushenski: well why didn't you just say so ? ;)
nubbins`: guy was taking half by the end, wasn't he?
nubbins`: which isn't the point, but a fact nonetheless
nubbins`: but seriously though, i don't think we should have merged the foundation tax thing into the code
nubbins`: if that doesn't encourage log readers to actually read and absorb the fuckin patches
nubbins`: hopefully they won't find the diddles in our 0.5.3.1
assbot: Officials say 19 manatees trapped in a Florida drainage system have been rescued, and others escaped on their own. http://t.co/EQAkrPOFql
ben_vulpes: <plonky> [] the most wtf of today http://presschain.com/decentralized-malware-on-the-blockchain/ << don't use bitcoin it's dangewous!
jurov: heh... i remembered feeble attempts by uni prof "but really, don't call it sorting but ordering"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to steal from ed felton, 'you can't build a safe that is to be kept in the robber's living room' - except that some folks must anyway, so they craft safes that will set fire to the money at slightest provocation << Shoot for Tepco can not cut without fine
asciilifeform: to steal from ed felton, 'you can't build a safe that is to be kept in the robber's living room' - except that some folks must anyway, so they craft safes that will set fire to the money at slightest provocation
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose) << If was taking torch to pren]mises would have lance of great concrete cutting
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: They don't. Still stl isn't asking 4 digits
asciilifeform: (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc, colo facility doesn't care if you weld you case
mircea_popescu: "i didn't know they stacked shit that high"
asciilifeform: as in, you can actually program without thinking about any building block that isn't in the book...
ben_vulpes: granted, hardware in the wild that did the same thing cost ~1000x what i built, didn't work nearly as well.
ben_vulpes: "but i don't really know that--" "fill out these papers, kid. we'll send you a check and something for your home office wall."
ben_vulpes: actually now that i think of it the bulk of my career has been blessed by sages of various stripes who didn't particularly mind my derping around, or at least found me entertaining enough to tolerate.
BingoBoingo: decimation: They don't at all, and on top of it they have obligations.
decimation: BingoBoingo: my understanding is that most lawyers don't make much money at all
BingoBoingo: I'm just glad I didn't do law school
mats: you couldn't pay me enough to work in a us embassy
BingoBoingo: <decimation> being a usg shill in a foreign country would be depressing as hell <, For sure, no point traveling if you can't try 50 shades of poon
BingoBoingo: The thing is if you have a brain and can't get a perfect score on the GRE math portion with a BAC under 0.5 I dunno why you'd try college
BingoBoingo: mats: it is. Admissions counselors don't know it is an easier test though
BingoBoingo didn't bother with reach schools, went to desperate schools that needed outliers
mats: didn't get into any of my reach schools e.g. columbia
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket << terry davis. and schizophrenia is still one of the more reliable ways a white man can get usg payola. though it's still an 'achievement', on part with getting a $1M research grant on your lonesome << Who knows, if it wasn't for glorious tobacco maybe I'd be on that golden ticket
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, i don't even wear those idiotic card things.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...but a leech ? a leech is a revolutionary. << usg welfare folks aren't leeches, they're employees. (what're they paid for? ask tlp.)
mircea_popescu: well but see ? russian guy comes into play. "why the fuck wouldn't i take money if i can get away with it ? and why aren't you fucking cheering me for it!"
decimation: mircea_popescu: don't you think shame is a motivator?
mircea_popescu: so they put you in this place, which is fundamentally quiet. you can't be disturbed.
mircea_popescu: a while back i ran a "what'd you do with 100k euro" thing on my blog (because some fucktarded populists were "promoting a law" to give every schmuck 20k - romanians don't want living wages, they want universal windfalls)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> most people don't bother fucking their wives. why'd they bother with some random dude. << Prolly so random dude doesn't fuck them. WHy do dogs sniff assholes
mircea_popescu: not to say rape doesn't exist in prison. however, celebrity also exists in california.
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives. why'd they bother with some random dude.
asciilifeform on typical day doesn't see any women other than one kept as pet
BingoBoingo: I don't have children so would like to avoid prison and buggery. Still my survival strategy would consist largely of join the first white power gang that comes knocking.
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives, why do you imagine they'd bother with some dude.
asciilifeform secret connoisseur of 'rotting in prison' literature. has most of a bookcase - and none is in eng. doesn't know of any in that language worth keeping
asciilifeform doesn't have the link handy
mircea_popescu: if you don't know very much, all sorts of stuff smells like salvation.
asciilifeform: but the folks i work with weren't raised by tv.
asciilifeform: now, granted, i don't work at meta-nsa...
asciilifeform: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=highland+silver+lake+park&ll=38.761728,-89.692103&spn=0.002812,0.001632&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.761673,-89.691976&panoid=HPZxYzCY4v-Tms2dG9AMcA&cbp=12,354.34,,1,-19.35 << BingoBoingo's tower definitely has cellular antennae now
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu is not the only one who wasn't impressed
mircea_popescu: 5feet doesn't sound like much.
mircea_popescu: i don't personally do everything!
plonky: one of my systema trainer once told me : if you don't ask, you will never get answer
ascii_field: and on second thought we don't have a 88sx7042 either
ascii_field: plonky, others: it isn't just a question of 'which arm'
plonky: well, don't know :) i can ask fluffypony to rate me again :)
mircea_popescu: yes, they're both not. hasn't yet happened on god's green earth tho.
mircea_popescu: apud Ballas : "I know, I know, she's only 15-- terrified, Stockholm Syndrome, etc. And I have no right to judge her (in)actions since I am not her, I didn't live her life. Though that brings us back to the black teen: why is fear an acceptable explanation for poor judgment, but anger is not? (Hint: they're both not.)"
chetty: don't worry if you miss a day, someone will point it out (happens to me all the time)
ascii_field: and they don't clock in 'for the motherland' but to keep the job
ascii_field: jurov: i still don't get why usg would use anything other than the most 'respectable' root certs ('verisign' et al) for their shenanigans
mircea_popescu: i just want a functional reference point tree for when this topic is discussed in future. currently, my go-to link for "reddit manipulation" is either the trilema or the qntrea article. it's beneficial if they somewhere (like in comments) have a link to a later case they didn't substantially cover
BingoBoingo: Oh reddit disappeared, but didn't really delete a qntra link... again
mircea_popescu: "You can't have an idea. It's not a thing, not something to "have". It's not like a chocolate cake, you get your hands on it that's that, it's yours."
mircea_popescu: lol. they don't, obv.
punkman: nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline... << if only the retards came up with saline. I've read about some assholes using spray with glass beads (the kind used to make shiny road paint) that would penetrate the flowers.
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought the principle was to trigger immune response against cocaine molecule, not reward centre <<< you don't understand how immune works! << nuh uh I went to school and even paid attention sometimes!
danielpbarron: the suitcase doesn't have much to do with the fixed boxing match
danielpbarron: i wouldn't say it revolves around the suitcase
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> actually iirc pulp fiction revolves around guy getting a proper bag << pulp fiction doesn't "revolve around" anything -- kinda the point
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i have elementary knowledge of O-Chem. I love dat ATP Synthase (but who doesn't?)
asciilifeform: this is what the clandestine chemists don't always bother with.
asciilifeform: and the remaining filling in the flask, hasn't gone anywhere, but has to be removed somehow.
asciilifeform: hence for every type of -synthetic- (vs. refined from vegetation) dope, there is at least one 'krokodilian' variant where the folks making it didn't see it fit to bother with this detail.
asciilifeform: the basic concept, as PeterL (chemist?) will attest, is that a synthesis doesn't necessarily (and most often) produce only one thing. each step will result in one or more unwanted substances, including everything that failed to react in previous steps
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> except you don't inject meth into your bloodstream << Sometimes actually used in this manner
nubbins`: except you don't inject meth into your bloodstream
mircea_popescu: "So what the hell do we buy now? HP's quality has hit rock bottom and is starting to dig, Lenovo is doing their best to destroy the Thinkpad brand, Asus is incapable of making a device without at least one fatal flaw... is Apple the only one making laptops that aren't garbage anymroe?"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my impression is that it isn't. just a very marginal synthesis with the byproducts left in, with various grotesque 'zombie' aesthetic of decaying user. makes up in sensationalism for what lacks in actual 'epidemiology.'
nubbins`: OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T
mircea_popescu: yeah but you two aren't really people. you're in here.
nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline...
asciilifeform: i've always wondered why american dope aficionados don't follow the 1980s soviet example and all switch to making (or at least refining) what they use personally
nubbins`: because i know for a fact that he didn't
nubbins`: asciilifeform you don't need schooling to make crack
nubbins`: someone who isn't me has witnessed dealers receive new shipment, open bag, set several spoonfuls aside for sef, then dump 8-10 tbsp of random white in there
mircea_popescu: "dealers" doesn't mean what it used to mean 30 years ago.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. they won't tell you this, but a good half of the captured stuff - on the street - is actually pure.