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mircea_popescu: “The Donald Cook is more than capable of defending itself against two Su-24s,” the colonel said.
benkay: what's the military context that makes that kind of behavior assholery?
mircea_popescu: lmao this "unprofessional" business has pretty much replaced "asshole" in us office drones parlance hasn't it
asciilifeform: should have dropped 'paintballs' or the like.
mircea_popescu: why is he not @lubyanka then
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 5 == initial quote. traditionally, gov. payola contracts have overrun, renewal, etc. provisions. add a zero.
mircea_popescu: harry reid, the guy who delivered congress to obama, right ?
mircea_popescu: "The original bullhocky story about the cattle endangering desert tortoises fell apart when the truth was discovered that only recently the BLM had gerrymandered the boundaries of endangered habitat and created a mitigation area needed to replace habitat where Harry Reid’s son and a Chinese energy company planned to build a 5 billion dollar solar energy project."
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: nubbins` is balls-deep in printing, that's where ;(
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is why 'they import fresh mexicans,' etc.
asciilifeform: and so, the 'masters' demand radical geographic separation.
asciilifeform: in usa, they broke the mechanism that separates the usefully servile class from 'lumpens.' sort of like growing edible mushrooms in a bathroom infested by mold, because, hey, you can.
mircea_popescu: in the united states of africa, apparently they've not figured this out.
bounce: hot in summer, cold in winter. freezing hell when the wind's just wrong. such fun.
Apocalyptic: <bounce> don't servants live in servants quarters? like, oh, right under the roof, or wherever it was. // it was indeed right under the roof, in France at least
asciilifeform: erests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.'
asciilifeform: 'labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of -- because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) int
bounce: don't servants live in servants quarters? like, oh, right under the roof, or wherever it was.
mircea_popescu: but what is and what's said to be are wildly distinct matters in byzantium
mircea_popescu: they pretend like they're not, for public consumption, and to get more clueless kids on the one track path that then leads them to become prostitu uh i mean entrpereneurs
mircea_popescu: if they can agree on salary control measures, clearly they're overstaffed.
mircea_popescu: nobody has any trouble hiring anyone.
asciilifeform: or do the servants simply take six buses to the manor and back?
asciilifeform: if the 'they're bidding up all housing' thing were true, the masters would have problems hiring servants. are they?
Naphex: its true :)
mircea_popescu: Vincent: It's just against the rules.
mircea_popescu: Vincent: What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean, don't fuck with another man's vehicle.
mircea_popescu: Vincent: Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it.
mircea_popescu: Lance: They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
mircea_popescu: Vincent: Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of shit fucked with it.
mircea_popescu: Lance: Oh, man, that's fucked up.
mircea_popescu: Vincent: Aw, man. You know what some fucker did the other day?
mircea_popescu: to quote the world's foremost "yuppie scum", one vincent vega :
mircea_popescu: you;'ll have to excuse me, i'm indulging a bottle of cognac and my inclination to be wtf'd.
asciilifeform: satan preserve us. the 'google bus' folks again?!
mircea_popescu: dude... and this is STILL not enough reason to just send the national guard and beat anyone not rich into a pulp ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic because insane, on the first level.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: grew the delicious beast yourself, or caught in the wild?
Apocalyptic: mircea, why would they do that ?
mircea_popescu: in 1987 teh police had bucharest surrounded, checking all inbound car traffic to make sure nobody's sneaking any potatoes into town.
mircea_popescu: what's this, leningrad ?
mircea_popescu: the difference of course being i can slaughter one and post it on my blog, daring the "pet police" to do anything,
jborkl: ok I did my good deed for the year - time to relax
assbot: Voice for chairman_meow extended to 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only one way to find out.
asciilifeform: i've often wondered if the local busybodies would go apeshit if one were to set up a snare.
mircea_popescu: it's like... twice over the pretense
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Probably an East Coast thing. No serious problem finding them here.
mircea_popescu: there's a thin sliver of romanians who wannabe us hipster liberals.
asciilifeform: over here, they can only be had in korean markets, because americans are weirdos
jborkl: my WOT nick is jborkl_ and the nick I use is jborkl - you have to change to jborkl_ with gribble auth with assbot then /nick jborkl
asciilifeform: wait people don't eat those in ro?
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of romanians found an ancient article in which i sliced a rabbit and are having aneurisms all over my comment section. kinda funnay to watch.
mircea_popescu: like the necronomicon, only better.
mircea_popescu: geek titties.
mircea_popescu: do you compulsively play with the support ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've one quite like this, here.
mircea_popescu: god i love that shape
BingoBoingo: Where is nubbins` to do this art
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well I was more imagining what it would take for a Rasberry Pi to truly be a TI-89 surrogate than imagining a project for myself in the near future.
mircea_popescu: the holy sharpie in the worldy pooper ?
chairman_meow: I can't seems to find out why the rules changed
chairman_meow: hmmm I'm looking at the logs
BingoBoingo: Ah, this Baron thing is hard. Especially when it comes to considering what may be worthy of accepting someone as a Ridder or Jonhkeer
Naphex: hehe thanks for the rate ^^
fluffypony: ;;rate Naphex 1 if btcxchange.ro steals your money this guy will personally sort you out
mircea_popescu: well if you got something materially relevant you can always get someone to up you, so, no need to panic
chairman_meow: so... I guess I don't really need access to this channel
Apocalyptic: given he mentionned that as the #1 thing
mircea_popescu: because if he comes back with something like 10% i'll challenge him to prove it, after which rate him.
Apocalyptic: Anduck, that's probably the extent of his involvement with bitcoin
Anduck: how is that relevant
mircea_popescu: how much of their 10k is you ?
assbot: Voice for chairman_meow extended to 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: kinda curious what that guy that was going to do the math to show how weight is not sharp enough comes up with.
BingoBoingo: Well I wouldn't be averse to offering trust for a small trade if I knew what the person's shtick is
chairman_meow: ok, you can just let me be unvoiced now. I guess I'll eventually get that trade
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/740/may-i-suggest-9b-difficulty/#c2784 teh ppl doth protest
mike_c: or this: http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/
Anduck: someone with assbot trust now needs to rate him
mircea_popescu: chairman_meow read the logs for the 10th, iirc.
chairman_meow: why the change of rules for bitcoin-assets?
chairman_meow: oh wait, nevermind that was wrong
bounce: chairman_meow: trade, impress, get chummy with, con, bribe, blackmail, what-have-you.
BingoBoingo: chairman_meow: Well what you do affects how you get trust
mircea_popescu: i spent some money trying to educate a bunch of idiots.
Apocalyptic: cause she was paid to
chairman_meow: maybe assbot is sending to gribble ";;ident chairman_meow"
Anduck: well why is his pr then using bitcointalk :D
mircea_popescu: ah ? ok then!
mircea_popescu: well at least it's what the guy claims.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla apparently if id'd but untrusted guy pms assbot he gets the same message as if he weren't id'd.
chairman_meow: I need to trade with one of these guys?
chairman_meow: so.. what to do now heh
assbot: Voice for chairman_meow extended to 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: you need a rating from someone assbot trusts.
chairman_meow: so.. I need a trust connection to assbot?
mircea_popescu: "If individuals admit guilt & reach civil settlement w/ govt, they can't deduct costs from tax returns. Companies can" << true, and pretty epic
pankkake: I have compiled sudo with the "offensive" USE flag. when my password is wrong, I get random insults
mircea_popescu: maybe kakobrekla can be arsed to make special error messages for each case. or maybe not. ha-ha!