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radan: my philosophy goes like
this.
nubbins`: ^ spiders and lsd in
the same comic!
nubbins`: she was given
the choice between a minimal environmental impact and
the appearance of one, and she chose
the latter
mircea_popescu: i wonder if
they ever genetically engineer a colony of bacteria
that knits
chetty: probably a lot more pollution
too,
transport and all
mircea_popescu: people pay an extra
ten bitcoins per site for
the words "bestest ever"...
nubbins`: imagine, paying an extra
ten dollars per shirt for
the word "earth"
nubbins`: the word "organic" isn't even on
the
tags anywhere
nubbins`: well
this supplier
they insisted on choosing fucked
the order royally, and
the remainder of it showed up
today, 21 days late
nubbins`: did i ever
tell you guys about
the client who insisted on "eco-friendly" (6.25%!) garments flown in from
the other side of
the continent rather
than choosing local garments for half
the price?
radan: which may be
the reason
those countries are so vilified lately
radan: I
think
they have very little leeway over North Korea and Iran, for example
radan: France more so
than many other places
chetty: the country? you mean
the world
mircea_popescu: this bullshit where you find fault with
the world belongs with
the skirts in a cramped greenwich village coffee house.
mircea_popescu: anyway, being a man is all about fighting and getting killed for
the proper oligarch.
chetty: from
the female standpoint =
taking up arms beyond your own needs does not make you a man
radan: the French use
them as cannon fodder in colonial hellholes
radan: which is one of
the reasons I'm not
BingoBoingo: radan:
There's always
the French foreign legion
radan: they would be if I joined
them
mircea_popescu: quoth Lt. Barney Greenwald: "Ah, you're learning, Willie! You're learning
that you don't work with a captain because you like
the way he parts his hair. You work with him because he's got
the job or you're no good! "
radan: dr. popescu,
the vagaries of
the US army are well known
the world over
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, i like how between our
two questions he picked
to answer yours.
radan: who signs his life and his family's future over for
thirty
talents
ThickAsThieves: btw I watched Gardens in
the Night,
turns out I had seen it before. it's awfully slow movie
radan: so I value much more
the syrian who goes
to war for his people - on either side -
than
the US soldier
radan: at least,
that's what I
think of it
radan: in
this specific scenario
radan: in general, anything with high
testosterone
radan: and most causes
the US Army pursues are ridiculous
radan: see, I don't
think
there's anything manly about dying for a ridiculous cause
mircea_popescu: seems self-obvious, neh ? if you want
to wear a skirt in
the shape of a good degree or not being arrested,
that's fine and dandy, but if you want
to be a man you generallyt couldn't care less what you're wearing.
BingoBoingo: radan: Most nations with armed forces have some sort of Officer Candidate course
that can be pursued after a degree
ozbot: The Divine Cunt pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: radan and you wish me
to explain how all
this is all about being a cunt ?
radan: if I can fight, I want
to do it in defense of my people and for a cause I deem just
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves but it seems
to be his distillation nevertheless.
radan: I'd rather not get arrested, and I'm well on my way
towards getting a good degree
ThickAsThieves: i'm not sure fighting and killing is
the accurate distillation
mircea_popescu: you can start slinging dope downtown, you can join
the marines, on it goes.
radan: modern society provides no outlet for
this
radan: well, young men have
traditionally wanted
to fight, and kill, since
time immemorial
mircea_popescu: ok. so i didn't read your "i wanna go
to syria" as a "turn for
traditionalism"
mircea_popescu: radan a,
that was a previous discussion, did you read
that log ?
radan: you said you would explain how a
turn for
traditionalism is related
to femininity
mircea_popescu: not exactly a secret in any sense, except for
the reddit crowd.
ozbot: Dear Guardian : stop being retarded. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: but i guess
that window was very small and closed long ago
ThickAsThieves: so,
to confirm,
Tor is essentially useless, in regards
to its original purpose, now?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well apparently some people see right
through it.
mircea_popescu: and he will go
to prison still sprouting his delusional nonsense.
ThickAsThieves: "Given
the
technological sophistication of most Bitcoiners, equity crowdfunding with payment in bitcoins is undoubtedly a solid match."
mircea_popescu: at least shrem had
the minimal decency
to admit he's wrong. vessenes will have
to go
to prison,
mircea_popescu: this is exactly
the problem.
they keep getting beaten
to shit,
they keep hopping right up again
ThickAsThieves: "Further,
the concept of self-executing contracts, powered by Ethereum, could
take much of
the risk of non-performance by managers of startups off
the
table. "
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin ragazine ? what is surprising
to you here ?
jborkl: GLBSE should have been
the headliner
ThickAsThieves: "At least one website, BitFunder.com, provided a centralized place
to both solicit and offer shares in Bitcoin related startups before shutting down last fall. "
jborkl: I did see
the booth
there pimping oil and gas
ThickAsThieves: "However, anecdotal accounts have suggested
that many participants in successful Kickstarter campaigns ultimately receive nothing at all from
the companies
to which
they contribute."
LordPutin: but at least
they're
taking
the heat
mircea_popescu: their completely clueless, "let's do
the motions" calisthenic approach
to
things is going
to get a lot of young men as per
the quote above in a lot of
trouble
ThickAsThieves: interesting
to finally see a bitcoin securities article in
the bitcoin "community" media
mircea_popescu: personally, i blame
the bitcoin foundation, and murck especially.
ThickAsThieves: the paperwork police,” and informed interested parties
that capital contributions in bitcoin would be accepted.
ThickAsThieves: The commissioner of
the
Texas State Securities Board issued an emergency order last week barring a private energy exploration company from accepting investments in bitcoin from non-accredited investors.
The company, Balanced Energy LLC, allegedly solicited investors at
the
Texas Bitcoin Conference on March 6th with
the statements “we don’t do any verification” and “we’re not
mircea_popescu: finished
this process of "thinking" I wired Carroll
that I was ready
to
mircea_popescu: letting
the boys consult me as an experienced man of affairs. And having
mircea_popescu: inspection. I
tickled my fancy with
the idea of coming back
to college and
mircea_popescu: buying one store after another and going from
town
to
town on
tours of
mircea_popescu: watching clerks
taking in money. I had, in anticipation,
the
thrill of
mircea_popescu: name over
the door and myself in a fine glass office looking out and
mircea_popescu: in what young men frequently mistake for
thought. In imagination, I saw my
mircea_popescu: "I was flattered by his interest, so I
thought it over.
That is, I indulged
mircea_popescu: there's an excellently superb quote in
that link benkay pasted yest.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
turns out
the 50's housewives were running
the show and just letting
the men
think
they did ;)
ThickAsThieves: "I am starting
to
think
that
this "China" news is just a
tactic
to make
the price drop."