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mircea_popescu: <decimation> If USG doesn'
t consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted? <<< i don'
t think you understand how few people still pay their taxes.
justusranvier: We consider cells to be alive. We consider multicellular organisims to be alive. They aren'
t quite alive in the same way that so far eludes a precise definition.
justusranvier: You don'
t need to be able to think in order to fail
justusranvier: Evolution in action. The least-successful viruses kill their hosts quickly. The better ones kill their host more slowly so they can infect more people. THe most successful ones don'
t make the host sick at all, and instead infect the germ line and become immortal.
justusranvier: But they can'
t just leave it at that. They've got to cloak it in a bunch of pseudoscience bullshit
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: There are many reasons why homeopathy is a scam, mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don'
t grok objective reality. << Homeopaths make their cheddar on conditions that test well against placebo
decimation: If USG doesn'
t consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted?
mthreat: ben_vulpes: apparently it is very hard to receive stuff. I haven'
t even tried to order anything.
mircea_popescu: that ain'
t maslow's pyramid for crying out loud. this is like the #1 libertard falsification topic or what ?!
ColinT: I don'
t know what that means
ColinT: As long as you don'
t change the shape of the glass, the gravitational field, etc
ColinT: If we didn'
t feel pain when we put our hands on a hot stove - that would be a problem
mircea_popescu: but no, emotion ain'
t no type o' logic i ever heard of.
mircea_popescu: <ColinT> I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don'
t think rationally << depends on the group.
pete_dushenski: well, the people here aren'
t just "humans," we're full fledged people
ColinT: I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don'
t think rationally
ColinT: I can'
t imagine a better plan!
ColinT: Oh okay, yeah I didn'
t know if you were BTC full-time or not
The20YearIRCloud: I have never been outside of the United States, therefore it can'
t be prove that other countries do exist.
xanthyos: homeopathy doesn'
t require any molecules of the original solution to remain. the theory is that it changes the resonance of surrounding water molecules in the same way that ice-nine worked in kurt vonnegut's "cat's cradle"
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don'
t grok objective reality.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t really dilute anything past 10^-20ish or so.
pete_dushenski: … if i wasn'
t addicted to ice cream and ate a tub every single night
mircea_popescu: jesus this is like... the perfect excuse, isn'
t it ? "i can only imagine how productive i'd be if". har har.
mircea_popescu: everyone got his own little ideographics and i need a dictionary to wade through the sad produce of idiots who can'
t be bothered to learn a language well.
pete_dushenski: brings to mind douglas adams' : "Space is big. You just won'
t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
mircea_popescu: yes but for most nuts those patterns aren'
t talking directly to them saying "omfg you're so important and we're paying attention to you!11"
Namworld: My steam account has 3393.73 USD in games in it. Definitly didn'
t spend that much on them tho. Thanks Humble Bundles.
Namworld: Well it's nice to see court proceedings. It sure ain'
t a fast process tho.
ben_vulpes: which isn'
t really that bad an opsec notion.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don'
t love". Do babies love? << no. this is well studied, first they consume, then they deject, then they love.
assbot: I won'
t back down - Johnny Cash (lyrics) - YouTube
ben_vulpes: (don'
t actually need the other human these days, but it's still a fun thing to do)
mircea_popescu: but the woman in question wasn'
t happy with the idiocy control. so as a result... the guy wouldn'
t impregnate her anymore. and here we are.
assbot: Johnny Cash "Don'
t Take Your Guns to Town" - YouTube
mircea_popescu: but hey, it's the way nature usually hits one over the head. they want to live in a world where men don'
t kill their kids, no matter what. turns out that can be built, but the cost is they can also never be happy.
ben_vulpes: also i'm starting to suspect that hormonal birth control makes teh wimminz ultrasad due to not knowing that they're going through the usual hormonal flux. just 'cause there's no bleeding doesn'
t mean that there are no hormones flopping around.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in. << not really. plug your laptop into 110kv, the transformer wil blow, maybe the power entry will blow, the hdd won'
t blow.
ben_vulpes: plus i don'
t know if it's that good of an idea to start diddling the help
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what do you have in mind? i don'
t know her well enough to pimp her tits out (yet).
bats_cd03: which is also worth a read if you haven'
t. its written by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
ben_vulpes: bats_cd03: kinda why i don'
t give much truck to people complaining about how hard group "x" has it - there's always another group bitching about something.
bats_cd03: i even read some of the stuff in the universe written by the dude's son after he passed. wasn'
t good.
ben_vulpes: <thickasthieves> follow-up thought on "cats don'
t love". Do babies love? what is love?
thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don'
t love". Do babies love?
novusordo: reading isn'
t faster while driving
thickasthieves: it's lame that if i auth as thickasthieves while using a diff nick, assbot won'
t let me !up, regardless of nick or being auth'd with gribble already
punkman: and from what I've read they don'
t keep too many spares
punkman: BingoBoingo, problem is I can'
t fix those giant transformers that will blow out
punkman: gov subsidized a bunch of PV installations around here and most of them remain unconnected and can'
t sell back to the grid
BingoBoingo: DOn'
t they have a S3 or ZE or something nao
punkman: not yet, but there's a small amount coming soon, and I don'
t like to leave a balance with them
BigBitz: well they can'
t refuse FOIA as it's .gov, right?
BingoBoingo: Thankfully the bet is closed so there isn'
t a bunch of late betting before the FOIA requests go through
neuroCreep: fluffypony, you aren'
t allowed to limerick anymore
cazalla: i didn'
t bet because i thought what happened might happened
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, "volatility drag" is an artefact of the poor public school system in the us. the only reason it exists is that people do arithmetic rather than geometric %s. in other words, they don'
t compound.
mircea_popescu: events aren'
t really to be explained is the thing. what are you goint to explain ?
decimation: any wannabe lawyer who finds the bar exam to be too difficult to pass doesn'
t deserve to be a lawyer
mircea_popescu: they may cry, but it wouldn'
t be over the internets not uploading, srsly.
mircea_popescu: because yeah, that's the right thing to do when mp says you';re stupid, come out with an "there have been some implications that we're stupid from some people that don'
t understand us"
mircea_popescu: they wish they had it, they like to pretend like they have it, but they don'
t actually.
mircea_popescu: im impressed with their not being quite ready to go home yet. various other twerps with delusions of historical importance (france, say) don'
t have it.
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Isn'
t MegaMillions a lottery game?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> unlike the us, Argentina doesn'
t have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever << it does have the ability to pretend. it doesn'
t have the hordes of idiots to pretend they believe the pretense.
The20YearIRCloud: k, i haven'
t been paying attention to most of the mpex listings (obviously)
BingoBoingo: It's murkey aside from the NY Bitlicense thing. Some have taken the Federal line at Bitcoin isn'
t... Money as they regulate it like Texas.
The20YearIRCloud: I don'
t understand why they issued debt through new york, unless they had to be approved in a US state in order to sell it here
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, because the people who didn'
t want the to resturcture... Were the ones who claimed jurisdiction
The20YearIRCloud: so argentina is in default because they can'
t restructur ethe bonds from 2001?
BingoBoingo: Well, it seems... New York isn'
t as important as it used to be if Newer New York can flip it the bird
decimation: "A U.S. District Court has ruled that Argentina can'
t pay holders of restructured bonds until it compensates the holdouts, who have sued for full payment on bonds the country defaulted on in 2001. Some investors accepted discounted bonds in restructurings in 2005 and 2010. The bonds fall under New York jurisdiction because they were issued in New York."
decimation: unlike the us, Argentina doesn'
t have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever
ThickAsThieves: <+coltan> I read that already the guys doesn'
t seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much /\\/ o dear...
mircea_popescu: <coltan> I read that already the guys doesn'
t seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much << nor into web 2.0, for that matter.
BingoBoingo: coltan: You have to consider that Maidsafe's actual competitor isn'
t Dropbox, but real solutions that... already work very well
BigBitz: IF you're a fanboi I feel bad for you son, you got 99 problems but picking bad coins ain'
t one.
coltan: I read that already the guys doesn'
t seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much