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mircea_popescu: aanyway, let's just say this bla bla has been going on for as long as there's been an internenet. nubbins abound, and they have shit to say about things, obviously.
mircea_popescu: is this in the "we're about to break and enter and trying to pretend like no warrant is needed because probable cause" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a good half of police work in all times, interfacing with bored / insane middle aged women.
mircea_popescu: the variety of wasps they have here is staggering. i got TWO kinds nesting, one's a perfectly harmless paper wasp, they eat the polen off a vine growing ion the fence. the other's a mud hut building guy, i think he eats spiders. then a third really fearsome type showed up evidently praying on the first type... then later a fourth super tiny kind was discovered when one fell in my drink....
mircea_popescu: i haven't yet seen one. or i think i might've seen one, that may also have been a misidentified wasp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even if it did, the way in which it is ductaped to the whole shebang is more important in the end.
mircea_popescu: if you want to communicate securely, reg your key and pastebin encrypted stuff.
mircea_popescu: anyway. im terrible idea for SECURE comms. because you leak time if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: not even detectable unless someone's looking specifically.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder they sell that, btw, considering how easy it is to kill someone with it.
mircea_popescu has never lived in a place with smoke detectors. is a good life.
mircea_popescu: idealism is the notion that there exist "kinds" outside of what experience unfolds.
mircea_popescu: and, of course, nubbins / the rest of the "defenders of the public interest" will now reach into their deep pockets and make that public interest whole, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: i guess this is one of those things people say with no expectation of ever being asked to actually carry through or something.
mircea_popescu: i thought marketing is the only thing that adds to revenue, unlike everything else like say engineering etc, that adds to costs.
mircea_popescu: well, i dunno, back in the day people kept saying things about marketing or whatever.
mircea_popescu: indolent has the same root, "one who feels no pain", in the sense of the pain of being a worthless pos. like legendarily some species of africans, "not worth the whipping".
mircea_popescu: for the curious : condolences comes from latin, con - together, dolent, pain.
mircea_popescu: in btc only to immediately turn around and put that behind the usg idiocy du jour.)
mircea_popescu: (no, by no means the first case of "let's take republic wealth and "sell"/give it to usg". our short but rich history is littered with that sort of dorkitude, from
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Abugpowder to name your poison, which is how "taking investors" ie, allowing outsiders into the wealth even got such a bad name in the first place. the last fucking thing i want is MORE mentally stunted midgits making a profit
mircea_popescu: some dude asking me on trilema. da fuck can i tell him.
mircea_popescu recalls the time su made "bigger" to hide "shittier" behind it.
mircea_popescu: reason us-made balances are larger being that... they're crappier, helps mask it.
mircea_popescu: looks like the chinese are returning the opium war favours. "here, measure your crack!"
mircea_popescu: ve the suicidal reaction to "try and help it", ruining carts and setting the world on fire in the process.
mircea_popescu: anyway, on meditation there's substance to Framedragger 's protest, though perhaps not the sort he'd like. the impulse to "generosity", ie unqualified giving is how people end up in trouble / how the whole mess was engineered in the first place. when you've two oxen yoked to the same cart and one's smaller, sickly and can't pull, some people will naturally have the correct reaction to whip it to death. others will naturaly ha
mircea_popescu: (the link is particularly funny for the amounts. when it comes to turkey dollars, usg is really poor. 40k here, 10k there, 5k overages accounted for --- a far cry from the "we lost one trillion dollars in 100 bills that never existed" dept of war fare.)
mircea_popescu: (apparently dept of state running out of funds, reuse agitprop materiel)
mircea_popescu: Framedragger nah, us citizen, dept of state aparatchick.
mircea_popescu: o look at that -- wikipedia page re "orange revolution" includes no verbiage of usg involvement ; mentions vaguely "russian nationalist groups".
mircea_popescu: dumb bitch, kept trying to push "orange revolution" angle and whatnot, 30 years out of date.
mircea_popescu: i confess i have trouble retaioning the names of all these c list starlets
mircea_popescu: who was the anodyne condolezza rice clone that was doing "revolutionizing" ukraina and failed so spectacularily ?
mircea_popescu: no, but they ~obsoleted~ it. the trick is that in physical engineering you are allowed backsies.
mircea_popescu: o, you mean like they obsoleted the only remaining useful us plane without having as much as a proper paper replacement for it ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps it'll be stanford or mit or "another" meaningless head of the same turd of agglomerated stupidity though. for flavour.
mircea_popescu: in any event i am looking forward to the princeton paper providing the original research of "shit we read on #trilema that we came up with ourselves shut up terrorist!!1"
mircea_popescu: well so then what use it is ? as per alfism, not reliable, worse than useless!!1