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mircea_popescu: pfff.
mircea_popescu: always does.
mircea_popescu: "no one shall make any covenant as to the use of land."
mircea_popescu: worst fucking idea ever. zoning should be illegal by constitutional ammendment,
mircea_popescu: trinque yep
mircea_popescu: i mean for him to give them what for.
mircea_popescu: bored revolutionaries belong with stalin.
mircea_popescu: i don't think he forgot.
mircea_popescu: ha. not bad.
mircea_popescu: notrly. overall, it's like the dustbowl.
mircea_popescu: china is arid.
mircea_popescu: "no but roads are flexible" "so is hunger."
mircea_popescu: bitch, what ? would have been 2x as good and 10x as cheap to build rail.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they were thinking, "we're going to mass industrialize in 1980 AND BUILD ROADS"
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/RT_beijing_traffic_2_jt_151008_12x5_1600.jpg
mircea_popescu: 1st world problems. also :
mircea_popescu: taking 95 minutes to cover 15 miles.
mircea_popescu: same here.
mircea_popescu: nice.
mircea_popescu: that's why it's there, to not get stuck in traffic. "oh, i got a scrape and then i put disinfectant on it which infected it".
mircea_popescu: for the love of utter debasement, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PURPOSE OF THE HIGHWAY THEN!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "where the fuck are you ?" "i'm stuck in traffic on the highway."
mircea_popescu: eh relax.
mircea_popescu: lel
mircea_popescu: and... did.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform observe that at the tme phoenix could make... cpu competitor board.,
mircea_popescu: "oh, big whoop, why oppress the niggers! not like i don't have my nice suit or my sane office"
mircea_popescu: you know, at the time the samovar wasn't yet a train
mircea_popescu: idjits.
mircea_popescu: "why should some thigns be destroyed. live and let live!!11"
mircea_popescu: and a universal if foolish unawareness of the republic.
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: aha, back when the shitshow could still have been killed.
mircea_popescu: the non-inclusive, non-minority friendly us. america.
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't ok top be black, then
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: basically people'd steal whatever govt office supplies, make a... well i guess a sort of blog, really. 90s.
mircea_popescu: virtually all dot-matrixed
mircea_popescu: two thirds on a4 paper.
mircea_popescu: maybe a thousand different, most with <12 editions.
mircea_popescu: romania had literal samizdat items.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: yeah remember when these were actually worth reading ?
mircea_popescu: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=xsMx9D2s6y0C&lpg=PA43&ots=_kLp1j3SJb&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false < item
mircea_popescu: dja know this wtf ? advertised in oct 1985 pc mag
mircea_popescu goes on dig for wtf that was, turns up... pfaster-286
mircea_popescu: but my jaw dropped when i was shown the wonder.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall right off.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. 286 to boot.
mircea_popescu: i used to use it daily when i used real mode computors for sure.
mircea_popescu: they made biosen with asm debuggers built in, back then, too!
mircea_popescu: yep. exactly true.
mircea_popescu: xtg had built in hex view! and shit.
mircea_popescu: but you couldn't really go | which ... yeah. ruins it.
mircea_popescu: no pipe, no shell. that much. pretty sure there was an awkatron as a command.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dos wasn't altogether shell-less though. about par with ash or w/e they had at the time.
mircea_popescu: (even had mouse! in like 1990!)
mircea_popescu: shit was ~windows 3.1, except actually worked, was actually useful and took like 300kb. but otherwise - exactly identical. unsurprisingly, didn't take off.
mircea_popescu: ah ah
mircea_popescu: well, let's say it did most of my work back in the day.
mircea_popescu: wow unmentioned ?
mircea_popescu: !#s xtg
mircea_popescu: !#d xtg
mircea_popescu: xtreegold best, but we digress.
mircea_popescu: totalcommander also good.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, this hasn't been a thing in a decade by now.
mircea_popescu: trinque it was part of my survival kit for "gotta use a windows system"
mircea_popescu: ah ah. myeah.
mircea_popescu: i never had that one i dont think
mircea_popescu: even.
mircea_popescu: i think i mentioned old dood doing actual mm paper acre sized work at some point.
mircea_popescu: ~everyone i knew using it for srs first composed a string for paper.
mircea_popescu: come to think labout it, the extensive keybindings was the part i enjoyed least about derive.
mircea_popescu: for all the "original cross nail" afficionados
mircea_popescu: ftr also not used in crucifixions.
mircea_popescu: nails really are the idiot's solution to carpentry.
mircea_popescu: traditional everywhere people knew about wood.
mircea_popescu: all those trapezoid profiles.
mircea_popescu: no screws ~= structural cuts and glue.
mircea_popescu: screws != nails eh.
mircea_popescu: "won't shit get randomly bent and displaced and you only get the residual friction anyway ?" "YEAH!!!"
mircea_popescu: fucking TERRIBLE idea, "oh, let's shove a hard item through the panes, that'll show 'em!"
mircea_popescu: "oh, that's what we had at home" "good for you."
mircea_popescu: and yes, everyone but asciilifeform is aware hammer-carpentry is ~windows-computing but anyway.
mircea_popescu: phf i suspect your ride having been identified as possibly gay, you're now to defend your manhood in ARMED COMBAT!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at no poin he says this, your banks need ecc!
mircea_popescu: !#s from:phf common lisp
mircea_popescu: !#s from:phf java
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: iirc, phf himself.
mircea_popescu: which... well, let's say it generally fails to capture the interest of females, or males older than about 16.
mircea_popescu: your asking has very little in common with asking and a lot in common with "i'll just make up some random shit within 0.1 s and challenge everyone to prove it wrong"
mircea_popescu: or maybe hammers aren't as important as all that.
mircea_popescu: you can be a carpenter without a hammer.
mircea_popescu: who says you gotta guess somthing ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: he should work for the washpo huh.
mircea_popescu: it is also not safe to say "they're the only ones doing roadwork". etc.