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mircea_popescu: i dunno, about half their games are actually from the matrox period.
mircea_popescu: i don't care "whjat this says", it's not fucking fashion.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a theoretical discussion. i'm not about to upgrade libc.
mircea_popescu: basicallyt the great success of the FOSS was that corporations used them to spearhead cost reductions. no longer is there any need to, for instance, offer any support. they're open source! except not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can still deliver a full package, if you're actually serious about being serious.
mircea_popescu: ie, it's not ACTUALLY WORTH IT for valve ; because they're trying to cater to the imbeciles whoi "but mp, what do you mean mpex seats cost!" and those... have no money.
mircea_popescu: the perverse reason is quite evident : they don't want to pay akamai for downloads.
mircea_popescu: no dude, it's like, on reddit. and our democracy. what do you mean!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's only silent in their idiotic gui perspective ; otherwise if you run it like sane people in cli it barfs as quoted.
mircea_popescu: apparently they contain dependencies they aren't aware of. how does this happen, clumsy drepper hand edited them post facto ?
mircea_popescu: because "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found"
mircea_popescu: whereas prior versions claim all dependencies are satisfied, and then SILENTLY DIE
mircea_popescu promptly discovers that all versions past 1.0.0.24 refuse to install without libc6 > 2.15
mircea_popescu attempts to install steam, teh saga. 1. website only offers "most recent", no link to history, nothing. most recent of course wants libc6 > 2.15 because fu user.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the chick in the strip robbery looks reasonably hot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've never seen "assertion failed" before.
mircea_popescu: in random weblulz, "With Silk, you can publish your data online, beautifully. Upload, visualize, publish and share your data in minutes." point in case :
https://archive.is/IZ9JK mircea_popescu: we'll have to have a gossipd sooner rather than later.
mircea_popescu: more seriously : it does seem freenode's screeching ever closer to its use-by date.
mircea_popescu: an' veracruz is like, right next to oaxaca, on the atlantic rather than the pacific side.
mircea_popescu: phf palenque is in the southernmost state of mexico (chiapas). what, like 100 miles from your spot.
mircea_popescu: but even that aside, the amber civilisation is fascinating on its own.
mircea_popescu: imo chiapas is the best part of mexico. spent a very agreeable week in palenque drilling the confused hordes of usian girlies searching for spirituality or w/e the fuck.
mircea_popescu: personally i'd rather directly hack into the local cable networks than resort to wifi over cell tower bs.
mircea_popescu: even without obamacare that's a 10ish bn extra expenditure on the welfare state.
mircea_popescu: quarter mile radius should be 20 city blocks or so. even in a moderately dense area should provide a healthy 20k or so new cases of cancer within 12 months ; bout half of which leukemia.
mircea_popescu: hence seattle. put it up on a hill, fire at the city. should get the 4km out of it.
mircea_popescu: they're probably still stored somewhere due to the fact they're hard to defuse by design.
mircea_popescu: 1960s weapons, rugged and none of that pussyfooting. if it's fired, it explodes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, how long before someone raids a us stockpile, surrounds say seattle with a bunch of davy crocketts and ... fires ?
mircea_popescu: (for the new people : the historical reason for which german gold was stored on another continent has everything to do with the fulda gap, and the sad experience of about 100-150 tons of romanian gold + an order of magnitude more in paper that was magically lost in russia)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, in a very much unrteported move, frankfurt got 300 tons of gold from new york.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "13. Donor No. 1 satisfies the requirements to sue anonymously."
mircea_popescu: oh bonus points : moving us embassy to jerusalem. such lulz.
mircea_popescu: first he has to get them to "win" and proclaim their victory pluriously. then they hang.
mircea_popescu: but hey, it's ok, because it'll be an improvement. according to themselves. consensus! hurr!
mircea_popescu: he'll simply abandon it at that point, except discoursively, and it'll forever be "hey i tried to fix things but the swamp wouldn't let me". in any possible strategic evaluation of the situation, the best outcome for trump is exactly what's happening.
mircea_popescu: it's a blow to the justice system more than to trump. but hey, the pantsuited opposition can't possibly consider things, so therefore they can't possibly exist.
mircea_popescu: really ? they'll take it to the supreme court ; which is understaffed, and will conceivably deadlock 4-4. this will also be a blow to trump ? why, because it is strictly impossible for the weimar republicand its institutions to be perceived as ineffectual and effete ?
mircea_popescu: and in the same vein, "The judges’ vote is a major political blow to Mr Trump, whose early days in power have been characterised by a difficult relationship with the judicial branch of government."
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the fake news apparently believes australia === malcolm turnbull ; even as it firmly believes usa != donald trump. how the fuck is it that committing the usg to liberating australia from the unwelcome and illegitimate socialist leadership is to be confused with "war on australia" ? when they invaded europe it was "war on hitler" not "war on europe"
mircea_popescu: suddenly i don't need to explain why all "police" resources are expended to fight "war on drugs" even as kitty genovese dies in a pool of her own blood. cia wants drugs as its own domain, what.
mircea_popescu: as everyone ever involved is aware and occasionally points out, "the reduction in violence, theft, and fraud is incidental to the protection of the royal forest".
mircea_popescu: that's how it appeared, and that's the only thing it's for.
mircea_popescu: "Most institutions which have undergone a lengthy cultural evolution, such as law (which lowers vulnerability to violence, theft, and fraud)," <<< i gotta say, the ubernaive reinterpretation of reality in the hands of armchair nonviolent "scholars" is endearing. to be plain : law ENTIRELY exists so that the concept of forest may be enforced without the depletion of the villages.
mircea_popescu: (to revisit the beatings : beating both mother and daugther for misbehavious by either mother or daughter is the historically deployed and theoretically correct approach ; what the "red pill" dudes call "branch swining behaviour" in their AWALT booklet is both proof this is so and its direct result - it selected over the years for a certain thing, the anthropological concept of "female community")
mircea_popescu: the much more obvious "beat all females until they all stop whining" being "off the table" for incomprehensible "reasons".