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mircea_popescu: and i mean it literally. either you're in the church or in the morgue.
mircea_popescu: what i said was, "make iraq 51st state, shoot everyone who refuses to attend sunday mass."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. they did it because they were derps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get out of here. everyone has ; and nothing easier.
mircea_popescu: not so ; providing jobs for the new york times staff bfs.
mircea_popescu: once chitlin get to look into the face of their own irrelevance, things get going in a jiffy.
mircea_popescu: random 20yo piucked off the street thinks it's his option as to whether he works oil rig or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if it WERE a problem, make iraq 51st state, shoot everyone who refuses to attend sunday mass.
mircea_popescu: watch how there'll suddenly be money to be made once the shock troopers are done scraping the last "university student" off the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: trump can ban all imports into the country, tomorrow. and he can stick to it, permanently.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes takes all of five minutes for money to be made. it's just a matter of how you structure things.
mircea_popescu: the latter got beaten to shit ; and the former isn't worth the farts it's spoken with.
mircea_popescu: any way you turn it, it's not been long enough. us could get any item fabrication thing going tomorrow, and be good at it by 2020. the oinly thing keepign this from happening atm is the faint pretenses of kiddos who think they get to have a say in their future activity and the misguided notions of old people that somehow china eating that and the us being left to make money out of doing each other's laundry is a practicable a
mircea_popescu: should be fun to watch the leftys get caught on wrong side of history / fingers in door, but whatevers. who cares about some dumb shits anyway.
mircea_popescu: so politico being what he is, he'll do what he can. and the bureaucracy being what it is, ie a spending machine, will sit its ass on its own mouth and adapt.
mircea_popescu: anyway. there's a bunch of moneys for the us to build nuclear reactors and oil pipeline process ; to lay train track ; some to do dumb shit like walls with mexico, hospitals, etcetera. exactly none to continue with the present "derechos" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: no apple, no google. it's gonna be trump's consturction co, bannon's whatever sidescam he makes, that sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: the companies worth money in the future are not these.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's just say that the notion that the "blue chips" are worth anything just took a serious bath.
mircea_popescu: butr yes, it's always better to put the poor to work than to stroke the illusions of the rich.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but those folks are weaker than a website. 20 man firms ; and those "men" are too afraid to grab an ass in the elevator.
mircea_popescu: the mccain adlaing in the senate is entirely without teeth.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not even that gop split up under trump shock. much worse than that : the non-trump faction took a hard look around, discovered it doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: eh, they spent 20 years pumping up the executive order
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, apparently the us is preparing to noriega nieto
mircea_popescu: speak, ye of little resources, thinking self programmers and thinking men, who couldn't even save a few lisp machines.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (at one point amex co. flooded the market with surplus, and they were 'cheap enough to throw out', and then suddenly worth weight in gold) << it's entirely what the trader lives off.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would you have to power it down to replace filters wtf.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure what factor is worst for them. i think being powercycled worse than continuous use for one ; time probably worse than cpu utilization, unless poorly cooled. etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think it ever was 50% cpu no. but yes continuously.
mircea_popescu: kinda iffy thing. i have boards still going that i bought in 2002.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform /me is building a new palace, bought out all the things!!11
mircea_popescu: ie, it'll never be the case that it makes sense to get newer. let alone that you'd want to.
mircea_popescu: this isn't so much a problem, as hardware also has no future.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly true, i'm booting 3.x on all sorts of late 1990s things
mircea_popescu: it'd be saner to have a common trunk which people change than to have to reinvent the wheel each trime a new person fires up a new emacs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not sure that's such a healthy thing.
mircea_popescu: prolly should be explicit. emacs 24 with what pile of scripts macros etc ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, before there's what to bake on that cd, we gotta resolve the "tmsr package".
mircea_popescu: not entirely impossible that an i-gcc emerges eventually in the manner of i-b ; but i wouldn't hold breath
mircea_popescu: there's apparently never going to be another c++ compiler.
mircea_popescu: i suspect as the basis grows there's going to be a lot more such cross-verification.
mircea_popescu: the moment has not yet exactly come, but it isn't long in the future, where random noob's best bet isn't to join here and start yakking away, but instead join some lord's castle, prove himself there, gain an ally, and then, in due time, be introduced here by that lord. if need be and circumstances merit.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda where all this is going as far as i can see.