mircea_popescu: how fortunate are we, to live in the times of such great discoveries.
trinque: and with cloud computing, nobody gets to inspect the snake oil milking machine.
trinque: first time I've seen one of those for sale.
trinque will not be buying, but might be interesting to any scrap hunters present.
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a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 02:29 asciilifeform: iirc phf has the xl1201.
phf: i think a half decent reason to get an xl1201 is to sacrifice an ivory and get die shots
phf: oh he'll also be selling a macivory model 2 board, that you can put in a quadra yourself. (or use it for a die shot sacrifice...)
☟︎ phf: cheap, and wot dependent. i can't figure out what the market forces are like, or possibly everything's really cheap, so there's no bottom.
phf: i looked at places within 10 minute motorcycle ride from a tourist beach area
phf: what they would call "studio" in u.s., i.e. a room with a kitchen area goes for about $1000/yr
phf: looked at a mansion, where i lost count of rooms, has inner court yard and large forst area in the back, secluded, etc. advertised as $2000/mo, final price was $12000/yr (!!!)
☟︎ phf: an apartment 2 bedroom apartment in a muslim town (so main downside is a regular adhan) was offered for about $300/mo
phf: this is all within 10 minute ride to the beach, 30 minute ride to the closest big city. not sure what the prices are like in the city, but i have a guy i can ask if you're interested
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 11:47 phf: oh he'll also be selling a macivory model 2 board, that you can put in a quadra yourself. (or use it for a die shot sacrifice...)
phf: i did a bed&breakfast which is my preferred approach, the room was baseline 2200rs/night, for 35 days, with 20% discount, worked out to about $950
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 14:24 phf: looked at a mansion, where i lost count of rooms, has inner court yard and large forst area in the back, secluded, etc. advertised as $2000/mo, final price was $12000/yr (!!!)
phf: right, mansion comes with fans, but not AC/central air; mosquito nets on beds; internet "work it out yourself"; etc.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-19 06:21 mircea_popescu: an old american moves to a thai village.
phf: i don't think you can pay with money for the later
phf: roquefort is unobtanium. in fact there's a christian monastery that makes cheese somewhere in the north, european style. they make bank selling that stuff to hotels, etc. i was trying to sell some priests on the idea, but by the time i remember we were both utterly drunk, and the conversation devolved into calls for bloody revolution and such
phf: place was about 40 minute motorcycle ride away and is basically "modern office" for indian outsourcing
phf: has all the usual suspects on site, oracle, microsoft, etc.
phf: of course, but technopark shows all the hoops you have to jump through "private water delivery" "private contract with internet provides for 99.999 internet" "private contract with electric" "fallback generator on site" etc.
phf: because otherwise you're getting your network over microwave relays, and your electric has 70% uptime
phf: in fact my bed&briekfast guy is very much "an old dutch moves to an indian village": "license costs 300rs, but they found another irregularity so i have to pay 10'000rs fee"
☟︎ phf: but i think the main source of rape is the government, rather then locals as such. can find pretty much anything for local prices, as long as you're in the right place asking the rightk inds of questions
phf: if you have a line of sight from your property to a direct satellite tower, you can get the owner to put an antena up for you, for sure. that doesn't require special licenses anywhere. of course putting up a mast on your site most likely requires government license and that's where you're going to get the bulk of rapage
phf: or go through second or third hop, those might be more approachable
phf: well, define "need". yes, your default option is that you're paying for comcast(tm)(c)(r)
phf: it would be significantly cheaper to put up a mast in india, than it is in u.s. even factoring rape licenses
phf: unless you're an mp, you don't have a choice to tell fuck you to local fauna, and the whole "i can pay whatever" only plays it out well in shitty miami based tv shows
☟︎ phf: i think if you're ~entirely~ not mp, you're going to get raped anywhere. but if you're a little bit mp (which i think qualifies present people, otherwise none of us would be here, you yourself were trying to buy a projects building in a fucking baltimore), then i think you have better chance extracting value in india, than you do in americas. because bureaucracy runs deep here, need much more play money to sway it your way. there, you ~can~ get away with paying
phf: besides the area is still primed by the british, bene gesserit style, as sahib you will be sought out, as an articulate and educated one you will be retained.
☟︎ phf: well, the most ridiculous example, i befriended a doctor, initially by simply pointing out Nehru in a picture, then producing a few coherent sentences about partition of india period. was subsequently invited to dinner at his house, with family, etc.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-03 01:58 phf: do you know what hurree babu really wants? he wants to be made a member of the royal society by taking ethnological notes.
phf: i think it's still a significant time period for a lot of indians. possibly the last one.
phf: in this particular case, the differentiator was the subtle lean. i mean, the south they have a special perspective on the whole thing. i suspect many of their wealthy families have little shrines to godse
phf: !~google nathuram godse
mircea_popescu: phf i was vaguely considering sending a an infestor. something reasonable, 2/3 bedroom 2 bathroom proper kitchen ac etc. it does get terribly hot does it.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 14:41 asciilifeform: which is why asciilifeform will probably not be buying the mansion next to phf's in india..
mircea_popescu: including "Los femicidios aumentaron de forma "desmesurada", según admitió ayer Conte Grand. El funcionario dijo que, de acuerdo con las proyecciones estadísticas, este delito aumentó en torno al 1200 por ciento en el último año." et all
trinque: that's the rewarding kind of butthurt though
mircea_popescu: that's unrelated to the matter that female state hallucinations are hallucinations. from "mit" to "experts" and so called judges etc.
mircea_popescu: i can assure you from experience it is infinitely easier to teach any ~actual~ science to a slavegirl than to an intelligent girl.
mircea_popescu: intelligence is overrated ; obedience is by far the more important predictor of effectuality however defined and success however measured.
mircea_popescu: which is why all the impudent cuntlets want to be "in a creative career" aka hallucinated non-science. if irresponsible activity bereft of verification, ie, the antithesis of science, then their imposture has some space
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "advertising", not mechanical engineer. because bridges actually collapse whereas all "campaigns" can be "a success" even with <10% ROI
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 14:50 asciilifeform: as i picture it, a, e.g., mircea_popescu , would apply the only known pill: to create a kind of miniature british raj, where the locals know the consequences of misbehaviour
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-08#1623205 << actually, it's a mainstay of oriental fiction, from harun al rashid to pick-your-nawab. the fundamental unsustainability of traditional economies is evident to the economically aware anthropologist, for instance in the fact that the whole echafaudage ends up requiring an underpinning of "infinite wealth" in the literal sense. very much the oriental equivalent of aristotle's fixed p
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 15:02 phf: unless you're an mp, you don't have a choice to tell fuck you to local fauna, and the whole "i can pay whatever" only plays it out well in shitty miami based tv shows
mircea_popescu: that they're more than willing to hallucinate it in fiction does not of course preclude the actual people stuck with the job of management among the monkeys inventing what best could serve as a palliative.
mircea_popescu: the traditional caliphate, incidentally, exists as a memory today (ie, a cultural mark) and existed historically (ie, as a civilisation) principally, and i do mean that, ~principally~ because an early fellow invented the superb literary device of giving people in payment not just actual value, but caftans! strips of cloth written on! that then they can value to whatever arbitrary value they wish, to offset the absurd valuatio
mircea_popescu: ns they need in order to whatever, motivate themselves.
mircea_popescu: so the satrap of fuckistan got paid a gold coin and a golden caftan worth anothjer gold coin, and counted himself happy. whereas the daymio's men couldn't be paid anything upon the kamikaze, and so the4y rebelled.
mircea_popescu: every empire's history is intimately predicated on the invention of some kind of bezzle.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, the sultan of 1001 nights is a guy with infinite wealth ; that is his form, and his function. and the stories about how the virgin got a lot for less than her life are the life and blood of village life. hope, i suppose, after a (very oricsh) fashion.
mircea_popescu: now... wouldn't you wish to be their sultan ? because perhaps you've not read enough levy strauss & co to know about the function of the scapegoat in primitive societies. they certainly wouldn't mind BELIEVING that you do have infinite wealth. because they need someone for that role. and have. for a long time.
mircea_popescu: see, the "heroic" heroes... won. so they gotta make bank now, yes ?
mircea_popescu: understand the problem fairly and well. hojo sanemasa got out of bed, and went to the beach. he could have stayed in bed and pulled on his dick (not! very pointedly not, pulled on concubine's clits and nippes -- that's exactly like showing up for war. if you want an equivallent -- checked his reddit.) what does this fundamental breach entitle him to ?
mircea_popescu: he "confronted his death", which is what always, ALWAYS happens when intellect leaves itself to look at the world. what now.
mircea_popescu: hojo sanemasa does not want this to have been in vain. because, if for no other reason, such as pride, vanity, or social consensus, because he only has a finite count of these. they must be employed efficaciously. what now ?
mircea_popescu: what, mp will say "japanese -- men ; burmese -- dogs" ? maybe he cares, maybe he doesn't. what else you got.
mircea_popescu: caftans work, yes, lenders of last resort, harun al rashid, the eye of god. what have you got ?
mircea_popescu: it all starts when mothers wanting their kid to stop shitting himself prefer, rather than strangle one pour encourager les autres, to i dunno, give him a cookie every time he shat in the designated pot. prepubescent prostitution would have been a healthier habit, and more productive for the wee tyke ; but women are stupid in the sense of exactly this myopia.
mircea_popescu: That's globalism : the hope, eagerly swallowed, the promise, readily offered, that somehow somewhere there exists another Earth, which works not on real but on ideal principles, and on which every voter, every citizen, every sack of worthless flesh will have it all. Everything they could dream of and more, forty beautiful young maidens, restraining the modest gaze of their wide and lovely eyes, like pearls, companions of equa
mircea_popescu: l age, splendid, voluptuous, non-menstruating nor urinating nor defecating and childfree (or else being able to bring to term within an hour), with bodies not affected by pregnancy or breast-feeding, about 60 cubits (ie 27.5 m) tall and 7 cubits (ie, 3.2 m) wide, transparent to the marrow of their bones, eternally young and hairless except the eyebrows and the head. Plus pure, beautiful and much more besides.
mircea_popescu: and all this is not to detriment the samurai. the folks went, at night, disguised, and boarded boats (of the tiny fleet) and massacred men and withdrew. they cut down early scouting parties by the bushel. they did more fighting than in any other engagement. it just so happens that all their hard work accounted for less than 1% of the enemy ; and the tornado killed 80%.
mircea_popescu: preferably in the hollowed out remains of a bank. after burning down the police station.
mircea_popescu: historically, finding new sources of food was the ~only job of the brood.
mircea_popescu: (and, incidentally, see how well the ghetto dwellers are adept at that, huh.)
mircea_popescu: the definition of "white man" can NOT be that your six or twelve year old is outcompeted in a field by unwhite unman's offspring.
mircea_popescu: i think your theory is outlaying to the point of irrelevance.
mircea_popescu: what's to keep them from kidnapping chelsea clinton, force-feeding her kraft flakes and butchering her in december ?
mircea_popescu: what's to keep them from kidnapping chelsea clinton, force-feeding her kraft flakes and burying her alive in the vegetable garden.
mircea_popescu: well, evidently "white man" has been making a habit of taking longest blind paths.
shinohai reads latest trilema, still scratches head over cars in la casa
shinohai: Do they have a "mes de autos" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 15:32 phf: besides the area is still primed by the british, bene gesserit style, as sahib you will be sought out, as an articulate and educated one you will be retained.
mircea_popescu: of course, the point is not "whether you are mp" but rather -- whether you are orwell.
mircea_popescu: are you a pisenlit par la racine, to use the french expression ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> now he presides over 12 lolmart-fed folx, candidates for BingoBoingo's zoological album. mega-win ? << But they ca fix their John Deere nao!
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mircea_popescu: in other lulz : femen, the "ukrainian" organisation is selling shit priced in dollars via 2checkout.com, the columbus ohio us corp.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently topless is perfectly acceptable where bitcoin isn't. just as long as letter from department of dorkitude.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i noticed them because they rank for ANY GOOGLE SEARCH with ukraine in it, among plenty others.
mircea_popescu: but i'm sure this isn't in any sense manual ; just a very relevant site. notwithstanding no content and no links. ALGORITHMS!!!
mod6: "let me tell you about man-bear-pig..."
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 22:11 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-08#1623164 << i missed that. i've reached out to zeptobars people and they are obviously interested in doing the scans as long as i provide the chip and they can post it to their site
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, ttps://68.media.tumblr.com/e6b9bf1b682ab44d56edcdb0a831131d/tumblr_inline_om77i8WadD1th0i48_500.gif
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the need to cut apart the hardware of a 50yo defunct company strikes me as batshit insane
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 21:23 asciilifeform: i later learned that v. n. chelomei (famous soviet rocket designer) proposed the placement of atomic bombs near u.s. east costs using a scheme much like this. (official story - it was vetoed as barbaric)
phf: guy is an idiot and a butt of many jokes. exactly that, wealthy aspy cto buys expensive toy, proceedes to make a full of himself
trinque: lol hipstering near it, so apt.
trinque: I guess it's the next step up from "no, I only type on a mechanical typewriter"