jfw: !!v 6D0464D08DD9B4850328301219515DDE38720D26BFF12A189B67961DFE96B8CF
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ossabot: (eulora) 2019-11-24 mircea_popescu: "the more insane drivel I read from proponents of Free Software and Open Source, the more convinced I am that this once noble movement will go away and not even become a footnote in the history of mankind when their real goal has been achieved: the destruction of Microsoft."
mircea_popescu: in other news, it took me 18 reloads to hit on a log article in the random trilema rotation. considering there's ~1500 of the damn things, puts its immensity well in perspective.
diana_coman: those 2012 logs though seemed very light on content, just here and there, probably can even filter by nicks and be done with it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, just a lengthy pile of fiddling and whatnot, the way these format conversions usually go.
mircea_popescu: annoying as fuck for a coupla days, but other than that... yeah.
BingoBoingo: Once it clicked though, a nice solid stream of content once locked into a legacy format entered the format of the future.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, there's the occasional gem in there, you know, "oh, five bucks is way too much for a coin' "selling 200 btc" etc
mircea_popescu: or like the naggum quotes and so on. but yeah, as far as contributions go, early 2010s period "bitcoin community" is exactly the collection of spurious & idle retards it stayed throughout.
BingoBoingo: ^ Now that logflood is over can finally hit publish.
BingoBoingo missed the attack on the bus. Did check out the crowd but wrote it off as low energy.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, navy has to move its people around. This is Uruguay, their default transportation flag is set to bus. And so the Navy shuttles its folks around on its own Navy bus line serving all 5k or so navy folks.
BingoBoingo: Why they don't just cart them around in the back of the Prefectura Naval pickup trucks is a mystery to me.
BingoBoingo: Around this time last year was when they started having motorcycle naval infantry start escorting the prefectura trucks to put on a show for tourists or whatever. Why the bus didn't get motorcycle marines is also a mystery.
mircea_popescu: could maybe find some remaindered white helmets / elbow leather gloves
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I suspect the Uruguayos want Montevideo to be turn of the century meatpacking boom Chicago more than they want it to be New York or Miami.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, I'll start cranking up the pre-emptive photography on the assumption low energy crowds could be misrepresented in hostile press as pink color revolutions.
BingoBoingo: Last night's crowd was a dense collection of bipeds with a headcount that easily exceeded the entire naval manpower of Uruguay, but... they didn't have any energy at all.
mircea_popescu: kinda what ourdemocracy is all about, neh ? pretend large gathered crowds are enough
BingoBoingo: Well, not even that. They misrepresent what the crowds gathered for. Last night's crowd was big, but it was mostly folks tomando mate and bobbing along to some sorta faulty alt-FUCKGOATS output.
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local voter fraud -
http://archive.is/GwJbO Apparently Frentistas are marking voting slips in the secret ballot room with the aim of having folks trying to vote in earnest end up submitting annuled voting slips.
BingoBoingo: Guess I'll be seeing if the "call to arms" derpery is actually plugged into derps with arms or not.
jfw: mircea_popescu:
this has not gone through as yet. Possibly it's waiting on your !!v
BingoBoingo: Election called seconds ago for Luis. Fireworks!
BingoBoingo: So many fireworks. only a couple car alarms.