This is what Trilema is for, I'm told.
herbijud1estoids mircea_popescu: do you have a formal education in finance of any sort?
mircea_popescu No. I have a personal education in finance.
herbijud1estoids Hope someone has congratulated you on the awesome thing you built and if not, congrats!
mircea_popescu Ty. It does happen occasionally. As a rule though, people lack the intellectual sophistication to have and use the tools to discern it, and then the time to do it. So for all practical purposes, allow me to welcome you into the church of MPEx scientology lol.
herbijud1estoids Lul. I only looked at pympex today and when I was reading the FAQ about "SPLIT" I thought goddamn genius.
mircea_popescu You know ppl sort-of bitched at me about it, and I think they still don't think it's right but mostly take my word for it.
herbijud1estoids Seems right to me.
mircea_popescu Anyway. I do believe it's more about what it'll hopefully blossom into than what it is yet. Jus' needs some time to accrete people.
herbijud1estoids Anyway I should really bed. Was supposed to wake up early and hassle some engineers in San Fran but i got distracted watching Boogie Nights.
mircea_popescu Did you like that ?!
herbijud1estoids I watched it cos Hoffman died and it was his first movie.
mircea_popescu I tried to watch Capote and I couldn't get through the whole thing.i
herbijud1estoids Never seen it before, some of the scenes at the start I thought were amazing...like the first time the guy catches his wife cheating on him.ii
mircea_popescu Man's best performance is Flawless, no dispute possible.
herbijud1estoids My fav. movie with him in it is Charlie Wilson's War, but I guess its a subject matter thing. I think Rambo 4 and Charlie Wilson's War should be mandatory viewing for all american citizens :P
mircea_popescu Wtf. Why not Some Came Running and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
ThickAsThieves "I tried to watch Capote and I couldn't get through the whole thing." --- me too!
herbijud1estoids Rambo 4? Back when the Taliban were the "brave and fearless men and women of Afghanistan fighting for their freedom" to which the movie was dedicated. Haven't you seen it man! Omg... Rambo takes the game right to those pesky commie bastards!
mircea_popescu Lol.
herbijud1estoids How dare they invade Afghanistan!
ThickAsThieves "Or in other words, while the sauce for the goose works just fine for the gander, this point is well wasted on vegetarians : the stuff they eat doesn’t even have gender." << Cuz we mostly eat the gendery parts!
mircea_popescu Interestingly enough that's true huh. Who knew vegans are dedicated to a strict regimen of gonads.
herbijud1estoids Oh shit thats the wrong one, its rambo3! http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa
ozbot Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | thegua
herbijud1estoids Troll teh hippiez! That came out today, obviously a moron funded by the cow council or something, but great to rile up the vegans with.
mircea_popescu The cow council lol. Their HQ is in the Diablo cow level. Worst guy among them is Beefenstick Frozenfist.iii
herbijud1estoids Dude I am not gonna sit here and try and come up with a more evil cow related name than that.
mircea_popescu Yw.
ThickAsThieves It makes no sense.
herbijud1estoids Cowtler.
jcpham Beefenstick Frozenfist winner winner.
mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves rakanishu. Wait wait, the author's name is Joanna Blythe-man ?! This is trolling, right ? "Joanna Blythe-man on crop blights".
ThickAsThieves "Joanna Blythman is an food writer, investigative journalist and broadcaster"
mircea_popescu If only it said "bloadcaster" ill. Also this entire convo has to be bashed somehow.
ThickAsThieves That's what Trilema is for, to bash the unbashable.
mircea_popescu I guess. Besides, there's a nice flattery bit at the top huh. Aite, brb.
- Because it fucking sucks, fails to go anywhere, all characterisation of the lead and no story whatsoever. Which is not only bad for the direct reason but also because it forces H into more spotlight than he can handle which results in such ham ;/ blergh.
I watched "Promises! Promises!" right after, which is symetrically bad : all story (boring, droning, impossibly bad story) and no characterisation. Other than the girl's tits, of course. Voila, Mansfield :
[↩] - I didn't even remember this at first, but it's the tech guy that goes postal. Indeed, arguably one of the better parts of the movie, that slut of a wife of his. There's also the scene where rollerchick tries to lay an old highschool mate in the limo. But other than that the entire thing is awful, sort-of like Arnold Schwarzenegger's lifestory level of awful. I don't enjoy watching the comings and goings of the marginally retarded. [↩]
- Hot damn, remember The Council ? [↩]
Friday, 10 April 2015
Părerea mea:Toată treaba cu insignele e un fel de mare nimic. Autorul lor acuză uneori mass-media şi politica că oferă oamenilor pe2ine şi circ dar face şi el acelaşi lucru pe blogul lui. Pentru cine sunt valabile insignele astea? Comentatorii vechi se cunosc eentre ei iar comentatorii noi habar n-au de ce reprezintă aceste insigne. Indiferent de vechime, oamenii inteligenţi ( cetăţeni educaţi sau care o fi insigna echivalentă) vor aprecia chiar şi o opinie a unui necunoscut sau mai puţin inteligent, dacă este (opinia) de bun simţ şi een context, een timp ce oamenii mai puţin inteligenţi nu vor accepta nici măcar opinia lui Einstein, de ar putea veni să şi-o expună pe blog. După părerea mea, toată treaba cu insignele e un fel de giugu lugu la orgoliul comentatorilor.Ideea că un comentariu ar trebui evaluat een funcţie de persoana din spatele lui este foarte periculoasă. cen ce constă pericolul? Noi apreciem valoarea literară a unei opere een funcţie de autorul ei? Chiar presupune2nd că insignele sunt puse cu bun-simţ, o persoană care a spus 10 lucruri inteligente nu poate spune o prostie? De ce trebuie să-i acordăm un plus de credit pentru ceea ce spune? O persoană care a spus 10 prostii nu poate spune un lucru inteligent, fie şi numai pe principiul gura prostului adevăr grăieşte ? Valoarea unui comentariu stă een comentariul een sine. Iar legat de faptul că doi oameni diferiţi, X şi Y, vor să spună unori lucruri puţin diferite chiar folosind exact aceeaşi formulare, oare nu tot acelaşi Mircea Popescu susţine că trebuie să discuţi pe textul formulat iară nu pe ce a vrut să spună X sau Y ? Ci chiar pe ce a spus X sau Y?Acum să luăm părţile pozitive. centr-un grup de 10 prieteni cu ocupaţii diferite, ce2nd i se strică la unul calculatorul şi eei eentreabă pe ceilalţi ce să facă, va ţine cont mai mult de părerea acelui membru al grupului care e informatician. Chiar dacă toţi eeşi dau cu părerea. Deci ideea ar putea avea o valoare, cred, een sensul ăsta. Dar exemplul meu este destul de nişat, pe blog se discută orice: cineva care a spus 10 lucruri inteligente pe 10 domenii s-ar putea s-o dea een bară ce2nd se discută al 11-lea domeniu. Raportat la analogia noastră cu grupul de prieteni, dacă eel eentrebi o reţetă de murături pe informatician, s-ar putea să nu eeţi mai dea un răspuns tot la fel de bun ca şi cel cu calculatorul. Mai bine eentrebi pe cel care găteşte din grup. Ei bine, pe blog nu poţi face asta, că se discută vrute şi nevrute, din orice domeniu al vieţii. Iar cetăţean educat eenseamnă că se ştie la toate, nu doar cetăţean educat een materie de sex sau de tehnologie. Un fel de om universal. Ei, nu prea există aşa, o s-o dea-n bară la un moment dat pe un anumit domeniu al cunoaşterii.cen concluzie ideea ar avea un dram de potenţial dar şi acela numai teoretic. Şi ca probă: ce s-a schimbat de ce2nd s-a dat legea insignelor? Au eencetat trolii care poartă insigne de troli măcar să mai troleze, dacă nu să asculte de oamenii educaţi? Sau cetăţenii, tovarăşii sau ce or fi ei?Lasă omul liber şi ia-l de la zero. Nu-i pune o ştampilă pe frunte, nu suntem animale. Nu-i pune un cod numeric, nu discuta cu acel cod numeric, discută cu persoana!
Friday, 10 April 2015
Amesteci doua chestii care n-au neaparat legatura.
In primul rind, ideatia de-o prezinti dinspre final, teorii cu "nu discuta cu acel cod numeric, discuta cu persoana" nu prea isi au locul in praxa dat fiind ca accesul nemediat la "persoana" e o imposibilitate. Vezi Sartre, vezi toata discutia de la acel "the devil himself knows not the mind of man" medieval pina la toata vorbaria postmodernista, nu intram in detalii aici ca-i curs nu seminar. Nomina nuda tenemus carevas'zica tot ce-avem e ceva cod, asa ca vrind-nevrind, tot cu ala interactionam.
In al doilea rind, e falsa parerea asta egalitarianista ca oricine-i egal cu oricine si "continutul ruleaza" etc. In primul rind, continutul nici macar nu exista in sensul de continut notional, comprehensibil in afara contextului furnizat de autorul lui. Tu citesti acum in limba romana nu-n chineza in baza textului, iti zici in sinea ta, nu-n baza autorului, da' parerea asta e si ea falsa. Vezi lucruri precum You're gonna have to learn that variety speak, No, you don't have something to say on the topic etc, nu mai revin. Iar in al doilea rind, ete scirt, nu ma simt egal cu orice alta maimutica literalizata, ca o fi pe Internet sau oriunde altundeva. Faptu' ca ea se simte poate egala cu mine nu vorbeste in favoarea ei.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Go go MiPo, trollimedia rulz!
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Lmao.
I guess that's the next outfit I'm suing.