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mircea_popescu: that's how the theory goes.
thestringpuller: so the whole reason he went crazy was for moot almost
thestringpuller: they just marketed it to people
thestringpuller: is when the guy went crazy on the air
thestringpuller: the ironic thing about the movie network
thestringpuller: also that article had a reference to _Network_
mircea_popescu: http://coinbits.com/2012/10/24/gpg-contracts-vs-traditional-contracts-law/ what the hell is this thing supposed to be ?!
thestringpuller: I always thought the war on drugs was a cover for incarcerating people for free labor.
thestringpuller: due to the states involvement in making it profitable for cartels
thestringpuller: i never thought the war on drugs was real
mircea_popescu: why do you think the "war on drugs" isn't winnable
thestringpuller: at that point why not just sell drugs?
mircea_popescu: in some parts of the world over half the population
thestringpuller: do that many people actually depend on welfare?
mircea_popescu: it's not that they're not that bright, it's that mostly they live on welfare.
mircea_popescu: ahhh that was nice tho
thestringpuller: redditors are not nearly as bright as you'd want though unfortunately
thestringpuller: just to see what redditors had to say
thestringpuller: I posted your blog to reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/120zdj/gpg_contracts_vs_traditional_contracts_law/
thestringpuller: where is that from?
mircea_popescu: "Putetumadre, what a great article. Insight untold and unparallelled here. Tip of my hat. Where is the Bitcoin donation button? How can I reprint this on my Web site? Please e-mail me with answers. Thanks :-)"
smickles: ~everyone who's in the know says, "that's exactly how it gows"
dub: yes, and while I may have trolled Luke a little, many assumed he was trolling for a long time. He also unbanned me several times after spamming rainbow ascii crucifix depicting jesus with an erection in his channel
rg: ok dub told me what happened
rg: i think hte name is clever
rg: im giving a talk at their next meeting
smickles: taxes as "willing donations to the state treasury, and something people openly took pride in.", *swoon*
dub: I dunno about that rg guy tbh, I heard he was french
kakobrekla: soh, wheres the ban
rg: if you dont tell me wihtin 2 minutes
mircea_popescu: rg me too.
rg: and were talking about me
rg: i want to know hwy people said m ynickname
dub: that is too unsavoury to talk about tbh
dub: im not going to get into Luke-Jr opinion on sleeping arrangements with regard to his children
mircea_popescu: what exactly has gmaxwell idiot to do with minign now ?
Luke-Jr: ignore dub, he's a troll
dub: I advised them that Luke-Jr thinks all non-catholics should be exterminated (which is true) so perhaps not the best giver of advice, gmax banned me
dub: someone was asking about bfl as an investment, i pointed out that they are bad at beign honest about delivery times, Luke-Jr advised them I was a troll and should be ignored..
dub: I was telling the truth about gmaxwell's boyfriend
dub: i got a couple of mails from bfl is there an eta yet?
dub: someone give me the tl;dr on asic
mircea_popescu: dub that's exactly what mpoe-pr does for me
rg: why the fuck are you talking baout me
dub: to read the forums and provide digest of shit I have interest in
rg: what the fuck
dub: I need a TL;DR consultant
thestringpuller: that was a confusing sentence to me
thestringpuller: 19:52 < dub> probably right. "Personally I don't think James is a crook" - because I have an excellent record of identifying crooks
mircea_popescu: why's rg in trouble ?
mircea_popescu: nefario goes about his personal union to glbse
thestringpuller: so rg is in trouble now?
dub: probably right. "Personally I don't think James is a crook" - because I have an excellent record of identifying crooks
mircea_popescu: dub i still think he's just stupid.
thestringpuller: only one time
dub: as much as I hate people throwing up occams razor for every fucking scenario.. how many times do you have to enable a scam before you are the scammer
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:03:24 DeaDTerra!*@* added to ignore list.
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:03:18 <mircea_popescu> DeaDTerra welcome to my ignore.
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:03:05 <mircea_popescu> im surprised that he has the gall to even show up
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:02:52 <smickles> that, in re to genjix
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:02:39 <DeaDTerra> I just talked to James, the situation is critical but stable for now. All the coins are safe in the offline wallet. It was not a hack.
mircea_popescu: Oct 04 19:02:32 <smickles> mircea_popescu: guruvan "part of the bitcoinica, bitcoin consultancy, bitcoinica consultancy crew that has stolen a large amount of customer funds. Do not trust these guys - bitcoinica, intersango, consultancy, or any new project"
dub: yeah thats alberto
thestringpuller: is this the bdt guy?
mircea_popescu: dub allow me to quote
dub: same, im catching up on teh securities forum for the first time in weeks
thestringpuller: i feel so out of the loop :(
thestringpuller: rg is giving you the run down via phone?
dub: dude that has indirectly scammed a shitload of people by starting 'businesses' with scammers
thestringpuller: the pronouns of those sentences confused me
thestringpuller: who is that guy*
dub: its great to see deadterra is close personal friends with yet another scammer
thestringpuller: it wasn't as eloquent tho ;)
mircea_popescu: i tend to release things then have them typocheked etc and in general if you wait half hour you can see the definitive version
thestringpuller: don't mean to be "that guy" mircea_popescu but you got typos in the post
thestringpuller: We should put you on the colbert report to talk about bitcoin so it blows up.
mircea_popescu: don't think i have one. why ?
mircea_popescu: smickles : that big piece on gpg contracts i was saying i'm writing : http://trilema.com/2012/gpg-contracts/
mircea_popescu: there's this large and growing contingent of idiots who honestly believe website = whole story.
kakobrekla: omg no, too funny.
kakobrekla: >>How do you pay to run the website and server and domain?
smickles: so it would be nice to have multiple, competing leges in the bitcoin world
smickles: is it lexus, the plural of lex?
smickles: competing lexus would be nice to
smickles: thestringpuller: it would be nice to have a codified law which one can freely agree to adhere to in the bitcoin game
mircea_popescu: i can't believe that guy's still at it.
jurov: here we are: 8. I won’t hide the fact that I’m shagging my interns.
jurov: Ironically, becoming President would mean that I’d finally have a job, but I’m willing to endure this short-term sacrifice for the greater good.
jurov: mircea, there's your veep: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2012/10/10-reasons-you-should-vote-for-me-for-president/
mircea_popescu: well, some things.
thestringpuller: "[you] know things"
mircea_popescu: jurov did have a pretty good point, the "community" actively selects for scams, then hee-haws about "btc being full of scammers"
kakobrekla: its still there.
mircea_popescu: seeing how fuckall wants to be bothered with letters of credit bs.
mircea_popescu: maybe high volume merchants, such as international trade
mircea_popescu: btc simply isn't either adequate or useful for the consumer. it's value propositions appeal to the financial sector pretty much exclusively.
mircea_popescu: consumers have no business in btc. consumers are in general dizzy cows that need their hand held, need reversible transactions, can't use computers etc.
mircea_popescu: like the currency of settlement for dark pools.
thestringpuller: btc is "off the books"
mircea_popescu: well, that.