asciilifeform: i have nfi re elsewhere, but here in the land of the phreeee, if you have a car and it is seen on public streets, there will be tax questions
asciilifeform: had a buncha x, traded them for a y. big fat deal.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i read the linked piece and do not understand what was interesting. kakobrekla also bought a car with btc.
asciilifeform: sooooo transformer on my street just exploded
asciilifeform: n weighed the pros and cons and decided it was worth it. Then he took the time to Photoshop in each of his 17 employees’ names ...'
asciilifeform: 'What you are seeing is a Photoshopped Google search image that was posed as a real Wells Fargo wire transfer sent to 17 employees via email by the CEO. ... Whoever photoshopped these documents has the intelligence of a 5th grader, but even worse is the person who thought this was a good idea. Think about it. The scam artist sat there and concocted this in his head instead of telling us the truth that the money wasn’t there. He the
asciilifeform: in the company. Bruce said that Michael had his offshore money tied up with the IRS because of unpaid taxes and essentially his assets were frozen until he went to court. '
asciilifeform: 'Around this time, Bruce and I were sharing personal concerns and he confided in me that he had let Michael borrow $50,000 from his personal savings. Did you read that? A startup employee gave his life savings to our CEO. He wasn’t the only one. Another biz dev team bro who was crashing on the CEO’s couch, Bobby, apparently lent Michael five figures too. In disbelief, I asked why he needed money when he has $2M already committed
asciilifeform: 'Jessica, the social media manager, apparently cried when she found out I went to these meetings she wasn’t invited to.'
asciilifeform: 'Swiss authorities bellyache now about sky-rocketing losses in their financial services department caused by clients leaving en masse...no wonder: Switzerland has been turning clients in, selling records and giving tip-offs for ages to any "alarmed but trusted" party that asked; and third parties given records and tip-offs would typically share the loot with other third parties. Of course it was all about small fry, for none would da
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: <pete_dushenski> no kaunus, but not a bad place << my father, apparently, also liked kaunus. (he went to boot camp there.)
asciilifeform: schmuck could have bit down, went to trade school, learned to be a demolitionist; or become fire inspector, learn how to arson properly; or programmer, and ...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and i'd guess it was not 'mental issues', but the continuous thread in his life of not ever taking the sweat to get properly skilled at anything whatsoever.
asciilifeform: covertress: thread is re a 'postalist' who, like ~all of them to date, could not hit 'broad side of a barn'
asciilifeform: but he had eons to visit the shooting gallery and learn the answer to 'can i play violin? dunno never tried'
asciilifeform: it'd be one thing if fella touched his first pistol when killing a policeman and immediately going off to action
asciilifeform: or even go to the gallery and 'bag' a few plates.
asciilifeform: it is really rather funny, asciilifeform lost a very cushy usg research job years ago because there was never a second aum shinrikyo incident, and bureaucrats largely lost interest in antidotes...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Have you ever had occasion to see these obnoxious shits the moment there's shots fired, by the way ? I know of no better illustration of USian subhumanity than that fear. He's right : the moment he took the rifle out and started popping lightbulbs left and right, he was a God to them. Moreso than any god they ever knew or ever had' << fella had a pistol. and apparently his time at the gallery was largely wasted, hit
asciilifeform: lel, 'I first met [Rodger] when he was aged eight or nine and I could see then that there was something wrong with him. I'm not a psychologist, but looking back now he strikes me as someone who was broken from the moment of conception.'
asciilifeform: and its owner went to week-long vacation to planet arrakis.
asciilifeform: 'The FBI is warning all states to tighten security measures related to their online election systems after hackers successfully infiltrated one state board of election and targeted another, ABC News has confirmed. “The FBI is requesting that states contact their Board of Elections and determine if any similar activity ...'
asciilifeform: iirc palestine has the occasional 'fella with initiative', and the front advances until tel aviv figures out where he lives and drops a few tonnes of c4 on his head
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wasn't speaking of anything complicated, just something to prevent the routine police chopper from taking him out from above like sitting duck.
asciilifeform: perhaps there is a 'golden mean' lel.
asciilifeform: (and picture if heemeyer had 20 yrs to build the machine, rather than 1 1/2. could've had multiple turrets, incl. anti-aircraft, ir lasers, etc)
asciilifeform: and trains for it to the exclusion of pretty much all else
asciilifeform: it is not accidental that usg, much as ss previously, is obsessed with subj
