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asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he would probably describe the process as 'what the fuck is so surprising, gas let into an empty container will fill it' or similar. nobody is blowing up the police stations in response, so there is no back-pressure and usg can do whatever.
asciilifeform: also helps throughput!1111
asciilifeform: the peculiar, imho, thing, is that somehow tradition requires american police to actually charge folks who are taken to a police station. and so it is now important to rob them ~without~ arresting.
asciilifeform: automated account emptiers. lulzy.
asciilifeform: http://oklahomawatch.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2016/06/ERADContractBid.pdf << what appears to be the contract.
asciilifeform: 'News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state. It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.'
asciilifeform: ' If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money. "We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al: http://www.news9.com/story/32168555/ohp-uses-new-device-to-seize-money-used-during-the-commission-of-a-crime << lulzy
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the motor thing sounded appealing until it mentioned other people being present
asciilifeform brb
asciilifeform: nuffin
asciilifeform: dun need no stinkin' modern electronix, see, to make trouble.
asciilifeform: hand cranked drill worx
asciilifeform: solely friction.
asciilifeform: for best lulz, can charge w/out battery entirely
asciilifeform: gurl wears a snorkel
asciilifeform: iirc somebody sells a handy shrinkwrap gizmo for this
asciilifeform: (charge with 'D' battery, kill a grown man)
asciilifeform: will make supercapacitor?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu bought 1km of foil?! did he also buy 1km of plastic wrap ?
asciilifeform: lel
asciilifeform: since when is sanity a conserved quantity.
asciilifeform: *petrol
asciilifeform: whereas buying and snorting the coke - is unambiguous spend
asciilifeform: the way i read pg's thing, it was reasonably sane, hypothesis being that bad investment is more like pouring petron into a leaky tank, you don't ~think~ you've destroyed it
asciilifeform: how's that? eskimo will blow maxint on coke and not even blink ?
asciilifeform: people trying to sell you expensive things say "it's an investment."'
asciilifeform: 'In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't. Luxuries seem self-indulgent. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you've already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble. Investing bypasses those alarms. You're not spending the money; you're just moving it from one asset to another. Which is why
asciilifeform: http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html << where he discusses falling rocks
asciilifeform: (before going moron)
asciilifeform: even he had article on precisely this!
asciilifeform: ('investing' in idiocies of 'friends', relatives)
asciilifeform: and iirc many (most?) lottery winners go broke precisely from inept attempts to attach wings and engine to their rock.
asciilifeform: as in the threads re lottery winners.
asciilifeform: the 'thrown rock' is a good point.
asciilifeform: where he grabs a bunch and can't get hand out, and then hunter comes
asciilifeform: for some reason, whenever i think of 'early adopters' and voorheeses who 'lost it all', i think of the proverbial monkey trap with the gourd full of goodies
asciilifeform: hm.
asciilifeform: retractors??
asciilifeform: but this is not entirely applicable to btc planet - unlike fiatola, it does not evaporate at room temperature
asciilifeform: and, if i read correctly, his descendants live in rent
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's dead phriend
asciilifeform: it must have come up in another piece
asciilifeform: hm i recall this for some reason
asciilifeform: the one where 'and then the stone convinced the animals of the forest to throw him up into the air' ?
asciilifeform: blew on vodka ?
asciilifeform: wtf did the man do with his mountain of coin?
asciilifeform: imho that's the peculiar thing
asciilifeform: *collaboration
asciilifeform: but after that, voorhees moved on to illustrious career of spamming, mlm, and usg collaboaration..
asciilifeform: sdice was a pretty good 'torture test' of the network tho!
asciilifeform: iciently many layers of isolation between him and the chumps.'
asciilifeform: ftr, what i said re voorhees's dice in feb. '13: 'Satoshi Dice is a can of worms which almost deserves its own discussion. It is, at its core, a simple “numbers game.” That is to say, an industrial-strength harvester of chump money, precisely the kind of thing which Popescu expresses his disdain for at every opportunity. But listing its stock on MPEx does not bother him, because there are suff
asciilifeform: iirc he was well-regarded in #b-a at one point (but largely before my time)
asciilifeform: was voorhees ~always~ scum or was he hit once too many in the head or what .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1479006 << dead link ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: bunnie is 'bunnie' huang, (at one point) well-known reverse engineer who cracked game consoles etc.
asciilifeform: or like old-school seekrit societies etc.
asciilifeform: or once did, anyway.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have a roughly nsa-like relationship with folks who discuss their 'trade seeekrits' in whatever public context.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: scientology internal term for 'work of the devil'
asciilifeform: (titcoin-assets??)
asciilifeform: trilema-assets, clearly!11111111 ☟︎
asciilifeform: nuts.
asciilifeform: 'i'm boooored.' 'i'ma pound a nail through my scrotum'
asciilifeform: so - complicated.
asciilifeform: their 'join' is tax-writeoff tho.
asciilifeform: today - ???.
asciilifeform: at one point - a sort of paramilitary / mafia thing, even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: best as i can tell it has ~0 traction outside of usa now.
asciilifeform floored, wordless.
asciilifeform: this puts them behind sov state of the art.
asciilifeform: nowai
asciilifeform: re: earlier thread, am i the only one who is slightly astonished that scientology does not yet - afaik - have own altcoin ?
asciilifeform: 'The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization.' << lel wastin' our time.
asciilifeform: granted i have nfi what is or is not 'small cost' to phf.
asciilifeform: phf: l0l aha
asciilifeform: or is it simply that 'civilized society' is so loathesome that ANY alternative is welcome.
asciilifeform: 'i will be a chump but if i play cards right, i will have sub-chumps...' ??
asciilifeform: i admit, i've always been fascinated with the folks who show up to be eaten. what motivates them? is it something like the participants in pyramid scheme ? ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: aha as per yesterday's thread re yudkowsky.
asciilifeform: i can imagine that a modern cult could be built around, e.g., mri machine.
asciilifeform: also lulzy is that their cult object is a 1940s-style 'lie detector'
asciilifeform: it was quite lulzy.
asciilifeform: i am not mega-expert on it, but did at one point (by accident, even) end up in their museum in washington.
asciilifeform: that aren't necessarily usable elsewhere.
asciilifeform: afaik they build narrowly-specialized arse lickers
asciilifeform: insurance against wacoing.
asciilifeform: for so long as new ones can be had.
asciilifeform: a setup like scientology has no particular need to be 'ecologically clean', can work the chumps to exhaustion
asciilifeform: phf: you're thinking of an official state church
asciilifeform: it is though.
asciilifeform: : it has to actually deal with the cattle.
asciilifeform: that's the general downside, and not only for churches but any other org that runs on cattle money.
asciilifeform: and maxint other cattle
asciilifeform: or other 'insurance policy.'
asciilifeform: it wouldn't surprise me if they had a nuke.
asciilifeform: ~that~ is how you run a cult.
asciilifeform: own motherfucking navy.
asciilifeform: afaik: 0 usg raids to date. 0 tax paid. 0 problemz.