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mircea_popescu: trinque yeah. and very defensible, too. in principle you could readily sit in there and design robots to protect you even today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah it's a kinda usable/powerful metaphor to work on i thought
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like writing into/towards it we could have like one of those sf things.
mircea_popescu: while dudes with socket wrenches roam around the abandoned physical world looking for the better fucktoys in the goop.
mircea_popescu: i laid down to sleep and instead had this vision of you know, dreamers fucking around on reddit while suspended in vats,
mircea_popescu: oh incidentally, anyone read the next generation thing ?
mircea_popescu: at any rate : no actuarial tables re that, you understand.
mircea_popescu: anyway. asteroid one of the more beloved risks by insurers. rather rare, pretty decent auctuarial tables...
mircea_popescu: insurance didn't want to pay, wtf it's not meteoric. "hey they came from the sky"
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest dispute, birds went into plant air intake.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can actually insure against the tax thing, yes. you just have to have a large enough operation.
mircea_popescu: if i tripped, fell, and set boston on fire it'd have probably paid.
mircea_popescu: and by trims i mean a list. civil judgements for accidents, including hunting! included.
mircea_popescu: locals fell over when saw. even at the time, my thing beat their 7k/year thing.
mircea_popescu: yes, it was a nicety thrown in because shipping insurance deals. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: and re the fine print... there's a lot of suckers and retail in there. last i went to the states, i got full insurance, from lloyds of london no less. for, if memory serves, #159.
mircea_popescu: hey, plenty of people get degrees in history of feminist theatre.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing wrong with this - people do it all the time. venice was entirely built out of the fact that a boat took on average 3.5 merchants
mircea_popescu: there exists a hole in this "single derpy consultant business".
mircea_popescu: if you ever drove clutch you gotta understand this. you can not run car at ALL speeds and combos.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have to appreciate : in nature, there exists such a thing as a hole.
mircea_popescu: it's workable for most entry level needs. gotta shop around a little.
mircea_popescu: you know you can generally get a basic package kinda similar to insurance.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you're going to run a business, but not have counsel, not have tax and accounting support, not have etc etc is like you'll cook a meal for a wedding without stove or pots or pans.
mircea_popescu: do you understand this ? about a third of my mail EACH DAY is various people in various jurisdictions telling me "mr popescu how do we proceed in the following situation : X. A does so and so B does so and so [C, D , E]"
mircea_popescu: could have told him WHAT fucking each path would hold in future!
mircea_popescu: look, the dilemma here isn't "either i be eunuch or else i go fight for odin as a berserker"
mircea_popescu: "i didn't expect solid items to be where the atmosphere goes"
mircea_popescu: what if he started flying a plane without ever learning math ?
mircea_popescu: point stands : if you aren't a businessman, and don't have business skills, why are you starting a business ?
mircea_popescu: how do you perceive what he did (hurr durr i'm going to be a business) is different from average tardstalk forumite (hurr durr i'm going to be an exchange) ?
mircea_popescu: the term "slap on the wrist" is a business call. it stands correct as it is. your "pretty penny" is a housewife call. it's not relevant how much it is.
mircea_popescu: at the very least would have warned him 2 years in advance.
mircea_popescu: he decided to do this incredibly idiotic thing after which didn't want to pay the slap on the wrist penalty that attaches to doing incredibly idiotic thing ?
mircea_popescu: "man should not discharge rifle into boat". who the fuck told him he can run a consulting business without a tax expert ? even accountant level.
mircea_popescu: "what should man that discharged his rifle into his boat do ?"
mircea_popescu: this is how this works : if it is your field of expertise, you have legal team ready to go. either you're a complete imbecile, or woe be upon whoever gets involved. if not your field of expertise, you're either prosecuting in which case generally you want to assign the matter ; or else you're in deep shit.
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're not working with retained counsel, but have to purpose hire, you have no business going to court.
mircea_popescu: i've so far netted more money than the average us citizen's net worth out of simply selling cases.
mircea_popescu: but in general - not that i expect this to be practically useful to anyone, as it isn't without the rest of the tools involved - the matter hinges on that fine thin line when liability can be personally attached. once you can start going after individuals rather than their precious "government" construct in the abstract, they pop like watermelons in august.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to try and run a marathon. it;s another thing to try and run a marathon with pneumonia.
mircea_popescu: [yes, i've beaten tax authorities into the dirt on multiple occasions]
mircea_popescu: who the fuck asked anybody, and why isn't this just some text config file somewhere.
mircea_popescu: mats> anglos go rite to hell, etc << but i'm not anglo ?!
mircea_popescu: on the grounds that penis too small to get in normal way anyway
mircea_popescu: at least the cows get a quarter per gallon for the milk the supermarket sells at a dollar a liter.
mircea_popescu: check it out, fmt provider. they sell the shit you give them for free ?!
mircea_popescu: are they not people ? if you fuck them in the ass do they not bleed ?
mircea_popescu: well... reddit'll have them, and what are they to do. let the internet age pass them by ? miss out on the informational superhighway ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kids gotta go somewhere. they're not allowed almost anywhere else.