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mircea_popescu: i hope their daughters lubricate well.
mircea_popescu: that's all the immunity i ever need.
mircea_popescu: oh, so i get legal immunity ?
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, i'm curious how the majesty of the turd statue is going to recover from something like that.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how much time will elapse between t1 where we reach hanging parity and t2 when there's 100 usis hangings per historical b-a hanging
mats: i wonder who will be the first to be hanged for #b-a association
mats: i loled
mircea_popescu: and why the fuck do i follow these reddit links even.
mircea_popescu: "So basically I like to follow the philosophy of Toaism and the concept of wei wu wei, the closest English translation apparently is "action without action" which basically means you don't do anything. "
mircea_popescu: i mean, people can quit, it's a job not a conviction.
lobbes: I'd agree
asciilifeform: i dare to say these are more interesting than what happened every minute on 'havelock'
lobbes: I like living, though
lobbes: I surely am in that category
funkenstein_: and so I should ask you lords, if this is a pardonable offense
funkenstein_: but yeah, sometimes i think even the indirect handling of fiat would put me in the category of destoroyer
funkenstein_: if I were so employed, perhaps I could be a useful mole for you.
funkenstein_: if you offer me "destroy what is good and bright or be homeless" I will gladly take the latter
funkenstein_: no no, sorry I speak to quickly as usual
asciilifeform: how the fuck do i even parse this.
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: if you don't grasp the fact that some folks do work which ultimately helps destroy everything that is good and bright, i have very little to say.
funkenstein_: I think so. Cocksuckers have their use.
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i've met folks who 'appreciate' what preet bharara does. and obama. etc
funkenstein_: incidentally i have very little luck with this argument in UK
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: allow me to explain. i work for something quite like an antivirus firm.
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i can guarantee you that it is. from the big-picture standpoint.
asciilifeform: i suppose i should clarify, again, that i wasn't speaking of -actually working- as bureaucrat - that is, sitting in meetings, filing reports in triplicate. just that being paid to do, in effect, whatever the fuck you want, is almost like being rich. ☟︎
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i also do 'things worth doing' but nobody pays for those
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i work for the money.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159017 << didja read last night's tale re: how i worked in the ultimate bureaucracy ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159011 << this has to win some sort of prize for 'martial in atomic dirigible.' EVERYBODY i ever met in usa works for salary. i suppose it follows that neither i nor anyone i know in meatspace is 'even half-competent.' ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 05:55:27; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158822 << i can guarantee that no part of the usg does this. the parts that should provably do not. the parts that aren't provable to not, do not actually exist.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159003 << understand, they don't do it through deliberate choice, but inertia. nothing more recent than 'microvax' is (last i heard) approved for 'minuteman' rocket, etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158990 << last i saw, the 'confederate money' buys a good bit of btc. ☝︎☟︎
funkenstein_: so i threw a coin at s.nsa the day of first phuctoring.. can't help but notice that was the last listed volume
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/dddoEjN.jpg
wyrdmantis: first time for me, how do i send?
BingoBoingo: ^ I love that picture
BingoBoingo: wyrdmantis: Feel free to write it up. I'm taking part a Preet Bharara turd atm.
shinohai: http://i.imgur.com/jYjCxVE.jpg
shinohai: That's where I got the idea for it. Finding high-quality material is a little difficult.
shinohai: I promise one day #b-a will have a state-of-the-art fap bot full of such goodness.
shinohai: 5:00 AM bitcoin-ASSets girl: https://i.imgur.com/qw1nVyw.png
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 00:01:41; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-06-2015#1158532 << i've said it before, and will say it again - au is a usg-owned zoolag where they try out new and bleeding-edge idiocies
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158555 <<< http://i.imgur.com/sJaLVBR.jpg ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 19:41:12; shinohai: Meth, hell of a drug: http://np.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/330c0u/bailey_jay_is_le_proof_inside_woops_i_made_a/
scoopbot_revived: Why I can't be bothered with Formula 1 anymore. http://www.contravex.com/2015/06/10/why-i-cant-be-bothered-with-formula-1-anymore/
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 04:19:17; asciilifeform: mats: i wonder when usa will adopt the ancient ru tradition of commanders 'borrowing' entire regiments to build their country houses, chop wood, etc.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:57:50; asciilifeform: no one ever talks about the 'up side' of being a bureaucrat, but i think it is necessary. otherwise you are stuck believing that these people are clinically insane (they are not.)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158822 << i can guarantee that no part of the usg does this. the parts that should provably do not. the parts that aren't provable to not, do not actually exist. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: i guess they were all busy wiping this guy's kid's nose or something
mircea_popescu: "As of 11-JAN-2015, this post has now been read by over 30,000 people." << wrong metric, i guess.
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 13:07:45; mircea_popescu: i will also observe that s.mg launches much awaited bitcoin's mmorpg, usg.agitprop is silent ; "blockstream" launches "much awaited" (by whom ?) nothing at all, the wsj seems compelled to write it up within the hour.
mircea_popescu: can i has break now, plox gimme.
mats: where i remain resident in US
mats: i do not enjoy this game of catching the falling knife
mats: i get it
decimation: I suppose what I am getting at is that having any kind of distinction at all flies in the face of usg's egalitarian sermonizing
mats: dunno that i agree with that
trinque: I spent a couple summers on air force bases in texas in the jrotc thing
decimation: asciilifeform: I think they gave that up in the 90's
trinque: order of magnitude or so of inflation I'd guess
asciilifeform: i imagine it will materialize when the nominal 'civilian control over army' evaporates
asciilifeform: mats: i wonder when usa will adopt the ancient ru tradition of commanders 'borrowing' entire regiments to build their country houses, chop wood, etc. ☟︎
mats: i spent some time loaned out like lawnmower
decimation: asciilifeform: I've seen recruiters for medical folks for this kind of position
decimation: I think they do a few weeks of basic
asciilifeform: perhaps i am thinking of wrong term here
trinque: heh, I bet the locals would love a russian speaker around.
decimation: I bet you would find all kinds of obscure and interesting facts
asciilifeform: mats: one time when i was out of work for many months, i applied to be a... sysadmin in afghan. but was rejected, with polite letter that 'you gotta already be in the army.' for some reason this was not stated in the wanted ad.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I think that's kinda the idea
mats: i had a whopper this week and couldn't finish it
asciilifeform: mats: from my perch, it looks more like patent office (i.e. actual work) than the other kind
mats: i enjoyed .mil service for this reason
trinque: I think I'd kill myself at any govt agency
trinque: I'm blessed I suppose by seeing software as only incidental to business
mats: so what i'm hearing is i should apply to be a clerk at the patent office
decimation: yeah, I buy that, good job for someone 'married to work'
asciilifeform: having worked in a very obscure usg bureaucracy (one of the many army labs) i will say this - it is a kind of valhalla for folks with own projects / ideas. not because anyone will support these (smoke less crack) but because there is virtually no accountability, management, or actual task
asciilifeform: no one ever talks about the 'up side' of being a bureaucrat, but i think it is necessary. otherwise you are stuck believing that these people are clinically insane (they are not.) ☟︎
trinque: I suppose that's what the win8 machines were for
trinque: I wouldn't mind that being the case.
trinque: maybe they're safer than I think
trinque: and I know such systems are supposed to be disconnected from other networks, sure
trinque: with the abovementioned rot, I tend to anticipate the day when some US enemy of the many just turns whatever network-connected weapons we have inward.
trinque: I'm sure
decimation: I donno, I suspect usg is losing folks in droves
asciilifeform: if herr handle turns up here, it will probably be in the 'ninjashotgun' capacity. so i'd rather he didn't
danielpbarron: neato; I'll try to talk to this guy
asciilifeform: i doubt he'll show
mod6: anyway, I'll pick this back up tomorrow. getting closer...
decimation: I haven't met, would like too
decimation: asciilifeform: as I said, many catch a bullet in baltimore every day, nobody gives a shit
mod6: I forget whom it might have been, maybe nubbins` who said that the openssl headers don't get copied correctly on gentoo from the openssl build dir into ourlibs/include/openssl, i can confirm.
asciilifeform: mats: i actually just finished that one, l0l
asciilifeform: i personally wish him a long life and many successes.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158703 << i'm with herr limonov on this subject. the outlaw is '100x the man' of all of his pursuers put together. ☝︎
mod6: Switched over to gentoo hardened with uclibc on amazon to see if we can get a build of v0.5.3.1-RELEASE, and if so, hopfully get some profiling going here. This is what I'm workin with: http://dpaste.com/0B1CXQ8.txt
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I thought it was to get people on the fence to return to winblows because they accidentally bought the wrong machine