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mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dun see it, just because you ex post facto define that agenda (as do they) doesn't mean it;'s anything
mircea_popescu: (incidentally : usable demolition charges are so unremarkable, they had to make a special treaty so everyone agrees to outlaw untagged charges. which is why all the brouhaha about "Sniffing explosives". properly made c4/semtex etc are not actually detectable on their own)
mircea_popescu: what, the terrorists bombed wall street ? uh oh, man in the street is so upset.
mircea_popescu: currently there exists 0 example of a terrorist attack that actually justifies the government effort.
mircea_popescu: this said, it should be interesting to see what happens if there's say a coordinated booming of all the dams on the sacramento river. 15 minute intervals, going downstream.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field fuel bombs are great but impossible to deliver on foot.
mircea_popescu: roll around in plastique, roll around in bearing balls.
mircea_popescu: if he had a plan, he'd have gone with a vest at one of those endless "conferences", except one for law enforcement. that's where all the alread-stole-enough DEA agents & c go to prowl for young meat.
mircea_popescu: "here's something that i just had my secretary type up and it was subseuqently found yesterday in the guy's dirty laundry bin."
mircea_popescu: "whay none of these tyrones can wraet good like white folks! we should do something about it!"
mircea_popescu: trinque the manifesto is prolly just the nigger activistas creaming their pants
mircea_popescu: trinque untrained shooters have problems controlling their own reactions to the noise/physical stress.
mircea_popescu: people are wired to miss own head. but nobody's wired to miss a fucking monkey 10 feet away.
mircea_popescu: "you don't need a sink anyway, who doesn't eat at mcd ? terrorists, that's who!"
mircea_popescu: it's like a "end violence - ban sinks" because a buncha bums keep running into houses, stealing the sinks and buldgeoning the poor ladies to death with 'em
mircea_popescu: that's another thing. all these "gun violence" exponents are barely acquainted with guns.
mircea_popescu: they might rhodesia japan, and certainly will do something or other to korea. but the us ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what, you figure the chinese care ? i don't think they care.
mircea_popescu: if you push the point, you can claim the various attacks as quite edifyingly narcissistic
mircea_popescu: the us is going to fail like argentina and the congo, not like russia or romania.
mircea_popescu: contrariwise, the usg is a competent prop of an otherwise inept, worthless and disabled population.
mircea_popescu: the soviet state was a slow, inept drain on the resources of an otherwise powerful, self reliant and resourceful population.
mircea_popescu: this collapse couldn't be more unlike that collapse in the following fundamental way :
mircea_popescu: ascii_field some woman blew her brains out on live cam
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't see why it has to listen to anyone else.
mircea_popescu: well, they weren't beaten as kids. so how'd they be sane as adults.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.wyrdmantis.1:12236e13cb845c19a23fa64c1562d16235680590216f20bc9bde525dc0a619c9
mircea_popescu: who even knew that for YEARS this was actually enough.
mircea_popescu: for all its warts, the bip system did have the practical utility of discouraging discussion over a majority of historical harebrained schemes.
mircea_popescu: it can mean "go suck mp's cock in argentina" for all anyone knows.
mircea_popescu: which is perhaps the only sane position a fiat-backed venture can take.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo imo that wants to mean "we don't want things stuck here forever, but we don't support gavin"
mircea_popescu: this was the golden bullet, doesn't have a spare silver even.
mircea_popescu: just like they fell on this once the previous failed and so on
mircea_popescu: i fully expect they fall back to that nonsense once they [somehow comprehend] they got beaten on technical dispute.
mircea_popescu: hey, they're already derping about how "bitcoin is regulated" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: after all, once it's in, it's in, they can do whatever they want. which is the entire point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, might not be so very imbecile. it wouldn't surprise me if the fork gets improved to remove selected old coinbases once it's in.
mircea_popescu: mats oh, yeah. im only counting things happening after thew thing hit the reddits.
mircea_popescu: that's another mindfuck : aside my feed, people actually bet MORE on yes. in spite of there being 100 on yes.
mircea_popescu: if it's not on the "electronic foodstamp list" in the supermarket, how'd they buy it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're the same folks that aren't buying cars and time with the sluts born the same year as themselves, by the same token. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: mats yup. which is how i learned that particular misspelling ;/
mircea_popescu: putting their per-word value at 0.0001 btc by this simple test.
mircea_popescu: so basically the vp is "let's make one of these things that'll never be able to stand on its own" "i'd rather build a perpetual money flame"
mircea_popescu: (for the record - lest you be "familiar" with the term from the broken contemporary dictionaries - impudence does not mean "being disrespectful of another person". it has nothing to do with others. impudence is grossly manifest pretense to unwarranted importance. and it's been the distinguishing mark of young adults in agrarian societies since forever.)
mircea_popescu: punkman " Before you start, make sure you are familiar with the terms in the word cloud above." motherfucker. being "familiar" is exactly what these poorly brought up children do, and the word for it is impudence.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform our 'alice'. << created 27 aug last year no less.
mircea_popescu: but apparently we suffer from "xt" syndrome and don';t even know it.
mircea_popescu: <mats> $ grep -c '[MPEX][S.MPOE]' \#bitcoin-assets.txt << not like it's SO HARD to kill a line so marked. which is why they have the motherfucking tags.