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asciilifeform: http://kyristor.com << me derping re: wot prior to knowing anything on subject. posted for archaeologists a while ago..
mircea_popescu: a yeah, there's that, too
undata: mircea_popescu: I'll check them out; I was talking with friends earlier about how a WoT could be used to delegate authorities to members of an organization
assbot: A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-complete-theory-of-economics/ http://trilema.com/2012/gpg-contracts/ undata << there, coupla articles to save you from trying to shoot in the dark
mircea_popescu: hey not a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: so no, the usg didn't black nationality anything. it just put a bunch of thugs away, and much fewer than it either could or should have.
undata: right, that's a good example of the weakness to be fair
mircea_popescu: (and notice that the scientologists raped the fuck out of the usg, in the 70s. back when it was still a thing)
mircea_popescu: that's not the point tho. the point is that it wasn't anything but a cheap sales pitch, without any substance.
mircea_popescu: a woefully transparent one at that.
mircea_popescu: it was never anything but a chumpatron.
undata: mircea_popescu: I was looking for a film for tonight anyway.
mircea_popescu: or at least, it's a fine summary of what i tihnk of it.
mircea_popescu: there's a fine example of your "black nationalism" in there, as deployed by sam l jackson's character
mircea_popescu: there's two points here. the easy to dispatch one is the naive narcissism. i can see why you'd imagine the usg is important or powerful. this is neither true or particularly likely, from a neutral pov. but moving on,
mircea_popescu: undata this seems rather dubious a summary to me.
mircea_popescu: a secret that won't stay under wraps for so long.
mircea_popescu: undata: a smart cult with an anti-govt streak would try to remain unnoticed <<< which fails to explain why the us govt is not taking better care of staying out of our way.
mthreat: that's been happening for a while.. 90s at least
mircea_popescu: Even more property was forfeited by participating in a federal program known as “equitable sharing.” By partnering with a federal agency, local and state law enforcement can keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds from a forfeited property. Incredibly, police can collaborate even if doing so would circumvent their own states’ protections for property owners.
asciilifeform: plumbook is not interesting because of the appointees (everybody who gives half a damn already knows who they are.) but for the 'ses' bureaucrats, the real backbone of usg.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: kakobrekla: what, and when a guest visits my home and goes to wired.com, a plain html page with all my private keys pops up on the screen? << no, they have to enter combinations of keys first.
asciilifeform: i think you might need a civilian www browser to see them
asciilifeform: but which links show a cache tickbox
mircea_popescu: trilema.com/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket
mircea_popescu: Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket - Trilema
asciilifeform: have a looksee
asciilifeform: 'stockholm syndrome', or some other condition, IANAS (not a shrink)
atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 190 Ask: 225 Last Price: 225 24h-Vol: 0k High: N/A Low: N/A VWAP: N/A
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> and just as i am about to publish a story << yeah well that'sdhelped along by the fact that you're always about to publish one lol
kakobrekla: another one with a death wish.
PinkPosixPXE: it's up, but it's getting a 403 forbidden
gribble: Error: "isitup" is not a valid command.
asciilifeform: decimation: '... former propagandist for kgb!!!111!!' << i'd love to watch a film like this about usa.
PinkPosixPXE: I want a room of them that I can swim in
thestringpuller: he was talking about how he doesn't know how one would enter a local market in africa cause he's not an expert
cazalla: i asked em a question https://twitter.com/OTendai/status/522932979371233281
asciilifeform: where rats of all descriptions are brought onto a stage to show how 'open' they are
asciilifeform: yes, and a notorious scamwash
kakobrekla: isnt ama a reddit thing?
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/alexis-de-tocqueville-on-the-dark-sides-of-democracy/ "Trusting that the system was fair and just, Americans simply gave up their independence of mind, and put their faith in newspapers and so-called ‘common sense’. The scepticism of Europeans towards public opinion had given way to a naive faith in the wisdom of the crowd. "
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2014 04:46:41; asciilifeform: mike church was ripped a new arse here, but he had a good piece on how such 'laundries' work
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if you like paper, and live near a secondhand book shop - it'll be $1 or so.
asciilifeform: ere," said Wolf. "We want you to become a wasp."'
asciilifeform: 'Wolf went on, "The weight of a wasp is under half an ounce. Compared with a human being its size is minute, its strength negligible. Its sole armament is a tiny syringe holding a drop of irritant, formic acid, and in this case it didn't even use it. Nevertheless it killed four big men and converted a large, powerful car into a heap of scrap." "I see the point," agreed Mowry, "but where do I come in?" "Right h
undata: a smart cult with an anti-govt streak would try to remain unnoticed
asciilifeform: above the level of the folks who are merely practicing, there's someone who is making a point. same point as every king ever. public impalement to show he still 'has it.'
asciilifeform: if you're a suitable target - bad luck.
BingoBoingo: decimation: A different "ranger bob" could have just as easily left him buried in the woods to be found next century
decimation: that maine fellow is amusing. it demonstrates that as long as you don't make yourself a general 'problem', you will have ranger bob on your ass and not an entire state's police force
gribble: Error: "isdown" is not a valid command.
asciilifeform: there was another one who lived in a dugout in a national park.
decimation: take for instance that fellow hiding in the woods of PA - he could have done far more 'damage' if he patiently attacked physical targets of opportunity, rather than murdering a cop and giving every cop in the 5-state area a hardon for his ass
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket
asciilifeform: someone could probably make a 'thinking man's Doom' (a la 'Thief') based on the premise of intelligent saboteur/terrorist, who plants limpets, burns reichstags, etc. -- but the author is likely to end up having problems.
asciilifeform: is in fact about a prison planet modelled very closely on russian prison (by a former employee, and well-loved blogger Goblin)
asciilifeform: there was a sim-auschwitz at one point, if i recall
asciilifeform: 'Hatred is a third-person shooter in development from Polish studio Destructive Creations.'
kakobrekla: why does assbot offer you a link when there is 0 results, i dont know.
assbot: Gruesome trailer released for Hatred, a game about mass shootings
nubbins`: ^ assbot takes a stand
decimation: wapo had a story yesterday that allows you catch a glipse of 'status', the real money in wash dc http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/who-sits-where-the-etiquette-of-dinner-seating/2014/10/15/371809ec-5476-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_graphic.html
decimation: supposedly after failing to win the presidency, bob dole went to work for k street - was pay $ 5 digits to make a single phone call
decimation: asciilifeform: re: your 'escape' plans << it's true that in the us your property isn't safe, least of all from usg - but is there really a country that credibly offers a better deal
nubbins`: that httpd is a secret!
nubbins`: kakobrekla: what, and when a guest visits my home and goes to wired.com, a plain html page with all my private keys pops up on the screen?
decimation: hopefully the crypto is inserted in a separate plug
asciilifeform: from point of view of the uniformed thugs, that thing is just a peculiarly heavy chest of cash to plunder.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah this is a reasonable idea
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2014 06:30:54; mircea_popescu: in any event it's a fortressy thing to do. "here is money for the taking. take it only like so, or else you die"
decimation: kakobrekla: of course, but it's also possible that the pleading is genuine, so that congress or whoever will make a law or something stupid like that
asciilifeform: not a very organized fellow, you see.
asciilifeform: picture a serial killer that picks up women and then proceeds to get lost in the desert
asciilifeform: (for some people, still breathing is a malicious act)
cazalla: and just as i am about to publish a story
asciilifeform: 'a messenger from the courts, who handed him a stack of legal documents—three inches thick. Somewhere in that stack—buried in all the legalese—was the news that Microsoft had taken control of his company, but Durrer didn’t have time to read it. Almost immediately, his pager lit up with messages saying the company’s internet services had stopped working.'
asciilifeform: chances are, it consists of a list of 19yo kids to be meritwashed on schedule.
asciilifeform: he walks a free man, that's proof of note
undata: mircea_popescu: I've seen some intelligent-sounding stuff on the trilema blog and thought I'd sit in a while
undata: mircea_popescu: a guy from portland, oregon that writes code
asciilifeform: 'Kickstarter advisor and board member Sunny Bates doesn't deny the risks of pledging but argues the price of individual Kickstarter pledges is so low that even if fraud did rear its head it wouldn't be worth the legal action from a backer.' << amazing model. steal a penny from $maxint people - not a crime at all...
assbot: Why Kickstarter 'can't' and won't protect backers once a project is funded | Polygon
mircea_popescu: course this is illegal, except if you're a "revolutionary" ycombinator sort of scam.
asciilifeform: decimation: usually it's done in a more prestigious venue, though
kakobrekla: Yna get in the wot and ill take care of your coins for 1% a year.
cazalla: mats_cd03: i put my dong in a vacuum cleaner attachment once <<< how about a belt sander?
decimation: daddy mc warbucks puts $1 mil to 'prove' junior is a real businessman, etc
Yna: That doesn't seem like a low rick investment
mircea_popescu: Yna so find a far out bitbet and send it there
asciilifeform: the numbers are a running ticker.
Yna: I am a gambling addict that seeks somewhere to investment lock my remaining btc so I can have guaranteed growth (however small).
Azelphur: sure, I have no desire to purchase it I have a very nice OpenWRT router that I can do all the things with
asciilifeform: now, a similar contraption was, if i recall, sold several years ago, but that makes abox merely boring.
mircea_popescu: is a scam, it's had a lot of work put into it. "
mircea_popescu: They also have glowing reviews from all over the world posted on their site after only a month of operation. It feels like trying too hard. That said, I did take a chance and invest some coins. I contacted them about my concerns (after I invested a few coins) and they were responsive and discussed things with me. Their backend is pretty sophisticated and you can withdraw your earnings at any time without fees. If it
mircea_popescu: "Hi, I have been using the site since mid December. You do have to be careful where you put your coins. The site has some . . . well, issues. A .biz suffix for one, but also they work out of the UK (trading stops on UK holidays) but are incorporated in Panama with no locational address or phyiscal contact method.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller from that link : "I found this site few days ago and bought mining shares, and have been getting 1.42% return every day. I'm using the returns to buy a smaller amount of trading shares. https://bitcoin-trader.biz/opportunities.php Full disclosure: I am not related to this site in any way, shape or form."
mircea_popescu: 0.8% a day, then "sysadmin will look into it"
asciilifeform: ru invention afaik. knock on door, opens up, mesh bag with $animal, 'we have your $beast, pony up $sum.' father: 'we don't have a $beast...' kid: 'but so cute...111!'