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mircea_popescu: dude sold some bullshit news service to a bullshit media corp (yahoo maybe ?) for a billion
mircea_popescu: who was the other accidental windfall victim who actually WAS into bitcoin ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as in "then the drones kept derping and dronfing about who knows what"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the citizenry behaves strangely if it DOESNT get it.
mircea_popescu: alf is worried about connected machinery behaving strangely if it gets magic packet
mircea_popescu: this is what memory hole effect is, too. "but they told me when i was five that it's ok to only turn my brain on if i hear a certain magic word"
mircea_popescu: and putin doesn't understand how the world works, and so on.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can never get out of the fucking digital mafia.
mircea_popescu: it's basically what this is, neoteny of poor eating habits. "i wanna eat just the cream" "it's unhealthy" "nevertheless"
mircea_popescu: similarly, morning';s bug would have gotten crushed equally had it promised to unveil the Bug Saphire for me.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i am not actually profit motivated. i don't see catching her karpeles as a business, and i am not interested in doing it for a profit.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the guilty is always jwz. and for the obvious reason, too. "only wanted to X"
mircea_popescu: the morally responsible is jwz, not bush not anyone else. yes the president is getting beheaded, that's how symbolics work. and it is the job and the duty of the politico class to play the goat.
mircea_popescu: decimation the only reason the usg is its in present shape is the herd of bloviating hamplanets. nothing else.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or whether folks will grunt their last in it << i am broadly unconvinced by your theory. there aren't equal sides confronting each other here. i, for one, could not care less for any secrets usg-tard thinks he has.
mircea_popescu: this is a country whose president had a prosecutor assasinated earlier this year.
mircea_popescu: decimation on the jail it is spelled out "Para quién hicieron la carcel? Si el rico nunca entra y el pobre nunca sale."
mircea_popescu: the fact that the fat have neglected it doesn't change it. you can similarly neglect to change the oil in your car, this doesn't make the car oil changes "a thing of the past"
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> 'self-limiting' government is the ultimate joke << the only limit on government is terrorism. the us has it spelled out in the constitution, "since the only limit to government is a well armed, well organized group of domestic terrorists, people should bear arms"
mircea_popescu: but the question was as to any. there's multiple examples of any-es.
mircea_popescu: and that "hey, i don't see any dent in the bug population"
mircea_popescu: if i'm to ask you, the bug i crushed this moirning is laughing all the way to the toilet, too.
mircea_popescu: that's now trying shamelessly to make ends meet by selling "compliance services"
mircea_popescu: there's for instance an open confrontation wit hthe state of new york over who regulates bitcoin
mircea_popescu: almost like the things soviet russia is remembered for
mircea_popescu: the things the us will be remembered for are going to be so insulting to the historical usians...
mircea_popescu: seems that's a different error and no solution was proffered
mircea_popescu: does curl actually ignore the -tsl flag or does the server go bonkos over ssl3 even being available at all or what the fuck is this
mircea_popescu: well im not from around there. lulz of all time, rich coaches.
mircea_popescu: "'Nuclear war our likely future': Russia & China won't accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns" << they are pretty good at the propaganda angle.
mircea_popescu: The RT network, Kusturica says, is destroying the “Hollywood-CNN stereotype of the good and bad guys, where blacks, Hispanics, Russians, Serbs are the villains, and white Americans, wherever you look, are OK!”
mircea_popescu: must be a pretty fun, exciting and fun vacation for the jwz's in question.
mircea_popescu: lulzy, the maggots taking measures against the woodpeckers that might be coming in
mircea_popescu: " She said she is staying about a mile from the main attack scene, but visitors there still took precautions by putting mattresses up against the door to slow any gunmen who might try to barge in."
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in my opinion it can be solely accounted for by "I wanna print money too" << more like pure tim swansonism, "why should i have to do what i'm told", but anyways.
mircea_popescu: he was appointed by reagan if memory serves, and i don't see reagan would think much of your "libertarian achievement"
mircea_popescu: you can tell what sort of people you're dealing with by the sort of rhetorics they favour. and this sort is pretty sad altogether.
mircea_popescu: why does all this crap read exactly alike, like the same uncultured louts wrote it all ? from reddit to gavin's "opinions" to the scotus majority opinion, all written by the same thirty year old hands that never read anything but summaries of summaries and never did anything whatsoever at all ?
mircea_popescu: "(2) The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what the man would say, and i haven't asked him because i don't give a flying fuck what he thinks
mircea_popescu: it's what it comes down to. "we do not recognise the supreme court"
mircea_popescu: should probably stick to discerning which fashions are fashionable and which are not, change the verbiage to "that's hot!" etc.
mircea_popescu: the us supreme court, along with the entire institutionalised hypocrisy system it represents, has no particular relevancy to the settlement of any point. it'd be about the same to ask them as to ask perez hilton.
mircea_popescu: tons of people showed over the years before that same court "your honor i'm terribly sorry i stole and i am not going to do one damned thing about it".
mircea_popescu: the one time they stole people's money in the 30s, there was some guy dissenting on the supreme court.