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mircea_popescu: the chumps derping about self-importantly on "cryptographic" "lists" etc are certainly using it - but so far too dumb to realise they shyould be looking.
mircea_popescu: hunt for it has been ongoing, but we don't have one yet
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well inasmuch as that's what "produce milk, pull cart, turn millstone" means, you did.
mircea_popescu: i can see why, too. if there's no actual items involved there's much less risk to doing it all, as nobody can ever be shown definitively to have fucked up.
mircea_popescu: mats not just the thunderbolt. same story with the warthog. idea being basically "we wish to move on from this real-items tethered system of bezzle to a system of pure bezzle. we do not wish to have any further actual items involved in the entire allocation and expenditure of budgets thing"
mircea_popescu: jurov seems they're making the point quite plainly : "we call this encryption, but really it's only intended to keep your pictures on stolen phones away from the thief. nothing absolutely to do with security, just a gimmick"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for the record ben_vulpes has a point. unmilked cow gets mastitis, unexercised slavegirl gets neurosis.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: amusingly, romania had a similar thing going coupla years ago, sent half the coaches/club heads/trainers etc in the country behind bars
mircea_popescu: i suspek it's mostly because i use "good pet" as a congratulatory term. as opposed to variations of "you motherfuckin' bitch you!" and so on.
mircea_popescu: i will for the record point out that the way alf and apparently everyone else's adopted "pet" to refer to their SO is driving some of the slavegirls up the fucking walls.
mircea_popescu: "when i see birds using ddt i'll believe it" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: maybe dog knows but believes it somehow is exceptional for him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has a point. yes, they will try, which is why you (the impersonal you) wants to get out of there.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> in any case : the beatings will continue.
mircea_popescu: lmao schmuck is STILL going on with his retarded "no comments allowed" posts about how bitcoin this or that ?
mircea_popescu: soon enough usg folk will be able to eat paper and so on.
mircea_popescu: but then you yourself do notice that no, they can't eat, when you say "folks pointing out that if you want to eat these things -today-, you need -significantly- better connections and de-facto 5-10x the money."
mircea_popescu: weren't you insisting, a day or two ago, that "these folks can still eat - unaffacted" ?
mircea_popescu: the idea is to make it impossible for anyone to use it for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't to make it impossible for the usg to pretend like itexists.
mircea_popescu: by which i mean facebook and its spawn, twitter, reddit etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nor is there any hope for naive "social media" pseudo-businesses in the future.
mircea_popescu: no "20 years to life for wilfully breaking the law from a position of government".
mircea_popescu: chetty and i presume the people in question already received the green cards right ?
mircea_popescu: if ballas were around the one thing i'd ask him would be to write up this particular story. it's something else, "the failures of roger ver's pretense on the jagged shores of reality - 2010 - 2015"
mircea_popescu: which is why we don't believe for a second that this is a bona fide business dispute.
mircea_popescu: cazalla there's at least three parties if not like five with some sort of claim oiver it, all of which cost more to prosecute than the thing would cost to replace.
mircea_popescu: the domain no longer has an owner, it's a toxic asset now
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it means the fountain of shit these people create as a byproduct of their metabolism.
mircea_popescu: so no, okpay isn't gonna pay him "what the contract says". okpay doesn't belong to the space of delusion he belongs to.
mircea_popescu: and now he's stuck in a world where others may entertain his pretense (to "professionalism" or to "business-like" or whatever else), but a) only third worlders, and b) only for as far as they find it net positive.
mircea_popescu: the guy spent more than it was worth (in bitcoin treading for a pittance) to acquire a "valuable" domain, as if a domain name could ever be valuable.
mircea_popescu: paltry attempts to make it stay relevant about as effectual as spitting in the wind.
mircea_popescu: thousands of bitcoin donated to a shitty foundation ? gone, as is the foundation.
mircea_popescu: but then... horror of horrors! everything he touches turns to shit, and now here he is, stuck trying to hold on to the status long after the water's gone out.
mircea_popescu: here's the story of a simple country boy, one could say a cock-eyed optimist who got himself a number of pleabargained felonies after which the sun seemed to shine, and all his long held frustrations as to relevancy for business, intellectual prowess and whatnot seemed to realise! finally! oh, how this moment had been pined for.
mircea_popescu: cazalla poor roger ver really belongs in the gallery of famous tragic characters, with brave, brave, brave sir robert, the tragic clown and his faithful wife nedda etc.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony how does someone else using a 1 instead of a 5 degrade my privacy ?
mircea_popescu: dude if the soviets did something right... caviar's been dead since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: sure... and whether you do or don't, your clothes will be gray.
mircea_popescu: davout the problem of bloat is not something that can be individually addressed. in a sense/under a certain perspective this is like saying that 1800s london was incredibly smoky because of all the heating coal usage, but you could also burn clean coal, which was only slightly more expensive.
mircea_popescu: davout see kinda why i'm waiting for him to decide to present it.