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mircea_popescu: amusingly, after bitching above, just got email from one of the folks involved apologizing profusely. so which one of you dudes runs godmodehost ?
mircea_popescu: teh old cocaine eyedrops ? perhaps.
mircea_popescu: "hi, i am obama and for a while there I was a bad meme."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mr "if you have a stanford you didn't go to that stanford" / "if you have a presidency your parents didn't make you in that country" / "if you had an insurance you can no longer have an insurance" even realises what his memory is going to look like
mircea_popescu: it says right here in paragraph obama subsection nobody could have foreseen : fuck you, if you have an account you didn't make that account.
mircea_popescu: what is this "close account" stuff you folks are talking about ?
mircea_popescu: lmao
mircea_popescu: maybe it's their idea of a retention strategy.
mircea_popescu: you being a customer ?
mircea_popescu: amps should be a restricted fucking export. buncha native retards and their cargo cultishness bejeezuz.
mircea_popescu: o wait, they're doing "we will rock you" now.
mircea_popescu: very strange world.
mircea_popescu: and people are like, squaling in delight, there's thunderous applause... "forever young" hasn't got this bad a mangling since the last tiem a drunk dude in wichita sung it at a karaoke
mircea_popescu: they're doing covers of shitty elevator music, all of it in english (or should i say their lords and masters over the faulklands ?), and they don't get the words right or even rightly apprehend what anything means.
mircea_popescu: jurov meanwhile, while we've been having this conversation, there's been one of those open air concerts going on right under my window. the women can not sing. i mean... the tune is not even close, it's like zappa's "the beat goes on, and you're so wrong..." stuff.
mircea_popescu: lol "qntsideration". nb.
mircea_popescu: it's not even hate, to be technical. it's more like "this may not even exist".
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, i end up with unmanageably lengthy lists. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: kinda how i go about it too.
mircea_popescu: jurov how do you define a problem ? just curious.
mircea_popescu: trinque this pointedly excludes "creative people", obv. the sad story of WBs animation studio post quimby vs pre is a fine illustration there.
mircea_popescu: yea ? how about webhosting ?
mircea_popescu: one can only be self-directed if one's ego can stfu for long intervals.
mircea_popescu: GREAT WOMEN IN HISTOREE. a confused squaw we now deem important!
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, some wikipedia top keks : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaúxuma_Núpika
mircea_popescu: jurov i dunno dood, for money, cause it's what you do... the world was built by men who enjoyed working.
mircea_popescu: this entire "we've been sitting on an order for 36 hours" thing is entirely novel. no idea when it came in, but it strikes me as outlandish.
mircea_popescu: I just... never looked for a webhost since at least 2002, been using pretty much the same outfit since.
mircea_popescu: nuts.
mircea_popescu: apparently nobody actually still does anything anymore. just watch tv all day or something.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, jesus CHRIST has the world decayed since I last looked for a host.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/x0pSHS2.gif
mircea_popescu: plimoth plantation ?
mircea_popescu: they had plantations back then
mircea_popescu: journalist as opposed to indian battery chicken, i guess. "i cluck at the keyboard just like the wetbacks, but in not being a wetback i get to call myself a journalist. by trade!"
mircea_popescu: "Harriette Halepis is a journalist by trade. Her work can be seen in Vegetarian Times, Seacoast Living, Success Magazine, Alive Magazine, and various other online and offline publications."
mircea_popescu: <chetty> most of the founding fathers were from the north, not many plantation keepers around Boston << at what time, this ?
mircea_popescu: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ o.O
mircea_popescu: eh ?
mircea_popescu: there wasn't anything in between was there ? stalin didn't dare.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes brejnev's. which one, the pre war ?!
mircea_popescu: mhm
mircea_popescu: much like the us. except the soviets making up the soyouz actually had more autonomy than wisconsin
mircea_popescu: the soviets, of course, were a federation
mircea_popescu: http://constitution.garant.ru/history/ussr-rsfsr/1977/ ?
mircea_popescu: hm
mircea_popescu: you read the thing ?
mircea_popescu: preditors don't care about dirt.
mircea_popescu: because nothing left to eat.
mircea_popescu: whether outside or in. the scribblings of the mental patient - informative.
mircea_popescu: from the pov of the hostile preditor, of course.
mircea_popescu: soviet constitution was notbad.jpg
mircea_popescu: like a marriage contract, exactly.
mircea_popescu: this is why a constitution is fundamentally a joke. if you have the men that you need for it to work, you don't need it. if you don't have them, it's useless anyway.
mircea_popescu: all constitutions are constantly reinterpreted. see discussion about the bbs above.
mircea_popescu: you can't get your money back by selling her house.
mircea_popescu: basically it means that if old bitty runs down your new car with her beater,
mircea_popescu: "and voluntary liens including mortgages"
mircea_popescu: ahem.
mircea_popescu: "Florida Constitution does not protect homestead property against tax liens, homeowner association mechanic’s liens associated with labor or materials to repair or improve the homestead property, and voluntary liens including mortgages and homeowner association liens. "
mircea_popescu: shouldn't they ?!
mircea_popescu: !up dooglus_
mircea_popescu: this is the libertard verbiage as to why king abolished proper title. "the drunkard nobles wanted to be able to sell!!1"
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: !up PFate
mircea_popescu: in the constitution no less. interesting.
mircea_popescu: seems you're right eh.
mircea_popescu: "Article X, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution exempts homestead property from levy and execution by judgment creditors."
mircea_popescu: apparently it just needs to ask for permission (from a usg magistrate - improperly called a judge for the obvious reasons)
mircea_popescu: he could let someone live there, obviously.
mircea_popescu: wel lsure.
mircea_popescu: www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/0947036.pdf afaik
mircea_popescu: ah, is it ?
mircea_popescu: ahh oldies...
mircea_popescu: ildlike curiosity is channel surfing and the ten-second sound bite."
mircea_popescu: "Now we can address the contention that children are innately curious. They are not in the sense used here - they are tinkerers. The commonplace observation that children have short attention spans is direct refutation of the notion that they are creative and curious in any deep sense. The tragedy of our society is not that so many people outgrow their childlike curiosity, but that so few do. The adult equivalent of ch
mircea_popescu: "but he made a blog post laughing at us for it" "oh... ok then!"
mircea_popescu: "but he owes 547869857694579459 in FCC fines" "tough"
mircea_popescu: im kinda curious in a scholarly way exactly what sort of outrage would incentize teh usg to go back on its "principal home can not be seized" approach to things.
mircea_popescu: well... trade, whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you create unaccounted revenue, what.
mircea_popescu: decimation 5% each year, 100% in 4 five year plans, comrade!
mircea_popescu: > 10 different types of pennies etc
mircea_popescu: "shit, im not sorting all these"
mircea_popescu remembers old day, after a two week "if it's tuesday, it's belgium" thing, at 4am in train station guy pouring ~kig and half of coins into a beggar's lap.
mircea_popescu: decimation cmon, some euros, something.
mircea_popescu: i was pretty amused at the notion, on multiple fronts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ikr ?
mircea_popescu: decimation cash comes in all denominations.
mircea_popescu: guy declared "golden helicopter"
mircea_popescu: notably, i once picked up a us chick who at the time was engaged to be married.
mircea_popescu: you know, that dirigible is mostly an urban legend ?
mircea_popescu: enjoying it fine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've not actyually used a bank since i'm here.
mircea_popescu: what agent is EVER going to wish to go work on a case where the emperor has dclared "huge value", wioth the full knowlerdge that if the value is somehoiw missing he will be imputed it anyway ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone directly realises what epic self decapitation the dpr was for the usg.
mircea_popescu: they gonna send some agents to confiscate imaginary bitcoin which then doesn't exist because "the agents stole it" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation and if you don't care to "sell it legally" what happens ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-04-2015#1098020 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: compare and contrast with