asciilifeform: arket capitalization of the entire present (and discounted future) monetary good.' (mr. mold)
asciilifeform: 'One metaphor for monetization is that of a storage vessel, like a battery for electricity or a tank for compressed gas. When people buy into the currency, they are charging the battery and compressing the tank. When they sell out, they are discharging the battery. When new currency is created (perhaps by alchemists) without a buy-in, the tank has sprung a leak. Etc. The charge, or the pressure, is simply the m☟︎
asciilifeform: approximately: 'the soviet den of thieves / to council it did go; / the soviet den-of-thieves / to enemy, said 'no!' / we turned that bitch right in / to the chaps at kgb / since then, at not one prison / i ever him did see! '
asciilifeform: 'Советская малина / Собралась на совет. / Советская малина / Врагу сказала: — Нет! / Мы сдали того суку / Войскам НКВД. / С тех пор его по тюрьмам / Я не встречал нигде.'
asciilifeform: sicilian mafia refused, iirc, to distribute counterfeit german usd during ww2.
asciilifeform: let's try that again. what's usg's plan for criminal 'elements'? not extermination, in any sense. but to keep the relationship symbiotic rather than predatorial.
asciilifeform: distrust in the pathological sense, rather than the 'trust but verify' sense
asciilifeform: and keep them using pwnables, convinced that any defeat is through the work of stoolies in their midst.
asciilifeform: the two purposes of parallel construction are the obvious one (disguise and preserve pwnage capability) but also to sow distrust and spymania among the opponents of usg.
asciilifeform: for some reason - 'no one' mentions this.
asciilifeform: sr1 was, afaik, running heartbleeding tor.
asciilifeform: he nailed it at the time of sr1 also.
asciilifeform: e.g., 'sr2 had a usg mole.' 'no we didn't' 'ah, but mr envelope-licker was our mole' 'no he wasn't, we were best chums' 'he just swore in court that he was mole.' 'but he did it to get charges dropped against self' 'tough'
asciilifeform: parallel construction is ridiculously easy, -especially- if the victim is in fact somewhat dull
asciilifeform: thing is, just about anything can be parallelkonstrukted into a 'comedy of errors'
