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mircea_popescu: you're merely stating that you're not really the new boyfriend.
mircea_popescu: consider the matter in terms you're better equipped to handle. if, upon breaking up a girl with her former boyfriend, you institute a policy that she may fuck him whenever,
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow it is discovered bharara was acting under mere color of law,
mircea_popescu: otherwise we'll start having to take back the ilk of shrem because hey, "they torched his house".
mircea_popescu: it makes no difference. don't want to sell, don't sell.
mircea_popescu: these are unequal things. commerce is between equal parties. employment is between unequal parties.
mircea_popescu: they didn't, yoiu know, take employment with the govt.
mircea_popescu: "steal from the public" is what, microsoft ? jp manufacturer of resistors ?
mircea_popescu: ya ya, except if you become an "oligarch", then they invent imaginary arears and steal your shit.
mircea_popescu: which is why i write about people like bfl on trilema, but not about any one of the countless heists.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to be a thief, it's another to pretend not to be a thief.
mircea_popescu: "here's how much you group of criminals owe. the pay is X an hour. get busy."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see a plan to have everyone who ever worked for a government shipped to the salt mines until the whole sum is made back.
mircea_popescu: anything anyone owns on the grounds of having interacted with a government is to be taken outright.
mircea_popescu: confiscating the bureaucracy's "money" is not even on the table.
mircea_popescu: "into the country’s top-level bureaucrats and state employees "
mircea_popescu: "The complaint said Siddiqui had been in contact with al Qaeda members and Velentzas was Facebook friends with Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran charged with attempting to aid Islamic State, a militant group that holds territory in Iraq and Syria. Pugh, 47, of Neptune, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty last month."
mircea_popescu: what's to know, even. and don't give me the ny longshoreman's union line.
mircea_popescu: fascinating just how ignorant muricans are these days.
mircea_popescu: there's no we. scammers always start with this "we" business.
mircea_popescu: alol k. "and then the greek word for hot sexy teen was mistranslated by the hebrew word for baren ugly old hag!"
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Theocharakis never characterized the technical teams of the institutions with the phrase attributed to him," the ministry said in a statement. "On the contrary ... he referred to them as saying they include 'top-notch people with impressive skills.'"
mircea_popescu: from a greek perspective, switching bases every 10 years would be the best outcome, they can hire poor polacks to manage for the construction work.
mircea_popescu: unless they can find a way to run them in a vms or something.
mircea_popescu: worst mission in the history of armed forces. "here are some fjords. find the subs. ALL OF THEM."
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think putin is having string orgasms. imagine, greece in a compact with russia! sub bases ALL THROUGH THE ISLANDS.
mircea_popescu: all conmen ever claim to live at the pleasure of the king, of course.
mircea_popescu: the imf didn't give them money so as not to get it back.
mircea_popescu: there is after all a difference between farmer burning his own crop and guy going and burning other people's things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re greece, i see that they're resource burners. that's not the q.
mircea_popescu: you mean ipv4 works other than the "it doesn't allow every idiot online" aspect. gotta keep it under 10 mn or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. ipv6 is fatally flawed in that it has no wot.
mircea_popescu: universal ip, as a sha512 hash. no more of this "os doesn't know its ip" bs.
mircea_popescu: okok. rishonim as opposed to achronim, modern commentary as opposed to ancient. and the kotzker guy is just some famous rabbi.
mircea_popescu: artifexd baby we need that thing so we can use it as a model to make a new dhcp too!
mircea_popescu: they happen to matter a whole of a heck more than whether you're either right or reasonable, as it happens.
mircea_popescu: do you own your servers which you colocate ? do you rent time on a shared server ? these things matter.
mircea_popescu: so, it can be very serious or not serious at all depending on who you are.
mircea_popescu: would they have done the same if i didn't have a lawyer ready to sue ? no. had the dc been more scared of me than of them if i hadn't etc ? no.
mircea_popescu: so they sent a bs complaint, i replied, they sent a dmca, i counternotified, they went away beaten.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm specifically aware. probably, at least tried.