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ThickAsThieves: and then i get another link removed from my chain for being
a gambling bookie
Namworld: Hmm, I'm looking at penalties for late tax filling. Looks like the interest charged is low. Up to
a maximum of 50% flat penalty for multiple years of late filling plus 5-6% annual interest on balance.
BingoBoingo: benkay: IRL socially drinking today. Just stepped out for
a fag.
benkay: i was just throwing the notion of
a gasenwagen conf around
BingoBoingo: benkay: If this game gets much worse I might self up and hang here
a while
ozbot: Twitter / AdrianChen: Yes. There will be
a live-doxxing ...
phf: and there's
a proper use of kashchenit terminology going on
phf: i.. wouldn't recommend going to
a gasenwagen conf, not by your own choice anyway
prestonbanks: bingbiongo; i have some experience with registering and using IRC channels so i think that will be no problem as soon as i figured out
a new nick
BingoBoingo: prestonbanks: The GPG stuff does take
a while but registering with nickserv and setting enforce to on is
a quick exercise
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: there's
a shitload of account software that can't handle more than 2 decimal places, and when you have idiot data captures manually capturing BTC transactions because the company is too cheap to pay
a developer for an hour's worth of work, bad stuff happens...that same accounting software has no problem differentiating the US Dollar from the Zimbabwean Dollar and the Japanese Yen, despite their integer values being orders of
moiety read manuls, realised it was
a typo *disappoint*
mod6: i guess i just read
a lot of these blogs directly. kindof
a nice digest tho.
fluffypony: mod6: much easier than pushing everyone's RSS feed into
a reader
prestonbanks: i hate those foldable manuals that are as big as
a roadmap
benkay: i'm saying setting up the gpg toolchain is
a daylong exercise for new gpg users.
benkay: getting into the wot properly is
a daylong exercise if you're not
a regular gpg user to begin with
fluffypony: kakobrekla: afaik it is, gribble doesn't allow eregister or bcregister without
a registered nick
HeySteve: if I can link to
a line that's better
mircea_popescu: well this is enough history reading for an evening. ima go beat my slaves and smoke
a pipe.
mircea_popescu: ideas are
a source of evil in the sense pie is
a source of evil.
mircea_popescu: “People have the silly idea that there must be freedom of the press and no repression. They don’t realise that ideas are also
a source of evil.”
mircea_popescu: “At least I’ll be able to kiss Desdemona without leaving
a smudge.” — Actor John Kani, the first black man to play Othello in Shakespeare’s play in South Africa
mircea_popescu: ‘When we show
a film which our non-white girls are not allowed to see, they usher patrons with
a torch and watch the floor,’ he said. ‘We discussed the matter with the Department of Labour and I raised this point with them. As
a precautionary measure — since non-whites are not allowed to see some films restricted to whites only — we decided that they should not look at the screen.”
mircea_popescu: check that shit out. it redirects to
a ... cloudflare protected domain
mircea_popescu: some guy on twitter, " The amount of web traffic that is driven to those site links are the equivalent of Gold to these companies. In
a digital world SEO is king. On top of this, the CoinDesk price index is what the foundation uses to charge it’s members and is generally accepted as the price by mainstream media."
ThickAsThieves: "We are excited by the challenging problems we face building
a brand new concept of money and we are always thinking about how to redefine the way people think about the cheddar."
ThickAsThieves: "If the crazy ride and popularity of Bitcoin makes you cackle like
a mad-scientist, this is the place for you. "
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie, after 1800, you could travel if you had
a passeport.
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie in the middle ages you could only travel if you were
a journeyman, or in the service of
a noble.
mircea_popescu: i think this is actually quite brilliant. make it illegal to have
a mob[ile vulgus]
mircea_popescu: <bounce> and now, of course, with the advent of schengen and the resulting wonderful open borders, you're required to always be able to produce identity papers on demand in various countries in europe <<< this was
a) never false and b) not currently true.
HeySteve: I mention bitcoin-assets in there as
a good place to test ideas and such
HeySteve: it's not the same as the country becoming independent, it's
a holiday about the victory of one faction over another which is used to bolster support for the current ruling party
HeySteve: ok certainly pass laws and other stuff was very restrictive. but in the context of electoral politics, this strikes me
a bit like Democrats winning in USA then instituting National Freedom from Bush Day
fluffypony: as you said - freedom is not absolute, but there are enough extremes on both sides that they can be described as having achieved
a state of relative freedom from 1994
fluffypony: HeySteve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_laws <- I think that alone, which was only repealed in 1986, qualifies as such
a severe restriction of freedom that it would not be untoward to say that the abolishment of Apartheid brought freedom to certain groups
HeySteve: fluffypony, sure, there's
a difference here though in that the ANC tries to keep debate focused on these kinds of liberation narratives to justify its rule
fluffypony: HeySteve: yeah, but celebrating
a "freedom day" to commemorate the shifting of governmental power is
a tradition all over the world - the 'Murkans have Independence Day, for eg.
HeySteve: fluffypony, I think this freedom / unfreedom thing is
a false dichotomy. it's more like there are degrees of freedom and the balance shifted
thestringpuller: It's akin to being
a spy in war time no? You technically can't exist, as
a spy, thus you parade around like
a normal individual.
ThickAsThieves: your logic escapes me
a bit, but i guess i get the gist
decimation: USG is not
a fan of international property ownership
ThickAsThieves: well that's just it, it's like deciding to get
a sex change or some shit
ThickAsThieves: yknow reading your slave article made me realize i was
a bit depressed over the matter
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves leave
a sauce ion the trilema article too ?
decimation: In response to the question of whether the current government has the consent of the governed, only 22 percent of likely voters say ?yes.? The partisan divide is marked; Democrats split evenly, but only 8 percent of Republicans say yes. These are scary numbers, particularly when one considers that many of the ?no consent? Democrats are probably on the left, denying the legitimacy of
a government that does not do more for them.
ThickAsThieves: <+bounce> somebody cook up
a "not affiliated with the bitcoin foundation at all"-banner, just to show how supportive you are of that bunch /// check out my new footer logo!
http://devilsadvocate.biz/ fluffypony: lots of families where the wife is
a maid, and the husband does nothing
bounce: to the point that it's /not done/ among certain kinds of "socialists" to mention handouts-
a-go-go doesn't always work (the /ruling/ kind of socialists, often enough *sigh*)
mircea_popescu: bounce it's
a fact. there's 30 to 35 iq points buried in there.
mircea_popescu: he was here for
a little bit, but it was weeks really iirc.
mircea_popescu: they think they know shit, is the problem, and they don't see why they should put inb the hard work of reading the logs for
a year.
mircea_popescu: look at all the fuckwits starting "bitcoin businesses",
a la danny
fluffypony: or they "watch your car" in mall parking lots and expect
a few Rand when you're done
fluffypony: the problem is that
a lot of the poor in urban areas just beg at robots
fluffypony: plus
a lot of the supermarket chains are getting into that whole "support the small farmer" thing and buying from those guys
fluffypony: and they give them
a ton of education on farm management etc.
bounce: hypothetically speaking, suppose you're hungry and poor, but you have the knowledge. how hard is it to actually start
a farm (first small, then decent-sized) legally?
bounce: heh. you should like
a saudi arabia of suckers. high quality chumpatron at state level.
fluffypony: yeah pretty much, 20-30 years and things will even out
a lot
mircea_popescu: the only reason this isn't happening right now is that, of course,
a nude teenager is not worth money, generally speaking.
fluffypony: and they solve that by handing out education grants and pushing the wrong candidates through
a medical degree
fluffypony: so then you have
a brain-drain situation
mircea_popescu: the model is unsurprisingly pushed by the us, seeing how sa was their only ally for
a long time.
fluffypony: also, because of BEE there were
a TON of educated white guys from the late 90s till like 2010 who left South Africa because they couldn't get
a job
fluffypony: it just creates
a sense of entitlement among the lazy
fluffypony: and the thing is, BEE doesn't empower the younger blacks who have had
a proper education and gone to university and are willing and able to work hard
mircea_popescu: whereas the bee stuff works in
a black majority, trying to redistribute the revenue of the whites more towards the majority
mircea_popescu: decimation that the mafia works in
a white majority, trying to make ends meet for
a legitimately opressed minority
fluffypony: decimation: nothing - which is why they've been heavily criticised over the years as creating
a "reverse Apartheid"
fluffypony: but fast forward
a few years and the gardener realises he has
a controlling interest
fluffypony: he took his gardener on as
a business partner
fluffypony: for instance, in the late 90s the father of
a guy I was in school with had
a roofing and tiling business
bounce: it still smells like cheap populism to me, but there could be
a bigger point buried under the poor rhetoric