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mircea_popescu: think about that for a minute : google bombing through a google separator.
mircea_popescu: but since they do not wish to o may gawd promote my stuff with their impotent brownian motion, they use some sort of google juice filter (no idea if it works).
mircea_popescu: so : the powerless have decided that the way to attack me is through... google bombing.
mircea_popescu: the libertard is a particularly insidious totalitarian, in that he doesn't even admit his outright enmity to liberalism.
mircea_popescu: is to say, as the Court does today, that all executions of the mentally retarded are so morally repugnant as to violate our national “standards of decency,” surely the “consensus” it points to must be one that has set its righteous face against all such executions. Not 18 States, but only seven–18% of death penalty jurisdictions–have legislation of that scope."
mircea_popescu: "The Court pays lipservice to these precedents as it miraculously extracts a “national consensus” forbidding execution of the mentally retarded, ante, at 12, from the fact that 18 States–less than half (47%) of the 38 States that permit capital punishment (for whom the issue exists)–have very recently enacted legislation barring execution of the mentally retarded. Even that 47% figure is a distorted one. If one
mircea_popescu: cazalla lmao they had 7k btc like roger ver has what to pay the gas bill with.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> how do you suppose they line up the pliant judges << good point this.
mircea_popescu: thompson's self-diddling compiler is mentioned in the logs on a ~5 month period
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher' << keyboards tho.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> my biggest hesitation is the << your hesitation is correct. at this stage qntra wouldn't report on that shit even if *they* paid.
mircea_popescu: jurov: doubt even satoshi himself would pass << why do you think he pulled a runner.
mircea_popescu: this is how you deal with aspirational muppets, not by reporting on their idiocy.
mircea_popescu: THEN ruin them utterly, so that everyone involved still, to this day, can't get work like Strateman.
mircea_popescu: then, let them go into business, by for instance signing a contract to "save" Bitcoinica
mircea_popescu: simple strategic thinking : first, let them put some skin in the game, by for instance creating a "Bitcoin Consultancy"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: so qntra can report on the derpage? << reporting on the idiocy is doing it more service than it deserves in any perspective.
mircea_popescu: the difference between a goat and a goat herder is certainly not apparent to any passing lady of society.
mircea_popescu: only for as long as the concept that "people can have ideas" and "tim swhatever knows hopw normal debates work"
mircea_popescu: in a world made out of equal idiots who don't have gpg sigs, THAT is the only possible human activity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and something like this is quite inevitable when a product degenerates to that level of necessary attention span << has nothing to do with the product, everything to do with the society.
mircea_popescu: people born in the 70s can scarcely cluck at the ipad screen without some sort of "CONGRATULATIONS!!1"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: the indie developers killed it << no, they didn't. what killed it was the complete inability of the new generation to do any sort of useful work WHATSOEVER
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: like the barbarians who carved up roman mosaics for sword hilt 'bling' << once upon a time, thinking this is particularly romanian, wrote a romanian article about it
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <mircea_popescu> i carried it. << btcauditor when << i guess once Pierre_Rochard gets bored of new york ?
mircea_popescu: "make bitcoin accessible to everyone by saying it's really a bottle of tide, and letting procter and gamble manufacture it"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> thestringpuller: also remember that the 'magic' of gavincoin was that it will work on existing hw, so long as 'everybody agrees' to throw away blockchain history and surrender << this, especially.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the chick's clever enough to have done this deliberately.
mircea_popescu: i mostly quoted it for the sudden turn towards "breaking out of shells"
mircea_popescu: then and I'm curious how you would go about breaking me out of my shell?"
mircea_popescu: "I'm an 18 year old currently in my first semester of college at UNM (Studying medicine). All my life I've been a very good girl, pro-feminist all my life, I was in the girl scouts growing up, I got straight As, I don't drink or go out to parties. I found your tumblr the other week and at first I was offended, I don't see how any woman would subject herself to such treatment. I've visited your page multiple times since
mircea_popescu: fuck, ten billion boxes are pretty much permanent thralls to the first taker on the grounds that there's more holes than fixes.
mircea_popescu: the point is not saving some vague and uninteresting group.
mircea_popescu: well no, the idea is, most of the state effort consists of effort that really helps the republic.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, so far they're really cutting out our rouad for us.
mircea_popescu: for now we can still run old boards. but that won't last forever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bullshit bios problem is actually quite serious
mircea_popescu: yeah. as fiat becomes worth less and less in actual money, that problem will slowly melt.
mircea_popescu: why exactly is the state and its corporations allowed any protection ? worst thing to aid and abet.
mircea_popescu: it's about plainest morals : please consider if your duty to yourself, as a free man worth two shits doesn't require you to publish all the shit you know.
mircea_popescu: except it's not about the fucktard museum that's the nsa, nor about the long dead us generally.
mircea_popescu: to quote rms, "To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example."
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will be fine. there will be carnage in its wake, but that in itself is a positive outcome.
mircea_popescu: gavincoin will, because gavincoin is fundamentally predicated on the broken proposition of adjusting to the world.
mircea_popescu: if you don't hurt the things you don't like, you're not really a man.
mircea_popescu: hegemoOn if you feel like writing out the details, qntra is looking for more "fiat sucks" failure stories.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i actually have a post scheduled (for like 6 months now) for day after tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: they pose no threat, because their capital can always be confiscated.
mircea_popescu: just like whores are only allowed to work "on their own" in those situations where there's not enough food to go around.
mircea_popescu: hegemoOn but you understand there's something fundamental about the occupation that makes them servants to the club, right ?
mircea_popescu: similarly, it'd simplify accounting if the theatre just closed down. but then...