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ninjashogun: and Google: "Exchange Act Section (3)(a)(10)" and read the first sentence (of the pdf)
ninjashogun: Google: "Securities Act Section 2(a)(1)" and read the first sentence
ninjashogun: Google Securities Act Section 2(a)(1) and read the first sentence
mircea_popescu: on one hand they're scum anyway, so not likely they'll suddenly discover a backbone, and on the other hand even if they were to try you already have enough on them to put them away for a long, long time.
mircea_popescu: and then ran off and made a real estate development which floundered
mircea_popescu: the guy who stole a bunch of customer funds
asciilifeform: in other news: in california it is illegal to teach - anything - without a permit:
asciilifeform: many years ago, a 'seedy' and much-beloved bar in my town was torched at night, by unknown saboteurs. the local rag proclaimed that 'this is an opportunity! the land will be put to good use by respectable developers!'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: On the planet where the rectothermal is repackaged as a fashionable relaxation on par with massage and enemas here.
asciilifeform: '“I think this is going to create a huge opportunity for hosted wallets,” says Jered Kenna, a bitcoin entrepreneur and the CEO of Moneyandtech.com. He believes that the smart bitcoin wallet makers will simply be able to add this as a service, tracking the capital gains and losses as you spend your bitcoins through the year, and maybe even issuing you a convenient 1099 at the end of the year.'
ozbot: New IRS Bitcoin Rules Pose a Problem Only an Army of Startups Can Solve | Wired Enterprise | Wired.c
dexX7: ty, i guess it's only a matter of the right question ;)
asciilifeform: moving bits in a wheelbarrow, for all eternity
asciilifeform: if hieronymous bosch were alive today, painting pictures of the torments of the damned in hell, perhaps he'd feature a human disk controller
asciilifeform pictures some wretch, perhaps in india, employed as a human gribble.
asciilifeform: not every day you see a golden toilet in a catalogue.
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diametric: mircea_popescu: though, I guess they ultimately did me a favor. It broke my addiction to MMOs and gaming in general, though I do play casually from time to time.
diametric: I have since decided maintaining a linked in profile is a bad idea.
bounce: only $400M and a sack of fool's gold
diametric: B007: it is a sad day.
bounce: I don't suppose there'd be a way to get a ban for selling wow gold overturned on the grounds that blizzard isn't paying taxes over it
benkay: mircea_popescu regarding weight loss: what, everything sags a little?
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i tell you or i kill you" and then proceeds to stick to his word.
asciilifeform: once you determine what part of a kitchen is a cockroach and which parts aren't, the next step is clear
mircea_popescu: (even should it come at a cost of a few genuine heads impaled)
bounce: this the bloody-handed dead guy or some metaphor I'm missing a reference to?
bounce: 'sdies, even without need you can, iff you have some vision or other to back it up. that's apparently a rare thing, seeing how there's only only jobs and a fsckton of imitators and NIH-botching immitators
mircea_popescu: as in, well, this application will require a start-over anyway
mircea_popescu: sometimes one gets a chance to start over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or simply find a different application
asciilifeform: bounce: it has a name. 'orthogonal persistence'
bounce: in such an environment it's perhaps easier to see a different abstraction than the "files in directories on drives" we more or less take for granted
bounce recalls reading someone lamenting the world didn't go the wossname "persistent" route -- run a program, it'd auto-save to disk. next time you start it, auto-picks up where you left it. but on full OS level.
gribble: Good cop/bad cop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop/bad_cop>; Good cop bad cop (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop_bad_cop_(disambiguation)>; Beyond Good Cop/Bad Cop: A Look At Real-Life Interrogations : NPR: <http://www.npr.org/2013/12/05/248968150/beyond-good-cop-bad-cop-a-look-at- (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: what's a free market other than an endless caleidoscope of a mexican standoff
bounce: er. should kids on tablets be able to interact with the hard drive? it's a bit like asking if drivers should be able to interact with their motor. plenty people prefer stick. esp. in the us plenty people *cannot drive* without automatic
mircea_popescu: that'd otherwise have taken a flamethrower at redmond
mircea_popescu: in soviet russia this also has a name. vrag naroda etc.
asciilifeform: in america this tactic has a name:
asciilifeform: msdos was in some very real sense 'soviet' - as in, all the known joys, but a kid can build explosive xxxx at his parents' dacha without being harassed
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i don't know there's something in the world i ever hated more than a mac, and in this sense a ms-dos pc seems a muchly preferable alternative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is sucvh a thing as idiocy through absence.
mike_c: microsoft didn't shove a cattle prod up anyone's ass.
asciilifeform: the notion that ms turdware is a product of any kind of free market or competition on technical merit is a real comedy.
BingoBoingo: Does S.NSA have a LISP fighter jet in its long term plans?
asciilifeform: mike_c: the microshit style of 'doing business' goes a long way to explaining the popularity of communism, etc. among technical types.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a brave man and a fearless man don't map well.
mike_c: say what you will about "microshit", but bill gates was/is a hell of a businessman.
asciilifeform: on the flip side of this, 'coward dies a thousand deaths, brave man - one'
ozbot: Re: A draft business plan for free software LISP vendors - Naggum cll archive
ozbot: IRS: Bitcoin is property, like a stock or bond, and not a currency | Ars Technica
B007: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/irs-bitcoin-is-property-like-a-stock-or-bond-and-not-a-currency/
mike_c: lampelina runs b-a.com now. hopefully she will remove the password requirement soon ;)
ozbot: Kraken, a Bitcoin exchange, raises $5M | VentureBeat | Deals | by J. O'Dell
bitcoinpete: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/25/kraken-a-bitcoin-exchange-raises-5m/
mircea_popescu: should have a bet as to wehen the first bitcoin corp makes the top
mircea_popescu: google is tenuously a private sector corp.
bounce: greece is a shambles, but so far hasn't been too good for the eu economy as a whole. how would turkey have been different?
asciilifeform: perhaps we can win a tcpipy. or something.
bounce: anyway, apropos churchill re americans, the eurocrats have a good track record of starting the same but finishing in the same way hasn't been in strong evidence
asciilifeform: [context: pres. carter dreams a bad dream] - 'plenum of central committee. ussr gensec reads report: great successes by the bread farmers of Kuban, Stavropol, Smolensk, Texas, Colorado provinces...'
ThickAsThieves: makes sense to me, you go into a country and have your military running the place for a decade, why not just stake claim?
mircea_popescu: bounce cca a century.
asciilifeform: reich is not a chess clock.
bounce: or ten minutes a day, every day. just need staying power.
mircea_popescu: always a man of his words.
asciilifeform: ght run as follows: Today we've got a friendship evening with shit-eaters', or Today we're having some shit-eaters to dinner. Prepare a suitable menu'.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: Officially, all Soviet representatives regard these parasites with touching feelings of friendship, but privately they call them 'shit-eaters' ('govnoed'). It is difficult to say where this expression originated, but it is truly the only name they deserve. The use of this word has become so firmly entrenched in Soviet embassies that it is impossible to imagine any other name for these people. A conversation mi ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: brings to mind a spirited debate
mircea_popescu: rror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
mircea_popescu: And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with te
asciilifeform: so a few neon signs get swapped for new ones
ThickAsThieves: "Google's new cloud storage prices are as low as $0.026 per gigabyte as a flat rate, far below Amazon's lowest offering of $0.037 per gigabyte, which kicks in if you're holding terabytes of data in the AWS cloud."
mircea_popescu: just a bunch of sterile 37 yo women running around in circles, wailing.
mircea_popescu: specifically : people who are already defeated take into consideration nonsense such as "oh but the feds have a 9x% conviction rate" as a ready-made excuse to settle.
ThickAsThieves: it's also an absurd degree of taxation: say i buy a Walmart Gift Card with btc, i should pay sales tax, gains tax, then the seller reports profit and is taxed, revenue used to pay employees is taxed. then you tack on the accounting burden on both sides, plus the seller's burden as tax collector
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asciilifeform: my guess is that no serious effort will be made to actually collect the tax. rather, it will be used as a scourge against folks who need to be 'lettre de cachet'-d.
bounce: IMO bit of a failing of government to stick to asking whether they can get away with taxing, and not asking whether they should
ThickAsThieves: the IRS makes no effort to define a virtual currency either
mike_c: it's a zero-asset company :)
mircea_popescu: stock is a portion of the business, so i get a brick out of the building that is represented by the stock
ThickAsThieves: Dota 2 gets intricate too, the more i play the more items i get, they provide a market for selling items for USD credit
diametric: More interesting is EVE, where earned ISK in game can be realized into a membership
jurov: don't give anybody a reason to use silver bullets then
diametric: I've done a lot of things with WoW over the years before I quit about 3 years ago
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you could claim that for a long time, actually.
Apocalyptic: ThickAsThieves, you're a WoW player ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but not if someone hands you a dream.
mircea_popescu: in neither case a representation is made as to transfer of title, which makes blizzard's ip assertions irrelevant.
asciilifeform: (afaik it is technically illegal to be a subsistence farmer in the u.s.)
mircea_popescu: and actually... wow gold to usd exchanges are older and a lot more stable than btc to usd exchanges.
gribble: Error: 'wow' is not a valid positive floating point number.
bitcoinpete: It has too many footnotes, too many airquotes, and is a bit long (and therefore error-prone).
BingoBoingo: The younger one has had a Beiber like fanbase for some time since his arrest.
asciilifeform: jurov: i have this crap set to 'interrupt', not 'poll', so i might be a little behind.
asciilifeform: waiting for timoshenko et al to proclaim that yesterday's 'leaked nixon tape' of her asking fellow ua fucktards 'can't we find a nuke with which to cleanse the russian scum' - in perfect russian - is fake
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ThickAsThieves amusingly, there was recently a very similar case re milk.