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mircea_popescu: who are complete idiots and that country is the absolute asshole of the world, you're better off visiting the new delhi old dump.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, for the sake of fairness and balance : i dun recall ever having been hassled in any airport for any reason, except guatemala.
mircea_popescu: i was half expecting the customs say something, but they didn't.
mircea_popescu: also a pile of assorted laptops, batteries, various cards and processors
mircea_popescu: just the disks, too. interestingly enough, nobody cared.
mircea_popescu: last time i flew i carried something like 38 encrypted disks.
mircea_popescu: "o gosh jolly, wouldn't you rather take a blowjob instead ?"
mircea_popescu: i guess my mistake here is to imagine the problems of poor people are relevant / the problems of people.
mircea_popescu: decryption does not happen. take it to nsa or whoever the fuck, they're smart righ ?
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't decrypt jack if they sat on their head. what the fuck is this, the future or some shit /
mircea_popescu: the logistics of fiat paper make it useless for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: punkman: cazalla, better yet, kidnap rich guy's kid, make him buy bitcoin to pay ransom. price goes up for sure. <<< this is unavoidable. no ransom of the future will be anything but bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: punkman: if Satoshi appears and says hey guys I lost the key to 250k coins, how much would the price go up? << wouldn't have any appreciable short term effect.
mircea_popescu: no, if i go there's going to be a bunch of ninja vamps suddenly very rich.
mircea_popescu: i didn't think of sons tbh. i guess that's what inheritance means.
mircea_popescu: not like it's 2011 and we're just figuring this novel bitcoin thing out
mircea_popescu: cazalla why would people with large holdings not have inheritance set up ?
mircea_popescu: right, louder. i guess not being a total redneck retard helps internet scamming.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol gaw thing has its own forum ? what is this, like ognasty redone ?
mircea_popescu: ther most incredible thing about that fun guy's link is that volume is 0 "?
mircea_popescu: decimation: well, certainly one cannot be enemies with usg or usg's agents << everyone in bitcoin is and can.
mircea_popescu: outside of this, there's really nothing wrong with reusing other people's *working* material.
mircea_popescu: that it still constitutes a majority of the cultural festooning of the colonies to this day... well... nobody forces the mt obe stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air. <<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is a construction intended to work as a tool for a very peculiar purpose.
mircea_popescu: ahh this was a great walk in the past, thanks for asking fluff.
mircea_popescu: the part where this thing ended up traded with usagi and who knows what else in bitcointalks most outrageous example of retardation, doing all sorts of insane valuations that essentially resulting in his few investors being fleeced about 95% in the first year also omitted.
mircea_popescu: the part where he wanted everyone to give him bitcoin so he gets 1mn of them together to build some sort of weirdo powerplant-dc combo and then got insanely butthurt when people kinda laughed omitted.
mircea_popescu: In addition, McFarland is a BitcoinTalk forum moderator."
mircea_popescu: "22. Patrick McFarland (@Diablo-D3) McFarland is the creator of DiabloMiner, a Java GPU bitcoin miner that uses the OpenCL framework to quickly perform the hashing computations.
mircea_popescu: maybe if enough bazingas keep acting like it never happened then it really never happened.
mircea_popescu: and yes, he still hangs around -dev and so forth, just like gmaxwell and the rest of the walking dead. because who knows, maybe someone forgets or something.
mircea_popescu: "Strateman is a bitcoin developer, best known for co-founding Intersango and the Python bitcoin implementation." no, actually strateman is best know for being one of the scammers involved in the bitcoinica fraud, and before that for being theidiot that emailed the entire list the emails of the entire list,
mircea_popescu: these guys are 100 to 1000x as productive as a "normal american", so the stuff they write is not necessarily comprehensible to ordinary mortals.
mircea_popescu: how finley ended up "behind bitcoin" is anyone's guess, but hey.
mircea_popescu: people you never heard about pushed by writers you never heard about on venues you never heard about. it's all very web2.0 an' sophisticated.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the story is linked directly under the line you referenced.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the only good argument for why it's better to be an intellectual than a labourer. this unique priviledge.
mircea_popescu: it's like living in a magical world where all poisonous mushrooms are required by unyielding laws of thermodynamics to be bright orange and glow in the dark.
mircea_popescu: i am ever so grateful that stupidity always and everywhere advertises itself specifically.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem that one thing making all the dumbass "we're a ceo" "companies" look alike.
mircea_popescu: every "security" website's on bootstrap. why ? for the same reason they masturbate. "it's there"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: makes me think lizard are affiliated with cf. <<< you might also underestimate the retarded generation.
mircea_popescu: "The NSA's strength as they disclose here is not math or science advances that allow them to seemingly magically break strong encryption, but the size and scale of their operations along with their ability to recruit collaborators like Microsoft and subvert standards committees."
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why the woman was so appaled when she discovered shit-for-brains niggerdongs was actually spying on her fucking phone. it's roughly the insolence of a poodle biting a bulldog.
mircea_popescu: this game was played already. on the whole, merkel is actually much better than hillary rodham, and her spies work much better than the whole us, canada, uk and australia doolitle realm combined.
mircea_popescu: "And so, to make sure that their efforts to provoke a large-scale, hugely destructive, festering conflict between Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do well to set up an anti-Britain within Britain."
mircea_popescu: "They took a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country and spent billions (that's with a “b”) of dollars corrupting its politics to make the Ukrainians hate the Russians."
mircea_popescu: it only appears as a soup because their head's barely functional.
mircea_popescu: what is this thing where faux intellectuals look at the soup of symbols their destructured intellects float aimlessly through as a sort of primal matter to be cast into random shapes ?
mircea_popescu: "• When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using a combination of import preferences and British “soft power,” to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War."