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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somehow a bad thing ? << we'll see when it revvs up
nubbins`: btcleak nobody gives a fuck about your news :(
mircea_popescu: so this is somehow a bad thing ?
btcleak: I have a confirmed news that is happening in a 2 weeks time frame
BingoBoingo: btcleak: I may or may not have 300 kbtc. If you offer news that gets a response from me other than nigga, maybe you get 20BTC
mircea_popescu: still... it's just a terminal
asciilifeform: a not entirely-implausible scenario, though.
mircea_popescu: romania has a grain terminal in constanta large enough to ship the ukraine whole
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't it a little nutty to extrapolate based on that ?
ozbot: Ukraine: Council of Ministers of Crimea and Chinese companies agreed to jointly construct a grain te
mircea_popescu: this kunstler.com thing reads like alex jones in a different cape.
btcleak: I need to make a deal regarding my info
btcleak: bitcoin is a shit technology
BingoBoingo: btcleak: I am dealing with a real existential crisis where Immaginary me is bigger than actual me.
btcleak: and a shitty writer BingoBoingo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as an agricultural equivalent of 'strip mining'
btcleak: Sartre is a faggot BingoBoingo
asciilifeform: west u. is a kind of mournful shithole similar to certain u.s. 'red states'
asciilifeform: given that, after a russian victory, the process (if actual) will likely re-start
asciilifeform: if true, it's a bit of a 'pox on both houses'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seeing how i never heard a peep of this until AFTER the troubles, i'd say it's propaganda
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i used to know a lot of freaks, some of whom were into sounding (not sound docking)
BingoBoingo: btcleak: THis chan largely gave up on Gox 9 months ago. Unless Gox had a baby we don't much care; unless paternity test.
btcleak: Mine isn't a rumor
asciilifeform: currently trying to confirm or refuse a certain interesting rumour ☟︎
nubbins`: Multivac: i read a story about you today
mircea_popescu: afghanistan, as pumped by the us is a failed state.
mircea_popescu: solmalia is a failed state.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno. last i visited i had a ton of fun.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how the fuck is the ukraine a failed state << exactly same way as the u.s.
mircea_popescu: dude how the fuck is the ukraine a failed state
mircea_popescu: " So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border — a state that our own government spooks provoked into failure?"
mircea_popescu: what the web really needs is a .derp
nubbins`: not that it's a country
cokea: Frozenway is a known VPN mircea_popescu
cokea: I'm a better troll than that
mircea_popescu: cokea btw, here's a pro tip : using random seven proxies is not enough
mircea_popescu: if i fucking have a heart attack "suddenly" you're all screwed.
asciilifeform: (or 'million deaths is a statistic, one death a tragedy')
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, you start an IRL Breaking Bad spinoff, call it "The Real Empire Business" All of a sudden you have a nation of 2 billion central kentucky hillbillies
asciilifeform: or a traitor, sure of protection from his foreign master
asciilifeform: now a brit, french, or one of us - might agree! but who expects the chinese crown to agree.
Mats_cd03: a younger, more handsome negro will surely replace him one day
asciilifeform: 'orc culture 101.' in the lands of the orcs, when 'human' shows up and says 'we can have government without corruption!' what people hear is 'if we'd let the jerries win, we could be in a mercedes benz. but it isn't too late! and if we end up as the seats, that's our place'
ozbot: Ukraine: Call me a crazy optimist, but I think that in the long run, Putin and his kleptocratic pals
Mats_cd03: http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/03/ukraine_call_me_a_crazy_optimist_but_i_think_that_in_the_long_run_putin_and_his_kle
Mats_cd03: im a big fan of tom ricks' view of how the ukraine will turn out
BingoBoingo: Fuck I need a time machine
asciilifeform: 'Patton, like Douglas MacArthur, was an unfortunate mixture of personal courage, technical brilliance and toxic personality, and like MacArthur, a role model to three generations of mediocrities who equate pomp and nitpicking with excellence.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: smash Patton with a jeep << https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/ConspirThx.htm
BingoBoingo: Detroit would be thriving if that false flag agent did not smash Patton with a jeep
mircea_popescu: latvia is a very small unfortunate plot of land tho
mircea_popescu: is this a measure ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what'd you consider a fair measure ?
BingoBoingo: Well, it is important to remember that a lot of what made Reagan Reaganesque was his Buffet like dementia
asciilifeform: orlov's view seems to be that usg/nato/allies wreck countries (near east, etc.) to retard development -> to throttle resource consumption, create captive markets a la the brits at their peak, churn mil. inventory, 'controllable chaos' to feed various parasites.
mircea_popescu: he's a pretty decent hardass.
nubbins`: wouldn't be able to take the guy seriously if he wasn't such a fucking hardass
mircea_popescu: so i tend to give them a hard time
mircea_popescu: for a lead vocal of a postpunk band
mircea_popescu: server froze is actrually not a bad name
nubbins`: "In one case, Kelly suspects the person used in the scheme had poor English skills and, through miscommunication, wrote down what he believed was the fake name he was supposed to use, which was apparently flashing across his computer screen. This fake identity went on to have an effective credit rating, a driver’s licence, bank accounts, a telephone and an apartment (with renter’s insurance). And
BingoBoingo: Oh, In simple western terms mircea_popescu takes a 180 from IRC mircea
ozbot: How 'synthetic' identity fraud costs Canada $1B a year - Canada - CBC News
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/how-synthetic-identity-fraud-costs-canada-1b-a-year-1.2554429
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: under merkel << time for a 'joke'
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Building a habit takes work
ThickAsThieves: only when i worked at a newspaper
mircea_popescu: maybe if they make the war 4 hours a day and everyone the same height.
mircea_popescu: people all derping around about war. if a general mobilization order issued by the ukraine is ignored so, who the fuck is going to go to war ? france ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i couldn't name a tea,
BingoBoingo: As I write the noob sports betting article, I'd like to open a quick survey. What team would people pick to take the World Series this year?
BingoBoingo: And Cubs fans drink this swill called "Old Style" which isn't strong enough to be a malt liquor or palatable enough to be a beer.
mircea_popescu: "The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed."
mircea_popescu: dude imagine, a chick being emperor of bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: thousands a night ?
BingoBoingo: hundreds a night if she's fat and black, thousands if the ain's fat and lighter. White C cup would prolly work in Caseyville where the money is better
mircea_popescu: what's a working girl make there ?
mircea_popescu: The Monsanto plant in Sauget was also home to a serious accident in January 1992 when worker Charles Pritchett was critically hurt. Pritchett was caught in an auger used for moving small materials and shredding rubber. He was stuck in the auger for five hours while officials attempted to extract him. Pritchett was in a coma for three months and pronounced dead twice. Pritchett's leg was eventually amputated due to infe
BingoBoingo: Well they haven't had a mayor not named Sauget in nearly a century
mircea_popescu: Sauget was incorporated as "Monsanto" in 1926. It was formed to provide a liberal regulatory environment and low taxes for the Monsanto chemical plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first Village President
BingoBoingo: Seriously the formula should be buy a frontier league team, hire some MLB players
mircea_popescu: http://www.frontierleague.com/league/transactions/ < o look, they have a bitcoin exchange
asciilifeform: multiple generations of derps killed their predecessors, ending with a final crop of mostly-functional beings
mircea_popescu: he looks like such a total derp, too
mircea_popescu: imo it's a weak argument.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo some argument can be brought that a relative lack of readily available iron made them kind-of stone-age-bound 4ever.
mircea_popescu: cazalla all that hopeful and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well it counts as personal survival, but not cultural survival. It's a mindset. A flawed one. But it is the one dominant on this continent in spite of wrongness.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin yeah it was a signed message in like... 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but a dodo is not a chump.
gribble: Error: "nigger" is not a valid command.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only as 'part of a balanced diet!' with a working 'Friend Or Foe' detector.
asciilifeform: i mean, it is a deep mystery to me why it should ever remain in doubt whether 'X endorses Y'
BingoBoingo: With basketball pointshaving is a thing.
BingoBoingo: With Handegg, generally there is a better team and that team wins.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The nature of how baseball works lends a lot of games to beign interesting sweats. Less so with hockey, still far less with Handegg, and almost never does an interesting sweat come from basketball.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is a quite legitimate business endeavour. mpex is designed so that people can make their own brokerages and serve demographics on top of it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It can be. While winning a bet is the best outcome, the best expectable outcome is betting on a game that provides a decent "sweat"