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mircea_popescu: i tihnk it was 4. "land of the lounge lizards" or something like that.
mircea_popescu: but i didn't realise at the time it's what it was, i thought it genuinely actually used it to keep you out if underage
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i had the one with the "ken sent me" password.
mircea_popescu: i remember hearing about such a thing in the mid 90s, and being both incredulous
mircea_popescu: if two of you do that's not a loss, that's a gain. go for it.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform here's a decent putin joke : "All Vovocika jokes are political jokes."
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly : ever heard of a 37 year old general ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, the places everyone tries to sell tourists on. as the only people clueless enough to not realise that... wait a minute!
mircea_popescu: porn is a marginal business everywhere, and so... they'd be better off filming in ohio.
mircea_popescu: the only thing a foreign porn company "rending in puerto madero" does is send the local whores (perfectly happy to swallow for 200 pesos, otherwise) the message that they should overcharge. which they will.
mircea_popescu: which makes them completely uninteresting to actual renters.
mircea_popescu: which makes the people involved more interested in supporting an image than providing a service
mircea_popescu: which makes most of the income arrive not from renters, but from the state
mircea_popescu: so instead of the judge selling them by courthouse auction, they keep having lifelines extended
mircea_popescu: they're not actually closed out, because argentina is still very far away from a working market economy. these people'd be humiliated by the market, they're politically and socialy connected, can't have that.
mircea_popescu: as a result, all those developers are today bankrupt, but...
mircea_popescu: ba failed to be seattle, and the costs of credit rose fantastically.
mircea_popescu: for the bystander : puerto madero is this overdeveloped zone that cost a lot of money, financed years ago on the theory that whatever, b-a is going to be seattle.
mircea_popescu: it's that people, by and large, prefer to just pass things along
mircea_popescu: it's not exactly that evil lizard WANTS people to not contribute.
mircea_popescu: clearly the pressure spot for good behaviour is on the ankle.
mircea_popescu: so today i made the discovery that after sleeping in a half foot long ankle hobble, girl is much more respectful, obedient an' restrained generally.
mircea_popescu: (the "AKA Satoshi Nakamoto, founder of the Bitcoin" part is lulziest. have you founded the bitcoin, sir ?)
mircea_popescu: mike_c: BingoBoingo: I'll write that up once the snsa statement hits the wire. <<< it's skipping this period.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : today in b-a, "best jabs are the completely impredictable, entirely baseless shit nobody expects".
mircea_popescu: (yeah, trilema actually does get these types of searches. in romanian.)
mircea_popescu: ;;google population size of where ben_vulpes works/lives, how many time smaller than buenos aires it is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you're being hit on, by a bunch of bored chicks stuck in a beancounter job in rural america and the social skills of a box of liverjournals.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i suspek the guy's trying to be fringe & controversial rather than anything unsavory.
mircea_popescu: dunno what asciilifeform is doing but i guess he got sick ?
mircea_popescu: srsly, tepid cold ? lol who the fuck writes the bezzleweb!
mircea_popescu: rdymac prolly a good idea to have your pgp key added to the page anyway.
mircea_popescu: which'd be, "it's good like holy water. it doesn't fix anything, it doesn't break anything"
mircea_popescu: romanian expression goes, "ii bun ca apa sfintita. nici tocmeste, nici nu strica."
mircea_popescu: actually speaking of which. Anduck need a job ? exactly tailored for your intelligence level, skills and abilities, everything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can imagine the "responsible people" working 8 hours a day "typing in chat". they're like, on the street, in bars, imagining they may talk to women and so forth.
mircea_popescu: wow you're the guy that sent some blogger a copy of his greencard ?
mircea_popescu: rdymac: beside that, if I've never trade at #bitcoin-otc I'm not trustable... what a bullshit << heh.