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mircea_popescu: STEP 3! SCROTUS picked up
the case, bush had solicitor general intercede, because wanting
to get more federal jurisdiction over state probate cases.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the nicole smith case is interesting because of how perfectly she played
the lizzards off each other. step 1: got one disowned brother
to ally with her agains
the other ; step 2 : declared bankruptcy, forcing california bankruptcy court into dispute with
texas probate court.
mircea_popescu: well, probate cases,
that's what
they are. a judge ends up with 55 people in a room all clamoring.
phf: yeah, 500k is a bit
too much..
mircea_popescu: i'd expect more for 500k/year
than
those
two schmucks.
phf: works out
to about 500k a year
mircea_popescu: in related lulz, while i was visiting mass at some point
there was a huge
todo because some woman had a child with a ~dead~ fortune owner. and
the family was
trying
to exclude her.
phf: that's after how many years
though?
mircea_popescu: phf 6mn
tho ? i mean...
that nicole whatever chick, she did it for free!
phf: i'd pay
those guys for simply making 60 year old's life a bit more interesting. i
think old man is just walking out on a
tab
mircea_popescu: but i note you're not actually confronting
the ridiculousness of your earlier conflation.
mircea_popescu: the "cleverness" of poor people is no different from
the "security" of windows.
mircea_popescu: ye scarecrow fighting don quijote
that
there's no other : poverty = stupidity. never was
the converse contemplated.
mircea_popescu: "really...
they did
that ?" "oh, and
then let's see, so
the situation is x, i guess next
they... burn
the house down. ayup...
they did."
mircea_popescu: it's consistently going
to deliver ; not as greatly as
the heights of fiction,
true, but rarely as poorly as its pits.
mircea_popescu: essentially, you get a barely literate,
tired man who dun wanna do it, coerced into summarizing
the lives of other derps.
mircea_popescu: you know, before
the whole "terrorists" bullshit started, i used
to enjoy reading police reports.
ben_vulpes: nor are
these "daily drivers", being nearly antiques already
ben_vulpes: mnno,
these are not for repair, but for migration
to as
the oldest give out
ben_vulpes: i
think i have one sitting in
the "library of machines
to cannibalize when
the future demands"
mircea_popescu: so basically costs more
to fix
than new laptop. such cost
to carry...
shinohai: well
that was wrong buffer certainly
mircea_popescu: threatens
to become very much a generation-defining movie in
the colonies, also.
mircea_popescu: "A generation-defining movie in Italy, I Knew Her Well is
that rare saga of
the never-was, immersed, like its heroine, in daydreams, numb
to its own heartbreak."
phf: mircea_popescu: link
to atkinson review?
mircea_popescu: out of
the 9, 1 is competent and
the other's a shannonizing pass.
mircea_popescu: michael atkinson gets it ; and he knows his shit. clayton dillard has absolutely no fucking idea what's going on. i
think he smokes
towels or something.
mircea_popescu: out of 9 "top critics" in syndication,
two pass
the blurb
test : village voice's atkinson and slant magazine's dillard.
this is
the fucking bar, "write one sentence
that doesn't mark you for idiocy", 2/9 specialists pass.
mircea_popescu: the fact
that for any possible
test other
than
timescale itself, she could already be una vecchia and nobody could
tell
the difference escapes notice.
mircea_popescu: and how commodously
they give
themselves
the
trophy,
too. ADRIANA'S vacuity, you see. hers, not
theirs.
they know
this. because...
mircea_popescu: James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk "Adriana's essential vacuity, central as it is
the film's point, doesn't give us enough
to hold onto, so by
the
time
the narrative is winding its way
to its climax, everything has blurred into one long rush of nothing."
mircea_popescu: it's fucking fascinating
to read anglo reviews of fine italian cinema. a more stark light
to display
the fundamental inadequacy of
that subculture in understanding anything worth
thinking about could scarcely be found.
mats: i put a few coins down for a bet, sure hope
the operator doesn't fly away
a111: 2014-06-22 <OneFixt> mine is not at all easy
to dump unfortunately
phf: ah, it's
that case sensitive search..
phf: that might be in
the even older logs
mircea_popescu: anyone was around / recalls
the discussions with
the naive "mtgox debt" buyers ? back in
the day ? pirate debt buyers ? back in
THAT day ?
mircea_popescu: ~same reason nobody sane is doing
the "buy ethereum" whatever.
ben_vulpes: is anyone doing
the "buy bitfinex coins at a ridoinculous discount"
thing yet?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller gotta love
the "of course i'm outraged". somehow
this made sense
to him.
mircea_popescu: phf gotta cut
the old folks some slack ; for
them getting slobber on ballsack is a lifechanging sort of event.
phf: "and
then we dropped acid and it was awesome. and
then we dropped acid again, and it was awesome again" kind of stories..
mircea_popescu: but yeah,
the spot
to be
today would be...
the guy
telling people what
to do at burning man or somesuch i guess.
ben_vulpes: heh yeah my dad has some great stories about following
the dead around
mircea_popescu: and i guess it was what, rock band roadie in
the 80s ? cocksucker blues et all ?
ben_vulpes: bit of a stretch
to say
that ideal man was moving pots in
the aughts
mircea_popescu: so if
the "ideal man" moved from porn in
the 90s
to pot in
the 00s
to what in 2010 ?
ben_vulpes: now,
the rollup and consolidation of pot retail operations on
the other hand, is going
to be a fun project.
phf: man,
that shotgun
to
the head is nasty. i wouldn't want confederate rabbit
to get replaced by it
mircea_popescu: by now "pot smuggling" is right up
there with hawking concert
tickets.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Recreational marijuana is available
to residents and non-residents of Colorado, however you must be 21 years old and older
to purchase or possess. Only licensed retail marijuana stores may sell retail marijuana.
mats: prepare for
teh smug
mats: iirc
the controversy in question was over a vidya of him
taking a bong rip
ben_vulpes: so all
the 'omg drugs' propaganda produced ~0 actual effect on
the mans professional career
mats: States... Among
the data provided
to me by
the FBI on
this list, "Caliconnect" was
the
third largest U.S.-based vendor on
the Silk Road in
terms of
total sales."
mats: also, "Other HSI investigators and I reviewed approximately 977
transactions involving "Caliconnect" on
the Silk Road and determined
that approximately 977
transactions involving "Caliconnect" on
the Silk Road and determined
that approximately 704 pounds of marijuana and approximately 10.5 grams of cocaine were sold
to customers located
throughout
the United
shinohai: shit BingoBoingo i fergot
to archive.is
the sauce
mats: "BURCHARD used a program called GPG4USB, which automatically used Burchard's Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) private key
to decrypt messages sent
to him from customers."
danielpbarron: wish I bought a silkroad
t-shirt on
the original silkroad. prolly
the one interesting
thing for sale on
the whole lot of
them
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lol.
the interwebs are full of
that
though, why bother with "Darknet"
danielpbarron: I once went
to
the
trouble of creating an account on either silkroad or one of
the
things
that came after in order
to buy
twatter followers for an ex-friend of mine (he
thought he was really good at social media, obsessed over follower/following ratio, yet only had 50 followers) -- he didn't ask for
this; I
thought it would be funny
to freak him out. Anyway, stupid vendor I contacted via GPG-gram replies in plaintext
that he can't
BingoBoingo: How many more reddit girlies can we make feel reflexive disgust at rabbits because
truth?
This needs
to be answered.