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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gitta satm you got the formalisaiton quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: ;;google what the wot is how it works and how to use it
mircea_popescu: so no, the usg didn't black nationality anything. it just put a bunch of thugs away, and much fewer than it either could or should have.
mircea_popescu: (and notice that the scientologists raped the fuck out of the usg, in the 70s. back when it was still a thing)
mircea_popescu: even the scientologists got more meat on the bones than that.
mircea_popescu: that's not the point tho. the point is that it wasn't anything but a cheap sales pitch, without any substance.
mircea_popescu: ok. so there's "black nationalism". "that's what they do, turning brother against brother"
mircea_popescu: or at least, it's a fine summary of what i tihnk of it.
mircea_popescu: there's a fine example of your "black nationalism" in there, as deployed by sam l jackson's character
mircea_popescu: there's two points here. the easy to dispatch one is the naive narcissism. i can see why you'd imagine the usg is important or powerful. this is neither true or particularly likely, from a neutral pov. but moving on,
mircea_popescu: undata: a smart cult with an anti-govt streak would try to remain unnoticed <<< which fails to explain why the us govt is not taking better care of staying out of our way.
mircea_popescu: "Between 2001 and 2007, law enforcement agencies seized and kept over 35,000 cars, homes and electronics, forfeiting more than $280 million."
mircea_popescu: Even more property was forfeited by participating in a federal program known as “equitable sharing.” By partnering with a federal agency, local and state law enforcement can keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds from a forfeited property. Incredibly, police can collaborate even if doing so would circumvent their own states’ protections for property owners.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is interesting that 'crazies' who go postal insist on just spraying down innocents rather than waging 'guerrilla' war << who in the us is innocent ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: kakobrekla: what, and when a guest visits my home and goes to wired.com, a plain html page with all my private keys pops up on the screen? << no, they have to enter combinations of keys first.
mircea_popescu: i've not seen those cached links for agws. they still exist ?
mircea_popescu: trilema.com/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket
mircea_popescu: Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket - Trilema
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you mean google cache disabled ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: chumps << witness the number of 'what did he do wrong111?!!?' imbeciles in the anonabox reddit thread. << quite. "need reasons"
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> and just as i am about to publish a story << yeah well that'sdhelped along by the fact that you're always about to publish one lol
mircea_popescu: not only it doesn't do anything, but it also... doesn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: i dun think stalin gets to pick the form of his own fucking letters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then they wanna bitch at bitcoin, these people.
mircea_popescu: one day i'm gonna accidentally elide that quote and ask someone whore you?
mircea_popescu: course this is illegal, except if you're a "revolutionary" ycombinator sort of scam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform decimation not even, simple penny stock scam. you make "company", ask for 1.1 mn, i drop down 1mn, then withdraw it. you got the "social proof" and some money in the bank/
mircea_popescu: i can just go in there, plonk down 1mn for some project, then 25 days later cancel it ?
mircea_popescu: so then why the fuck do you ppl quote the numbers for.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd be surprised if he didn't ?! how wouldn't he 1?
mircea_popescu: Azelphur apparently the existing hardware is the only part that works as advertised
mircea_popescu: Fact is they ran away with $25k from me, if it was reinvested or not doesn't matter really as they promised to make it from trading..."
mircea_popescu: "Ok i can't say how much i invested in total, i had shares worth $25k but i reinvested from daily earnings, wasn't so much i signed up in September...
mircea_popescu: They also have glowing reviews from all over the world posted on their site after only a month of operation. It feels like trying too hard. That said, I did take a chance and invest some coins. I contacted them about my concerns (after I invested a few coins) and they were responsive and discussed things with me. Their backend is pretty sophisticated and you can withdraw your earnings at any time without fees. If it
mircea_popescu: "Hi, I have been using the site since mid December. You do have to be careful where you put your coins. The site has some . . . well, issues. A .biz suffix for one, but also they work out of the UK (trading stops on UK holidays) but are incorporated in Panama with no locational address or phyiscal contact method.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller from that link : "I found this site few days ago and bought mining shares, and have been getting 1.42% return every day. I'm using the returns to buy a smaller amount of trading shares.
https://bitcoin-trader.biz/opportunities.php Full disclosure: I am not related to this site in any way, shape or form."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well at least he wasn't you know, part of the cult of b-a or anything.
mircea_popescu: "Dear Sir, I have 100% of your money, please send me a quarter of this amount and then I will send the rest back to you, because logic."