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asciilifeform: wasn't speaking of mircea_popescu's personal door, but of the doors to the 1,000,001 resources in the tall pyramid of things he eats.
mircea_popescu: and judging by the mussolini-cuccia exchange, it's not a unique experience either.
mircea_popescu: i won once, and can tell you, never bothered to.
mircea_popescu: winners that need doors guarded haven't won yet.
asciilifeform: 'winners' feel like guarding doors themselves ?
mircea_popescu: but the loser opting out is by far the best solution, for him and for the world.
mircea_popescu: obviously, thy misunderstand wtf is going on. white has nothing to do with it, history idem
asciilifeform: not 1 of these was white.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with a nobel prize.
mircea_popescu: hence all the http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500956 talk. ☝︎
asciilifeform: prolly it was the one interesting thing he could think of to do in his situation.
mircea_popescu: it's really the right thing to do, for them.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had one of the blue-uniform minimum wage folk blow his own brainz out during work hours, right at the gate
asciilifeform: 'you will guard this door' 'what's in there' 'you're not to know, or you'd steal it yerself'
mircea_popescu: "you will sit here a year and do what we tell you or else you get shot, bitch" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conscription ?! who the fuck do you know that got conscripted.
mircea_popescu: exactly like late "republic" army, they petitioned successfully to have the imposition of carring the heavy helmet removed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, the trick is that if you don't give the "legionnaire" enough amusement he won't wanna join.
mats: practicing small unit tactics i presume, asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: kids that'd be perfectly behaved otherwise will sucker punch the runt in uniform. for THAT reason
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the reason this "private security" minimum wage derp only exists in ustarded lands is quite simply that in sane societies it's essentially an invitation to violence.
asciilifeform: what do they do with their time, instead of guarding posts ?
asciilifeform: but army has, at any given time, certain contingent of grunts
asciilifeform: certainly they cost more than a civilian who gets $7/hr and no pensions etc.
mats: well yes, if you run the math they cost more than civilian slave
asciilifeform: they are ~already~ employed, no? why not put them at the door?
mats: grunts are too expensive for a lot of things
asciilifeform: phun phakt, when i worked at a u.s. army base, it was guarded ENTIRELY by these.
mircea_popescu: "i guess he wanted to be cool and tried as best he could" sorta fellows.
mircea_popescu: yeah they figure amply in the "ex bf employment" on slave personal history sheets.
mircea_popescu: eh that's for the birds.
asciilifeform: i saw 1,001 of these.
asciilifeform: what we ~do~ have is 'private security' schmucks who take the train (!) home from work with ~empty~ holster every night.
asciilifeform: sounds more like an orc thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dunno that we have this kind of 'policeman' quite yet.
mircea_popescu: i guess the drawback is you gotta paint your car like a circus act
mircea_popescu: worth maybe a cool mil or two wouldn't you say ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, as being a "police officer" is the one ustard nobility class they recognize, i wonder how many derps are "police officers" in name only. seems like a pretty decent deal, sign up with the pd dept, show up an hour a month or so, in exchange get weapon and shoot whoever. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 14:33 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500953 << a policeman lives in 'upscale' something or other?! and lemme guess, this was reported as 'police brutality' ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501053 << they'd better, considering that if someone broke through YOUR door and you came out shooting they'd want to try you for murder. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ridoinculous outright. but whatever, nobody cares what the maid thinks her history and contribution to the household is.
mircea_popescu: ah, that counts huh.
asciilifeform: and many other marvels, quite opaque to the uninitiated.
asciilifeform: there is an entire parallel universe these folks inhabit, where european played roughly the same role as the neck crab parasite in heinlein's story
mircea_popescu: desmond tutu was a fucking anglican bishop. what disgraceful ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the lulziest part of it all being that the "disgraceful" history consists of ... what exactly ? teaching the various fucktards how to not injure themselves eating ?
mircea_popescu: what's your idea of watch ? i don't think i sat through a whole tv show at any point in my lyf.
thestringpuller: you wouldn't watch a tv show on youtube?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm being webracist. i wouldn't go to listen to a band with a myspace page either.
thestringpuller: https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/advice/ << LOL it's a whole website thing
thestringpuller: people too lazy to set up on blogs.
mircea_popescu is kinda too disinterested to check out github anything.
thestringpuller: he didn't put the total loss though just the vulnerability type form the incident
thestringpuller: https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/ << mircea_popescu someone followed up on the drama timeline from 2012
mircea_popescu: "this is our life" myeah, i can see that.
mircea_popescu: ceasslessly neverendingly like the female chorus of yore.
mircea_popescu: "other activities you could involve yourself into, periphrastic to the actual nonsense in question, so as to give it the appearance of substance! buy scientific study mugs! do you fucking love science ? watch the podcast blablabla blaBLA BLA BLA"
mircea_popescu: "do you live next to any suspect people ? take the survey!"
mircea_popescu: of that typical "social media scientific study" flavour, "one guy shot his wife ; previously he had owned a chevy truck and he moved only to addresses with an odd street number; consequently all people who opwn a chevy truck and a history of odd street number inhabitation are suspect"
mircea_popescu: also forces you to keep addresses and whatnot current so they can work their inept "big data" bullshit and randomly flag accounts because "risk factors"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, it's the misguided belief that hassling people constantly "weeds out" fake accounts. ie, you might get your hands on ONE power bill or w/e, but not a stream of them.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:25 mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile Tyler Gebhard (WOT:nonperson) invaded the home of a police officer in Lakeshire, an upscale suburb in south west St Louis County, Missouri." <<->> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-04-22#1106480
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500953 << a policeman lives in 'upscale' something or other?! and lemme guess, this was reported as 'police brutality' ? ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with a nobel prize.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500956 << tr0l0l0l ☝︎
thestringpuller: But honestly, capital controls are poor money laundering deterrents. I think all it does is creates higher demand for money laundering as a service.
thestringpuller: When I used to use coinbase it'd ask me like every month to re-verify or some-shit.
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain they lose that data often
asciilifeform: atomized folk with nobody to otc with ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck trades bitcoin on the fiat websites anyway.
asciilifeform: custodian wallet providers under the scope of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive. These entities will have to apply customer due diligence controls when exchanging virtual for real currencies, ending the anonymity associated with such exchanges'
asciilifeform: 'The Commission has today adopted a proposal to further reinforce EU rules on anti-money laundering to counter terrorist financing and increase transparency about who really owns companies and trusts.... Tackling terrorist financing risks linked to virtual currencies: to prevent misuse of virtual currencies for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes, the Commission proposes to bring virtual currency exchange platforms and
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i see his point, fwiw. it's very infantile "i am great!", so infantile it hasn't even reached the point of individuadion where 2yo goes "and you're not me"
thestringpuller: cause that stuff interests me a ton
thestringpuller: i dunno i'm not a theology expert but i'll look more into it!
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, I thought of it like "I am the universe looking at itself from within itself"
thestringpuller: "worship of the universe"
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i though taoism was more about worshipping all that exist. like "the universe is great, and good."
danielpbarron: you mean the old testament? same God as new testament
mircea_popescu: the question is, the god of the torah.
danielpbarron: Christians are the true Jews ☟︎
danielpbarron: modern judaism is a false religion -- Jesus Christ is the God of the old testament
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron speaking of the jews, is that a false god also ?
mircea_popescu: and also, can we have the holy texts written in either classical latin or greek ? that way nobody'll understand them.
danielpbarron: yes I think in order to worship you need to have someone to worship
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well yes, but the q is whether "to worship" is necessarily transitive. is it like "i fuck", with an agent needed and implied if not given explicitly, or is it like "it rains", whereby there's no need for someone to be raining specifically, "it" does.
danielpbarron used to be a taoist
thestringpuller: which is their worship
thestringpuller: isn't that kinda what taoist do?
danielpbarron: that is a contradiction, at least according to the US legal definition -- a church is literally a "place of worship" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i wonder if you can have a church that worships no god at all. ☟︎
danielpbarron: it may be -- I don't necessarily have a problem with cults so long as they aren't worshipping a false god
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a cult.
danielpbarron: well this isn't a church
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron we do invite/allow various derps to preach their derp here all the time...
danielpbarron: it's not unlike inviting a muslim to the church to teach islam..
mircea_popescu: then again that's just me.
mircea_popescu: tho to be honest, my idea of a proper tmsr church would have a strip club / dungeon in the basement rather than a bunch of dudes talking.
mircea_popescu: but these are different concerns. i dunno how it runs, but i don't think there's customarily some guy in the church extolling aa is there ? ☟︎
danielpbarron: just like i wouldn't put on a church service preaching the saving grace of the logs, I won't put on a service about how AA saves