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ThickAsThieves: it's like
a collectible that also comes with free bitcoins
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: well, who the fuck is gonna buy
a coin for $10k?
nubbins`: jcpham: can't really prove
a negative like that
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if you can get them to do that then sure, it's
a constructive stgep forward.
ThickAsThieves: just put it in
a sleeve that says "DO NOT PEEL STICKER OR YOU DIE."
mircea_popescu: except it's unlikely "destruction" is defined as "having peeled
a sticker off"
nubbins`: i'd think that ANACS would have some sort of policy surrounding what happens when an employee destroys
a submitted coin
mircea_popescu: you can either have
a jury or not. if you do, it'll be made of idiots. if you don't, the state will just rape you.
jcpham: they couldn't have put
a more correct person on the stand to give an accurate portrayel of history and still lost due to patent bullshit
nubbins`:
a lawyer would be the obvious choice
nubbins`: i, nubbins, do indeed actually file
a lawsuit
mircea_popescu: don't ofcourse me. do you, nubbins, actuallty file
a lawsuit ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: would probably spend
a few minutes explaining to them what they're dealing with
nubbins`: if you've got $60k worth of coins, you can fucking well afford
a plane ticket
mircea_popescu: i think depending on the issue etc it may go as high as
a mil or two
nubbins`: at the rate things are going, i'm not gonna have
a mortgage soon
deadweasel: i may have met my future woman last night. gonna go paint
a farmhouse with her on friday.
deadweasel: nubbins`: you got
a helluva
a woman there.
nubbins`: P: "ah, you're too busy grabbing life by the balls and giving them
a squeeze?"
nubbins`: "not yet, having
a beer first"
topace: hey mircea_popescu, i requested
a withdrawal from mpex yesterday, any chance you could push that through for me ?
mircea_popescu: well that'd be
a problem, information asymmetry and all that.
nubbins`: you can't just throw civilians into
a set of judge's robes and expect them to act accordingly :P
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: some sort of sub-100 btc baby rota where judges don't get paid, or only get paid
a pittance, for example
Bugpowder: OH sweet! Retracted! I'm going to get retraction watch to do
a story on it.
deadweasel: I think it would make
a very profitable bet.
jcpham: actually maybe we can bring
a case against mpex
mircea_popescu: it documents
a failed experiment in citizen justicing.
jcpham: tomorrow the 29th is when i gpg signed
a key
mircea_popescu: deadweasel in fairness they've been doing it for
a while.
nubbins`: having
a hard time getting upset about it tho ;D
nubbins`: hm, should have had
a jazz cigarette ready to go
nubbins`: don't thank me yet, wait til i create
a forum thread where i fuss about my spelling being corrected
nubbins`: and -- no joke -- did
a freefall back to earth
gribble: MtGox lag is 92.228569 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.184825019633 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin ten times between Jupiter and Callisto (0.12567 AU).
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, they fucked up. need
a little signalling to comprehend they fucked up.
gribble: Error: "doxlag" is not
a valid command.
nubbins`: me and pascale went up in
a rocket
nubbins`: made me have
a dream about space last night
truffles: guess thats why i can rip through pineapples like
a boss
mircea_popescu: reds usually have
a lot of tanic acid. which is how you tan hides. who wants
a tanned gut.
nubbins`: attempted to shiss it into
a bucket
nubbins`: gave himself an enema of
a full bottle of red wine
nubbins`: there was
a "performance artist" did
a thing here some years ago
mircea_popescu: i don't recall anyone discovering that saying "cunt" sells porn better than any other word, so it never became
a big thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that i ever wanted to hear
a word in preference of another
mircea_popescu: nubbins` maybe too distant
a root. and it's not latin per se anyway, iirc it came from spanish/creole.
ThickAsThieves: there is
a pressure for black rappers to use the word nigger in their lyrics
truffles: u have
a logical stance on the word, implying that the hate will go away?
ThickAsThieves: nigger was
a word to equate their value with that of livestock
mircea_popescu: imo that's all
a confusion. they weren;t called niggers because they were slaves, they were called niggers because they were perceived stunted
mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell slavery is
a positive word today.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, "take it back". it'll never be
a word to denote cupcakes for instance
ThickAsThieves: the problem with trying to own "nigger" in the classic sense it creates
a paradigm, in which all black people are still pretty much tied to it
mircea_popescu:
a nigger is anyone that behaves like what the implication of the word suggests.
ThickAsThieves:
a better one might be to apply the term to
a broader meaning
mircea_popescu: i suppose micro aggression is what happens when some nigger is really pissed off and can't find
a better pretext to lash out/
mircea_popescu: The act of correcting
a black student was “micro-aggression,” according to the members of the student group “Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color,” which launched
a sit-in
mircea_popescu: Racial tensions are inflamed at the University of California at Los Angeles following several incidents — most notably, one where
a professor corrected the grammar, punctuation and capitalization in minority students’ assignments.
mircea_popescu: The speed of the mining difficulty increases seem to slow down
a little.
pankkake: some clients have
a spell checker
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "
A large miner named ArtForz" actually artforz may be the largest miner.
mircea_popescu: course mini mum would mean
a british ex-pregnant short woman.
mircea_popescu: aite, i can't find
a reference. i guess you probably answered q's about it at some point or w/e and ended up associated in my mind.