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mircea_popescu: The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."
mircea_popescu: The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees fro
mircea_popescu: lol cameron and john major. and tony blair. "please don't break out heart"
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically, idiocy spreads through exactly this mechanism.
mircea_popescu: can confirm - made an awesome bet on betsofbitco.in well over a year before the conclusion (had previously been paid out by them) - when it came time to pay up, the site stopped closing bets and then eventually just shut down. I bet .1btc when btc was ~$70 and I would of won around .5btc when btc was ~$800"
mircea_popescu: you paid some guy 100 bux twice a week for 20 years, and he's not even sucking you off ?
mircea_popescu: xanthyos what the fuck are you doing with a 72yo psych
mircea_popescu: "And sending 1000 BTC and waiting 5 months for the result when sites like this closing every day without notice is beyond stupid."
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well yes but the medium is the derpage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one possibility yes. in fact, it's trivial to try and find a blockchain link to where the btc was before.
mircea_popescu: "I own BitBet, the site with the thousands of Bitcoins in bets. Ask me anything"
mircea_popescu: "Who is sending 1000 BTC to a site with no SSL? Any why would anyone trust this site anyways? People are stupid or it's fake."
mircea_popescu: "Looking at those payouts, no one should take those bets, either for or against. The payout ratio is really, really bad if I read it correctly." << makes sense.
mircea_popescu: for a guy that "doesn't understand how reality works", the situation in the field speaks well of putin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, from a purely geopolitical perspective... gutting the 51st us state is more than adequate escalation for the entire ukraine mess, much like the syria humiliation was more than adequate escalation for the ossetia mess.
mircea_popescu: not like the indians are about to leave their ancestral homeland because the colonists dun like it no more.
mircea_popescu: the people being kicked off are exactly the two bit farmers that it'd have had to rely on to expand its rule into this new fronteer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform engineering panics are however great. as far as the usg is concerned, they're cannibalistic
mircea_popescu: meanwhile china ate tibet but still is struggling with singapore.
mircea_popescu: most us states are too large, let alone the federal construct altogether.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no reason to have a country larger than hong kong.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, regardless of scotland. basque country, french canada, transylvania, there were a coupla hundred states at the start of the century
mircea_popescu: they proly gotta count it, come to terms with the fact the uk is gone, stuff.
mircea_popescu: guy's excellent dude, i'm wiping my tears over here, chicks are doubled over on the floor laughing, you ruined my fucking work
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lmao. "crazy shit stick on all sides of weapon!!!!"
mircea_popescu: fucking lamers these people. i read that, i think here's an aluminum sidings salesman trying to make it as an insurance salesman now
mircea_popescu: "I’m in financial services and one of the researchers I read suggests"
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones i guess you're not the next stalin then.
mircea_popescu: for another thing, it's the cheapest way to spread your carnal knowledge.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it's the cheapest way to raise an army.
mircea_popescu: anyway, living in a dirt poor province has its advantages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every land could every land were a duchy and russia'd consist of some land on the bug.
mircea_popescu: "Oh, you didn’t know? See, one of the differences between living in Buenos Aires and living in Salta, is that the life expectancy for males in Buenos Aires is 69,17, while in Salta its 66,17!!!! How Cool is that?! You get to kick the bucket while in your prime years, no one wants to be remembered like an old wrinkly man, rich or not. Why would you want to live in Buenos Aires and live a measly 4 years more of life?"
mircea_popescu: and also! it's generally gringos that are the scammers.
mircea_popescu: blind cavefish do not survive because they know not to upset cats
mircea_popescu: does that schmuck look threatening to you ? and yet, inexplicably, he's alive. how ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the children chained / throats cut business, same goes to you as discussed with los_pantalones re that robbery gopro video.
mircea_popescu: by this measure the us has been through all madmaxes in history.
mircea_popescu: argentina... meh. i should be able to see the signs. meanwhile, their biggest bombing was of a 3 story jewish centre 30 years ago.
mircea_popescu: i mean, nowhere near the smoothness one expects of the same operation in say maryland
mircea_popescu: i gotta say, the scammers here are just about this fucktarded.
mircea_popescu: st to pay 300.000 a pop for a place in his Estancia… in one of the poorest provinces of Argentina… in the middle of the desert, where not a blade of grass would survive without artificial irrigation. JA!! Amazing what you can achieve with research!
mircea_popescu: You’d think that being rich and loving a wine sipping, golf playing sophisticated lifestyle you’d be better off in Napa Valley or something, but no, the best thing for you is to go to the middle of nowhere Argentina and then go from there to a middle of nowhere province where land used to sell for a dollar a square mile, that is until good ol’ Doug bought it and his research now shows that its in your best intere
mircea_popescu: Isnt it wonderful how the “Casey Research Group “concludes that the best thing for you is to buy property from Doug Casey in crappy poor Argentina?. JAJAJAJAA!!!!
mircea_popescu says "get a tablet" then remembers proper tablet was never made because apple got to it first.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones: ThickAsThieves don't.jump. << STOP! it's hammertime!
mircea_popescu: so going in there and plowing a beating into the reddit crowd seems a decent use for a few bitcents.