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mircea_popescu: generally, once the founder dies you can assume usg got it. just liek in roman empire.
thestringpuller: Framedragger: in regards to http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521475 << I was trying to make a point in regards to Ver's idealism. Currently if 1993 AOL "mass adoption" occurs, the underbanked will inevitably be left out due to lacking infrastructure of the sovereign nature. Ver despite calling himself an anarchist is still willing to suck the USG dick, which helps no one. The fact he responded with "You found a new business opportun ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 19:48 asciilifeform: znort987: i'd say that getting out of coinbase, and similar insanity, or at the very least 'washing' their coinz, if they insist on using usgbase, is the responsibility of the affected users, not of bbet.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521589 << it's ridiculous anyway, you're not supposed to use usg.scam as a fucking wallet in any case. withdraw funds to own wallet first, problem solved. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: really, time usg got a brian armstrong v2.0, this one's stale.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-23 00:24 mircea_popescu: in this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from USG.
mats: danielpbarron: i don't follow this bit about taint only being a thing when used against usg
asciilifeform: znort987: i'd say that getting out of coinbase, and similar insanity, or at the very least 'washing' their coinz, if they insist on using usgbase, is the responsibility of the affected users, not of bbet. ☟︎
danielpbarron: mats, there's also the point that bitcoin taint is only a thing when it can be used against the USG and other enemies of the republic
mircea_popescu: (but yes, the fact that the dos did NOT put into obama's files the observation that the "labour" dispute in silicon valley was chinese driven test run is exactly the sort of thing that feeds my spite for the whole of usg as a "state". it's a state like a collection of mahjongg players is a state.)
asciilifeform: re fpga, largest buyer (not a mega-seekrit) is usg.
asciilifeform: the only kind i'm familiar with is when orc land 'opposition party' 'calls in observers' so that usg-favoured output can be hardcoded in.
mircea_popescu: the various things the woman wanted financed got defunded "for perpetuating the Duke family history of personal passions and conspicuous consumption". and well... this being in 2004 i imagine the money is by now well spent by the usg.
asciilifeform: ^ reminiscent of usg trials for faux dope.
asciilifeform: and i met folks cashing fat usg contract cheques who laughed at 'welfare niggerz' etc.
mircea_popescu: it's true foss died ; for which reason it carries little water here. but the frustration is a) the inability of foss to maintain strong immutability in front of organised crime, be it usg or otherwise ; b) the part where it can't actually move is valid, but not exactly for the reason he describes.
asciilifeform: at usgschwitz also we had all the moneyz you could want.
mircea_popescu: whose job is it of the usg's what jackdaniel gets paid and from whence it came ?
asciilifeform: when i was on a usg throne and had ~unlimited budget, i ordered ALL of the known commercial lisps (with exception of 'scineer') brought in.
asciilifeform: 'TBML' is a usgtronic term, 'trade-based money laundry'
asciilifeform: ( from massive usg lulproclamation, https://www.dea.gov/docs/2015%20NDTA%20Report.pdf )
mircea_popescu: shows what a vibrant space one'd have without the usg.mpaa idjits
trinque: https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/08/oracle-data-breach/ << usg.oracle haxed
mircea_popescu: the principle is fundamental to any such activity. the usg will obviously still owe on all its obligations, such as social security. it will however not have any right to perceive any income. and anyone involved is personally responsible - with their own fat, personally - of the exact execution of this.
asciilifeform: it was very much in character, somehow, with the mental image the 'patrioty', more backwoodsy usg types appear to have of themselves.
asciilifeform: incidentally asciilifeform just now woke up from interesting dream where he visited some handle-like usg figure's house that featured a handy platform for 'executing spies', complete with stone chair, manacles, barbecue pit, audience stands
mircea_popescu: hey, not my fault usg doesn't work in practice
mircea_popescu: actually, if you're part of the NOT!!1-corruption ring of the usg and have some hope of obtaining serviceable enforcement, it's not a terribru buy.
mircea_popescu: this is important. qualitatively it is exactly as much a state as any usg flavour. the discussion may be carried in quantitative terms,
mircea_popescu: (cigna, for the noobs, is the usg dept of "insurance" human records)
mircea_popescu: but yes, having the "fork" nonsense defeated, and the "we'll promote a shitcoin" defeated leaves the usg.lizzards ... one option.
thestringpuller: re: shinohai I don't think many bitcoin games exist other than eulora and dragon's tale. i don't see why more secondlife-like game companies don't get on board. since USG killed second life by regulating linden dollars.
mircea_popescu: today, pinoy get license to kill any druggies, tomorrow usians get license to kill any ex-"usg".
mircea_popescu: how many unknown hillary clintons will have to paint the sidewalk before usg admits defeat and goes to licking selected boots ?
mircea_popescu: they believe they'll get pensions, so why wouldn't they believe the usg will somehow, magically, protect them and their families.
asciilifeform: same 'design process' as made every usg outpost a horrendous mess of bollards and spikes
asciilifeform: i.e., an appointed 'burn man' for usg vulns
asciilifeform: ^ boxed in by usg from all sides! and pay 5k for the privilege
thestringpuller: So basically Steemit's fate is being turned into a straight up spam machine since it has no soultion in place for the eternal september except "premined votes from ned and dan" and btc bagholders who bought extremely early and can't yet exit. This is the doom I believe Bitcoin would have faced if Roger, Gavin, Hearia, or whatever incarnation of USG programmed hedonist-bot had hijacked the entire system and allowed spam to be cheap. Th
mircea_popescu: "there's no further need for a usg computing arm. here's the entire archive of everything. we're moving on."
asciilifeform: of course, there is no degree of idiocy that could be wholly ruled out where usg is involved..
asciilifeform: spoiler: in the massive turd, usg functionaries propose to rebrand ye olde key escrow as 'multisig' and mandate! 'k of n' !
mircea_popescu: there's a quanta of energy, a token of friendship and a tolkien of usg.aspie h&d.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 17:51 mircea_popescu: meanwhile the eth "rednecks" are "acting against their own interest". as per usg verbiage now current.
mircea_popescu: work for usg, in any manner, in any capacity ? YOU WILL GET FUCKED.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc 'coinbase' is presently ~the~ tame usg exchange in usa, and is unlikely to be simply 'let go away' until replacement is ready.
mircea_popescu: curious if the usg is going to actually gather in support of it or just let it go away./
asciilifeform: speaking of the shuttle cocks, when i was a young apprentice at a usg lab, mandatory safety lectures still reminded chemists to refrain from mouth-pipetting...
ben_vulpes: i) "sovereign wealth fund" issues bonds since the usg performed some kind of backflip and the phrase meant something other than "giant pile of cash sucked out of the earth"
ben_vulpes: anyways this malaysian thing is hilarious and interesting on several other axes as well: 1) the malaysian government is nowhere mentioned in the pr-wank 2) if one accepts the usg narrative, gs is an obvious stooge of *someone* in the play due to not doing dd adequate to determine that bond monies were going to an organization with inadequate controls to keep the money from draining immediately into the
ben_vulpes: usg does cryptocurrency, gets hosed, news at whenever
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511945 << usg sop, taiwan, korea, vietnam, ukrs, et al ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-31#1511933 << ie, usg stealing assets owned by malaysian govt ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 11:43 asciilifeform: the above is why i never dug into the 'pricing of energetics' thing in detail - i find he subj quite similar to, e.g., usg unemployment figures - i have no access to the seeeekrit evidence required to cut away the fiction from the reality
asciilifeform: the above is why i never dug into the 'pricing of energetics' thing in detail - i find he subj quite similar to, e.g., usg unemployment figures - i have no access to the seeeekrit evidence required to cut away the fiction from the reality ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 23:23 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-28#1511123 << not for a second. without usg, gas is ~25 cents at the pump. it FEEDS the usgolade, not eats from it.
mircea_popescu: again : the 2 dollars paid at pump for a gallon of gas are split : $0.25 covers the entire economic process involved ; $1.75 goes to usg to pay for random idiocy du jour
mircea_popescu: out of every gallon burned, car eats a quarter and usg seven.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:44 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: your petrol car easily eats 10k of usgolade every few yrs.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-28#1511123 << not for a second. without usg, gas is ~25 cents at the pump. it FEEDS the usgolade, not eats from it. ☝︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: was rockefeller usgtronic ? i seem to recall him having bought and paid for congress, not the other way around.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: point , earlier, was that cheap, ubiquitous petrol is every bit as usgtronic as the monsanto-midland-mcdonalds food supply system.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for as long as the usg provides for my externalizing onto its citizens, i will do so.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: your petrol car easily eats 10k of usgolade every few yrs. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: derpy's gotta swim towards the usg-lifepreserver somehow
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:04 asciilifeform admits that he suspects bip64 of being a plot to create usg-like bonds in btc. folks will be asked to trace X proper btc for X+epsilon 'locked' ones that are to land back in their pocket 'in the future', should they live long enough, but are actually recovable 'because this is how the world works'
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the eth "rednecks" are "acting against their own interest". as per usg verbiage now current. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so ? usg.mit spent close to 100mn to prop up eth for the past month ; now they're in the position where "the bad hacker" has a shitton of eth-c to give to "the people" to vote for him. they will, what's more, as per the usg system THEY ARE RIGHT TO. it is the "correct" modern-democracy socialist thing to do.
mircea_popescu: than having usg.macri in.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510186 << what i'd like to know is what became of that ~other~, quiet usg miner ☝︎
mircea_popescu: o btw, how's chandler guo doing ? shall we add yet another skull of an usg-astroturfed-miner to the collection ?
mircea_popescu: nah, it's a very strict "look at the upside only" nonsense, which is what passes for "critical thinking" in the usg concentration camp. and HAS TO, it's not that usg is evil, is that the stupidity of the muppets in a socialist state IS REQUIRED. they MUST only see the upside, else their entire nonsensical "State" stops working.
asciilifeform: halon dump was not dangerous , as such. but the co2 tanks that replaced it by usg fiat - WOULD kill.
asciilifeform: inert to man, like freon, and banned to all but usg
mircea_popescu: the usg.corp bakes in usg.credit much like tmsr.everything bakes in tmsr.wot and for the same exact, purely political, reasons.
asciilifeform: were it not for these folks, where would usg even get any bitcoin to dump.
mircea_popescu: usg, no different.
mircea_popescu: usg may not do good no matter what it does.
asciilifeform: from this pov, usg did a godly thing
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 21:24 asciilifeform: ftr i have 0 sympathy for folks who ~sell~ warez. i dun care if they are eaten by usg, or by crocodiles, or martians.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508266 <<< the incredible cheek of the usg scum. ☝︎
phf: guy was a one man torrent operation provided oldfags and lusers alike with quality prods, it seems entirely petty to focus on his ad revenue, and ties squarely into usg narrative of "he made millions!!!"
asciilifeform: ftr i have 0 sympathy for folks who ~sell~ warez. i dun care if they are eaten by usg, or by crocodiles, or martians. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: you're not suing the government, moron, you're suing usg.disney
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 03:12 pete_dushenski: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania)
pete_dushenski: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania) ☟︎
ben_vulpes: that's not nearly southern women as it is "women who live in suburbia in the south of usgistan"
asciilifeform: mats: usg 'employment' figures make 'climate science' look honest.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 00:34 asciilifeform: i will note that usg ~is~ sufficiently frightened of toy flying machines, that they were entirely banned in washington d.c.
asciilifeform: ^ the_scourge tried to get ~me~ interested in 'military resistance to usg'
asciilifeform: usg brass are quite well defended against the expected adversary: plebes with pea shooters, bricks, etc.
mats: i wonder if usg limos have v-hull
asciilifeform: i will note that usg ~is~ sufficiently frightened of toy flying machines, that they were entirely banned in washington d.c. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:12 asciilifeform: at any rate, don't expect usg to surrender in their war against general-purpose radio.
asciilifeform: no prizes what this suggests to folks building usg-seeking machinery.
asciilifeform: incidentally you can detect a convoy of usg brass from miles away by the loud jammers.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: it'll be interesting to see what lengths usg will go to stop trunkfull of c4 in... quadcopter. straps lazer cannons to top of bollard perhaps.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506517 << usg has been maniacally afraid of this kind of thing for decades, to the point that not only wh, but semi-abandoned army reserve shithole not far from where i live, is surrounded by 'bollard' barriers, spikes, etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: and not usgilema.
asciilifeform: at any rate, don't expect usg to surrender in their war against general-purpose radio. ☟︎