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mod6: maybe he's got a huge list of honey-do's
mod6: (15:40) < mircea_popescu> mod6 o, i thought new dad wasn't till april << ooh maybe you're right.
mod6: haha, funny enough they just got snow yesterday. doesn't usually happen in the valley. when I lived there we got 3" once. caused HAVOC in the am.
mod6: i might have to go to t-town to buy him a beer. he's probably doing the whole new-dad thing.
mod6: well theta really changes things near options expiration right?
mod6: That Judge was something else though, you're right.
mod6: I re-read the The Ceausescu article. I forgot that I already read it before, but it was a good review.
mod6: well, i think since we owe them, and basically we buy all their shit, is that not economic conquring?
mod6: i've read a lot of russian lit, and someday if things are ever better in this world, I'd like to visit.
mod6: Each half-liter bottle of vodka was exchanged for ten liters of gasoline, giving vodka far greater effective energy density than rocket fuel.
mod6: jurov: thanks for that link
mod6: ok i gotta get some thing to eat.
mod6: hhaha, even if you are and your portfolio is worth 100bn, you won't be able to buy 6 eggs with that.
mod6: but when the music stops, I hope you're not long.
mod6: Bugpowder: enjoy it while it lasts dude.
mod6: all ponzi schemes do come to an end though...
mod6: Maybe I'm way off and this comedy will continue for 50 years...
mod6: yeah, they wanted me to move to mountain view this year. i was like "LOL yeah right..."
mod6: as soon as they cut off the SNAP cards.
mod6: lyspooner: i figure 3 years or less.
mod6: until it all comes to a screeching hault.
mod6: they're so hoplessly dependant upon easy credit and the system they'll fight to defend it.
mod6: and since this is like the matrix, anyone who has any wealth left defends the system.
mod6: people are waking up to all of this (four years later I'll add) but there is so much disinformation out there... think frog in pot
mod6: (11:29) < jurov> mod6, and the same will happen everywhere... intelligent people will see the system as unsustainable, they'll plan exit routes accordingly << some might.
mod6: now its like people aspire to work for big bro.
mod6: it used to be that you didn't want to work for government ever, unless you were already rich and "heard the call of duty"
mod6: hmm.. yeah there are a lot of people who work in goverment here, and its getting larger.
mod6: *spelling... damn i suck at spelling
mod6: yeah, for some reason i thought the crime related racket had a different speling.
mod6: i mean, it is a raquette<sp?> and a mob of sorts after all.
mod6: well, that happens sometimes. im not sure that we have a lot of lawyers who could successfully prosecute any of the banksters or government officials who've broken the law.
mod6: oh.. yeah. that doesn't seem like it should make sense. couldn't the people put a good enough case together?
mod6: yeah, it was def. a kangoroo deal, i do remember that. I think they typically are after the revolutionaries take over.
mod6: i don't remember the details.. i guess I was only 9.
mod6: merry christmas, you are free.
mod6: i remember it on tv. it was like, quick trial, then outback to the woodshed.
mod6: *nod* i remember that.
mod6: you did get the president and his wife thought right?
mod6: I would think that all politics are local, so it just depends on where you're at. But there will be two sides.
mod6: I guess I hope that people can come together and clean house entirely at all levels of government.
mod6: (11:15) < mircea_popescu> mod6 ya but against the machine ? i imagine it'll be more against each other. << not sure this can be avoided any more. people are wholly divided.
mod6: then the torches+pitch-forks come out.
mod6: yeah, no one really gives a shit about government until it gets in the way of feeding yourself and your family.
mod6: most people feel helpless against the in the face of big bro. so i think people are just waiting for it to implode on itself. which it will... but there will be twists and turns in the road.
mod6: thats the RATM part.
mod6: but then their anger will be directed outward.
mod6: at first they will blame themselfs for being too ingnorant or some such thing...
mod6: yeah but embarrassed isn't really a problem. it doesnt feel good either way to have your wealth stripped away by corporations and banksters.
mod6: jurov: i hope that people here will realize the fleecing that has happened here and hold the parties responsible.
mod6: people here are beginning to understand the depth of debt problems... they don't understand the fine points, but they know that it can't be good that the fedz owe $16tn
mod6: no, state media outlets wont publish any of these kind of things... quelling the masses.
mod6: but someday, it will become clear. (maybe when gas hits $20/gal) and a loaf of bread is $25
mod6: they don't realize quite what is happening too much disinformation
mod6: they know they're angry. im not sure they can put a finger on it yet...
mod6: people here are angry
mod6: people here wont put up with this for forever. eventually when food and gas prices get high enough... RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
mod6: yeah, it seems to me that just about NO ONE has any cash to spare. anyone who works a "regular" type job anyway...
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, this is probably true.
mod6: wow 269.69 received