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mircea_popescu: that reason is that the people with some self respect left don't wish to play the part of decorative mosquito.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason only washed up nobodies a la pierce and twinkletoss come derping around to be impaled on the fence pikes.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't impossible, it'd have been done already.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Either way - don't fool yourself if you think the SUPER RICH couldn't do what they wanted with Bitcoin. Not saying it would be an easy thing but it's not at all impossible. << i'm saying it would be impossible.
mircea_popescu: what btc revenue can you guarantee me today for a 1bn usd investment in s.rig ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fluffypony: no market implications if you sink the usd into mining vs. buying. << think again.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (nobody but me and perhaps half a dozen other weirdos give a flying fuck about usenet archive) << nonsense. history is history.
mircea_popescu: it'll be the lulz of all time if 20 years from now google survives as this grim, unwelcoming steward of usenet archive.
mircea_popescu: and that's raw frequency. if moderated by importance... 99% of what google does for me is grep trilema.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i call lo... from the url bar to go places 10x as often as i call google.
mircea_popescu: so really there's not all that much left google can do.
mircea_popescu: and the more action driven among those are on the various muppetwitters already
mircea_popescu: in any case, the people who end up places because google are generally speaking they too young or too stupid to have a populated mental space / bookmark list
mircea_popescu: if you dont, you know how to identify one, and google supplies a raw list, like a sort of research intern.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with google is that it's becoming rather irrelevant. think about your own data consumption process, how often do you include something you found on google ? and when exactly ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i treat teh backdoors as a right...
mircea_popescu: this differential does not yield surprising results in practice, and the standing of the us govt is weaker than the tsar's was.
mircea_popescu: if the tsar's government fails the test, its punishment is to no longer exist.
mircea_popescu: if lenin fails this test, his punishment is to... go to switzerland.
mircea_popescu: which lenin did not bother to get. he was arrested, and accused of lenining without a license. this is the test above.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tsar (who ruled by divine right) govt (which HAD the authority to exist as a merely regulatory body) made a leninlicense.
mircea_popescu: kinda why lenin and the gang survived the tsar just fine.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, one party risks being maintained by the other, at its expense, well in excess of 100 btc a year, for a while. on the other hand, that other party risks complete disolution.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the test is disproportionately expensive to undetake, for this reason.
mircea_popescu: just as well one could argue they don't have the means.
mircea_popescu: the us may only exist as a LAWFUL body, not as merely a regulatory body.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i think you're missing a major component here. what you describe, I can afford, the us can not.
mircea_popescu: it attaches to the named. temujin had a wife as an unborn ?
mircea_popescu: "The father Temüjin knew was not his biological father but his wife’s captor"...
mircea_popescu: none of this "adapt bitcoin to whatever laws" and none of that "adapt laws to bitcoin" either. submission, complete, not negociable.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "2. Forbidden to ever make peace with a monarch, a prince or a people who have not submitted." << definitely how it goes for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you're so far the winner of teh referrals contest.
mircea_popescu: being rich is no big deal, but being an asshole is worth all the gold in the world.
mircea_popescu: how's teh forum thread coming along ? you got banned yet ?
mircea_popescu: so what i wish to know is, anyone left on the internet that didn't shitlist mcdlv.net as far as stmp is concerned ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, perhaps a link to promotion in wol faq/news ?
mircea_popescu: "We’ve completed our investigation of your unauthorized payment claim. As the payment was sent as part of a billing agreement, it is considered to be an authorized payment. However, as a courtesy to you, we have issued you a refund for this transaction."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell moiety but it IS spam calls lol. pretty good social engineer skills on them cold callers huh ? how did the conversation go ?
mircea_popescu: what are the odds that someone cracked a good joke/compliment jsut as the flash went off ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i don't see this education angle too much. seems it's more a case of, "let's take the land and maybe white people will just pay us to be black"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the concept boggles me. "overly" aggresive ? as in what, there's an appropriate level of aggresive ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you know that strikes me as a very charitable read.
mircea_popescu: under your criteria, specifically, a lot of foreign investment
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> decimation: nope - too many overseas companies with skin in the game, they won't let a despot ruin their income ;) <<< this is at best naive.
mircea_popescu: is pretoria like a sort of pennsylvania, amish et all ?
mircea_popescu: safer than south africa for ordinary women, i gather :D
mircea_popescu: however... they're like the vanguard of fucktarded socialistoid idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i mean all the sympathy for them people being surrounded by a bunch of arab derpage, which they consistently own bareback.
mircea_popescu: Israel wants to outlaw cash << israel needs to fucking burn already.
mircea_popescu: <RebeccaBitcoin> like the dryer << me goes to craigslist with that information
mircea_popescu: <decimation> absolute confidence is impossible until asciilifeform gets his room-sized fpga << but then where would he sleep ?
mircea_popescu: there';s no mind involved. asciilifeform already told you the process.