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mircea_popescu: by the time you realise you should have it's too late.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure the reason is exactly like the discussion re the altcoin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure they couldn't have survived in ther wild, but i dun see why that should matter.
mircea_popescu: i guess a lot of foreign military officers wondered why they've not simply shot hitler at any point in the 30s, just walk up to him and boom.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why i didn't just take the birds across.
mircea_popescu: among which two pelicans. which had figured where the door was, and what a door is. and were angling together to perhaps scare a dumbass tourist and manage to get out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my only lingering regret from my days in costa rica is that one day i've visited a bird reserve. a large geodome sorta thing with a lot of birds in it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did i ever tell you about the two pellicans ?
mircea_popescu: which ironically makes the entire "terrorist" thing quite appropriate, except, i wouldn't shot them for the show (which is what terrorism implies, that you kill people for no reason than to impress other people). i'd do it because their continued existence is incompatible with mine.
mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people.
mircea_popescu: decimation most of humanity lives on less than ten bux a week.
mircea_popescu: inconvenience yourself and you'll be free, but otherwise, you're predictable, and in being predictable you'll be a tool.
mircea_popescu: the point is to live like a feral dog AND leave the country.
mircea_popescu: i propose a new highschool charter. it teaches kids nothing, but smacks them every time they use "going to"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people's own dumb heads do the guarding.
mircea_popescu: but i follow the link. huge title "Bitcoin will be partially or totally controlled". ie, by some govt.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well tbh, i dun see why i'd have wanted to leave huxley's world. just hang out with the boss guy down at the bar.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller then eiher it's not a family, you're being forced to or you will be forced to.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I guess it's hard to escape with family intact << people with families have no business escaping.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> we can surmise that he refused one or more, but they aren't done yet << something like that.
mircea_popescu: exactly the same problems that limit the mob limit the government, and can be used identically.
mircea_popescu: this isn't nearly as cut and dried a matter as the usg likes to pretend (forced mistake, it has no alternative than to so pretend).
mircea_popescu: perhaps you need your computers, perhaps you need access to a certain server, who's to know.
mircea_popescu: and if you are able to talk, who's going to be able to control what you say, and to whom ?
mircea_popescu: well now... here's the thing... you can't be talking while you're not able to talk, right ?
mircea_popescu: if the kingdom actually worked like teh king's ministers propose it does, i wouldn't be looking into the yard of the king's minister's wife at the car of the guy the minister doesn't know she fucks
mircea_popescu: this has some trouble getting past things such as you know, that wikileaks guy.
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously, the king's ministers, no matter how cornered, will attempt to put forth the theory of how dominant their kingdom actually is.
mircea_popescu: try capturing chtulhu. hey everyone! free insanity today, and all get seconds!
mircea_popescu: no, it's the "know the magic incantation that'll make them rue the day they messed with me so close"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you perceive the difference being, between military and legal ?
mircea_popescu: "Unless you have been through this, with much of it kept secret to protect means and methods of investigation and prosecution, prepare for an exciting first time on the actual hot seat, not on TV or online where hypnotic disinfo rules and seduces the unwary to believe tickling the comsec tiger's tail is fantasic rep building." <<< heh.
mircea_popescu: decimation well if it wants to be a republic, it gotta be a republic.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> ascii so the point is that the court can dodge questions of "what exactly are you charging me with?" by making a grand-jury circus? << the principle is that "the people" can charge you with w/o the shit they want.
mircea_popescu: he may not be talking too much or too loud\ly about it because of that shithead ida, and her unwanted, unwelcome and damaging "love", but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: what, big daddy doesn't know what bum love is ? yes he does.
mircea_popescu: compare the father with the son in cat on a hot tin roof. that's it.
mircea_popescu: decimation but you see the signs of decadence much closer to home : the moment people start shying away from calling someone a cunt in the street, because o noes, we're civilised now. that's it.
mircea_popescu: because the relative value of things can't really be fixed.
mircea_popescu: the point is specifically to be able to serve everywhere, so to speak,
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem is exactly there : a roman citizen is required to be part of the army, even if he could serve the republic "better" elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: and from there on... anyone with a wrench can wrench a deal out of you.
mircea_popescu: pretty soon it's "we're too cool for our children to be killed off like the worthless shitbags they are"
mircea_popescu: decimation it only indirectly results from a too long period of wealth and power. i know, for i've been wealthy and powerful my entire life. the trick is to not buy into comfort. that's the direct causation : once people become comfortable and think "i'm too wealthy and powerful to be here fucking with a wrench inside this engine on the side of a road".
mircea_popescu: Daniel: "We believe that we can build a better future. We believe that we can enable all to participate in a revolution of collective ownership, something that will radically shift the nature of human society." wtf; are they socialists? <<< lulzy danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: people who're not fucking aren't going to be interested, unless, of course, they're retarded.
mircea_popescu: this entire situation is reminiscent of someone trying to "enhance" abstinence-only sexed by reports about how "women's orgasms per capita set to increase this year"
mircea_popescu: there's exactly zilch that the "share of wealtyh of the hispanic population" means.
mircea_popescu: this is such idiocy. rich people are rich people. they're not "hispanic", they're rich.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as some jews are hispanic, im sure it will increase.
mircea_popescu: if only they had a smidgeon of business sense to start back in 2013 by coming here, they'd have actually had a future.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what that coinsource thing is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: when one starts pretendling like reality, going to school in their pony suit and mixing fiction in power points... well... that's actually unhealty.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with this any more than there's anything wrong with watching animated pony cartoons.
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. people like to dream. one dream they like to dream is that they'll be the sherlock that'll discover "the real satoshi". another dream they like to dream is the vicarious wealth of amillionbtc.
mircea_popescu: which judging by his disappearance, he prolly did have.
mircea_popescu: and besides, artforz is likely a much larger holder than satoshi himself. IF he had any sense.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's just... you know. pretty much everyone i know who's been mining in 2010 has actually lost the majority of bitcoin they ever mined. irrespective if they still mine or not.
mircea_popescu: decimation i am aware. it's not "his" estimation. there's been this thing pushed around since 2011ish, a meme equivalent to "who really is satoshi"
mircea_popescu: <decimation> quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana << i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform according to their own claims, they got > 5k btc deposited by people looking to get a total 10mn of the shits.
mircea_popescu: decimation if this gets funded ima allow interested buyers to take positions. either directly or via bitbet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform welcome to the world of a different set of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: obviously i'll be buying some once it comes out. if shit happens like on icbit , where your bids are simply ignored while it "sells" to lower bids... then it's not reputable.