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adlai: specifically, people liking to pay
usg taxes
ben_vulpes: gf walking with wot material is just as catastrophic as
usg walking with wot material. 'walked' being only detail of note.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 16:00 asciilifeform: rms is tragicomic precisely ~because~ he won't let go of fundamentally
usgistic thinking
mircea_popescu: (yes, we use constructive intent all the time, such as for instance in discussions of
usg - the sort of thing where they end up responsible both ways.)
pete_dushenski: also, it would appear that musk's scammy
usg-funded acquisition of one of his failed enterprises by his other failing enterprise missed the logs.
mircea_popescu: and to not forget the various other
usg tools with a more remote, disavowed involvement : gavin andresen, emin gun sirer, and a whole list of various derps who unilaterally claim involvement : amir chetrit, anthony di iorio, gavin woon, joseph lubin etc,
adlai: sure. but this "
usg" is still a bunch of smart muppets scamming the stupid muppets, money is changing hands
mircea_popescu: lol. "billion" dollar. currently
usg self-trading on poloniex just about 99.999%
mircea_popescu: brb ima liquidate my doge profits buy some more scamtokens from
usg tools!
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492457 << so basically, as part of its ongoing cold war against insufficiently-pliable torvalds, the
usg through its
usg.twitter agency... repurposed what it claims to be "linus' account", ie, a voodoo doll they made for him. and this somehow is supposed to reflect on the man ? why, because we're all from the great nation of africa and ergo fucktarded in the brain ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: dude, i'll discuss whoever i please. ESPECIALLY some
usg tool that meanwhile took posturing lessosn.
mircea_popescu:
usg agent wondering if the actual people fighting the
usg are a "cointelpro style" "attack" ?
mircea_popescu: eh, nah.
usg only has strike units. give it 18 hours, can reclaim passively.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 21:04 phf: asciilifeform: not at all 100%
usg, that's why there was the west coast symbolics media lab, also government didn't stop buying, the contracts were bringing revenue well into the endof90s (i mean still do, but now it's life support peanuts)
phf: asciilifeform: not at all 100%
usg, that's why there was the west coast symbolics media lab, also government didn't stop buying, the contracts were bringing revenue well into the endof90s (i mean still do, but now it's life support peanuts)
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:38 Framedragger: but to suggest that folk from within are in on it, as in
usg agents whatnot, is bull. i know that in terms of effects there may not be much of a difference, but whenever you say "prolly controlled burn by those idiots", i want to smack you because those friends are not dumb at all.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:45 Framedragger: did you ever run a god damn tor browser? you prolly didnt because
usg. it has banners and warnings all over. what else can one do. they're transparent about the bugs (incl upstream firefox) etc. not saying that i'd use tor for important things now.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:38 Framedragger: but to suggest that folk from within are in on it, as in
usg agents whatnot, is bull. i know that in terms of effects there may not be much of a difference, but whenever you say "prolly controlled burn by those idiots", i want to smack you because those friends are not dumb at all.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:35 Framedragger: if you mean that > 50% of funding comes from
usg and that it was initially funded by navy research lab, yes
Framedragger: did you ever run a god damn tor browser? you prolly didnt because
usg. it has banners and warnings all over. what else can one do. they're transparent about the bugs (incl upstream firefox) etc. not saying that i'd use tor for important things now.
☟︎ Framedragger: but to suggest that folk from within are in on it, as in
usg agents whatnot, is bull. i know that in terms of effects there may not be much of a difference, but whenever you say "prolly controlled burn by those idiots", i want to smack you because those friends are not dumb at all.
☟︎☟︎ Framedragger: if you mean that > 50% of funding comes from
usg and that it was initially funded by navy research lab, yes
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pretty good privacy, it's an asymmetric crypto scheme. allows you to keep secrets from, say, the nsa. and also to maintain a solid identity - unlike, say,
usg identity papers.
mircea_popescu: i guess so. plenty of "lysenkoist" dudes were as convinced of the entire shitstack as yarvin is convinced the
usg will survive.
mircea_popescu: of course meta-rational is a thing. but sovereign reason is a very different thing from mere "reason" as peddled by the feminine
usg & friends.
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform , the
usg.desperation should be palpable, if they're scraping the barrel so close to the wood they've dredged up curtis yarvin, even.
mircea_popescu: you hear that ? judge says, hacking
usg computers fair game.
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/UScxs << oh look, now that they got scared into actually doing some code auditing by the half billion in losses the
usg accrued in one short week, they're finding things!
mircea_popescu: o right right, "ukraine forum on asset recovery", the
usg-sponsored "let's steal shit" argentina-style thing
mircea_popescu: not like he'd have existed if there wasn't a
usg.pd around. or a
usg in the first place.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 17:33 asciilifeform:
usg coin has 100%
usg-compliant minerz? nyooz at 11.
trinque: that'd be quite a lot of people being
usg agents claiming to witness him shooting people
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:28 Framedragger: there was a post about statistical/ML approach vs. (one of) rule-based approach(es) just recently, i haven't read it yet,
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html (inb4 ad hominem alf's norvig iz
usg pawn :P )
mircea_popescu: and yes, the google "ai" rule based bs is giving a bad name to all this, but abstracting the
usg.idiots for a second, before we throw out the bath
ascii_deadfiber: if narcos ever nailed a
usg boat with bazooka, it was successfully censored from anywhere i might hear of it.
ascii_deadfiber: at this point 'looks like starwars' is probably de-facto design criterion for 100% of
usg mil iron
mircea_popescu: no, it's just that if you write down the historical trade losses of
usg agents to date, etherape figures way towards the top. this is more than, say, gaddafi ever managed.
mircea_popescu: the etherape easily figures in the top 50 most costly mistakes of
usg agencies to date.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber anyway, back to the topic of bleeding the
usg : you understand that the largest loss in its history was ~10bn via MS on the subprime crap. this is already percents of that.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:04 ascii_deadfiber: and it isn't as if
usg BUYS btc anyway
ascii_deadfiber: net pipe situation in usa is astonishing. when i was at $rupturefarm... this was a 'beltway bandit',
usg contracting shop with princely budget, building had gilded doorknobs and other nonsense, but net was 'comcast' gas modem.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 06:07 mircea_popescu: anyway. the lulz has cost
usg more turkey dollars than mit has cost
usg this year. that's an accomplishment right there, they could have made ten thousand hookers and fifty thousand "aides" happy for that money. this means 10k angry hookers and 50k passive-agressive pencildicks extra to deal with.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 05:49 pete_dushenski: in other
usg news, "Trump campaign expenses in May, per FEC report: Hats: $208k. Online advertising: $115k. Data management: $48k. Communications consulting: $38k"
mircea_popescu: anyway. the lulz has cost
usg more turkey dollars than mit has cost
usg this year. that's an accomplishment right there, they could have made ten thousand hookers and fifty thousand "aides" happy for that money. this means 10k angry hookers and 50k passive-agressive pencildicks extra to deal with.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: in other
usg news, "Trump campaign expenses in May, per FEC report: Hats: $208k. Online advertising: $115k. Data management: $48k. Communications consulting: $38k"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and this is the point : they keep pushing the "debate" to bury this point.
usg wants people to actually believe "civilisation is good for you ; and please don't look at how EVERY SINGLE TIME the barbarian rapes the colon"
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber make some falsifiable prediction and attach an "i will forever renounce my heretic views about the
usg mattering in any sense" to it already.
mircea_popescu: it's not the dao that's fucked. on the battlefield of the future, which is right here, the
usg.vc idiots got raped and their bowels strung out to dry on fences, and now the hot core of
usgism, mit & cornell and all are fighting for dear life
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: the difference between those two and this third is instructive and important : in those instances, the
usg was trying to spin a narrative that'd allow it to claim it's still alive and relevant, in front of proof to the contrary from ~already established accounts~. ie, satoshi.
mircea_popescu: then there was the whole craig whatever incident. where the
usg assets in bitcoin (gavin & all) swore as to the authenticity of a gross fake.
mircea_popescu: now, the
usg assets in bitcoin (gavin & all) didn't like this, and whined about the signature. so i said : swear it ain't so. in writing. they... didn't.
mircea_popescu: in the new normal of
usg agents, "you only say something if it benefits you". so they don't see the point of saying "we lost it all", because what's in it for them ?
mircea_popescu: the cheek of the
usg agents, you know. "legal system" czar gave them the note signed by hitler, they perceive responsibility as a thing of the past.
pete_dushenski: the
usg.mit h8 is everywhere. fuck even the shiny glowing untouchable uncriticisable aapl is getting flamed... from their own fanbois no less.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's a LOT of hate for
usg/mit/vit-alik butt-erin/doa/etc out there.
mircea_popescu: in any case : a marginally acceptable definition of "palace economy" is : tax over 50% of gdp. by this rule the
usg, eu etc qualify. nothing else in the world does.
mircea_popescu: point in case : there isn't a 1% as much bitcoin-culture in all the
usg.mit,
usg.whartever sponsored "teams" and "think tanks" and etc of what's here.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the situation at the time is very much reminiscent of the current
usg palace economy. one warrior is more than a match for many thousand "upstanding citizens". if seven ships worth 1k people sporting kalash with infinte ammo landed on us west coast, which consisted of "start-up culture" only, the result would be very much what happened at the end of the bronze age, or for that matter at the end of the aztec empire.
mircea_popescu: well no but it's part of the asciilifeform apodicticology, "nothing that ever happens could disrupt
usg".