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asciilifeform: the whole crud orchestra - pestilentially high tax, the resulting cancerous bureaucracy, usg as majority economic actor, the lot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the reason i said 'not only intellectual property' is that cn is happy to piss on american patents but STILL continues to churn out straight knockoffs of usg crud
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why anyone would EVEN COSNIDER doing anything with a usg agent
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> because without this, a computer is not an asset, but a catastrophicly limitless liability. << hey, it doesn't matter, usg will pretend to be mp and make it all good!11
danielpbarron: and general trend of "oh ~now~ reddit plays ball with USG (implication that it hadn't been already)"
asciilifeform: let's rephrase, how did mircea_popescu become convinced that usg did ~not know~ ?
asciilifeform: usg ~knows~ but it is impolitic to ~do~ anything.
mircea_popescu: usg would like to know as much as black min wage workers ; but it can't ask them
asciilifeform: l0l 'hi i'm totally not a usg stooge though i have no street experience'
phf: mircea_popescu: it's a thing, look at recent usg "nerd culture"
mircea_popescu: what, you think the usg is a pos because aliens ?
mircea_popescu: well, no, usg has no obligation to uphold the laws, somehow.
asciilifeform: also ianal but there is probably more gnarl to it, otherwise usg would have to charge, e.g., dope peddler, with trespassing on usg property by occupying his house the day after the dope peddlin' , etc
phf: of course, you can move to istanbul and have excellent kebab every day, but of course you'll have to work for usg expat style, since who else needs programmers
mircea_popescu: by now the entire usg government is approximately a webforum.
BingoBoingo: phf this social engineering strategy has a long history in USG kingdom. Invented by "St Louis Hegelians" who then moved to Harvard and infected USG. Favorite means of USG for getting desired outcome by letting crowd pick the narrative for how they got there.
phf: i guess the attempt is to create controversy on account of everyone being weary of usg syndevs, "look! we have some non-compromised companies"
phf: should be in quotes, a hypothetical jedi mind trick brought to you by usg
phf: asciilifeform is like a study into usg foot soldier culture, sometimes i feel like he relishes in the role
asciilifeform: sorta like usg's 'classified due to Sources & Methods (tm)' form letter reply.
asciilifeform: taiwan is a dr.mengele creation of usg, just as, e.g., israel, and i can't fathom how it could outlast the creator
asciilifeform: usg's 'unsinkable carrier'
asciilifeform: 'The benefits he has derived from his collegiate experience have been strictly formal, and of no further substance.' << i thought mircea_popescu knew that the usaschwitz 'college racket' has ~0 to do with education, but rather is the only usg-permitted iq test (roughly what grade school was once used for)
BingoBoingo: The USG saved him from that fate
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2016#1437820 << just when usg cryptowarz were sagging... snackbar!111 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2016 00:16:30; asciilifeform: (the real question is why usg would ever admit to it - whole point of the charade was to build precedent-setting verdict. i suppose this outcome became in doubt, and whole thing was brought to what is intended as a quiet burial ?)
trinque: perhaps usg asked something drastic enough apple is concerned
trinque: asciilifeform: perhaps usg's threat is they will shame Apple in public unless they privately bend over more obediently
asciilifeform: (the real question is why usg would ever admit to it - whole point of the charade was to build precedent-setting verdict. i suppose this outcome became in doubt, and whole thing was brought to what is intended as a quiet burial ?) ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2016#1436599 << 'us too! if usg can hand out $B to aggressive mediocrities, so can we!111' ☝︎
mircea_popescu notes bitterly that the chinese ARE fucking prosecuting their own bfl, unlike the usg faggots.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1435683 <<< usg has "magistrate judges" ie, stalin's police "judicial powers" for this very purpose. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: "The health department said the fate of the bull would be left to the family." << Note, being a Bull means you get out of USG law racket sometimes
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2016 03:14:29; asciilifeform: that makes ... 2? 3? usg-authored corpses in the case now ?
asciilifeform: that makes ... 2? 3? usg-authored corpses in the case now ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: the usg-gets-paper-masterkey one
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-lavabit-unsealed.pdf << mega-turd
asciilifeform: interestingly, no effect visible to naked eye from the city subway here being closed - seems as if usg took the day off..
asciilifeform: not ntirely unrelatedly, usg is doing an impromptu collapse drill under the guise of fire inspection, and closes the whole motherfuckng subway for 24h
mircea_popescu: if btc people were the sort where it'd cost about 1.25 heads of usg agent per bitcoin stolen, this is one thing.
asciilifeform: so - usg can build, if pressed, machines. ~whereas~ existing coinbases they can only reallocate, save a ecdsa break, by knocking people over the head. which is loud and somewhat costly.
mircea_popescu: the usg does not have si fabs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg currently steals to sell. perhaps. this does not reduce their capacity to steal in the future. if in the future they steal to hoard, or if the stuff they "sold" was just facade, through preserving coinbases we are baking in not just the original satoshi, but also an evil satoshi.
mircea_popescu: after all, do you know how much usg stole so far ? do they have more than satoshi yet ? if not yet, when ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any alignment with a usg-enriching or dimon-enabling phork
mircea_popescu: assbot> Fire – The Anti-American Hate Narrative Of The Anakbayan << wait, wait, the anti-gaddafi hate narrative of the usg is not a "hate narrative" ?
asciilifeform: the pay of labourers is parasitized disproportionately by usg et al for the same reason wolf in the forest is covered in ticks
asciilifeform: but i will note that the story ends up having some of the unpleasant flavour of the usg secret court trials with secret evidence, resultingly.
mircea_popescu: if more people had at any point throughout the intervening tax seasons stopped and thought "hey, i made whatever, 100k dollars this year, of which i'm signing off 60k to usg - might as well send tmsr the 0.1% it charges in tax!" then perhaps the foundation would have enough money and i could just donate it there as an endpoint.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2016 18:51:57; danielpbarron: jurov> i wonder what alf will do << lemme try and fill in while he's away : mega-snore! ubuntu, the winbl0wz of linux, thought it could make a smart-f0ne when obviously the mobile world is for usg-blessed corps
danielpbarron: jurov> i wonder what alf will do << lemme try and fill in while he's away : mega-snore! ubuntu, the winbl0wz of linux, thought it could make a smart-f0ne when obviously the mobile world is for usg-blessed corps ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo speaking of which, perhaps it's time to start referencing usg as "the government IN washington" ? not like it's legitimate or anything. << I'll have to do some reading into the right way to deny them legitimacy in writing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo speaking of which, perhaps it's time to start referencing usg as "the government IN washington" ? not like it's legitimate or anything.
asciilifeform: aka usg
asciilifeform: i.e. that if zimbabwe gets a swift of x, and usg decides that this ought not have happened, it can be reversed.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430671 << let me generally say that you're about in the position of afghan boy who grew up in village of men and goats opining about cunts. your ideas about "the usg", while no doubt meaningful and coherent in your own perspective, are pure metaphysics. ☝︎
asciilifeform: france sells, usg knocks buyer on the head, sends $rembrandt back... rinse, repeat.
asciilifeform: 'Since 2007, more than 8,000 artifacts have been returned to 30 countries, including paintings from France, Germany, Poland and Austria ...' << translation: usg muppet regimes need to eat, why not subsidize them cheaply by helping them to sell their art sphincter virginity multiple times
asciilifeform: instead of simple launder by usg.
asciilifeform: but usg would not sign off on it.
asciilifeform: but wtf woudl a usg lab care about speed.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429190 << this is sadly not much more than a restatement of the independent vertical credo, "where do i get just the facts". bear in mind that this vertical is a creation of the usg agitprop machine and nothing more. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.
asciilifeform: a usg fork exists to enrich usg. and i will have NO part in it.
asciilifeform: but i was speaking of value to usg looters.
asciilifeform: and half of what remains, as usg tax
asciilifeform: i am sick and tired of there being usg c/cpp code in the loop ANYWHERE.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428468 << again, anyone who wants to follow a usg fork, can do it without me. and who wants to use a prb fork of whatever variety or rationale, can do it without me. ditto halfcocked crud conceived to enrich chinese scum. ☝︎
asciilifeform: because not separable from usg in any meaningful way except - DEFINITIONALLY - by entering the wot and doing a LONG tour of duty as a Real Person
mircea_popescu: assbot> RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web << this is not an idle comment. google, like every other usg item, like usg collectively, was entrusted with great responsibility in many fields after the war.
mircea_popescu: what, next you're going to say we have actual proof the usg had been running a string of massive conspiracies, such as you know, inserting backdoors in software, such as "parallel construction", such as iran contra, such as whatever the hell.
asciilifeform: a difficult, thankless job, that is becoming usg-illegal, for decades , slowly
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 21:51:30; mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all.
mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the root of the matter is an elementary thing. google et al are deeply disinterested in cognition etc. but are paid for specific thing - solving the problem of usg needing an automated gestapo.
asciilifeform: it represents the side of usg mircea_popescu likes to bring up, the threadbare zimbabwe side.
asciilifeform: for one thing, usg would take ~half. and that would buy, wahat, a month of time.
danielpbarron: "do you disagree that X's corrosive attitude is a Bad Thing and subtracts from Y" is like a USG memo card for filipino spammers
asciilifeform: (usg recently jailed some schmuck for 'exporting secret' of fpga.)
asciilifeform: even usg used to have such a custom.
asciilifeform: oh and if usg decides that you did not pay enough, you get charged double-triple post-facto.
asciilifeform: the way it works is that if i sold, e.g., 10k of coin, i get to give 4k to usg immediately.
asciilifeform: usg reads everything.
nubbins`: so, obviously usg is reading this right now
asciilifeform: what i don't want is its motion to add to my detectable usg taxability in any way.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i don't want any of my btc to feed usg.
asciilifeform: metal gets waterfalled with usg paper gold.
asciilifeform: and i'm not interested in it being scanned in usg mail, either.
asciilifeform: didja miss the part where i refuse to give ANY of it to usg?
asciilifeform: ^ usg says 'ty mp, have moar fine fresh printolade'
asciilifeform: the one thing i pointedly won't do with it is give it to usg.
mircea_popescu: dude wouldja stop with the usg shoehorning ?
asciilifeform: there was, e.g., no usg whitelist.
mircea_popescu: you and your twin anal and usg preoccupations.
asciilifeform: the interesting moment will be whe usg hyenas feast on the corpses,
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: incidentally, nowhere in volkischer beobachter will you find mention of the 100s of folks who mailed in offers to usg to root the pnohe with the very simple nand flash removal method.
asciilifeform: and costco is something other than usg ?
mircea_popescu: eh, costco is a more likely winner than usg.
asciilifeform: but i for one don't see anyone winning from this but usg.
mircea_popescu: eh, usg isn't even a player.