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mircea_popescu: since we're doing affidavits, prosecutor is welcome to an affidavit as to how he himself bought.
mircea_popescu: if they ask you who you sold them to, you give them the name of the prosecutor in charge.
mircea_popescu: it's deposited to mpex, and a sum withdranw to pay for same. so... what ?
mircea_popescu: sothe 10btc is... moved to my wallet, from which a diff sum is spent on whatever, baby squirrel tears. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see any evidence whatsoever is th problem
mircea_popescu: so you have a guy's affidavit that he sent me 10 btc to addy x in tx y.
mircea_popescu: it's sad how many promising young minds are ruined by the predilection of young minds for bad associations
mircea_popescu: he's definitely misreading what bitcoin does, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: conveniently occurring just as the price topped << anything having taaki involkved and not being a scam ?
mircea_popescu: myeah. giving the site ot mr evil doesn't hurt anything on a plaintext site.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: ugh. shame on your family. << bitcoin-otc isn't really intended for
https anyway is it. or am i missing your point ?
mircea_popescu: so basically, for as long as other people cook, crowdfounding can continue to make the tomato roses.
mircea_popescu: is there any actual anything done via crowdfunding so far ?
mircea_popescu: remarkable how similar the start and end of civilisation are. sorta like the start and end of man's life.
mircea_popescu: inexplicable why it's so easy for scammers on that forum.
mircea_popescu: the reason for that'd be that sheep never make good wolves in the first place.
mircea_popescu: for the record, had occasion to punish girly to cat food only diet for a week or so.
mircea_popescu: other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made.
mircea_popescu: In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each
mircea_popescu: it's great for humour this. "does your desk make your back hurt ? press backspace!"
mircea_popescu: my z80 keyboard had plain language on it : load, merge, save etc
mircea_popescu: i use the plainest language of anyone i'm aware of, and yet people claim you need a degree to argue with me. wtf is that all about.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, and more dangerously : a term of art that has a common speech homophone will only notify those in the know of its status
mircea_popescu: mike_c and the "not a lot of jargon" thing is roughly like the vietnam forest without a lot of vietcong in it.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing plain about language just like a measurement isn't the thing measured.
mircea_popescu: so can i use the even-ness of the 129th digit in your measurement reliably ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c "plain language" is the conceptual equivalent of "measurement in se". how long is your desk ?
mircea_popescu: basically the problem of intelligent people is that the knowledge needed is so vast... i could readily render the pretense and nonsense of it, but i don't have the time/patience to hang out in every nook and cranny.
mircea_popescu: srsly, the notion that there exists such a thing as "plain language"...
mircea_popescu: My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.
mircea_popescu: well, for one if you fly high enough you don't actually have to report
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more often than you'd think. prices have really come down
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: just phoned them - they'll increase my free limit to 30kgs << fuck them, assholes. seems all short distance is covered by this sort of low service "low cost" bs.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: having a WoT account doesn't mean everything you write is signed << why not ? inasmuch as only you could have written it...
mircea_popescu: arguably not as losers but bitterer than the other type o coders, but anyway
mircea_popescu: so then, maybe you're running the local bitter loser group, and the fleet sailed long ago. who's to know.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i never saw proof they scammed anyone, if that helps.
mircea_popescu: "you dumb fuck, i have to hear from random passerby';s how utterly you suck at your job ? go fuck a goad in the market, you're never working in this line again"
mircea_popescu: sane boss approached with this, if it can be documented, cans the underboss that same day.
mircea_popescu: benkay gotta give the boss' boss the opportunity to make his own mistake.
mircea_popescu: so at this juncture you send the boss's boss a link to this log
mircea_popescu: cazalla: BingoBoingo: didn't you know that the biggest Australian export after resources are bitcoin scams? (inputs.io, hair dresser ipos, kenilworth and on it goes) << i've often thought of this. add patrick harnett and a whole other bunch of new zealand folk
mircea_popescu: im sick of reading nothing but my own stories in the logs
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, please, by all means, even the story cunt a bit
mircea_popescu: in spite of which she did everything all night long, i took her to breakfast and then dropped her off in the arms of her mothar.
mircea_popescu: past desperate attempts at cockblocking by the entire collected "alpha" population. apparently my chick's unstoppable and really fucking scary to boys.
mircea_popescu: with the kitten. who, mind you, gets up in a cab and drives away with two guys who are clearly foreigners, barely speak the language, and she's just met two hours prior in a bar at a bdsm munch.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile unattached in-their-own-oppinion dom guys tell me all about how alpha really they are, and then we leave.