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asciilifeform: i dun think you can drive those on the highway
asciilifeform: towing a wood chipper or two.
ben_vulpes: "no dood i rented it for laffs for tonight."
asciilifeform: show up in a tower crane
ben_vulpes: "holy shit is that your daily driver?!"
ben_vulpes: iono man when i want to show up at a party in a stupidly expensive car for fun, i rent something ludicrous not a fucking ford
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what kind of lunatic cares what commute people think of their machine ?
ben_vulpes: but not for "showing up for events" but for "showing up for the commute"
ben_vulpes: here too!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i live, car leases are typically used by 'poorfag' to pretend to be richer
ben_vulpes: "hi i would like to pay interest on the loan for this car and also the one that you'll replace it with."
ben_vulpes: how is car renting not a poorfag thing?!
asciilifeform: if you ~actually use the thing~ you pay penalty, through the nose.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: car lease in usa is a mega-scam. they cap the mileage.
pete_dushenski: this has been a Cheep Pete's Frugal Tips For Not Being A Poorfag tip
pete_dushenski: in other news, californians can now lease a 2015 electric ford focus for $81/mo. don't all rush to the stealerships at once now. single file, plz.
pete_dushenski: sluts, the original esperanto
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anyways, if monaco's not your jam, there's always baku, sochi, montreal, singapore, or if you're looking for sluts, sao paolo
gernika: I will probably return it to them, since I also brought back a replacement eerom-8u that worx, as opposed to the first one they sent me.
gernika: My Thinkpad t43 appears to have one.
asciilifeform: good luck finding a box with working lpt tho.
asciilifeform: gernika: shouldn't be hard to reverse
gernika: asciilifeform: fyi I made a trip to eetools HQ today and came back home with a curiosity: EmMax plus rom emulator - connects to LPT port - comes with console app. It does *not* however appear to support dos - win95 is as far back as it goes it seems.
pete_dushenski: mega-jews from iran who moved to edmonton in the 80s. paid off city council. made waves.
pete_dushenski: same owners too, at least originally
mircea_popescu: i'd rather pay to go to mall of america.
pete_dushenski: cologne, hat, and watch. or a trip to monaco for the gp.
asciilifeform: a set of tyres perhaps.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski so basically whgat's 9btc buy you, abooth at the car themed cafe ?
mircea_popescu: lmao wtf is this, apple nipple scandal
pete_dushenski: so yes, 9btc ferrari would need to be missing doors, engine, and be firmly in the 30-35 year-old range in the darkest depths of its depreciation curve
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Ferrari-Mondial-Sunroof-Coupe-/222016215782?hash=item33b1329ae6:g:pVAAAOSw5dNWtTr6 << cheapest fezza you're likely to find : ~40btc
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out it's heifer in ze english.
mircea_popescu: isn't that adult cow ?
asciilifeform: then again i also think uncle al wrote reasonably.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski so you did, but twas fixt!
asciilifeform: am i the only one to whom trilema was never a 'language speculum' ? mircea_popescu writes entirely reasonably.
hanbot: trilema is a language speculum. yesterday i got stuck on "Does the mint flower to welcome the butterflies where you live ?"
pete_dushenski: "Altogether an excellet film." << gotcha this time
mircea_popescu: i may not be a cunning linguist, but i'll sure as hell rape the shit out of the language.
mircea_popescu: mno. that's vitel.
mircea_popescu: first on teh list!
mircea_popescu: he sez there's more btc owed to bettors than what he received ; ima be reviewing teh lists.
asciilifeform: i was trying to make sense of 'As of the today, the minimum value of the assets in my possession is ~755 BTC, while the maximum total amount for the liabilities, should all claims be certified, is ~981 BTC.'
davout: they have been paid to the addresses listed in mp's signed statement
asciilifeform: davout: where are the missing 200 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plenty! they used md5.
mircea_popescu: ya, sure. find me the man who wasn't using sha1 in 2011.
mircea_popescu: bout 1000x better than anything fiat ever managed, in ~3500 years of trying, ever since the babylonian signet rolls.
mircea_popescu: you signed these addresses ; here's what they contain ; here's what that means etc.
mircea_popescu: davout very nice. see, now there's a very strong chain of claims, right ?
mircea_popescu: also why is not selling for the ~1k btc it was trading for, last month
davout: mircea_popescu: the signed lists of addresses are now linked at the bottom of the report
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu makes an interesting point, the item for sale is not bbet, but its possibly-necromanceable corpse
asciilifeform: hitler has 'my' things, aha.
asciilifeform: i can see this angle.
mircea_popescu: which difference is why i can travel, and you - not.
mircea_popescu: you do not have such things.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. but on this imperfect notion rests the possibility of having a town, or anything really that you can't carry up your arse while drawing a bowstring
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron me too, yeah. why not.
mircea_popescu: this does not prevent a young woman and her husband from moving in THE SAME HOUSE and living a happy life.
mircea_popescu: consider a house. if a woman i loved died there, i might not have any further use for the item, not even as fire kindle.
danielpbarron: gotta say, I'd prolly use bitbet again if asciilifeform is the owner/operator
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no relation between the "love" bitbet you're discussing and the thing you're bidding on.
trinque: rather than the business formerly known as bitbet
mircea_popescu: the notion that you'll keep the gates of the town really really tight so as to keep out any plague of locusts and any visitation by pillars of salt is naive at best.
asciilifeform: hence the bid
asciilifeform: i don't see the 'turned entirely to shit' angle
mircea_popescu: FIRST bitbet turned to shit ; THEN it was liquidated.
asciilifeform: how's that
mircea_popescu: you're missing the flow of entropy here.
asciilifeform: even in the old days, a traitor who sold the coordinates to fleet, or the opening of a city gate, etc. understood that it was not 'mere item'
mircea_popescu: i don't think this border can be smudged. sure, crypto makes it more difficult [for some people] to notice it.
asciilifeform: 'how much for the private key'
asciilifeform: crypto smudges the border between 'mere item' and love, loyalty
mircea_popescu: however arbitrarily related to love you may make it, an item is and forever remains that.
asciilifeform: i feel like i'm watching a movie through a door lock, can't quite make out what is what
asciilifeform: which 'used condoms' ? what 'greasespot' ? what needs to be killed, with whose hands ?
asciilifeform: i might be lacking the ropes on which this explanation hangs
mircea_popescu: and she can't fucking kill the greasespot on the spot with her own hands.
mircea_popescu: the alternative to sanity is that you'll find yourself being blackmailed with your own shit. which is what usualloy happens to stupid women, that can't discern between love and the used condoms.
mircea_popescu: if liquidates then definitionally "the love that was".
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see on the table there's used condoms.
asciilifeform: how about the 'how much must satan pay to buy your love' thread ?
mircea_popescu: idem. whatever liquidates, liquidates. this is what the word means.
asciilifeform: to be turned into a volkischer beobachter.
asciilifeform: how about trilema ?
asciilifeform: for sufficient tonnes of au, say
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you sell mpex to hitler ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'll agree to a lot of grudgingly before this btc thing is done. there's 0 diff between this and the haircut issue other than how close to your heart it pulls.
mircea_popescu: last thing we fucking need is some sort of "authority" to "permit" capitalism.
mircea_popescu: there's no alternative to that "in principle" other than the retarded half-ass nonsense the fiats practice
davout: let's all outbid each other, for the motherland
asciilifeform: just thinking, hitler could buy it simply to abuse.
asciilifeform: (as i understand, it gets sold with empty tank)
asciilifeform: what's to keep hitler from bidding 9.0001 and walking ?
asciilifeform: incidentall i don't recall, davout , didja specify that only wot folks can bid ?
asciilifeform: and i've been running a (cut-down) wp thing since '07.
BingoBoingo: Autocrappic has been moving basic wordpress functions into Jetpack's outsourcing for years. Eventually Wordpress is going to be a jetpack plugin
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron tho in fairness if you add all official s.mg auctions up, you get something more like 6 btc i think ? so yeah. totallies.