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mircea_popescu: “My responsibility in the conservatorship is not to the shareholders, really. So I don’t lay awake at night worrying about what’s fair to the shareholders,” Mr. Watt said. He went on to defend the arrangement under which the firms’ profits are swept away to the Treasury Department.
mircea_popescu: In a C-Span interview that aired Sunday, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mel Watt said it isn’t his job to worry about shareholders of the two companies, for which his agency acts as conservator.
mircea_popescu: and i have no idea how jury trials will survive this sort of bovine behaviour of the "general public"
mircea_popescu: the documentary evidence was overwhelming, i have no idea how a jury found with the prosecutors,
mircea_popescu: this is pretty fucking uniquye, managing to get a jury verdict overturned on appeal
mircea_popescu: is this to acquire blackmail material because every judge and uni professor in the states takes their underage cocksuckers to the bahams ?
mircea_popescu: because fucktards have to rediscover anything and everything, and get to belabour under the curse of the notion that they're actually inventing things
mircea_popescu: us-english speakers stuggling to come to terms with the ancient problem of quarter.
mircea_popescu: "reddit is important! being featured on the first page will slow down your servers and flood your support lines with inane babble"
mircea_popescu: seeing the bitcoin trickle in twennies kinda makes my point for me i guess
mircea_popescu: kinda funny considering my comments few days ago at that dude with the "30mn biggest investment", re how he couldn't get 20k btc for his 30mn
mircea_popescu: i guess this is the various "vc" types making ezzy moneys ?
mircea_popescu: btw is this darkcoin connected to amir taaki or am i confusing tards again
mircea_popescu: btw, who linked earlier the fucktarded nigger coin, indended for racial harmony but with a 10% premine going to support nigger laziness ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i was on a tripod site also yesterday, and it said it had 1`859`094`993 unique visitors
mircea_popescu: nor are her tits big enough to make the assembly float.
mircea_popescu: and if i donb't have 2k lines to read a day ima start fining people.
mircea_popescu: by the way : for the remainder of the month i shall be mostly travelling. if anyone wants to make mpex deposits or other maneuvers, better get them done now.
mircea_popescu: such passive agressive defeatism drilled into these people.
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> "A new entrant doesn't need permission before he can compete with established players" << other than coming to -assets? << i kinda love how they hint but won't come out and say it.
mircea_popescu: if he can then why isn't he. your average scammer, he can make ipo-type noises, can't he ?
mircea_popescu: it is uninteresting and unimportant what the helots thought of lacedemonia
mircea_popescu: the rest is not wrongfully discarded, and it's not even merely discarded : it is *properly* discarded.
mircea_popescu: but taking every nobody seriously is the recipe for complete and utter failure.
mircea_popescu: every particle, you must take seriously, as if it were the entire fucking world, and one particle is enough to disprove an entire theory, in physics. sure.
mircea_popescu: bias here is exactly contrarily : taking random joe blow seriously as if he were a human being.
mircea_popescu: and aspiring scientists are always taken aback. "how can he say this!11"
mircea_popescu: what's the first thing i say here ? "who the fuck are you and what makes you think you have something to say".
mircea_popescu: bias in philosophy doesn't work like bias works in physics.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if us bureaucracy today were about on par professionally with the roman bureaucracy in the times of nero, way past the expiration date of that state, ron paul would have an epiphany and would be introducing bills for giving lincoln posthumous honors.
mircea_popescu: ah. well when you try to discard a metric shitton of experimental data on the grounds that you can't read it...
mircea_popescu: no, just, physicists actually work at their actual profession.
mircea_popescu: you're not very good at experiment content. nature is nature. what, quarks are very good at experiment content ?
mircea_popescu: what, you think people haven't lived together before ? they have, but their recorded experience is lost to you. this isn't their problem. it's yours.
mircea_popescu: you try this, seriously, make new york work without electricity for a year.
mircea_popescu: and they ran it. without electricity. without the combustion engine. without refrigeration, or pumps.
mircea_popescu: consider this simple point : rome was, for a millenium and change, a larger town than the majority of us towns ever were or ever will be.
mircea_popescu: so you can't even speak latin to the barristers these days, then they wonder why the republic is in shambles.
mircea_popescu: but afaik this is the first instance of irony-the-meme
mircea_popescu: anyway. individual use is certainly earlier, shakespeare et all, and probably existed during the romans but i just don't know of it.
mircea_popescu: de Baskerville, devoid of any faith but roughly interestred in the paraphenalia such as the libraries would say such things
mircea_popescu: well let me be a pompous ass all the way then. "for my sins" is perhaps the oldest, and thus original ironic use of a phrase. at the time four centuries ago religious sentiment was still both strong and strongly in control. people like
mircea_popescu: bounce something hinders you from reviewing the historical record ? other than, of course, the dictionary problem i've just re-re-rediscovered, for my sins ;/
mircea_popescu: in another decade it will be impossible to even talk to the children.
mircea_popescu: in·quir·ing /inˈkwīriNG,iNG-/ adjective: inquiring showing an interest in learning new things. "an open, inquiring mind"