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mircea_popescu: i like mean girls.
mircea_popescu: i need a soup nazi
mircea_popescu: iirc when a girl pointed that site to me i got lost in there for 30 hours
mircea_popescu: i am a great fan of tvtropes btw
jurov: i think i'll bring it to next level and start tvtropes page about trilema blog...
mircea_popescu: i am made of steel.
jurov: in similar situation i'd prolly just start to troll btc-mining or fell asleep
mircea_popescu: well i put most of it on my blog, too
jurov: wtf i just did
mircea_popescu: but i imagine a correct solution would be something like, make further endowments dependent on beatings documentation.
mircea_popescu: nah, i can't be bothered to do it myself.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean brutality.
mircea_popescu: i happen to think this conversation is a great argument for educational brutality.
Diablo-D3: I would rather go for a debt swap however. they owe us slightly more than we owe them.
Diablo-D3: now, normally I would say our investment in their country was a good one, except the federal reserve did it without foreknowledge of congress or the treasury or the president.
pigeons: i love monty python too but i dont pretend it makes calling people that name any less silly
copumpkin: oh, I see!
Diablo-D3: copumpkin: no, I reserve that word for the black people who bring up that their ancestors were such and that it means something in their daily lives
copumpkin: I'm making beef jerky
copumpkin: I'm gonna go buy some of his beats
copumpkin: alright, I approve
mircea_popescu: covered, i mean.
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: but I don't have a wife!
copumpkin: I wonder what his doctorate is in
copumpkin: did I say that?
mircea_popescu: but i;'dbe very interested to hear mopre about this "us ultimately owns the money, and it lent it to china for china to lend it back"
Diablo-D3: I dont want to beat children
mircea_popescu: i don't see it sounds silly.
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: yeah, and I just pointed out that it sounds silly with my laotian example
mircea_popescu: i said the chinese were taking over, asked how do i measure this i showed how i measure it.
copumpkin: I wasn't educated in the british system
copumpkin: nope, I thought you were advocating doing that?
copumpkin: I don't really care what archeologists will think
Diablo-D3: go back to "beating" your "women", and by that, I mean posting images and saying its you.
copumpkin: not that I think it's all that great, either
copumpkin: I'm not sure the US education system is trying to optimize for "made in the US"
mircea_popescu: i think education that does not include regular beating is an exercise in stupidity indistinguishable from welfare.
mircea_popescu: i like the plural.
mircea_popescu: i cut down btc, i wear high heels, suspenders aaand a braa
mircea_popescu: i hack all night and i hack all day
copumpkin: I'm a secret imam
Anduck: copumpkin: i will.
Anduck: copumpkin btw i did get banned for practicly no reason
mircea_popescu: i wanted to check it out
mircea_popescu: i dunno they were asking me yest ?
mircea_popescu: I will be honest:
BTC-Mining: I motion that we stop this topic this instant. All in favor:
BTC-Mining: Well... I don't know... I suppose each other throwing general statements we already know at each other just like that is quite pointless...
knotwork: or are you implying I was born yesterday? :)
knotwork: Yeah I learned years ago that I read the NYT and WSJ and such way too much
smickles: i'd be fucked as a scammer
BTC-Mining: knotwork, yes there's signed digital statements, but I meant to answer Mircea's statement about commercial litigation house
smickles: BTC-Mining: i dunno, i hit mircea's paywall
BTC-Mining: I take credit for this mess.
smickles: i hit the paywal
knotwork: and I do not have to prove I sent them, the blockchain proves a certain private key ordered them sent
BTC-Mining: Was what I was referring to.
BTC-Mining: Ah, sorry. I was not using legal terms, only the general meaning of stealing.
knotwork: it gets into why I sent them to them in the first place
knotwork: stolen is when I didnt send them to anyone yet I no longer have them
knotwork: to prove someone stole my wallet I have to prove where I spent its contents?
BTC-Mining: I meant that for any case where funds were stolen, you'd have to prove in courts who you sent the bitcoins to.
smickles: oh, that musta been beta b/f the beta i knew of
knotwork: I would have come here and argued for it, proven it was me
knotwork: yes as I was typing
knotwork: though had I wanted to use an anonymous one maybe ...
smickles: i think you only had to prove an ident was you, not have it be the ident for mpex
knotwork: I was an early adopter invitee, so possibly the invite actually was contingent upon my using my OTC identity?
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining i tell you, the shit we get involved in here would put to shame a full fledged commercial paper litigation house
mircea_popescu: knotwork this is something that MAY happen, but i'll still try and protect them
BTC-Mining: and possibly other conditions I'm missing
BTC-Mining: I believe he'll pay out what Gigamining's shares pay to the ETF holder if any receivable claim arrise in the future, where the info would eventually be disclosed and Gigavps would resume payments, and where the claimer has receivable proof he held ETF units.
knotwork: so if I owned giga passsthrough shares I would of course suffer the consequences of having used a known identity
mircea_popescu: and in general it'd be a premier way to cause a mess. i'll pass
knotwork: I deliberately used my best known PGP identity
mircea_popescu: knotwork there's plenty of problems. for once the scale is 1:1000, for another it wasn't a direct holding, and i see no good reason to pressure giga this way (which would be really abusive tbh)
smickles: i'm sure not everyone did that
BTC-Mining: I don't see mircea going around asking the ETF holders if they want their information disclosed to Gigavps
knotwork: oh is he one of the "I never sold anyone anything" like Goat not long ago said?
BTC-Mining: I'm almost sure he won't do that.
knotwork: some idiot service recently refused to let me use that identity because I sent them the email from a real email address that can actually accept email
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining back a year or so ago mpoe traded by email. i think knotwork isn't up to date with the new trade paradigm
knotwork: but unlike GLBSE he need not do weird codes shit, since he told everyone up front that if they want to be anonymous they should create a PGP identity no one knows is them. didnt he? or am I confused having just read bunch of how to Torify email sites?
knotwork: s/later I say/later I saw/
knotwork: later I say one could paste into a web form but was that the only way? was there never a send orders by email?
knotwork: I thought I registered there by sending a PGP-crypted email?
knotwork: Because, I recall being annoyed recently at some other site or service or somesuch that rejected my PGP identity seemingly due to its email address (one that does not exist thus doesnt receive spam) not being where I emailed from
knotwork: I am pretty sure MPEx does not refuse email orders that come from an email address that is not officially tied to the PGP identity whose orders that email address is sending
BTC-Mining: I don't think mircea would do that.
knotwork: I think MPEx did let me do that, and if so, then anyone could have made up any ficitional but syntactically possible email address to make up a PGP identity for
knotwork: I say "possibly" because I do not recall whether MPEx let me use as my PGP identity my normal one, my OTC one, whose publicly listed email address does not exist
BTC-Mining: Hmm, I somehow managed to end up reading a thread about some Intersango drama dating september 2011
BTC-Mining: Well, basically, yes. I was asking mircea about what was going to be deleted and understood his statements differently than what he meant.
knotwork: so I dont see much big reason why you should be prevented from bowing out
knotwork: I have lots still in backscroll I havent scrolled back as far as yet
mircea_popescu: well i guess all this is new, so people make varied assumptions
BTC-Mining: Hence why I asked you here for more info (got satisfied), instead of going on the forum creating more drama.
BTC-Mining: And I don't like people rushing things as fast on the forum without any proof or reasonable evidence.
BTC-Mining: Note that my previous statement states that I "recall" seeing such a post, not that it actually happened.
BTC-Mining: I'd have to find it, but I even recall theymos later posting that he had no actual idea if Nefario did that, he just thought he probably did.