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mircea_popescu: pankkake answer contained in question : because everyone was too busy derping with xkcd
mircea_popescu: this isn't really meant as a first line "learn about bitcoin and share your feelings" venue anyway. there's the various forums and social media sites for that.
mircea_popescu: is this the same dork that kept trying to pump ixcoin ?
mircea_popescu: so expect to have flat earth bitcoin, godcoin, globalwarmingcoin, etc.
mircea_popescu: and every single nutty idea will try to pile itself on top of the train, as it were, just as long as they figure "thge train is going somewhere"
mircea_popescu: that's the winklevoss twins, in a word : scum facebook sorta-drug with it.
mircea_popescu: and every time something looks like it's going that way, the filth tries to hitch a ride.
mircea_popescu: now, all new things start at the edge and move towards the center.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony basically it's like this : society consists at all times of some people in the center, and a bunch of nuts at the edges. they are at the edges because they suck.
mircea_popescu: ya but it never gathered 10 btc worth of interest iirc
mircea_popescu: MisterE the shit consists of nothing but trying to somehow buy press coverage. so... yeah. rumours.
mircea_popescu: in spite of having made ~70% losses on his total investment so far, and in spite of having managed to attreact the wrath of mp, dude still hopes.
mircea_popescu: so basically... doge owner and operator spending 100 of his last 1xx btc in a doomed but desperate attempt to save his pump and dump scheme from oblivion
mircea_popescu: i much prefer the european system (pedestrian have priority over anything)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla check that out, there's class warfare on bitbet
mircea_popescu: humiliating the police force is pretty much the test. if they don't understand that they have to get out of the way of *some people* it ain't a country worth living in.
mircea_popescu: MisterE try and tell a us cop that he either gets on his knees or he loses his job. then go pay his boss to fire him.
mircea_popescu: you dun wanna live in an "uncorrupt" society, because that always means totalitarian in practice.
mircea_popescu: people keep saying "corrupt" like it's a bad thing, but i seriously have been making it one of my top indicators
mircea_popescu: MisterE amusingly, that part i can see. unless you're willing to go to war for the throne, stfu about the king.
mircea_popescu: fucking burn the place down, the gall of those people.
mircea_popescu: i remember some ridiculous thing where some blogger said she found a cockroach in her soup and then had to take down the post because the eatery objected
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is one of those fucktarded south asian countries which a) still has libel and b) truth is no defense to it ?
mircea_popescu: cover it like it was obama's experian, fuckwit. because it is.
mircea_popescu: this is here so i have what to link journos when they need to be told how to cover btc.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, if it were some shitty service nobody heard of that happened to take btc ?
mircea_popescu: "The North Carolina Attorney General's Office is now joining other states investigating a massive data breach at a credit reporting agency that has put 200 million Social Security numbers at risk."
mircea_popescu: she supposedly could tell you if you were shooting blanks or not.
mircea_popescu: haha which reminds me, there used to be this whore advertised as a cum grader
mircea_popescu: haha we're exact opposite ends of the cycle. i'm sick of peace and quiet.
mircea_popescu: but i just said "most places that aren't california, new york, pairs etc"
mircea_popescu: food (actual, as opposed to whatever the fuck us fastfood is) will run you ten bux a day and so on
mircea_popescu: how not ? i've lived pretty much all over the world. living space costs you something in the range of a dollar per square foot per year.
mircea_popescu: most places that aren't california, new york, pairs etc have high living standards of living, plentiful and obedient good looking women etc.
mircea_popescu: really, this is true of most of the world outside of some very narrowly selected places.
mircea_popescu: MisterE actually i think i get whart you mean re vacations. costa rica is a pleasure, but yeah the locals are really slow.
mircea_popescu: so basically, thailand is a set of old landed gentry trying their best to stick to relevancy ? sorta like argentina ?
mircea_popescu: theoretically speaking at least they should have been massacred in teh marketplace.
mircea_popescu: a product, willy-nilly, ends up looking like its userbase.
mircea_popescu: people usually harp about it, but this is why they do it.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you've4 just explained the market incentive for ms windows to stay obscure and broken.
mircea_popescu: and you're doing more for a better world than any vegetarian/ecologist/occupywallstreet/other idjit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, your solution re the file problem : get them to migrate to open office, have their shit exported as whatever mark-up, it can be uploaded and validated on webserver.