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mircea_popescu: but seriously, i tell you you can't have a new car and you close down the fucking parks in response ?
mircea_popescu: the only way out was toi have obama hung for the crows to peck at for two months, on capitol hill.
mircea_popescu: that was a test, it was failed, congress is going away.
mircea_popescu: not even the point that it failed, their attempt, but congressional dignity proved an empty word.
mircea_popescu: recently they tried to enforce the power of the purse and were made a mockery of for it.
mircea_popescu: congress lost most legislative power already, gradually.
mircea_popescu: You can’t stop all fraud. Some will get through your defenses. Currency exchange profit margins are too narrow to absorb much of it, so you need a healthy legitimate customer base across whom you can distribute those costs. As chargebacks come in, it’s tempting to focus entirely on eliminating fraud. Unfortunately, that focus inconveniences legitimate customers so much that they go elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: obviously clueless kids left to reproduce irl the emperor of flies circus going on in their head wouldn't know about it.
mircea_popescu: there's an excellent point about fraud management made by an actual competent person long ago
mircea_popescu: i think two unrelated convos became cojoined at the hip here
mircea_popescu: Urushiol "community" is made out of law specialists not math specialists :D
mircea_popescu: "how thick is a width of a meter ?" "dude dunno, as thick as the wind blowing may make it seem. otherwise, it's wide"
mircea_popescu: kinda what happens when you try to measure things by orthogonal measures.
mircea_popescu: pLambert or conversely, she is trying to promote her hubby, so selfless and your point fails.
mircea_popescu: lady macbeth dood, we're discussing women in politics here.
mircea_popescu: yea, i'm hoping assets makes the cliffnotes for me o.O
mircea_popescu: well how am i going to explain that if you don't know the play ;/
mircea_popescu: so take the lady out sometime, it's still a great play.
mircea_popescu: macbeth, the prototype, is not discussable in those terms for instance
mircea_popescu: pLambert not that many grandmothers in politics which was the general context
mircea_popescu: you probably wrote your thing in a notepad then pasted it in and submitted. that's 90% of what makes legitimate folks get called inhuman.
mircea_popescu: things are going to come to a head tho, much like venezuela's internal debate.
mircea_popescu: then congress gets written out of politics and merriment ensues.
mircea_popescu: theres going to be a landslide dem president with a 2/3+ teaparty majority house and senate
mircea_popescu: and the republican vote is going to be split no matter what. the old reps have no actual incentive to submit to the tea party, even if the party ends with them. the tea party has zero incentive to "work through the system"
mircea_popescu: just try again, but make sure you use a fresh copy of a page, and count to 5 before submitting
mircea_popescu: the schmuck that doesn't drink or have fun so his friends can have sex they don't then have to account for.
mircea_popescu: all these being counted as part of that "thriving, market economy which made the us great"
mircea_popescu: which had a weak footing but meanwhile anchored itself in family care through the mediation of pseudo-healthcare (ie psychology)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the suspended sentence yielded its own excrescence, the social worker
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "suspended sentence" is the proof of the separation between convict and conviction, and the respective beneficiary institutions.
mircea_popescu: "why is the road here" "because this is the path cows took coming home"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the flow of campaign funds has mostly moved, but not entirely. and history is what shapes mechanisms.
mircea_popescu: that entire storyline about how easy the mobsters had it in jail ? well , the jails were run by congressmen which they had elected, and were going to reelect.
mircea_popescu: running a jail was the way to put yourself on the map, see ?
mircea_popescu: bounce the jail filling is not a goal of the justice dept.
mircea_popescu: if they could produce convictions without convicts they'd be happiest.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i hope you're aware you're engaging in the crime of COMMERCIAL BUSINESS BLACKMAIL
mircea_popescu: plea bargains and juries are not really much related thi
mircea_popescu: and it's "findings of fact AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE CASE"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you did the exact same thing when you made cardano designs : selected the parts for stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that the jury is selected for stupidity does not on the face support the theory that the trial is ineffectual.