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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently ohio or w/e this one is has very advantageous economics for this business
mircea_popescu: VanCleef i have no idea, were they due a report or something ?
mircea_popescu: kind-of a pity in that a well managed business on those lines makes some sense.
mircea_popescu: benkay he's unrepresented, basically. doesn't have an ib/underwriter/anything.
mircea_popescu: the general fate to people telling me my information is not correct is aptly represented by one trendon shavers.
mircea_popescu: pankkake well other than it'll likely never generate any capital, it would resolve the problem yes.
mircea_popescu: but you should be somewhat more responsible, seeing how you're tied down to real estate.
mircea_popescu: topace is nutty enough to imagine he's going to escape through some fraudulent sale to a panama front,
mircea_popescu: the20year3 at any point you may seriously consider your involvement in this scheme may actually result in criminal charges.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's like a spiral of web scammy for that place.
mircea_popescu: obviously someone that owns shares can sell at any price they want.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how did that thing settle down in the end ? "bitcoin's fault" ?
mircea_popescu: xdotcommer well sure. but in the same sense, if the twelve year old wants to have twins, let her ?
mircea_popescu: im starting to understand something. if we manage to not turn into wikipedia within a decade we'll have actually accomplished an amazing feat.
mircea_popescu: xdotcommer apparently you've not tried a great many things.
mircea_popescu: no high school senior hauled up in a basement is EVER going to be a soldier,
mircea_popescu: this notion that children can somehow, with a lot of shaving paste and stilts, stand up to adults is laughable.
mircea_popescu: er to spot. “Did you lose a sony? It could be the Penguin. I think we can round him up, he’s dressed like a PENGUIN! We can find him, he’s a PENGUIN!
mircea_popescu: , the police come over to your house, they fill out: The Report. They give you: Your Copy. Now, unless they give the crook his copy, I don’t really think we’re gonna crack this case, do you? It’s not like Batman, where there’s three crooks in the city and everybody pretty much knows, who they are. Very few crooks even go to the trouble to come up with a theme for their careers anymore. It makes them a lot tough
mircea_popescu: JERRY: I got ripped off for about the...18th time? And now, the first couple a times you go through it, it’s very upsetting and your first reaction or one of your friends will say, “Call the police. You really should call the police.” So you think to yourself, you know, you watch TV, you think, “Yeah, I’m calling the police. Stakeouts, manhunts... I’m gonna see some real action.” Right, you think that. So
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform inasmuch as you know who he was, he wasn't intel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform intelligence doesn't kill people, bureaucracies kill people.
mircea_popescu: what's next, most thieves i've met in jail weren't all that good at it ?
mircea_popescu: intelligence types are better company than almost any other class
mircea_popescu: so they tried something along the lines of what seems a meanwhile abandoned project to inject title
mircea_popescu: early on, noob of-counsel had realised title'd be iffy but hadn't yet realised title will be challenged.
mircea_popescu: a more persuasive theory is that the usg used this opportunity to launder its own mining proceeds.
mircea_popescu: it's really the fundamental principle that allowed the MF Global debacle.
mircea_popescu: such as, to cover its own shortfall, or as directed by a frient of its (such as a regulator, without a court order) or in any other case.
mircea_popescu: watch the dood actually win the powerball or some shit.
mircea_popescu: soo, the mpoe astrology department informs me that april the 20th, other than being orthodox easter, is also going to be a grand cross and the first of four blood moons.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'll happen should kim herp-derp decide to shave his balls.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, otc hasn't existed for 16k days i would hope
mircea_popescu: why does it say "This user has not authenticated for more than 16156 days" ? i've authed like... yesterday
mircea_popescu: that thing should have read "We thought we knew better than MP, but we did not. We will now wear rough burlap on the skin for the next year as penace"
mircea_popescu: (before being repurposed by english to mean "criminal", felony denoted the behaviour of the overly-socially adaptable, they who go from inflexible grandeur in the presence of inferiors to abject suckupitude should any superiors show up. de funes in the gendarme series is a fine example)
mircea_popescu: goat can't manage to go through two hours without trying to suck up to someone, he's quite eastern.