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mircea_popescu: general electric, ford and hp are all kept on respirators by public usg spending.
mircea_popescu: that's why start-ups can be easily destroyed by getting the wrong money sources early.
mircea_popescu: in other news, some guy sold 3500 records debuted in the billboard
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long till #bitcoin-assets gets the webby awards for the coolest place on the web
mircea_popescu: and omfg those iraquis don't even get pottery barn catalogs daily ?!
mircea_popescu: the only way to use money in 2006 would have been to lift up turkey.
mircea_popescu: same thing had the us the ballsack to make iraq the 51st state
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually it was sensible. turkey should have been taken into the eu in 2006
mircea_popescu: who thinks the crap is "sustainable" and what's sustainable even mean in that context
mircea_popescu: rror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
mircea_popescu: And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with te
mircea_popescu: at any rate. the waco debacle has been perhaps the costliest enforcing action by the various bureaus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the spirit of that example, 1mn people killed on highways each year, no stalin.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : the hissing of the serpent is easily ignored, until the point you cross its boundary.
mircea_popescu: just a bunch of sterile 37 yo women running around in circles, wailing.
mircea_popescu: for all the appearance and pretense of stolid solidity.
mircea_popescu: it's difficult to overstate just how fragile the entire morloch actually is.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, five people don't settle and the entire system collapses in flames.
mircea_popescu: specifically : people who are already defeated take into consideration nonsense such as "oh but the feds have a 9x% conviction rate" as a ready-made excuse to settle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's fine and dandy, but the best way for their pretense to remain standing is for tem to vehehery carefully steer out of the way of their masters.
mircea_popescu: stock is a portion of the business, so i get a brick out of the building that is represented by the stock
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true. but, again, with pb i can hit you over the head.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you could claim that for a long time, actually.
mircea_popescu: either it's not taxable throughout, except for realisation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform again : i can hit you over the head with the cement.
mircea_popescu: it's just that they can believe in one hand and piss in the other, see which gets warm first.
mircea_popescu: in neither case a representation is made as to transfer of title, which makes blizzard's ip assertions irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: people trading btc idem exchange possession without title.
mircea_popescu: people trading wow gold exchange possession without title.
mircea_popescu: diametric people selling btc are equally "technically" stealing it.
mircea_popescu: and actually... wow gold to usd exchanges are older and a lot more stable than btc to usd exchanges.
mircea_popescu: they're both sold on the grounds of possesion, without title.
mircea_popescu: diametric well, bitcoin is not sold for usd any more legitimately.