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mircea_popescu: but what do you want, bloke lived in teh south and his first wife died when he was what, 17 ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what'd you wear every day anyway ? velve ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the "under $50" part i find the most objectionable.
mircea_popescu: in many ways the usg is much like a bitcointalk investor : can't get anything done because surrounded by thieves
mircea_popescu: it's meanwhile disappeared, but the problem's only gotten worse.
mircea_popescu: there was a rash of reporting their haliburtonesque mismanagement of resources in 2002-2003
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because otherwise all their unjustifiable expenses stand out as a sore thumb
mircea_popescu: all the fun of gambling with none of the bitcoin downside!!11
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, use the ATC newtork, it's a direct copy of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i can't believe they'd have stopped the testnet
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out this was obviously not a serious piece, so i guess teaches me to protest before finishing an article.
mircea_popescu: i suppose properly bezzle should be traced back to gailbrath, cca 1929
mircea_popescu: and i don't think orlov even uses the latter, just, a current russian expression ascii explained in english at some point
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't mention him, other people keep mentioning him, like herbi and ascii. i thnk he's mostly clueless and generally vain.
mircea_popescu: some strange ideas in there, and most of it oldman nonsense. there's no absolute limit to physical development.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform "Social networking and mobile computing are hot" dude this orlov guy...
mircea_popescu: that's the official, definitive, correct figure. 377k.
mircea_popescu: and you don't ADD inflation, because you're not in 2009 dollars today.
mircea_popescu: i recall recently seeing the us budget, and it was 100ish
mircea_popescu: fun fact : any point btc is over 1240 usd, the bitcoin network is spending more for its own security than the united states government spends on defense.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is much more than the us, why shouldn't it spend much more ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the us spends what, 100bn on defense a year ?
mircea_popescu: that's why the throwing money isn't stopping, i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell heysteve2 "I believe every caller on talk radio, just like I believe every story on zh." << there you go. it's like playboy forum by now.
mircea_popescu: so in general expect pump and dumps to be punctured randomly and outside of the originator's control going forward, so as to hurt the originator and his friends.
mircea_popescu: this isn't supposed to be a "milking noobs for years" thing, and it's not supposed to be either accessible to or productive for the sort of car salesman that thinks himself a financier now.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: LTC on Huobi dump destroyed a lot of n00bs who could have been milked for years instead of in one big dump but nobody thinks long-term << no, you don't understand. destroying scams IS thinking long term.