log☇︎
4000+ entries in 0.218s
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2016 03:14:29; asciilifeform: that makes ... 2? 3? usg-authored corpses in the case now ?
asciilifeform: that makes ... 2? 3? usg-authored corpses in the case now ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: the usg-gets-paper-masterkey one
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-lavabit-unsealed.pdf << mega-turd
asciilifeform: interestingly, no effect visible to naked eye from the city subway here being closed - seems as if usg took the day off..
asciilifeform: not ntirely unrelatedly, usg is doing an impromptu collapse drill under the guise of fire inspection, and closes the whole motherfuckng subway for 24h
mircea_popescu: if btc people were the sort where it'd cost about 1.25 heads of usg agent per bitcoin stolen, this is one thing.
asciilifeform: so - usg can build, if pressed, machines. ~whereas~ existing coinbases they can only reallocate, save a ecdsa break, by knocking people over the head. which is loud and somewhat costly.
mircea_popescu: the usg does not have si fabs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg currently steals to sell. perhaps. this does not reduce their capacity to steal in the future. if in the future they steal to hoard, or if the stuff they "sold" was just facade, through preserving coinbases we are baking in not just the original satoshi, but also an evil satoshi.
mircea_popescu: after all, do you know how much usg stole so far ? do they have more than satoshi yet ? if not yet, when ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any alignment with a usg-enriching or dimon-enabling phork
mircea_popescu: assbot> Fire – The Anti-American Hate Narrative Of The Anakbayan << wait, wait, the anti-gaddafi hate narrative of the usg is not a "hate narrative" ?
asciilifeform: the pay of labourers is parasitized disproportionately by usg et al for the same reason wolf in the forest is covered in ticks
asciilifeform: but i will note that the story ends up having some of the unpleasant flavour of the usg secret court trials with secret evidence, resultingly.
mircea_popescu: if more people had at any point throughout the intervening tax seasons stopped and thought "hey, i made whatever, 100k dollars this year, of which i'm signing off 60k to usg - might as well send tmsr the 0.1% it charges in tax!" then perhaps the foundation would have enough money and i could just donate it there as an endpoint.
asciilifeform: usgbase ?
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2016 18:51:57; danielpbarron: jurov> i wonder what alf will do << lemme try and fill in while he's away : mega-snore! ubuntu, the winbl0wz of linux, thought it could make a smart-f0ne when obviously the mobile world is for usg-blessed corps
danielpbarron: jurov> i wonder what alf will do << lemme try and fill in while he's away : mega-snore! ubuntu, the winbl0wz of linux, thought it could make a smart-f0ne when obviously the mobile world is for usg-blessed corps ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo speaking of which, perhaps it's time to start referencing usg as "the government IN washington" ? not like it's legitimate or anything. << I'll have to do some reading into the right way to deny them legitimacy in writing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo speaking of which, perhaps it's time to start referencing usg as "the government IN washington" ? not like it's legitimate or anything.
asciilifeform: classic usgtronics, they even had an ukr 'exile gov' going in the 40s, 50s
asciilifeform: aka usg
asciilifeform: i.e. that if zimbabwe gets a swift of x, and usg decides that this ought not have happened, it can be reversed.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430671 << let me generally say that you're about in the position of afghan boy who grew up in village of men and goats opining about cunts. your ideas about "the usg", while no doubt meaningful and coherent in your own perspective, are pure metaphysics. ☝︎
asciilifeform: france sells, usg knocks buyer on the head, sends $rembrandt back... rinse, repeat.
asciilifeform: 'Since 2007, more than 8,000 artifacts have been returned to 30 countries, including paintings from France, Germany, Poland and Austria ...' << translation: usg muppet regimes need to eat, why not subsidize them cheaply by helping them to sell their art sphincter virginity multiple times
asciilifeform: instead of simple launder by usg.
asciilifeform: but usg would not sign off on it.
asciilifeform: but wtf woudl a usg lab care about speed.
mircea_popescu: no i mean, explain "which are bound to usgola".
asciilifeform: which are bound to usgola
asciilifeform: skip the ransomware, the usgola, etc.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429190 << this is sadly not much more than a restatement of the independent vertical credo, "where do i get just the facts". bear in mind that this vertical is a creation of the usg agitprop machine and nothing more. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.
asciilifeform: a usg fork exists to enrich usg. and i will have NO part in it.
asciilifeform: but i was speaking of value to usg looters.
asciilifeform: and half of what remains, as usg tax
asciilifeform: i am sick and tired of there being usg c/cpp code in the loop ANYWHERE.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428468 << again, anyone who wants to follow a usg fork, can do it without me. and who wants to use a prb fork of whatever variety or rationale, can do it without me. ditto halfcocked crud conceived to enrich chinese scum. ☝︎
asciilifeform: because not separable from usg in any meaningful way except - DEFINITIONALLY - by entering the wot and doing a LONG tour of duty as a Real Person
mircea_popescu: assbot> RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web << this is not an idle comment. google, like every other usg item, like usg collectively, was entrusted with great responsibility in many fields after the war.
mircea_popescu: what, next you're going to say we have actual proof the usg had been running a string of massive conspiracies, such as you know, inserting backdoors in software, such as "parallel construction", such as iran contra, such as whatever the hell.
asciilifeform: a difficult, thankless job, that is becoming usg-illegal, for decades , slowly
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 21:51:30; mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all.
mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the root of the matter is an elementary thing. google et al are deeply disinterested in cognition etc. but are paid for specific thing - solving the problem of usg needing an automated gestapo.
adlai: more technicaly commentary at https://www.youtube.com/user/USGOWeb/live and the game's moves on a clicky board where you can go back and forth at https://online-go.com/demo/114161
asciilifeform: it represents the side of usg mircea_popescu likes to bring up, the threadbare zimbabwe side.
asciilifeform: for one thing, usg would take ~half. and that would buy, wahat, a month of time.
danielpbarron: "do you disagree that X's corrosive attitude is a Bad Thing and subtracts from Y" is like a USG memo card for filipino spammers
asciilifeform: (usg recently jailed some schmuck for 'exporting secret' of fpga.)
assbot: pawns – Daniel P. Barron ... ( http://bit.ly/21UsGNi )
asciilifeform: even usg used to have such a custom.
asciilifeform: oh and if usg decides that you did not pay enough, you get charged double-triple post-facto.
asciilifeform: the way it works is that if i sold, e.g., 10k of coin, i get to give 4k to usg immediately.
asciilifeform: usg reads everything.
nubbins`: so, obviously usg is reading this right now
asciilifeform: what i don't want is its motion to add to my detectable usg taxability in any way.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i don't want any of my btc to feed usg.
asciilifeform: metal gets waterfalled with usg paper gold.
asciilifeform: and i'm not interested in it being scanned in usg mail, either.
asciilifeform: didja miss the part where i refuse to give ANY of it to usg?
asciilifeform: ^ usg says 'ty mp, have moar fine fresh printolade'
asciilifeform: the one thing i pointedly won't do with it is give it to usg.
mircea_popescu: dude wouldja stop with the usg shoehorning ?
asciilifeform: there was, e.g., no usg whitelist.
mircea_popescu: you and your twin anal and usg preoccupations.
asciilifeform: the interesting moment will be whe usg hyenas feast on the corpses,
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: incidentally, nowhere in volkischer beobachter will you find mention of the 100s of folks who mailed in offers to usg to root the pnohe with the very simple nand flash removal method.
asciilifeform: and costco is something other than usg ?
mircea_popescu: eh, costco is a more likely winner than usg.
asciilifeform: but i for one don't see anyone winning from this but usg.
mircea_popescu: eh, usg isn't even a player.
asciilifeform: if bitcoin is yielded to usg, with what is new one to be built?
asciilifeform: PeterL: the usg uni thing was originally a product of the 1950s wunderwaffen obsession, that has been fading since
asciilifeform: dunno about that, good chunk of mit income is direct usg grantolade
mircea_popescu: it is NOT a usg crown hedgefund anymore than romania was a soviet property.
asciilifeform: it's a usg crown hedgefund. in what sense does it not serve hitler ?
asciilifeform: wai wut i thought my delusion was that usg is everywhere
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 08:51:15; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413406 << basically us "college" chumpatron still experimenting with "what's the lowest qty of candy bar we give the cattle to keep getting the sweet sweet usg funds for them. like, out of the 100k per capita we get in fed funny money, what's the least we could dole out to the maggots in whose name the whole scheme is run ? maybe -100`000 in paper and $
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (for n00bz who think 'it is impossible to be sacked from usg' - it is actually very easy. one merely has to be employed as a contractor, of whom there is a dozen or two for every actual 'civil servant', and then you can be fired any hour.) << Or appointee (i.e. patronage position)
asciilifeform: for some reason, every orc has, flashed into his firmware, this secret dream of becoming usg bureaucrat.
asciilifeform: (for n00bz who think 'it is impossible to be sacked from usg' - it is actually very easy. one merely has to be employed as a contractor, of whom there is a dozen or two for every actual 'civil servant', and then you can be fired any hour.)
asciilifeform: though he worked for 58 years for usg and was in 'plum book' (emeritus, or whatever the heathens call it)
deedbot-: [Qntra] Government Accountability Office Declines To Offer Opinion On Worthless USG Finances - http://qntra.net/2016/03/government-accountability-office-declines-to-offer-opinion-on-worthless-usg-finances/
mircea_popescu: nah, usg doesn't figure into this as much as a prince albert.
asciilifeform: usg payola?
trinque: whether they intentionally sink the USD to try to push people onto a USGCoin, who knows.
asciilifeform: (what, it costs usg to print more 0s after decimal point ?)
mircea_popescu: well, basically the story of eth is, "what if we made a b-a, except not on irc but in a spare closet at a usg-sponsored university, and we tried to get idiot kids on reddit excited and inept javascript developers contributing code and MAKE A BETTER BITCOIN in the sense that it'll suck where bitcoin hurts us."
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-edny-029.pdf << lulz! apple 'wins'
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=27-02-2016#1416923 << this girl i'm rather fond of convinced me that it wasn't a half-bad way to spend thirty years while my brain rots building apps for various usg tentacles. ☝︎
asciilifeform: quite possibly everything else that usg does is preparation for this exam.
asciilifeform: usg has an interesting relationship with the thing
asciilifeform: the 'hot' folks managed to strangle the 'cold' for the usg pig trough fight, yes.
asciilifeform: proving that it is eminently possible to be eaten alive by fungus ~without~ working directly for usg.
mircea_popescu: there is really little cause to discuss usg behaviours in any other terms, and there's very good cause to NOT discuss it in the terms usg itself comes up with.
asciilifeform: 'DoJ is required to cloak NSA-CIA capabilities by pretending full sharing does not take place. Redacted and excluded filings and decisions by DoJ, district, appeal, SCOTUS and FISA courts along with open and classified executive orders by and POTUS, and best of all, classified contracts, implements this. ... Going to court melodramatizes and sanitizes the bung-holing (like USG v. Apple) with in camera, withholding, stonewalli
mircea_popescu: anyway. to continue the thought - the usg and its ephemera are deeply and fundamentally antifeminist. they hate women as individuals and aim to exploit them as a mass. this is EXACTLY the situation of black people in the antebellum south : hated as individuals, exploited as a group.