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mircea_popescu: so in this sense, all military operations are against people.
mircea_popescu: in fact, im not even sure i fucked a romanian this year.
mircea_popescu: it used to mean shomething, 500 years ago. now i'm more likely to fuck a foreign chick than a local one.
mircea_popescu: oh my game was "M.A.X: Mechanized Assault and Exploration"
mircea_popescu: this is true. "we know where you live". whats the tank good for ?
mircea_popescu: if you read that facebook explanation of the thing in the ukraine, the guy clearly states that the police did not dare intervene in force chiefly becayse "we know where they live and would have killed them off one by one"
mircea_popescu: benkay im saying that things such as nukes, and tanks, and so on are grossly unimportant anymore.
mircea_popescu: benkay i doubt that'll end up mattering. as it is right now, nobody cares who can ride horses or owns a pair of chaps
mircea_popescu: when in fact the room should have been full of suits suddenly realising that the guillotine is for them.
mircea_popescu: on of ongoing legal proceedings Abitibi had against the province, and the blocking of access to Newfoundland’s courts by Abitibi.
mircea_popescu: The company closed its paper mill in Stephenville, Newfoundland in 2005, and announced in 2008 that it would also close its plant in Grand Falls-Windsor. The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly promptly passed legislation expropriating AbitibiBowater's assets in the province. This included the cancellation of “water and hydroelectric contracts and agreements” between the province and Abitibi, the cancellati
mircea_popescu: (obv the russian govt side would very much argue that they did a splendid job, protected it via diplomacy.)
mircea_popescu: the russians even weren't able to protect the claims of their oligarchs in cyprus
mircea_popescu: who is going to send in the army, ww1 style, to protect your claims
mircea_popescu: nubbins` soyouthink some canadian penny stock is so much better ?
mircea_popescu: repudiation is the unilateral rejection of a claim. like what companies do on havelock,
mircea_popescu: and moreover, even if they strike it big, repudiation is a major concern.
mircea_popescu: benkay amusingly, it's exactly the same thing, because of the huge capital barriers involved.
mircea_popescu: i kinda tried to give an abstraction, pretty much all countries with explorable land do some variant of it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` aren't you describing the exact same thing ? :)
mircea_popescu: randomcloud i used to have a well paid consultancy before bitcoin swallowed me.
mircea_popescu: randomcloud im a businessman. i know business. it's what i do.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all fields have a few majors in this business.
mircea_popescu: once a claim is actually worth enough, the majors buy them out.
mircea_popescu: the smarter and luckier actually get exploration companies together, which have possibly valuable claims.
mircea_popescu: the idiots, who are people who wish to strike it big, take all the risk and go camp in the wild, whittling their lives away fighing the impossible odds of nature.
mircea_popescu: the way the exploration market works is, the governments holding explorable land spend some public money on support services for idiots. like i dunno, geologist support.
mircea_popescu: provided you have the sense to identify which shares are worth holding in the first place.
mircea_popescu: currently it's riskier to hold fiat shares than it is to hold bitcoin shares
mircea_popescu: and in fact there's more of them today than 200 years ago, because we keep dumping all this organic and iron into the ocean
mircea_popescu: sort of way cooler dune, and it had hotseat multiplayer
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid i loved a game, something like 3max or somesuch. it consisted basicalyl of this, you built robot metallic things, and fought over land an water against enemies.
mircea_popescu: yeah but you'll need a coupla aircraft carriers + a bunch of nuke subs
mircea_popescu: nevertheless it's a fact that oxygen saturation in atmosphere has been dropping for the past coupla centuries.
mircea_popescu: and while the "Carbon" preoccupation is laughable on the part of hte "climate scientists", ie the dudes dressed in white coats on tv screens,
mircea_popescu: lar system is free oxygen. If there will ever be a "peak" in the inputs to hydrocarbon combustion in the solar system it will be in free oxygen -- which as a natural occurence is extremely rare beyond Earth's atmosphere, and is rather expensive to make artificially.
mircea_popescu: Some perspective, even some purely theoretical perspective, is in order. If we look at the problem at the scale of the solar system, we find that hydrocarbons are remarkably common -- Titan has clouds and lakes of ethane and methane, for example, and there are trillions of tonnes of hydrocarbons, at least, to be found on comets and in the atmospheres and moons of the gas giant planets. What is far more scarce in the so
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones bitcoin has proven leaders you see. max keiser et co :D
mircea_popescu: the problem is they have the unmitigated audacity to pretend like they know what they're talking about.
mircea_popescu: totally infantile these people. and i mean, the bitcoinwife being a clueless bint is one thing
mircea_popescu: the20year idiot zonehenge "karpeles quits bf, price plumets"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because for w/e reason you don't perceive it as a burden
mircea_popescu: business is a burden, children are a burden, womenz are a burden, fucking eating is a burden
mircea_popescu: cazalla i would guess the gimmick is that btc/satoshi is the husband
mircea_popescu: people with any smarts need to be convinced to start blogs. people who already have blogs... dun wanna use the noggin. it's a dilemma.
mircea_popescu: there's like fiddy billion of these retards who think they matter in btc because they have no life, and so they "live for bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: i had no idea how well my follow list protects me on twitter.