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mircea_popescu: so looking in the deep of the deepest of your soul!! and such, what would be the criteria one'd actually meet you'd respect
mircea_popescu: i don't remember seeing such penmanship since britney spears bio
mircea_popescu: take obama, he's not rich because he melted down the peace gold medal, he's rich because he bleed dry a quarter billion idiots.
mircea_popescu: after all, someone winning the nobel prize for actual merit is already independently well paid anyway.
mircea_popescu: this is supposed to work so as to humble the nobel idiocy, not necessarily as to make the recipient rich.
mircea_popescu: r3wt well being here works wonders to defuse such tension.
mircea_popescu: all we need is to agree on some gross criteria, then people construct a nominee list and all contributors vote on it
mircea_popescu: we collect a pot by donation, whoever wants to contribute. then the pot is on a fixed date distributed to one recipient.
mircea_popescu: which nobel prize story inspires me. shouldn't we have a yearly prize of some sort for some thing ?
mircea_popescu: totally worth a nobel prize for going "hey guise, wouldn't it be better if we ipo that shit ???"
mircea_popescu: ed. So in June 1929, a new plan was enacted, floating more U.S.-backed bonds and reducing Germany's payments to $28 billion paid out over 59 years.
mircea_popescu: In 1924, an American banker named Charles Dawes outlined what came to be known as the Dawes Plan — a new reparations agreement under which U.S. banks such as J.P. Morgan issued bonds to private investors on behalf of Germany, which agreed to pay them back when the money became due. Dawes won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on this plan. But when the first batch of bonds came due in 1928, Germany again default
mircea_popescu: nah, gotta keep publishing the logs to be just like the paris club or w/e.
mircea_popescu: that is actually the most suspicious thing from all you've dug up so far.
mircea_popescu: quoth birladeanu "here's in the soviet archives lenin recorded speaking of it"
mircea_popescu: quoty Kosighin "what gold ? we have never heard of such a gold"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania sent about a billion trillion tons of gold and shit back when russia was run by the tsar (and close ally / relative of the romanian king)
mircea_popescu: i wonder if germany is/will be told "fu, we're keeping the gold cause ww1"
mircea_popescu: that'd be roughly 30 to 50 or so thousand tons of gold, at the time
mircea_popescu: but anyway, we're talking 10 to 20 1930 bn dollars worth here.
mircea_popescu: well, that's the problem with ww1, for the first time in history governments became a majority of the gdp,
mircea_popescu: the entire thing ended in the 30s as perhaps the first major fiasco of the government-owned financial system.
mircea_popescu: this was being repaid after the war, principally from german reparations, which principally consisted of us loans to germany.
mircea_popescu: as in, all through the war the british were sucking captial out of the us, first in the form of cashing out their massive investments, then in the shape of borrowing.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, how many people know of the war debt carusel in the context of the 1929 crisis ?
mircea_popescu: or that they may contraband unapproved earrings in them, much to the anger and envy of all the other bored womenz ?
mircea_popescu: do you suppose the concern was they may enjoy them through both ends of the digestive canal
mircea_popescu: i had lunch today, the salad had cucumbers, they were pre sliced
mircea_popescu: clearly there's no cock involved in this entire thing at any juncture.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck would want two concubines dressed in exactly the same cut out of slightly different colored material but otherwise same textile,
mircea_popescu: i would guess your gb worth of footage is by and large worthless. curb your enthusiasm level.
mircea_popescu: there's only so much occupy bs the girls can put up with before eviscerating the doofus troop with their bare hands.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it COULD have had something to do with calculating machines
mircea_popescu: i'll show you i'm a convicted whore but hide my nipples and wear a slip!
mircea_popescu: it's little things like that that grate. otherwise arguing against the message...
mircea_popescu: completely contradicts all notions of ritual purity. they'd have cut his head outside and behind
mircea_popescu: i'd say that's the most improbable of the lot, actually.
mircea_popescu: if you had the option of running on a stairmaster or turning the meat grinder, what'd you take ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the meatgrinder thing ; it's well documented that people doing time get bored.
mircea_popescu: punkman there's some ethnic and geographic variation to it.
mircea_popescu: "many english girls will have their cute recidivist tattoos fed to them should they ever end up in kresty
mircea_popescu: many women could say "i've been around the block, there's no mp"