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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 2011 tho. you gotta understand, it was sort-of like atc.
mircea_popescu: basically the concept of altcoin matched just perfectly on the preexisting pump and dump thing.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so it puts unfunded bids on the book ?!
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> order will get executed at that price even if their are better bids << ahahaha WHAT
mircea_popescu: i think we should ban kakobrekla because he is slanderous.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mebbe so. even if he had tho... he'd still be underwater atm
mircea_popescu: china likely won't retaliate and that's the whole story.
mircea_popescu: decimation not quite. the russians would retaliate against the us and eu, the us would probably retaliate against china,
mircea_popescu: "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon."
mircea_popescu: o looky, wikipedia finally running out of bandwidth ?!
mircea_popescu: this is in fact the laser pointer argument all over again. the earth is very large. nukes are rather limited. see
mircea_popescu: jurov the guarantee isn't that no city will be hit. in fact as i say above, at least one already has.
mircea_popescu: according to tokio administration, everything is and has been ok.
mircea_popescu: moreover, practically : tokyo was hit worse than if the us had actually detonated a large nuclear warhead.
mircea_popescu: really, they'll kill a fly ? and douse everyone in there in carcinogenics ?
mircea_popescu: in 2013 nuclear warheads are about as useful as DTT bombs in an apple model store.
mircea_popescu: one that's not tailored to the last lost war and its constraints.
mircea_popescu: one of the reason this sovereign beats that sovereign is that it has a better definition of sovereignity.
mircea_popescu: decimation not really, it's an expensive and dirty foothold.
mircea_popescu: a sovereign is a sovereign, it will do anything it may deem worth doing.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids war lite. people shooting each other with small arms as if it were burbank.
mircea_popescu: so i can totally see arizona liberated by the las vegas cocksucker tribe.
mircea_popescu: including a certain high ranking chick the french king.
mircea_popescu: jurov famished as they are, they'll be prolly beaten off with a stick
mircea_popescu: decimation incidentally, you know how late venice resolved the problem of french invaders ?
mircea_popescu: obviously should the russians, chinese, saudi, israelis etc etc actually want to set foot
mircea_popescu: i doubt us people will actually want russian boots in pennsylvania
mircea_popescu: that's how medieval italy played out, except everyone inside blamed everyone for doing it
mircea_popescu: no argument that it will probably get bloody around this argument rather than any other,
mircea_popescu: or review the legal history of the concept of nullification
mircea_popescu: except the only point of history n the us is the defeating of such a construct.
mircea_popescu: the us is a large, federal (as opposed to national) construct.
mircea_popescu: decimation peaceful transition is experimentally a function of ethnic and cultural homogenity and size.
mircea_popescu: davout i like preaching to the converted, they have the best cleavage.
mircea_popescu: this is why attacking the currency is so paramountly important.
mircea_popescu: it's only stable for as long as there's no new technology.
mircea_popescu: the us is the civil service, like any socialist state, the bureaucracy.
mircea_popescu: so basically... the press is just living off handouts, the academia mostly wishes to circlejerk undisturbed, has first dibs on available cash and otherwise grumbles but is thankful if resources dwindle
mircea_popescu: not because the guy orders them killed, but because the guy is actrually smarter than them, and breaks off their metaphorical arms and beats them into a pulp with them
mircea_popescu: but if they get caged with a head of civil service they get wiped.
mircea_popescu: this, i am convinced, is the situation of the us academia : they tell each other they're smart,
mircea_popescu: the man passed for an idiot in their theoretical writings, he owns them on the floor. not because of a threat of violence, but through simple intellectual superiority.
mircea_popescu: it summarizes a book, which is mostly built on the stenographs of romania's dictator and sole source of power,
mircea_popescu: the academia has... you know, the exact power of romania's "dissident" "inteligentsia"