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mircea_popescu: gotta "make it newsworthy" huh. the conspiracy of government and press.
mircea_popescu: once i fell with my car into the snow, had to have it pulled out my a military truck
mircea_popescu: they probably had some snow around the carpathians bend, but hey.
mircea_popescu: then again, im in the part of romania where the fig tree grows wild.
mircea_popescu: i can take a shot out the window if you want, but basically it just snowed enough to be cute
mircea_popescu: jborkl it never was ? got a light coat, mebbe two inches
mircea_popescu: "This video contains content from VEVO. It is restricted from playback on certain sites."
mircea_popescu: i think entire retirements will consist of strictly cataloguing the insanity that went on back in this day.
mircea_popescu: i don't go for the entire "hello my face is a pancake" thing
mircea_popescu: yeah. english has it but it's mostly... unknown so to speak.
mircea_popescu: jeden nikdy nevie = nu se stie niciodata. a sti, to know, se stie is roughly the subjonctive. so the function is done by the verb rather than by a pronoun.
mircea_popescu: ja ma mi, so jenen is in fact "one". romanian doesn't have it. there's cineva = somebody, but there's no "one" as an impersonal Is person.
mircea_popescu: haha. depends. ok, how do you say "she drinks my drink" ?
mircea_popescu: turns out the slovaks invented all teh romanian jokes :D
mircea_popescu: so i take it slovak policemen go around in pairs because one can read, one can write, too, right ?
mircea_popescu: they seem more inclined to take out the us socialist government.
mircea_popescu: "We don't trust anything anymore. Not even the banking institutions," Partcha said. "I had saved in dollars, and when the banks froze deposits in 2001, I got pesos back and lost my money."
mircea_popescu: but don't worry, i'll tell it again so it becomes funny.
mircea_popescu: "Hmm... so many chinese... where the fuck do we burry them all ?!"
mircea_popescu: at which point the local troop is taken aback and they turn around to speak among themselves
mircea_popescu: "But do you realise the great nation of Han is over a billion strong ? That the US falls over itself to do whatever we tell them to ? That we can call under arms about a quarter billion people within two weeks ?"
mircea_popescu: "Hello nice people. Did you send us a declaration of war ?!"
mircea_popescu: eventualy they discover it's a province of Romania and not even autonomous, so they tell their ambassador at Bucharest to go on a trip to Caracal and see what in the fuck.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are kind-of shocked, spend about a week trying to find large enouygh maps so this Oltenia is shiwn on them
mircea_popescu: so, one day these guys (about 2mn total) declare war to china.
mircea_popescu: there's this ethnic group in romania, living in Oltenia (the south west), called olteni. they have a reputation of being sorta hillbilly-ish.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just because most of their city is undeveloped doesn't mean it's not a city now :D
mircea_popescu: truffles whatcha lolling at ? here's a fun fact : Slovakia : 18,933 sq miles (49,036 km²) ; LA : 33,954 sq mi (87,490 km2)
mircea_popescu: KRS1 well that may have something to do with 0 people using mtgox you know.
mircea_popescu: anyay, this has been enough excitement for one day. take care all!
mircea_popescu: they're 99% certain looking at some exchange hotwallet.
mircea_popescu: if they get the 42k value by looking at which addresses those 2 btc were spent
mircea_popescu: lol is this the nut with the "fix your harddrive spin" nonsense /
mircea_popescu: Since domains are extremely cheap to obtain with Namecoin, and registered domains cannot be seized (they can only be transferred by their owner), Namecoin has had problems with cybersquatters buying up domains, hoping to resell them later for a profi
mircea_popescu: lol there's going to be the piss-mp-off gem on the fgorum, people buying it from each other on the grounds that any day now it'll piss me off
mircea_popescu: i have more like a 6 months span on stuff that far on the periphery
mircea_popescu: a, no. it's just more recent than i've been paying attention.
mircea_popescu: otr ensures you that your messages can only be read at one point on the network, and that once the conversation is ended anyone could have written it.