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mircea_popescu: that's okay, there's an oversupply of at least ten million doods patting each other on the back.
mircea_popescu: as bureaucracy always entrenches itself against any sort of downsizing, this is the only available method.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 renders bureaucracy too expensive and so the whole thing collapses.
mircea_popescu: "The attackers have most likely exploited an SQL Injection vulnerability."
mircea_popescu: litecoins worth usd, i still have trouble getting my head around it.
mircea_popescu: the fact that this is a surprise to anyone is the real surprise to no-one in particular.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, they only had one guy to answer to. all systems which are build around a spot where the buck stops outperforms systems bereft of such.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude srsly ? that guy was born in carolina and lived at harvard. the notion that he can be an academic, or intellectually respectable... how ?
mircea_popescu: sane minds applied to the same real problem yield similar results. german cars sort-of look like american cars for the reason that... well... road, wind, gravity...
mircea_popescu: just like... you know, acording to the soviet politburo the reason there was famine were the kulaks.
mircea_popescu: but that aside : global terrorism is the solution, not the problem. the government is the problem, and in characteristic fashion it tries to paint the solution as "the problem".
mircea_popescu: town doesn't even need evacuation, water is fine, all is well. just ask the jap govt.
mircea_popescu: so what of it ? tokio just got hit by a nuke, and they claim they didn't even notice it.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 i think a nuke will definitely be used too, whether in x time or not notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: yeah well. i'll propose to you that perhaps your anticipation is more a figment of your virginal fears than actual experience of the world.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean as a tourist. i mean in the bed of local women.
mircea_popescu: aka "the people that jealously guarded their baseless supremacy to the point their ruined the greatest empire in the world"
mircea_popescu: for that matter... xtians and arabs have been swapping womenz for > 900 years by now.
mircea_popescu: magically... there was no shortage of anything, nor any lack of quality.
mircea_popescu: i fail to see it. i didn't perceive much difference among the women i fucked when i lived in my own country or when i lived in countries nominally held by other people. suppose i visit france, wherein all MY women have already been overrun, specifically by the french.
mircea_popescu: truely this terrorism fighting concept has worked wonders, by the time you have european union citizens ready to bomb your shit on general principle.
mircea_popescu: so zee germans are going to start bombing us embassies in germany.
mircea_popescu: botch-schaft ? the germans have a name for the us intel ops by now ? like gesellschaft except without any gesell and with a boatload o' botch ?!
mircea_popescu: ;;rate diametric 1 mechanical engineer guy, S.NSA subcontractor
mircea_popescu: ;;gpg everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:2e6195d15b2c01a8966238fa3e5f01154ac275f02c4121bd6632669e
mircea_popescu: she gets you a pair of socks ? get her superluxury garter belts. exchange gifts
mircea_popescu: ultimate asshole thing to do : spy on what people get you for your bday
mircea_popescu: it comes from 5000 years of experience iwth the notion that "people yu don't know will likely rape you", something which comes full circle with the earlier discussion re cryptoscams.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it was ethnocentrism, like the way twop small towns hate each other's football team
mircea_popescu: only became cogent once transportation became possible.
mircea_popescu: racism is new in the sense that the observation that people belong to different races is new
mircea_popescu: he has copywright on hitler and monopoly on plastic doll manufacturing.
mircea_popescu: fuck you dude, i can't remember what i did with all my 50s
mircea_popescu: he can't remember what he did with the rest of the turds and wants me to pay 50 for the extant ones ?
mircea_popescu: "I made a handful of these a few years ago. I currently can only find 2. I may have given the rest away or sold them, I cant remember. I'm asking $50 each for them shipped in the lower48 (at bitstamp rate)."
mircea_popescu: you obviously couldn't have ended up the queen, as a black male.
mircea_popescu: sure you would. they had black people in 1500 england.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "Well I'm black. So I guess I wouldn't." lmao
mircea_popescu: and so no third party could in fact use the court of the government against the bank of the government.
mircea_popescu: also because b) the law is so written so that the government and its subsidiaries are immune from law,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's not in court because a) the court is a government subsidiary, and the government knows the bank is out of capital.
mircea_popescu: point remains tho, due dilligence does not go away. it is either done one way or the other, but it has to be done.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't mean you personally, at any point in this conversation, neither above (i was discussing the cofounder guy, whose responsibility it is whether he knows or not) nor here, it's not like you have to do due dilligence work if you have no experience, training or talent for it.
mircea_popescu: course if mr cotton had said "either you fill this bag with money or else i come with my lawyer and you'll have to fill HIS bag on top of mine, and on your own account"
mircea_popescu: when i bitch and whine that we need more ppl doing blogging well this is part of it. what are you to do ?
mircea_popescu: jurov this is true. you can practically either piggyback on me, piggyback on someone else, or else do it yourself.
mircea_popescu: we're not equal, even if we can type the same strings in a box they still aren't the same strings. depends whose name signs on them. we're not equal, even if two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.