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mircea_popescu: the problem with this, of course, is that the us produces exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, stealing as the old regime is dieing is pure harpagon nonsense
mircea_popescu: the only way theft is worth it is if you steal the various factories/other means of production just as the new regime is coming into power.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno. some people stole soviet nuke subs. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: magistral pipeline going through gypsy encampments loses about 1 milibar per mile.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you're going to make a pile of vinyl siding ? grand.
mircea_popescu: so te plan is for a robocleptocratic bourbon heistin' government ?
mircea_popescu: which by now through regulation costs more than it's worth anyway.
mircea_popescu: apple doesn't repatriate it's currency holdings. nobody else is. there's literally nothing there, you can steal the real estate if you wish the hassle of running it
mircea_popescu: i know you're not female and therefore lack the requisite apparatus, but... YOU NEVER KNOW
mircea_popescu: "I know that your site is not running on wordpress but you never know." this is possibly the winner.
mircea_popescu: basically bitstamp is going to get deluged into requests to do weird manual things to their incoming.
mircea_popescu: what's the big deal about admitting to various kinks ?
mircea_popescu: i thot the internet way of looking at things was more like "thanks goodness the girl doesn't exist, because i love her"
mircea_popescu: it was somewhat known due to german fascination with weird vhs
mircea_popescu: afaik bukkake only became a household... item in the mid 90s
mircea_popescu: the mtgox price chart looks like a free oscillator in action
mircea_popescu: dub "they don't need this" has afaik never stopped any public expenditure to date.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdurr just a thought. they're spending a shitton on advanced robotics research atm
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdurr this will sound corny, but, you should really talk to the chinese/koreans
mircea_popescu: yes. it was as stupid as only a 20yo ancient bitcoin user could have conceived.
mircea_popescu: i wish i could still say the same, but at least as far as paper valuations are concerned...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, wait. on paper no eu government reserves the right to refuse a passport for "national security or foreign policy reasons"
mircea_popescu: or being deemed likely to cause “serious damage to the national security or the foreign policy of the United States.”
mircea_popescu: also, people, you have ruined my fucking life. I go spend half a day in my dungeon knee deep in blossoming adolescent pussy, come back, read the log and regret i missed out on all the fun.
mircea_popescu: they don't want to be rich, and they don't want to be powerful. they just want to... be.
mircea_popescu: they wish "to be part of" various things. such as "change", "progress", "the solution" and not "the problem" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you misunderstand the religious impulse animating most of the web crowd.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic : we need peer to peer distributed faith, brah.
mircea_popescu: that thread was funny, apparently buncha people got the message.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to quote some clever young gent for your benefit, "There are way to many companies like this in Bitcoin. We need to stop supporting these crooked business practices if we want bitcoin to succeed."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell tulak_ one idea is to get into the wot. read gribble's info on that.
mircea_popescu: well then, i totally claim dibs on the whole concept of using innocent if luscious pretty young thing's mating heews and haws for computational purposes.
mircea_popescu: investor went for 5% and then a large buy appeared. it took a while to sell but i think over ~6 months it mostly bought like 2/3 or so
mircea_popescu: basically the deal on the table was either 5% for X premium or 10% for Y premium, Y > X.
mircea_popescu: kleeck: why is there an mpoe wall? << ancient artefact since the days mpoe took an investor this spring.
mircea_popescu: lolerskates: starting my 6 months of lurking now << ahaha this is too good.