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mircea_popescu: "I have not been able to get a hold of Sam in over a week. I have talked to TheSeven over Skype and I can't speak for him but I feel that we are reaching the point where the Labcoin team being absent is just not even close to OK anymore."
mircea_popescu: * bagholder is now known as freshcoin << saving this for the recquord, quoted for truth, so very apt etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't hate everything us, i fuck us chicks like weekly.
mircea_popescu: next would of course be the mass jailing of microsoft. "failed to secure your product, life w/o possibility"
mircea_popescu: i kinda like the idea. "secure your line or go to jale".
mircea_popescu: arrest is this very peculiar sort of remedy. the mps are the gentry of the land, and the police state doth not get to mess with the gentry. because the gentry owns the government not the other fucking way around.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you realise "cant be arrested" != "can't be prosecuted" right ?
mircea_popescu: o shit, nubsy, you make shirts baby ? i got something for you
mircea_popescu: besides, in romania you can murder someone and as long as its your first offense you usually get a suspended sentence.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine the damage he does comes chiefly through mowing down people in a van... you're at least naive.
mircea_popescu: he can be detained, but he'll walk right out of that the next day and presumably climb right into his spare van
mircea_popescu: maybe my memory is confused and common law never had that priviledge,
mircea_popescu: "Members of parliament may be arrested or otherwise deprived of their freedom, or face restrictions thereof, only with the permission of the desk of their assembly. "
mircea_popescu: but the only way to arrest a mp is to get permission from the respective parliament
mircea_popescu: sure, if there's a brawl the police will come in and knock people over heads.
mircea_popescu: "Caroline Lucas, Britain’s only Green Party member in Parliament, was led away by police from a sit-in at the gates of a drilling site near the village of Balcombe and put in a police van."
mircea_popescu: Eight members of Congress were arrested during a Tuesday immigration rally on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall.
mircea_popescu: to quote some guy on some irc channel, "the island where i live had two moose couples introduced. now there's 150k of them"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's risky, but by no means not guaranteed failure.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem ThickAsThieves gets his first real taste of bitcoin business sudden rush of wtfomg these days.
mircea_popescu: so i use some random online service. it does w/e well. i shoot the guy an email asking for his bitcoin addy because i want to send him some cents as encouragement.
mircea_popescu: mod6 you know... peopel announcing other people teamed up with them is scarcely usavble to impugn those other people.
mircea_popescu: <Jere_Jones> I'm not sure I'd care to pay the 30BTC fee to have an account on MPEx. << yuou can just use a borker.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> the irony here being that I planned to take mp aside to discuss the possibility of such things BEFORE they happened... << don't worry, it's how it works. I had made plans back in january and announced ppl about my conference last year, so as to make it BEFORE BTCprice went up. scheduled it for april, asshole btc went up in march.
mircea_popescu: fior that matter if you take 1 year it goes from 5 to 130, ie, 6000%
mircea_popescu: no, there's legends. btc supposedly made 800% while the rest of the stuff 30
mircea_popescu: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."
mircea_popescu: Vexual always a good idea to keep in mind that people talking binds nobody. including the people themselves most of the time.