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mircea_popescu: and also, maybe turkland renames istanbul back into coinstantinople-bit ?
mircea_popescu: i read it that way originally but then on reread... SCANDAL!
mircea_popescu: actually someone should make a comic staring LeCoin, the moustachy evil guy,
mircea_popescu: seeing how connoisseur isn't spelled that way, you should.
mircea_popescu: InceptionBit. The last billing service you'll ever use.
mircea_popescu: because b/v are ambiguous in like 1400. and so it'd be very clever yes?
mircea_popescu: benkay it's kinda funny for me to read you and bingobongo guy going at each other cause i know neither's an idiot
mircea_popescu: pankkake what tremendous effort anyway ? type /query mir/t ?
mircea_popescu: then they discover i don't bite heads off and well... goes from there.
mircea_popescu: it works both ways, too. people who'd otherwise be too shy to approach me because of all my ranting feel encouraged when they want to buy something.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not of the coercive school of ip rights management. as far as i'm concerned there should be some fundamentally sound, lightweight drm in place. if you have the werewithal to circumvent that and find this is something you wish to do, hey. you're an independent agent with a mind of your own.
mircea_popescu: i use paypal exclusively because i know better than to share cc details over electronic systems.
mircea_popescu: so your impending desocialisation suffered a setback :D
mircea_popescu: just because i have an apple in front of my window doesn't make the apple i eat off that tree not worth 1/4 euro or w/e thery sell for.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, 10 ips + 15 minutes of computer engineer time to set it all up, 100 dollars.
mircea_popescu: moreover, considering what it icosts, if cheating is time effective then i guess you weren't in the target anyway.
mircea_popescu: i don't care, the ips you use to cheat can't be used by others to cheat.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i vaguely recall they having an expiration date to protect people from the random "i visited my ex wife in missisiauga and loaded my cookie in the library computer. so now 57969543489 ppl use it"
mircea_popescu: wait, benkay doesn;'t have trilema subscription ?! when did that occur.
mircea_popescu: pankkake no actually, inaba put like 500 btc on the original bfl delivery bet.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if some schmuck ends world hunger i will have a starving slave in my basement at all time. the girls can rotate fasting weekly or w/e.
mircea_popescu: russians send 10 more bn worth of gear, start over in 10 years.
mircea_popescu: spend 10 trillion to do 10 billion worth of damage. whoopdedoo.
mircea_popescu: i bet you you could do what they do on half the money :D
mircea_popescu: that is irrelevant for most people. ineffectual in this context means they don't do what people want them to do, not that they don't do what they themselves set out to do.
mircea_popescu: no, no, pun is great. it just never occured to anyone before.
mircea_popescu: when you hear white rich people talk about anarchy all they mean is, our governments have become very large, very expensive, very ineffectual and very stupid. people want to get rid of them.
mircea_popescu: anyway. what you think of anarchy, ie, proper anarchy, and what pasty ass white boys imagine anarchy is are very VERY different things.