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funkenstein_: as
to whether
the defenseless, or any item at all, has value- see open market for
that
punkman: funkenstein_: maybe cultural exchange will involve getting fucked by
tentacles for
the next 10,000 years
funkenstein_: For a prompt
to imagine how
this might work, see "Accelerondo" - Charles Stross (megabook)
assbot: Logged on 06-09-2015 22:29:25;
trinque: or what, if aliens landed, you
think
they'd want some kind of cultural exchange, rather
than
to scrape whatever
they like out of
the earth's crust and ocean,
then depart?
shinohai: Did
that n6 guy who was
trying
to build gentoo and get in wot ever come back with a new name?
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell Belxjander you haven't actually fixed your connection.
punkman: for a while you'd see items priced $0.1 and rest of price in shipping costs, which worked
to minimize fees.
punkman: which is why I sometimes find sellers website/email and
transact away from ebay
punkman: pete_dushenski: ebay just sells flat-rate ads. << ebay still
takes 10% fee on final price (up
to $1k or something). and
that's before paypal fees. not for cars
though.
☟︎ davout: thestringpuller: haha such nice
troll
mats: hes on
the casting couch holding
the cam for
that woman in front of
the whiteboard
pete_dushenski: ya, makes remittances look cheap. so where's
the fat rich white guy sitting in his newoldporsche on
the phoundation's website ?
pete_dushenski: i imagine a wire
transfer would be
the only reasonable course of action here
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pete_dushenski: "Billiards Suite • $4,000/night • sleeps 2 • Our most booked suite!
This suite includes exclusive use of
the billiards room for 8 hours, plus an adjoining hotel room.
This is
the most asked for suite in
The Mansion for events, as you can sleep (if you choose) or play billiards on a $150,000 classic billiards
table." << via o mansion's absurdly bad www
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 04:55:15; asciilifeform: i suspect
that
the day is not far when lotteries
turn into 'lifetime walmart gift card' instead of usd
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> unsurprising
that scum wipes his arse with
the money. <<
that's one angle, and valid.
the other angle, perhaps equally valid, is
that prisoner kept in prison since birth has imagination of life outside, is let out, in a world much akin
the prison inside, goes berserk.
pete_dushenski: i'd already been
to most of
the rest of europe, so baltic was somewhere new
pete_dushenski: also of rented apartement in jewish quarter in riga, which had
the most beautiful interior staircase with
the most divinely baroque wrought iron handrails.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 02:31:58; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
http://imgur.com/a/GIDeo << i went
there
today. and
this is how i imagine your old house looks like.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 04:00:35; mircea_popescu: in
the 50s a bank CLERK lived in roughly what alf
thinks palatial.
mircea_popescu: nah. see problem
there wasd,
they destroyed more stuff
than killed people.
mircea_popescu: but
that's all gone now. people aren't willing
to kill each other so
they'll get packed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i expect
this will be
the permanent normal mode of living from noiw on anyway.
mats: sharing
toilet with four others does suck,
though. but small price
to pay
to hold onto more wages
mats: and i expect
to do so again in a year or so
mircea_popescu: makes
the collegiate campus a winner. especially at arizona state.
mats: it becomes 2x per sqm
to get so much as 30mins from work?
trinque: they will destroy
the currency and fail
trinque: the gov of
texas
talked openly about secession
throughout his
term.
trinque: how many years do you
think
the federal govt has left?
trinque: you just feel
that way, and wait for
the other
thing
to fail.
trinque: everyone of consequence in
TX hates
the federal government.
trinque: yeah, but you just don't run into
them.