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mircea_popescu: awww!
mircea_popescu: there's never going to be a "proper" font of rights, and consequently any statement as to their origin is pretty much the same thing.
mircea_popescu: there's not much difference between claiming god gave you some right or you just have some right or you gave it yourself or whatever else.
mircea_popescu: i think this is largely a semantic issue.
mircea_popescu: what political system is not at some point claiming some metaphysical entrenchment ?
mircea_popescu: that's universal tho
mircea_popescu: kinda how that entire locket tradition got started.
mircea_popescu: as a show that if you fuck this one his daddy's prolly gonna have your arse.
mircea_popescu: towards the mid phase they had invented the habit of putting gold on the kid's necks
mircea_popescu: largely unresolved by the fall of athens
mircea_popescu: dub i didn't pick that example by accident. it was pretty much the largest civil issue in greece.
mircea_popescu: but nobody had the authority to ban smoking, or invent pedophilia as an offense
mircea_popescu: city ordinances came from senators
mircea_popescu: smickles is an entire "law of men / law of gods" issue there
mircea_popescu: dub another way to say this would be that your outlook is more grounded in fashion and ignorance than literacy.
mircea_popescu: the idea of a state without the power to legislate is quite appealing, actually. pretty much the onl;y way "the state" can work is if it can make no laws and raise no taxes.
mircea_popescu: in the classical republic the laws were "always there". some mystical origin or whatever.
mircea_popescu: dub they don't, basically.
mircea_popescu: with the unnotable exception of contemporary authors.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone agrees democracy = disaster, as in, wrose than tyrrany
mircea_popescu: democracy is where the will of the mob prevails.
mircea_popescu: traditionally the republic is the place where the laws prevail
mircea_popescu: i dig the skittles one
mircea_popescu: at which point the show ends.
mircea_popescu: yeah. and the fate of democracy is for those politicians to observe that they can squander othe people's money.
mircea_popescu: dub this majority rule thing is no panacea
mircea_popescu: still under -.-
mircea_popescu: fuck
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00070767 * 1000000000 * 69.81455
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: !ticker m s.mpoe
mircea_popescu: ahh, i nearly forgot. the moment i've long awaited :
mircea_popescu: indeed that is how profits look
mircea_popescu: http://mpex.co/?mpsic=O.BTCUSD.C450T
mircea_popescu: a the weekend is coming huh
mircea_popescu: could this be the end of the climb ?
mircea_popescu: hmm calls closing ?
mircea_popescu: he has the hat.
mircea_popescu: incredible similarity
mircea_popescu: lol invest in gold!
mircea_popescu: whodda thunk it, seriously now
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/295/btc-usd-will-top-68-in-2013/
mircea_popescu: you're evil.
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: how come ?
mircea_popescu: don't be racist.
mircea_popescu: ya but those are mostly sociopaths anyway
mircea_popescu: still progress has occured
mircea_popescu: and live under the impression that while you walk the earth with the retarded brain of the spanish faithful cca 1500
mircea_popescu: you can build a construct of pure evil
mircea_popescu: that's the great progrss here : by detaching nigger-ness from skin color, slovenly-sluttyness from cuntal lips and everything from everything else
mircea_popescu: smickles smokers are sociopaths
mircea_popescu: they just hate sociopaths and that's all ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, am i the only one amused at the circumstance that the silly left has vanquished all hatespeech, they don't hate niggers, spics or spans anymore
mircea_popescu: ha!
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: i just hate you cause you're a sociopath that's all
mircea_popescu: what, you're black !?
mircea_popescu: haha
mircea_popescu: i think dub is a leftie
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155098.msg1656127#msg1656127 o boy watch the silver butthurt nao.
mircea_popescu: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-21/us-begins-regulating-bitcoin-will-consider-virtual-transactions-money-laundering << basically zerohedge is the new zeroclue ?
mircea_popescu: hello notal
mircea_popescu: if someone bought calls when the price was 40 implying 50 they're golden
mircea_popescu: not necessarily
mircea_popescu: it doesn't think much of the rally lately does it.
mircea_popescu: im sorry. 6 not 12
mircea_popescu: smickles if you think about it, 1 week oix is across lines for 12 days out of 30
mircea_popescu: smickles it'd be shit tho casue it'd mix across opex lines i think
mircea_popescu: i'm like sure... all the many thousand dollars' worth of it
mircea_popescu: today is like hey... is my stuff still there ?!
mircea_popescu: divs accumulating
mircea_popescu: then made a mpex acct back then, had shares transfgerred there
mircea_popescu: this bitcoin surge is pretty cool in that it drives people back to btc. this person invested in mpoe on the first round (feb 2012)
mircea_popescu: dub then why are you surcharging buddies
mircea_popescu: you're a vanishing minority.
mircea_popescu: (op = other party)
mircea_popescu: still.
mircea_popescu: dub it'd depend on your op neh ?
mircea_popescu: unbalanced just filter out dtng you'll be fine
mircea_popescu: not a crime.
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: wtf!
mircea_popescu: what, not 80 yet ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like hft
mircea_popescu: soon enough btctalk will be fully robotized
mircea_popescu: smickles lol
mircea_popescu: actually most of her job consists on reading, selecting and summarizing the nonsense people post there.
mircea_popescu: http://mpex.co << spanish faq too
mircea_popescu: dub she's pr, obviously she dioesn;'t compose her own poetry over there.
mircea_popescu: seriously.
mircea_popescu: re bitfinex prolly check out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140484.0
mircea_popescu: also jurov runs a broker website (coinbr.com) and i think he's doing something with futures too
mircea_popescu: unbalanced there's mpex pass-through vehicles pretty much on all three
mircea_popescu: i mean, they wanted 300k got about half of it so far ?
mircea_popescu: cavirtex is doing just fine i'd say.
mircea_popescu: Namworld asicminer is blown.
mircea_popescu: this is what a blown ipo looks like.
mircea_popescu: cavirtex got more in a day than asicmienr in two weeks.