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williamdunne: One for the translator, one for the notary, and one for me
williamdunne: Then three copies had to be done
williamdunne: 62 pages translated to RO
williamdunne: Recently I had the pleasure of having a legalized translation done
shinohai: well that's something at least.
williamdunne: shinohai: corporate stamps are still a thing
williamdunne: punkman: you can send and receive encrypted and signed emails to and from your relationship manager.
shinohai: lets just all go back to wax seals and signet rings.
fluffypony: they're the way of the future
shinohai: Do they have someone writing out keys on bankslips?
punkman: how do they use GPG then?
williamdunne: The whole apostille thing is fuckheaded as well
williamdunne: bank has notarized + apostilled documents certifying GPG key owned by me. bank uses GPG. bank requires documents to be signed in front of a notary and apostilled and won't accept GPG signatures. wao. fiat word sux
shinohai: Oh well, be the change and all.
fluffypony: it's just that nobody is listening
shinohai: I see change.org as simply an outlet for the masses to feel as if they are inspiring social change.
cazalla: "More than 285,000 people have backed an online petition on change.org, an international website that hosts campaigns, calling on President Vladimir Putin to revoke the decision and hand the food to people in need. " this change.org shit is recurring recently, i come across it even in the local rag
assbot: SABR.io Identifies Illegal Activity on Blockchains, Willing to Work With Law Enforcement - Bitcoinist.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1HFyha3 )
shinohai: funded by teh guv http://bitcoinist.net/sabr-io-identifies-illegal-activity-blockchains-willing-work-law-enforcement/
punkman: cazalla: yeah but not where you can see them
cazalla: i would think just about every bakery has some cockies punkman
shinohai: Because I'm too lazy to go out this morning, bagels and coffee at home.
punkman: I've never seen such a thing before
punkman: went to the bakery, was thinking about buying a donut, then a cockroach looked at me through the donut hole
cazalla: looking at tassie property.. come across all but abandoned laboratory in the middle of nowhere in the middle of tasmania, maybe perfect for asciilifeform types? ☟︎
assbot: ~44% of Bitcoin mining hash power is currently voting to support 8 MB blocks. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1IYfFmz )
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 21:34:56; trinque: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1SL
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1235245 <<< sorta mirrors the growth in the blockchain size ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 21:47:42; mircea_popescu: how exactly did some us black guy get his "we" to include i presume egyptians, which weren't black while he wasn't in africa, is anyone's guess.
punkman: I wonder if any miners are doing this systematically
punkman: "GAW Miners failed to pay for months of electrical provision as well as infrastructure installation. The utility initially sought $346,647.29 plus interest and court fees."
punkman: "Lipkin also agreed to give up a vacation home in Delray Beach, Florida as part of his plea deal, but he was allowed to keep another home in New Jersey, his stamp collection and another Red Skelton painting."
punkman: "Irwin Lipkin, 77, agreed he owes the government a Rolex watch, a well-known painting by Red Skelton and $170 billion cash on Monday, and was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday"
scoopbot_revived: Microsoft Issues Third Generation Anti-Stuxnet Patch http://qntra.net/2015/08/microsoft-issues-third-generation-anti-stuxnet-patch/ ☟︎
asciilifeform: (one can debate whether it is proper to speak of a millikan in a subject without experimentals, like mathematics. but overall anybody who fogs brains with his auctoritas while even in the grave, is a millikan)
asciilifeform: almost a pons asinorum for basic literacy in $subject - 'name the millikans.'
asciilifeform: or three
asciilifeform: that's kinda the one i think of automatically
mircea_popescu: one must remember the fabled charge of the electorn measurements.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, lest we be too harsh on the social pseudoscientists that gotta eat,
asciilifeform: (there is also the 'impenetrably obscure' flavour of 'uncontroversy')
mircea_popescu: where "uncontroversial" = fit the political agenda
asciilifeform: filtered or fudged but which remain undetected because the end results were correct. Still more contain honest errors that went undetected because the overall results were valid or the error was peripheral to the main point of the paper.'
asciilifeform: " ... ... Lots of emphasis on stereotyping, how we construct reality, and so on. Nothing that challenges the basic assumptions of social scientists at all. And that's really how he got away with it. He reported what his colleagues expected to see. ... There are probably tons of articles in the scientific literature based on faked data, and undetected because the results were uncontroversial. There are many more where data were
asciilifeform: 'One of the juicier scientific scandals of recent times involves Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel, who admitted to fabricating many of his research results. A full list of Stapel's falsified articles hasn't been published, but the titles of some of his articles (some of which may not be tainted) offer insights. The article that outed him was "Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination.
assbot: Spargatorii si curva on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UBZaVo )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/spargatorii-si-curva/ there.
mircea_popescu: you recall, the whores.
asciilifeform: (the drugs are cheap and their theft is no serious loss to the shop)
asciilifeform: the safes existed to begin with on account of usg fiat
mircea_popescu: or at least a story on my blog tends to support this theory.
mircea_popescu: and the people who actually have the whole story do not reaslly employ safes
mircea_popescu: safe, like fighter jet , is not the whole story.
asciilifeform once visited a shop, not far from home, which sold gigantic safes. most of the pre-owned units were from pharmacies, and some had catalogues of the contents still glued to inside of door
mircea_popescu: you'l lhave to get it at a major hospital.
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of "insecuridad" these folks. like they live with the vikings or something.
asciilifeform: also sold for the asking ?
asciilifeform: what of classical dopes, of the 'down' or 'up' kinds, either
mircea_popescu: and once i knew that, he had no further questions)
mircea_popescu: (if anyone is curious - yes the pharmacist tested me. he asked "what dosage ?" and i said uh... 100... maybe 50, no, not really. 80 ? turns out he had 60, 90 and 120. because 50 is not really quite enough and 100 is maybe a little too much, but if those are the options go for 100
mircea_popescu: meanwhile usians with the same sort of problem get substandard care in the shape of cox-1&2 inhibitors in massive dossage.
mircea_popescu: for their effectual purpose, good for a decade or more.
mircea_popescu: and this was produced by merck. for "export", ie, "to be sold in sane countries"
asciilifeform: how will pharma execs snort coke from golden toilets if prescribing were not forever, aha
mircea_popescu: msotly banned because the idiots prescribed them like they prescribe anything, "forever", and they don't work forever.
asciilifeform: who still makes them ?
mircea_popescu: but i happen to speak that language.
mircea_popescu: in this vein : went to pharmacy here, told pharmacist what i want, he went and fetched. cox-2 inhibitor, no prescription needed becasuse the criteria in argentina is "do you speak the language ? if not, get someone who does to write what you need down for you"
asciilifeform: the FBI has caught you downloading illegal material, you don't have a clue what to do. ... ... Most Americans are like that, kept alive and prosperous only through the exertions of people more productive, inventive and generous than they are. The productive view them not so much as loathsome insects, as puppies who will eventually go to the pound if they pee on the rug too often.'
asciilifeform: r people. Your illnesses are treated by people who speak a language you don't understand and who give you little nondescript pills containing who knows what? Everything in your house connects to outlets in the wall that supply electricity created by processes you don't understand. You are reading this on a device that might as well be populated by fairies for all you know. And when something pops up saying you have a virus or
asciilifeform: 'You eat food you didn't grow and in many cases have no idea where it came from or what it looks like in nature. You rely on elaborate machines to get you places, but have no idea how they work. If your car stops, you have no idea what went wrong or what to do to fix it. In many cases, there is nothing you personally can do. To travel long distances you get into a big flying tube that leaves you completely at the mercy of othe
scoopbot_revived: The Trump Train is heading for the White House. Maybe. http://www.contravex.com/2015/08/11/the-trump-train-is-heading-for-the-white-house-maybe/
mircea_popescu: maybe that's a giveaway
asciilifeform: oughtn't it be in the king's inglisch then ?
mircea_popescu: it makes no sense outside of "a collection of fetishes liable to drive a 60 yo protestant dude with money"
mircea_popescu: this has got to be some sort of very specialised praying on aging usian expats.
mircea_popescu: (housewife wants money to get sex change operation to earn money to start a business)
mircea_popescu: "hola nos quedamos sin trabajo mi esposo y yo y busco ayuda economica a cambio de sex para asi poder ahorrar algo y poner un negocio soy ama de casa no modelo ni profecional en esto soy bajita 36 años"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for all i know, my tank is full of precisely mosquito petrol even now.
mircea_popescu: heh. usians don't want to work no more. news at 99:99
mircea_popescu: "More specifically, nobody wants a meritocracy based on actual accomplishment. What both camps really want is a meritocracy of values, that is, an aristocracy in which position is dictated by attitude and conduct."
mod6: 'tis one of the reasons i enjoyed camping in the west so much, back east the mosquitoes try to carry you away.
asciilifeform: almost thick enough to walk on, here.
mod6: where i live these things are not just a nuisance like in .ar, but ubiquitous
nubbins`: i think that was a lens flare
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes ? mod6 ? any of you went home with mosquito bite ? << heheh. i might have gotten a bite or two. i paid them back ~10x iirc.
mircea_popescu: Conservatives oppose abortion but are okay with war and capital punishment. (So am I - I think everyone in the capital deserves to be punished)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the ones that did exist, could not bite me!
mircea_popescu: fucking insane, river, swamp, the works.
mircea_popescu: you know they don't seem to exist here ?
asciilifeform is reading these words to the tune of a million actual mosquitoes. somehow appropriate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but i care what he asks like i care what the mosquito buzzes.
mircea_popescu: and so there.
asciilifeform: dutch (damn it why do i have to run this fella under emulation..) would prolly answer 'you and what nuke'
mircea_popescu: no state ever created anything. it was another mircea that carried the fucking head of the turk pasha after that one failed crusade when all of europe ran off and the us wasn't invented yet.
mircea_popescu: so... take teh "oh you didn't create" talk an' dangle.
mircea_popescu: i am the proud result of an endless line that predates all states, and the fucking lake, the lake's bottom, and the core of the earth are mine.
asciilifeform: then to herr dutch you are a dragon and don't exist
mircea_popescu: i am not a person in the sense of this rootless, hopeless lotus floating on a sea that somehow is owned byu "the state".
mircea_popescu: i beg to differ.