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BingoBoingo: Lol ascii_field USG has its own pogo now too https://archive.is/zDd5y
ascii_field: because usg has the means to feed full-time programmers, and we do not. ☟︎
ascii_field: i just think it is grimly hilarious how everything we've spoken of here ~will~ be implemented in bastardized usg versions ☟︎
ascii_field: 'galaxy, star, planet, moon, comet' << glorious. they retired the naval org chart (before that, prior to mr mold selling out to usg, it was feudal titles of nobility - as in my former 'dukedom') ☟︎
mircea_popescu: o check it out, 2/3 items in cazalla's screenshot are about usgavin's scamcoin. and wtf is sabr.io
mircea_popescu: o wait. they also think wrinkly old usgfag qualifies huh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i also suspect that one of the drivers of usg interest in demented pseudo-bitcoin contraptions ('permissioned blockchain technology!') is that these folks dream of a hybrid bulldog-rhinoceros, 'best of both', where usg can electronically steal everything you have, but without any bureaucratic snags - it will look precisely like a voluntary donation, from a mathematical standpoint
mircea_popescu: there's very faint traces of usg in all of this.
asciilifeform: the other thing is, i was briefly astonished at how broken the thing is, but then remembered an old mircea_popescu lemma which leads to 'it must necessarily be broken' - i haven't the link handy, but this was an article where 'usg dare not safely use a working bitcoin or even similar item, because it will begin to warp around it'
asciilifeform: as in, the thing usg universities, 'ngo' complex, etc. finance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, it seems like this thing aims to be ~ urbit. made by people of the same exact ilk ("got some usg payola") but who understand EVEN LESS of computing.
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg imploded libya by vaguely promising 'mansions' - 'your crown-owned official mercedes will become yours! as will your crown-issued chicks!' etc
asciilifeform: iirc usg helpfully gives'em lists.
asciilifeform: stead of the usual set of usg banks.
asciilifeform: 'Foreign financial institutions require ex-US individuals to show them a CLN (or provide a "reasonable explanation" of why they do not have one) to comply with the exchange of information provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the various intergovernmental agreements the US has signed with foreign jurisdictions.' << ahahahahaha l0l!! pay $3k to get the privilege of using this other set of usg banks in
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 23:06:24; mircea_popescu: the proposition is that the usg exists as a system of stupid people, dedicated to the supporting of stupidity and the containing of the threat (to them) presented by intelligence.
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2014 18:41:22; asciilifeform: 'escape' means there's a missile battery (or, at the threadbare minimum, 24/7 death squad) standing between usg and you.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278893 << usg actually ~respecting~ the renouncements, bought at whatever price, is a joke ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:31:54; ascii_field: the only thing the offerings of usg ~provably~ are able to do is to lighten your wallet.
mircea_popescu: the proposition is that the usg exists as a system of stupid people, dedicated to the supporting of stupidity and the containing of the threat (to them) presented by intelligence. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and re the "heckler's idea of conspiracy" : it is not the proposition that the usg consists of some evil overlord petting a cat buried under concrete somewhere while tons of mindless drones to the biddings without complaint. nor is the proposition that a secret conclave of shaved heads secretly meet at my pillar every 5th wednesday.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:00:03; BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> usg has a very effective program for soaking them up << I'm pretty sure the push to get people into grad school rather than employment 2007-2011 was exactly this
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278613 << climatologism looks particularly bad because it was so egregious. none of the people involved were any good at any point. the fact that the usg has managed to marshal the equivalent of local mcdonalds supervisors into "science" is really very much calked off the soviets' "here's this apprentice shoemaker who is our expert biologist". it has no known equivalent o ☝︎
mircea_popescu: so, usg-"earth sciences", usg-"computer security", usg-"womens studies", usg-whathaveyou are in fact actually worthless.
mircea_popescu: e equipped with infinite patience may find isolated useful items in that outpour. it is necessarily true however that such finds won't be worth the expense. this is not coincidental - consider the earlier discussion as to how we distinguish usg disinfo from genuinely interesting items. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1266663 etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278610 << the view is valid, if mats is curious of my position. nobody cares about the actual "names" / "careers" involved, as per the pseudoscience article, they can be safely ignored. the important point however is that while usg spends a lot of money on "research", the expenditure is PREDICATED on it being "research", ie, not actual research. it is perhaps true that on ☝︎
mircea_popescu: you know, exactly what usg does EVERY DAY
ascii_field: and the ultimate litmus test for whether a proposed security mechanism is usgistic: 'does this item INCREASE - or DECREASE - the amount of complexity present in the system, for which i must defer to someone's authority to determine whether it does what was promised ?'
ascii_field: the only thing the offerings of usg ~provably~ are able to do is to lighten your wallet. ☟︎
ascii_field: https://cryptome.org/2015/09/sobh-attacked-doe.htm << l0l. Run Moar Winblowz, usg !
ascii_field: from usg's point of view, ANYTHING is better than having folks wake up to cpu-with-bounds-checking-on-all-ops and fits-in-head
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> usg has a very effective program for soaking them up << I'm pretty sure the push to get people into grad school rather than employment 2007-2011 was exactly this ☟︎
ascii_field: usg has a very effective program for soaking them up
ascii_field: but that overall DIRECTIONS of research that are given support by usg in past decade are specifically counterproductive
mats: USG is a fount of grants for certain fields, computer security is one of those blessed. consideration of all USG research as poisoned fruit is your prerogative, but for me, extraordinary and specific claims require extraordinarily specific evidence. like someone diddling an IR parser.
ascii_field: but as an overall panacea, it is a usgism.
punkman: a commodity, security, currency, whatever each USG entity needs to call it in order to pretend they have authority over it
assbot: Pascal Reid Pleads Guilty Promising to Service USG "Law Enforcement" – Full Draft Plea Text | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1il5ZwB )
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/09/pascal-reid-pleads-guilty-promises-to-service-usg-law-enforcement/#comment-58331
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Price signal improved, FU USG, or is better price signal impossible without MPEx options?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign << Amazing where tiny bits of proto-sanity appear in USG
ascii_field: usg lives & breathes embrace&extenduish via 'STANDARDS!!!111'
BingoBoingo: Oh shit, https://archive.is/kMu5r also watch the confused USG Phillipenis https://archive.is/Qm4uB
BingoBoingo: I might not wish well the USG, but I don't want them to get Trump... Where is the challenge in that
mircea_popescu: no see, i'm rich like mircea not rich like usg. i tend to want to see roi.
BingoBoingo: He's the first USG stooge to die
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if you must africa, consider addis ababa << Too USG and Obola was born too near. Now Dar es Salam with 19 HIV free ebony girls for every infected...
asciilifeform: (that is, that 'crime pays' for so long as it involves moving btc to usg coffers and not otherwise)
assbot: Pascal Reid Pleads Guilty Promising to Service USG "Law Enforcement" – Full Draft Plea Text : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fhjec2 )
deedbot-: [Qntra] Pascal Reid Pleads Guilty: Promises to Service USG Law Enforcement - http://qntra.net/2015/09/pascal-reid-pleads-guilty-promises-to-service-usg-law-enforcement/
mircea_popescu: if teh server bs continues, we end up hosting on USG owned computers exclusively.
asciilifeform: the best leverage naturally is to find usg's magic tendrils already there.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276226 << anyone else puzzled re: the total lack of mention of the author of the implant (usg) ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276218 << i am still "very interested" to hear the details that emerge from the "thorough investigation" Freenode promised back the first time imbecile usg tried to disrupt b-a. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: hey, it's how usg works!
asciilifeform: egregious public masturbation by usg
asciilifeform: ddos artist can saturate arbitrary pipe for less than it costs usg to house one prisoner.
asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-15/why-hewlett-packard-just-fired-another-30000 << usg burns a bit of furniture
asciilifeform: usg, like any cheap thief, tries to steal what is bolted down poorest.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << l0l, 'predators' will fly in usg's latvia. <<< But A-10's stationed in Romania. If only the US upgraded its highest performing Air-to-Air platform... the A-10
asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/14/us-usa-military-russia-idUSKCN0RE2DO20150914 << l0l, 'predators' will fly in usg's latvia.
asciilifeform: another thing i'm a bit confused about is why a usg-sponsored ddos should ever let up
asciilifeform: shinohai: l0l what's the use, in usa. usg makes them collect names.
pete_dushenski: and hey, who wouldn't choose porsche over usg ?
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2015/06/30/climate-change-is-a-good-thing-not-the-apocalypse-mkay/#identifier_9_4222 << 'usggbc'
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274828 << myup. see also : replacement for usg 'green building council', one Mahesh Ramanujam ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1275392 << check it out, the usg stole cryptome ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 21:08:37; ascii_field: 'radical islam' is a usg golem created to diddle ru
ascii_field: 'radical islam' is a usg golem created to diddle ru ☟︎
mats: their wealth, influence, and manpower is transnational, transcontinental, requires no fuel from usg to exist
mats: isis doesn't need to destroy usg to survive
ascii_field: but the degree of control usg actually wants or needs is minimal.
mircea_popescu: see ascii_field ye olde "bitcoin perverts nsa" thing ? cuts both ways. finding oneself in the sort of situation the usg finds itself ALSO perverts.
BingoBoingo: anton_osika: And further to the point, I don't think Kraken is in any position to attest to anything seeing how it is the USG appointed tool for distributing MtGox's carcass
ascii_field: usg moves dates as it pleases, yes.
mircea_popescu: and with the force the 4th guy... the whole thing looked more like turf war between rival drug lords, on of which being the usg, than anything legitimate.
ascii_field: my point was that usg is not burdened with the need to lie ~plausibly~.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274705 << this will work great once mortgages are somehow iphonized (everybody rents, straight from usg dept. of housing, or somesuch) ☝︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's a straight usg colony
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Nah, you gotta understand when Intel goes bust USG will have monsanto to fab chips
mircea_popescu: this connection between one interest and another interest is most embarassing to the usg, in the way it keeps exposing the hush hush inflation problem.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow the proposition is that "usg" has a sort of control over an activity which generally fails.
mircea_popescu: usg is roughly in the position of the guy lost on a deserted island, who comes out of the closet, toi the rocks and the palm trees.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu was right, you can instantly smell usg pheromone because it invariably forces the exact same retardation EVERY TIME
ascii_field: prolly more honest than anything that will ever come out of a usg foundry.
ascii_field: and it wasn't usg in particular, but industrial slave empires in general
thestringpuller: wish i could find that thread you spoke on about how modern jet production is inaccessible to non USG-tied entities.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik the way usg works, the check shows up no matter what
mircea_popescu: arguably in the same circumstances : usg derpiong finally crashed a local power sturcture, waves of ro/bg/polish/east german etc came crashing down
ben_vulpes: wait, is it /their/ MIT or the USG MIT?
asciilifeform: but inria is usg.
ben_vulpes: http://www.inria.fr/ << usgcoin is...french?
mircea_popescu: trinque well yeah, because the usg has figured that hey, we don't keep males for the herds of goats, sheep, cattle etc except maybe 1:100. with modern insemination techniques more like 1:500. why should we keep so many males in human herd ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the usg-approved, built-in-tax-collector-and-stoolie altcoin is finally rolled out. << lmao "taler", who the fuck came up with that one. but anyway, no. they are weak and know they're weak. throwing shit at wall to see if maybe sticks but in no case admitting ownership. so... no.
asciilifeform: in other news, http://taler.net << the usg-approved, built-in-tax-collector-and-stoolie altcoin is finally rolled out. ☟︎
shinohai uncovers a plot where the USG kidnaps asciilifeform and force him to rewrite bitcoin in this: https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270480 << for the record i know actual us women, in their 60s, in the same situation. the usg itself doesn't, but that'd be more of the http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-10/bullying-allegations-against-monash-senior-surgeon-upheld/6766046 same. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270090 << hey, it worked for killing linux! that is, it is alive, but on what, 100 boxes, and the rest happily run shituntu and subscribe to autoupdates, happily run usg binaries, etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269604 << lol. clearly the usg isn't fudging anything, and anyone who wants to laugh at their inept self-lying has to explain... the something numbers ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269770 << run moar usg shitware! ☝︎