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trinque: probably means something a bit more than "owns this dirt"
decimation: if you need an army to do anything that is
decimation: trinque: yes, and the implication quickly becomes "I sit in my mud hut with my ak and you sit in yours"
decimation: if the land is unclaimed, how do you build a house?
funkenstein_: what do you mean someone has to claim the land?
decimation: but someone has to claim the land, and people need a place to sleep ☟︎
funkenstein_: what is the alternative to slavery?
funkenstein_: fire departments usually don't need to be able to counterfeit money
funkenstein_: where do you live that the state runs the fire dept?
trinque: in the absence of a central authority dictating that there shall be a fire dept, I wouldn't expect that the need to put out fires would vanish along with it
trinque: couldn't we apply the same argument to plowing the roads, or other similar work?
decimation: sure, but in the end they all involve a peice of actual real estate with an actual physical structure ☟︎
trinque: there are a number of ways to come at that particular problem
decimation: I guess. when your house is on fire are you gonna look through your rolodex?
decimation: if there were an obvious alternative it probably would have happened already?
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:31:18; mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-06-2015#1163996 < but what is the altnerative to the state? ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:42:25; mircea_popescu: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/57/bd/0d57bd3b61e45343644281ed7d1cca3f.jpg << this
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-06-2015#1164012 < those are very fancy hats ☝︎
decimation: not every call girl can do calculus, she needs to be given a better purpose
assbot: Wat — Destroy All Software Talks ... ( http://bit.ly/1dFqYrt )
asciilifeform: 'Shortly thereafter, officers who had been working undercover to catch citizens attempting to self-serve, swarmed in to arrest the mostly nude man – but not before Mapes took down 3 of the 6 officers by himself.' ☟︎
assbot: Oregon man gets sentenced to 3 years in jail for pumping his own gas ... ( http://bit.ly/1dFpspl )
assbot: Brand-New Trinitron (circa 2000) - Unboxed in 2015. - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1dFoDwJ )
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/FhZRf
ben_vulpes: it's a little stained tho
jurov: maybe I should invite dude here to "inner cult" :D
jurov: "...consider that Bitcoin has died 71 times, and therefore is continuously reborn in the psychic reality of the public."
ben_vulpes: wow that's quite a wall of text
jurov: "At this point we can consider... Scientology is a tax-exempt religion. Why not Bitcoin?" ahahaha never made the connection before
jurov: and see what? that finding the right cdecls.h spot is in fact tantric exercise :)
jurov: "Also, programmers can also attest to the fact that long-term coding is very much a tantric, mind-altering endeavor." ☟︎
punkman: I like turtles
funkenstein_: the turtle i mean
funkenstein_: ben_vulpes, it's sudo apt-get turtles-dev all the way down
ben_vulpes: now if anyone can tell me what the ever loving hell that actua.
ben_vulpes: one would think, and yet openssl won't compile without cdefs.h apparently
BingoBoingo: Fake words are also the hardest to spell
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski startup spacing issue corrected. Distinct hazard of staing into the idiocy is contact transmission of derp.
jurov: http://oglaf.com/hereafter/ guess oglaf saw us discussing death this week
mod6: haha. that horse drawn car is awesome.
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021444 B (Total: 426.05 B). Delta: 0.09 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.000207 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: i thought it was a block of rust ?
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:37:25; mircea_popescu: the same problem existed with the blips.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what is that
kakobrekla: thats a good thing?
ben_vulpes: and yes asciilifeform it is "rusted solid" on the inside.
ben_vulpes: thanks for the advice all
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://imgur.com/pE2zQPQ
trinque: ah ok, that must've been his great great grandson
mircea_popescu: Terry Gilliam is obsessed with them
mircea_popescu: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/57/bd/0d57bd3b61e45343644281ed7d1cca3f.jpg << this ☟︎
mircea_popescu: haha too vulgar.
trinque: I think I found one https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHUMlfeUMAAekLc.jpg:large
mircea_popescu: the same problem existed with the blips. ☟︎
trinque: in the reddit version perhaps it's much harder to see precisely who's giving the orders
mircea_popescu: the similarities are overpowering. both groups are grossly acultural, clinging to ridiculously simplified worldviews and models of thought, and pretending to a legitimacy and importance that is both absent in the field and justified ideally and historically only.
mircea_popescu: if anyone can explain the difference between "for king and country" of the blips of the 1800s and "for democracy1`11`11" of the redditards of today...
mircea_popescu: but otherwise. .. the state is gone.
mircea_popescu: yes, some symbolic "states", about as related to historical states as the queen of england's to historical britsh monarchs will survive
mircea_popescu: i think it's liable to go the same place - state's exactly as dead today as monarchy was in 1803
mircea_popescu: and the numerous coallitions of defeated european monarchs trying to save monarchies from napoleon
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition ☟︎
trinque: and I wonder how long the other players will put up with our paranoid, incoherent moves against them
mircea_popescu: one should really stop and think for a moment if he notices that the opposing players eschew "opportunities" he himself wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: perhaps because they're not retarded enough to be the us.
mircea_popescu: i am kind of curious why neither are going for the "peace keeping" thing
trinque: "Russia/China poised to put heavy weaponry in Mexico and Canada."
mircea_popescu: maybe the russians would want
jurov: i am wearing electronics on my ears all day, so i've got a tollerance. but saw nothing appealing so far
trinque: they're going to have to pull off "laptop" first
trinque: it will be a very long time before I implant electronics in my body, if ever
jurov: yes, i have read about e-ink tattoo. but all such things fall into uncanny valley together with google glass
mircea_popescu: anyway, i see a point to actually signifying tattoos, those queen of spades ankle stuff, or the russian cat or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i suspect worthless argentines tryin to act brazilian tough
mircea_popescu: the earlobe idiocy is really popular here in the hipster crowd
trinque: face tattoes aren't really any worse than stretching out your earlobes
assbot: Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word "linux" as the constant "1"? - Stack Overflow ... ( http://bit.ly/1L8BIgh )
mircea_popescu: trinque the lol part is, how often the tattood were in fact free agents or otherwise involved.
asciilifeform: incidentally, did 'e-ink' ever make an appearance in tattoo shops ?
mircea_popescu: iirc it was widely reported in teh ancient world.
mircea_popescu: you know, the one gorgo "decyphered" ?
mircea_popescu: this chick has on her pubis that original persian message, in greek.
mircea_popescu: actually the only tattoo i ever saw that i thought was cool,
asciilifeform: gazelle does not need to stot 3km high, on rocket power
asciilifeform: could have something to do with the cargo-cult, 'stotting' aspect of advertising per se
mircea_popescu: iirc tattoo advertising is a thing
asciilifeform: i've wondered what kept various floodgates of shit, hypothesized in fiction of the past, shut. e.g., 'rent-free' flats with walls covered in stomach-churning blinking advertisements 24/7, pensions in return for forehead tatoos of 'coca cola', etc.
mircea_popescu: that's the only thing keepiong the floodgates shut.
asciilifeform: they only store a few thou. of sequence
mircea_popescu: i dun think it cares.
mircea_popescu: you are aware, yes ? point of life for the genotype driven is reproducing the damned things
mircea_popescu: think about it - that's for many of them the ONLY chance they get to reproduce their dna.
asciilifeform: and idiots will flock to it
asciilifeform: one day some schmuck will build (for usg bid) a coke machine which dispenses the goop in exchange for a photo and dna sample
mircea_popescu: everyone's happy : the plebs for a, the corp because b), as quarters weren't evenworth stealing
mircea_popescu: a quarter's not what it used to be.
asciilifeform: until they started chaining the things to the wall
asciilifeform: coke machine 'murder-suicide' used to be sop! in usa
asciilifeform: now that i think about it...