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trinque: it's not as if I grabbed her and shook
trinque: mircea_popescu: the dysfunction here is that male-female relationship here is taught as parternship
trinque: insofar as anyone on this continent knows what domesticity is
mircea_popescu: "I have no idea what he's been doing for a living in the years elapsed since then - if anything, then definitely not anything related to Bitcoin as a free entreprise. Maybe he's working a garden or teaching yoga. Maybe he's earning his living as a Bitcoin expert in the pay of those who do not wish to see Bitcoin free entreprise generally, and certainly not to the degree displayed by the free world. Whichever of these i
Vexual: prolly is as it was
trinque: I left because what, the weather's not as agreeable as I'd like?
trinque: it's as mine as it is some other fuck's
trinque: as it fucking should be
trinque: the whole govt's set up to get as little done as possible
brendafdez: the press is just as shitty
trinque: doesn't really bother me to not have a mask, as the firewall on the thing doesn't have open ports
decimation: "Consider the environmental movement. On the surface, it appears to be a collection of "wonderful, benevolent people trying to help and save the Earth," Koehle tells the campers, who range in age from 13 to 20.In reality, she says, it's a plot to unite humanity against a common enemy, pollution, and lay the groundwork for a world regime.Koehle urges students to ignore doomsday hype about-such things as endangered species - extinction
nubbins`: hemp seeds are as benign as hops flowers
mircea_popescu: r his death: "Neville was a Radical to the end of his days. It makes my blood boil when I see his ‘Tory’ and ‘Reactionary’ outlook taken as a matter of course because the Whirligig of Politics made him leader of the Tory party."
mircea_popescu: What a Chamberlain government would have done had there been no war in 1939 will never be known, but an election was due in 1940, and the manifesto proposals outlined by the Conservative Research Department embraced family allowances and the inclusion of insured persons' dependants in health cover—about half the advances usually attributed to Beveridge. As Lady Cecily Debenham wrote to Chamberlain's widow, Anne, afte
nubbins`: given its face value of $50, a gold maple leaf definitely is impractical for use as currency
BingoBoingo: decimation: More interesting is how the reach 18 karats by... bulking up the "gold" with high volume low density ceramics as the alloying agent.
asciilifeform: or hardness of the material in general, so long as it conducts
decimation: as are the actually effective guided rockets
asciilifeform: no need to pontificate - the folks in palestine are playing 'junkyard wars' warfare as we speak
decimation: as I recall the 'v1' had no moving parts
asciilifeform: decimation: make me so much as a transistor circa 1950 with partizan tech.
mircea_popescu: i told him he was wrong back then. sadly... as per the castrato model, never answered.
asciilifeform: as i understand, operating with the 'monetary system as storage battery' model (mr mold's ?) usg has two possible (non-exclusive) agendas re: btc: 1) steal charge from the battery 2) blow up the battery
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 100% same as afghan campaign '03-present
asciilifeform: for some purposes 'colouring' existing btc as funkenstein_ described would work
asciilifeform: (as a candidate for 'fedcoin')
asciilifeform: was picasso listed as an 'except so' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i always read it as 'plebe may not possess allocatory capital tokens' thing
asciilifeform: decimation: meaningless without state as far as i can see
asciilifeform: 'It is possible to construct a rational argument, from broadly agreeable premises, that leads directly to the NAP...' << these folks use 'natural law' crapolade as a crutch to avoid the demand of having agency
asciilifeform: 'In fact, I rather suspect that GPG will fade away as other implementations gain currency. It's old, crusty, built from barely readable source code, license terms inhibited, and maintained by people with a pathologically difficult attitude toward various important software development philosophy (e.g. API and UI design)' << mega-l0l. thing is, in a way the fool is right, it 'faded away' the same way common lisp did. which is t
asciilifeform: if 'possession is 9/10th of the law,' as is the maxim, why not 10/10 ?
asciilifeform: and why exactly is this concept of permission from the state to be recognized as the owner, a useful thing ?
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 16:56:21; asciilifeform: is it any wonder, given this picture, that homo redditicus wishes to mangle hierarchy, even if it nukes civilization? it seems as logical as wishing to stab the guards, given the chance, when you're imprisoned in auschwitz.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah, actual people. not usians tho. usians hate them, as they should. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2015#1064084 ☝︎
nubbins`: as if /that's/ allowed
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 16:56:21; asciilifeform: is it any wonder, given this picture, that homo redditicus wishes to mangle hierarchy, even if it nukes civilization? it seems as logical as wishing to stab the guards, given the chance, when you're imprisoned in auschwitz.
mircea_popescu: just, manure, as george observed, is almost pleasant if you get down to it : there's a pg, which isn't bad, with a gnu in front of it.
mircea_popescu: the entire "like/dislike" process as practiced by esl people atm is due for some reform.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: when I first joined this channel at the collapse of GLBSE you said, "Scammers just help the legitimate businesses' reputation that much more." My friend this past year went on to say, "In the new world, the most trusted person need not to be liked, because well he's trustworthy. He/She could be a complete asshole if as long as they do their job."
mircea_popescu: once innovation is admitted as an arbitrary construct, well... it's a political matter.
thestringpuller: looks like it, not that it actually does. There is a links from recent qntra article same date as comment that links to GPG contract article on trilema.
mircea_popescu: sure, but as far as brazen claims go they could also claim your wife.
mircea_popescu: and so are titles of various kinds - such as to mineral rights, or whatever.
mircea_popescu: take for instance "(7) Standing timber growing on land which belongs to the same person as the timber."
thestringpuller: http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-pc-sales-weak-as-many-businesses-stick-with-windows-xp/
mircea_popescu: "While the collection has not been officially valued, reports in the French and international press have estimated that it could be worth as much as 120 million euros, or about $130 million."
jurov: haven't you just argued that for you, half a mil btc is equally as useless as that picasso?
asciilifeform: is it any wonder, given this picture, that homo redditicus wishes to mangle hierarchy, even if it nukes civilization? it seems as logical as wishing to stab the guards, given the chance, when you're imprisoned in auschwitz. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: not nationalized as such (perhaps if it were confiscated to put in museum ?) but given to a designated darling of the state
trinque: as for the glaciers, I am not informed enough to know whether they'd be dumping into the ocean with or without us
mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the interest rates, there was a discussion recently, and no, business rates aren't per month, you want to pay what, 3ish% a year or some shit.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli has the opportunity to become a sort of speaker for the dead as it were, for a certain set of dead.
decimation: as I recall, colossus was the first fully electric computer, built by Flowers at the proto-gchq
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has moved way far, you kidding ?! organic is more advanced as to what it was in 1930 than computing.
asciilifeform: as commercial product
mircea_popescu: look at the stupid rocket-planor thing. etc. derpy as it gets.
asciilifeform: thing is, newton's 52 is not the same as american slave's 52
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:28:44; asciilifeform: the folks not dead of drink have been driving cabs in nyc for so long as to have put their generative years firmly behind.
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: no lucky with dpaste.com as well "Bad URL or network outage."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wasn't specified as 'dregs' but as children who liked to think and weren't especially missed when inducted
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean, as in latium, then note octavianus didn't adopt random orphans a la dick tracy.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i wasn't suggesting it as a practical recipe. more of an overall reagent.
mircea_popescu: colleges started out as monasteries.
mircea_popescu: as discussed in the pseudoscience bit : unless you folks start quoting it to me, it's just another bit of anglowank, couldn't care less.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063080 << i honestly don't give a shit about those 1000tb. for very similar reasons as ^ ☝︎
felipelalli: as a bitcoin gosthbusters are you guys are, is this https://github.com/maraoz/proofofexistence scam?
cazalla: felipelalli, also i don't place much faith in how they identify people, a driver's licence, electricity bill.. worth just as much as newly created wot identity with no feedback.. plus the sort of person who needs to borrow $500 is the sort of person who would lift things such as a drivers licence from parents/friends/partners wallet anyway
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063048 << same mechanbism as to produce the good code separately. sign and wot. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 21:00:49; asciilifeform: the option of not having the bugs is presented as not even thinkable.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062798 << you know ? just as unthinkable as the http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2015#1063368 ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: even as thought experiment
mircea_popescu: then after a year or two as the body re-learns to associate food with micronutrients - all sorts of urges, as it approaches various layers of problems
ben_vulpes: funding is as fast as a confirmation.
ben_vulpes: aside one can't actually invest in BTCJam as such.
pete_dushenski: but as i said earlier, reading comprehension would be the most valuable for my purposes
decimation: unfortunately german isn't as useful today because germany has been well-anglicized
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you would do just as well to learn ru
asciilifeform: the folks not dead of drink have been driving cabs in nyc for so long as to have put their generative years firmly behind. ☟︎
trinque: asciilifeform: silos are still there, as far as I know
trinque: asciilifeform's two govts observation about the US I think applies to Googles as well
asciilifeform: trinque: it's in there, as far as i can tell, but quietly stopped being searchable a year or so ago
asciilifeform: it's as uninteresting as the fact that the author might still have it on some ancient 8mm tape
decimation: online repo is fine, as long as it is properly organized and indexed
PeterL: asciilifeform:and to the extent it isn't a problem, it is solely because academia is mostly dead as a going concern << and here I go trying to get back into it :(
pete_dushenski: decimation: new product offerings grow their pie just as well
decimation: as in maker of fancy trinkets for rich folk?
decimation: except apple doesn't really have a wot so much as it has a slave harem
decimation: apple could quite easily lock down osx just as hard as it locks down ios
nubbins`: as you can imagine, ios apps are under almost total lockdown
trinque: you have to set your ios device up as one of your dev devices
nubbins`: anyone have a suggestion as to where i start figuring out *which* file/directory it can't find?
nubbins`: update is released as wav file
asciilifeform: incidentally, buggy+nonflashable is common as dirt. my car, for instance, has a buggy cabin thermostat controller.
asciilifeform: the option of not having the bugs is presented as not even thinkable. ☟︎
assbot: Withdrawals halted as stolen evolution coins make their way to BTC-e : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1DISeAt )
cazalla: danielpbarron: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zrdxz/withdrawals_halted_as_stolen_evolution_coins_make/ << is this a qntra article? <<< as far as i could tell, it's just a screenshot from btc-e chat, nothing came from btc-e themselves on the website, twitter etc etc, btc-e's email server was down too so people couldn't confirm withdrawal, so nfi if that link is even factual
asciilifeform: as for 'consumer' junk, recent intel boards have nintendo-style signed boot preventing use of linuxbios
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: a P2P lending system totally based on OTC WoT system would you consider a fraud as well or it could be something good?