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decimation: as I recall
the 'v1' had no moving parts
funkenstein_: transistor
tech has changed a bit in 40 years, jet engines not so much
decimation: yes, presumes
the ability
to manufacture jet parts
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2014 00:46:13; asciilifeform: have
to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a
tentacle of
the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
decimation: kinda like a 'v1', but with
the appropriate
tracking/seeking system, and an entire fleet in orbit around 'La Serenissima'
mircea_popescu: i
told him he was wrong back
then. sadly... as per
the castrato model, never answered.
decimation: moldbug
thought
the us would jail exchanges/possessors, but usg lost
the initiative on
that one
mircea_popescu: the only actually available
thing is, print a "Obama made
this lolz" sticker,
try
to affix.
decimation: I just
thought of a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to usg
term) weapon system. imagine a small
turboprop uav ...
that can drop its wings and
turn into kerosene rocket
mircea_popescu: i dunno, draper gets
to pretend like he's a savvy businessman ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno,
they bought isis
the weapons and
then
they bought isis
the meatsacks
to practice shooting round
tikrit.
decimation: asciilifeform: but
then usg is stuck with backing dollars with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: the only purpose it would really work for is, giving us a lot of weaponry
to kill
them with
mircea_popescu: but notice
that
the people who do not suffer from
that famous " pathologically difficult attitude
toward various important software development philosophy " will not have much problems using usg-nodes anyway
funkenstein_: you don't have
to ddos
the remaining nodes.. just declare your colored coins
to be worth 10x
the others
mircea_popescu: sadly for
that party
the attempt
to do so quietly failed catastrophically, but what's
that mean ?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason usgavin & co pretend like nodes are not important while
trying
to make
them not feasible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose
they make a few peers
that use Luke-Jr style rules, and
then ddos
the ~60 or so remaining nodes.
funkenstein_: actually
that kinda makes more sense
than a separate fedcoin
decimation: luke-jr was kinda advocating
the blacklist if I recall
mircea_popescu: but it jives very well with "so what if we can't control bitcoin - it'd divisible, so let's just carve a kiddy pool and play in
there! "
mircea_popescu: in
this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from USG.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes,
the entire "taint" bullshit does not work.
the correct avenue is exactly
the reverse : require
to be paid only in "proper" bitcoin,
that is
to say, bitcoin
traceable
to X or Y or Z purchase, from agent of
the crown, which fictitiously has
title.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 00:00:17; asciilifeform:
too few balls,
they have,
to utter 'an ought' straight up
mircea_popescu: which is why
the picassos aren't going
to
the state, but
to
the heirs.
mircea_popescu: that's not
the controlling bit.
the controlling bit is, "can you prove
this is yours ?"
mircea_popescu: but
that's
the font of all
the "prove you didn't steal it"
thing.
mircea_popescu: "except so and so" = "except if it seems
to come from drugdealing"
mircea_popescu: well, you can read it any way you want, but legally, it flows from "title is
title, if you don't have
title you may use constructive
title (possession is 9/10 of
the law and all
that), except so and so"
mircea_popescu: note
that i'm not saying anything about what's useful, merely going
through how
the logic of
that
thing works.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the whole "confiscated cash in drug bust"
thing.
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 23:54:57; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
the problem is
they didn't have
title << does a suitcase full of benjies have 'title' ? or a
tonne of gold bar? or not because fungible
decimation: or perhaps resolves
to 'imma kill u 'n
take ur stuff'
decimation: asciilifeform:
the question in my mind is
the concept of 'title' without reference
to
the state. it seems
to me
that it is meaningless outside a particular legal code
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the buggers'
traditional defense is
to pretend
that
the event was a non-event - or, if
this is impractical,
to continue living in an imaginary world where
they 'scooped'
the story first, and all of
the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.