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ascii_field: but the mystery of building a non-
usg and non-
usg-pushable political clock remains, afaik, a mystery
ascii_field: jurov: it is at least theoretically possible to build a non-
usg network
decimation: I didn't realize that
usg owns time now too
jurov: actually, we have an
usg internet, too
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: right now we have
usg clock!
jurov: so, to summarize. 1. time can't come from net because net ====
usg. 2. time can't come from any additional hw cuz cost
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it is seemingly surviving
usgavination attempts.
ascii_field: incidentally, does anyone else suspect that cn miners, on account of their microscopic profit margins, are ripe for
usgization ?
decimation: in the existing network, I suspect 99% of the miners are using ntpd traceable to some
usg organ
jurov: and if we have rsa-signed time,
usg will pwn or jam that too
ascii_field: but more than anything, i expect that any centralized points of failure ~will~ be
usgized
ascii_field: they just happen to write turdware for
usg.
mircea_popescu: <mats> HT does 'hax for hire' as
USG subcontractor. lulz. << mmmyeah
decimation: ironically
usg uses the same formula for 'extending protection'
mats: HT does 'hax for hire' as
USG subcontractor. lulz.
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 15:58:04; mats: iirc
usg has provided four frigates for naval defense, a pathetic number in any case that could not stop any mildly determined attempt to storm the island
mircea_popescu: "that thing which the
usg deems an occupation in the manner krill occupies a whale"
mircea_popescu: basically, the
usg has managed to alienate itself from the thiny sliver of people who actually matter.
decimation: plenty of folks in
usg and elsewhere see the big picture problems, but the
usg throne seems to always get itself into 'urgent but unimportant' problems that distract them from any kind of long-term strategy
decimation: on the freakonomics podcast, they had a guy on (retired army colonel) complaining that
usg has nobody who thinks about anything strategic now
mats: er, analogous to .cn going to bat against
usg over havana
mats: analogous to going to .cn going to bat against
usg over havana. good luck with that.
mats:
usg could deploy all their carrier groups to the region and it'd make no difference.
mats: iirc
usg has provided four frigates for naval defense, a pathetic number in any case that could not stop any mildly determined attempt to storm the island
☟︎ mats: 10:57:53 <+asciilifeform> the few i've spoken with personally did not seem especially happy re: their home being used as
usg's 'unsinkable aircraft carrier' << hardly the case, and they're exceptionally deluded if they think so...
mircea_popescu: this is EXACTLY how
usg works throughout. first, cause black people to be poor and depenedent. then cause them to be violent. then go on press conferences about how "they're doing things about black violence"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wait, the
usg dept of stupid is now on the record that miners don't, after all, decide ?
mircea_popescu: now that
usg finally arrayed enough ethereum shitfountains to imagine it can pull it off, the tune changed. and it changed mid sentence and full spin around.
assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 21:04:00; ascii_field:
usgicity is infectious - no one wants to be the first fella to stop clapping when it's clap-for-stalin time
mircea_popescu: heck, the way
usg is going, this is actually becoming more and more true each decade.
assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 16:19:40; decimation: I'm sure that if you met the leaders of the average
usg institution they would strike you as nice people trying to do the right thing. they are just imprisoned by their choices, making them into figureheads
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what is "the very important business" a reddit chapter seeded and mostly fed by
usg's own something awful crew would conceivably be doing iyo ?
decimation:
usg wisely punishes you for working and rewards you for not
decimation: pete_dushenski: the problem is that
usg bids up the price of otherwise servant labor
decimation: maybe in the future all farms will be owned by ADM, dept of
usg agriculture
pete_dushenski: ^
usg tries to make p2p bitcoin transactions only legal using x in y place
decimation: well, because almost by definition they have removed themselves from any kind of power, being against
usg as it exists
ascii_field: hey,
usg paid'em to sit and pull. those cocks won't pull themselves
ascii_field:
usgicity is infectious - no one wants to be the first fella to stop clapping when it's clap-for-stalin time
☟︎ decimation: see, this is why
usg doesn't need to actually 'make law'
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:52:37; asciilifeform: ultimately
usg 'department of plenty' ~really~ wants money to get borrowed. whether you in particular like to borrow money or not. if some 'helpful' nigerian can do it in your name, so much the better from their pov.
assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 16:48:08; decimation: yeah, nobody employed directly by
usg knows how to torture, and it probably wouldn't work anyway
decimation: yeah, nobody employed directly by
usg knows how to torture, and it probably wouldn't work anyway
☟︎ ben_vulpes: this torture won't be performed by the
usg, but regular ol' bandits.
ben_vulpes: in that sense obab (as proxy for the
usg) does in fact own my company to a far greater degree than i ever can
decimation: I'm sure that if you met the leaders of the average
usg institution they would strike you as nice people trying to do the right thing. they are just imprisoned by their choices, making them into figureheads
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 02:02:19; midnightmagic: dude. seriously plotting or fomenting the physical murder of the
USG is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.
mircea_popescu: creditor owed can not bother the debtor. meanwhile
usg can go burn down his house for no reason.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 04:41:25; asciilifeform: hard to picture a sorrier bunch of bitter schmucks, eagerly taking it up the arse from history's biggest and most obscene communist mega-empire (
usg) to spite their little piss-ant one
decimation: ^ plus all the bureaucrats who work for visa/banks/
usg to 'oversee' the system
decimation: cazalla: an american spy? why would
usg bother?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> that doesn't mean they don't occasionally drop a bomb or two << Puerto Rico is basically
USG brown people practice range
mats: hm, TIL
USG shuttered USN base in puerto rico in 2000s
decimation: lolz as if puerto rico was anything other than a vassal of
usg mircea_popescu: the fsf, and the "foss" concoction, are going to be gone before the
usg.
decimation: ^ also because those generations were raised by
usg mircea_popescu: decimation the only reason the
usg is its in present shape is the herd of bloviating hamplanets. nothing else.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or whether folks will grunt their last in it << i am broadly unconvinced by your theory. there aren't equal sides confronting each other here. i, for one, could not care less for any secrets
usg-tard thinks he has.
ascii_field: and torture is more or less legal by
usg's own rules if you are proclaimed 'terrorist'
mircea_popescu: one wallace loh is going to be confronted with the particularly unpleasant dilemma of either saying "yeah mp was right, they were
usg all along" or else fucking up an assistant.
BingoBoingo: At this point I'm conviced the only reason the fat hate movement is being suppressed is because
USG has officially adopted Obesity as a social control mechanism.
decimation: probably would be more effective to use
usg's cash to buy 6000 pogos
decimation: navy research lab is a
usg funding-hole
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 23:02:23; mircea_popescu: "lone wolf terrorists" have a pretty decent claim to getting an ex-
usg civil servant as chattel slave once the thing's done.
mircea_popescu: "lone wolf terrorists" have a pretty decent claim to getting an ex-
usg civil servant as chattel slave once the thing's done.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's our own "kick the
usg till it bites, then shoot it" gambit.
kakobrekla: <<
usgtron with elaborate graph ad < meh i checked the yellow dots but there is everybody but bitbet. even jurovs coinroll is there