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jurov:
usg bad,too but more fuel
mircea_popescu: kinda why bitcoin is so important. kinda why the gavincoin disarray was so "nobody could have predicted" for the
usg side.
mircea_popescu: who exactly in the
usg do you think is or was served by wiping most of their army ?
lobbes: danielpbarron: you think it may have been an 'inside job' by
usg? I have heard that pov from others, too
assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 21:02:32; ascii_field: when demented premier moves the map - ok. when
usg moves the map (independence 'referendum') - also ok. when ru moves - somehow not.
ascii_field: eltsin died, ru spat out the
usg cock, and is to bleed for this, yes
ascii_field: and that this is perfectly pedestrian fact, regardless of whether you like
usg or putin or kim jong un or hitler
ascii_field: when demented premier moves the map - ok. when
usg moves the map (independence 'referendum') - also ok. when ru moves - somehow not.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whether groupon (
usg mafia) gets it or ru or cn mafia gets it... still gotten.
mircea_popescu: exes are the real threat. they sunk a lot more ~profitable~ businesses than the various
usg.agency constructs.
mircea_popescu: this ex stole just the domain names. ps - if you're into "building an online business" - forget the idiots trying to push "compliance" because hey, they live off the
usg dole so gotta pretend like the
usg matters to even be able to get up in the morning.
decimation: I'm not sure about such a coordinated plot, but it certainly is the case that urban police departments are independent power centers upon which
usg frowns
mircea_popescu: myeah. so teh
usg has all these minor muppets it keeps trying to use in that manner. get the majors out so they can finally play
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 20:06:04; ascii_field: williamdunne et al: 'micronations' are interesting right up until you try actually using them for something (e.g., resisting
usg dictate) and it gets bulldozed. so, approximately as interesting as a pistol that is guaranteed to explode in your hand.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: the
usg muppets are in high gear, yes
ascii_field: trinque: this map only counts dollar-denominated payouts from
usg to states
trinque: scientology's tax exempt status is a goddamn hilarious defeat of
usg ascii_field: if anything, they are more eager to enforce
usg dictate than
usg proper
ascii_field: letting it be known that you will wreck
usg is not 'aggressive' except to
usg muppet theatre
ascii_field: williamdunne et al: 'micronations' are interesting right up until you try actually using them for something (e.g., resisting
usg dictate) and it gets bulldozed. so, approximately as interesting as a pistol that is guaranteed to explode in your hand.
☟︎ decimation: then they realized that they occupied a massive vacuum left by sun and old purveyors of unix to
usg ascii_field: mats: the kind of schizo that seems to live and breathe solely to discredit actual investigation into
usg shenanigans
ascii_field: ebay works well for getting 'golden toilets' for their actual market price vs the
usg tentacular price
ascii_field: existing ones are 'decent' from perspective of
usg et al.
decimation: the corruption in selling physical goods to
usg is nowhere near the size of the corruption of 'selling services'
ascii_field: rather than
usg-style boiling of the oceans
ascii_field: and based on the choice of target,
usg -wants- idiots to use 'goodcrypto' on account of it being derp
mircea_popescu:
usg.nsa loves "virtualization", but it's by no means the only way to skin that cube.
mircea_popescu: because you know,
usg keeps a master key, or so the rumour goes.
mircea_popescu: could be punishment for the
usg twerps. "you now have to program on this"
decimation: "Mobile payments are a natural extension of the digital lifestyle, while protection against digital theft becomes an imperative for regulatory agencies around the world." < note
usg mission creep
assbot: Logged on 24-04-2015 16:12:23; mats: i started buying AMZN after it became clear they had intentions of becoming a
USG contractor
mats: i started buying AMZN after it became clear they had intentions of becoming a
USG contractor
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well at that time you couldn't tell what happened. for all you know, nano was
usg-kidnapped.
mircea_popescu: it's the
usg playbook : give more people the illusion of participation, so you can take more control of the underlying processes.
mircea_popescu: there's no value "collectively". there seems to be, currently, because the
usg / ag etc are propping them up on borrowed money.
ben_vulpes:
usg can break it like they broke gpg, but that broken thing will not and cannot be bitcoin
mircea_popescu: anwyay, yeah, people were derping about hoiw forcing
usg to assume its assets is "bad" and the foundation pretense was somehow "better"
jurov: i don't see how these are better (with exception of the
usg deficit maybe)
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, lift the washington monument, realign jupiter, fill the mariane gap, cover the
usg deficit
BingoBoingo: <ascii_lander> until then, it's 'yi yi zhi yi' (orc incursions organized by
usg for own pleasure) << I only worry because I've pointed local orcs to qntra posts
ascii_lander: until then, it's 'yi yi zhi yi' (orc incursions organized by
usg for own pleasure)
ascii_lander is as certain that woman is in full agreement re: this issue as that she isn't a
usg succubus
ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: suppose lets in on secret that she was
usg mole all along also.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this is what this is : the
usg has been defeated. << Last I checked Will Smith was still president
mircea_popescu: the
usg has similarly had all its industry destroyed and is entirely out of money.
ascii_lander: or is the algo 1) get killed messily by
usg 2) while camera rolls 3) ??? 4) profit
mircea_popescu: but by and large im with williamdunne on this : if what it takes to force the
usg into abject surrender is turning suburbia into iraq, fucking turn suburbia into iraq.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Only filed because necessary to certify with
USG 0 payments on stafford loan repayment plan. Can only tolerate so much phone spam
ascii_lander: it does not apply to anything
usg or its tentacles might do.
decimation: I can't imagine what kind of 'business logic' would go behind such a decision on samsung's part, other than "let's keep the little derps alive to keep
usg off our back"
Citizenfive: For most of us here, that means either (1) resign to being an NPC, and stay off the radar that would allow use of *those* sorts of
USG assets, or (2) compartment, compartment, compartment
Citizenfive: if the threat model includes
USG, at the DPR-severity level (Senators declaring war on you — see Schumer etc a couple years ago), only compartmentation will save you (maybe)
BingoBoingo errs on the side of underestimating the worth of his meat to
USG BingoBoingo wonders how many
USG stooges will be billed to read Heraclitus nao
mats: and shortly after,
usg left iraq. afghan deployments were gone for the most part.
ascii-bolivia: what they believe - or pretend to - if one were to dignify it with a reduction to logical terms which make sense to a normal person, is: that
usg is sorta like a searchlight, that cannot cover the whole universe simultaneously but can certainly be pointed at miscreants as need be, when their turn comes
ascii_modem: there are 'places' to which
usg - while exists as such - simply will -not- go, and where the question can only be re: -which- specific set of sophistries will be made use of to avoid going there
ascii_modem:
usg wins this one - because alternative - holding pd to hygienic standards - is 'skies-fall' mega-inconceivable
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Huge fans of US in general, in Midano with petite al queda
USG nexus, but corrupt enough fot civilized living
BingoBoingo: But I don't think Meatspace Vegas managed to elude the
USG's money tracking slime mold
ascii_field: the 'up-side' - perhaps the only one - of being a hermit monster is that the tools built for nailing the 'eusocial' don't work on you. i.e. you negrate a
usg shill in your mind at most forty seconds after initial contact
mircea_popescu:
usg went in the middle and lost, there being no middle. but this is funny, psychologically, because : all socialisms always live by fleecing the middle class. for all the verbiage, it's the "kulak" that supported the soviets, not the filthy rich capitalist dudes.
mircea_popescu: the people who are incompetent also never cared what the
usg was putting out, and have and use convenient solutions that mostly also don't involve it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile : the people who are competent never cared what the
usg was putting out, and have and use functional solutions that don't involve it.