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BingoBoingo: mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares? << Beauty of MPEx is neither you nor the pederasts can truly be sure.
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 03:06:06; decimation: nah, the whole 'd1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!!' has everything to do with the general divide & conqueror the kulaks program, and nothing to do with the exercise of actual power
BingoBoingo: "I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES." How the British controlled hundreds of millions in india with hundreds of their own
assbot: Willie Lynch letter: The Making of a Slave ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLCNtK )
jurov: got curious about bingo's books and unearthed this: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/Willie_Lynch_letter_The_Making_of_a_Slave.shtml
BingoBoingo: Nice boobie trap trigger too, no nipple will not engorge when the capacitor shorts
BingoBoingo: 0 fluffypony: that's not been done, right? << Should be done to death by now, unfortunately undeath and zombies
BingoBoingo: decimation: fluffypony: what about rhodesia? << meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well
[]bot: Bet placed: 12 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under $1000 before April 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1119/ Odds: 7(Y):93(N) by coin, 8(Y):92(N) by weight. Total bet: 25.4954 BTC. Current weight: 78,985.
chetty: All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius// which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: this doesn't include private 'consulting' gigs, also, which many of these folks take part in << Seriously perverts rents. All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting a house from a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail << Even when "fiat poor" developing "escape WoT" is obstacle
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: nubbins`: elementary fact is that i can only keep my wot obligations (s.nsa) if i have present level of equipment and time << When BTC funded taxi leaves USia, maybe missile takes it down in interesting place and we all meet the "boys from brazil"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << Beautiful, but there's going to be some very sad japs who still can't netbsd up their pogo next to their toaster because nand
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: so far i don't disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd << 100k usd seems to be "magic number" in USia's /etc/moduli
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 15(Y):85(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 10.19984479 BTC. Current weight: 92,401.
jurov: ^ lol asciilifeform can ask them for stuff and pay in bitcoin... but quite bezzle rates
thestringpuller: as you further state here asciilifeform >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2014#817449 << the real escape has costs and stuff ☝︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform either way, i figure the burden is on you to prove air tightness, not me to disprove
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: which << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-07-2014#770561 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2014#817435 << those two in particular. i guess no one wants to be in gulag, but stories like this REALLY make me not wanna be in US gulag. The latter means once prisoner of US gulag, US polezei will toss you back in as the feel like it even if you escape. ☝︎☝︎
pete_dushenski did more digging on foxnews.com, came up utterly blank trying to find anything of value. retracts earlier statement.
asciilifeform has read the complete tlp
asciilifeform: but thought he disappeared a while ago
pete_dushenski: not that seriously, but not that jokingly either
asciilifeform: as in, who - other than orlov - is spilling the beans in engl. ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: care to show counter-example ?
pete_dushenski: what is this, 1950 ?
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, 'politicians want to live too' and quietly orders were given
asciilifeform: would be interesting to know where it went
pete_dushenski: in the olden days when ebola was scary...
assbot: Why Are You In Such A Huff? All I Said Was “We Should Think About Quarantining Africa” | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/18e8xbi )
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform aha i recall reading that while writing this: http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/21/why-are-you-in-such-a-huff-all-i-said-was-we-should-think-about-quarantining-africa/
pete_dushenski: if you're traveling to africa, you can probably afford to stay out of the anonymous ditch
asciilifeform: depending how the dice fall
asciilifeform: stay as the roadkill
pete_dushenski: africa: come for the adventure, leave with the roadkill
asciilifeform: if vegetable, mineral - can probably turn up a dozen
asciilifeform: but then could even count the tantalum in capacitors
pete_dushenski guesses that asciilifeform isn't much for aesthetic diamonds
pete_dushenski: yet less productive output than the northern tip of israel
pete_dushenski: it isn't to me either
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can only guess at why they do, but the human roadkill thing isn't so surprising
pete_dushenski: you have a lot less time to fuck around worry about someone else's problems in a country where there's not 50x more wealth than needed for sustenance.
asciilifeform has not even yet been in the jail
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and i'm not even in the jail
thestringpuller: i mean no one wants to go to jail. but your stories REALLY make me not want to go to jail
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: your stories make me never want to go to jail.
asciilifeform: as in, no one stops to clean it up or id it
asciilifeform: i'm told that in subsaharan africa, human roadkill is sop
pete_dushenski: depends on one's own disposition too
pete_dushenski: (from the armchair)
asciilifeform: felt about the same.'
asciilifeform: within an hour I did the very same job — once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs
asciilifeform: The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice
asciilifeform: 'After we finished hanging Hoess,' Mengel said to me, 'I packed up my clothes to go home.
asciilifeform: a job to do, and no job was any better or any worse than any other.'
asciilifeform: 'No,' he said, 'I was like almost everybody who came through that war.'
asciilifeform: 'Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?' I said.
asciilifeform: was hanged,' he told me, 'the strap around his ankles — I put that on and made it tight'
asciilifeform: And he didn't do it with testimony, either. He did it with his two big hands. 'When Hoess
asciilifeform: about Hoess. Before emigrating to Israel in 1947, Mengel helped to hang Hoess.
asciilifeform: at Auschwitz. In his tender care, literally millions of Jews were gassed. Mengel knew a little
asciilifeform: Mengel was speaking of Rudolf Franz Hoess, the commandant of the extermination camp
pete_dushenski: but yes, the routine is something like 1) publish, 2) self-scoop, 3) catch-up
asciilifeform: it's similar to the point of being misfiled together in my head
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller lol except that was from this morning!
asciilifeform: i've always wondered if vonnegut wrote the leather suitcase strap scene in his 'mother night' after reading that orwell piece
thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;)
asciilifeform: but the piece is relevant
asciilifeform: on this subject
asciilifeform for the record, does not agree with mr. o
pete_dushenski: WHEN i tell you.
pete_dushenski: when we put the shoe on the other foot
pete_dushenski: he won't have a chance to be teh gwagon driver though!
pete_dushenski: other than less gasenwagen
pete_dushenski: how is ignoring the best first largest cult 'more clever' ?
asciilifeform: but more clever than i - he has virtually no net presence at all.
asciilifeform: elder brother, led me to the sinful life.
pete_dushenski: heh i somehow imagined that you had all this time as a youf to diddle computers because you were an only child!
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 3 for adam_obrien with note: the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
asciilifeform for some reason only remembers the chinese quarter with the monstrous fish hanging in the market
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform school trip ?
asciilifeform went there, once, as a schoolboy
pete_dushenski: i should say, one of the only that i'd live in and not have need for car
pete_dushenski: one of the only places on the continent
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it is possible to forgo cars in montreal
asciilifeform: apple tax (tm)
pete_dushenski: sure, i just thought they mostly lived in montreal
asciilifeform: believe or not there are such people
asciilifeform drove on what must've been a 20km solid strip of ice today
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform sorta like taxi drivers aren't "car guys"
pete_dushenski: !rate adam_obrien 3 the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
asciilifeform is not 'car guy' despite - or perhaps because of? - spending a rather extraordinary amount of time in cars
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform of which toyota owns a chunk
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell kakobrekla please to add !translate function to assbot wish list.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: saving the volvo idea for later << can't find one that's bene taken care of
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate
asciilifeform: incidentally, there is no firm 'subaru'
thestringpuller: and was still running, had been driven all over the country
thestringpuller: d00d was telling me about forrester he sold that had 400k miles on it