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gribble: The20YearIRCloud was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <The20YearIRCloud> Big
thing has been
to have em look over all
the financial documents as we're filing
taxes for 2014 next month and I didn't want
to submit
till
they had a good idea of it.
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Adlai: "I have
to get back
to work, have a nice end of days!" - Jesus 2.0
felipelalli: I have
to back
to work, have a nice end of day guys!
ascii_field: it's one of
those faux loopholes
that's really a honeypot
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: once you
turn said pNohe on from your home, it may as well be registered
to your face
NewLiberty: I almost became 'unbanked'
this week. I've had >10 accounts
terminated by banks
this year. It seems with
the latest guidance from
the Fed, banks categorize 'precious metal dealers' in
the same bin as 'arms
traders' and 'ponzi operators'.
ascii_field: ah and on
the subject of gift cards, you can't buy
them in usa without gov. id
ascii_field: but i for one can more easily comprehend how
to move
to ar and learn
to be a shoemaker or ocelot-walker or whatever,
than
turning into one of
the above
ascii_field: and yes
there are many folks in usa who run on cash
ascii_field: suggesting
that
there is a substantial '2) ?????' in
the path
to '3) profit!!11!!!'
ascii_field: NewLiberty:
that's precisely
the observation i was making:
there is no one who has found it worth his while
to solve
the problem for others
NewLiberty: If
there were more with
the problem ic could be 'worth it'
to you
to solve it for yourself and others.
ascii_field: -that- is what it means
to 'go outside wot'
ascii_field: danielpbarron:
that is.. not outside
the realm of possibility for me... not
that i've made such an inquiry <<
the odds are
that after you were
to make
two or
three such inquiries, you will come across a usg stoolie
ascii_field: suggesting
that
the combination is 'not
thermodynamically favoured'
to borrow
the chemists' expression
ascii_field: but
that
the intersection of folks who -have-
the problem, and
those able
to solve it, is
thus far zero
ascii_field: not saying
that
this is an impossible problem
to solve
ascii_field: this is not an easy problem if you're
talking about something necessarily high-value and non-parcellable
danielpbarron: that is.. not outside
the realm of possibility for me... not
that i've made such an inquiry
ascii_field: danielpbarron: one you'd
trust
to have
the goods physically protected in
the necessary ways ?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: got one you'd
trust
to buy 100k-usd of factory
time ?
danielpbarron: couldn't i just pay a guy a premium
to buy it for me?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: lucky fella, must be 100%
theorist. i, for one, couldn't even get any of my experimental supplies without using electric fiat
danielpbarron: i could probably get
to a non-fiat point; no kids no car no morgage no wives
NewLiberty: Only if
they sell anything anywhere for dollars
NewLiberty: libel is
the least of
the concerns, but one
that alone would be sufficient deterrance
ascii_field: because 'av vendors can have problems
too'
ascii_field: NewLiberty: nothing
to do with libel suites. notice
that not one av vendor on
the planet has yet fingered usg in
the open. regardless of how obvious (e.g., 'stuxnet')
the smoking guns.
NewLiberty: Also, plausible deniability for
them
to avoid making specific enemies. Presumably
they like selling
things and doing business in jurisdictions where assets can be seized by libelous claims.
ascii_field: (previous
thread) if mircea_popescu seriously applied his criteria re: who is 'marginal', #b-a would likely be
the #mircea_popescu-kakobrekla-jurov channel instead
ascii_field: picture
this call
to icann:
them: 'who' k: 'nsa. please
transfer domain
to us'
ascii_field: incidentally, one possible reason for k's use of
the fictional name was
to streamline
the process of getting
the c&c domains sinkholed
pete_dushenski annoyed
that
there's no cross-platform scrabble game
that works between desktop and mobile w/o facefuck account
NewLiberty: I don't imagine
that
they are alone in
that effort.
NewLiberty: Yes,
the "equation group" are just
the ones
that have been caught doing it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well,
that's kind of
the problem with literature by committee. At some point someone's going
to make
the
thing suck.
BingoBoingo: The
thing's got like 8 decades of history. Prolly happened several
times.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never followed
that franchise, but did batman have a vallet / << He did indeed
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: where does
the dead usg sysadmin come in? somehow missing it
mircea_popescu: i never followed
that franchise, but did batman have a vallet /
mircea_popescu: and again : sean's dead. your argument is
therefore invalid.
ascii_field: not so many warrior monks on
the ground in modern world, afaik
mircea_popescu: nothing in principle wrong with either approach, which was
the point.
ascii_field: cheaper
to knit
the
transistors
than
to build organization from scratch out of orphan bachelors
mircea_popescu: there aren't computers
that don't depend on
their compilers etc.
ascii_field: a server doesn't have a family
the enemy can
take hostage
mircea_popescu: " machines are exactly as 'loyal' as
their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not."
thestringpuller: ascii_field:
this very much reminds me of aku's mentality in Samurai Jack...
mircea_popescu: the only
thing
that's blatantly ridiculous is
that beck forgot
to mention where he got it
mircea_popescu: "Here's one
that even
The Onion would reject as
too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and
TV clown Glenn Beck believes
that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat,
the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier
this month during
the attack on
the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications
to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
☟︎ ascii_field: not a guarantee of defeat, sure, but machines are exactly as 'loyal' as
their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not.
mircea_popescu: or
that schmucky someting awful kid, whatever his name was.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: seems only way
to avoid gasenwagen in
this sense is
to become BTC version of pablo escobar...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see,
this is how i distinguish a genius geek from a simple geek :
the latter programs computer
to interact with him.
the former,
to interact with
the girls.
danielpbarron: oo speaking of which; if you want
to knock someone offline for a spell, open up webchat
to b-a from
their ip :D
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aren't
there still political factors involved calling up senator
to deliver shipping container of benjies
to you?
mircea_popescu: remember, any systematic weaponry can be
turned around
the operator.
mircea_popescu: so pick up nomenklatura daughters, have
them do it for you.
ascii_field: anyone who buys, say, $50k of gift cert cards in cash, is guaranteed
to have some official scrutiny.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes. and
this one of
the very few reliable auto-tipoffs available
to
the gasenwagen
PeterL: ascii_field: you can
take cash into grocery store, exchange for food, neh?
ascii_field: or
through anything other
than an american bank
ascii_field: at
the risk of repeating myself, my rent, for example, is ~2k/mo, and not under any circumstances payable in cash
mircea_popescu: your argument reduces
to "i can't make a bottling plant out of a gallon of juice". sure.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
the guy's 11k are NOT a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller:
then you're dealing with smaller amounts ?
ascii_field: aha.
the only
thing
the hypothetical crate would do is get me moved up a few spots in gassing queue if it got out
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: "you don't know me yet, but lemme build some
trust somehow"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: as is
the nature of "becoming known"
to a plug so you can re-up in
the future.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: seems like
this fringes
thing is a fence-sitting
ascii_field: for folks who aren't subjects of us,
try
the mindfuck on for size: if a crate of benjamins were
to drop from
the sky into my yard,
there is literally nothing game-changingly useful
that i could do with
them
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: yes exactly! which goes
to point mircea_popescu just brought up
mircea_popescu: because why bother, when you can just wail and wait for
tit.