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ascii_field: 'we usg gnomes are to have control, because fuck you and ~democracy~ and also fuck you'
ascii_field: funkenstein_: they are out, but belong to usg & its antipodal counterparts
jurov: mircea_popescu: it comes out that if you ever decide to relocate alf, will need to manage it and provide usg-level amenities
asciilifeform: 'There is a discussion on FAA meetings about encrypting the ADS-B signal. By angering the authorities, we will only speed up this process.' << holy fuck the idiocy. i have idea! let's give usg brass cars without license plates ! that way no one will ~ever~ know where they are.
mircea_popescu: eh, you might discover that chinese honeymoon much more pleasant than usg dregs.
mats: usg has the next best thing to a naval base in south china sea
mats: usg is notoriously stubborn so please share intel with the class
BingoBoingo pretty sure best thing at stopping USG action is other USG inertia and USG molasses
asciilifeform: usg could answer the 'we know where you live' with 'so what, come and get it'
asciilifeform: su folks who turned coat and worked for usg. outed, and shot
decimation: not to minimize your reign of terror, but I think usg servants fear chinese agents even more
decimation: in the case in question though, I think it does do damage to usg where it hurts
asciilifeform: or, to take a different tack, when 1,001 usg weapons caches in eastern eu and ru are loudly and publicly blown up
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 23:52:10; mircea_popescu: * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-06-2015#1165471 << let's put it this way: i look out the window, and see usg. when it is no longer there, then - yes, defeated ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D << USG atm is in its "Opium Wars" phase except it is both Britain and China.
mircea_popescu: * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D ☟︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Anyways from what I understand Nick Denton's peak wealth was right around 8-9 figure sum of dollars and he sunk nearly all of it on Gawker Media liberalizing everything. This is likely a move to justify outside investors covering his loss and letting USG propaganda outlet pass to other hands.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so let me get this straight, usg is trying its damndest to sink bitcoin by sending every washed up child pr0n dude this way ; meanwhile we're just sitting pretty while the flagship usg propaganda tool self-sinks under the weight of washed up wrestlers ? << Yes
mircea_popescu: so let me get this straight, usg is trying its damndest to sink bitcoin by sending every washed up child pr0n dude this way ; meanwhile we're just sitting pretty while the flagship usg propaganda tool self-sinks under the weight of washed up wrestlers ?
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Just puts usg's loyal still more in debt
ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg
ascii_field: not like usg admits crypto-sigs
mircea_popescu: <decimation> if rates creep up to > 10%, usg is gonna have to print to survive << actually even 1% is unsustainable atm.
pete_dushenski: up to 20mb a la usgavin ?
decimation: if rates creep up to > 10%, usg is gonna have to print to survive
decimation: one obvious 'sword of Damocles' hanging over usg is the enormous dollar debt at very low interest
decimation: and the most obvious 'sovereign risk' for usg
decimation: now, usg paying off gold debt....
decimation: pete_dushenski: mid- to long-term, sure, 100% chance of investment going to 0 < not so, usg will *always* repay usd debt
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 01:38:53; assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 21:22:20; asciilifeform: speaking of 'sf-86' form, does anyone else consider such things a peculiar anachronism? it isn't as if usg did not already have 100% of everything in that thing in some db or other
decimation: well, the job of usg is to spend money
asciilifeform: picture if the usg cocksuckers were discovered and removed.
asciilifeform: all you gotta do is be the right usg catamite.
asciilifeform: in the 'real world', 'your cryptography fails' sometimes leads to fat bribes in the form of business-as-usual from usg masters.
asciilifeform: decimation: yet another illustration of 'q: how do you know usg stooge is lying? a: his lips are moving'
asciilifeform: decimation: schneier is a worrisome case because he was - very clearly - a genuine fighter against usg who later ended up on enemy side.
decimation: it seems that most of the 'security apparatus' of usg is geared toward catching dumb or incompetent spies
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 21:22:20; asciilifeform: speaking of 'sf-86' form, does anyone else consider such things a peculiar anachronism? it isn't as if usg did not already have 100% of everything in that thing in some db or other ☟︎
asciilifeform: speaking of 'sf-86' form, does anyone else consider such things a peculiar anachronism? it isn't as if usg did not already have 100% of everything in that thing in some db or other ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-06-2015#1164712 << know that almost all folks paid by usg fill out no forms like these. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-06-2015#1164358 << more importantly, turns out that when you work for the usg, you sign your own prison sentence / death warrant. ☝︎
asciilifeform: decimation: last i checked, there is not a button on my desk that cancels usg
decimation: asciilifeform: what's the alternative? gentle bandits? usg with 'reform'?
asciilifeform: usually folks answer 'usg says 'your money or your life', orcs say 'your life'; hence usg'
asciilifeform: but the question is normally a kind of hypothetical, 'would you like usg or the orcs with pitchforks'
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. ☟︎
asciilifeform: machine will index for usg db, not for implantation, lol
asciilifeform: one day some schmuck will build (for usg bid) a coke machine which dispenses the goop in exchange for a photo and dna sample
mircea_popescu: the usg did NOT survive eating the coin merely a few times.
asciilifeform: reads like a usg disinfo, though
asciilifeform: the adult camp, where various (presently, usg-ized to the point of utter inefficacy) folks play with electron microscope, etc
menahem: hey mircea_popescu, what is your backup plan? in the event someone like the USG ..tries.. to pwn you? mpex, coins, etc?
decimation: usg's breach is significant - they lose personal information on people whom usg asks to keep secrets
decimation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-government-network-compromises-security-clearance-files/2015/06/12/9f91f146-1135-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html < sucks for usg employees
asciilifeform: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000500644.pdf << from horse's mouth. scan of ancient usg memo detailing 'omg111!!!111! they stole it all'
asciilifeform: (where is he supposed to get non-usg crypto that he can understand ?)
asciilifeform: usg is laughing all the way to, well, their wallet.
asciilifeform: re: t3rr0r1sm!!111!!!1: for all the loud usg idiocy, the head-choppers have yet to chop a head, on camera, on top of a carpet with their gpg fingeprint embroidered on it
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-06-2015#1162846 << gotta love usg. always 'chinese wreckers stole,' never 'microshit turdows spilled' ☝︎
ascii_field: so they can give usg own price, and you - another
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 18:32:09; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-05-2015#1128111 << ancient drm wankatron where lusers are somehow coerced into 'proving' that they run virginal winblows which will obey usg dictat
asciilifeform: trinque: see also, possibly relevant, my old article re: prehistoric crypto in usg: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323
asciilifeform: (there are nominally others but outside of usg you will never see them)
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 20:17:58; ben_vulpes: ascii_field: galois's in on the btc-usg-bezzle?
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: galois's in on the btc-usg-bezzle? ☟︎
ascii_field: did not say 'this is a mega-system that will last 10,000 years and build many fine pyramids.' but was trying to explain why a thinking person might voluntarily work for usg somewhere
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 13:35:11; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158998 << mircea_popescu is posting through a temporal modem from 1870s ? because 'spoils system' in usg civil service is long, long gone. nobody at nsa, usually not even the director (they don't stick around long anyway) worries about which party is in the white house.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 05:55:27; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158822 << i can guarantee that no part of the usg does this. the parts that should provably do not. the parts that aren't provable to not, do not actually exist.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158998 << mircea_popescu is posting through a temporal modem from 1870s ? because 'spoils system' in usg civil service is long, long gone. nobody at nsa, usually not even the director (they don't stick around long anyway) worries about which party is in the white house. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:43:55; decimation: no doubt it's the private sector where usg showers it cash
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 00:01:41; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-06-2015#1158532 << i've said it before, and will say it again - au is a usg-owned zoolag where they try out new and bleeding-edge idiocies
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:53:15; asciilifeform: the only reason the nukes have not yet 'wandered off' is that the 'serious' part of usg works the same way as my house, or mircea_popescu's
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158822 << i can guarantee that no part of the usg does this. the parts that should provably do not. the parts that aren't provable to not, do not actually exist. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:38:39; asciilifeform: handle's usg is hiring.
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 13:07:45; mircea_popescu: i will also observe that s.mg launches much awaited bitcoin's mmorpg, usg.agitprop is silent ; "blockstream" launches "much awaited" (by whom ?) nothing at all, the wsj seems compelled to write it up within the hour.
decimation: actually the fact that usg is weirdly reactionary is probably the only thing holding it together
decimation: I suppose what I am getting at is that having any kind of distinction at all flies in the face of usg's egalitarian sermonizing
asciilifeform: bad, bad usg to work for.
asciilifeform: having worked in a very obscure usg bureaucracy (one of the many army labs) i will say this - it is a kind of valhalla for folks with own projects / ideas. not because anyone will support these (smoke less crack) but because there is virtually no accountability, management, or actual task
asciilifeform: the only reason the nukes have not yet 'wandered off' is that the 'serious' part of usg works the same way as my house, or mircea_popescu's ☟︎
decimation: no doubt it's the private sector where usg showers it cash ☟︎
decimation: heh not on usg salary
asciilifeform: handle's usg is hiring. ☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation: the other usg.
decimation: I donno, I suspect usg is losing folks in droves
decimation: asciilifeform: probably alot of such in usg
asciilifeform: my own personal picture of him is, he isn't 'ideological' usg, but rather a fella who quit a promising academic career to turn soldier, and went half-deaf in afghan, along with devil knows what else; but was then rewarded with lucrative bureaucrat post. he won't be giving it up.
asciilifeform: the proximate goal of wassenar etc. is not to jail academics (though the 'chilling effect' is a bonus for usg) but to herd the legit multinational corps who mine winblows 0days (e.g., 'vupen') and sell on market, into usg banners.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the only thing usg likes more than chump running winblows is a chump who thinks he isn't, but is.
asciilifeform: 'want a vga card? run usg blobs. get on your knees, ready to please.'
asciilifeform: usg is working on plugging holes in the wintel-to-nsa pipeline.
asciilifeform: but 'suck usg cock or else'
asciilifeform: incidentally, the au thing is more interesting than seems on the surface, because came directly out of 'wassenar agreement', a usg imposition on its entire colonial domain
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is 100% based on usg doctrine circa 1950s and onwards re: research even tangentially related to nukes
asciilifeform: (other than adding to my usg-jailable liabilities)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it isn't a lack-of-broker problem, but an i-live-on-usg-scrip problem
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-06-2015#1158532 << i've said it before, and will say it again - au is a usg-owned zoolag where they try out new and bleeding-edge idiocies ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: iirc that is one of the lulzfarms that attempts to fuck with bitcoin net for usg
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: my guess it that it is mostly targeted at idiot expats. actual u.s. inmates know well that usg has not invented email yet.