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fluffypony: have we discussed
the Croatian president yet?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you want
to hang someone for
the horrible state of publishing and/or us business culture
these days, she's as good as anyone.
mircea_popescu: speaking of
the derps behind
the derpage : "Sara Miller McCune was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan. She was international president of B'nai B'rith Girls at
the age of 19, and has spoken of
the importance of
tzedakah."
mircea_popescu: "We don't mess with anybody. All we want
to do is play games, share healthy ideas. We don't
try
to influence
the government or what's happening in Cuba ... We do
the right
thing and
they let us keep at it."
punkman: "blocked from
the network by
their peers for as a little as a day for minor infractions such as slowing down SNet with file-sharing outside prescribed hours, with lifetime bans for violations like distributing pornography."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i do not know enough about koch
to say < i do. he's old.
this is a game for men, not for codgers.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'progressives' like
to
trot out examples of 'the people of
the past could not buy an ipNohe for any price' << except current folk can not get stuff like...
tomatoes, for any price.
mircea_popescu: (the college professor also makes intellectual sense, but
the current day implementation has nothing
to do with
the
thing
that makes sense - "why is he a professor ? " "because all
these people know him, respect him and wish
to be his studends" vs "why are you his student ?" "because hes
the professor"
mircea_popescu: that's kinda how
the notion of
the central banker was born. it does make economic / financial sense.
mircea_popescu: generaly confidence crises can be unwound by a party universally
trusted
that's
techniocally competent
mircea_popescu: decimation> j.p. morgan singlehandly bailed out banking ca. 1907 << nah, it was more like
teh mp effect.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'the actual rich' as a monolithic whole is, i dare say, a fictional
trope as well << what, and i suppose
the island of beautiful women doens't exist, either ?!
decimation: aye, m. danton-style.
the
trouble is,
there's always herr guillotine waiting for yezhov
decimation: even if herr koch wanted
to create a 'functional german hamlet' from ukraine, (for instance), how could he possibly do it without making it like disneyland?
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2015 04:45:19; mircea_popescu: decimation it's as fucking unbriliant as a lump of coal. at
the end of
the week, instead of having a decent steak and a game of bridge with intellgient people,
decimation: actually compared
to 'rich men' of
the past, folks with mere $ billions are rather poor
decimation: heh yeah might as well buy personal
town for his
toys
decimation: asciilifeform: do you
think
that 'actual rich' don't get ideas from film
too?
decimation: well,
there was a
time for getting out of Paris
mircea_popescu: shut up and pay no attention
to
the man behind
the curtain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the whole piece is a neat summary of just how idiotic
the demo is.
decimation: oil is a
terrible store of value - it halved in only a few weeks! it's a good idea
though, I'm going
to wait for
the next generation of chemical energy movement & storage
assbot: As inequality soars,
the nervous super rich are already planning
their escapes | Public Leaders Network |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1yXp5OL )
mircea_popescu: yeah but
the problem is still exposed :
to live like one pleases specifically can not carry a rider of
time limited.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that is where we differ. i would live like no man, and i would impale anyone
trying.
mircea_popescu: mats: its hilarious
that anyone wanted
to pay so much as 1mn for blockchain.info << you are
thinking money as in, someone earned / saved
these.
that's not what's happening
there :
they're spending money
that was simply created by yellen / conjured up by accounting fraud / etc.
mircea_popescu: so
the problem here is
thjat some peniless
tramp gave himself a lordship
that he
then couldn't finance ?
mircea_popescu: seems a lot more productive.
the exiled russian
thinkers did pretty good in ny. a lot better, at any rate,
than
the nysu "professors"
mircea_popescu: because back
then
the average american understood himself as a peniless
tramp,
that's fortunate
to even be allowed in europe at all.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but not
typical. << so much bs. looky here : henry miller did just fine, bumming bowls of soup.
BingoBoingo: mats: I'll probably be amenable
to assisting
though.
BingoBoingo: mats: Maybe. Still experiencing brainrot for IRL reddit
this weekend so am hesitant
to make commitments atm.
mats: BingoBoingo: at a later date, i'd like some assistance with reviewing and rating materials from
the courts-circus project. would you be interested?
decimation: of course, in an account
that isn't locked away by some deal with usg re:
taxes
decimation: asciilifeform: for 'passive investments' available
to
the public,
that implies a net worth of > $3 mil
mircea_popescu: so, if "cultured man" is some sort of scholarly gentleman,
then one needs some rather commonly available books.
decimation: heh do
they even allow cameras? or do you have
to be sneaky?
decimation: asciilifeform: you can go down
to
the library of congress physically
mircea_popescu: rethorical question, not for
they present, but for
the absent if avid readers.
mircea_popescu: by
the way : is
the vc circus of
the belief
that
the well proven, on
the courthouse record, role of one of
the "big four" accounting companies in asset inflation and bubble pumping has been forgotten ?
BingoBoingo: The Rum fountain. No author appears
to be a forensic pyschiatrist as he self describes.
mircea_popescu: generally,
the sort of overgrown boy
that doesn't shoot his own horse is in no position
to pick anything. woman picks like at
the fair.
TheNewDeal: BingoBoingo
this definitely is one of
the article I was reading > I remember seeing
the receptors lined up as a fountain
mircea_popescu: odds are, woman decided
to have children, his choice was whether
to pay a lawyer AND
the woman orjust
the woman.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt
the man decided anything in
there.