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mircea_popescu: the only problem with that statement is that "a community" consisting of some third worlders hired by a local company hired by a vc flea hired by a
usg flea is really not all that much.
mircea_popescu: where there's no derps, the
usg does not magic some into place.
decimation: asciilifeform:
usg owns all the islands from hawaii to midway
decimation: and you are right, the enviro-nazis who heavily influence
usg want to turn it into a forest precisely to suspend all law
decimation: because the whole thing is predicated on '
usg prints money true/false'
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:44:33; asciilifeform: still think '
usg as high-tech north kr is impossible', ?
decimation: how could anyone inside
usg accomplish anything at all without creating a meta-something
mircea_popescu: us sec could register its wot key with mpex, us fed could announce plans for bitcoin-convertibility of
usg,
decimation:
usg could fire 90% of its staff, rationalize its tax system, and start colonizing the world
decimation: re: costs < yes,
usg is cost constrained, but note that nearly all of it is 'self-imposed damage'
decimation:
usg has a small number of non-inept employees
mircea_popescu: decimation one being inept is almost a requirement for
usg payroll.
decimation: re: greewald being on
usg payroll < is also hilarious
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:25:05; asciilifeform: sachs also lists names, times, places of folks 'suicided' by
usg, with reasons.
mircea_popescu: the weird thing about the situaiton of
usg particularly, and of
usg-likes (ie, most cancer) is that "everything is only intended to be used in the situations it wasn't designed to be used".
mircea_popescu: back to the
usg-tb thing : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: to imagine the
usg, or for that matter any bureaucracy like a PERSON rather than like a disease is imo to be very, very wrong
mircea_popescu: that
usg courts are a sad joke, again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: you basing yourself on the theory
usg->judge will !=
usg->da ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the
usg (through
usg->da) has already evaluated that
ascii_field: 2)
usg redirects them to exact copies of our own boxes sitting in ft meade
mircea_popescu: because they only exist halfway, like competent
usg and able nsa ?
ascii_field: at any rate, -we won't know- that it's pointing to
usg boxes emulating our nodes
ascii_field: they -will- be ddosed and sinkholed to
usg machines.
mircea_popescu: so : yeah,
usg&friends thinks it's engaging me on its own terms.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what about it << it being in a
usg-blessed region
ascii_field: this is what
usg-mandated code looks like.
ascii_field: 'my targeting computer was programmed not to fire at
usg'
ascii_field: the only way to cut
usg-controlled apparatus entirely out of the loop is to have the node get all volatiles (e.g., ip addrs) from files, on inserable media, -signed- by burned-in and prominently-advertised key.
ascii_field:
usg has real time iron control over all of dns.
nubbins`: you can't have visible to users but invisible to
usg ascii_field: one of the few things
usg is reliably good at is making a particular ip unusable
ascii_field: turning an ip address into a critical constant in a field-deployed machine paints a big fat target on that ip for
usg BingoBoingo: I support thestringpuller's idea that it could be dangerous because how much can it cost
USG to rack 3 tons of banana pi's
mircea_popescu: but for the fate of a random
usg muppet ? dude, burn him down, his name won't even be remembered.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 00:37:43; assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 06:08:33; ben_vulpes: <decimation> I just thought of a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to
usg term) weapon system. imagine a small turboprop uav ... that can drop its wings and turn into kerosene rocket << why bother with expensive turbomachinery? just use solid propellants...
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 06:08:33; ben_vulpes: <decimation> I just thought of a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to
usg term) weapon system. imagine a small turboprop uav ... that can drop its wings and turn into kerosene rocket << why bother with expensive turbomachinery? just use solid propellants...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then again, pirates invented the "honor among thieves" thing which is what we're fundamentally continuating here. "how could there be rule of law otuside of
usg ?!?!" "same way there was rule of law in the fucking bahamas"
ascii_field: mats: your phrase 'avoid all crypto standards' is very much -not- the inevitable implication of dismissing
usg crapolade
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Or the golden toilets at the local
USG garisons erode
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works. people who meet us armed forces socially and people who are willing to write
USG SATAN in 5yo guts, provided the 5yo was spawned by a private first class have virtually no overlap.
mircea_popescu: "sorry to tell you sir, you have cancer" "you know who i am ? i am the
usg czar for rounded corners" "oh, in that case...umm... it's a skin condition. put some aloe on it."
ascii_modem: except hollywood and 'intellectual property' racket in general is core
usg mircea_popescu: i'm personally waiting for the credit suisse article about the loss of confidence in swiss banks as a result of them selling out their customers to
usg & friends.
mircea_popescu: because whatever, i'm going to hang them anyway, and
usg isn't going to hang them no matter what, so that leaves a space in the middle.
mircea_popescu: which pretty much brings us to 2014, when the thing became too expensive to be useful, so it had to run out of
usg jurisdiction (went to uk)
ascii_field: jurov: it's one small step to
usg prosecuting folks making hardware that doesn't obey magic bit
ben_vulpes: <decimation> I just thought of a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to
usg term) weapon system. imagine a small turboprop uav ... that can drop its wings and turn into kerosene rocket << why bother with expensive turbomachinery? just use solid propellants...
☟︎ decimation: moldbug thought the us would jail exchanges/possessors, but
usg lost the initiative on that one
decimation: I just thought of a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to
usg term) weapon system. imagine a small turboprop uav ... that can drop its wings and turn into kerosene rocket
decimation: asciilifeform: but then
usg is stuck with backing dollars with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: but notice that the people who do not suffer from that famous " pathologically difficult attitude toward various important software development philosophy " will not have much problems using
usg-nodes anyway
decimation:
usg could just arrest/seize/forfeit nodes it doesn't like
mircea_popescu: in this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from
USG.
☟︎