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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why ? it's
the same
tribal, pretentious, inept culture.
pete_dushenski: speaking of cognac, i wonder what albert camus woulda
thought of a $2100 bottle of
the stuff bearing his name
BingoBoingo: But compared
to
the US it should suck less!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dude... god save Botswana over
there. << Stahp impeaching Botswana's reputation by implying
the United States resembles it.
pete_dushenski: blindsiding? you'd
think botswana would just expect
to be shit on by now
mircea_popescu: "Glicker's hand in crafting
the LT2 ruling helped create an unfunded mandate
that opened new markets for his company, while blindsiding cash-strapped municipalities across
the country."
mircea_popescu: Most
troubling are charges of decades of revolving-door cronyism surrounding Joe Glicker, a vice president of CH2M Hill,
the company awarded
the contracts
to build
the new covered reservoirs for Portland. Not only was Glicker a former chief engineer of
the Portland Water Bureau (PWB), he also worked as a core consultant with
the EPA
to write
the very LT2 rules
that now require
these massive "emergency" water infrastruc
pete_dushenski: send
them instagram selfies of imf experts making sad faces
mircea_popescu: now
there's dangers involved ? shit, i guess we gotta go apologize
to all
the locals
that said so back
then ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit! for 30 fucking years all
the world could hear from us' imf "experts" was privatize, privatize, privatize
mircea_popescu: "At
the heart of
the controversy is a breakdown in public
trust
that reflects
the dangers of corporate-led water privatization schemes in
the United States and around
the world."
mircea_popescu: assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 19:06:06; kakobrekla: btw bitstamp is moving operations
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mircea_popescu: i didn't mean it's any good. merely
that moet is meh-er-er!
mircea_popescu: the only
thing making money in france, sort of like paris' appple
pete_dushenski: and around 2007-08 porsche almost bought vw,
then got flipped on its ass and
the reverse happened
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
there's something about vw
that attracts
this sort of
thing. i recall a similar carnage in
the 80, and
then somerthing with audi
mircea_popescu: you can never really swear who's
the real billy mumphrey.
mircea_popescu: well
that's
the beauty of
the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue.
pete_dushenski: "The cost of insuring Russia’s bonds against non-repayment for five years jumped 61 basis points
this year
to 538, according
to data compiled by Bloomberg.
That makes
the nation’s debt
the fifth-riskiest globally, above speculative-grade countries including Lebanon, Egypt and Portugal."
mircea_popescu: i dunno why all
these ppl get so excited about pgp. clearly it doesn't do anything
mircea_popescu: maybe
the government was impersonating dpr all along ?
pete_dushenski: peterl nice work on
the blog aggregator! any guesses as
to why my apostraphes are so mangled?
mircea_popescu: there was something very very odd about
the pgp used on
this site
that allowed employees
to impersonate users.
mircea_popescu: "[A]s a side note, at what point in
time do we decide
that we’ve had enough of someone[’]s shit, and
terminate
them? Like, does impersonating a vendor
to rip off a mid-level drug lord, using our rep and system; follows up by stealing from our vendors and clients and breeding fear and mis-trust, does
that come close in your opinion."
mircea_popescu: they only
took
them out because
they didn't want
the jury
to hear
the
titles,. lest
they look it up
mircea_popescu: Ulbricht won only a few minor points.
The government won't be able
to point
to certain books sold on Silk Road, such as Silent but Deadly and Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival.
Those exhibits "unnecessarily inject elements of violence and explosive devices
that are not otherwise part of
this case."
mircea_popescu hooked up old minifrige system
to old vw golf for home made ac long ago
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'll have
to appreciate
the value of convenience SOME DAY
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i'm not as competent as you in
the fields of not electrocuting myself
mircea_popescu: "Q1.6: Does RANDOM.ORG perform custom jobs
that require randomness? Yes. Perhaps you need more numbers
than it's possible
to get via
the web forms, or perhaps you need
them in a format
that isn't supported. In
those cases, we can set up a custom job for you
to supply
the numbers."
mircea_popescu: "Second,
this is not an attack
that can be launched from anywhere in
the world, only reasonably close
to
the generator. "
mircea_popescu: and if i go
to fuck a girl, i can't like... in any manner observe where
the blasted slit is
mircea_popescu: "RANDOM.ORG radios use in order
to affect
the generator. However, radio frequency attacks of
this
type would be difficult for a variety of reasons. First,
the frequencies
that
the radios use are not published, so an attacker would have
to broadcast across all frequencies of all bands used for FM and AM broadcasting. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as
to whether you in his place would find yourself in
the same envelope or not.
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mircea_popescu: yes, by and large
the scientist in
the lab is a puppet.
mircea_popescu: but
the discussion of whether
the envelope is real or metaphysical is important.
mircea_popescu: on
the merits
the judge is entirely correct, he couldn't have excluded
that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was more curios in general discussion, rather
than merely judging
the judge.
punkman: "Ulbricht does not currently face charges of attempted murder." so evidence unrelated
to current case?
mircea_popescu: you can't say "clothes are dumb" just because americans are poor and
the chinese are mocking
them.
mircea_popescu: law, as an intellectual
tradition / cultural phenomenon is quite sensible.
mircea_popescu: quick "fundaments of law" practice work. were you
the judge, would you have allowed
the evidence presented ? if yes, why ? if not, why not ?
mircea_popescu: ie,
tarzan in
the jungle, finds a glub. "now
that's a good club". "hello
tarzan". because buna is ambiguously hello and "this is a good item"
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of ancient joke. "tarzan prin jungla, gaseste o bita. "buna bita!" "buna
tarzan!""
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a: 'orcs came and burned my village
to
the ground' b: 'shuddup, enough whinging, do something
to improve yer lot' << i can see it
tbh.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution is
to whip out
the cock, jack off, send
the film
to every girl in junior high,
then when
the
troopers show up whip
the cock out, jack off on
their face and beat
them until
they lick it off and
thank you for it.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt
the solution
to "welfare state has made life impossible for actual people" is "feel moar ashamed and guilty"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: also mildly curious
to know how much
time your grandfather spent on irc shooting
the shit and complaining about how shitty his wife was <<< all old folks i knew, of
that exact generation, spent about 20 hours a week, each week, with a beer and
tobacco,
talking exactly
the same
things.
mircea_popescu: "I'd also like
to see a source
to
this claim. I'll start a bounty of 3,000 bits." gotta love reddit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: how in
the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or
two
than his own grandchildren could hope
to build in a life
time << you know he has a legitimate question
there.
mircea_popescu: yeah
that's gonna be a cool 54 btc for bitbet once it resolves.
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mircea_popescu: cazalla: i am very upset over
this fork
talk << eh, nothing
to get excited over, a little bit of war.
mircea_popescu: TomServo herbi stopped by ? you
two are liek friends ?