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asciilifeform: their job was to keep rural usa down.
decimation: such a grand strategy usg undertook, to import all of its enemies worldwide and make them citizens so we could all love them with socialism
BingoBoingo: decimation: The fear that people who aren't white are so pissed at whites they are targeting people most whites don't consider white in spite of optics
decimation: BingoBoingo: the fear being that the Bosnians didn't get the memo that they supposed to do whatever usg or the local thugs demand?
BingoBoingo: A lot of people in the region won't admit it, but yes Bosnians are very white and this worries them.
assbot: Protests in St. Louis after teens ‘bash man to death’ with hammers | New York Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1ygloPx )
decimation: here's the ny post coverage. dude looks pretty darn white to me (the guy on the st. louis dispatch story is one of the perps) http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/teens-savagely-beat-man-with-hammers-in-random-attack/
BingoBoingo: My brother the Dentist in little Sarajevo in St Louis feels safer there than in Gretchen Wilson country where he grew up... largely because he assumes his neighbors are so much more armed.
decimation: apparently this video was taken shortly after the Bosian was attacked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIPZ09WcTWk
BingoBoingo: In St Louis the Bosnians benefit from geographic concentration and the part where "white" people love living in bosnian neighborhoods
mircea_popescu: im sure they picked on them over disagreements as to how to treat bitchez.
BingoBoingo: I honestly think is was stupid for a mixed gang of Hispanics and Black americans to pick on the Bosnians for lacking melanin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends on the races involved.
mircea_popescu: this is the original spark of mob turf wars, too. it's basically free money.
mircea_popescu: "we're the one you need to pay for rain and sunshine"
decimation: meanwhile on the other side of the river: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/article_9f15bf49-c8b7-5bc3-8671-ac291f666084.html "St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson spoke with residents at the street protest Sunday night. He said he was sorry about what happened and sought to reassure people the killing did not appear motivated by race or ethnicity."
mircea_popescu: decimation listen, the market in security is such that various groups always tend to posture as you know
BingoBoingo: decimation> the real reason Ferguson was held was to excite the blacks to turnout 110% for hilary << Hilary's not running. Jim Webb.
decimation: that and to distract from the fact that obama & the dems lost big "we lost but whitey is still racis!!!"
decimation: the real reason Ferguson was held was to excite the blacks to turnout 110% for hilary
decimation: if the 'oath keepers' demostrate that peace can be kept without swat/usg/fed/bureaucracy, 'people' might get the wrong idea
Vexual: but you don't get to pretend
mircea_popescu: while it's not much a matter of perception. pure thermodynamics.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah which is why the 'oath keepers' who appeared were a serious threat
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem here is that you're thinking this in terms of perception,
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> they are seen as 'legionaires' standing between him and the horde. << Very true in the case of Ferguson particulars
Vexual: do i mell tanqueray?
asciilifeform: they are seen as 'legionaires' standing between him and the horde.
asciilifeform: the very thing that keeps average usaschwitz inmate from wishing for dead swat men
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is why 'fergusons' are created.
BingoBoingo: decimation: How much are you bidding for the job?
decimation: how does one swat raid the swat team?
asciilifeform: this is one reason it is kept. because the supply of pliant cattle is bottomless.
mircea_popescu: country of cowards will straigthen in teh grave.
decimation: I donno, if jury trial is abolished, one might find many more declared and undeclared 'oath keepers' come out of the woodwork
asciilifeform: presently it's a useful propaganda tool - usg picks pliant juries reliably, gives extra spray paint coating of 'legitimacy' to everything the courts do.
mircea_popescu: take the 2-3year average lifespan to 16 monts, what of it.
asciilifeform: if this becomes a plausible thing, jury trial will be abolished in usa.
Vexual: australia gets a lot more people shot in their kitchen for holding a kitchen knife than americaz
mircea_popescu: just on a general "well, vote for the underdog" thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'd personally hold on to acquitting anyone accused of shooting a swat derp, if in his home.
asciilifeform: i bet they skinned, tanned the hides.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, considering the line of work, a 2-3 year average lifespan for anyone involved would be reasonable.
BingoBoingo: SWAT man's advantage in the US is practice
asciilifeform: if there were danger, he would be a coward, like usa in iraq.
mircea_popescu: nothing worse than an aparatchick with a delusion of invulnerability.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. kinda the problem.
decimation: mircea_popescu: that facebook post above demonstrates there are those who fantasize about doing exactly that I think
Vexual: dow jones industrial all time high
mircea_popescu: truth be told, a lot more swat derps need to be kiled on a daily basis, to balance that shit out.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> difficulty drops << expect others, as usg torches miner farm after farm. << USG dealing with CHina and Russia, won't seize but torch. Owner torches.
decimation: mircea_popescu: tally how many dogs killed?
asciilifeform: difficulty drops << expect others, as usg torches miner farm after farm.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> even in usa, can hold bitcoin. << SO far I can even transact.
mircea_popescu: "In 2009 Mayor Cheye Calvo proposed a measure that would require every Maryland police department that operates a SWAT team to submit biannual reports on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures, or injuries."
decimation: xinxiwang: is there a functioning over-the-counter market in the prc for bitcoin?
xinxiwang: oh yeah, they have some other ways.
decimation: I guess they were forced to not accept bank transfers right?
xinxiwang: none of them was shut down.
asciilifeform: fat lot of good 'holding' does, though.
decimation: xinxiwang: what about the exchanges that were shut down?
xinxiwang: surely they can.
decimation: xinxiwang: are people in the prc generally able to hold bitcoin?
xinxiwang: the government follows the law strictly. they don’t ban it.
asciilifeform: 'We've apologized for the incident, but we will never apologize for taking drugs off our streets. Quite frankly, we'd do it again. Tonight.'
mircea_popescu: <decimation> like, you leave package on the postman's door? << pay homeless dude 10 bux ?
decimation: asciilifeform: you and the mayor prefer the ghetto :)
asciilifeform: decimation: mayor raid << this was right where i lived at the time.
gribble: (last [--{from,in,on,with,without,regexp} <value>] [--nolimit]) -- Returns the last message matching the given criteria. --from requires a nick from whom the message came; --in requires a channel the message was sent to; --on requires a network the message was sent on; --with requires some string that had to be in the message; --regexp requires a regular expression the message must match; (1 more message)
Vexual: toyotas up tho
xinxiwang: is there Japanese here?
assbot: Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor's residence drug raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXMQto )
decimation: mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor's_residence_drug_raid << actually this has already been done
BingoBoingo: I someone who can graph wants to do a longer piece on difficulty drops in Bitcoin's history...
decimation: like, you leave package on the postman's door?
decimation: how would one "send" the mail anonymously?
mircea_popescu: because if one can joejob people this way ima put nuland in prison on federal drug charges ?
decimation: why would usg care if you were the intended recipient or a random victim?
BingoBoingo: Fuck that could have been up 5 hours ago
assbot: First Difficulty Drop of the ASIC Age | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXLezI )
mircea_popescu: of course they do. trilema credits uses it.
mircea_popescu: "Yes, I2P or Tor would work for such a website. Freenet is probably more secure because there are no entry/exit nodes to monitor, but Freesites can only serve static content, and anonymous Bitcoin payments don't have a way to include a message with them."
mircea_popescu: "we know you must convict this guy and won't tell you why or how we found out. sign here."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to build a case out of that if rigurously observed outside of fed-fiat.
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=175.0 << this shit is evil incidentally.
punkman: how hot would the flame need to be to do that?
decimation: this ferguson thing is a good example
decimation: the us tardstream media *loves* pre-planned events
assbot: "DICE" 160 GHs desktop USB miner / blockchain lottery device - TechnoBit ... ( http://bit.ly/1AeaVXN )
cazalla: as they do celebs
cazalla: in hindsight, could've prepared an article for the moment diff changed
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I totally failied to recognize major event is major.
cazalla: didn't occur to me despite logs earlier
punkman: most interesting news for the day
mircea_popescu: qntra totally needs a piece on that.
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, wasn't the bitbet bet here earlier ?
assbot: News: Bitcoin Difficulty Drops for the First Time in 22 MonthsCoinsetter Bitcoin News ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXI5jl )
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 19:37:58; asciilifeform: now, if you're willing to live like a feral dog, it isn't even necessary to leave the country. i recall, a few years ago, an article about one fellow who lived in a dugout in a u.s. national park. for ~30 years. he was caught by pure chance.
BingoBoingo made the mistake of going to Library school. "All of these old people are going to retire soon" they said. "People want technology skills they said" as they sort applicants by facebook.
mike_c: cazalla: cool, thx for quick publish and light touch on editing.