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mircea_popescu: that comes
to... brace yourselves... 250 bucks a year per capita.
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decimation: mircea_popescu: I've heard it's common practice
to buy 'qualified' goods and sell on ebay for usd
mircea_popescu: the only innovation
there is refusing
to
take
them in exchange for
the only
thing
they used
to be good for.
mircea_popescu: then REFUSED
to
take
the same in exchange for
tax receipts ?
decimation: that fellow who lived under a stump or whatever might claim
to be somewhat independent, but really he's just
taking advantage of usg's lack landlordship
decimation: for instance, he's still going
to have
to sell some gold
to pay his land
tax in dollars
decimation: of course 99% of farmers prefer
to receive usg electronic
transfers directly
to
their accounts
decimation: yeah, in
the wash dc area it's just a little flatter I guess
BingoBoingo: decimation: No, it's where USG policy used
to be made
decimation: lol so
the wall street journal op-ed is where one makes usg policy now?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> not even kidding. you know
that
thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in a
town, nor 10 miles without crossing a road ? <<
True story, did
that.
decimation: those kids being
the exact objects which
the real estate/job-for-life chumpatrons must devour
to sustain
themselves
decimation: meanwhile
they have kids, who also need
to eat
decimation: regarding birth,
the ironic
thing about wash dc is
that
the majority of
these 'burghers' are holding gov't jobs, which are more-or-less sinecures for life
decimation: asciilifeform: I added all
this up once, and came
to
the conclusion
that every single person in
the washington DC area must have an income of >$100k
mircea_popescu: not even kidding. you know
that
thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in a
town, nor 10 miles without crossing a road ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla unlike europe,
the us is very poorly developed.
mike_c: significantly cheaper
than mine..
mircea_popescu: now
to
the massive
task of documenting
this deedsbot
thing.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> ignoring
the ridicule for having an iphone, i was going
to write up
this circle app but cannot because
there is 2180 results for apps with
the name circle and you must install ichunes
to use
the link
to install :\ << sounds like a review in itself
mircea_popescu: from
tax breaks
to deferring of college debt, it's all a gift.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> one can get a nice flat and
three fine meals [...] not coughing up any great advances in arts. <<< yes,
they are.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wait a seccond. is lawsky
the reddit supernintendo or
the actual supernintendo ? << scam, he's just one of
those rpi based emulators made
the chicoms
decimation: asciilifeform: it is an odd fact
that most 'upright' folks in
the us would prefer
to starve rather
than depend on welfare, yet
the same folks view
their mortgage deductions as a birthright
decimation: of course,
there is
the 'george boole' problem, as you point out in
the comments
decimation: either
those who are rich in bezzlars are sitting on
their brilliant inventions or
the method by which one comes
to hold bezzlars has little
to do with productive activity
cazalla: mike_c, matters not, sporting an old phone will just get you labelled as a hipster because
the 3310 is vintage yo
mike_c: yes,
the key
to
the joke was "the other girls"
cazalla: mike_c, i
thought it was
the girls
that like
to impress with
their phone, blinged up cases and all
decimation: of course. I feel like I started halfway in
though,
they keep mentioning his earlier exploits with V weapons and I seem
to have missed
that
decimation: asciilifeform: in Stierlitz, is it some kind of inside joke when
they go
through
the 'personnel file' of every high ranking Nazi and
they all say exactly
the same
thing?
mike_c: i guess you can use an iphone
to impress
the other girls at
the party. gotta get a cute cover for it
though.
cazalla: mike_c, you can use
the appstore and just upload your music, download pics via ftp provided it is broken
mike_c: well i don't know what you'd use an iphone for at all. but i
thought you needed itunes
to install shit on it.
decimation: asciilifeform: like, if you are unwilling
to provide for yourself,
the gov't will supply one small stone cell with
three gruels per day?
kakobrekla: asciilifeform and
to answer your question, a few months
cazalla: ignoring
the ridicule for having an iphone, i was going
to write up
this circle app but cannot because
there is 2180 results for apps with
the name circle and you must install ichunes
to use
the link
to install :\
decimation: asciilifeform: I recall
that you were a proponent of 'guaranteed income'
kakobrekla: sadly i also need
to convert
to a more acceptable format
kakobrekla: idk, but 10 btc would buy a good fat crate'o'em < is
this a protest of how unusable btc is
to you or ?
PinkPosixPXE: I guess some idiots on reddit have
to be scam
trolls
to get
their daily income...
mircea_popescu: wait a seccond. is lawsky
the reddit supernintendo or
the actual supernintendo ?
PinkPosixPXE: perhaps
they decided going after 1 person wasn't enough for
their e-peen-inflation
PinkPosixPXE: may be dropped about 10000 packets
total, and did nothing as soon as I flipped my ip..
PinkPosixPXE: 19:46 #bitcoin-assets: <+ben_vulpes> PinkPosixPXE: did
the scriptkiddies getcher aws account? << nope
mircea_popescu: whenever "joe said" is not automatically followed by "oh yea ? and who
the fuck is joe ?"
the situation is already in
the handbasked and moments away from hell.
decimation: mircea_popescu: agreed. as I drive
to work, I listen
to
that french revolution podcast, and
they just covered
the 'housewife army'
that managed
to dislodge Louis from Versailles
decimation: yeah, if
the NASDP leadership weren't fucktards,
they would have put more emphasis on actual intelligence rather
than harassing idiots
mircea_popescu: the us worked just fine, and definitely better
than
the entire rest of
the world, BEFORE extending
the franchise.
mircea_popescu: be it
the peasants in russia, or
the derps in nazi germany, whenever
the "common man" is
taken from under
the foot and put on
the
table
trouble soon follows.
mircea_popescu: all you need
to have a reign of
terror is
to empower
the bottom of
the social hierarchy. it never fails.
decimation: so, really all you need
to have a 'reign of
terror' is
to put a 'suggestion box' in front of
the secret police office
decimation: the widespread willingness of Germans
to inform on each other
to
the Gestapo
that Germany between 1933 and 1945 was a prime example of panopticism."
decimation: so after watching Stierlitz, I surfed
the wikipedia describing
the NASDP government intelligence 4th department
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo "According
to Canadian historian Robert Gellately's analysis of
the local offices established,
the Gestapo was—for
the most part—made up of bureaucrats and clerical workers who depended upon denunciations by citizens for
their information.[78] Gellately argued
that it was because of
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