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BingoBoingo still feels warm fuzzies about winning the S.BBET over S.DICE bet win
decimation: they trade tins of sardines
decimation: no cigs aren't allowed anymore I think
mircea_popescu: he's got a legitimate business trading ciggs for socks and sweaters in jail now or what.
thestringpuller: ^- wow it's just funny to read this stuff now.
thestringpuller: "You hold up MPEx and Satoshi Dice as successful businesses, and give them valuation in the millions of dollars. I mean, seriously, what is there to argue? I've already provided you evidence and reasons as to why the utter nonsense you're claiming is evidence for your arguments is false and you just keep providing the same nonsensical arguments over and over. BFL has sold tons of hardware, that is verifiable proo
mircea_popescu: anyway, inaba is the original bfl forum shill / organiser of the original "bfl will deliver" scambets.
decimation: even the server version
decimation: asciilifeform: I booted rhel7 today to find out what lennart has been up to
eth3: nah just snooping over there see if there was any action ;p
mircea_popescu: i thought you were just fighting systemv
eth3: heh had to change nicks to get in mintpal's channel
thestringpuller: "My point was that I have run and continue to run successful business(s) on the Bitcoin platform and yet somehow I've managed to do this without WOT... again shooting your theory to hell and gone." << Don't know what businesses he is talking about.
Apocalyptic: so it's either the noob gets the 6 right or gets only a subset, if the cardinal of this subset is low enough it doesn't help in any way
asciilifeform: as i understand, one's kaishakunin would typically be a respected teacher, who approves of you enough to take the risk of embarrassing himself by chopping incorrectly.
mircea_popescu: "master, how to learn dao ?" "read a coupla lines on it" "which ones ?" "yes"
decimation: we are all in the same big zone together, might as well let the string be 'zekd'
mircea_popescu: i like this right 6 theory
BingoBoingo: <Apocalyptic> <thestringpuller> 6 months thing hasn't changed either // should be 12 maybe << Nah it is the same six months, test is picking the right 6
decimation: he's the guy who witnesses right?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kaishakunin&defid=1111214 | Samurai Who Performs Kaishaku During Seppuku. The Kaishakunin Used A Katana Known As A Dotanuki.
asciilifeform: respect as in 'i wish this person to do the privilege of being my kaishakunin.'
asciilifeform: when i read 'shall be delivered', i knew virtually nothing about the author -- but instant respect, of the deepest kind.
Apocalyptic: <thestringpuller> 6 months thing hasn't changed either // should be 12 maybe
decimation: fyi there's an increased chance of a severe geomagnetic storm happening in the next week or two
thestringpuller: 6 months thing hasn't changed either
mircea_popescu: re-reading that, incredible how little has changed since Nov 15, 2012. "get in the wot, read the logs"
BingoBoingo: Well not with Thermos for sure, probably not with his successor
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a, yeah, that ain't happening.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps 5k posts or so, i forget the exact count, is not quite equal to that guy's usenet count.
BingoBoingo: Eh, when you write off a venue like bitcointalk as worthless, best to stand by that decision unless something material about the venue changes for the better.
mircea_popescu: (did get gastritis tho)
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically she's a naggum without the ulcer.
mircea_popescu: i didn't parse that.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> yeah but the woman was slowly going insane. and really, today's poor aren't actually worth it. << Also the part where you stick by saying cares about that venue are over has its own value
asciilifeform: and the immortal...
asciilifeform read them all many times
TheNewDeal: thought that was MP for some reason...
TheNewDeal: read that one a handful of times
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/so-you-think-youre-going-to-start-a-bitcoin-business-right.73270/ << that's a good one
BingoBoingo: bitcointa.lk seems to have stopped keeping up
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: I think issuers got their lists
mircea_popescu: yeah but the woman was slowly going insane. and really, today's poor aren't actually worth it.
BingoBoingo: So is Thermos still holding GLBSE asset lists hostage?
asciilifeform misses the mpoepr essays
thestringpuller: paid to by mp to educate the masses
mircea_popescu: that's the immortal gambit, isn't it.
decimation: being an asshole is bad pr in the short run, but it's great for making history in the long run (if you are right)
asciilifeform: 'entire cl455! except for those bozos who cheated by studying'
mircea_popescu: yeah, like that asshole teacher that flunks the entire class, which is unfair, because THE ENTIRE CLASS
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is funny because of all the forum derps going "oh, mpoe-pr hates everything!!1"
asciilifeform: but did, sadly, actually have the concept in head, and did nothing useful with it
asciilifeform: when wrote that piece.
asciilifeform must admit for the record that he did not know about nanotube's 'wot'
mircea_popescu: yeah that sounds about right.
thestringpuller: "And, what is far sadder, fools invariably show up, ready to part with their Bitcoins on their own free will. They give them up in exchange for promises, backed by nothing at all." << timeless
decimation: as I recall, reading about stan's encounter and further correspondence on that post is what interested me in this channel
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: that article is ahead of its time lol
mircea_popescu: ("list of people writing about bitcoin that are not obviously total idiots")
mircea_popescu: actually that loper-os artic le is how stan ended up on hanbot's list iirc.
mircea_popescu: "my sperm got is how they invented spermicide, bitch!"
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 352.01, Best ask: 353.34, Bid-ask spread: 1.33000, Last trade: 353.38, 24 hour volume: 25593.98759498, 24 hour low: 344.34, 24 hour high: 380.28, 24 hour vwap: 362.289581503
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> but did anyone go to jail, get fined by sec, etc? << no.
TheNewDeal: damn ascii, this is a lengthy piece
gribble: Seventeen Moments of Spring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring>; 17 Moments of Spring - 1/12 - 1/7 - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzOma9Pyv8>; Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (TV Mini-Series 1973) - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069628/>
asciilifeform: quite the polar opposite, in most ways
asciilifeform: other than being a fictional hero
decimation: I can't find it in the logs, you mentioned him months ago
decimation: asciilifeform: what was the name of that soviet agent who was like 'james bond'
asciilifeform: obligatory - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939 << my first excretion on the subject, inspired by glbse
TheNewDeal: all the talk about old people and namworld runs off?
thestringpuller: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=gigavps << anyone know what happened to that guy?
TheNewDeal: but james did get bannished to his childhood bedroom
asciilifeform: (unless they fail to play ball at some point)
decimation: lol perhaps the name 'gaijin' keeping with the japanese theme
mircea_popescu: i doubt copumpkin is keeping much track anymore
TheNewDeal: so weird to see stuff like copumpkin giving the guy a 4, then everyone else negrating?
thestringpuller: PatrickHarnett: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=PatrickHarnett&sign=ANY&type=RECV ; Kludge the banker: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=PatrickHarnett&sign=ANY&type=RECV
TheNewDeal: I see the reference now - control the barbarians using barbarians
asciilifeform did not invent pinyin, is not to blame for it
thestringpuller: and wow some of the names that pop up when you go back in time
thestringpuller: running through a WoT graph
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: glbse was 'yi yi zhi yi' and therefore legally untouchable.
gribble: User 'nefario', with keyid 28DD49E2A68F4B7C, fingerprint 03B47461C1E526576917215728DD49E2A68F4B7C, and bitcoin address None, registered on Tue Jul 12 02:17:47 2011, last authed on Thu Sep 27 07:05:00 2012. http://b-otc.com/vg?nick=nefario . Currently not authenticated.
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user thestringpuller to user Nefario: Level 1: 0, Level 2: -1 via 4 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=thestringpuller&dest=Nefario | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Nefario | Rated since: Tue Jul 12 22:55:49 2011
TheNewDeal: but did anyone go to jail, get fined by sec, etc?
TheNewDeal: and a scammer tag or two was handed out
TheNewDeal: ok I understand James McCarthy took the hit for glbse, and got banished to his parents basement for eternity
mircea_popescu: decimation you can't register X "foundation" aganst the owner of X.
decimation: but I think a trademark must be used.. in trade
mircea_popescu: yeah, that'll be the day trademark enforceability ends.
asciilifeform: that'll be the day.
mircea_popescu: i even said in the log, a year or so ago, now it will be bought off a bankruptcy auction
asciilifeform somehow misses this
mircea_popescu: bewcause the fucktards in question decided it's best to give it to a "safe company"
asciilifeform: who, if anyone, owns the meatspace trademarks anyway ?
TheNewDeal: mp, was that a response to my 'spergily timed question?
asciilifeform: !s the problem of enforcement
gribble: Scammer tag : Nefario, theymos, others known and unknown - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2012/scammer-tag-nefario-theymos-others-known-and-unknown/>; Octombrie 2012 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2012/10>; Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/bitcoin/>
mircea_popescu: ;;google trilema nefario, theymos, others known and unknown