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decimation: which I take to mean "submits to
usg T/F"
decimation: I'm amused that
usg distinguishes between 'proprietary' and 'private'
decimation:
usg knows precisely which necks to squeeze
mircea_popescu: nobody in the
usg can do anything anymore. it's not just that i have their home address and i know who their wife is fucking better than them.
mircea_popescu: everyone could have problems.
usg's actually got problems.
decimation: re: Freiherr Hammerstein-Equord's quote < Yes,
USG specializes in promoting the stupid and industrious
ascii_field: one of the few things
usg is demonstrably good at is sniffing out unexpectedly fattened cattle to butcher.
ben_vulpes: what is it with you and self flagellation with the
usg scourge
ascii_field: some years ago, when i still worked at [small
usg research outpost] we had a 'gatehouse incident.' much commotion and yellow tape, etc. turned out, guard blew own brains out messily
ascii_field: trinque: good time to rehash my observation that the only 'decisive' people, as in out-and-out arms against
usg - are the schizos, imbeciles, and provocateurs
ascii_field: 'Federal Agents Who Persecuted Ulbricht Arrested' << for what it's worth, i predicted that bitcoin will help
usg fission into men and groups of men with actual, if unofficial - agency (in the philosophical sense)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << tellingly, this is not the front page of the nyt, wapo adn every single other
usg propaganda leaflet. << It made the front page of qntra
mircea_popescu: sort-of like seeing footballers trying to reason about medicine. that's what this entire "buncha derpy kids + some
usg moles debating bitcoin" looks to me : like a bunch of nfl picks got parachuted in senegal, and are now trying to get themselves cured of tb
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the parallels between
usg-poettering "working on" linux and
usgavin "working on" bitcoin are utterly striking.
mircea_popescu: "an implementation failure" ? the time we took out
usg's most valuable asset and publicly shot it in the head was "an implementation failure" "?
mircea_popescu: now, this entire "yeah the
usg is your main enemy but whatever, you don't really want to protect your fucking tweets from them anyway" worked to propose turdstack = pancake.
mircea_popescu: in most practical scenarios, the only enemy any user will ever encounter is the
usg.
decimation: apparently
usg courts have ruled that 'exit' searches are legal
mircea_popescu: how does this thing advertise itself in wikipedia ? (and yes, that's what wikipedia is,
usg-pravda)
mircea_popescu: why do you think
usg dollar is stable, zimbabweg dollar is not ?
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.
mircea_popescu:
usgavin's been on a kick about this imaginary hardware that will run his 200 trillion jiggabit nodes.
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...
mircea_popescu: so to conflate "modern idiotic
usgtronics" with "capitalism" which in turn conflates with "everything minus stone age, feudalism, and the soviets" is...