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mircea_popescu: it's correct, but
too valuable for him. he was given notes.
mod6: perhaps
the script should
throw a line in /etc/apt/sources.list
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can
tell me anything you wish, but he IS a kgb puppet.
there's just no way he could have figured
this one on his own.
mircea_popescu: the Federal Reserve is fresh out of magic bullets and faces a choice between crashing
the stock market and crashing
the bond market. <<
this is exactly correct by
the way.
mircea_popescu: t lots of conventional forces right in
the heart of Europe)."
mircea_popescu: "For example, it is known
that after
the end of World War II America's military planners were
thinking of launching a nuclear strike against
the USSR, and
the only
thing
that held
them back was
the fact
that
they didn't have enough bombs, meaning
that Russia would have
taken over all of Europe before
the effects of
the nuclear strikes could have deterred
them from doing so (Russia had no nuclear weapons at
the
time, bu
undata looks at
the 11 dollar bill on his desk from
the IRS
mircea_popescu: well,
there's
the castle, and
the rock upon which it rests, and
the province in which
the rock lies...
mircea_popescu: like
trying
to evaluate
the weight of
the stone around a man's neck who's chained
to
the castle wall.
decimation: all of which are implicitly on usg's books, because
too big
to fail
mircea_popescu: more importantly : if
the various cds, swaps and futures unwind,
that's a notional .5
to 100 quadrillion dollars gone
assbot: You
Think
The Deficit Is Bad? Federal Unfunded Liabilities Exceed $127
Trillion - Forbes
mircea_popescu: this for a number of reasons, chief among which :
the reported figures doesn't and hasn't for decades included all sorts of figures.
decimation: right, like liberia saving
to buy whatsapp
mircea_popescu: decimation nah,
there's practically infinity outstanding.
mircea_popescu: dude,
trust
the enemy
to give
true
to life portraits, it always works.
undata: and
they have a fiddly definition of what counts as debt
mircea_popescu: "You'd
think
that Obama has already overplayed his hand, and should behave accordingly. His popularity at home is roughly
the inverse of Putin's, which is
to say, Obama is still more popular
than Ebola, but not by much. He can't get anything at all done, no matter how pointless or futile, and his efforts
to date, at home and abroad, have been pretty much a disaster. So what does
this social worker
turned national masco
assbot: U.S. National Debt Clock : Real
Time
undata: 17.8
trillion
total debt
decimation: right, and of course
these are only 'cashflow' numbers, not debt on
the books
mike_c: BingoBoingo: whoa.
that looks disastrous at first
assbot: Foreign
trade of
the United States - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: now
the us runs a net
trade deficit of >500$bn per year
mircea_popescu: yes, 1980 was before "everyone goes
to college" and before "we'll outsource" and before all
the rest of
the crap.
decimation: but in 1980 usg was a net
trade creditor
to
the world
decimation: the problem is
that it kinda worked for
the backwater Caribbean drug runners it was intended
to hurt
decimation: somehow ever since
the late 70's and early 80's when
the aml stuff was made law, usg has gotten used
to
the idea
that it can just make
transacting money illegal as it wills
mircea_popescu: just, you know, us bureaucrats do not manage
to comprehend
they're nobody and need
to stfu when actual people are
talking.
decimation: european banks hate aml because of
the shit
they have
to go
through for us clients
mircea_popescu: i can now leisurely
transfer moneyz from washington
to
tehran, just hop it off swift into russwift via
the national network in any of
two dozen different sattelite states.
mircea_popescu: this, by
the way, is factual, and incalculably fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: There were even some
threats
to cut Russia off from
the SWIFT system, which would have made it quite difficult
to
transfer funds between Russia and
the West, but what
these
threats did instead was
to give Russia
the impetus
to introduce its own RUSSWIFT system, which will include even Iran, neutralizing future American efforts at imposing financial restrictions.
mircea_popescu: seems
the way current bureaucracies are interpreting
the "ideas are soldiers"
thing is very pedestrian seo : "narratives are soldiers"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform were you looking for "The American behavior
throughout
this succession of defeats has been remarkably consistent, with
the constant element being
their flat refusal
to deal with reality in any way, shape or form." ? :D
mircea_popescu: guy made some allegations of
theft, fraud and embezzelment, died in custody without having been charged, a week before
the one year (seriously ?!?!?!)
term he could be held without
trial.
mircea_popescu: viduals who were labeled as human rights violators. Russian legislators responded with
the “Dima Yakovlev Bill,” named after a Russian orphan adopted by Americans who killed him by leaving him in a locked car for nine hours.
This bill banned American orphan-killing fiends from adopting any more Russian orphans. It all amounted
to a silly bit of melodrama."
mircea_popescu: "At
that
time
the stakes weren't very high yet.
There was much noise around a fellow named Magnitsky, a corporate lawyer-crook who got caught and died in pretrial custody. He had been holding items for some bigger Western crooks, who were, of course, never apprehended.
The Americans chose
to
treat
this as a human rights violation and responded with
the so-called “Magnitsky Act” which sanctioned certain Russian indi
mircea_popescu: it was crucial originally,
to ensure against an at
the
time unknown nsa.
othernubs`: 0.6.0 initial network synchronization is 5x faster
than 0.5.3 ;)
TheNewDeal: RagnarDanneskjol how long back do
these Azelphur logs go?
mod6: so maybe
that version should be bumped up in
there, unless I'm missing something.
mod6: ben_vulpes's
thing is gonna install 0.5.3
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the bug is not so much of a concern, nobody is
typing
the book into a machine. << Wait,
then what was
the purpose again?
mircea_popescu: the bug is not so much of a concern, nobody is
typing
the book into a machine.
othernubs`: you'd be sad if you paid 1btc for a book
that's got a shitty bug, or
that's 1 release behind a major improvement
othernubs`: so before i fully dive in here, is it worth asking what's
the most recent acceptable version?
othernubs`: TheNewDeal, how do you
think ive had +v all day ;D
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you know i got
that from a number of ppl ? incl mpoe-pr
Apocalyptic: btw mircea, just had a chance
to read
the usgavin
trilema piece, it's stunning
othernubs`: are
there any useful BIPs we're missing out on?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's prollly going
to sell a hundred, you kidding ?
mircea_popescu: it's 3 in
the morning and
the log is 500 lines ya buncha chatterboxes.