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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: then again, pirates invented the "honor among thieves" thing which is what we're fundamentally continuating here. "how could there be rule of law otuside of
usg ?!?!" "same way there was rule of law in the fucking bahamas"
ascii_field: mats: your phrase 'avoid all crypto standards' is very much -not- the inevitable implication of dismissing
usg crapolade
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Or the golden toilets at the local
USG garisons erode
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works. people who meet us armed forces socially and people who are willing to write
USG SATAN in 5yo guts, provided the 5yo was spawned by a private first class have virtually no overlap.
mircea_popescu: "sorry to tell you sir, you have cancer" "you know who i am ? i am the
usg czar for rounded corners" "oh, in that case...umm... it's a skin condition. put some aloe on it."
ascii_modem: except hollywood and 'intellectual property' racket in general is core
usg mircea_popescu: i'm personally waiting for the credit suisse article about the loss of confidence in swiss banks as a result of them selling out their customers to
usg & friends.
mircea_popescu: because whatever, i'm going to hang them anyway, and
usg isn't going to hang them no matter what, so that leaves a space in the middle.
mircea_popescu: which pretty much brings us to 2014, when the thing became too expensive to be useful, so it had to run out of
usg jurisdiction (went to uk)
ascii_field: jurov: it's one small step to
usg prosecuting folks making hardware that doesn't obey magic bit
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...
☟︎ decimation: moldbug thought the us would jail exchanges/possessors, but
usg lost the initiative on that one
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
decimation: asciilifeform: but then
usg is stuck with backing dollars with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: but notice that the people who do not suffer from that famous " pathologically difficult attitude toward various important software development philosophy " will not have much problems using
usg-nodes anyway
decimation:
usg could just arrest/seize/forfeit nodes it doesn't like
mircea_popescu: there's a reason
usgavin & co pretend like nodes are not important while trying to make them not feasible.
mircea_popescu: in this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from
USG.
☟︎ decimation: re: it's more the principle of the matter. japan wants to assert that japan, and not
usg, make japan policy
decimation: when did the crazy fur nazis start making
usg border policy?
mircea_popescu: (the
usg will readily dispute this claiming they actually DO have title to bitcoin they confiscate, and then create chain of title from there. this argument is illogical).
decimation: outflanking
usg from the left is a common pattern worldwide
decimation: asciilifeform: I know that the german chemical industry was also generally transported to
usg pete_dushenski: hm well alexandria may have been replaceable/rediscoverable, but if nazi work goes down with
usg, how long do we wait ?
danielpbarron: or uh..
USG guy joins IRC and identifies himself as such
mircea_popescu: but this is exactly it,
usg trying to insert itself into the process by "blessing bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: generally, any friend of the
usg is an enemy of the world.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> idea is that they 'have the choice to surrender to
usg' and didn't make it << myeah. they gotta be supported.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, the
usg doesn't like it. how surprising.
decimation: yeah I guess that's the idea, but it seems dubious that
usg will tolerate such behavior
decimation: apparently tucows is on
usg's shitlist because it won't play ball
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i remember correctly,
usg is on record saying they lack the ability to input a printed gpg privkey.
mircea_popescu: cisco was caught working with
usg, lost 90% of sales in onequarter.
mircea_popescu: the plan is of course to use it extensively on anyone related to
usg, starting with the press, starting with idiot whores a la leah goodman and idiot venues a la newsweek
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 00:58:04; asciilifeform: possibly the most dangerous animal to be in the lands of
usg (and au, as i understand, is a kind of target practice range for
usg idiocies) is the fella with just enough to be worth skinning, but three or four zeroes short of mircea_popescu-esque atomic dirigible where he can hit back
mircea_popescu: "Progress in computer hardware has followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [17]." << by now moore';s law is currency in trading for everyine, from
usgavin to vince whoever.
ascii_field: chetty: there is a confounding factor: that much of su was bought up at fire-sale by
usg operatives
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the only reason we know about him is the gigantic crew of
usg photographers and a
usg planetary mediachumatron ready to endlessly reprint the photo
ascii_field: my model is more of a hypothesis re: what tools
usg will pick up when the usual ones (magick away the universe with idiot media tricks) begin to fail
ascii_field: used here as illustration that the imminent demise of
usg and the broader zombie civilization that created it, does not separate ulbricht's arse from anthill
mircea_popescu: people mostly don't believe the
usg statements in the case of ulbricht. what when they're actually made up ?
ascii_field: see, the rectoanalyzer will not be used by conventional 'daylight'
usg, no
mircea_popescu: every anything you propose costs the
usg way more than it costs you.
mircea_popescu: your ideas work in this situation where the
usg is "the universe" and the guy it torments just a guy.
mircea_popescu: ie, the same
usg that gets killed with the weapons it made and gave away.
ascii_field: same folks who make the rest of the
usg toybox
ascii_field: i won't pontificate on whether the past century of
usg work on tortures, dope, etc. came to anything, but this is more or less the kind of situation it was all ultimately waiting for, to try.
ben_vulpes: i'm kind of horrified at the notion that aws will outlive the
usg.
mircea_popescu: strange that anyone would even for a single second propose the
usg even exists as a going concern,
decimation:
usg is all about illusioning every problem away
BingoBoingo: decimation>
usg helps make roundup resistant cocaine << Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the cartels innovated that themselves
decimation:
usg helps make roundup resistant cocaine
mircea_popescu: nobody has so far taken a strong "fuck you, and red hat, and the
usg" stance. it is likely they never will,
ascii_field: one of the greatest films about essence of
usg ascii_field: but as i gather, the
usg-elite consciously walks this line - unlimited debauchery in private, idiot paper-pushing in public
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it is not a secret to anyone except the completely imbecile "experts" the
usg has historically and continues to "use" in it's quest to build itself as a bitcoin power independent from mpex.
mircea_popescu: exactly what it is. backed by nothing but the full faith and credit of the
usg, in the shape of little bits of paper issued by Department of Harvard, The Stanford Agency scl etc.
decimation: nasa et.al. spend money on
usg think tanks to try to come up with a protocol that will magically switch between store-and-forward and low-latency as the channel permits