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mircea_popescu: the
usg has no priviledged relationship with the law. it's a poor mockery thereof.
decimation: the problem is that the vector
usg uses is civilization-destroying. essentially "obey the law" becomes more of a farce until it becomes a laughing matter
decimation:
usg ought to be careful with pushing this kind of shit, you don't want the little people to become confused about banking
decimation: asciilifeform: in general, docsis is a "reference implementation" of
usg crypto, complete with fips standards etc.
mircea_popescu: basically they're one of the what, 100k or so small tech-ish corps that live off the
usg dole.
mircea_popescu: word around the terrorist campfire is, the
usg is really running short on talent.
decimation: I guess. Like, if there were anti-us rebels in mexico, I think
usg would be seriously pissed if russia sent troops to support them
decimation: mats: what 'game'? is
usg trying to gain a colony in eastern europe
mats: what does
USG care if Putin shuts off the gas?
decimation: I would like someone in
usg to explain to little people like me why 1) poking russia with a stick is a good idea and 2.) what possible good could come from it
decimation: the banking system is a propaganda wrapper around
usg/fed bank ownership
decimation: no, it's like having
usg pay 70 bucks for a happy mean I 'get' to eat
decimation: eh, I can borrow
usg's bezzlars for 3.5
decimation: I can't find good data, but it is pretty well known that
usg entities purchase 30 year fixed loans
decimation: in the us, all mortgages are sold by
usg mircea_popescu: a more laughably clear cut of
usg-ism i've never seen, and it's utter defeat and public ridicule will do a lot not only to preserve bitcoin as "the noose that hangs the
usg", but moreover as a focal point for all people who would rather live an actual life.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: gavin andresen is unchangeably biased against solutions that preserve scarcity semantics. <<< that's not even it. a princeton graduate that lives in amherst mass and has suckled the
usg privilege tit all his life to the exclusion of anything else is going to make it so we can't verify bitcoin transactions or integrity anymore in order to "save africa" by allowing them microtransactions they don't either nee
mircea_popescu: We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.‘ << this part is the funniest, incidentally, considering the APPALLING record of
usg agents trying to infiltrate a god damnd public channel so far.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic im sure the
usg thinks it can do anything it pleases.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> not trying to argue that
usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to' << ballas is fundamentally (if perhaps unaware-ly) arguing that it already has. that's where his numerous psychanalisis pieces on the public mindset converge.
mircea_popescu: so... yes. for as long as the
usg is willing to die peacefully, it will die peacefully. and if it wishes to try and make a break for it, all the same, it will die bloodily.
midnightmagic: dude. seriously plotting or fomenting the physical murder of the
USG is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ midnightmagic: uh. just for the record, I strongly disagree with plotting the violent overthrow of the
USG. I do not, have not, will not, and would not even in the face of violent coercion, consider the use of violent and/or lethal force as a vehicle of governmental change. I am not a seditionist.
decimation: I guess
usg is very good at the good cop/bad cop routine in its derpy way
mircea_popescu: really,
usg : hire smarter people. i know that obama was wildly successful by promising a bunch of losers unprecedented financial incentives to voice for him, and i know that for that reason it WORKS for him to do all sorts of patently idiotic shit, like most recently claiming that inviting the president of israel "breaks protocol" because it could be seen as supporting a side in the coming elections, while his staff i
mircea_popescu: you can distinguish the
usg agents from the random muppet by this simple pretense : once gavin's ideas are crushed in the open, does he continue as if nothing happened ?
mircea_popescu: except, it won't be men in
usg-blue shirts humbled before tshirted croc wearing crowd,
mircea_popescu: (if you use
usg "free" storage, "special deal for gavincoin")
BingoBoingo: decimation: GPS time is
USG turd. Want to be able to keep own clock.
decimation: asciilifeform:
usg actually proposed getting rid of leap seconds
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this is why I think private spy agency with $maxint budget are more efficient than any
USG version.
mircea_popescu: mats: i am disappointed the snow is not piled higher. this is not the apocalypse i was promised! <<
usg makes a habit to overpromise and underdeliver.
decimation: I suspect 'rich in bezzlars' will not convey post-
usg sovereignty
decimation: of course, in an account that isn't locked away by some deal with
usg re: taxes
decimation: similarly,
usg civil servants don't find much reason to bother with actual work, when coolies will do - often for free
decimation: they all exist under the heading of some
usg fiat or another, mostly from fdr days
decimation: note that
usg accomplishes bifurcating the internet without actually writing down any law
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
usg still working on hardforking the internet, huh ?
mircea_popescu: the
usg is not going to like people fucking up its shit. that's not changing. google isn't going to start acting like anything but a
usg agent. that's also not changing. what are teh staffers in question expect will happen, or expected will have happened ?
mats: replaced? schmidt has been a
USG cocksucker since day 1
mircea_popescu: "us company subsisting out of us fed subsidies fails to implement
usg policy. is replaced with different one, nobody notices the difference."
mircea_popescu: <decimation> because
usg is too stupid to move to somewhere cheaper <>< nah, not how it works. wherever it moves, the bedbugs move there too. it won't stay cheaper.
decimation: because
usg is too stupid to move to somewhere cheaper
mats: mircea_popescu: but there are 11 judges with 0 cases and 12 with just 1. i'm now going through and reading every case involving
USG, i've cleared ten judges this way, but the number of cases i've been able to find have been fairly low in number
decimation: time is a concern for bitcoin, and I suspect that 99% of your 'ntp' servers trace back to
usg BingoBoingo: mats: Anyways since you declared allegiance to New Reno
USG I have to assume polio
USG is spending more then $100k per year chasing less than a prius in Buttstamp valued BTC.
mats: all this gloom about forest fires makes me nervous, i am a mere vassal of
USG with insufficient rocket fuel
mircea_popescu: an
usg education is an economic substitute of an actual education, and margerine is an economic substitute for butter.
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for gavinandresen with note: with note: pathetic
usg muppet. tirelessly schemes to zimbabweize bitcoin in the name of 'inclusion.'
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i was telling a friend the other night that the CIA/FBI acts as the
USG mafia, but won't admit to being the mafia. Whereas KGB/Soviets said, "Yea we're the mob, watcha gonna do about it?"
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> any reason to doubt that the
usg exchanges and other scum are 'on board' (for what that's worth) ? << it is going to be *fascinating* to see how coinbase et. al are going to handle this
Luke-Jr: you think the block size issue is
USG-inspired? what do they have to gain from it?
mircea_popescu: it's so far 100% of the bitcoin "told the
usg to get fucked" party. once you digest that you might be in a better position to evaluate who matters and who doesn't,
mircea_popescu: jurov no, not really. just in the parallel universe where
usg matters.