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Azelphur: I still have half a
tonne of codeine left over from when I had my wisdom
tooth out lol
decimation: same with mdma precursors like pseudo-ephedrine in
the us
Azelphur: dat 2mg of extra codeine makes all
the difference.
Azelphur: which means
they pulled my damned hayfever
tablets
that actually fucking worked.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu:
the other
thing
they did
that really pissed me off,
they lowered
the legal limit over
the counter of Codeine from 10mg
to 8mg here in UK
Azelphur: and I was like "wtf...why would you
take
that, it's horrible...and doesn't give you any noticeable high"
Azelphur: I only heard people even
taking it recreationally after I was on it for medical reasons
mircea_popescu: nobody ever got addicted. when
the fuck did codeine become an additcive substance. wtf is with
these derps.
mircea_popescu: jesus
these people derping about codeine. here's a fun fact : as a growing
tyke in soviet romania, mp like any other chitlins was administered phosphoric codeine freely for coughs.
mircea_popescu: people love
to imagine
that playing ball has no costs.
this is not unlike
the chipper's fantasy
that he's not a junkie.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, only someone who had physically visited switzerland cca say 1994 can appreciate
the immensity of
the drop
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway,
they've been begging for
the past years
to be forgotten, but my and afaik everyone's call is "no" and "fuck you"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the ukrainian student doesn't actually have
to pay rent.
mircea_popescu: yeah, good deal. very comfortable,
they can charge for a hairjob/blowjob
twice
to
ten
times what a starving ukrainian student gets away with
mircea_popescu: 'while
the locals can choose from a variety of hospitality jobs, from hairdresser ot prostitute ?
mircea_popescu: you mean, with insane rent costs because all
the visiting bureaucrats can afford
to pay
them
mircea_popescu: also an erstwhile major international power,
that's meanwhile become a reservation/zoo.
mircea_popescu: they lost everything, over a coupla decades, simply for acquiescing
to
the kyc/aml bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in
the 90s
they were a major international player
mircea_popescu: in
the former,
the derps
think
the us is ok. in
the latter,
the derps realise
the us is a
terrorist entreprise.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the us is so successful in retarded
thirld world countries (say,
the uk, or switzerland) and so utterly ineffectual in clever
thirld world countries (say, iraq)
mircea_popescu: if
the cropto ag can be made complex enough,
the chieftain derps can be given
their florida retirement while
the derps don't sniff
the problem.
mircea_popescu: decimation
that part is simple.
the
thirld world consists of derps and chieftain derps.
decimation: related:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me/ << "Many were embarrassingly critical of
the agency, describing its enormous paranoia and obsession with secrecy. Others contained clues
to a secret
trips
that Friedman had made
to Switzerland, where he helped
the agency gain backdoor access into encryption systems
that a Swiss company was selling
to foreign countries."
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2014 23:54:03; asciilifeform: i've
tried
this personally - it works. (you need a drive for which either docs or some reverse-engineerable flash diddler from
the factory are available.)
decimation: for another
thing
the practical folks are off doing something useful rather
than
travelling
to LA
to 'agree on a spec'
mircea_popescu: decimation
the problem is
they have no connection with higher level
thinking.
decimation: in
the us, even in commercial electronics, it is common for people who have no connection with any practical manufacturing/programming
to 'design' specs
mircea_popescu: o i know! we could resolve problems by positing nonsense and
then building cleanly around it!
mircea_popescu: what
the shit is it supposed
to be, like a self-eating snake ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this notion of "self describing" is possibly
the most idiotic
thing self-important derps on "committees" ever came up with.
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2014 01:12:04; asciilifeform: dignork: sandisk used
to make a line of usb micros called 's3',
that had
this feature
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 17:42:01; asciilifeform: dignork: as i pointed out ages ago
to ninjaspamgun, it is
the responsibility of operating system
to enumerate, e.g. only usb dildo on a given port, and not keyboard or whatnot
decimation:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-icc111004,0,3081191.story "Flanagan announced last week
that
the estimated cost of
the highway, which would run from U.S. 1 in Laurel
to
the Interstate 270 corridor in Montgomery County, had increased from
the previous projection of $1.7 billion. ... Under current law, 87 percent of future increases would be available for non-ICC projects;
the administration wants
to make
that 80 percent.
mircea_popescu: lol apparently
the weev dude is now a white supremacist.
assbot: Bitcoin will die pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: with bitcoin,
the 'free market' in us finance starts
to look like a massive dekulakization experiment
mircea_popescu: (insmuch as
the most you could do, cca 2010 or before, was
to move
them into... another cage, worse made)
mircea_popescu: the
thing is, without bitcoin
that cage can't even be made apparent
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I figured it was hopeless, but I wanted
to pretend like my bezzlars were not locked in a usg approved cage
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck would you succeed, and what would
that mean. instaunwind.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> indeed.
The other day I was
trying
to find an etf or stock
that didn't depend on 'bezzle' (ie usg fiat finance). I didn't succeed. <<
this is roughly equivalent
to, "the other day, i
tried
to find a natural process going backwards in entropy. i didn't succeed"
decimation: I've been on it a couple
times. it's luxurious
to weave across 3 empty lanes
decimation: yeah I've mentioned
the "MD 200" fiasco
decimation: it's quite easy
to come
to billions of $ for obviously shitty hovels
decimation: asciilifeform: I assume you live in some old suburb near DC - have you ever sat down
to
total
the 'value' of
the homes within a few blocks of where you live?
decimation: indeed.
The other day I was
trying
to find an etf or stock
that didn't depend on 'bezzle' (ie usg fiat finance). I didn't succeed.
decimation: in more other words,
the 'political will' of a collection of elected lawyers with real estate side business all agree
that
they should not pay while others pay
decimation: in other words we realize
the we are
thieves and will happily make unprincipled exceptions when we decide we can do so
decimation: "Donna Steele Flynn, a former member of
the House Ways and Means Committee staff who is now a
tax specialist with Ernst & Young, said, ''The only reason
this hasn't gotten fixed is because
the official Joint
Tax Committee estimate in
the past was
that repeal of Section 1706 would cost a billion dollars in
tax revenue over five years.''There is a political will on both sides of
the aisle, but in
terms of importance and number of
decimation: a friend
told me
that when he was
three, his mom
took her cash receipts from
the family restaurant
to
the auditor, along with
the screaming
three year old.
the auditor settled for $100 after a few hours of screaming
decimation: it's well known
that greek & asians often operate cash businesses while staking
tax
diametric: its entirely anecdotal, but I know of more asians
that have been audited
than anyone else.
decimation: but of course
this kind of
thing varies by case
decimation: that generally makes you fairly immune
to serious harassment, at least in
the opinion of some accountants I know
decimation: the rule of
thumb is
that you pay at least as much
this year as
the previous
diametric: yeah.
though if you pay
the usg something instead of
trying
to null out
the
taxes, it goes a long way
to avoiding
troubles in
the future, or so I heard from friends of mine
that have been independent contractors for decades.
decimation: there's no doubt
that 'owning' a business is a good way
to skate usg
taxes
diametric: asciilifeform:
the other
thing is deductions aren't
tied specifically
to
the individual contract either. so all my r&d gets deducted
too.
diametric: 56 cents per mile, all my
tolls, my internet, my "home office", any equipment i buy for said home office, pretty much anything
that has a realistic
tie
to me being a contractor is eligible.
decimation: although even
the independent contractor can't buy a company car for commuting, because
the irs says so
dub: employee has benefits adn protection
tho
decimation: an 'employee' is at
the mercy of his management
to decide how
to spend business revenue
dub: should be gettin gpaid more
than avg wage slave
too
diametric: in fact, if I
tried hard enough I
think I could pay no
taxes.
diametric: asciilifeform:
the amount of
things I can now deduct has increased 10 fold.
diametric: asciilifeform: i disagree with your independent contractor bit on
taxes.
assbot: How a
Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers - New York
Times