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moriarty: lol
then again i don't
think many people in here know
too much about stocks or ##econometrics
BingoBoingo: moriarty: Aristocracy is great, but... You've got
to maintain a position in it. If you suck it doesn't matter
that you're a Borgia.
xmj: but first, i have
to finish porting GitLab
to FreeBSD, it'll be done by
tonight.
moriarty: it's
to
the
tune of 8 billion yearly
xmj: fluffypony: yeah, he's currently driving me up
the walls.
moriarty: do you realise
the extent of NSA's contractual dishouts?
BingoBoingo: The point is if you are a Hilton
that sucks, you can make porn or Biodiesel.
moriarty: xmj, oh you want something more direct,
try
t-bills
moriarty: xmj, you
thought
the NSA was designed for something other
than economic superiority?
xmj: bounce:
that's a perfectly valid strategy
bounce: but
the
takeaway ought
to be
that you (ie,
those in power) are rigging
the system
then blaming
the victims for having let
the system end up being rigged against
them.
xmj: USD does not represent equity in
the US government.
xmj: moriarty: not
the same
thing
bounce: if everybody does
that
then
they're no longer superior
assbot: Welcome
to
the City of London Corporation
moriarty: i.e. when you pass it on
to some offspring, you don't have
to fix it again
moriarty: bounce, if you can fix your genes
to be permanently superior,
then i'm all for it
moriarty: bounce, well, i am not against genetic
therapy, as long as it's a permanent change and not a superficial
treatment
xmj: can't do
that with NSA Inc.
xmj: bounce:
the cheaper option is
to prevent dysgenics..
moriarty: xmj, it's funny how google and NSA have
the same objectives as organisations
moriarty: xmj, at least i'm not google, i don't pretend
to do no evil :) and
then rape everyone
bounce: logical conclusion from your own
troll, dear
bounce: will you donate
the money for gene
therapy against poorness
to any and all poor who come asking?
moriarty: bounce, it's
the new world where if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing
to hide
moriarty: if you're poor
then, well, you need
to get started on balancing all
the red in your ledgers
bounce: we can do so much better, yet aren't doing it. we're making unnecessary
tradeoffs and are
telling ourselfs it's
the best we can have so suck it up
moriarty: and
that offsets whatever you did wrong
moriarty: if you're rich,
then chances are you're doing something right
moriarty: bounce, and what's wrong with
that
bounce: that's a false dichotomy and
therefore rationalisation bullshit
bounce: tangentially,
the more money and/or (benign) visibility you have,
the easier it gets
to right certain wrongs, perversely supporting broken systems like
this.
moriarty: bounce,
there's always a
tradeoff between convenience and security/privacy never forget
that
bounce: more specifically,
the banking system is now so unavoidable (yet) and so privacy unfriendly
that it's quickly becoming more of a hazard
than a boon for
the clients.
moriarty: it's about
time such abuses were prevented
fluffypony: bounce: its because
they were designed when ancient and crummy infrastructure was still a
thinf
moriarty: so what you perceive as exclusivity
today came from very humble beginnings :)
moriarty: because it was mainly dealing with postal deliveries in competition with
the USPS
moriarty: and of course
that's how American Express got its name
bounce: the problem is
that
the whole
thing is optimised for appearance, not substance.
technically
the whole credit card
thing doesn't work very well.
moriarty: so if you were a customer at a bank and you shopped at a departmental store, you could use such a card
to settle your
transactions
moriarty: and cards came about as a
tabs based system between banks and departmental stores or oil companies
moriarty: so Visa came about from
the now defunct IBANCO and Mastercard's counterpart is ICA
moriarty: sure, Visa and Mastercard are actually a consortium of banks
that came
together
to merge
their electronic funds
transfer networks into one
xmj: AmEx does
that directly
xmj: banks need
to refurbish Visa+MC.
xmj: VISA + MasterCard provide
the infrastructure but not
the credit carts itself
xmj: also: not
the only difference.
moriarty: but
they're being crowded out by more prestigious but newer players
moriarty: they
target
the upper segment of
the market
xmj: there's american express,
too
cazalla: BingoBoingo,
these
things almost alwawys come out down under
xmj: thestringpuller:
that's what happens when people actually start reading bloated software. same
thing with openssl after libressl fork.
xmj: but,
they're with moderate impact
bounce: because compared
to
that evil cash, visa and mastercard are so much better propositions... for
the customer.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform likes
to suggest pondering
theological implications of a glassed middle east << With sufficient yields can make spotting
the oil easier
danielpbarron: I doubt it very much, since
the city of Jerusalem is literally God
assbot: Why Christians Are Criticizing Cruz—and Israel |
The American Conservative
decimation: danielpbarron: I'm not accusing you of anything - I am just
tired of nominal Christians in
the us kowtowing
to Israel
assbot: Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like
those of donkeys and whose emission was like
that of horses.
decimation: danielpbarron: how many Christian churches actively proselytize
the Jews?
decimation: therefore I am dubious
that folk would be able
to differentiate
assbot: Romans 11:19-24 NKJV - You will say
then, Branches were - Bible Gateway
BingoBoingo: In
the courtroom, who doesn't want a pipe hitting member of
the
tribe on
their
team?
BingoBoingo: And in Law school
the Goy's can't call out aspiring goy's because PC
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: More people want a Goy lawyer, but don't want an actual Goy.
The actual goys
tend
to retreat
to either left coast after law school.
BingoBoingo: The
tend
to be ostracized by actual people of Yweh's nose, but no local WASPs care
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (for
the ethnowank aficionados, it is generally
thought
that limonov was a 'paper' jew - i.e. signed on as one
to get visa
to usa) << In
the middle West you get plastic jews, people who undergoe
trans ethnicism for lawyer jobs
BingoBoingo: I mean
the french can do it well, just when we have aspiring diesel
that would suppose "Freedom Fries"
decimation: I look forward
to
the next regime change in
the us so
that
the 'anti-communists' can be named
BingoBoingo: dub> 50
types of forcemeat
the soviet dream <<
There is good forcemeat
dub: 50
types of forcemeat
the soviet dream
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> decimation: 'favored ally' of
the fdr socialists << nope. of
the anti-soviet u.s. 'backbone' << Patton's "Murica
decimation: among other
things, a sect of Christianity
that is premillennial, some of whom believe
that
the jews must be gathered in
the middle east
to start
the end of
the world and Jesus's return
BingoBoingo: decimation: Jews because
they are
the non-ISIS middle east hedgemon, gotta catch
them ALL, HEDGEMON!!!
decimation: danielpbarron: don't
tell me you are dispensationalist?