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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.40997627 BTC to 15`381 shares, 9167 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: just because i'm old doesn't mean i'm involved with all the jewish agitprop :D
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 11.43088072 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 994 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves caught in their own web of parallels.
ThickAsThieves: USG might be that meta!
ThickAsThieves: yeah that bothered me too
asciilifeform: all usg needs to do is say 'no' ?
asciilifeform: 'A simple “no” in answer to questions regarding NSA involvement could end the controversy. The government’s failure to answer generates a presumption that either “no” would not be a candid response or the prosecutors do not know the answer.'
assbot: Ulbricht Defense calls for Evidentiary Hearing to Resolve Server question | Free Ross Ulbricht
pete_dushenski: mthreat: has mircea_popescu been to vancouver recently? http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/so-thats-what-they-meant-by-the-beast-will-rise-up << teh lulz!
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes ^
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: twould be grand if life could go on without condoms << well, this is sort of the way life starts, y'know?
mircea_popescu: cazalla im pretty sure it's the armory repackaged by insex.
mircea_popescu: ah the "first one ?"
asciilifeform: guru gets up, leads n00b to a plank with a single very sharp nail.
asciilifeform: he finds the guru, sitting on the mandatory bed-o-nails
asciilifeform: n00b goes to india to learn yoga (the -real- yoga, that lets you take a day's break from breathing and talk to the gods, in imagination of homo sovieticus)
asciilifeform: every time i see the bed of nails i think of the soviet caricature ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if this particular shot is fake, which i guess is possible, the thing still exists and i've seen it before.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you tihnk ?
asciilifeform: who does the bottom half belong to?
asciilifeform: what a terrible chop job
mircea_popescu: back when i was a kid, you had to try and imagine what the inquisition looked like. nowadays, you just need to check out "porn" http://31.media.tumblr.com/101eab0b3b90b3fe81916c5e95ea962a/tumblr_mr66avsy7w1s3rid7o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: or so the imperial dream goes.
mircea_popescu: ziggla so what do you do, other than betting all your coins ?
ThickAsThieves: mother and father are confused now, so best to avoid engendering words
asciilifeform: most you can hope to own, in original sense of that word, is - your arse. and that's only if you abscond with it before someone finds a better use (e.g., biodiesel.)
asciilifeform: both belong to the state-god-emperor.
asciilifeform: in totalitarian reich, it's not 'your' home and they aren't 'your' children
ThickAsThieves: how can one troll without a troll house?!
mircea_popescu: "this is my house where i go to play with my graphs!"
ThickAsThieves: it had been up years by the time
ThickAsThieves: wow i'd rage if they tore down my hobbit home
mircea_popescu: hm. well til.
mircea_popescu: i guess thios is true, after all. protective cover.
asciilifeform: whittle telomeres.
asciilifeform: no need for poison to trigger cancer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i know it actually is not, and seems to trigger a type of lung cancer in some people
ziggla: ha i see that betmoose site cancelled the silk road bet. hmmmmm
asciilifeform: no prizes for guessing why they banned
mircea_popescu: no, asbestos is toxic.
asciilifeform: precisely like asbestos (which the fiberglass makers had banned)
pete_dushenski: like asbestos then
mircea_popescu: and cause lung and respiratory tract serious issues
mircea_popescu: it's not relly toxic, more like noxious. the glass itself is harmless silica, but the shape it has allows it to mechanically breach the skin,
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: lol hobbits… so about that fiberglass toxicity?
mircea_popescu: was based on some high fiction popular work, the hobbit or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the case of the people making that very cheap wholly natural house, being ordered to destroy it ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: in any and all anglo-reich tendrils, a house is required to cost at least 2-3 years of the expected occupant's entire wage. break this rule, they break your neck.
ziggla: i just went to that bitmooose site. it's lol
ThickAsThieves: hilarious, if Yes, then your winnings are worthless
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves thing got rejected on bitbet recently i think ?
asciilifeform: re: container houses piece << classic chumpatron. put up steel container on empty lot to live in -> illegal, confiscated. bezzlamatic cuts costs for self by using shipping containers (painted to look like house) -> 'amazing company, innovators!'
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: fiberglass toxic << yes << just insulation or… canoe?
kakobrekla: here we have an ugly one called 'la toya'
ThickAsThieves: oh those reading vids are great
ziggla: pretty sure there's a female pornstar named stoya
assbot: Shipping Container Housing Community To Grow In Vancouver
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: why not just buy shipping containers then. not so expensive, can be stacked... << http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/30/shipping-container-house-vancouver_n_4697469.html
mircea_popescu: ziggla> but i have a small penis << this is no impediment, so does stoya
ziggla: its wide like a soup can though
asciilifeform: not everyone on the stage needs one at all...
ziggla: maybe there's a role out there for us dudes with 3 inch cocks
ziggla: i am flexible, just want everyone to be happy and feel satisfied
ziggla: but i guess it should be what the masses want
ziggla: ha. i think its pretty easy to make them work that way
mircea_popescu: the arabs want women that stay virgins, never bleed and are made of translucent flesh
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but sadly things can't always work the way we'd like them to.
ziggla: i guess in my opinion the most fair result is to just cancel/refund the bets at a certain point. prefer not to wait forever
ziggla: i don't think any credit agency or bank would take my funds on bitbet as a securely held asset of mine.
ThickAsThieves: <+ziggla> which is kind of worrisome, no offense /// insult is the sincerest compliment
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah that's it.
mircea_popescu: i see no impediment to this secondary market developing, rather than forcing me to do stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: in principle, if your credit / wot ratings are good, you should be able to use the proof of holding the bet you made as collateral with a gpg contract
ziggla: but i guess then i have to trust bitbet will remain solvent and hold my coins securely
mircea_popescu: ziggla this was said before.
ziggla: OK. well maybe if it's not solved for like 5 years and i end up winning it will be worth a lot more at that time
asciilifeform: and even then only if the culprits hanged upside down, wired to the mains by the balls, and admit the data genuine.
asciilifeform: only way the truth (tm) comes out is if more than a few of the players involved are thoroughly pwned, rooted, results trotted out.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's also possible someone sued, which is frequent in these auctions
mircea_popescu: thern they said they'll break the law, but do it by end of august
mircea_popescu: so they should have responded by 1st of august
mircea_popescu: yeah they announced draper like 1st of july
ThickAsThieves: announced may i think
mircea_popescu: when was the auction again ? june wasn't it ?
ThickAsThieves: right on the website
ThickAsThieves: nah they have a feed for PR
artifexd: <ThickAsThieves> and said theyd give a statement early Aug << Maybe they did give a statement. They held a press conference on the back loading dock at 3 am on a Tuesday and forgot to call the press... or anybody.
ThickAsThieves: i know i'm biased, but i cant look at the betmoose web design long enough to attempt using it
mircea_popescu: if you will, take solace in the concept that a fiat investment arrived in contention can trivially lock your funds for a decade+
ziggla: at the end of the day, rather than wait potentially forever for a small profit or loss, i'd prefer to just receive my bet money back. it's just a long wait and i have no other bitcoins to bet so i can't even place more bets that i'd like to right now.
mircea_popescu: except they want to do it with clay pots.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the problem, noobs wanna pretend like they're playing this crypto currency game.
ThickAsThieves: not that he has an identity to prove it
ziggla: i guess i haven't looked into it too closely
ThickAsThieves: he never signed from the waller
ziggla: i thought i saw articles
ziggla: pretty sure the transaction to tim draper was confirmed
ThickAsThieves: they did at least transmit coins
mircea_popescu: so far, it's unclear they've even delivered this batch