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mircea_popescu: same exact play as
they're currently
trying and failing re bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: decimation
the idea is for russian oil
to be sold in
the manner of oil owned by
the us. it doesn't matter who gets paid, as long as
the "pay" is in accounts run by
thiel, and it all follows kyc etc.
jurov: ascii says it's "factual"... so i'm asking about
the facts
decimation: under
this petro-war
theory, is
the us
trying
to keep russian oil out of
the world market?
to
the detriment of
the us?
jurov: <asciilifeform> because i have no quarrel with anything in
that piece - imho, entirely factual. << did anyone confirmed kiev started by murdering civilians?
mircea_popescu: ie, you both mean
the same
thing. if you allow oil
to stand for
the "root" account of
the world,
then yes it's petro-war.
mircea_popescu: these people who use
that
terminology SAY petro war, but ONLY because in
their cluelessness
the petro- stands for
the symbol you correctly use.
mircea_popescu: decimation nope. in general, sane people would prefer
the alternative. perpetually.
decimation: mircea_popescu: and
that's my point, for purely practical reasons alone, one would
think
that
the 'married men' who have
to deal with reality would prefer a power
that has a
track record of at least keeping a lid on
the crazies at home and showing up
to
the diplomacy
table with
things in order
mircea_popescu: kinda how
the holy roman emperor got ground into dust.
mircea_popescu: much in
the way mpex has no home unless some
territory with pretentions of statality makes an excellent offrt
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for
the reason
that
then
the coke and
the pepsi must bid for my allegiance
mircea_popescu: they'll do exactly what
they can get away with, and no more.
mircea_popescu: it really makes no difference. no matter his hair color, a married man is a married man. and so no matter
the "ideology", whoever is stuck administering
two billion people over
ten million acres is similarly caught.
decimation: I guess as an american far away from everything I would vastly prefer russian hegemony over asia
than crazy islam rule, but somehow my 'leaders' see
things differently
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so.
they like
to pretend like
they are, much like
the 11 yo child of a man who keeps fighting dogs pretends
to be
the master of said dogs for
the benefit of any visiting classmates.
mircea_popescu: decimation
the russians are unable
to do anything in
the middle east, as proven by
their fabulous failures in afghanistan and cecenia. what's worse,
they know
this, and won't bargain for it.
decimation: To me, mature adults could sit down and hash
this stuff out "yes, you can have east Ukraine in exchange for helping us keep a lid on
the crazy islams down in
the middle east"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't have any issue with anything in
that piece either, but
this isn't
the criteria.
the form specifically is what one uses
to identify
these
things.
mircea_popescu: isn't it funny how global-warming
this sounds ? "we know
there is anthropogenic bla bla"
mircea_popescu: He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving as Washington’s puppet. As prime minister he strongly supported Washington’s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring
that “we know
that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.” Of course,
the fool didn’t know any such
thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons. Many countries have weapons of mass destructi
mircea_popescu: lol check it out,
the russian foreign service is quite active in
the fringe of
the us discourse. orlov, roberts,
there's a list with
these
talking points.
decimation: asciilifeform: one can see a copy hanging in
the nsa museum as I recall
mircea_popescu: "The American and Israeli
trained and equipped Georgian army collapsed under Russian counterattack in 5 hours."
decimation: Imagine if
the us were at war with mexico, and russia was openly contemplating sending
troops/planes/whatever
to
the mexican border. people in
the us would go apeshit
mircea_popescu: oh, no, it's just
that putin i mean roberts "does not understand how
the world works"
assbot: Warning
to
the World: Washington and its NATO & EU Vassals are Insane -- Paul Craig Roberts - PaulCraigRoberts.org
assbot: German federal election, November 1932 - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: re: hitler <
the "old right" nobility and "old republican-style" conservatives in germany gave Hitler control after his party won a minority share because
they
thought
they could 'control him'
mircea_popescu: fdr had scarcely
the secessionist excuses of lincoln
to fuck
the country up. without his lame contribution, it'd have stayed in one piece, but perhaps may have survived
the 21st century.
mircea_popescu: one can only wonder how
the us would have fared had it not
turned socialist in 1930.
mircea_popescu: hence hitler's constant suspicions of being betrayed by
teh heer
mircea_popescu: obviously since we're speaking of germany, an east european power par excellence,
these were often
the same people.
mircea_popescu: but as far as i recall, it was a serious source of friction between
the
third reich gauleiters and eastern european nobility,
that
the latter despised
the former on
the grounds of... well...
this, exactly.
decimation: Re:
Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's
the law yo
decimation: not
that it really matters anyway, because
their production is subsidized by
the prc, and
the purchaser is subsidized by usg
decimation: asciilifeform: but
the chinese factory saved several cents!
decimation: re: lithium batteries << yes
the conventional solution is a spring-clip style battery holder if one can't spot-weld lead
to device
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is
this "fast food employee
tries
to parlay his work experience into a novel, because write what you know" ?
mircea_popescu: "encrypt" your emails
to everyone. it's good for
the emails and ok for you!
assbot: The Open Source
Tool
That Lets You Send Encrypted Emails
to Anyone | Enterprise | WIRED
mircea_popescu: im sure
thiel will give 100k prizes
to whoever came up with
the brilliant idea of a wait, no.
they don't need it.
mircea_popescu: if he can get paid
to listen
to rsa keys buyt
then for "technical reasons" can make
that baloon 10x,
mircea_popescu: afaik
that's exactly what he wants :
to inflate
the categories.
mircea_popescu: that's nonsense. here's a simpler approach : every
time a new value is loaded into sse register append it
to a special buffer. buffer gets dumped in return for any packet headed so sent
to port so.
mircea_popescu: i guess
the author doesn't realise it or something, but
this lays bare a much used, fundamental, very valuable exploit of aes.
mircea_popescu: -192 and AES-256 revealing
the final round key provides 128 bits of key entropy.)
mircea_popescu: It gets worse. Nearly every AES implementation using AESNI will leave
two values in registers:
The final block of output, and
the final round key.
The final block of output isn't a problem for encryption operations — it is ciphertext, which we can assume has leaked anyway — but for encryption an AES-128 key can be computed from
the final round key, and for decryption
the final round key is
the AES-128 key. (For AES
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