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mircea_popescu: relatedly :
There was a young fellow named Brewer whose girl made her home in a sewer.
Thus he,
the poor soul, could get into her hole yet still be unable
to screw her!
midnightmagic: It is not possible
to waive fundamental rights in Canada. Certain other righs (such as moral rights in copyright law) also can't be legally waived or given away or signed away.
assbot: S.MG, April 2014 Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal:
Trying dig
through
the wot for some practice << not such a bad idea.
thestringpuller: oh and could you do a separate invoice for
the commission
that's in progress (the remaining balance etc.)
nubbins`: only 8 left now, you got
the early bird price ;D
thestringpuller: If you could put all
that in
the final invoice
that'd be dope as fuck appreciate doing business with you.
thestringpuller: lol did I miss
the 35 dollar mark or is it 15 for shipping?
mircea_popescu: the fact
that
the city hall has an office of
theft does not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude, let's "raise awareness" about how niggers got
to survive as an ethnic group (something most equally retarded pacific and red skin
tribes did not) because
they got
transported by
the dutch
to slave in
the us, and
this happened centuries ago was a very bad
thing.
nubbins`: but let's say you sign a waiver at
the rock climbing gym, rope breaks, neck breaks. waiver isn't worth
the paper it's printed on
nubbins`: i mean, i'm sure
there are some situations
nubbins`: iirc
this whole
thing of "waiving your rights" doesn't really exist in canada
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mircea_popescu: "As a result,
the entire family was
thrown out of
the house for one week, even
though Chris and his wife were never charged with or convicted of any wrongdoing.
The family was allowed back in pending
the outcome of
their forfeiture proceeding, but only under
the condition
that
they kick out
their son and agree
to waive
their rights in any civil-forfeiture proceedings in
the future. "
thestringpuller: nubbins`: can you follow up with an invoice of
the fee break down (shipping, shirt cost, poster cost etc. etc. etc.)?
mircea_popescu: so it's a courtroom only in
the sense
that... it isn't.
mircea_popescu: it contains no judge (not even one of
those non-judge "magistrate" usg agents)
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2014 20:58:05; asciilifeform: 'In Courtroom 478, property owners are instructed
to sign in and indicate with a checkmark on
the sign-in sheet
the kind of property
they are
there
to save.
The sign-in sheet lists
the following categories of property: "house," "car," "money," or "gun." ... Assistant district attorneys with
the Public Nuisance
Task Force fully control
the proceedings inside "Courtroom" 478.
There is no judge, no jury,
mircea_popescu: luding
the salaries of
the very prosecutors who brought
the forfeiture actions.
This is almost
twice as much as what all other Pennsylvania counties spent on salaries combined.
mircea_popescu: Philadelphia’s automated, machine-like forfeiture scheme is unprecedented in size. From 2002
to 2012, Philadelphia
took in over $64 million in forfeiture funds—or almost $6 million per year. In 2011 alone,
the city’s prosecutors filed 6,560 forfeiture petitions
to
take cash, cars, homes and other property.
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office used over $25 million of
that $64 million
to pay salaries, inc
mircea_popescu: The most
terrifying place in Philadelphia is Courtroom 478 in City Hall.
This is where property owners enter Philadelphia’s Civil Forfeiture Machine. Civil forfeiture is a little-known legal device
that allows law enforcement officials
to
take your property, sell it and pocket
the proceeds—even if you have done nothing wrong.
nubbins`: should i sent poster
to same address?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the last
time a woman was raped was in 2005, back when
the last guy could still get it up. but letr's all derp about rape
thestringpuller: 5735e854f041ecff815fc205addb73a183b7f2fd27eb16affae41896c25f6b99 <<
txid
mircea_popescu: it's right
there in city hall, but let's pretend we don't know about it./
nubbins`: with only hours left on
the clock!
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nubbins`: <lelbot> your lel balance is currently zero, please
try having a lel
nubbins`: that's destined for life as a permanent
test print
mircea_popescu: chetty: asciilifeform, first
time I heard
that one, great!!! << and here i
thought everyone knew
that one.
assbot: imgur:
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mircea_popescu: From
this
tale,
three morals: not he is your enemy who plants you down in shit; << if only
they
taught
this, whip in hand, in us schools.
nubbins`: "the last
thing you want is everybody owning large amounts of bitcoins."
mircea_popescu: more like, based on
the rather naive expectation
that since what he read in books he's seen irl, it must mean
the books are wise.
mircea_popescu: "derp sees empty string, proceeds
to supply wholly owned derpage, giving me infinity results"
nubbins`: the natural usability of
the better man, or z>y>x
chetty: better belongs right in
there with usability and other such nonsense
mircea_popescu: they always
think being better men comes naturally
to
them.
chetty: <asciilifeform> 'before x, y' is a professional disease of engineering
types. might as well fault a sailor for walking bow-legged on land.// +++++++++
chetty: how
the heck can you call
that a better man?
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of advantages
to living dirty, dirt chief among
them.
mircea_popescu: i once
took a pretty girl off
the hands of a better man, strictly for
the reason
that he was beset by
this mental disease of "before x, must y. before y, must z, no less
than k" and on it went. i was beset by no such issue and so i fucked
the girl before he managed
to satisfy
the prerequisites
to having
the
town council meeting
that'd have decided if it was a good idea
to
turn over
the covers in
their marital bed.
chetty: well I dont have
the fire power
to hold off
the gasenvagens, yet. So I file my
taxes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: people have asked me why haven't escaped, and i answer 'i haven't $xx mil.'
to which, eyes bug out, and i have
to explain 'a real escape means retrieval is not simply legally, but militarily uneconomical.' << let me
tell you a story.
mircea_popescu: a government can only be relied on
to enforce an agreement when it's
to your detriment, so makingany sort of reflexive agreement with a goverment makes no sense.
the only sensible agreements one can make with governments is "how about you
two fight".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: plus it isn't clear
that paying
the 'legit' fees gets you anything in
the long run. who's gonna force usg
to honour
the cancellations when
they decide not
to?
the devil ? <<
this is
the most germane point. i'd rather pay power Y
to cancel my citizenship with power X
than power X itself.
nubbins`: <+ben_vulpes> nubbins` actually inspired me on
the
topic, although he still does
the numismatic
thing << gotta keep
the shinies in circulation
thestringpuller: chetty
told me she still pays US
taxes and hasn't been
there in like a decade
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: ben_vulpes: low leverage on real estate bought at a value has done well in every crash in
the US, including
the 1930s depression era <<< how about
twelve oaks ? how well did outright owned property fare in
the face of
the carpetbagger ?
thestringpuller: i
thought you can't run away from your debt unless you defect?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: creating noise << here's some noise for you : borrow as much as you can,
to buy consumer items,
then liquidate everything for cash, buy bitcoins and a plane
ticket. wish everyone left behind good luck on your way out, what's an extra 100k
they have
to pay on your account on
top of
the 2
trn
they have
to pay for on bush's account and
the 9
to 15 on obama's ?
mircea_popescu: *: ben_vulpes puts
the fiat assets in lady v's name << you plan on leaving her behind or something ?
mircea_popescu: unless you credit
the "here's
the secret engineers hate : how a social media employed mom of
three from kansas built a fusion reactor in her kitchen!" ads
mircea_popescu: which is quite why
the regular beatings delivered
to
them by people who didn't go
to school. engineering - a comparable line of work - doesn't suffer from
this plague of "he's a voodoo plumber and well... his plumbing is actually better
than ours"
mircea_popescu: nothing flattering about it,
the military (all nations) has yet
to have made a decent school. even
the stuff
they
think is good stinks.
mircea_popescu: sorta
the same way you can
tell if
this pinoy chick learned english with
the nuns.
mircea_popescu: nah, i'm quite confident he went
to school (mid level, nothing fancy).
mircea_popescu: assbot: U.S. Hikes Fee
To Renounce Citizenship By 422% - Forbes << color me
the
transparent color of surprise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, does orlov admit officially
to russian military
training as a strategist/analyst/whatevs ?
mircea_popescu: "Add
to
that
the relentless radio chatter, all in Russian, which anyone who wants
to can intercept, and
the operation becomes impossible
to hide." orly.
mircea_popescu: jurov well see, if your simile revolves around sex (and being gay is all about sex innit)
then sex is best considered all around.
the old "never use an item you don't see
the full contours of" engineering caveat.
jurov: guess i should
think about sex
too when coming up with argument :D
mircea_popescu: "Because if Russia invaded on
Thursday morning,
this is what
the situation on
the ground would look like by Saturday afternoon." sounds suspiciously like "i am a potent man, if i had raped her she'd be pregnant. is she pregnant ? no ? well
then!"
jurov: and i got carried
too far with similes
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't
trust orlov much furher
than i can
throw him
tbh.
mircea_popescu: law always and everywhere functioning as
this device for
the construction of a simplified world more or less based on
the world as is
mircea_popescu: yes but
the point of contention
there would be
that according
to
the russian law,
there exists no such
thing as a gay russian citizen
jurov: as compared
to
their own citizens
jurov: russian law does not concern
the
tutsis