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The20YearIRCloud: But usually
the sensationalist media
takes
the biggest/best one
to start it off with
mircea_popescu: (in general your
take is about
the same as if publishing a book : about 5
to 10% after govt, agent, editor etc is done raping you)
decimation: The20YearIRCloud:
that was one coin out of 1400
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud how much did he get
to buy beer for ?
The20YearIRCloud: Even in
the mid 1700s
the quality of gold coins ranged from 50%
to 92.5%
assbot: Rare gold coins buried in California hit market; one fetches $15,000 - LA
Times
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud here's an exercise for you.
today you find in a yard 1k coins of 10 grams each, minted 1750.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: barrels of
toxic waste?
The20YearIRCloud: and
the
thing is, for
the most part
the world is a big big place and GPR is very limited in what it can do
The20YearIRCloud: I don't know
that
they can be built,
the costs were exorbant for non-military
types
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: yeah
that's probably not a bad idea, radar would also find unpleasant surprises
that are buried
The20YearIRCloud: Once in a while I get
the chance
to buy a un-touched estate - Kids have no interest or are out of state, a
trustee locks
the property up and you bid on
the real estate + all contents
The20YearIRCloud: I keep looking for GPR so i can
take it
to properties/estates I buy out
decimation: let me look at my
terms... yep, it excludes fire, explosion, intense heat, smoke, water (including fire suppression system) building collapse,
terrorism, war, intentional destructive acts, or failures of electrical, mechanical, plumbing or structural systems, or for actions caused by any person
The20YearIRCloud: Around here, most use coffee cans buried. Now you can go
to a store and get a "underground safe"
mircea_popescu: it seems
to me it's
time
to go down on sam's club for acting like a bank w/o a license.
mircea_popescu: seeing how supermarkets also offer lockable containers on
the same premise as banks do
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> decimation: in usa, people have contracted
the disease of
thinking
that money can substitute for everything, including brain and balls << well
their government kinda depends on
this principle, so if it';s good enough for
the king...
decimation: in which case
the courts will hand whatever valubles
to
the woman, 'to support
the children'
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: yeah I
think
the main point is
that you might store papers and
things
that would be moderately annoying
to replace in case of fire << divorce.
decimation: re: gult's gulch << I find it amusing
that folks who supposedly value 'self-reliance' and 'liberty' are unable
to actually fly
to chile and buy some land for
themselves, it can't be
that hard for a person with means & brains
decimation: heh yeah agreed, especially if
the 'value' of
those items was simply
the information on
the documents
decimation: well I
think
those
terms are 'aspirational' - it goes
to
the arbitration conversation from a few weeks ago. everyone wants a click-wrap eula
that holds
them immune from any liability
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I
think
the main point is
that you might store papers and
things
that would be moderately annoying
to replace in case of fire
decimation: I'm
thinking of
the mongols' advantage over
the static empires of
the east
mircea_popescu: (look at what happened when people
thought
the church is a people, started donating a little
to it and inadvertently created
the largest landholder because unlike
them,
thge church didn;t die regularly)
mircea_popescu: decimation it's complicated, but in general property is
the bane of human existence, so any absolute property has
the potential
to be absolutely murderous.
decimation: re:safe deposit box, my understanding is
that
these are
the
terms all banks in
the us give for such
things
decimation: re: allodial
title: I suppose with reference
to how it was practiced in medieval England,
the king's agents could be on your property on business which has
the mutual consent of
the king and his lords
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mircea_popescu: and people who like
to live have enough sense
to understand
this difference.
mircea_popescu: and it links quite well into "what would
the devil have
to pay you for you
to love him".
mircea_popescu: in it.
This can’t be delegated, it’s a personal
thing. Like citizenship. Like nationality.
The only nation immune
to
the fate of Rhodesia is a nation of
that kind of people, living in
that kind of world.
mircea_popescu: There isn’t, nor is
there going
to be a way, manner, instrument or device
through which
to protect
the passive from
the active. If you’re not prepared and absolutely willing
to spend any amount of
time up
to
the entire rest of your life seeking out and butchering leeches with only
the satifaction of well applied, excruciating cruelty as your reward, you’re not made for
this world and you won’t long have a place
assbot: A very unfair perspective. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: very few physical objects are worth
the cost of raising an army
to keep arbitrarily large horde of orcs away <<
this argument is flawed in
the following way : for he who is repulsed by war,
this holds
true. for he who however enjoys war, no payment is necessary.
mircea_popescu: (you wouldn't be able
to arrest anyone, but you would be able
to void any application for a warrant)
mircea_popescu: decimation:
The20YearIRCloud: When I say "allodial
title" I mean something like having
the right
to arrest anyone - including government employees - on your property <<
that';s maybe going a little far. but
the right
to quash any action of anyone involving
that land is germane.
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mircea_popescu: xmj experienced live a
tiny case study of
this general principle, originally.
mircea_popescu: now
try and argue why it's not really fair
that you're negrated because some major players didn't like your early anti-bitcoin involvement.
mircea_popescu: "your negative rating in
the wot means you can be killed by anyone and nobody'll care or do anything about it"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it will probably come down
to "you're not in
the wot, and so
therefore may not claim
to own property or pretend
to sue anyone"
mircea_popescu: on
the strenght of
the zero one infinity rule alone, and of
the banal observation
that bitcoin also has no historical precendent, it seems... unwise
to bet
that 1 is
the lucky number.
mircea_popescu: here's a
thought : everything
that has historical precendent now didn't originally.
mircea_popescu: but yes,
the "no historical precedent" is what
the bureaucrat instinctively answers
mircea_popescu: ussr isn't remembered for having been led by
the smartest people ever.
mircea_popescu: no questions asked, and his children will be raped for
the public record.
mircea_popescu: and which is why it's so important
to get
the message loud and clear
to any bureaucrat anywhere,
that if it comes
to war, and we win, he will hang.
mircea_popescu: overall,
these would be "softeners" work as hardeners and are quite useful.
mircea_popescu: which is
the point of a "justice system" in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: so, some may
try
to soften
the
target, which allows
the
target
to populate
the road
towards it with heads on pikes.
mircea_popescu: any supermodel material chick will
tell you nobody dares, on
the assumption.