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ThickAsThieves: (1) NSA’s mission is of great value to the Nation”; (2) NSA performs its mission the right way—lawful, compliant and in a way that protects civil liberties and privacy; (3) NSA performs its mission exceptionally well. We strive to be the best that we can be, because that’s what America requires
as part of its defense in a dangerous world; (4) The people who work for NSA are
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as they're not groveling nude at the feet of their betters, they DO think way too high of themselves.
mircea_popescu: whole new prostitution dynamics, you send the no fee 1 satoshi tx
as she takes her top off, the tx finally confirms by the time she's wiping her lip.
mircea_popescu: satoshi notation is exactly
as precise
as dollars and cents.
kakobrekla: When I have a specific date from the foundry, I will post an update here with a revised timeline. We still expect to ship the bulk of the orders in/around February. Anyone ordering now will probably not get their order until March or April, just
as an FYI and in the spirit of trying to keep realistic expectations on shipping times.
mircea_popescu: btw pankkake, for your curiosity : since i finally fixed trilema credits ordering i'm getting about 10x
as many orders.
ThickAsThieves: Once the number of Bitcoins in circulation reaches 21 million in 2024, bounties will no longer be paid out on block discovery, and facilities such
as ASICMINER's will have a choice: to either re-purpose their cooled computing power, or shut their mines down forever.
deadweasel:
as long
as you use 'remember me' you are ok.
mircea_popescu: zacm no, just the usg using american companies
as governmental agents.
random_cat: perhaps the exchanges will get their collective shit together and stop relying on bitcointalk
as a communication path to the customers
davout: not much details available
as far
as i know tho
davout: apparently someone accidentally enabled cloudflare for btctalk ending up,
as usual, in drama and lulz
davout: also apparently thermos doesn't know session cookies go on the same wire
as credentials
kakobrekla: well maybe you should take that
as a sign :D
assbot:
as you might notice, im not bashble. that would be deviding by zero.
nubbins`: thyme fans can feel free to add 1tsp of that
as well
nubbins`: like a t-bone steak isn't generally available
as a cut of meat in some places
davout: nubbins`: no but i mean sometimes you really wonder, because the stuff can be produced locally quite easily
as well
Vexual: I picture you
as niles standish
nubbins`: although that will be interesting to watch
as well
nubbins`: thestringpuller: i meant
as a company in general, not just the price
nubbins`: remember when running linux was touted
as a feature for the ps3
nubbins`: According to Wal-Mart, America’s largest retailer, the company admits that over 5,000 shoppers will be killed at their stores this Holiday season. “We include people killed from Thanksgiving to Christmas, so it’s not like they are all dying in one day. Besides, more kids will die making this junk than they do buying it, we see that
as a positive,” Wal-Mart Spokesman Charlie Hass told the He
nubbins`: "Similar situations in modern sporting are referred to
as the 'Dillema Dilemma' in honor of the late Dutch track and field star"
ThickAsThieves: Once fused to a female, the males will reach sexual maturity, developing large testicles
as their other organs atrophy. This process allows for sperm to be in constant supply when the female produces an egg, so that the chimeric fish is able to have a greater number of offspring."
ThickAsThieves: her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. While this attachment has become necessary for the male's survival, it will eventually consume him,
as both anglerfish fuse into a single hermaphroditic individual. Sometimes in this odd ritual, more than one male will attach to a single female
as a 'parasite'. They will both be consumed into the body of the larger female angler.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the good news is of course that only a 2048x 1536 transp png is needed, we can scale that
as needed.
mircea_popescu:
As long
as investors-including supposedly sophisticated institutions-place fancy valuations on reported "earnings" that march steadily upward, you can be sure that some managers and promoters will exploit GAAP to produce such numbers, no matter what the truth may be. Over the years, Charlie and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not eve
mircea_popescu: gard look-through earnings
as realistically portraying our yearly
mircea_popescu: decision that our investees have made has not benefitted us
as mircea_popescu: our investees, in aggregate, have been
as fully
as beneficial to
mircea_popescu: think if some guy working in his garage had
as much resources
as 1/10 boeing, to make his new plane.
mircea_popescu: well, dividends have the inherent unfairness of post-ex date. (ie, they only reward people hiolding the shares NOW,
as opposed to "having hold the shares")
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as you don't stupidly spend it is all good.
mircea_popescu: in practice it makes no difference anwyay, whether you actually pay it out or just keep it in the bank, because in the latter case the share just trades
as a proxy of your cash (see apple)
pankkake: I don't understand "which will be carried over
as a charge on the next month’s statement"
ThickAsThieves: Bill Gates: It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But
as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
pankkake: and wtf at using services like that
as wallets
mircea_popescu: f inadvertence, negligence, or mistake.”
As a factual matter, this claim is questionable. It could just
as well be said that heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not sign merger agreements containing glaringly ambiguous terms that lead to avoidable litigation—but here we are.
mircea_popescu: course that discussion gets complicated fast
as contrary to popular belief a fiat unit of currency does not mean any one thing in particular,
ozbot: Cautious
as serpents, innocent
as doves. You have been warned.
mircea_popescu: "
As of this writing we have over 2.1 Million in sales for November, this excludes any fraudulent sales, I.e the $933,000 sales which was fraudulent and proven on the thread and a $3,000,000 sales which looks fraudulent. AMC expects its sales of VMC's Bitcoin mining machines to continue to grow
as it has the highest TH/s machines in the marketplace."
mircea_popescu: "While the sale of sexual intercourse remains illegal throughout mainland China,
as of 2013 erotic massage, or more commonly known
as massage with "happy endings," is legal in Guangdong province. In June of that year, the Foshan Court determined that the sale of erotic massage is not the same
as prostitution."
ThickAsThieves: The epic $15-million court fight between Love and the Meighen heirs was finally settled two years ago. The defendants — including Love, his law partner and their current and former firms,
as well
as Legacy Private Trust and Canada Trust — agreed to pony up $8.9 million, but without admitting fault.
mircea_popescu: why is it that the state always tries to a. represent itself
as "not the state" and b. represent itself
as doing what people do, except without doing it ?
mircea_popescu: uyou ever seen a nonservice coming out of the us webservice-entrepreneurs dog and pony show that wasn't a. very banal and b. presented
as the new wheel ?
mircea_popescu: "QUEEN LIZ is a company with private capital, founded in Constanta, Romania in 1996, having
as main activity recruitment and placement of personnel according with Romanian laws."
Duffer1: it's impressive just how bad they ended
as well, virtually worst case scenario for all of them
saulimus: nubbins`, it's to disguise investing
as "donating" because you're a "fan"
mircea_popescu:
as the future eventualyl turns into past, what bitbet has to do and what the courts have to do are homomorphic : establish what the words say, what the facts are and how the two relate.
pankkake: imagine, you could have a fully feeless service
as long
as enough people die!
pankkake: actually, I was thinking of how much services end up
as extra btc from people dying etc
mircea_popescu: and atm there's no options listed because
as announced im going to cut a digit.
mircea_popescu: what's come to be known
as "colonialism" is the key ingredient to civilisation.
nubbins`: the politician believes his situation to be just
as serious, however naively
mircea_popescu: well, i'd state that
as "people are willing to step on their unwarranted self delusions of grandeur and recognise other's superiority only when hunger or fear compels them to"
mircea_popescu: in this sense, democracy is possibly the worst system, inasmuch
as look at all the wrangling in the forums re mpex.
benkay: slavery's the default state, yo. just because democracy has been here for the past several however long doesn't mean that either a) it eradicated things that look like what americans would knee-jerk call 'slavery' instantly upon governmental instantiation OR b) it worked well and can be used
as a demonstration of why all other forms of government are bad
mircea_popescu: jurov` he did so mean centralisation. plato's idea of the republic informs both mussolini's "all in the party and nothing outside the party"
as well
as mao's cultural revolution.
mircea_popescu: 's leviathanesque ideas struck
as edgy rather than stupid
ThickAsThieves: tested to convert audio
as well
as some very expensive stuff from today
mircea_popescu: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux
as a supported platform
mircea_popescu: basically
as best anyone can determine the body of shills that were trying to push ripple half a year back and got trampled underfoot have mooved on to this thing.
pankkake: could snowflakes be used
as proof of work?
jurov`: but he lurks
as GuestXXXX usually
ozbot: State/Territory Totals,
as Reported by Recipients
firstblockchain: still, not
as bad
as Sulawesi, Indonesia. There, the person isn't considered "dead" until the cremation has happened. So, until they can save enough money for a proper cremation ceremony, the corpse stays in the house with the family. They dress it every day and sit it in a chair in the family room. And put it back in bed at night.
unbalanced: You might
as well try Indonesian coffee from strangers. Live a little before someone shows up and stabs you for your coins.
unbalanced: Meanwhile the channel seems suspisciously quiet
as if all the European reps are off for the day, on planes heading to pick up Black Friday deals in the US.
thestringpuller: you can spend profits over time
as long
as you mitigate the cash flow correctly
unbalanced: How much of that are you willing to allow? I could see a line monthly bets on BTC at 1000, 1100, etc all year long
as almost an alternative to options.
nubbins`: worth mentioning here,
as well
nubbins`: not nearly
as appealing
as .999+
KRS1: Google translate of the Chinese site okcoin.com translated Lightcoin
as Wrightcoin. =/
Venat:
as he has paved our way
nubbins`: i almost went into roasting
as a full-time business
unbalanced: I've been planning to write an article about direct global commerce / disintermediation and was thinking of coffee
as a perfect case, and when I read your post earlier today in the logs it prodded me to actually fire up the IRC client for the first time in a while.
unbalanced: agreed... I'm fine with my basic setup,
as long
as they're fresh ground beans
Diablo-D3:
as long
as you keep it well sealed
Venat: I accept mircea_popescu
as my lord and saviour
mircea_popescu: In 1896, the Bouillon Chartier was born out of a very simple concept – provide a decent meal at a reasonable price and give customers good service in order to earn their loyalty. 50 million meals, and only four owners later, the recipe is still every bit
as much a success.
mircea_popescu: ofcourse these other guys are all me,
as it has been well established by various autoauthorities on topics and matters./
firstblockchain: One quick question for a "frame of reference"
as I start looking at the virtual companies here and how they work - are any of them based on real-world / physical product "businesses" people are running?
mircea_popescu: any way i turn it all i can see here is "neobee assumes
as little
as it can possibly get away with of bf/weex liabuilities in exchange of all assets"