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asciilifeform: if there were a 'pepsi' alternative to usg, folks who can make any claim at value would be defecting in droves.
asciilifeform: undata: 'pepsi' in the sense of an alternative to 'coke', which, in the lack of alternative, turns into 'usg soda'
asciilifeform: i will answer the secret question which i can answer. 1) i personally can't pay rent with btc without giving up every other one to usg. 2) cost of extrication from gravity well is inconceivably high. 3) no one crowned me hero to begin with, why even ask.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat << dude that's touching, srsly.
ben_vulpes: ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: To my knowledge it seems the entire ID forgery business is pretty much a USG monopoly
bounce: he's not available to contest it and then you get into who has standing? (favourite usg tactic too. yes yes that's highly illegal, but nobody with standing to contest it.)
thickasthieves: sounds like dream come true for usg
thickasthieves: really i just wanna have ya'll in my pocket so when usg turns me i have value
decimation: these usg regulatory letters are hilarious
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well Whatsapp is a premium value loser for USG because of the large non-USian user population. Maybe ISIS has an account there.
decimation: eh, it seems to me that usg has capitulated to reality
BingoBoingo: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/feds-have-identified-searched-suspected-second-intelligence-leaker/ << Oh, USG not prosecuting leaker because of appearances
asciilifeform: usg donation?
decimation: it's obvious he will be used as a figurehead that will represent yet another cause that deserves a usg teat
decimation: fun fact: usg banned ham radio during WWII
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2014/10/usg-bezzel-rocket-explodes/
BingoBoingo: I call dibs on the USG Bezzel Rocket explodes qntra piece!
asciilifeform: incidentally, is there any alternate hypothesis re: bitpay that does not involve it being a btc intake valve for usg's 'waterfall' dumpatron?
mircea_popescu: usg, you whore of bezzleatron, you got some 'splainin to do.
decimation: apparently usg uses ternary serial
decimation: interestingly, it uses "AJ-26" engines, which were 'commercially purchased' by usg from... the soviet moon program
Duffer1: usg dossing it?
Adlai: sykopomp was satoshi to my usgavin
asciilifeform: the 'we embezzled 40 years of grantola from usg to pretend our fourth-rate mathematics is relevant to computing' folks.
mircea_popescu: by order of usgavin
decimation: abe you were a murderous tyrant who birthed modern usg
pete_dushenski: didn't see one for this: http://trilema.com/2014/usgavin-the-lolcow/#comment-109294
BingoBoingo: From the archives, USG buys pocket knives https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=86f51450ff84fb939de39f439f140f70&tab=core&tabmode=list&print_preview=1
mats_cd03: even afghan peasants are smarter than USG, apparently
bounce: ``Supporters of the company [...], believe that a U.S.-regulated, U.S.-based futures exchange for bitcoin would settle down some of the volatility of bitcoin prices'' -- because US awesomeness and USG rules fix everything
mircea_popescu: jurov: prolly i can be never classified to work with usg sekrets <<< you saw i lolled at the "medical devices" part yes ? :D
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/usgavin-the-lolcow/#comment-109294 << lulz.
mircea_popescu: logic, usgavin style.
jurov: prolly i can be never classified to work with usg sekrets
mircea_popescu: once it disappears, irrespective of what the usg propaganda machine claims, it's happened.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, that's about three days before the random shootings of anyone known to be associated with usg start.
assbot: Logged on 26-10-2014 16:45:02; asciilifeform: musk, mr y, some nameless folks from usg, will get together very soon and - if you're known to own a sufficiently large cluster of whateverthefuck - you gotta register...
mircea_popescu: which is the usg diddle-ops arm.
mircea_popescu: or whatever was it. i intend to hold usg at his word.
mircea_popescu: eh fuck it, usgavin promised us 100% increases each year for the next 200 years
mircea_popescu: you know, thinking about this, i think i actyally want pgp reimplemented. usgavin's speshul maths about how things improve make me realise that having a pure rsa based code rather than the current encode a symmetric chypher method is perhaps feasible.
asciilifeform: incidentally, herr musk has given us, free of charge, an answer to mircea_popescu's puzzle - that of whether usg apparatus is an inevitably-harmless headless chicken.
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 18:39:40; asciilifeform: my hypothesis re: biometrics is, imho, the only one proposed so far that has explanatory power for the fact that idiotically lame, e.g., fingerprint readers, nevertheless are happily deployed en masse by usg
asciilifeform: musk, mr y, some nameless folks from usg, will get together very soon and - if you're known to own a sufficiently large cluster of whateverthefuck - you gotta register... ☟︎
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> who hasn't seen a sign, marked, 'notausgang' - emergency exit << read as "not a us gang"
asciilifeform: who hasn't seen a sign, marked, 'notausgang' - emergency exit
mircea_popescu: bezzle influence. they will charge a derpy usg bureaucrat 2k for an hour, and then take three dudes at some party
mircea_popescu: undata no. by acting as if the usg actually has some sort of power or importance.
mircea_popescu: decimation notice the typically usg sort of arguing involved.
decimation: mr. yarvin had a post where he hypothesized that if there were a credible alternative to usg it would immediately crumble
mircea_popescu: then qntra can run a piece about how bitcoin foundation reverted a missatribution created by usgavin of the bitcoin scamdation, where it falsely attrivbuted bitcoin to an inexistent group instead of satoshi
asciilifeform: decimation: chef could easily chop wrong carrot, might accidentally end up with the less-usg-flavoured kind
asciilifeform: decimation: 'secure' bitcoin branch, as well as the dependencies << lol, read his faq! usg linux!
asciilifeform: no idea what it costs, other than the fact usg can get as many of these as it likes.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's not happening, at all. but that notwithstanding, you do have a solid point, as a general thing. and 8 weeks is certainly narrower a frame than anything usgavin&co can do.
decimation: lol 140.31.15.118 << usg
cazalla: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-ulbricht/ <<<< cazalla this totally needs all the research you can throw at it. what the fuck is the story there, they got raped on the "undercover" work ? how ? why ? major point loss for the omni-impotent usg. <<< please to be sending tech/law leads to BingoBoingo
assbot: USGavin, the lolcow pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/usgavin-the-lolcow/#comment-109197 << gotta love all this "expertise"
asciilifeform: jurov: usg breaks 1024 without breaking a sweat.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-ulbricht/ <<<< cazalla this totally needs all the research you can throw at it. what the fuck is the story there, they got raped on the "undercover" work ? how ? why ? major point loss for the omni-impotent usg.
decimation: the reason why this works out (even if the guy is losing money) is that real estate is favored by usg tax code
asciilifeform: usg welfare << terry davis!
decimation: BingoBoingo: like, live off of usg welfare checks?
asciilifeform: glbse, mtgox - folks who are doing 'god's work' from usg point of view will not be molested by usg.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: it was the sort of mandate that only Satoshi or what USgavin wishes he was could push
decimation: thestringpuller: yeah such movies are probably less fantastic than usg's hidden 'plans'
thestringpuller: ^- is this why they make so many disaster movies about the USG going underground during a disaster and trying to reclaim power?
decimation: 1960 usg might have been able to regroup and have some semblance of authority in case of major disaster. 2014 usg has no chance
asciilifeform: aha green hills is still the only 'eas6' (highest usg rank) os.
decimation: it turns out that the pilot of the 'zombine plane' that flew over cuba and crashed had asked the usg air controller for a lower altitude twice http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/accidents/doomed-tbm-900-pilot-twice-asked-lower-altitude
decimation: I have a friend who works in a hospital indian health service (branch of usg). she says the majority of us indians are drunks
BingoBoingo: Oh, working for USG no immunity from usg http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/jury-reaches-verdict-blackwater-guards-trial-26373170
mircea_popescu: put usg people in usg type positions.
mircea_popescu: mike_c think of it strategically. won't it be funny when usgavin is stuck arguing that a) he's forking bitcoin and b) it's the real bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c usgavin's crap is the different
mircea_popescu: if it loses the usg bezzle lifeline (wf) it's gonna be "all" rather than "some" tho.
bounce: the usg unfunded liabilities problem is mainly pensions, no?
decimation: all of which are implicitly on usg's books, because too big to fail
decimation: but in 1980 usg was a net trade creditor to the world
decimation: somehow ever since the late 70's and early 80's when the aml stuff was made law, usg has gotten used to the idea that it can just make transacting money illegal as it wills
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even plausible that usg permitted this to avoid hastening axe-time, sword-time, bitcoin-time
Apocalyptic: btw mircea, just had a chance to read the usgavin trilema piece, it's stunning
mircea_popescu: usgavin can make usbitcoin, or they can have gavin & mike's extra special bitcoin-identical flavouring "i can't believe it's not blockchain"
mircea_popescu: after all, if usgavin wants a fork, he can have a fork, what's the big deal.
mircea_popescu: lol @the silbert thing and generally bitpay's derpage. seriously, they think they're going to compete with us as a closed source usg-agent ?
assbot: USGavin, the lolcow pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mod6: i can't believe that pinwheel said he was still gonna hard-fork in the AMA (thx for readers digest qntra) even after this: http://trilema.com/2014/usgavin-the-lolcow/ | I suspect that he reads trilema too. lollerskates.
decimation: since usg is a dim and neglectful master, they get away with it
decimation: one can see why they would need to convince usg why they are very good little slaves
mircea_popescu: the usg however, IS inherently incompatible with regulation.
decimation: asciilifeform: this is probably one reason why usg policy is generally to crush the poor and happy
mircea_popescu: nah, i'll tell you what describes 90% of usg.
decimation: asciilifeform: I suspect 'armchair general' describes 90% of usg
mircea_popescu: decimation> everyone knows the real purpose of the intel budget is to employ spouses of high-status usg types <<< only in places which are bored of living.
decimation: everyone knows the real purpose of the intel budget is to employ spouses of high-status usg types
decimation: you mean 'friendly' money from usg
asciilifeform: bunker << if against usg - grave. marauders - sure, so long as you have independent air, water, fuel, food supplies.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu heya wd on that latest usgaving piece :)