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nubbins`: there are plenty of old albums that are shit
nubbins`: well, this too
ThickAsThieves: usually the earlier albums have had much longer to bake
nubbins`: there's still amazing music being made, it's just harder to find
ThickAsThieves: i think there are many forces that make this happen
nubbins`: signal to noise ratio
mircea_popescu: what exactly is it in contemporaneity that fucks everything over.
mircea_popescu: the older the better huh
ThickAsThieves: again, the older the album the better
ThickAsThieves: and of course I must also recommend David Bazan and Jets to Brazil
ThickAsThieves: again the older stuff is better, newer stuff drifting into being too music driven
ThickAsThieves: i think I've already recommend Greg MacPherson to you too
ThickAsThieves: she got too polished after those
ThickAsThieves: Rid of Me is decent too
ThickAsThieves: you might like the old stuff
nubbins`: haven't listened to much pj harvey altho i've got a few friends that are really into her
nubbins`: but they send a shiver up my spine every time
nubbins`: "And you say ok the bridge or someplace later."
nubbins`: got a stack full of cohen vinyl behind me and i'm sitting here humming it to myself
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ended up in some zen thing
nubbins`: better chance of the room smelling like dick from the two dudes who show up
mircea_popescu: KRS1 ass notrly, unless they're dirty sluts. cunt sure.
ozbot: The Stranger Song | The Official Leonard Cohen Site
nubbins`: the guy really speaks to me
nubbins`: i tell ya, man
nubbins`: "Cohen was very briefly a member of the Church of Scientology, which he had heard was a 'good place to meet women.'"
ThickAsThieves: merely to not have the attention of "Top 50" lists and the like
ThickAsThieves: i would think same
nubbins`: rather than the opposite
nubbins`: you'd think big wallets would get broken up over time
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if there are also less wallets with most of the bitcoin in them now
diametric: I still think its a good thing there is such transaction volume, even if it doesn't directly translate to bitcoin being exchanged and moved between people and groups.
diametric: nubbins`: i mean not that i'm a fan of WU or anything, but that doesn't really mean anything. I can send coins between wallets all day long and have more transaction volume than WU.
nubbins`: yoga pants aren't smell barriers, so i'd say it'd smell the same way yoga classes do now
KRS1: oh kick ass you can finally see the entire female parts
ThickAsThieves: they take btc
dub: whats the data from?
ozbot: Mtgox trade data analysis
ThickAsThieves: "The London-based bitcoin news provider (Coindesk) plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding Bitfinex to its price index, which currently includes Bitstamp of Slovenia and BTC-e of Bulgaria. Bitfinex is incorporated in Hong Kong."
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nubbins`: ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 patron of the arts
ThickAsThieves: ;;rate nubbins` 1 Pleasure doing business, clear terms, fast turnaround, good communication (illustration project)
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ozbot: War Tard: Russia v NATO: Ukraine, Crimea and the new Cold War.
TomServo: New War Tard post finally, if anybody follows.
mircea_popescu: how to be poor and pretend you're really enlightened, a guide.
mircea_popescu: might be a pioneer in that because I was going to the Salvation Army and getting old dresses and old pieces of just cloth and making something quite wonderful out of them to dress myself, my child, and to make wonderful clothes."
mircea_popescu: "Suzanne: Well, that could be. The half crazy could pertain to the sadness, but I think it was because I was so on a creative drive and the focuses were so strong in spite of any private grief I may have about my break up with Armand and the wheres and whys. There was so much other wonderful things happening. There was the activism. I was already becoming aware of recycling at a very young, young age and I might say, I
pLambert: My ancestors moved to the US from Bohemia, now I can't find that place on a map!
KRS1: This is terrible.
KRS1: I cry for the 'Peans.
mircea_popescu: whatever he draws is likely arguable as a "correct" map of the part of the world
mircea_popescu: most of central europe is so dubious... basically you can give a 5yo a crayon and the map
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the glatz is obviously eastern prussia, not western ua :D
asciilifeform: best proof of this oddity - their own www sites.
mircea_popescu: A federal jury found Litvak guilty on all counts, according to media reports. The 12-member jury found Litvak guilty on 15 criminal counts, including 10 of securities fraud. The defendant had pleaded not guilty to the 15 counts."
mircea_popescu: "Former Jefferies Group managing director and senior trader, Jesse Litvak, indicted on charges of securities fraud, fraud connected to the US Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) and falsifying statements to the federal government, has been convicted of defrauding investors.
asciilifeform: galicia (western ua) is a curious 'nature preserve', where critters thought extinct in the 1940s roam freely.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's definitely a blackout, it being the message of the enemy. duh.
asciilifeform: 'The guest post from Renée last week appeared on this blog because Huffington Post refused to run it. And now I hear that no comment linking the new Ukrainian government to the neo-Nazis or the neo-Nazis to the mass murder in Kiev can get through on any news site. It seems like there is an actual news blackout on this message.'
ozbot: ClubOrlov: The Crimean “Crisis” and Western Bias
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's no less shady bank left. they are exactly equally shady, like communicating vessels
ThickAsThieves: too bad, they seemed to be one of the least shady banks left
asciilifeform: some lost soul will try to make use of this 'revelation' and accidentally out of a window.
ThickAsThieves: turns out hops are related to marijuana
pLambert: I have heard the paleo diet gets rid of inflamations and discomforts ...
ThickAsThieves: i think my brain is just telling me to eat away pains or something
ThickAsThieves: i dont drink or do any other drugs anymore, and this seems to be leading to odd cravings
ThickAsThieves: my dad has fibromyalgia, maybe i'm getting there too
ThickAsThieves: maybe i should take up pot instead
benkay: but, in the end, major additional investment in a terrible
benkay: projections will be dazzling - the advocates will be sincere -
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves turns out it's a motor neuron toxic
ThickAsThieves: i guess i better cut back on the ginger
pLambert: non-anal is not the same as nonan-al :)
ThickAsThieves: probly how teh ginger craving began
mircea_popescu: "The past few days I have been doing a model reaction reacting 1-octene with syngas (CO and H2) to make nonanal" y non anal ?
ThickAsThieves: to make it more interesting, i've had joint pains in my knees for a long time
benkay: hey mike_c where did you get that line about liquid markets and the theft of capital?
mircea_popescu: how did that go lol. lota druggies?
ozbot: I will answer chemistry questions for BTC tips
ThickAsThieves: it being spicy i suppose is the first indiator
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's an irritant, right ? it may be a systemic antiinflamatory, but it inflamates teh mucuous digestive tract
Diablo-D3: okay, one of these tests is "blood urea nitrogen"
ThickAsThieves: In normal doses, ginger may cause stomachache, diarrhea or loose stools. Recent studies have indicated that large overdoses can cause depression or an irregular heartbeat.
mircea_popescu: yeah by the time you have that problem you're well screwed.
Diablo-D3: I already did a piss test for that, havent gotten the results yet
mircea_popescu: ketoacidosis is prolly picked up by diabetic tests
pLambert: I think they look for ketones in the blood as a marker for kidney failure?
pLambert: you could probably have your doctor do it, but I don't think you can do it at home
ThickAsThieves: a piss test?
Diablo-D3: pLambert: so, theres a blood test for this nitrogen shit, right?
dub: usually too much of anything is bad
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves probably at the worst some digestive tract inflamation
mircea_popescu: pLambert that is true, but it's also true a wide array of thing can be reformed into glucose
Diablo-D3: its why the american diet fails
Diablo-D3: burning carbs too much doesnt work
pLambert: your brain needs glucose to work
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to burn whatever we get mouths on
benkay: mircea_popescu: orders of magnitude you say? does this apply to intelligence? o.O