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mircea_popescu: the risk exists, but it lies with the usg.

mircea_popescu: irrespective of what the usg may falsely or accurately claim afterwards.

mircea_popescu: a that sore spot. well ideally we find out once the usg finally and publicly admits to having been owned, painfully and humiliatingly.

mircea_popescu: lmao security concerns indeed. "if anyone not working for the usg found out what we do in thhis here so called "courthouse" they'd prolly set us all on fire"

ThickAsThieves: as in if bf and btct werent shut down by USG, the lie may have played out to less loss

ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> kolinko no. the system can break itself, too. it doesn't need a mustachioed antropomorphised enemy. /// glad to see you say so, it's a point often missed in many circumstances. for example, some want to paint USG as a hyper conspiracy and assume all its evil/scammy actions are fully intentional. More likely, it just evolved to be a broken shit in all corners of its

decimation: I suspect that the fantasy-plans for "contingency usg" would be a hilarious read

decimation: chalbersma: are they selling to usg?

decimation: chalbersma: denver would be logical. my point is that I suspect that usg employees are paid $$$ to write fantasy

chalbersma: Plus the usg couldn't get any worse if it was toking up. :)

decimation: I was thinking to myself this evening: what if Washington DC were washed into the sea tomorrow? usg's contingency plans would probably be to move the government west, in the middle of the kulaks they have been harassing for decades. I don't think that 'contingency usg' would survive as an entity that we would recognize.

decimation: usg's sub-agents are continuing a fight against anything usual: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-dc-a-12-year-old-piano-prodigy-is-treated-as-a-truant-instead-of-a-star-student/2014/09/08/58962746-3727-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html

kakobrekla: when in doubt, blame the usg?

BingoBoingo: For all we know the USG might take a break from shorting BTC and send the Euro under the dollar tomorrow by telling Germany it lost their gold.

BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Maybe USG got an MPEx account just to fuck with you?

jurov: stan apparently thinks ussr kept tejh us in check. now they're gone, usg destroys everything

asciilifeform: doubt that there is anyone in usg that is empowered to use garotte << apparently they prefer limpet mines on auto and plane fuel tanks. perhaps they're also short on these ?

decimation: even by usg standards

decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt that there is anyone in usg that is empowered to use garotte wire within the us

asciilifeform: it is particularly entertaining, at least in limited dose, to read people whine about usg - the same people in whose heads it lives, of whom it is made in fact.

asciilifeform: (why usg needs pretext? has own internal rituals.)

asciilifeform: this generally works if opponent lives in a house usg has a habit, or otherwise might like, to set on fire - and could use pretext.

decimation: asciilifeform: as a Christian I find these 'godless anarcho-whatevers' to be amusing because they want to make usg into their god

asciilifeform: sometimes it's a 'respect my rights!11! or usg will set your house on fire.'

asciilifeform: usg does not have the strength or will to conquer - it merely destroys

asciilifeform: except that the modern ukrs aren't a resurrected 'Res Publica Polonia' - they're a cheap muppet of usg.

asciilifeform: everybody focuses on, e.g., petro-war, when looking for reason for usg bleeding to the bone in effort to undermine russia

asciilifeform: the worst thing for a totalitarian reich (like usg and its 'international kommunity' muppet theatre) is - the existence of a 'pepsi' alternative.

asciilifeform: decimation: it is necessary to understand why usg must do what it does. as in a 'wild west' film, 'ain't room enough in this town for the both of us'

asciilifeform: decimation: except that 'crazy islam' is an animal of which usg is a studious gamekeeper.

decimation: Re: Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo

decimation: not that it really matters anyway, because their production is subsidized by the prc, and the purchaser is subsidized by usg

asciilifeform: usg caught an alley cat, tamed, and implanted a listening device, then released (in moscow, i think)

mircea_popescu: usg makes mechanical spy rat, person catches it because well, it doesn't properly batallion

asciilifeform: in usg.

asciilifeform: document concerns usg circa 1947-1954.

mircea_popescu: the notion that anything like the present usg survives not defeat in the field, but merely an unfavourable if momentary turn of events is pushing it into sf.

asciilifeform: there is not, afaik, a 'slut kolkhoz' maintained by usg...

asciilifeform: rich people will pick a eager young slut's rent << quid pro quo, 'enjo kosai', etc. - not much like usg 'welfare'

decimation: the permanent bureaucrats who run usg are famous for this attitude

decimation: asciilifeform: I thought that the usg signed stuff with rsa certs generally

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: every usg fiefdom, large and small, has own fake pgp.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to give the usg the false impression that its idiocy may work ?

asciilifeform: 'There once was a cyber attack; / The Chinese our network did hack. / Since arguably / Cyber’s WMD / Do you think we should nuke them right back?' << actual example from usg's limerick contest. (http://cryptome.org/2014/09/natsec-thesis.pdf)

decimation: apparently mandatory purchasing from the blind became mandatory under FDR! This revision of USG has grown long in the tooth.

decimation: asciilifeform: I think all USG pens are made by the blind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilcraft

asciilifeform: 'The test bed aircraft (74-2065) was ready for its first test flight on September 18, 1980, just three weeks after the project was initiated.' <<< picture modern usg doing anything whatsoever on this schedule.

decimation: usg tried to modify a c-130 to land inside the Tehran soccer stadium to rescue the Iran hostages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gXfK4ypirI

mircea_popescu: <decimation> The most amusing thing about this story is the simple faith that Bob Builder expresses in USG: “You could tell the jets were extremely well-equipped << dunno if you've seen "the kite runner" ?

decimation: The most amusing thing about this story is the simple faith that Bob Builder expresses in USG: “You could tell the jets were extremely well-equipped and in control of the situation,” he said. “We obviously paid close attention, but at no time did we think we were in danger. I think the jets could have controlled where and when it went down."

decimation: supposedly the constitution forbids forcing citizens to quarter troops, but apparently giving up their livelihoods and ruining their vacations so usg can have a security part is 'ok for them'

decimation: asciilifeform: but the trouble is that instead of conjuring actual heirloom objects, the usg method is to piss away the money on 'airlifting' an SUV from DC to New England

decimation: Yeah I do see how that throws a wrench in the model. Here's a real-world example: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/08/09/obama-and-new-england-aviation-businesses-start-their-vacation/ << greenspun details how Obama travels with an enormous entourage, which usg can't afford - this fact doesn't occur to anyone 'in the loop'

asciilifeform: this is about microshit and usg (but i repeat myself) finally making some headway in dealing with the 'final solution' to the escapees from wintel 'problem.'

nubbins`: the more usg undesirables you turn away, the more bulbs i want to buy from you

mircea_popescu: it needs to be exactly the opposite : close down the shop if they fail to force the employees into slavery, if they defraud customers or if they turn away usg undesirables.

mircea_popescu: the balance needs to fucking change. currently they close down shops if they force the employees into slavery, if they defraud customers, and if they fail to turn away usg undesirables.

mircea_popescu: it contains no judge (not even one of those non-judge "magistrate" usg agents)

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.

asciilifeform: escaping from usg today to just about anywhere is more like - escaping to poland in '39.

asciilifeform: 'escape' means there's a missile battery (or, at the threadbare minimum, 24/7 death squad) standing between usg and you. ☟︎

asciilifeform: correct. legal is whatever the present-day whim of usg is.

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 ?

asciilifeform: this story concerned more than a quarrel between a weirdo chemist and the whole of usg/nato 'physics'

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (how to know that schwartz (or taleb, or...) collects 'prize' rather than usg stooge with a shannonizer and irc connection - exercise for alert reader.) <<< if you recall something sort-of like that was tried, except this "major prize" approach is flawed as you explain. so, better version was tried :)

asciilifeform: decimation: reward with status - get usg academics.

asciilifeform: usg 'science' is - scar tissue.

asciilifeform: (how to know that schwartz (or taleb, or...) collects 'prize' rather than usg stooge with a shannonizer and irc connection - exercise for alert reader.)

decimation: yeah this connects with our discussion the other day about the collapse of the ussr being terrible for usg

asciilifeform: The20YearIRCloud: no need to be a con man in the usual sense to acquiesce to usg SOP.

asciilifeform: but the folks involved with 'emdrive' have a rich history of fraud (usg and principals both)

mircea_popescu: the usg collapsing doesn't make it harder.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'usg' in that context also includes all 'decay daughters' thereof

mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: unfortunately if the "from whom" is usg in its many forms, the answer is largely: nowhere << bs lol.

cazalla: would it be a safe bet the reason newegg and other sites offer a discount when using bitcoin is that it's easy means of coin for usg? they can print as much $ to give discounts and the coin flows from customers -> newegg -> bitpay -> usg?

decimation: one wonders about the total sum of $ that usg has spent just this year searching enemies of the people

decimation: asciilifeform: usg nuclear bombing ships: yeah there's the famous 'nuclear attack on fleet' bomb series at the bikini atoll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9yS0tRFhI

asciilifeform: usg also had, in that period, a fixation with gigantic naval battles

decimation: s/use/usg/

decimation: asciilifeform: unfortunately if the "from whom" is usg in its many forms, the answer is largely: nowhere

decimation: What has happened to banking in the US is parallel to the "substitution calculations" done by usg for inflation - ie a ground beef patty with filler is the same as a well-cooked steak.

ben_vulpes: does anyone have a link to the lawsuit by the guy who sued the usg for the gold they 'borrowed'?

decimation: like haarp, the ussr provided a ready excuse for all kinds of usg spending

asciilifeform: usg is learning the cost of letting its cherished frienemy pop

decimation: asciilifeform: but microsoft only needed apple to save themselves from usg's monopoly busting agencies

decimation: usg does much to encourage this notion among the masses

decimation: one wonders about the brain-damaged minions employed by usg to oversee such things

BingoBoingo: decimation> yes, it's useful anyway. By that definition, the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against the soviets << I dunno any other explanation for Patton's political positions.

decimation: yes, it's useful anyway. By that definition, the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against the soviets

decimation: BingoBoingo: agreed. The same "anti-"communists now hate Putin because he represents everything they hated about Soviet fascism. This is why usg has such an irrational policy vis-a-vie Russia

decimation: USG doesn't allow gov't employees to have free meals or more than $20 per year in gifts from potential 'business' contacts

decimation: the latest deal is 'roth' - the deal being that if you pay taxes now, usg promises never to tax your earnings on that money again

decimation: asciilifeform: I find it amusing that folks with retirement accounts work so hard to 'shelter' them from taxation under the latest rules, as if usg would allow one to accumulate wealth without taking it

decimation: asciilifeform: it's amusing to what degree folks are willing to comply with plainly idiotic usg regulations

decimation: mircea_popescu: Here's my confusion. Yarvin would call a USG-funded professor a "brahmin", but said professor is a parasite on society, in a manner that is much more harmful than your average urban poor folk.

decimation: USG isn't pleased with flying robots either

asciilifeform: i suppose everyone here knows what the word 'community' means to a usg muppet

mircea_popescu: this is how much teh usg dimwit in charge of this project comprehends of these matters. fuckwit actually imagined that "the community" is stupid enough and the stupid enough part relevant enough to go for shit like this because... it says "the community" in it.

mircea_popescu: he's not being tone deaf. teh usg wants to be able to take over bitcoin, is all.

mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: once again, the real reason is that the measures required to get the locals to work for you would be forbidden by usg << not so. the locals are just shitty stock.