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mircea_popescu: yet if you were to poll the "community", snowden'd be the most likely to succeed as chief of the USSS
BingoBoingo: This socialwebtwatter BBQ is really letting people lie far to much to themselves about their place.
BingoBoingo: It is one thing to leak the Petagon papers. It is a road further though to leak the Pentagon papers and run for President on the credentials of having leaked the Pentagon papers.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the lulzy part is where he presents vouchings from... none other than... our friendly radiologist-in-training, one brian goss
benkay: i had a lot of fun saying 'scam' at the local bitcoin enthusiast part last night
asciilifeform: (if i could sing it to you, this would be an engineering project rather than a flight of imagination.)
asciilifeform: not as good as the 'anthem', where if one bit of result is off, it no longer rhymes.
BingoBoingo: And what's really wrong with arithmometers? Workings are easy to verify.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Imitations, I.E they went to classical NSA approved competitor for device with a pretense of similar function
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: but were they controlled?!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cardanos? you clearly didn't read the intro carefully.
BingoBoingo: State courts in Texas, Montana, and California have decisions vacated after cheap imitation Cardonos were issued to justices and their keys were solved. The resolution of their forks is ongoing.
ozbot: Safety and Efficacy of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-Assisted P... : The Journal of Nervous and Ment
BingoBoingo: Briefs and documents to be filed in plaintext or AMS TeX
benkay: "What anointed property is bestowed upon “dollars” which, being absent from bitcoins, precludes their usefulness? If you would not even eat your supper without the government first giving you its blessing, then I feel sad for you, for you are truly under a dismal spell and, and suffer a strange kind of man-in-the-sky worship."
BingoBoingo: The supreme court accepted no cases the following term after the court's decision that paper on ink is not an adequate signature.
nubbins`: lel, title says it all
BingoBoingo: "Much like Samson, asciilifeform had become the fork of the entire United States Supreme Court. Being of advanced age the Justices were no match for asciilifeform as he defeated each in success in the Singles combat described in the protocol for fork resolution."
asciilifeform: wonder what the author of 'delivered' would answer to that.
asciilifeform: lessee who laughs then
asciilifeform: see, people laugh, but i intend to make that universe happen.
nubbins`: a friend did his thesis on the crying of lot 49
asciilifeform: merely a way to multiply bignums using your 'language cortex', every child knows it
benkay: just the musical number.
asciilifeform: benkay: nothing surrealist or otherwise inaccessible sans-hallucinogens about the snippet above
gribble: (bcauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered with the bot with a bitcoin address for this to work. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire within 10 minutes.
asciilifeform: tried to once, and barfed
ozbot: Shall be Delivered | The Whet
benkay: you're approaching his degree of surreality in the musical numbers
asciilifeform: and now had occasion to remember.
asciilifeform: '... courtroom recording showed that the last verse of the multiplicand was, as witnesses had claimed, sung in unison by the beautiful young fork.' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that was my logic.
jcpham: but i didn't bother going to the forum
BingoBoingo: Probably have to be a pirate investment banker to remember all of the slurs
deadweasel: wow, that's ripe
jcpham: if they really really knew gox was a shitshow 6 months ago...probably should've told someone
ozbot: Calling out the Bitcoin Foundation Scam.
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: from whence came that virtiol?
asciilifeform: '... the judge then ruled that the death of a keyholder at the hands of his fork is to be considered 'assisted suicide.' when he finished belting out the last verse of Modified-Karatsuba Anthem, his secretary drew her Nagant... '
mircea_popescu: check that shit out yo!
mircea_popescu: "Welcome to the forum. MPOE is our most accomplished scumbag, a rumored child pornographer and a confirmed idiot. His business model is simple-minded: talk shit about everyone else to avoid scrutiny. Because he has no dignity or good breeding, he basically sells stock in himself, a sadistic, sexually confused Romanian Mafia reject. Anything he says can be disregarded, you won't miss anything valuable."
asciilifeform: for the aficionados: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/chronology-of-ukrainian-coup.html
artifexd: ;;rate BingoBoingo 1 Did what he said he was going to do
ozbot: Amazon.com: Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar Bank Note 2008 Uncirculated: Everything Else
BingoBoingo: Does the dollars origin really matter?
nubbins` scrolls back in search of the bit he missed
mircea_popescu: and then obama has to ask mp's permission on irc to do shit ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what, and s.nsa is a trillion dollar company ?
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: unfortunately, i'm the only t-shirt provider in the wot
asciilifeform: then go and prove that you didn't
asciilifeform: nubbins`: if you refuse to buy a Boeing, some other fellow gets to, in your name
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you know the reason
nubbins`: other than the fact that the current system favours the issuers
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Are they in the WoT?
nubbins`: <asciilifeform> there is no little to no incentive in the u.s. for card issuers (and money lenders in general) to secure anything. <<< nod
asciilifeform: 'there were five contending forks; two boys clutching old-fashioned xerox copies and ...'
asciilifeform: 'mandatory gladiatorial combat following bifurcation was introduced in .... due to ...'
asciilifeform: * musical interlude * - 2047: mr. barack hussein IV was six foot tall at the time of his coronation, but lost his key - inscribed on a napkin - and unfortunately / bifurcated / two years later. he is now five foot eight, half-chinese, with a red beard.'
deadweasel: nubbins`: after you chargeback, cancel the card and link them to your posts.
nubbins`: generally fulfillment companies have a forum presence, will be interesting to see if they respond there
asciilifeform: where if someone has your key, / they are now legally you /
nubbins`: already talking with my voice, too -- just blasted them on one of the bigger t-shirt printing forums
asciilifeform: it's also the fact that the alternative is a mercilessly-cryptographic concept of identity
jcpham: woohoo chargeback!. talk with your monies
asciilifeform: it isn't just the fact that money lenders like that, though i refuse to borrow a million, some other fellow can swipe my driver's license and do it for me
nubbins`: i'm giving them one more chance before i issue a chargeback
asciilifeform: quite a few people don't seem to understand the implications
nubbins`: not the $113.50 that the missing tanks cost
nubbins`: when i inquired about a partial refund, they offer me $20
asciilifeform: 'identity theft' is only possible because they wish it to be.
nubbins`: lel, so we outsourced some printing to this company in california. 14% of the order is missing when it arrives -- no explanation, no "we'll get the rest sent out soon", just numbers changed with a pen on the packing slip. i emailed company, they say "oh sorry -- we'll get the rest to you by march 24"
asciilifeform: there is no little to no incentive in the u.s. for card issuers (and money lenders in general) to secure anything.
chetty: more good reasons to avoid plastic fiats
asciilifeform: they STILL do not wish to use security << re: Target ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c finding a way to paper over the fact that they STILL do not wish to use security is going to take some effort.
mircea_popescu: there's the blueprint.
mircea_popescu: wanna understand why the finance people keep falling out of windows ?
ozbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Expendable; Or, And Now The Pharma Pendulum Swings Back The Other Way
mike_c: basically everyone in the US got issued new credit cards after that one.
mircea_popescu: mike_c didn't they recently lose a db ?
ThickAsThieves: i could stand to lose a few
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i hear this is how people end up with eating disorders
lalusch: i totally agree
ThickAsThieves: well look where i spend my time!
mircea_popescu: lalusch yeah but still there should be a "no later than 5th of the month" or something
chetty: aren't 'regular' stocks div dates legally required to be published?
mircea_popescu: methinks ThickAsThieves is a little jaded these days
lalusch: i meant the fact that they dont announce the exact date for dividend payment
ThickAsThieves: (numbers do not have to represent reality, or be good)
lalusch: deadweasel, must have gotten me wrong. I did not mean the bitcointalk thread
ThickAsThieves: the more numbers included in posts, more trust
ThickAsThieves: more posts, more trust
mircea_popescu: all mpex companies have their div dates announced as per contract, in the past two years there has been exactly 0 of the stuff you talk about.
ThickAsThieves: well that's forumite logic
mike_c: guy i know who works in it security consulting says he is drowning in work b/c of target.
mircea_popescu: lalusch that's nonsense, really.
deadweasel: lalusch: how do you mean their bitcointalk post makes them more credible?
lalusch: nobody is going long term in cryptobiz
lalusch: yea they do
ThickAsThieves: Beth Jacob, who has served as Target's chief information officer and executive vice president of technology services since 2008, is vacating both positions and departing the company immediately. According to CEO Gregg Steinhafel, the retailer has already launched a search for an interim CIO to help steer Target through a major security overhaul.