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mircea_popescu: if it comes to war and there's a general mobilisation, the us couldn't gather even ukraine's 1%
mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit that the us could deploy fifty or fifty thousand specially trained idiots.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally : this is quite instructive for the attentive watcher. with the exception of china and some other asian majors, NOBODY is capable of war.
mircea_popescu: gotta advertise it on social media better next time.
mircea_popescu: once a state makes the comitment of calling a general mobilisaiton and its ignored,
moiety: BingoBoingo: there you are i tried to twitter at you
BingoBoingo: artifexd: ATM I would not be selling ATC at the current market prices
moiety: lol at least these ones get shoes
benkay: mircea_popescu's tits, though, that's an entirely different story.
benkay: but i seen plenty of that nao
asciilifeform: for newswank aficionados, mr. o update his post (http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/reichstag-fire-in-kiev.html) with summary of today's.
benkay: i'm uninterested unless they're yours, mircea_popescu
assbot: The round stones beneath the earth... have spoken through the fire.
nubbins`: i only finished reading the sentence because my peripheral vision picked it up
benkay: is that kind of attitude an instant disqualifier for anyone elese?
nubbins`: My name is Clark Moody, and this is my website. First of all, I love Jesus, and I want you to know him. He has changed my life forever, and His love has the power to change you.
assbot: It's so strange that you don't remember any of your poetry.
deadweasel: i prefer this definition. is somewhat more meaningful
mircea_popescu: quite typical for libertards to get stuck blaming the curb.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to bare life (ie, cattle).
mircea_popescu: as contrasted with culture, which is the totality of ideal productions of an ~.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel civilisation is the totality of material productions of an identified primate group.
deadweasel: so in the most useless sense, we are civlised.
deadweasel: civilization via wikipedia: Civilization or civilisation (in British English) generally refers to state polities which combine these basic institutions, having one or more of each: a ceremonial centre (a formal gathering place for social and cultural activities), a system of writing, and a city.
mircea_popescu: to me it registers as the #1 item on the list of why the us can't be4 taken seriously as a civilised state.
jborkl: as I understand it just the State of Texas lew enforcment takes in a billion a year mainly on weed
asciilifeform: (many u.s. police depts are funded largely by asset seizure - without anyone needing to be convicted of a crime)
mircea_popescu: whop the fuck came up with that stupid idea.
mircea_popescu: uh, they don't get to make fines part of their own budget do they ?
mircea_popescu: o gee! just like the soviets.
asciilifeform: (that being the armed stormtroopers)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'useful' part of the latter is being merged into the 'ministry of love' (DHS)
mircea_popescu: tyl : veteran affairs cost as much as education or health care. who knew there's a cost to all that jingoism.
ozbot: Breaking down spending in Obama's budget proposal - The Washington Post
mircea_popescu: check out all those healthcare savings already.
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, is also why all the limited edition crap)
asciilifeform: so this is something like the ads on the washington d.c. metro for fighter jets and destroyers?
mircea_popescu: ferrari sells cars by convincing poor lithe 20something chicks to blow anyone in a ferrari
mircea_popescu: ferrari doesn't sell cars by convincing anyone to buy one
mircea_popescu: "look how cool and from the future we are"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how is this supposed to work? am i just thick?
Mats_cd03: why cant you use a touch screen with a voice button mounted on teh wheel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think the people targetted actually drive.
Mats_cd03: its my opinion that good software solves that problem anyway
Mats_cd03: im not a scrub that needs haptic feedback
asciilifeform: knob, you can twist without looking
asciilifeform: who the hell wants a touch screen in a car
Mats_cd03: looks like a good competitor to the stuff in tesla's cars
wao-ender: capacitivy wouldnt has that flick buttons
moiety: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/04/apple-carplay-ferrari-ff-hands-on/ lol resistive touch screen
mircea_popescu: i suppose we'll have to have rhymes day namean ?
asciilifeform: i'd rather eat steak than stake.
mircea_popescu: i have a steak at stake and it's fucking sticking it to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you were so woefully, drastically and deplorably off the mark with that
mircea_popescu: (my article about how to suck cock is still 3rd most read, won't yield that beast)
asciilifeform: phun phact. first time i ever heard of reddit, i parsed the name as 'Red [i.e. communist] Edit [as in editorial]'
mircea_popescu: direct, various rss and twitter feeds
asciilifeform: what's in the top of the pile?
mircea_popescu: not by much and towards the bottom of the pile, but anyway
mircea_popescu: in today's lol : trilema referrer ronpaulforums.com comes slightly ahead of somethingawful.com
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.38356683 BTC to 3`617 shares, 65899 satoshi per share
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
Duffer1: actually i think i have some spare upvotes
Duffer1: I only have likes, do you accept those?
deadweasel: they had to use yoru stats to cover the justin beiber run on imgur
ThickAsThieves: hmm that is odd
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/Jr4uWC2 << check that shit out, suddenly "no data available/0 views"
ThickAsThieves: typiclaly a good time to comb your hair
ThickAsThieves: well they just said "Hey look at me!"
mircea_popescu: what's the rush.
ThickAsThieves: blockchain also shoulda removed this frozen gox chart from clarkmoody lol
ThickAsThieves: well gox is probably also what got us to $300+
ThickAsThieves: tsk tsk brandbuilding!
ThickAsThieves: also they shouldve at least rebranded the acquisition site fully
mircea_popescu: mp says gox is trading with itself, ppl are like oooooookay.
asciilifeform: the only sure bet is that there will be some sweet placebo to reassure the chumps that 'this time, It's Different !11! (TM)'
asciilifeform: or something like that.
asciilifeform: expect a 'MtFox' or the like, using mouth and arse- prints for N-factor authentication and 'AML' government id both
wao-ender: soon they move to another X
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: a team of chumpatronic engineers is working around the clock to fix this.
ThickAsThieves: i love how now that gox is dead, we don't get 25% price moves after every news tidbit
wao-ender: these trading platform should rise
asciilifeform: a good portion of english-language spam shows signs of being produced in exactly this way.
mircea_popescu: one day i'll understand why this is so hard.
mircea_popescu: cause he forgot that part.
asciilifeform: if google's mail, will translate to luser's language.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, what i meant was, the receiving end
ThickAsThieves: "our company will never touch fiat" cary says
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, this is actually correct romanian. it's nigh on impossible for gt to get 8 words straight.
ThickAsThieves: it'll get a lot of clicks today
arij wonders what will happen to the bitvps link on clarkmoody
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: twist. google's mail has built-in translation. so, spammers no longer need to study languages.
mircea_popescu: it totally makes sense some random tommie rice is fluent in romanian
Duffer1: rtbtc is a trade platform
arij: rtbtc lets you trade at gox/stamp using the API
mircea_popescu: fucktarded romanian spammers. buy spam software, replace the subject/body copy,
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> so they are opening a trading platform // wait, rtbtc was not just charts ?
Duffer1: acquire all the things
arij: really? when did they buy cm/rtbtc?