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asciilifeform: re: belgrade: wonder how many americans would curl up and cry if given an uncensored tour of some place not inhabited by 'human lite' (orlov's phrase, not mine)
ThickAsThieves: "Is Mark Karpeles buying goxcoin on bitcoinbuilder?? Huge discount could revive Mt.Gox. 50k sold in the last 3 days....hmmm"
mircea_popescu: dude not everyone on twitter is retarded!
mircea_popescu: in belgrade there are people who have worked at it for three generations or more.
mircea_popescu: kinda difficult to hire competent waiters in fucking topeka.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no, belgrade is good because hilly town -> nice asses and legs on the teens and tweennysomethings, and good nightlife.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: obligatory on topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1jAmL-rfXU
mircea_popescu: roads on average better than massachusetts anyway
asciilifeform: i know a fellow who went, and saw the famous airplane
mircea_popescu: and otherwise you couldn't tell, even in 2007
mircea_popescu: the great clobbering looks great especially from the us. otherwise, they have a bombed building downtown which they're pretty much preserving as is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. is it still worth going to after the great clobbering?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now that you mention it, what's your official take on the serbs ?
mircea_popescu: i hope i covered them all.
mircea_popescu: the best of course would be this resort five miles out of budapest owned by some slovak people staffed only with czech chicks, serving only slovenian food and with nothing but serbian customers.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] [PAID] 9.18620878 BTC to 18`934 shares, 48517 satoshi per share
wao-ender: well, funny is, that resort is just 21 km from Bratislava, not far from border in Hungary, but owned by Slovak group.
wao-ender: I just found great place to organise finest Bitcoin *meetup* https://www.facebook.com/352009638172552/photos/pb.352009638172552.-2207520000.1393457939./381744045199111/?type=3&theater
mircea_popescu: and that thing is so fucking badly organised you can never find anything.
mircea_popescu: im putting the link here because something tells me im gonna need it a lot on twitter
wao-ender: lol that show
TomServo: asciilifeform: The episode was adapted from a short story written by Marilyn Venable
asciilifeform: i distinctly recall reading it on paper though.
TomServo: asciilifeform: wasn't that a twilight zone episode?
asciilifeform: everyone remembers that ancient sf story where the 'last man alive' find food and a library, and then his glasses break?
ThickAsThieves: but i dont wear thos eeither
ThickAsThieves: contacts work too
mircea_popescu: women generally do it because there's few good woman looks that include glasses.
nubbins`: yeah, one friend said he has better than 20/20 now
ThickAsThieves: my wife got it, but like i love my vision so much i'm scared to improve it
nubbins`: they say they wish they'd done it years before
nubbins`: i have a few friends who tried lasik
Vexual: lasers in the eye is never good tat
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i know some chicks that got it.
ThickAsThieves: anyone have thoughts on LASIK?
mircea_popescu: there's about four different humanities paths that end up there
mircea_popescu: history of religion too.
nubbins`: new to me ;)
nubbins`: so they tacked on an ending to it
mircea_popescu: not particularly novel this you know ?
nubbins`: centuries later it was felt that this was improper, because all the subsequent gospels have shit about virgin births and resurrections
nubbins`: AND THAT'S THE END OF THE BOOK.
nubbins`: “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing.
nubbins`: they go to the tomb, and a young man -- not an angel -- says:
nubbins`: not only does it make no mention of a virgin birth -- in fact, jesus is referred to as a son of mary -- but it ends when jesus dies.
nubbins`: mark is chronologically the first gospel
nubbins`: okay, at the risk of yammering on about something nobody cares about
nubbins`: he has it on trigger
mircea_popescu: how long had you been saving that one k ?
Vexual: wanna hear confusing, i woke up with a ticket to macau
nubbins`: yesterday i learned that all that shit in the bible about speaking in tongues is pretty much only in the english versions
mircea_popescu: "can not write copy, great results from the pleb venues"
mircea_popescu: well i guess the part where his feedback sources are tardtalk, tarddit and tardtweer is oddly adequate.
nubbins`: "...Cypriots will be in a position to use Euros solely to pay government institutions"
mircea_popescu: he means "to only use euros to pay" ?
ThickAsThieves: ah the placement of only is what;s confusing
ThickAsThieves: it's a twisty sentence that's supposed to say he thinks bitcoin can be the main means of commerce
mircea_popescu: cypriots can not currently use euros to pay taxes ?
mircea_popescu: don't tell me somebody took a text with "euro" in it and tried to s/euro/bitcoin by hand
mircea_popescu: "The variety of these businesses is excellent, and a future where Cypriots will be in a position to use Euros only to pay government institutions is within sight."
kakobrekla: yes i was afraid of that.
nubbins`: i'm guessing, we use paper+pencil to vote here in canada
nubbins`: (do they?)
nubbins`: but srs, paper trail
mike_c: how many suits does it take to cut the entrance rope?
ThickAsThieves: my question would be, why is there a merchant copy
kakobrekla: why is the merchant copy printed first on the terminal
ThickAsThieves: like half the pics really lol
ThickAsThieves: some funny pics of people looking at people's asses in there
nubbins`: "A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software."
nubbins`: mike_c: FYI, i get a "Database error" page every time i commit an update -- doesn't seem to affect anything tho
nubbins`: "the key to a woman's puss is through her guts", i said ☟︎
nubbins`: p liked the shepherd's pie i made ☟︎
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the ` is silly anyway
mike_c: their prospectus says they are going to make 6,000 btc in 2014. so quarterly dividend would be.. ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: add nub too :)
nubbins`: not everyone uses tab-complete ;(
nubbins`: i should really add "nubbins" to my highlight list
nubbins`: this is the first time it's stayed above 0.005 for any length of time since IPO
ThickAsThieves: the rally is the Neo bump
mike_c: maybe that's why rally
mike_c: hm, supposedly there will be quarterly dividends
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thestringpuller: ThickAsThieves: no I want to see who the other shareholders were
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine they're trying to buy 50 dollar suits, so you'd expect they could afford something
thestringpuller: only jay-z can afford to wear tom ford
mircea_popescu: how come all the us presidents are wearing cheap synthetic suits ? ☟︎
nubbins`: so, should the need arise, it's fine to paraphrase/summarize info and link to the relevant blog post?
mircea_popescu: hence the utility of a wiki in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i mean arguably eulora as-is won't match exactly the eulora as-word-of-god
nubbins`: nod, true
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as wiki articles are intended ot describe things such as they are, they don't sanely need much more than snippets anwyay
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: is it okay to copy eulora-specific content wholesale from trilema to the wiki? or would you prefer we link to articles
mircea_popescu: in was known to even pull off the road and attend funerals for people he didn't know.
mircea_popescu: A. James Manchin either delighted or appalled the West Virginia voters. Many people, especially senior citizens, loved the attention he bestowed upon them later as Secretary of State. He would produce a certificate with a gold star and make quite a production of just about anyone's service to "Mother West Virginia." Giving away his trademark white or black fedora to young teenage boys along the campaign trail, Manch
mircea_popescu: as i was sayin' to erik, the guy's the clown of all time.
ThickAsThieves: is there a place i can easily see who funded the most recent campaigns of a senator?
mircea_popescu: and on top of all the various specialist investors on bitcointalk
mircea_popescu: on top of all the bitcoin experts in #bitcoin, #bitcoin-otc, #bitcoin-etc
mircea_popescu: so today's takeaway is that idiots are remarkable territorial.